We open with a terrible roadside zoo and a little boy who
goes into the tiger cage. This is as ill-advised as it is random
16 Days after Quarantine
Minister Miller appears on television to explain why,
despite the burning bodies, the quarantine must continue – there’s something in
the air, apparently. Not only is there a quarantine but now a no fly zone as
well – with people outside the fence starting to protest.
Wylie wakes up in Adam’s bedroom, his best guess is she
passed out due to dehydration. They kiss. That was rather predictable – he has
had a long term crush on her for a while.
In rich person house, Amanda finds Lana’s mobile phone
which Chuck takes. Whatever he finds on it angers him. He goes to Gord
demanding they go and confront Ronnie & co, especially since Gord’s last
delaying tactic was that the fence was coming down which, of course, hasn’t
happened. Since Ronnie was the last person to text Lana and he asked her to
meet him in the forest, Chuck is obviously suspicious.
Gord explains what he’s doing to little sister Francis
who says that church and his Neanderthal friends can go beat people up without
Gord’s help. Actually I take back last episode – I don’t want Gord to be the
leader, I want Francis in charge. I don’t care if she’s 12, she’s got more
sense than not just everyone on this cast, but also the cast of just about
every show we follow. Gord insists on going to try and play peacekeeper
There’s also an escaped tiger hanging around the farm
where Gord has left Francis alone.
Chuck and co go to Ronnie’s house that night and call Pat
– demanding he and Tracy bring Ronnie out. Pat tells Chuck to hide and has Tracy
call for help from the cousins. Pat comes out and Gord tells him the issues
they have with Ronnie. Gord tries to talk sense. Then all the power goes out,
all over town. Chuck thinks this is a trap and a firefight starts.
Gord, you are far too smart for these people. And Gord is
hit. Of course he is. He insists he’s fine and can doctor himself and insists
Chuck tries to reign in his band of fools instead and check on the power. And
think for five seconds. Gord doctors himself but it looks a lot worse than it
is and Melissa shows up to help patch him up. I wouldn’t trust her because she
says lucky the bullet went right through”, since she’s sewing his side I can
only assume she means “right through his abdomen” which isn’t lucky.
Churck tries to turn his merry hockey minions into
vigilante neighbourhood watch – and they find that their radios don’t work as
well as the power.
The next day Melissa tells Gord that Chuck’s guys are
patrolling the town with guns. I take it back, Gord shouldn’t lead this town,
he’s better than these damn fools. He goes to try and talk some sense into
Chuck, Alas Chuck has abandoned the remains of his good sense and refuses to
listen.
Inside their house Pat and Tracy are less than impressed
with Ronnie’s trigger-happiness. She also demands to see his phone to prove he
wasn’t meeting with Lana (because texts can’t be deleted?) he gets all pouty.
When Tracy gets his phone she sees he has texted Lana – and someone else, which
has led to him sneaking out again. I think everything would be much easier if
they shot this guy. He’s gone to see Stacey, Chuck’s girlfriend and wants her
to alibi him for Lana’s death… she doesn’t want to which suggests we’re getting
that teenaged love triangle.
They spend the night together and next morning she again
says she’s not alibiing Ronnie because she doesn’t want to damage her relationship
with Chuck. When he beg she agrees – so long as he doesn’t bring his gun so
they can avoid a firefight
Pat decides to go looking for his brother even as Tracy
is thoroughly sick of the guy
Stacey decides to take Ronnie to Chuck, allegedly to give
him the alibi. Instead she tells Chuck the unarmed Ronnie has lost it and is
attacking her
Back at the farm, little sister Francis has a tiger to
deal with. She’s the most competent person in town so I trust her to handle it.
Wylie decides with power and communication down, it’s
time for her and Adam to escape. He goes to ask Ms Symmonds to join them (she
is thinking of restarting classes for the kids and has researched and confirms
there’s no physiological difference between a 21 and 22 year old) but she won’t
break quarantine. And not because it’s dangerous – but because the quarantine
exists for a reason.
Wylie goes to see her sister but leaves without speaking to
her when she sees Melissa is holding her baby. Gord has brought heaters for the
crèche and comments on Wylie maybe having post natal depression. Melissa wants to
talk her sister issues but Gord leaves, far too polite to tell her how little
he gives a shit. Gord also has another round of Chuck trying to recruit him
into his silliness.
Ronnie uses Amanda to protect and hide him. And, alas,
poor Gord can’t get clear because Pat catches up with him and shows him Ronnie’s
phone proving he was with Stacey when Lana was murdered. This is so not Gord’s
problem.
Ronnie ends up holding Amanda at knife point. Poor
confused Amanda confesses to burning down the shop. Ronnie exchanges Amanda for
a gun so he can talk safely. Chuck repeatedly beats Ronnie before Gord and Pat
arrive with the phone and Ronnie’s alibi. Ronnie leaves with Pat but declares
that this has just started since Chuck’s been so terrible – so Chuck keeps the
guns as well.
Which leaves Chuck to confront Stacy about Ronnie. She
doesn’t confess so he shows her the texts and declares herself done with Stacy.
Buh-bye Stace.
Wylie and Adam prepare to leave and Adam remarks on the
lack of baby. Wylie is clear, she delivered a baby but that doesn’t make her a
mother or make her want to be a mother – Melissa is far better at looking after
the kid anyway. They cut through the fence and escape to… a minefield. Wylie decides
the minefield sign is totally a trick based on…. Something. Adam points out it’s
real by blowing up Rylie’s bag full of cash. She’s outraged she’d blown up his
money rather than let her blow up herself. Lots of pissiness and moping follows.
Melissa generally falls apart trying to look after a room
full of wild children (This is why cages are essential childcare tools). When
she sobs in the church Wylie arrives and Melissa lets her have it – Wylie can
curl up and have the most epic of pity parties because she leaves Melissa to do
everything including looking after her own baby. Wylie responds by storming off
with her baby. She runs into Ronnie who invites her to stay.
Back at the farm Francis kills the tiger. Gord comes home
to find an endangered big cat corpse and Francis inside milking the cows.
Because she’s still epic.
Gord and Francis need to tell the rest of the town to
screw themselves. They’re too good for these damn fools.
Melissa and Wylie could probably have some interesting
interactions but didn’t get enough focus. Wylie has obvious cause for issues
between being a teenaged mother, an obviously judged daughter of a religious
family, having an overly-idea older sister and the potential of post-natal
depression. While Melissa is also right, she has taken on a vast amount of
responsibility – from Wylie’s baby to half the town’s kids and only Gord has
paused to acknowledge that.
Chuck vs Ronnie is not a storyline I’m interested in even
slightly. Which is unforutnately because that was pretty much this whole
episode and there’s no way we’re going to get
a sneible ending to this. At least the love triangle thing was over
quickly.
