A rather distraught and broken Jack goes to church to ask
an unsuspecting priest about coming back from the dead and whether Amy has left
him and his child died because god is punishing him for the people he killed
way back when (the back story used for random angst). He leaves ominously
declaring that he knows what he has to do
Well probably not the priest’s best day.
Jack charges off to Amy/Roses’s hotel room only to find
someone else in the room and hotel security there to ask him to leave.
Gary’s having his own melt down in his hotel room.
Jack goes rampaging after Todd, Amy’s boss who is in on
the big secret (Madison/Marcus is also watching the flat and being creepy) Much
beating follows and Todd protests his innocence (and bleeds) while bleeding he
manages to tell Jack where Amy will be while security drags Jack away.
He gets thrown in prison where there’s a man who is
supposed to be insane apparently having a conversation with Jack’s dead son;
the fetus ghost says he’ll wait for Amy – but not Rose. Just in case we didn’t
have enough vague ominous woo-woo.
Madison, meanwhile, has followed Todd’s daughters to
school no doubt to do bad things – this begins with encouraging her to skip
school.
Madison’s parents are talking to the police, Detective Ron in question is focused on Marcus since he worked his cases before – before Marcus was reincarnated into a little girl. He also hears the Richard Shepherd was interested in Madison and pretending to be FBI
Jack gets an interview with Detective Ron and he tells
Ron all sorts about Qui Riverti which Ron naturally doesn’t believe – until Jack
brings up the man Richard Shepherd killed, including info he shouldn’t have
known and that Marcus Fox was involved with them.
Ron decides to show Jack a video of Marcus when Ron
questioned him and how Marcus happily talked about historical serial killings
(presumably all his past crimes through the ages of reincarnations). He shows
pictures of Marcus’s murders and the most recent Madison murder to Jack (I’m
not quite sure why Jack is due all this show and tell). Jack also identifies a
sketch of Richard Shepherd as Anderson’s killer.
Rose, in Amy’s body, is trying to help her old friend and
lover, the newly reincarnated Bix to come to terms with things – sadly his alcoholism
has also returned to life with him.
Rose isn’t happy about how badly it’s going and wonders
if Richard is responsible for screwing it up – she starts to put pieces
together – Richard delayed triggering her because he was in love with Amy (apparently),
Richard may have been the one who killed Peter, Richard may have been the one
who brought Marcus back (all yes). Richard kind of admits it – saying he
intended to kill Madison before Marcus took over but couldn’t bring himself to
kill a child; rose coldly suggests if he must trigger a child pick one no-one
cares about and Richard throws back Amy and Jack’s unborn child in her face.
Rose demands Richard kill Marcus with a whole lot of threat implied
It’s Richard’s turn to abuse Todd – I’m not even sure
why, except maybe to confirm if Todd knows about Marcus (and in doing so
Richard pretty much confirms to Todd that he was the one who brought Marcus
back). Not quite sure what Richard achieved there. Also incomprehensible,
Richard demands Todd drop the charges against Jack so the Riverti can hide
better – what having a loose cannon like Jack running around is better?
Time to make Todd’s day even worse –Madison calls Todd having
kidnapped Todd’s daughter. Just as he did to Jack, Todd hands over Rose’s location.
Rose is going to get all these guests and she’s not
having a good day either – Bix isn’t happy coming back, he’s not comfortable
and adds “just because you can live again doesn’t mean you should.”
We move to some very belated and very necessary
characterisation of Richard – caring for his comatose brother Jim who may have
been the reason he was tempted by the money in the first place. Richard has a
big sad monologue before tearfully talking about dying so he can come back
Over to Jack again who goes to check on Gary – but he
finds his hotel room empty, just a suicide note left behind with some garbled
Riverti sayings, clinging to the idea of coming back from the dead. He says he
plans to jump off the Riverti building
Jack hurries there which is where everyone is gathering.
Madison. Todd’s daughter and Todd are there, going inside. Gary is on the roof
and while Jack tries to talk him down Gary reveals he’s taped all his research
to his body so when the police investigate his suicide they’ll find the
information. Jack and Gary talk about “winning the game” which bemuses me because
I don’t know what they actually intend to win. Jack keeps trying to talk him
into fighting Riveriti – but Gary is going to fight them, on the otherside. And
he jumps.
Inside Todd opens a drawer for Madison and then tries to
jump her and gets himself cut up – though his daughter escapes. Todd you were
just defeated by a 9 year old.
We’re reaching the end of the season now and I’m trying
to pin down exactly why I’m not enjoying this show. Last week I talked about
the slow pacing and the dreadful lack of world building. But I also think there’s
a problem with lack of characterisation
I know about one, maybe two, characters in any kind of depth. Jack. Jack who is the most mundane and, frankly, one of the most unlikeable characters and regularly makes me want to strangle him. He also has, at best, a rather shaky motivation and the only reason he’s involved in the plot is because Rose has been regularly taunting him from the beginning
The other is Marcus – if you consider being a serial
killer “depth”. He’s largely there to make Madison say terrible things for the
sake of edginess
Everyone else? I’ve no idea what’s actually going on with
Gary, his daughter or this Donna woman and now he’s dead – so I guess I wont’
know and he was just a throwaway Black token to get Jack involved
Rose’s history has been hinted at – but the idea that Amy
and Richard had a thing is pretty new and still doesn’t explain much – nor have
I seen much about Rose to give a damn about her and Bix.
Richard has very belatedly had a back story tacked on to
him to try and explain a lot of his motives, but, again, I know so little about
him and have seen little about him beyond fairly random violence that if it
weren’t for the acting I don’t think I’d care.
I haven’t connected to any of the characters on this show
and, as such, I kind of don’t care if the Riverti wins (whatever that means) or
not
