POI 2x07 and 2x08
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kindkitA change in my work schedule means that I'll have to be at work at 6 am every day now. Except for the one day a week when I'll work 2-10 pm. Yeah, this is gonna be awesome.
So, have a very early POI discussion post for "Critical" and "Til Death." As always, anyone's welcome to join in, but please, no spoilers for developments after the episodes we're talking about.
Episode summaries under the cut, discussion in comments. (Note: my comments and probably most of the discussion will be on DW; I'm having connectivity problems and DW loads a lot better for me right now.)
2x07, "Critical"
This week's number is a surgeon, Maddy Enright, who will be performing heart surgery on the CEO of an energy company. Right before the surgery she gets a phone call telling her that her wife, who is in a local park hosting a charity art festival, will be shot unless she kills her patient by giving him a blood thinner and then "accidentally" nicking an artery.
Reese incapacitates one sniper, but learns from their leader, ex-MI6 agent Alistair Wesley, that there are more. Meanwhile, Finch is at the hospital keeping an eye on Maddie and researching the situation with the help of Leon Tao, whom they've let temporarily take refuge in the library because he got himself in trouble again.
Reese, with Fusco's help, manages to get Maddy's wife Amy safely away from the park, and Maddy calls off the operation even before she knows Amy is safe, but the actions of the surgical nurse, who was working for Wesley, mean that Maddy has to restart her patient's heart with Finch's help.
Meanwhile, Carter encounters ex-CIA agent Mark Snow, who reveals that "she," i.e. Kara is controlling him and is going to cause trouble. The episode ends with Carter confronting Reese about this, and Reese telling her she has to decide how much she really wants to know.
2x08, "Til Death"
This time they get the numbers of a married couple, Daniel and Sabrina Drake, who are joint CEOs of East Village Publishing. At first it seems like the threat comes from a militia leader about whom they published an exposé, but it soon becomes clear that in fact Daniel and Sabrina have each hired a hitman to kill each other,
With the help of Fusco (who was on a date), Reese and Carter foil the first murder attempts, then kidnap the couple and put them in a room together to try and force them to reveal whom they've hired. It turns out that their estrangement comes from lack of communication after Sabrina had a miscarriage, and soon they're talking again and cooperating to try to stop the hit men.
Reese takes them back to their apartment to serve as bait, and stops the killers with Fusco and Carter's help after a big shoot-out. The couple are arrested but won't testify against each other and will probably get off lightly.
Fusco's stakeout/date with Rhonda goes well and looks likely to turn into a romance. Meanwhile, Carter agrees to a date with a colleague, Beecher, who helped her on the case.
Throughout the episode there are flashbacks to Finch's early relationship with Grace, including his attempt to tell her the truth about himself, which he abandons after she implies that she doesn't need to know.
So, have a very early POI discussion post for "Critical" and "Til Death." As always, anyone's welcome to join in, but please, no spoilers for developments after the episodes we're talking about.
Episode summaries under the cut, discussion in comments. (Note: my comments and probably most of the discussion will be on DW; I'm having connectivity problems and DW loads a lot better for me right now.)
2x07, "Critical"
This week's number is a surgeon, Maddy Enright, who will be performing heart surgery on the CEO of an energy company. Right before the surgery she gets a phone call telling her that her wife, who is in a local park hosting a charity art festival, will be shot unless she kills her patient by giving him a blood thinner and then "accidentally" nicking an artery.
Reese incapacitates one sniper, but learns from their leader, ex-MI6 agent Alistair Wesley, that there are more. Meanwhile, Finch is at the hospital keeping an eye on Maddie and researching the situation with the help of Leon Tao, whom they've let temporarily take refuge in the library because he got himself in trouble again.
Reese, with Fusco's help, manages to get Maddy's wife Amy safely away from the park, and Maddy calls off the operation even before she knows Amy is safe, but the actions of the surgical nurse, who was working for Wesley, mean that Maddy has to restart her patient's heart with Finch's help.
Meanwhile, Carter encounters ex-CIA agent Mark Snow, who reveals that "she," i.e. Kara is controlling him and is going to cause trouble. The episode ends with Carter confronting Reese about this, and Reese telling her she has to decide how much she really wants to know.
2x08, "Til Death"
This time they get the numbers of a married couple, Daniel and Sabrina Drake, who are joint CEOs of East Village Publishing. At first it seems like the threat comes from a militia leader about whom they published an exposé, but it soon becomes clear that in fact Daniel and Sabrina have each hired a hitman to kill each other,
With the help of Fusco (who was on a date), Reese and Carter foil the first murder attempts, then kidnap the couple and put them in a room together to try and force them to reveal whom they've hired. It turns out that their estrangement comes from lack of communication after Sabrina had a miscarriage, and soon they're talking again and cooperating to try to stop the hit men.
Reese takes them back to their apartment to serve as bait, and stops the killers with Fusco and Carter's help after a big shoot-out. The couple are arrested but won't testify against each other and will probably get off lightly.
Fusco's stakeout/date with Rhonda goes well and looks likely to turn into a romance. Meanwhile, Carter agrees to a date with a colleague, Beecher, who helped her on the case.
Throughout the episode there are flashbacks to Finch's early relationship with Grace, including his attempt to tell her the truth about himself, which he abandons after she implies that she doesn't need to know.
Re: 2x08, "Til Death"
Date: 2014-04-03 02:41 pm (UTC)And then he thinks, well maybe this is what love is like, this nice simple fondness. This is what normal people get to feel, this low key, low stress sense of 'actually, I could stand to share a house with this person' and a vague confidence that they'd help with cooking and be quite fun vacation companions.
But on the other hand, he's heard that love is harsh and crazy and painful, and he's seen evidence of that, and what he's felt for Nathan and what he's learnt to feel for Reese? That isn't nice or simple or gentle. It's wracking and complicated and involves a lot of feeling dreadful and then spikes of feeling just *amazing*, just better than he thought anyone could feel without pharmaceuticals.
And he doesn't like it, or get why human beings have to be so messy and contradictory. And he still longs a little for Grace, with whom he could be perfectly in control of himself.
Re: 2x08, "Til Death"
Date: 2014-04-03 04:28 pm (UTC)Tying this in to what you've said, he could feel that the nice calm affection and sense of stability/control he feels with Grace are the rewards of heterosexuality: real grown-up normal heterosexual love doesn't hurt, it isn't extreme, it's calm and decorous. Obviously this is preferable to the abnormal love he felt for Nathan and is scared of feeling for Reese, with its humiliating, overwhelming emotions and its dreadful feeling of vulnerability.