Episode Report Card Monty Ashley: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT OMG Zombies!
By Monty Ashley | Season 1 | Episode 3 | Aired on 10.04.2010
In a hurry? Read the recaplet for a nutshell description! Finished? Click here to close.Sean escapes from custody by sheer luck when an RV plows into the car he's in. He saves the lady FBI agent (who turns out to be named Collier, although I kept hearing it as "Claire") so he can use her computer to hack into the FBI database and prove that Vicky Roberts is a person. Then he gets arrested again, which just means that he has to escape by sheer luck twice in one episode. The second time is because goons show up trying to claim Sean as a prisoner transfer, but things go wrong and the entire Yuma FBI office gets machine-gunned to death. But at least Sean and Collier escape!
President Martinez, when he's not flying back and forth across the country so he can appear in scenes in both Yuma and Washington, DC, has cooked up a scheme where he offers freedom to any detainee who will come forward and tell him about the mysterious undetained detainees. One squirrelly guy named William takes the deal, but only if his girlfriend can come along. Sterling allows it, then the girlfriend gives William the ol' shiv-in-the-breadbasket routine. So that was kind of a bust, but Martinez and Sophia got some good staring in during this week's interrogation scene.
Vicky's got Leila all tied up with tape in the back of her van. She takes time out to kill a cop, but her main job seems to be smirking at Leila as she shoves her into storage containers and things like that. All this time, Vicky's been assuming that Sean was a useless jerk, but his secret computer-hacking skills are turning out to be a real problem for whatever dopey plan it is that she's got going on. So Leila survives, although she does get punched in the face.
And then! The two hundred dead passengers start to wake up, which kind of freaks out the young soldier who was assigned to watch over their corpses. Like his assignment wasn't creepy enough, right? Anyway, now we get to add "zombies" to the list of things this show might be about.
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Want more? The full recap starts right below!We're all in medias res up in here, since we start with Sean getting out of a police car. Well, it's actually a Sheriff's Department car, but I think that's close enough. The last time we saw him, he was in a black FBI car, so this is kind of a step down for him. On the other hand, he used to be handcuffed in the back, but now he's the driver. So maybe it's a wash. Anyway, he hops out of the car and goes into a motel room, where there is a woman covered in bloody bandages. She's the FBI agent who arrested Sean last episode. Sean applies pressure on her wound, and she winces. Which is perfectly understandable, so I don't know why I mentioned it. Sean starts to count himself down to some dramatic action, and we suddenly find ourselves TWO HOURS EARLIER, outside Yuma.
It's that scene from the end of last episode where he blathers about wanting to go over the rise. I hated that scene last week; I don't see why I should watch it again. The detectives refuse again to go through the roadblock, but this time we see the cop walk away suspiciously. That was a useful addition. And then! Suddenly! An RV slams into the car with Sean in it, knocking it over and into the police car! Man, the guy who was running the road block should have put up some flares or something. Too late now; he appears to have been killed, although his police car is conveniently untouched. Sean wiggles his way out of the upside-down FBI car, which can't be easy with his hands cuffed behind his back, and sees that the driver of the RV is dead. He just showed up to get Sean out of custody, then die? Good gig. Sean ignores the dead cop and the dead RV driver (and the pink bicycle on the road, which I guess is there just to tell us there's probably a dead girl inside the RV) to get the handcuff keys to free himself. He checks the male detective's neck and decides he's dead. The woman is alive, though, so he helps her out of the car and carries her to the side of the road. Then he returns to the car and gets a briefcase, at which point we see that some gas has puddled on the road and is burning. The woman seems a little disoriented and wants to go back to check on her partner, but there's a giant explosion. Explosions fix everything! Sean tosses her and the briefcase into the police car and drives off.
End of flashback. That was more gratuitous than usual, since they could have just put the flashback at the beginning of the episode and then done the scene in the motel room without interrupting it. I realize they're trying to make Exposition-Heavy Flashbacks into their "thing," but this is just showing scenes out of order.