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Henry is arrested for Tyler's murder, but gets out on bail. Trying to make things better, Actual-Shiv bribes Oksana (the maid who let Henry into Tyler Boytoy's hotel room) into recanting. Oksana takes the money, but brings it and the incriminating information right to New York's finest. The cops haul Bridget-as-Shiv in for questioning. Poor Bridget didn't bribe the maid, so she has no clue what's going on, but she now suspects Tool Belt is responsible for Boytoy's murder.
Meanwhile, Tim Arbogast has gotten Child Protective Services to remove the invisi-twins from Henry's home and place them in his own. Our poor old Tool Belt confronts his father-in-law, learns Tim knows about Henry's affair with Siobhan and suspects him in Gemma's death. In other news, Tim brings the flash drive to Andrew and tells him he's going to save Martin/Charles.
Catherine tries to kill herself, either because she's afraid she's going to be caught, or maybe just because it's Tuesday. It's certainly not because she feels bad for manipulating her child into making a fake rape claim, just to rip of Andrew to the tune of ten million bucks. Juliet gets to say the episode title to Mommy though, so it's all good.
When Cattie is discharged from the hospital, her doctor says she either needs to be admitted to Bellevue or have 24/7 in-home care. Andrew and Bridget, of course, take her in. This gives Catherine a bird's eye view of the still-suspended Agent Victor "Guyliner" Machado's investigation into the attempts on Bridget-as-Shiv's life. By episode's end, Catherine drugs Bridget's tea. Stumbling around in a stupor, Bridget finds the missing cell phone (which belonged to the hit man Bridget killed early in the season), but she passes out cold before she can do anything about it. Catherine scatters pills all over Bridget's unconscious face. Meanwhile, Machado has found evidence implicating Cattie and tries to warn Bridget, but Guyliner is no Richard Alpert on this show, so he's too darned late.
There are only two more episodes left in this season (and smart money says the same is true for the series). I know writers can't write as if their show is definitely canceled, but the near miss between Bridget and Shiv has me worried that we will get no satisfaction by season's end. What do you think?
I'll be back tomorrow with the full weecap of "If You're Just An Evil Bitch Then Get Over It." In the meantime, please grade the episode at the top of the page and then join us in the show thread, where it's tea time.
Want more? The full recap starts right below!Welcome dear Ringlets, to my antepenultimate weecap of Ringer Season 1, which is probably going to end up being Ringer Season Only. Let's have some fun while it lasts, okay?
Night. The story picks up right where it left off last week. Agent Victor "Guyliner" Machado has just taken out the latest hit man who is after Bridget-as-Shiv. Our Welsh Rarebit Andrew is at home. He's talking on the phone with Bridget-as-Shiv crowing about how he managed to trick Catherine out of all the money she swindled from him. When he asks Bridget how she is, she says, "Don't panic. It happened again. Someone shot at me..." like you do. "Whoever is doing this -- they're not after Bridget. They're after me." I don't know how she wards off dizziness when she's saying things like that.
Andrew ends the call, intending to go to the police station and bring Bridget-as-Shiv home, but then he hears opera music coming from a room down the hall, and even Andrew has watched enough bad TV to know that is never a good sign. He finds Cattie and asks her what she's doing there. She says she had to see Juliet, but what she means by "see Juliet," is: slit her own wrists, bleed all over Andrew's shirt and carpet, claim she's sorry for everything she's done, cry that wants to die and then pass out. Commercial!
Morning. Juliet and Andrew go to visit Catherine at the hospital. Juliet makes it clear she's not in a forgiving mood and swans out of the room. Andrew follows her. They meet up with Cattie's psychiatrist, who wants a word with Andrew regarding Cattie's history. He sends Juliet off to the vending machines, so of course she just goes around a conveniently placed corner to eavesdrop. Andrew admits that Catherine tried to kill herself before, but the doctors said it was "para-suicide" -- a cry for help. This psychiatrist says this attempt was a serious one, not just a cry for help. Catherine can stay at the hospital two more days, but after that she'll need to be admitted to Bellevue or work out a supervised living situation.
The NYPD has dragged Henry "Tool Belt" Butler down to the station again. He's already admitted being at the Soho Diamond but claims he was only there to write. He wants to go home now, but the detective points at the office window and tells Tool Belt new evidence has come to light. Henry turns to see Oksana, the maid who let him into Tyler's room. She can place him at the scene right at the time of Tyler's death. We cut to Henry getting booked. Can someone explain to me why I don't want Henry to be caught?
Bridget and Guyliner meet for coffee. The cops haven't told her anything, except that they've identified the shooter. Guyliner confides that his name is Rex Barton. He's a "family" man from Jersey, and I don't think that means he coaches his kid's Little League team. The bullets from his gun are a match for the bullet removed from Andrew. I thought that bullet fragmented. Wasn't part of it near Andrew's spine? I know nothing about guns and ballistics. I shouldn't be wasting your time or mine. Sorry. The cops say Barton is a professional hit man, so the question is who hired him to kill Bridget-as-Shiv. Bridget asks about the call that came into the hit man's phone right after he shot at Bridget-as-Shiv. You know the one I mean -- the call CATHERINE made. Guyliner says it's a dead end. The call was made on a disposable cell phone bought with cash.
Guyliner then asks "Mrs. Martin" who might want her dead. Bridget asks about the Olivia Charles investigation. He reminds her that's just a missing person case. Bridget suggests Olivia might be behind the attempts on her life. Guyliner asks why she thinks that -- if this is about Martin/Charles, and if Bridget-as-Shiv knows what Olivia is trying to hide. Bridget says she wishes she did. Guyliner tells her that if she thinks Olivia is involved, Bridget-as-Shiv should go to the police. Bridget is all, "I'm talking to you." He reminds her he's a suspended federal agent, and was he not suspended, he'd be working the Macawi case. Bridget tells Guyliner he's the one she trusts. "No one has done more to protect Bridget than you. Now, on top of it, you've saved my life. If anyone can help me, it's you." Guyliner flutters his gorgeous freak-of-nature lashes and gets all aw shucks, ma'am looking. He finally says he has a buddy at the bureau who can probably give him an update on her case, but he can't make any promises after that.
Henry arrives home and calls out to the invisi-twins. Their names are Dash and Becks -- so like what? Is that a shout-out to Dashiell Hammett and... David Beckham?
Dashiell Hammett: The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.
David Beckham: Um... Posh, get me out of here!
The invisi-twins don't answer, but a more pregnant than ever Shiv is there to greet Henry with a kiss. She's glad he made bail. He had to put his brownstone up as collateral. When he asks where the kids are, Shiv says she was out getting a few things (like what -- lawyers, guns and money). When she got home, the nanny was out front begging Children's Services not to take the boys away. Henry is understandably freaked. You guys -- when did I start finding him sympathetic? I enjoyed it much more when he was only a Tool Belt to me. He's still a Tool Belt, but one for whom I feel. Ugh!
Park Ave, Night. Bridget catches Andrew up on her conversation with Guyliner. Andrew is starting to doubt Olivia's involvement. They're interrupted by Juliet. She confesses that she heard what the doctor told Andrew, and she's wondering if it's her fault Catherine is suicidal. She feels guilty about tricking her mother, but Andrew assures her it's not her fault. She asks Andrew if he thinks Catherine is actually crazy. Andrew doesn't know what to think, except that Catherine needs help and that they need to trust her doctors. As Juliet leaves the room, Bridget-as-Shiv asks Juliet if she wants her to come with her.
Juliet: And what? Tuck me in? I got it.
Audience: Thank goodness they remembered she's a teenager.
Once Andrew and Bridget are alone, he blames himself for Cattie's suicide attempt. Her attempt happened when Andrew asked her for a divorce. He tells Bridget Cattie still fantasizes that they'll reunite and be a family again someday. Then he confesses that Catherine kissed him when he was setting her up to buy that Palm Springs property. He thought she was just playing at seduction to get Andrew to do what she wanted, but now he wonders if the kiss meant something to Catherine. Since he tricked her out of all the money (money she scammed from him), told her to get out of his life and took Juliet from her, Andrew is worried Catherine's suicide attempt is his fault. Bridget reminds him anything Catherine got, she deserved. All he did was get his own money back without implicating Juliet or sending Catherine to jail. She asks Andrew if he led Catherine on. He assures her he didn't. He only loves Bridget-as-Shiv. He knows he can't turn his back on Catherine like he did the first time she tried to kill herself. Anything he does is going to affect Juliet, too. Bridget says as long as they remember that, they'll muddle through. Then they share this adorably swoony little look before we cut to...
Gramercy Park, Day. Tool Belt tells Shiv that Tim Arbogast is the one who tipped the cops off about the flash drive, which led them to suspect Henry for Tyler Boytoy's murder. It's also Arbogast who called Children's Services and said Henry was an unfit parent. He wants to confront his father-in-law to figure out why he's waging war on him. Shiv tells Henry the best thing he can do right now is prove he didn't kill Tyler. That will clear his name. Henry talks to her like she's a confused child because he did kill Tyler and she knows it.
Shiv blames herself for everything because everything is her fault, and says if she could take "this" back, she would. Henry's little speechless nod and quiet yet crazed laugh crack me up. Crap. I don't just find him sympathetic, I find him likable. Darn you, Kristoffer Polaha! Anyhow, once Henry leaves, Shiv talks to herself. "This one, I know I can fix." Oh, no. Run far far away and never look back, Tool Belt. You can sure impregnate a third woman with twins and start all over. (Yes, I know the father isn't responsible for conception of twins, but Tool Belt doesn't.)
Shiv goes to the Soho Diamond and leans on Oksana about Henry, and then she hands her a wad of cash. We cut to Oksana entering the police station. She tells the detective in charge of Tyler's murder that they need to talk. Oh, dear.
Henry arrives at Arbogast's suburban home and finds him outside playing with the suddenly visible invisi-twins. Dash and Becks (hee) run to their daddy, who scoops them up in his arms and tells them he misses them. Arbogast barks that it's lunch time. Henry tells the kids they can go in, and some woman (be it their grandmother or the invisi-nanny, I cannot say) leads them inside.
Arbogast tells Henry he's not supposed to be there. Henry doesn't care. Tim has had him arrested and now he's taken away his kids when all he was trying to do was help. He insists Andrew Martin is the one who should be in jail, which helps me like Tool Belt a little less again. Thanks, Polaha! Arbogast says Tool Belt lied to him. It didn't take him long to find out that the SEC was investigating Martin/Charles, and Tyler was their mole. He put two and two together.
Dashiell Hammett: And you got four. Good for you!
Arbogast tells Henry that Gemma used to cry to him that she suspected Tool Belt was unfaithful. After her death, he only tried to maintain a relationship with Henry for the sake of the invisi-twins. Once he realized Henry was lying about the flash drive, he couldn't do it any longer. He hired an investigator to look into the last year of Gemma's life and learned Henry was knocking boots with Shiv. He broke Gemma's heart. For all he knows, Henry was involved in Gemma's death, too. Henry is shaken and denies this last accusation, but Arbogast is not moved. He's going to make Henry and Shiv pay for what they did.
Dashiell Hammett: The people who lie the most are nearly always the clumsiest at it, and they're easier to fool with lies than most people, too. You'd think they'd be on the lookout for lies, but they seem to be the very ones that will believe almost anything at all.
Bridget-as-Shiv arrives at the police station. She's there at the request of the detective investigating Tyler's murder. Do we have a name for this guy? I'm getting tired of explaining who I mean. Let's just call him Kojak.
Telly Savalas: Who loves ya, baby?
Bridget thinks Kojak wants to talk to her about the attempts on her life, but he wants to talk to her about Tool Belt's case and why she paid off Oksana the maid to change her story. Bridget is so confused because of course she didn't pay off anyone. Kojak brings up her affair with Henry. Bridget doesn't bother denying it, but doesn't see the connection. Kojak explains that Oksana is the main witness against Henry in Tool Belt's murder. If she recants, Henry walks. Bridget didn't even know Henry had been arrested. She can't figure out why Henry would kill Tyler. Kojak asks if she ever met the victim. Bridget says they met once at a business dinner. Kojak asks if there's something she's not telling him. Bridget flashes back to finding Tyler's dead body. In the present, Kojak reminds her that if she's hiding something, they will find it out.
Juliet goes to visit Catherine in the hospital. Catherine jokes that she hasn't been on this many drugs since college, but it was more fun back then. Juliet is upset that Catherine is sick because it almost means Catherine gets a pass for what she's done. She can't believe the things Catherine manipulated her into doing. Catherine says she knew Andrew would find her (when she tried to kill herself this last time) and she wanted him to live with the guilt of knowing he caused this. She confesses that she's been an awful mother. She never even thought she would have kids but she so loved Andrew, and he wanted kids. When he left, she let him take Juliet because she figured he loved Juliet more than she did. Once Juliet was gone, all Catherine could do was obsess about Shiv. Once she realized Juliet and Shiv were bonding, it got worse. Cattie wanted to take away everything that mattered to Shiv: money, Andrew and Juliet. She says she messed up so bad and starts to confess more, but Juliet tells her to stop it because it screws her up to be around Cattie when she's like this. Cattie asks if Juliet wants her out of her life because if she loses her daughter, nothing else matters. Juliet says she just wants a normal mom. She then holds her mother's hand.
Juliet: And if you are sick, I want you to get better. But if you're just an evil bitch, then get over it.
Audience: Yay, you finally got to say an episode title, again! You must be off punishment.
Some bar. Agent "Handsome" Cupertino introduces himself and Guyliner to Remy Ostermann (played by one of those Hey! It's That Guy! guys). They know Ostermann uses his dry cleaning shop and those stupid tarot cards to run a hit man brokerage. Hey, don't look at me. It's canon. Guyliner tells Ostermann that if he'll give up whoever hired Barton to kill Siobhan Martin, he will see that he only serves 15 years for his involvement in scores of murders. Ostermann knows they have nothing on him, so he laughs at the offer and walks out.
Once he's alone with Guyliner, Handsome agrees with Barton; they've got nothing, and so far Mrs. Barton won't let them search the house. They can get a warrant -- which, um... shouldn't they have already been on that like, immediately after the shooting? Since Barton took a shot at Bridget-as-Shiv, it's not like you don't have sufficient justification for a warrant. Anyhow, the feeble feds agree getting a warrant will take too much time. Mrs. Barton could destroy evidence before then. Sheesh fellas, it's been a couple of days since Barton took the shot at Bridget-as-Shiv. If she's going to, she probably already has. Anyhow, Handsome doesn't know what to tell Guyliner. His hands are tied. As Guyliner, oh-c'mons Handsome, we cut to...
Gramercy Park. Henry arrives home and tells Shiv he just got off the phone with his lawyer. The maid changed her story. Shiv smiles. She knew she could fix this. Henry returns her grin, but his eyes are dialed up to CRAZY.
Henry: Great job with that, because now, on top of her original accusations, Oksana Unspellablevitz is saying that Siobhan Martin tried to bribe her. So now they think we're working together, which makes me look worse.
Shiv: She reported me? Henry, this was supposed to clear you. Have the police talked to Bridget?
Henry: What?!
Shiv: Well, if the maid accused Siobhan, then the police are going to talk to Bridget. When that happens, how long do you think before she figures out that there are two Siobhan Martins in New York?
Henry: Is that all you can think about?
Audience: Yep. Pretty much.
Shiv: I'm trying to protect you. If the police think you're working with Siobhan, they're going to add fraud, embezzlement, God only knows what else -- to your murder charge. Henry, you have to find Bridget. You have to explain this.
The CW: Let's cut to commercial, so that you can ignore how little sense that just made.
Barton home, Night. Guyliner waits 'til the family leaves the house then breaks in using a credit card. You'd think a hit man would have a more secure house.
Meanwhile, over at Park Ave., Juliet confesses to Andrew that she went to see her mother. She hates the idea of her being institutionalized and suggests hiring a nurse and setting Catherine up in an apartment. Juliet's done some research. Andrew points out that Cattie will be released tomorrow. Juliet asks if she can come to Park Ave., just until they can hire someone. Andrew doesn't want Catherine around Juliet while she's like this. Juliet understands but she can't live with the idea of just sending her mother away.
Audience: Really?
Juliet begs her daddy to think about it. You know he's going to cave. We cut back to the...
Barton House. Down in the basement, Guyliner finds a secret door. He opens it and enters the hidden room, where he finds that picture of Shiv and Andrew in Paris. Shiv has been cut out of it. There are some surveillance photos, too. When he notices a locked freezer, he takes a crow bar and breaks into it. Inside is a frozen corpse.
Bridget knocks on Henry's front door. The window is that mottled glass, remember, so while she can tell a woman is in the front hall, she doesn't realize it's her presumed-dead twin, Siobhan. Bridget is all, "I need to talk to Henry. Anni-Frid, I can see you..." When Bridget starts to unlock the front door, we cut to commercial, which of course will give Shiv time to hide. Darn it. Once she lets herself in, Bridget calls out, "Hello... Henry? Anni-Frid?" Shiv is hiding just in the room. As the people in our show thread have noted time and again, no one on this show has peripheral vision, so Siobhan and her big belly remain hidden long enough to allow Shiv to grab something with which she can clock Bridget over the head. It's just then that Henry comes home. He can see both twins. He distracts Bridget's attention and probably saves her from a concussion by asking what she's doing in his house.
Bridget would like to know why she was hauled into the police station. Tool Belt lies that the maid is lying about letting him into Tyler's hotel room. He says he panicked and hired a woman to pay her off. The hired woman was blonde, so because of their "relationship" the police assumed it was Shiv. Bridget-as-Shiv reminds Tool Belt they have no relationship and tells him he needs to tell the cops it's long over. She has no reason to bribe anyone. Henry assures her he'll do her best. Then Bridget starts to put two and two together (in four sort of way) and asks why the maid would lie if money wasn't her motive. Tool Belt lets out a nervous chuckle and says he wishes he knew. He reminds her he was at the hotel writing and had no idea Tyler was staying there.
Bridget: You knew. You knew about Tyler and... and..."me."
Henry: You and Tyler? Come on. Are you serious?
Bridget: Oh my God, Henry. You did kill Tyler. It's written all over your face.
Henry: Knock it off. I didn't kill anybody. You know what? I need you to leave my house now, please.
Bridget: I know you're hiding something.
Once Bridget is gone, Henry just walks past Siobhan without saying a word. She stares into space, undoubtedly finding some insane way to blame all this on Bridget, too.
Park Ave. Bridget-as-Shiv has invited Guyliner over. When he arrives, she reintroduces him to Juliet and introduces him to Catherine, who is staying with them. Yikes! Catherine suggests that she and Juliet go to her room to give Bridget-as-Shiv some privacy. Juliet grabs Catherine's medication. Catherine is sheepish as she tries to laugh them off by saying they could tranquilize a horse. Before Juliet follows her mother, Bridget grabs her and asks if she's okay. Juliet says Catherine is following doctor's orders and asks if she's crazy to think she might be getting better. Bridget tells her she's not one bit crazy.
Audience: No, she's a hundred bits wrong, though.
Once they're alone, Guyliner tells "Mrs. Martin" she's a good mother and a good wife to let her husband's ex stay with them. Bridget says it's only for a few days and writes it off as a long story. He shows her a photocopy of the "original" picture of Shiv and Andrew in Paris -- the one from which Shiv's was cut out. Bridget flashes back to shooting the hit man and finding the picture of Siobhan. Back in the present, she tells Guyliner the photo is from their Christmas card a few years ago, and that the missing half is "me." Guyliner guesses whoever wanted her dead gave the photo to Remy Ostermann, who contracted out the hit. But wait, there's more. He takes out his phone and brings up a picture of Deadcicle -- the frozen corpse he found at Barton's. Bridget makes sure Guyliner is on her side, then confirms she knows Deadcicle because she killed him.
Gramercy Park. Henry is packing up the invis-twins' toys when Shiv tries to get him to talk to her. He's not exactly in the mood. His life is ruined and it all started when he got mixed up with her. He's made bad choices. No duh. He killed a man and can't take that back. Double no duh.
Henry: Hell, I'm so crazy in love with you, I tried to help you set up your own sister -- to die.
Audience: Yes, because you're a Tool Belt.
Henry: You told me you were done with all this. That's obviously not the truth, so tell me, where the hell does this end?
Shiv: Let's just end it now. I mean, we have Andrew's money. I'll go anywhere you want. I don't care about revenge if I lose you.
Henry: No. It's too late. I'm not going to leave my boys. And don't try to fix anything else because every time you do, things just get worse.
Back at Park Ave., Guyliner tells Bridget-as-Shiv that "this" changes things. He wants the whole story from the beginning. Deadcicle is the guy who tried to kill her, not Rex Barton. She didn't tell Guyliner because she killed Deadcicle in self-defense. She hid the body until she could figure out what to do, but when she went back, the body was gone. Rex Barton took the body, which is why she didn't go to the police. He was holding it over her. That makes no sense, I know, but there are only two episodes after this one, so let's just go with it, Gentle Readers. Okay?
Guyliner needs answers. The FBI will get a warrant and the bullet in Deadcicle is going to trace back to her. Bridget lies, or well, I guess she truths when she says it will trace to Bridget, who "gave" her the gun. She then says she gave it to someone she thought she could trust to get rid of it -- NA Charlie/John Delario. Guyliner says that's how John got the gun he used to kill Gemma. Guyliner puts together the pieces. When Deadcicle went missing, Ostermann got Barton to clean up the mess, but Barton couldn't because Bridget had Deadcicle's phone. She used it as an insurance policy so Barton wouldn't kill her, which also makes no sense because if he just killed her, he could get the damned phone, right? Right. Yes, I know. Only two more episodes after this one. I'll stop.
Guyliner asks why Barton would want the phone, since anything in it would just trace back to Deadcicle. Bridget nods to encourage him to use his fricking brain. As his inner Richard Alpert weeps, Guyliner adds maybe it could be used to trace back to the person who ordered the hit. Bridget tells him the phone was stolen just before Andrew got shot. Guyliner says whoever stole it must have had access to the Martins' home, which means Barton probably didn't take it; the person who hired him did. Bridget says that brings them back to the original question -- who wants to kill her? Guyliner says he had the cut up photo dusted for prints. He says it's a long shot, but if the person who ordered the hits touched it, there's a chance they can find out who wants her dead. Catherine, who is listening behind the corner, gasps us into commercial.
Later, after Guyliner is gone, Bridget goes through the mail. When she comes across a piece from Ironwood Security Systems, she thinks about what Guyliner said -- that whoever took the phone has or had access to her house. She flashes back to Olivia's visit; Catherine in the tub; Mr. Carpenter at the fundraiser; Tool Belt holding up his key to Park Ave. Back in the present, Bridget searches for a letter opener. Someone's behind her, holding the business end of it perilously close to Bridget's throat. Juliet says, "Looking for this?" Bridget gasps as she spins around, but it's a big fake out. Juliet had just tried to keep sharp objects from Cattie. Bridget takes the letter opener and promises to lock it up after.
Martin/Charles Financial. Tim Arbogast and the flash drive are waiting for Andrew when he arrives in his office. Andrew tries to act like he doesn't know anything, but Gemma's daddy has no time for B.S. He lays out the whole story, including the fact that Tool Belt figured, wrongly, that Arbogast would turn in Andrew. Arbogast says he's not going to do that. Instead, he's going to save Martin/Charles.
Park Ave. Juliet's running out to get Catherine's things from her hotel. Bridget offers to go with her, but Juliet thinks it's probably better if Catherine isn't alone. Bridget agrees. After Juliet leaves, Catherine asks if she can make some tea and if Bridget-as-Shiv will join her. Bridget tries to beg off, but come on, we all know she's going to end up drinking the tea, so I'm not going to waste your time explaining how Cattie manipulates her into doing so.
In his hotel room, Guyliner is reviewing his evidence, when he gets a confidential e-mail from Agent Handsome.
E-Mail: Got a hit on the fingerprints from the photo. See attached file for info.
Guyliner opens the attachment. It's ridiculously slow to load because someone has to do something to ratchet up the tension, since we already know the print must belong to Cattie. Guyliner runs a half-marathon, showers, dresses, orders room service, eats, takes a nap, watches Lost reruns, cries a little and then finally the attachment loads. He turns around just in time to see it's a photo of Catherine.
Park Ave. Catherine brings the tea into the parlor, and then notes she forgot the sugar. Bridget jumps up and says she'll get it. While Bridget is gone from the room, her cell phone rings. Catherine sees the call is coming from Guyliner. She hits "ignore" then hides Bridget's phone under her seat cushion. When Bridget returns with the sugar, she asks if her phone rang. Catherine lies that she didn't hear anything. As Bridget takes a sip of her tea, we cut to Guyliner, who has reached her (well "Siobhan Martin's") voice mail. He hangs up and tries the Martins' home number, but we flash to...
Park Ave. Catherine has unplugged the landline. Jump to...
Guyliner's hotel room. The Martins' phone is still ringing on his end. He looks again at the picture of Catherine, grabs his jacket and rushes out the door.
Park Ave. Bridget is visibly woozy. Since Juliet's been gone a while, she wants to check on her. Catherine says the girl probably just went for coffee. Bridget says she'd feel better if she checked. When she rises to her feet, she loses her balance. Her vision blurs. When Cattie asks if she's okay, Bridget writes off everything as a head rush based on a stressful week. She's makes her way to the room, and finds a purse. Her vision is still blurry, so what I think is happening is that Bridget mistakes the purse for her own, and is looking for her own phone. She finds a phone all right, but it's Deadcicle's phone. Deadcicle's phone is in Catherine's purse, of course. She recognizes the phone and puts everything together, but since Catherine put so many tranquilizers in her tea, Bridget can no longer stand. As she falls to her knees, Catherine comes in the room and asks if she found what she's looking for. Bridget mumbles, "It's you," before she fully collapses on the floor. The phone slides out of her hand and under some furniture. I don't think Catherine sees it. She's too busy sprinkling the spent tranquilizer shells all over Bridget's head. Bridget's eyes are still open, but she's losing consciousness when we cut to the title card. Grrr Argh.
Dashiell Hammett: I haven't laughed so much over anything since the hogs ate my kid brother.
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