Episode Report Card Couch Baron: A | 496 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT The Way We Were
By Couch Baron | Season 1 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2007.02.26
Cut to Bennet hesitating for a moment before opening his door for the big-eyed, teenaged Haitian. He tersely tells him that his wife is upstairs, and the Haitian simply nods and heads up. The camera's positioned so that he's coming toward us, and when he gets close, we see that he's wearing a necklace with a white pendant on it. Because of the black-and-white photography and the fact that he's wearing a black shirt, when he gets close, we can only see the pendant, which is in the same shape as Jessica's tattoo. Man alive, the direction and camerawork in this episode are unbelievable. That stuff adds so much to the show, especially given its genre. Sloppy kudos all around.
Primatech. It's a little after 7:20, and Parkman frets that if they don't bring Sprague some hard evidence, he's going to freak out. Outside a locked room, Bennet swipes a key card as he says the only thing they're bringing Sprague is a tranquilizer. Well, that'll probably stop him from freaking out too. Inside, Bennet grabs a hypodermic as Parkman tries to tell him that Sprague wants the truth. Bennet astutely demurs, saying that Sprague wants his wife back, and barring that, he craves revenge "of the good old-fashioned Biblical variety." Parkman argues the point until Bennet adds that Parkman himself said Sprague had already pulled the trigger in his mind. See, Parkman? If you didn't babble about every stray thought that comes into your head, you'd find it a lot easier to get your way. Parkman wonders about his own fate, asking if Bennet is going to have his memory erased, but Bennet says Parkman is the only one he can trust, and proposes that they be honest with each other. Parkman breathes, "You just try lying to me." As I indicated before, I think Grunberg has plenty of chops, but whenever he tries to be menacing, I just want to giggle, "You're so cute!" He should have stuck with Clea DuVall -- she's about a hundred times scarier than he is. Bennet tells Parkman that he just signaled the Haitian.