We open to another crime – Vincent hearing a heartbeat
falter and then stop. This prompts him to launch into a series of random
gymnastics. Having shown off for the cameras, he finds the guy in a dumpster,
drags him out and performs chest compressions to get his heart pumping again – and
hustles him to a hospital where he blurts instructions to someone with a gurney
before disappearing into the night – like a much more poorly equipped batman.
Catherine, meanwhile, is failing badly at baseball, which
is apparently bad because they’re playing a game against the firemen and
winning is Important. She would be good if she could only learn to trust her
instincts (pay attention to this clumsily lampshaded message, it’s the episodes
theme). Vincent’s also watching the game, because stalking her and randomly
appearing any time she happens to be alone is his idea of a good time and
totally not creepy, honest. He tells her about the guy he dumped at the hospital
because this then magically makes it her case
Tess and Catherin meet at the police station to start
with all the preliminaries. The comatose kid is Tommy, he’s 19 and still has
his wallet so it’s not a robbery. He has a lot of old, healed injuries that
point to long term abuse meaning they cast a suspicious eye at the father. When
he arrives they do the suspicious interview but he reveals Tommy had ADHD and before
he took his meds he had terrible impulse control leading to him getting into a
lot of fights and got into a lot of petty crime, mainly theft. He’s worried
Tommy may be off his meds because he has a new Xbox and a really shiny watch.
Case summary with Joe (what does Joe actually do all
day?) reveals 3 lines of inquiry: the father who has a reputation for having a
short fuse. Tommy to see if he has dipped back into his criminal ways after no
longer taking his meds. And a picture in Tommy’s wallet of a pretty girl to see
if there’s a relationship problem…
We interrupt this crime investigation for a sinister
government agency intervention! JT reminds us (again) that Vincent being in
touch with Catherine is putting them all at risk blah blah Muirfield blah blah
hide, just copy and paste last week’s warning and lines about ulcers, it hasn’t
changed. This sets us up for Catherine to get into a fight with some Muirfield
goons and be kidnapped! She’s taken to an ominous warehouse where a Muirfield
agent tries to convince her they’re the good guys. His argument is not
convincing.
The man tries to convince her that Vincent is a monster,
not a person. That he could snap and kill at any time – showing photographs he
alleges are from a village destroyed in Afghanistan – it was blown up and set
on fire (which is pretty good for a man who becomes bestial and monstrous when
he loses control). Catherine tries to pretend not to know what he’s talking
about but can only feign it for 5 seconds before slipping. Still, she’s
disinclined to be all that trusting of the men who killed her mother. But he
shows her another picture of a man called Simon with a pregnant wife who he
says Vincent killed. Catherine is disturbed by this totally trustworthy
evidence from this totally trustworthy source (got to admire those detective
skills). And the Muirfield man asks why would they spend so much money if
Vincent wasn’t dangerous (because it’s not like they have a vested interest in
covering up their experimenting on soldiers, killing them like animals then
faking their own death… right?) There’s some added blatant lies about not hurting
Vincent, wanting to fix him (at least she challenges these) and a promise that,
if Catherine hands Vincent over, they will give her all the information she
wants about her mother – and show a picture of her working in their labs.
She’s released – but with a number to call which will
work for 3 days, after that they will reutn to more threats and kidnapping.
In the meantime Vincent has returned to where he found
Tommy to look for evidence with his super senses. And he finds a very large
watch which he moves so the police searching the scene can find it easier.
Uh-huh – a point of note, don’t do this. Where evidence is found can be very
important to an investigation and it’s not like the watch was small or not out
of place or likely to be missed without Vincent’s super-senses here. The techs
would have to have been pretty inept to miss it.
Tess and Evans are trying to discuss the case. Well Evans
is, while Tess is worried about Catherine, her running off on her own and being
so secretive – she had hoped she was running off for quickies with Evan, but
alas not. He points out the strange, circular bruises on Tommy, the cuts on his
back that indicate he was dragged and a tox screen that says he was still
taking his ADHD medication
Catherine returns to her flat to find her stalker, Vincent
there waiting for him. She tells him he was kidnapped and that he has to go.
She’s visibly shaken and frightened and tells him that she’s putting him at
risk as he always said (finally she gets it!) and the safest thing for her
would be if he just left and stayed away. At work, she’s still fixated on
Vincent and looks up Simon, one of Vincent’s supposed victims, on the crime
computer.
Alas, Tess interrupts with this pesky police case she
insists they work on. The watch has been tracked down – it was bought by Lois
Whitworth from the Westchester Polo Club and she also runs an organisation that
helps rehabilitate troubled youth – and Tommy was one of those troubled youth.
Evan also adds in that the soil found on Tommy was unique to Westchester Polo
Club. Also a clue fairy came down from
the sky chanting “polo club, polo club polo club” and in his coma-sleep
Tommy gasped “west…chest…er…” Beauty and the Beast is not known for its subtle
clue presentation. Oh and Catherine missed her baseball practice because she
was kidnapped. It matters, apparently.
