I know who the super creep is in this show and I like him. Simon is arrogantly charming in his superior brilliance. If Dominic Monahan wanted to do something completely opposite to his last role as Charlie Pace, he's found it. Self confidence just oozes from his pores!Simon is super smart and uses that to his advantage in many ways. On the train, a rather luxurious train at that, he picks up a woman by telling her that he knows what caused the GBO. At her skepticism he tells her to do a google image search for "brilliant physicist" and laughs at the first image that comes up. He's posing in silver underwear and holding goggles in front of his privates. He impresses her by mentioning the Double Slit Experiment and explaining the Schrodinger's Cat Thought Thought experiment.
I'm not going to explain either one here, and I'm not entirely sure where this takes us in regards to the cause of the GBO, but I have a feeling we'll learn more as time goes by.
Simon gets what he wants and in the aftermath of "lovin" he reveals his own vision. Maybe he's the scary monster as well, because when he described his vision he took a certain pleasure to make sure to point out how satisfied he was that he had killed the man with the neck as thick as an ox.
I found it interesting that as Simon was explaining Schrodinger's Cat to the blond, Olivia was fighting to save Janice's life. At one point Simon mentions that it is the observer's decision if the cat is alive or dead, and we see Janice crashing, possibly on the verge of death. Olivia saves Janice and is napping when Stan, Mark and the rest of the team arrive at the hospital. Security is heightened at the hospital with armed guards everywhere to keep Janice safe, so Stan tells everyone to leave the hospital and get some rest.
Dimitri and Al decide to check on the dead guys. While the forensic coroner is checking the bodies for anything to ID they dead assailants using a black light, they notice a blue hand on the one guy's hand. Suddenly Dimitri has faith in Mark's big board of clues and convinces Al to help him find the source of the blue hand by promising to buy him a sandwich at that Cuban place. Al's in and they head to Baltimore street, where they find a blue hand on the stop sign.
Olivia and Mark decide they have been dealing with their future in the wrong way. Olivia decides they need to live in the moment and not be so focused on what may or may not happen in the future. It's busy at the hospital and Olivia sends Mark home to take Charlie our to trick or treat. At the same time, Bryce reminds Lloyd that the kids in the hospital are allowed to dress up and go from room to room trick or treating as well. Lloyd rushes out to get his son the only costume left in his size...a pimp costume, complete with Flava Flave clock. I'm sorry, but I thought the choice of costume was rather inappropriate for a child as young as Dylan.
I'm not sure about hospitals in your area, but ours keeps it's doors locked. Both on the wards and, especially after regular hours, the main doors. There is no patient access to the emergency rooms either. I am having a very very difficult time with Dylan just wandering away from the hospital and getting on the bus to find "his house too". The whole scenario felt forced and totally unnecessary to me. I understand why, I just don't accept it.
Mark and Obi Wan take Charlie out trick or treating and they see a kangaroo. I love Charlie's reaction and the dumbfounded look on Mark's and Aaron's faces.
There is something about the kangaroo, it has a significance that I have yet to ascertain, but am I the only one to notice that every time Mark sees that Kangaroo, he encounters yet another distraction that leads him back to his big cork board of clues? And it did, too, as Mark sees three men dressed in black and wearing masks exactly like he saw in his vision. He calls out to them and they scatter. Mark chases one of them to a graveyard and tackles the guy. The masks came from the 99 cents store? He's about to grill the teen when Nicole calls. They have a visitor.Nichole explains that Dylan just walked into the house and made himself comfortable. She found his hospital bracelet and called Olivia, who was in surgery, but managed to get a message to his father, who shows up to collect his wayward child. And this is where we see the possible beginning of the end for Mark and Olivia as they each react to the other with distrust and a fatalism that surprised me. Both accusing the other of lying, keeping secrets and not trusting. It certainly was a sad scene.
On the up side, I really loved the expressions of recognition on all the parties' faces as they all realized who was who and what was happening.
Dimitri and Al are following the blue hand clue and find their first hand on a stop sign. They figure out how to follow the hands. The hand itself points in a direction and the number of fingers on the hand designate how many blocks to travel. Remember the house at the end of the block with the big yard and gated driveway, was falling apart and all the kids thought was haunted? Yeah, that's the one and this house was no exception to the rule. Inside Al and Dimitri find dead bodies, one with its hand painted blue. They also find a connection to Al's vision in the form of identification of Ian Rutherford.
In Al's vision he is in London working on "the Rutherford case". Al's vision is starting to come true as well.
After returning his son to the hospital, Lloyd leaves to go home and get some rest. He is a man with a lot on his mind. As he gets into his car and goes to start it, Simon pops up from the back seat, asking Lloyd why he hasn't been returning his calls. Lloyd tells Simon that he doesn't want anything to do with him or them (I'm assuming he means the rest of the people involved with the experiment). "Our little experiment killed 20 million people, Simon"
QUOTABLE QUOTES:
"That is the coolest costume ever!" - Charlie Binford when she spots the kangaroo.
"I have a theory, but the science is complicated" - Simon
"I'm a complicated girl" - Mystery blond on the train
"According to the Mosiac, we're 1/2 a million strong" - mystery woman explaining that her vision had her at Times Square
"There are already two dozen agents working on this, who didn't have a grenade launched at them last night.." - Stan to Dimitri
"Mark talks about D Gibbons, Suspect Zero, the crows...for the first time outside of this office, and then eight hours later......" - Dimitri explaining why China is a dead end.
Why was Simon taking the train? Does he have an aversion to flying, or is he afraid another blackout will occur?
How convenient was it that the woman was on the train and had all the right answers to intrigue Simon? I'm wondering who she is.
When is Mark going to realize the kangaroo is a clue and is it on his big cork board of clues?
Did Nichole ever create that sketch of her killer?
Will Lloyd seek disciplinary action against the hospital for allowing his son to slip out the doors and disappear into the night?
Will Janice prove that the flashes can be changed? Or will she suddenly decide that she wants to have a baby and how will she go about it? I have a theory, but I'm not quite ready to share that yet.
Lloyd seems like a pretty decent guy and appears to have a conscience, which is why he is bothered by the experiment. I'm positive they are connected to Suspect Zero, and possibly many others who were awake during the GBO. I just can't make the connection.
How cool was Nichole's costume? I think I saw someone dressed up like that on Saturday night come to my house!
JUST ONE MORE THING
I really am having a problem with the way the writers used Dylan to force the circumstances between Mark and Olivia. Not only was his costume tasteless, but the whole scenario of him wandering away from the hospital and boarding a bus just couldn't happen, could it? This really bothers me if it could happen. Wouldn't the security guards be keeping an eye on the entrances and exits that weren't locked? Why isn't Lloyd making a big noise about how easy it was for his kid to wander off? I know I would be freaking and the cops would be everywhere!
I am also having difficulty believing how Mark and Olivia could just accuse the each other of things that haven't happened. I was appalled that Olivia would dismiss the danger of her vision coming true and yet almost insists that Mark's had greater odds of happening. I have to admit to feeling more for Mark than Olivia after that. Mark's reaction to finding the possible future lover in his living room was more understandable than Olivia's reaction to Mark's "coming clean". He didn't have to tell her the truth, but he did, and her reaction was hardly supportive.
So, what did you think of Scary Monster's and Super Creeps?
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