The Frankenstein Chronicles: Season 2, Episode 5: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

And lo we learn that not only is everyone really creepy and really evil but quite possibly all working together as well

Except Sir Robert Peel - but he’s desperate to get his admittedly very nice sounding reforms passed so is willing to work with just about anyone to make that happen despite the opposition of the evil dean of Westminster and his evil murdering coroner Renquist. We’ve already seen him willing to work with Dippel and now he introduces his new advisor who will hopefully convince Prince William (heir to the throne, brother to George IV, current king who seems to side with the the Dean but is also not in great health) to support him. Oh Sir Robert, such good intentions, such terrible bed fellows

His whole moment is somewhat disturbed by Nightingale's body washing up, minus heart

Seriously show, I’m not going to forgive Nightingale's wasted death.

We see Queenie, naturally, consumed by grief over this - revealing she loved him and also fears she may have been responsible for his death by telling him about the creepy things in creepy Dipple’s creepy home. She is convinced to go to the police with this but the Inspector isn’t exactly thrilled with the idea that a ranting Nightingale may have gone after one of the richest men in London because he thought a hanged man had committed a murder. He dismisses her

But when Sir Peel comes to him to point out they’re now competing with evil church people so there better be some leed, the Inspector seizes on it as better than nothing

Marlot has gone full angst mode because Sean Bean, that’s why. He’s driving poor Esther off, convinced that everyone around him dies because Nightingale’s death is good for some Manpain. He does ramble about being haunted by the ghosts of murdered people he can’t help. Which sounds bad but it’s not like any of these ghosts even invest in chains or anything. It’s pretty low key haunting

He does get a lead on Lord Hervey though, from Boz, who is more than a little miffed that the church Coroner Renquist feeding him lies has made him look like a fool. Boz recruits Marlot and tells him LORD HERVEY LIVES and is working for the Home Secretary.

This leads to Marlot intimidating Renquist just because he can for some reason but not learning much beyond how evil traders in body parts have lots of ice - so he’s now off to harass Dipple. While Renquist goes to Lord Hervey because it turns out he is Lord Hervey’s protege and has a kind of creepy devotion which may or may not be gay subtext but if it is I’m going to break things because this is nooooot a good look. Lord Hervey reveals his plan to basically throw Dipple to the wolves (because, yes, Hervey knows Dipple. Seriously all the bad guys are working together here) if the king dies and they don’t have a powerful patron. Renquist is smart enough to realise Hervey may do the same to him but too devoted to actually follow through with that

Forever, Season 1, Episode 22: The Last Death of Henry Morgan

I’m not loving this episode title. Not loving it at all. Don’t do this Forever.

In an archive, a woman is checking a delivery, an ancient Roman Gladius (the weapon that killed Adam?). She cuts herself on it… and then we cut to her dead body being found by Jo and Hanson

And Lucas desperately trying to fill Henry’s shoes. Badly. Henry isn’t there because he’s at Abigail’s funeral - something Jo didn’t know

To that deeply touching funeral and Henry doing his best not to fall apart and declaring vengeance against Adam. Eternal vengeance. Literally. We also launch this week’s flashbacks to 1945, Henry and Abigail all happy - and Henry learning that Abigail had an abusive past before meeting them

So to the case and Henry does his Sherlock thing and they identify Blair Dryden who worked in an antiquities museum. To the museum and Diane Clarke, the head curator. Of course Henry goes as well, do we even have to pretend to be surprised by this point?

Henry does his investigating thing and discovers an old roman knife is missing - and of course he thinks of Adam. Hopes for revenge raises its ugly head. Henry runs to see Abe while Adam watches from a distance looking all ominous

Abe hears Adam’s theory about the weapon that can kill them - and quickly locks up Henry’s antique gun which fired the bullet that killed him. He’s also not that happy that Henry decided to keep that gun around - realising that when he is dead there’s a good chance that Henry would also kill himself. Coupled with Henry saying Abigail saved him, Abe repeats what he’s said before - Henry needs someone.

Hanson is all kind of geeky about ancient weapons calling himself practically an expert - though Reece would prefer a real one. And the real one would be Henry, of course. So it’s off to see a Mr. Griffin, an expert in ancient weapons who Blair spoke to. Also played by John Noble so everything just got 56% more creepy and 24% more sinister.

He reveals the knife that Blair found was one of the daggers that killed Caesar. And that it’s supposed to be cursed. Next step is Blair’s fiance, Duane, who they just learn about. Interviewing him they learn about a fake mugging (well… actual mugging) that Duane’s friend Xander pulled on Blair to steal the dagger (in that he actually did steal from her with violence it really is an ACTUAL mugging. Oh Blair, this guy was not a keeper).

Forever, Season 1, Episode 21: The Night In Question

Henry is all introspective over a picture of Abigail and reflective of the fact that she left him and now Abe found where she went. He was amazed that she was “so close all these years” but the much more reality – and aging – Abe did point out that since Abigail was in her 70s when she left, she’s almost certainly dead and has been for a very long time.

They decide to go to her old address (and am I the only one who finds it ridiculously cute every time Abe call Henry “dad”?)

At the police station Jo tells Hanson that her trip to Paris – and her whole relationship with          has fallen through. So she’s not taking time off which is a shame because Hanson booked a family holiday to coincide with her days off. And when she goes to the morgue she hears from Lucas that Henry has also taken time off. Lucas babbles about and Jo, in another hint of the relationship tension between her and Henry, wonders if Henry took time off because of her. Lucas, never able to keep a secret, tells her about the research he did for Abe to find Abigail

Henry and Abe do find Abigail’s isolated home but the landlady there says that Abigail disappeared there as well. Memories raised lead to a flashback of Henry, Abigail and baby Abe first arriving in New York.

Less romantically and prettily, in the present Henry recognises a gravesite among the flower beds. He digs and finds a skull. They call the police and the sheriff isn’t entirely helpful but when Jo arrives he’s happy to let them have the old bones. In the grave they find Abigail’s keychain.

Henry is, of course, devastated but equally tries to hide it – he can’t let Jo or Lucas realise who Abigail was to him. Even as Lucas brutally describes how Abigail was probably murdered based on her remains – but he also finds that the victim was no older than 20. This isn’t Abigail’s body. He hurries home to tell Abe much to their mutual relief.

Still, the murder and burial in Abigail’s garden could easily be related to Abigail’s second disappearance.

So one victim ID later (Belinda) and proof she had a medical professional help with injuries (possibly Abigail’s involvement), Jo and Henry are on the case with some nice, sweet not-quite flirting. They confirm at the hospital where Belinda was treated that Abigail was the nurse who helped her.

They interview an old nurse there who remembers Abigail – who just disappeared. She also remembers Abigail treating Belinda the night before she left. Abigail noted Belinda was a victim of domestic violence and took her home with her. She also recognises the name of the man, Teddy Graves, who checked her in

He’s a judge. To his court room to question him just after court. I think he may object to the location. He explains he helped Belinda after she fell at a party (he was a college student at the time). Henry being Henry he accuses the judge of drunk driving and Belinda being injured in a car crash when he hit a motorcycle (a motorcyclist hurt in a hit and run was admitted the same night). Oh and the judge murdered Belinda to keep it quiet

The judge isn’t impressed by wild accusations without evidence.

Of course Reece is also not happy with her ridiculous antics – let alone a 30 year old cold case in a different jurisdiction. So no official investigation. Thankfully Hanson is going to that area and will ask some questions about the motorcyclist the judge ran over.

He learns that the medical file for the motorcyclist has disappeared (and we see Hanson’s kids!)

Lucas has also done some digging (I love Abe “we do not deal in stolen antiques!” followed by “what have you got?” in a whisper). Lucas has brought all the soil from Belinda’s grave to examine. So Henry introduces him to his lab in the basement.

Lucas “whoa you have your own lair.” Oh so perfect.

Helix, Season 2, Episode 13: O Brave New World

Day 13

Alan has been shot by Julia. Alas, there’s little chance of him dying. Alan again begs Julia not to give Mother to Ilaria, not only is infertility genocide a bad idea, but it’s the source of the Mycosis plague. Michael couldn’t stop that even on an island, Ilaria won’t be able to either. Julia reminds him that in 12 hours Ilaria releases Narvik.

Meanwhile Kyle and Sarah have actually remembered that they’re CDC doctors and their main issue should be the plague heading for the mainland on any one of the ships around the island, not the infinite distractions that have plagued them. So they need to get off the island, soon, with the cure – which is difficult with Peter shooting at helicopters.

Sarah goes to Julia to ask about that job offer – she wants to join Ilaria for her and her baby’s sake. Julia agrees – but while they’re distracted Alan leaves his sick bed and goes wandering. Taking  Mother with him. They go looking and Sarah’s actually on the side of “you should have let him bleed to death” why, I never thought I’d agree with Sarah. She thinks Alan’s hatred of immortals is overwhelming and the only way to stop him will be to kill him.

Amy is alive! Because we all needed that. She has been rescued by Landry and isn’t happy about it since the gas has left her disfigured. This does not make Amy more restrained or reasonable.

Speaking of people who are not restrained or reasonable – Anne and Peter find where Julia found the Mother tree and now Peter decides he will use it to gain access to Ilaria and then RULE THE WORLD MUAHAHAHAHA!

Soren’s also upset about Peter murdering his mother and Kyle has to talk him out of random revenge. The kid runs off anyway and the cure gets put on the back burner a little longer. Soren does manage to stab Peter in the leg. Kyle catches up for him and tries to get used to this whole surrogate dad thing

Anne is alone with the kidnapped baby when Amy and Landry confront her – Amy scorns Anne’s apparent concern by reminding her mother that she was quite happy to see Michael rape Amy. Anne has finally recognised that Michael’s treatment of her and Amy was abuse – but she was so in his thrall and the conditioning so deeply rooted she didn’t see it. This would have been much nicer for Anne to see if it were more a revelation and less that she’s just replaced her god with a new one. Amy is outraged by the very belated apology – but does allow a second chance in exchange for the baby. She rips the baby out of Anne’s arms, telling Anne she won’t let her do to the child what she did to Amy.

Landry tries to be friends with the baby but Amy squelches that quite viciously. She wants to use the baby as bait for her “sisters”. The crying lures Sarah and Julia – but also the horde of toothless abused women (all armed) from the basement who Sarah forced Anne to release last episode. They take the baby while Sarah convinces Julia not to shoot them. They give Sarah her foetus in a bottle

Forever, Season 1, Episode 20: Best Foot Forward

A ballet troupe gathers before a performance to commemorate a ballerina’s, Odessa’s, last performance. Despite the praise it’s clear she isn’t happy about this and is being forced into it by the director Dmitri who talks about the “pain in her movements” showing – suggesting she is ill or injured.

Eva, Dmitri’s “New princess”, as Odessa calls her goes missing during the performance – and her severed foot is found.

Over to henry who has managed a completely impossible job of restoring the gun that killed him – seriously he must have replaced most of those parts. While he thinks about the now working gun that may end his immortality, Abraham has gone back to trying to find Abigail. Both keep this a secret from each other. Both know it. Both don’t pry for fear of the other prying.

Alas, severed feet interrupts Jo’s date with Isaac and she and Henry go to the crime scene (with Henry all fuzzy and happy that Jo’s so happy because she’s been spending time with Isaac). Naturally Henry can tell a million things from the severed foot – including that the foot was removed while Eva was alive. They haven’t found the rest of her body

Back to the police station and Hanson remarks how odd it is for Eva to become a ballerina when she came from such an extremely poor slum in Cuba but Reece comments that it’s not odd, it’s impressive, with Jo noting that Eva was about to become the first Prima ballerina of Cuban descent (which isn’t entirely true).

In the morgue, Henry and Lucas examine the many injuries and conditions on Eva’s foot, reflecting the severe rigors of ballet training. With little other evidence than rug fibres, Jo decides to take Henry to interview Eva’s brother, of course she does.

He reveals that Eva had a stalker and information about Eva’s car – which they then find with no body but with a copious blood stain. And the possibility that Eva may still be alive.

To the ballet company where Dmitri reveals that Eva was replacing Odessa and that Odessa’s retirement wasn’t entirely voluntary but due to the accumulated injuries of being a ballerina. Hanson finds a threat on Eva’s mirror. They go see Odessa and find some menacing looking guys Jo and Hanson assume are Russian mob – one of which showing signs of having been pepper sprayed recently (Eva had a half empty can of pepper spray).

Interviews follow in which Odessa admits to having Sergei follow Eva – but only to distract her, never to touch her. Following the clues they give they find a note which in turn suggests Eva had a lover who she met at a hotel room. There they find more blood stains. They find Eva – still alive.

They get her to a hospital and ask her brother, Javier, about anyone Eva might have gone to meet. He doesn’t believe she would hide that from him.

So time to check out the ballet dancer she was dancing with – and there Henry finds a ballerina injecting an injured foot – he advises her to use ice and rest but she points out that none of them do what is healthy – they do what they must to be the best.

Forever, Season 1, Episode 19: Punk is Dead

Abraham and Henry eat dinner (their dinner scenes are always awesome) while discussing Jo’s dating Isaac including Abraham’s arch comment “At least she’s getting back out there.” Unlike, of course, Henry.

Jo’s date with Isaac involves going to The Track Bar, a punk bar which Jo is a huge fan of and duly impressed when Isaac reveals he owns it… at least until she realises he plans to tear it down and build a hotel. She speaks in defence – until she sees people taking drugs and Isaac has to stop her going all cop mode.

At least until they find a body in the wall. Now she can be a cop.

Back to the morgue for snark, science and Lucas – and getting a call from a man who wants to know who the body is – because he’s in prison for killing her.

Investigation time – the man in prison is called Eddie and Lt. Reece remembers the case as she was a beat cop at the time. She tells them that he was a violent man and that included attacking his girlfriend, Lucy. Despite that she wasn’t happy about the case, the police presented them as “worthless junkies” and didn’t exactly perform a thorough investigation – and the jury convicted. The DA would like the case done with quickly, Reece, because she’s awesome, wants them to take their time, be thorough – and bring in Henry.

Which is how Henry gets to go interview Eddie with Jo and Eddie is visibly upset even as Jo points out the evidence doesn’t exactly exonerate him.

More morguing (poor Lucas) and Jo arrives with some bad news – Eddie is signing a guilty plea with the DA to help get the whole thing swept under the rug. He gets let out on time served and the case stays out of the media. Of course Henry doesn’t stand for that and goers to tell Eddie – Eddie learns he will go free but if that happens the police will stop looking for who did it. He refuses to sign

More investigating (including finding a lot of drug money in Lucy’s jacket) and off to interview a photographer who covered the bar (now photographing kiddies). He goes point them to a guy named Farrell – who is up to his neck in a hundred serious cases and Reece makes it clear that they cannot possibly involve him for fear of jeopardising these cases. She expressly forbids any of her police from investigating him

Forever, Season 1, Episode 18: Dead Men Tell Long Tales

I don’t know what it is with Forever’s scheduling, it’s so random it could be on Fox. If it gets any worse it could be called Firefly (I’m not bitter)

Amusingly, a sailor tells his crew to be quiet about the treasure they’ve just found – conveniently expositioning that they’d found treasure. The guy gets stabbed, probably for being too gabby while telling everyone to keep shtum.

Time to catch up with Abe and Henry snaking over Henry’s many stories and how Abe can quote them back to him. Jo drops in to take him to the murder because apparently dead bodies aren’t urgent enough to warrant using the phone.

The dead man is Rick, he has been killed with a harpoon and everyone is delightfully snarky. The autopsy not only confirms that being impaled with a harpoon is deadly, but also that Rick has been diving lately and since his job is to salvage wrecks, it doesn’t take a genius to figure out what he was doing. They also find that he found gold which means Lucas now simply has to do a pirate impression. I can sympathise, so would I.

To his warehouse - and of course Henry goes with them, crime dramas never confine pathologists to the morgue or doing their job (it could be worse, he could be Nikki Alexander). They find the latest artefacts Rick has salvaged – it’s from the slave ship that Henry was on when he first died.

Henry goes back to Abe, shaken, in part because the ship was found far from where it should be. And after previously talking about all of the stories Henry has told, Abe pokes him about keeping this one, his first death, so quiet. Henry’s secrecy is because the ship was owned by his family. Flashback time, in which Henry tried to help the slaves escape and take over the ship.

He failed, of course, and this causes him considerable guilt weasels, especially since the ship went down and everyone on board died. He also considers himself cursed – despite his general disbelief in woo-woo, except his own immortality.

To Rick’s memorial at the bar where Henry’s genius identifies 2 guys who were on Rick’s ship and his bothering the bartender highlights her as suspicious as well. Time for arrest and questioning where they learn that only Rick knew where the gold was hidden. Henry is part of the questioning and he is far more focused in the condition of the ship and how it sunk than he is in learning about Rick’s murder. Lt. Reece quickly calls shenanigans and sidelines Henry.

Forbidden from the investigation, Henry and Abe break in to Rick’s warehouse. Of course they do. There they find the shot body of the slave Henry tried to rescue before someone else breaks in and starts causing a bit of havoc around the place. Of course Henry intervenes which is foolish because, naturally, Jo and Hanson are watching the warehouse. Everyone who broke into the warehouse is arrested

Including Henry and Abe. Or they would have been if Jo hadn’t covered for them – though she wants an explanation and she isn’t buying the fact his obsession is linked to the murder. His excuse is pretty flimsy and Jo gently pokes him to get his head back in the game and on the case.

They question the other guy who broke in, George,he’s an old friend of Rick’s who was cut out of finding the ship because he objected to trying after they lost a diver on their first attempt (the ship, the Empress of Africa, was too deep). They also learn that Rick had a rich investor – because without one he wouldn’t have been able to reach such a deep sunk ship.

Henry keeps investigating the dead slave when he and Lucas realise that he had been buried in a coffin – which wasn’t the fate of dead slaves on a slave ship.

Helix, Season 2, Episode 9: Ectogenesis

Bizarre opening – two mycotics living in stoneage domestic very-much-not-bliss fighting and arguing (though he did completely deserve to have the stew dumped on him). The stew also has an eyeball in it. Good source of protein

Day 9

Alas, Alan hasn’t been turned to stew – he’s camping out in the woods and hallucinating Doreen. Yes, Doreen’s back! It’s good to know on Helix you never have to say goodbye to a character because it’s only a matter of time before people start seeing things. She’s there to mock his complete lack of coherent goal or plan

Later she’s going to drop in on the writer’s room and do the same thing

He then wakes up and they learn that one of Winger’s men has gone missing. They find him strung up by his ankles with his eyes removed. Nasty – and seems oddly intelligent for raging mycotics. Winger tells everyone to stick together so, when someone screams, Kyle naturally stays behind. He also sees long missing child Soren, apparently missing an eye, and allows himself to be even more separated from the main group and, predictably, kidnapped.

He wakes up tied to the table in the Stoneage Mycotic house where the cook laments the lack of salt to cook with. She tries to feed him eyeball stew and when he refuses plans to cut his out but is stopped by caveman mycotic. Kyle needs fattening up first – and if there’s any doubt the remains of Leila’s body is hanging from the ceiling.

While he’s tied up Soren conveniently tells him about the “bleeding tree” that they all eat from so they don’t get sick and that the cave-mycotics ate his eye. Kyle also learns that the Mycotics eat the honey which he finds curious which rather bemuses me- I doubt they’re making health choices and they are already infected. This tidbit goes with the news Mycotics don’t eat each other because they taste bad

Winger is all for not running around the woods with killing ambushers but Alan insists because Alan. He runs into another booby trap which, alas, doesn’t kill him but does have another round of relatively pointless Doreen hallucinations.

Over to Kyle who escapes by outwitting the not-especially-witty caveman mycotics and runs, taking a jar of sap and a jar of honey with him. He doesn’t get far and is chased by the others (with bizarre music choice) so rather than run (seriously they’re a long way from him) or fight (he’s physically fit) he decides to eat the infected honey

Sweeet sweet death honey

Of course the Mycotics want to kill him anyway – but he’ rescued by Winger and her men. This makes eating the Death Honey ridiculously pointless on several levels.

At the Abbey Anne tries – and fails – to win over and reassure the broken remnant of the cult (including, alas, Olivia). Amy comes in with a much more dramatic (and inaccurate speech – including accusing Anne of sleeping with Peter) speech that wins everyone to her side, throwing away the old traditions and scapegoating Anne and anyone not from the island.

That leaves Anne alone with Peter and she reflects on how she has never had her own opinion – on how Michael just shouted her down if she ever expressed one. And so did Peter – but she shouted back and he listened to her; she felt safe enough to express her own opinion with him. She intends to fight for the Abbey. While she’s making this dramatic speech, Peter checks his phone (don’t you just hate people who do that?) and find he has a gazillion messages from Ilaria (Oubliette does not have good phone signal) who are now on the island.

Helix, Season 2, Episode 8: Vade in Peace

Aftermath time. And in Classic Helix style we have a horrendous juxtaposition of music and terrible scenes as Anne, Kyle and Peter see the aftermath of Michael’s massacre.

Day 8

Michael tells the remainder of his loyal flock – including Landry – to “purify” anyone left in the abbey. Including the CDC except for Sarah

Alan and Sarah are both arguing about the aftermath of Sarah losing her baby. Alan wants her off the island or at least not working while she not only wants to return to work but is sure that her baby is alive somewhere.

Michael goes to tell the imprisoned Amy that he has slaughtered everyone and how very hard it is, especially the children. Amy pretends to be sympathetic while her face (turned away from him) shows how little pity she has for him and his murders. She tells him he has a new goal, to be by his side as a partner, to be the best wife/daughter he’s ever had, to surpass all of her “sisters” who came before her.

She kisses him and he begins groping her and telling her how much he’s looked forward to having sex with her ever since she grew up which is immensely creepy on every level. Mid groping they’re interrupted by Landry and the minions who grab and outraged Michael; Amy snarks at them for taking their time.

He tries to intimidate Amy with his 500 year life span and immortality but she isn’t shaken. She drops him in the oubliette and snarks at him wonderfully – she’s very very good at it. He throws lots and lots of arrogance at her while she is so epicly unimpressed that I have to applaud. And, no, she’s not going to put any of the horrible things in the pit Michael imagines and dismisses – she’s just going to cement it closed and leave him in the Oubliette to be forgotten. It is an oubliette after all.

In the massacre room, Kyle can’t move from the dead while Peter reflects how much harder it is to deal with so many dead when it’s murder, compared to the diseased he is used to dealing with. He also tells Anne that Michael will pay for this – because he has associates on their way (Ilaria, we assume). Alan and Sarah join them and massacres are ignored while Peter attacks Alan. Kind of deservedly I admit. Kyle breaks it up – and a squad of armed and armoured troops enter the room.

It’s captain Winger from the boat – she’s been sent by the CDC because the pathogen has spread and there are now multiple quarantines. They tell her about Michael, the cult and his massacre. Either way, the captain wants to take Peter to help with the outbreak since he has more experience with it than anyone else on the planet; they also introduce Alan and, thankfully, she hasn’t heard about his terrorism past and is just happy to have another expert CDC doctor on the team. She’s also not asking – everyone is coming with her whether they like it or not. The island is going to be evacuated and quarantined – including the surviving cultists despite everyone’s protests.

Peter runs after Anne who is in shock from both the dead and the fact she is going to be forcibly removed from the island which is the only home most of them have known for generations. Peter helps her handle the many dead. While they do, Anne tells him about the past when Michael had slaughtered everyone and Peter confirms he knows all about the immortality thing and that he’s met a few – that originally there were 500 immortals. At least Anne is no longer a member of the Michael fanclub.

Kyle and Sarah have a moment and Kyle decides, randomly, that now is the time to show Sarah the family tree he found – and that it shows the same man as the father for every child born over the last 400 years. Sarah makes the clear leap that the father is Michael (or Michel Dubois) and that this may be related to the pathogen. Of course Kyle finds this rather dubious so Sarah decides to show off her eyes and tell him the full truth of the Immortals. She also shows off her impressive healing and when he still doubts it, she eats the infected honey.

Forever, Season 1, Episode 17: Social Engineering

Theme setting – lots of people using mobile phones before we move to a news interview of a man, Lawrence Creef who is both CEO of a major company and a candidate for undersecretary of defence which sounds absolutely awful. The interview is hacked by someone who agrees with me exposing some of his corruption

Henry brings up this theme of the week – new modes of communication and how lies, wars and murders still happen. Before breakfast with Abraham who basically explains the concept of the Faceless (basically, Anonymous) to Henry along with Hactivism. Henry snarks at the idea of crusaders for the truth wearing masks which is ridiculously naïve for a man of his age and we get hints of Abraham’s own activist past (and mocking Henry’s technological ineptitude)

Anyway, murder time – the victim is Eric Shaw, dead from asphyxiation (which Henry annoyedly points out to Lucas who missed it – harsh Henry, or high expectations Henry?), Henry smells gas – and when the man’s alarm comes on not only does it turn on every electronic in the flat, but also the gas.

Personally I think this would be a bad way to commit murder – you turn on the gas just as he wakes up in time to smell it and do something about it?

The thermostat can be activated remotely so it’s possible that was just hacked and it wasn’t the worst trap ever. They also find a Faceless mask. Lucas is terrified and tries to leave, rather not having all his secrets leaked to the world.

Back at the station, two police from cybercrimes division get involved (and call Faceless “cyberterrorists”) and they’re super condescending towards Jo and Hanson and want the two to leave the investigation to them.

Jo isn’t impressed. But when she goes to see Henry he doesn’t have much to add (beyond Eric’s last meal) but they decide to experiment with gas for fun and while waiting for that they discuss worst way to die. A subject that Henry is an expert in which is a little disturbing of course. Jo wants to know why Henry is so obsessed with death – and he gives the answer that he likes solving puzzles which is plausible. She asks if he wants to live forever.

They do find that there is no way that the gas would have killed him in the time frame discovered.

Back to the morgue where Henry shaves Eric – where it looks like someone held a hand over his mouth (marks hidden by the beard).

At the same time Hanson lurks around the computer experts find the computer that released the gas and arrest Lawrence Creef. Of course, being with a remote computer is actually an alibi since it proves he wasn’t on hand to suffocate Eric.

Forever, Season 1, Episode 16: Memories of Murder

We have a woman setting up to meet someone, putting in lots of effort – when her phone rings. She’s hidden it and quickly snatches it up and argues with the person on the other end who apparently keeps calling her. The door opens and she drops the phone and apologises to the person joining her

And we cut to a crime scene in a dump by the river and her murdered body. Jo and Hanson snark (her crime scenes are always in nice places, his always dumps). Jo notes the woman’s clothes and hair are very 70s. Hanson and Joe continue to snark – they should snark more often.

Over to Henry and Abraham and Abraham digging up a lot of sentimental stuff from his attic which he doesn’t value very much (like bronzed child booties) and, much more poignantly, Abigail’s cookbook; Abraham quickly pulls back his “junk” comments. This brings us to this week’s theme and Henry’s voice over – nostalgia, remembering or forgetting the past

To the morgue and examining 70s lady’s body and Henry gets all Henry-ish about her perfectly period she is – not only looking 70s but using genuine 70s products, some of which are discontinued or banned. He concludes, with the photographs, that she’s the object of someone’s obsessive fantasy

Jo fills in Reece so we can have a bit more snark (more snark!) and then Henry and Jo go off to interview the dead woman’s, Sarah, room mate. Jennifer mentions how Sarah had changed, becoming secretive and obsessed with one class, dropping the rest

To that course where there’s a lecture of sexual fantasies – led by Iona, Molly, professor Dawes; the dominatrix. Henry is full on I’m-going-to-be-professionaly-while-being-transparently-into-you.

They talk to her about Sarah and Molly tells them Sarah asked some advice about being in an unconventional roleplay relationship.

Lucas and Hanson examine the crime scene (and are actually kind of fun together) and get an address from some mail – so off Henry and Jo go and find a flat that’s a 70s time capsule. Complete with blood stain. There’s also an old polaroid, one actually from the 70s, of a woman who looks a lot like Sarah even wearing the same dress.

Time for some more Henry and Abraham moments – Abraham teasing Henry about his love life and a flashback to Henry and Abigail – but long after the war, when Abigail was no longer a young woman and Henry still looked young. Abigail was very self-conscious about what people would think seeing them together.

Back to the investigation and they find a video – an audition video – from Sarah to whoever was fantasising over her. Henry keeps pushing to have Molly involved which is kind of cute, especially with Jo being all knowing and indulgent over it. So consulting and flirting time and making the not particularly surprising conclusion that the fantasy is about recreating a memory – which has them analysing more details in the audition video and Henry’s mega-memory and experience suggesting a date and time.

Forever, Season 1, Episode 15: The King of Columbus Circle

There’s a busy line in an embassy (Ukesh? Urkesh? I’m fairly certain it’s a fictional country) with people applying for visas – all seems normal until, when asked his reason for visiting, one man (Armen Aronov – and they seem quite focused on his name) says he is there to die. Which is rather derailing. She runs to her boss stunned by who is applying for a travel visa.

Armen then goes to feed the pigeons and has a heart attack – so his travel plans are, we assume, curtailed.

And breakfast at Henry’s house (Henry and Abe breakfast with the excellent synchronicity of people who have eaten together thousands of times) and Abe is looking up people who share his newly discovered surname, looking for relatives. Abe is really excited about finding his family (which Henry respects) but takes a step back to assure Henry that there’s no doubt in his mind who his father is. this wonderful family moment is, if anything, ruined by Henry’s voice over about family trees.

Anyway, Henry is called in to Armen’s death but Hanson and Jo point out it’s not actually a murder and a rookie cop called it in by mistake – Armen had lung cancer. But Henry sees an odd operation scar and decides he wants analyse it anyway.

This lead to some flashbacks of Henry and his wife Abigail, going on a holiday by train back in the past after World War 2, briefly discussing having a baby (Henry is opposed) and a boy with appendicitis who Henry has to operate on in very amateurish conditions. The implication is the boy is a young Armen with ominous foreign agents threatening him with dire consequences if Armen doesn’t live because he is the son of the king and heir to the throne of Ukesh.

Back to the present and the morgue and a woman barging in claiming Armen as her husband and confirms that Armen is the king of Ukesh. Henry talks to her in Russian, of course (Jo says, very on point, that a person would have to live 10 lives to pick up what he has. Oh Forever don’t get cute about not telling Jo the big secret).

This talk of heirs and kings lead to Henry going back to the shop, sneaking out some objects and asking if Abe never wanted children or a legacy – Henry reflects but decides that being part of Henry’s immortal life ensures some level of legacy anyway. The ring Henry picked up is the Urkesh royal ring he wants to return. He goes to see Armen’s wife and, in the course of the conversation, he learns that Armen wasn’t been treated for cancer. Which is a lead because Henry recognised the signs of radiation exposure – and assumed radiation therapy – on the body.

Jo, Hanson and Lt Reece (I missed her!) exposition this fictional country – the king was deposed, his family slaughtered and he was living in exile. Reece would like to have the whole death be declared the natural causes it seems to be (and so definitely won’t be) and have it all settled before an international incident makes everything unpleasantly dramatic.

Which means no-one is thrilled when Henry dramatically calls the death an assassination.

Forever Season 1, Episode 14: Hitler on the Half-Shell

Abe is getting a medical for his life insurance – and the nice doctor offers Henry a deal as well. Henry is not really in the market for life insurance (Abe finds it immensely amusing). More poignantly, she asks about Henry’s family’s medical history and he tells her his parents died when he was born and she sees the numbers tattooed on his arm in the Nazi concentration camp. This leads to a classic Henry monologue, this about apologies and old wounds, some of which never heal.

Henry offers again to search to see if there are any records of Abe’s biological parents, but without a last name there’s little they can do.

Murder scene time! And Henry is captivated by art much to Hanson and Jo’s wry amusement. The murder victim is a Karl Hass, an art dealer who has had several paintings stolen as well. He was bludgeoned by a heavy object marked with a swastika. The same swastika as is on the bottom of the statue Henry was admiring – the murder weapon.  And it’s a genuine, precious piece of art stolen by the Nazis.

To the morgue and Lucas realises in horror, by means of a quip, that the brilliant Henry has never heard of Indiana Jones. Hanson and Jo find that Hass’s father was Otto Heidrich, a high ranking Nazi in charge of stealing art across Europe. Hence the art collection which Otto managed to flee Europe with.

They interview Karl’s son – who is apparently completely ignorant of his family history (and not very close to his dad, either). Which makes for an awkward revelation – and Karl’s desperate protest that his dad and granddad were good men.

Which segues into a flashback of Henry back in 1812 confronted in a very posh gentleman’s club about his family’s participant in the slave trade. Henry protests that his family would never do such a thing! But it’s clear that everyone there knows his family is involved.

Which moves onto the present where Henry says how hard it is to accept your family has profited from the death of millions of innocents.

They follow some clues to a jeweller who tells them that Karl gave him a painting – a Monet, Waterlillies. The priceless painting belonged to the jeweller, Spehr’s, family before the war and Karl, a complete stranger, gave him the painting for free. Karl wanted to return all of his father’s stolen art to the rightful owners. He recites a quote “a good man apologises for the mistakes of the past, a great man corrects them.”

Helix, Season 2, Episode 3: Scion

We learn that Isaac and Warren, the two infected, have both disappeared (or been taken as we saw last episode) and the CDC docs aren’t thrilled by this. Michael blames Annie who he thinks is losing control. All of this is explained by Landrey who seems to be getting a hand job (no really) from Annie’s daughter, Amy, who calls her mother’s control “an illusion” which they’re apparently manipulating. She’s also very firm that there “is no us” when Landrey refers to Annie finding out about them. She also expects something terrible to happen to the CDC doctors

She also makes a completely awful comment, given the circumstances, about taking things into their own hands

Next cast – Miksa (hey, didn’t he die last season?), Jay (Julia’s mother) and Hiroshi. They hear someone coming and Hiroshi tells them both to go inside – but he’s talking to air. Looks like Miksa and Jay are both Hiroshi’s hallucinations.

Day 3

Michael does something rather disturbing with pins and knives to a root – accidentally cutting himself – when Peter storms in demanding to know where Soren is. Michael is pretty unconcerned about Soren and rambles on about botany and mixing in humans so he sounds like a disturbing serial killer. Peter, becoming more and more like Alan in the first season, threatens Michael for hiding Soren.

When he’s gone, Michael asks Annie if they are responsible for Soren’s disappearance and she denies everything and blames the CDC. He also comments on how they’ve been at odds lately and how he’s not against outside forces bringing their opinions along with creepy sexual/threatening shoulder rubs.

Sarah wakes up with her usual morning sickness because of the eternal pregnancy before getting to work. She and Kyle do Science. But to do Science they need the samples for the ship (which they had been ignoring for now because Reasons) and they’re missing. Kyle believes he may have left them in Layla’s murder shack and Sarah is severely pissed. Peter arrives to stop Kyle going to get the samples because he thinks it’s far more important that Kyle flirt with Amy for information rather than add to their numbers going to Layla’s murder shack or prioritising the important medical samples. Kyle offers Sarah his gun (since she is going to Layla’s Murder Shack) and after a long moment, she takes it

Over to Alan who notices big barrels of mysterious substances but is told, effectively, to mind his own business.

Kyle uses his connection to Amy to question the children, learning that Soren was scared (even as Amy tries to edit what the child says) because he broke a rule and didn’t want to “go in the pit.” Pits are never good. Pits and children are especially bad.

Amy is not having these children speaking out of turn so she has Landry have them inhale a potion from a plant she has hidden away – one she describes as once making people slit their own throats.

Newly drugged with weird random eye movement, Lizzie interrupts Kyle (who has just realised Soren had sky high blood sugar) and lures him into the woods with talk of sick kids. He is surrounded by the drugged kids and typical, Helix odd cheerful music plays as they attack him with rocks.

Forever, Season 1, Episode 11: Skinny Dipper

We pick up just before we left it last time – with Adam the sinister immortal murdering a taxi driver so he can use his taxi to kidnap Henry. He drives recklessly and accuses Henry of ignoring him (wait… has Henry even had a means to contact the man?) Adam decides to prove he’s immortal while killing himself while driving at high speed. He vanishes, as dead immortals do and the car careens out of control and ends up in the river.

Henry desperately struggles to escape but, inevitably, drowns. It’s been a while since he died. As he comes back to life in the river, Henry reflects that he fears death still but, clearly, Adam does not and that is worrisome (he calls Adam “insane”). As he swims to shore he is seen by the police, swimming naked

Which means the next day he is sat opposite Lt. Reece who has her excellent “you make no sense you frustrating man you” face on. Henry goes for “I’m a sleep walker who sleeps naked” which is actually a pretty good excuse. She gives him an ultimatum – his eccentricity is ok, but this can’t go on because it will challenge his credibility and undermine his work.

Of course, far more embarrassing for Henry is that the entire police department now knows he was brought in naked and of course he will be teased mercilessly. While everyone else thinks it’s hilarious, Jo is concerned. Henry, of course, deflects her.

He also has to autopsy the taxi driver that Adam stabbed; Henry quickly recognises him from the ID in the taxi and that he was stabbed by a sword. Lucas makes a Highlander reference which, hilariously, the immortal Henry doesn’t recognise.

Henry takes a brief break to go home and tell Abe what he’s doing and Abe says he can’t possibly go hunting for Adam alone he needs help – from someone with a badge; he wants Henry to tell Jo. Me too. Of course, this hits Henry’s sensitive sports because he did once trust Nora, his wife, with his secret and she had him committed to an asylum.

Back to the murder, Henry passes on his findings and the police fish out the taxi. In the taxi they find the sword hole and a bullet casing from where Adam shot himself. The gun was also antique, as recognised by Hanson. Throughout the investigation Henry is distracted and traumatised. Jo also finds Henry’s watch – but says Henry must have just dropped it.

Henry recruits Abe to help him investigate which also involves jumping into the river. Except the police are watching for him and Henry ends up explaining himself to a not-amused Lt Reece all over again. Henry has his explanation for finding evidence this time showing yet again that Henry really doesn’t understand evidence rules. He gets very excitable over the case then apologises to Reece when he realises he’s shouting.

Jo, again, tries to get him to open up to her or see a therapist. Henry agrees to see a therapist but is very very worried since his time in the asylum was torturous. They manage to find him a British doctor  - who outright calls Henry’s observations “Sherlockian” which means Forever isn’t even trying to be subtle. Actual therapy is a lot less stressful than Henry’s memories and, again, pushes him to trust Jo.

Forever, Season 1, Episode 10: The Man in the Killer Suit

So we have two very very rich people getting married, one of them a British Viscount Colin who is very uncomfortable about the over-the-top lavish engagement party his American wife (Emily)’s father is throwing. Nor does he particularly want to get married in his family’s castle.

Then poor Colin gets himself murdered so that solves the wedding arguments. Jo and Hanson arrive and though it’s Henry’s day off, Hanson thinks they have to call him given the dead noble in the middle of Central Park.

Over to Henry and Abe who knows just how to push Henry’s fussy buttons (he doesn’t like microwaves) and a Sunday breakfast of Henry (an antique dealer) combing through the obituaries like a vulture – and he finds the name of an old friend from a long time ago. All the domestic bliss is interrupted by Jo’s call.

Henry arrives on scene and explains the difference between nobility and royalty and examines the odd wounds. Jo finds it odd he was walking in Central Park in the middle of the night and that he was murdered but not robbed while Henry, pulling out an encyclopaedic knowledge of the nobility, is suspicious because there ISN’T a viscount Cavendish. Hanson confirms this after contacting the British Embassy.

On the slab they discover the dead man was a natural blonde but dyed his hair. He also finds several gravel-embedded scars, gold in his wound (yes gold) and through some (I suspect dubious) mouth analysis conclude the man was actually American. Helpfully his suit had super-duper rare stitching that could only come from one tailor. Henry’s.

This adds a little more to Jo’s information on Henry since the tailors should be beyond Henry’s price range. Through the tailor they learn about Colin’s engagement and fiancée while Henry decides to stare at a complete stranger’s legs (he has matching scars) and completely fail to explain why he is doing so. The scarring is from riding  a bike (a “chain scar”) and the bike messenger recognises Colin – or Dwight as his real name is.

Jo and Hanson discuss Dwight’s past with Lt. Reece and basically cover that Dwight is a very poor man and Emily, his fiancée, is a very wealthy lady. They call Emily in and it’s quickly clear she has no idea about Dwight’s hidden past. They do find a torn up cheque in Dwight’s pocket – for $1,000,000 from Emily’s father.

Henry (for some reason) and Jo go to see Emily’s father, Norman (and have a brief discussion in which Henry is, obviously, very sympathetic about Dwight’s desire to re-invent himself and points out the fact the cheque was torn up suggests a motive other than money). Norman slips and refers to Dwight as being from Oklahoma – which no-one told him. Henry does his Sherlock thing to describe, in detail, a fight between Norman and Dwight

Forever, Season 1, Episode 9: 6 A.M.

Pieces for this week’s a murder – a jazz club, a man who is down on his luck but expecting a pay day – a pay day which apparently involves exposing some other guy who isn’t his biggest fan as some kind of nefarious “business man”.

Or, in other words, this guy walks around with a great big “hey, murder me” sign over his head. In his car a guy with a garrotte is happy to oblige.

Cut to Abe and Henry with Henry complaining about the music you “young people” listen to today and moaning about Abe’s love of jazz. A murder saves Henry from the trauma of 20^th century music.

Turns out our down-and-out guy’s car was set on fire after the garrotting. Henry arrives to tell them he was murdered before burned (while Hanson and Jo snark)

Time for a gruesome autopsy and melodramatic voice over as is Forever’s wont. They find that he’s been garrotted with a piano wire and Jo has the victim’s ID – Isaiah. The accelerant used to burn him was cellulose – old film stock. Lucas babbles as Lucas does

They interview his sister, Ella, who alludes to her brother’s money troubles and him being a jazz musician and that he had spoken to their father who Isaiah claimed had given him something that would turn his luck around. So it’s off to see their dad, Pepper Evans, a skilled jazz musician playing saxophone in a train station.

Pepper tells them he gave Isaiah his old recordings (possible cellulose source). He also tells them the club Isaiah probably went to, before returning to busking.

Back to Abe and Henry only because they’re hilarious and Henry playing the grumpy dad to Abe is really well done (especially the dramatic “I failed as a father!” to his son’s taste in music). Abe has one of Pepper Evan’s records.

This calls for a flashback to Henry trying to teach Abe as a child how to play classical music (which he found boring then) and a musician neighbour needing medical attention after hurting his hand – (though his “argument with his old lady” suggests he hurt his hand hitting his wife); he introduces Abe to Jazz.

To the present and the club Isaiah visited where Henry grabs the case Pepper gave Isaiah as well as finding the guitar the murder weapon came from. So time to interrogate the bar tender, Rudy.

In the interrogation room Rudy reveals that Isaiah used to say a jazz legend called Lionel Hubbard stole the sing 6AM from his dad; Lt Reece points out to Henry how vital and legendary that song was. Time of death also clears Rudy. Lt Reece also knows a suspect – Al Rainey who owns a company that has the rights to 6AM – and is known for fleecing musicians (including Reece’s own nephew).

Poor Lucas babbles and is duly ignored.

Forever, Season 1, Episode 8: The Ecstasy of Agony

So this week we open with a dominatrix and her client.

From there to Henry who claims he’s up because he’s busy to Abe but looks more bored than busy. Abe staggers in after a night of fun partying with his ex-wife Maureen which Henry doesn’t approve because their relationships have always been so destructive. But, as Abe says, if he gets his heart broken at his age it shows it still works.

From there to a crime scene, the dominatrix’s client, Richard Gaines, has been murdered. Jo throws in some actual insights (wow, the Detective isn’t just relying on Henry?). When they get him to autopsy room they find he was asphyxiated, choked – and covered in superficial whip marks from the dominatrix. Henry and Lucas point out that the whip marks are probably consensual, pointing out older marks as well, much to the shock of Jo and Hanson. I call shenanigans, no way these two can be experienced detectives and be shocked by S&M. Henry objects to Hanson being all judgy, asking about various unsafe things he’s done as well.

They interview Mrs. Gaines and oh boy is that awkward. She claims that the BDSM activity was therapy – and he had a “domination therapist” called Iona Payne. He was a powerful man incapable of showing weakness to anyone – she says Iona saved their marriage. She also says Jo wouldn’t understand because she’s not married (ouch, she’s a widow).

To Iona’s office which Henry does note looks very therapist-y, while Jo is convinced she’s a prostitute. They talk and she explains her therapy but Jo notices a collar and pulley system which Henry confirms could certainly have caused the mark on the strangled Richard’s neck. Henry points out how strangling isn’t an exact science and they bring her in

Of course Henry gets to witness the interview (and continues to be understanding of Iona to Hanson’s judgement). Iona says, outright, that Henry is wrong – she has far more experience choking people and the multiple sessions had given Richard strong neck muscles, choking did not kill him. Iona says he was electrocuted – and Henry agrees. Henry was wrong!!!

In the aftermath of this shock, Hanson actually has an idea on where to find more evidence. Someone other than Henry has an idea! They find a cattle prod.

Lucas gives Henry a great pep talk on how getting one thing wrong doesn’t make you a fool and again, vainly, tries to invite Henry for a drink. Henry goes to visit Iona for some expert advice on electrocution. This leads to a “personal” demonstration which is so utterly unethical I don’t even know where to begin.

She realises that a past love has hurt him and we have a flashback – to shortly after Henry first discovered he was immortal and his wife shocked to see him back from the dead.

In the present she wants to help Henry deal with his pain. It’s then that she realises her electric cattleprod is missing just as Jo and Hanson knock on the door to arrest her. Awkward.

Forever, Season 1, Episode 7: New York Kids

We open with a big fancy award ceremony honouring a Dr. Tyler Forrester who seems surprisingly unhappy about the big speech being made by a close friend of his about what an amazing guy he is.

And the cops – including Henry, Hanson and Jo - find Tyler’s body later, in a flat in Harlem (way below what he could afford since his father is a billionaire) seeming to have been bludgeoned by his own little award statue. Henry seems very interested in the man’s ring. Jo snarks Henry’s rather pretentious language (more snark is needed!) and notices that the lock has been tampered with from the inside – it’s not a break in (and Jo got to notice something rather than following Henry around and being wowed!)

For more mystery, when they get the body on the slab they find he has Roman numerals tattooed on his chest and Jo’s research shows he was pretty much a loner devoted entirely to his work. When they interview his father (and, yes, Henry is in the interview, of course he is) they find that Tyler had pushed him and his ex-wife away – and that while Tyler’s dad is rolling in money, Tyler refused to accept any of it and any money he earned he tended to give away.

Time for an Abraham cameo (who just accepted a client’s story of their deceased father’s precious antiques despite recognising them as knock offs) when Henry arrives to talk sadly about how Tyler’s dedication to medicine caused him to neglect his family – which Abe runs with since he remembers his own medical parents (Henry and Abigail) being similarly obsessed and brings up a baseball game he missed when he was 10 because of it (I have the feeling this is an oft repeated complaint).

At the funeral, everyone is wearing the same ring – class rings for an extremely exclusive school (and Jo, from a very poor neighbourhood, snarks heavily). They pick out one man, Paul, who Henry declares is on cocaine (because of Henry powers), we meet Cassandra, a lawyer who snarls at them and Carter who was the man making the nice speech about Tyler at the award ceremony. He confirms that Tyler was pretty much out of touch with everyone. Henry sees a date on a photograph (depicting Tyler and the other three) – 10^th June 2005 and decides to ask Carter about it – he denies the date being special but looks awfully shifty while doing so. The date is the same date as Tyler’s tattoo – if viewed in a mirror. (Brief moment where it’s presented as ridiculous that Jo would have a mirror to help her apply make up – are we pretending she doesn’t wear make up? Really?)

Talking to Tyler’s mother, they learn that was the day Tyler and his friends graduated, went away from the summer – only Tyler returned early and a changed man. She describes him as sad and how he stopped accepting money from them

Back in the lab, Lucas (in between trying to crack Henry’s past) reveals the murder weapon was covered in diesel fuel used in boats and a teeny tiny human hair on the body.

In the police station, Joanne Reece (I’m going to keep calling her Reece since she and Jo have the same first name) talks to Jo about killing someone last episode; she shares her own experiences about how killing someone, even if you have to, can affect you.

Forever, Season 1, Episode 6: The Frustrating Thing About Psychopaths

Today’s murder, a woman having a “good night” and tipping the footman generously heads for a taxi and doesn’t make it, ending with a scream.

Over to Henry at the morgue doing his routine work and Lucas lamenting the lack of city destroying monsters to keep life interesting which is Jo’s cue to call – the police have received a package. And it’s bleeding. I’m sure there are several organisations you would call before and ME in that circumstance but Henry’s called in for everything including interviewing witnesses so I suppose this is at least somewhat close to his job description.

Inside the bleeding, gift wrapped box is a human heart. Time to examine it while Henry does a voice over about murderers including the worst kind being those who feel nothing. This also leads to henry happily expositioning to Detective Hanson about serial killers sending trophies to the police because they craved attention – just in case the audience was unaware of the fact. Henry tells Jo, Hanson and Reece that the dead person is a woman and had her heart removed while still alive.

They go through various missing women and Henry discounts them with ridiculously vague Sherlockian nonsense (I have dark circles under my eyes – it isn’t iron deficiency, it’s lack of appropriate levels of caffeine). They find Laurie Pettefor who has a record as a prostitute (and sparks Henry’s old memories about someone called Mary Kelly).

The go see the footman at the hotel where she often worked (the one she tipped well). Using Henry powers they track where the killed dragged Laurie. Henry looks around and sees Dorset street meat factory and realises the connection – the killer is a copycat

Yes, historians “Mary Kelly”, we’re having a Jack the Ripper flashback. Henry investigated the crimes in Whitechapel where he was super pathologist then as well

And back to the present where they find Laurie’s body sliced open in a similar brutal way to Mary Kelly. Examining the scene, Henry is impressed by how closely the crime resembles Jack the Ripper’s crime, pointing to very long study. And Henry gets a creepy phone call from the other self-proclaimed immortal, Adam, almost taunting him about the body. Hearing the siren on the phone and outside Henry realises he’s close and runs to try and catch him – only finding his phone left open.