OMINOUS RECAP Vincent is going to become more bestial!
There was a car crash! Catherine was hurt! Cliffhanger involving the
possible-but-highly-unlikely-death-of-the-main-character! Evan may know the big
secret! No-one can act!
Cue the sad music, because we’re going in. Evan
approaches Vincent and Catherine who is bleeding messily on the road. As Evan
gets closers, Vincent runs away in a blur of mist and light effects.
Evan races into doctor mode, giving the tearful and
panicking Heather instructions to help him with dramatic and messy roadside
surgery to restore Catherine’s collapsed lung. They rush her to hospital
Catherine wakes in hospital and a nurse fills her in on
what happened, or the injuries she sustained including the amazing doctor who
saved her life. Catherine gets a goofy grin imagining it was Vincent – and in
he comes masquerading as a doctor to tell her it was Evan who saved her life
(dramatic sad music… why?) Vincent angsts that though he could pull the door
off the car, even with his medical training he couldn’t pull back the beast and
help her like Evan did (way to make her near death all about you, Vinnie). She
reaffirms that she loved Vincent and accepts everything he is, even with his
changing DNA. Hey boyfriends who could lose it at any moment and kill you are
romantic these days. He leaves before Evan comes up. But as Vincent leaves, the
chatty nurse spots him, recognises him and calls his name – forcing him to
hide.
Catherine and Evan have their cutsey meeting (with lots
of funness – though for reasons unknown, Catherine draws Evan’s attention to
her being pulled out on the road) and in comes the nurse, Alex, agitated,
wanting to ask Catherine about the doctor who visited. The nurse sits, shaken
as she says Vincent Keller is supposed to be dead.
Vincent returns to JT who is busy studying the manimal
DNA and Vincent, seeing smiling in his home (smiling?! Do you not know this is
an angst only zone?! Enough of this shameless mirth!) tells JT about seeing
Alex and how we he ran from her – like he did 10 years ago and never
reconnected with her (because of the whole Beast thing). At least JT’s
girlfriend, Sarah, knows something about evolutionary science and may be able
to help with JT’s research. He leaves and Vincent gets a text from Catherine
saying not to come to the hospital, it’s not safe.
So he goes to the hospital (yes, of course he does. And
is there a reason why Catherine couldn’t text “my nurse recognised you?” rather
than an ominous warning), where Heather is taking Catherine for a walk, but ducks
out for hangover meds giving Vincent chance to talk to Catherine about Alex.
Catherine is sure to tell Vincent just how very very very upset Alex was thinking
she saw him. Because we need more angst.
That night, Alex gets in her car, closes the door and
finds Vincent sitting next to her. He tells her he was part of a secret special
ops group, knows too much and had to fake his own death to protect his friends
and family from being killed when his enemies came hunting for him. And he says
that Catherine is a cop he had been assigned to as a handler. Alex says she
loves him and it’s apparent she hasn’t moved on; he tells her to. They end with
Alex asking if she’s going to see Vincent again.
Tess visits Catherine and she feels guilty for not being
there when Catherine was attacked. Turns out she wasn’t there because she and
Joe, boss Joe, married boss Joe, had a few drinks and got… not quite sexual but
close. But Tess doesn’t want to be the “other woman” even if Joe is having
marital difficulties. Catherine does some facebook stalking of Alex but Tess
takes it to the next level and checks if she has a police record – she doesn’t,
but she had repeatedly reported being followed, people breaking into her house,
tapping her phones and emails, though the police found no evidence of it and put
it down to her being paranoid (but Tess and Catherine aren’t surprised since
she reported it to precinct 86 which is, apparently, not very assiduous in
their work)
When Tess leaves, Catherine calls JT to warning him about
Alex being followed. He says Vincent never tried to get in touch with her but
Catherine suspects she may be being watched by Muirfield and they have to warn
Vincent. JT says he can’t because he’s not with Vincent – and he thinks Vincent
may be with Alex.
Catherine staggers out of bed, unhooks herself and we
move to Alex being attacked by someone with a knife who asks her about Vincent –
until Catherine fires a warning shot to drive him off (she can barely walk but
she’s managed to get fully dressed, leave the hospital and wander to wherever
Alex is). Alex takes Catherine inside to
help treat her injuries and reveals she knows about Vincent –and calls
Catherine Vincent’s “handler”. She also tells Catherine that she had a break in
and whoever broke in went through her closet. Catherine goes to check and finds
a large number of photos and letters between Alex and Vincent (cue sad music!)
including one revealing they were engaged to be married.
Which is when Vincent arrives to make things EXTRA
AWKWARD. They discuss the break in and stalking with Catherine using the
Coldest, Iciest Tone of Disapproval before she leaves, telling Vincent to stay
with Alex.
Catherine goes to see Evan who is surprised she’d been
released from hospital and changes her bandage for her (and adds to the mystery
of Evan with Catherine pointing out her doctors through Evan to be a top-notch
surgeon by his work on her – not a medical examiner. He dodges the implied
question) and passes her the research on the hair they have from Alex’s break
in (that precinct 86 had ignored). He got a name and photo of the man Connor
Sevina.
She passes this info to Alex – he was an ex-con, just
released a few months ago, was shot when arrested and spent some time
recovering and Alex was his nurse. She remembers him as a creepy stalker who
kept asking her to marry him but she said she was in love with someone else
(ANGST). A plan is hatched – because Connor monitors her emails, she’ll send
one pretending she’s going to run away with her boyfriend that night – and then
they can grab Connor when he shows.
Nice plan on paper but when they try to catch him at the
hospital he fires a gun in the crowd and when everyone scatters in panic he
manages to drag Alex into a maze of tunnels. Catherine and Vincent split up to
follow, Vincent on the edge of control and with his sensitive eyes bothering
him.
Connor has a brief firefight with Catherine (after making a speech about how Alex would only ever love Vincent) he doesn’t hit her, but she jumps to the floor to dodge and jars her wounded shoulder. Vincent gives chase, going more feral and knocking down the metal door Connor tries to lock to stop them. Connor tries to shoot him in a large room full of machinery, while Vincent continues to be dazzled by the light – until one of Connor’s shots his an electric box and all the lights go out.
Vincent’s brand new eye-glowing night vision kicks in.
Vincent emerges from the dark very dramatically and sends Connor flying. Connor
grabs a second gun and shoots at Vincent. Vincent manages to pull back his
beast, be completely human, grab the gun Connor dropped and shoot back –
hitting and killing Connor. He wipes his prints off the gun, turns the lights
back on and rescues Alex – and they reunite with a kiss. Just as Catherine
enters the room. Sad music time!
Back to JT and Vincent’s and JT is happy about Vincent’s
new mutation – night vision! They continue to make jokes about evolution
turning Vincent into a woman and decide that Vincent wandering around zonking
out was “growing pains” of his mutations kicking in since he’s evolving so
quickly.
At work JT is approached by… Evan. Who wants to talk
about an old paper of JT’s on cross-species DNA splicing. JT tries to put him
off, pretend it was a mistake but Evan is sure that a cross-species creature
exists and he needs a skilled bio-chemist with experience to study this. Not
just for money and spotlight – but to protect someone (that would be Catherine)
At Catherine’s, Vincent comes to visit and relationship
angst follows. He believes that his ex-showing up doesn’t change “us” which she
doubts and he accuses her of pushing him away since she has a thing for
unavailable bad boys (which he is the ultimate example of).
