Episode Report Card Couch Baron: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Sins Of The Father... And Sister
By Couch Baron | Season 3 | Episode 23 | Aired on 04.13.2009
...and then Angela awakens with a violent start in yet another building. However, this one's furnished with, among other things, stacks and stacks of old newspapers and Alice's now-coverless copy of Alice In Wonderland. The door opens, and Angela sees a pair of feet walking down the stairs (I guess it's actually a bomb shelter). Angela looks red-eyed and paler than usual, by the way, which seems realistic after two days in the desert with no sleep, but she finally gets a good look at the woman, and it's longtime Bryan Fuller favorite Diana Scarwid, wearing a long gray fright wig that makes it look like she's about to start hurling hissing cats right and left. Angela breathes, "Alice?" I'd forgive the unlikelihood of her familiarity with the reference if Alice responded with a comment about not living there anymore, but all we get is a commercial break.
When we return, Angela is begging Alice to talk to her, but Alice is too busy sending us into another flashback as she puts a record on an old player and "Crying" by Roy Orbison kicks up......which continues in the flashback on a radio at the Coyote Sands Café. Angela slams the phone down in disgust and reports to the others that the cops don't believe her, and goes on that they have to try to convince them. Inexplicably, though, the others completely don't care, with YDL babbling something in the accent that defies description and YCD asking Angela to dance, because he knows she loves this song and missed her prom. Angela says she never told him that, so I guess we're meant to assume that YCD is telepathic, even though he only seemed to be able to dream walk earlier in the series, and also, if he can actually read minds, they should have been using that power to figure out what was going on at Coyote Sands the whole time instead of relying on Angela's "confusing" dreams, and this episode really kind of bites. Also, speaking to my point that it's only 1961 when the show wants it to be, YCD and Angela dancing earns only an eventual mild rebuke from the proprietor, which is pretty unbelievable given that they're out in the sticks here, but it gives YCD a further chance to show off the powers he doesn't have when he commands the guy to pretend like it never happened, and he complies, like, BEING ABLE TO BEND PEOPLE TO YOUR WILL WOULDN'T HAVE COME IN HANDY BACK IN THE PRISON CAMP OR ANYTHING. Angela then remembers she needs to get socks for Alice, but just then, the Emergency Broadcast System warns of a severe storm...