Episode Report Card Couch Baron: B+ | 655 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT He's Alive, I Tells Ya! ALIVE!
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 5 | Aired on 2008.10.13
Costa Verde. Sandra is urgently looking through her husband's files when Meredith appears and asks what's up. Sandra disgustedly says there was no cheerleading retreat, and Claire isn't answering her phone. She berates herself for falling for Claire's ruse, and speculates that she's gone after one of the villains. Pointing out Claire's invulnerability, Meredith isn't too worried until Sandra produces the file of a "Steven Canfield," who apparently can create vortexes and make people disappear forever. Does he take requests? This gets Meredith's attention, but she gets ten times more freaked when she comes across a picture of a bald, bearded guy she recognizes. She says they'd better hope Claire didn't go after this "Eric Doyle," who's a horrible man. "You don't even want to know." People have been overusing that statement on this show lately, but I've seen the rest of the episode and she's all kinds of right. Meredith says that he doesn't live far from them, and she's going to start there. Sandra volunteers to go with her, but Meredith won't hear of it, and gratuitously demonstrates her power to make her point. And she does have a point, but I still think Sandra and Mr. Muggles are a one-two punch that can't be stopped. Sandra focuses in on the picture of Canfield...
...and we cut to the man himself, who's in a now-empty house on the phone with his sister-in-law, desperately trying to find out where his family is. She refuses to tell him and hangs up, though, and in frustration, he opens a vortex and sucks some papers and other crap into it before it quickly closes. This guy could hire himself out as a maid and retire within a year. (By the way, Canfield is played by Andre Royo, whom viewers of The Wire will remember as Bubbles.) Canfield then hears footsteps, and asks if someone's there. He steps forward, but an angle switch reveals to us that Claire is behind him holding her weapon. Claire tells him she's behind him, and it turns out she's holding a taser, which emits a high-pitched whine and then spits out an electrical charge that sends Canfield twitching to the ground. Claire smiles and gloats, "Gotcha," and even the title card is like, "Honey, please."