I’ve seen some shows with weird openings before, but this
episode begins with Finn (I’m mentally tagging him as the Misfit you most want
to slap, but then there’s Rudy, but I figure slapping Rudy is just lazy when
there’s all the blunt instruments in the world you could easily find if you
bothered to look), talking to his tied up and gagged girlfriend, Sadie, about
why he doesn’t want to keep her tied up and how he loves her. He goes on about
her being like an “addict” who needs a cure. Needless to say, I am sceptical.
Sadie responds by using a speaking toy to ask him to make love to her. After reluctance lasting seconds they start their fumbling way – until she tries to crush his head between her legs. He struggles and reaches for a cup above her, which is pulled by his power of telekinesis and lands on her head. She let him go and he tells her how angry he is with her and how he’s trying to make the “relationship” work. And then offers her a bucket if she needs to use the toilet…
Ok, Finn can join Rudy in the being bludgeoned by heavy
objects category.
At the community centre Rudy is talking. No good comes
from listening anything Rudy says so just insert the voice of Charlie Brown’s Teacher’s
voice. His conversation includes rape and sex but he does manage to make it
through the whole babble without on reference to his penis, this may be a
record. He’s also been evicted from his flat. On the plus side Jess brings some
wonderful sarcasm to the proceedings. Finn arrives late – with noticeable
scratches on his neck
And today they are models in a clay sculpting class for the blind. Oh. Oh this is not going to be good. The Soon-to-be-dead probation officer threatens Rudy with rather a lot of menace (jolly good). And Curtis and Rudy fight over who gets to model for the attractive, blonde blind girl. Curtis wins.
At the pub later Rudy objects to this and is talking, again. He never really stops. Jess notices the barman, Alex so I assume he’s relevant and Curtis tells Finn about Seth, about his ability to deal in powers. He quickly makes and excuse and runs home to tell Sadie that he’s found a cure and they’re going to be ok. This is when there’s a knock at the door and – Rudy has arrived. He forces his way in “inviting” himself to stay at Finn’s.
Of course, while there he notices the door that is covered in bolts and padlocks – and during the night hears Finn having a conversation with Sadie’s mechanical voice and sees him emptying the bucket.
Back to the community centre where Rudy tells Jess and
Curtis and Ali, the blonde girl in the sculpting class, wants to swap models.
When Curtis asks her why she says she wants to stick to “her own kind.” She’s a
racist. Curtis calls that racism exactly what it is and tells Rudy who… is
Rudy. He says things. He really should stop doing that, it’s a bad habit.
Seth arrives to collect Kelly’s things and Finn asks him about taking someone’s power, overheard by the rest of the gang. Rudy says things and Finn tells his story thinking Rudy has figured it out. He’s keeping Sadie prisoner because she has the power to mould Finn into the perfect boyfriend – by making him do whatever she wants. When she went on holiday he snapped out of it and when she came back he tied her up. Jess points out he could have just left her. He turns back and curses them out for judging him and that he won’t give up on Sadie because he loves her. Uh-huh, so says every obsessive stalker.
Rudy’s magic twin, however, has been sent to the flat to
let her go (Rudy thinks she’s a talking dog. It makes sense with Rudy logic)
who lets her go and helps her get into a taxi (her legs aren’t working well she’s
been tied up so long) and away. When real Rudy and Finn shows up he calls Finn
sick but Rudy, unsurprisingly, sympathises with Finn.
