Crime of the week – a couple of college students leaving
a party run into a sliced and diced body.
Catherine’s all packed for a weekend way and rather giddy
when she joins Tess at the murder scene. There they discuss a party for the
firefighters’ calendar Tess wants to drag Catherine to and another little poke
at Catherine’s increasingly secretive life. Time for Evan to arrive with the
crime details: victim is a Derek Moore who manages to crawl before dying – but the
sprinkler has washed away evidence and the blood trail from the real crime
scene.
Meanwhile with Vincent, he’s had another blackout and his
clothes are stained with blood, which rather worries him and JT. To be sure, JT
has started carrying a tranquiliser gun just in case (with Victor’s knowledge).
But they’re also worried about Catherine and the camping trip they have
planned. JT says he has to cancel but also has to keep the blackouts from
Catherine to make sure they don’t put her in a position where she has to turn
Vincent in because she’s a danger to others.
They still can’t find a medical cause for the blackouts
but he has one right there during the test, passing out, his stats go weird
then he wakes up animalistic and attacks JT. After being thrown against a wall,
JT shoots Vincent with his tranquiliser gun. Which is when Catherine shows up
and JT has to reveal what an awful liar he is and say Vincent isn’t home. He is
perturbed to hear about the murder – especially since the time fits Vincent’s
blackout
Back to work. We’re introduced to probably-will-be-relevant-later
Peter who is an intern working with Evan. The body of Gary shows he died from
multiple lacerations (as I said, sliced and diced) and he has a check mark cut
into his ankle.
Going to the fraternity Derek belonged to gets them a
grade A arsehole with lots of money (who won’t answer questions about
initiation because of “the oath” really? In a murder case?). They find a more
intimidated and willing to talk student who gives them hints about how tough
the initiation is and how those who fail are ostracised.
Vincent wakes up to find JT pointing the gun at him. JT
opts to be cautious since he was thrown against a wall (but he does say “no
guilt because you didn’t know what you’re doing” which is a nice touch. Not
blaming Vincent but still taking reasonable precautions). During a blackout his
reasoning mind shuts down (didn’t really need the scan to see that) and he
tells Vincent about the dead fratguy.
Catherine goes to the firefighter calendar party and gets
a guy’s phone number. This is apparently relevant.
Back to the police station for some work and they talk to
the fratguy who bailed out on the initiation. He didn’t kill Derek – but Derek
deserved it since he is an outright sadist during “initiation”. And they find
that the hazing took place in the Bell Tower
Going there they find the crime scene – by the blood
splatters anyway. Tess goes to call it in and Catherine runes into Vincent who
tells her he may be the culprit.
Time to go to Vincent’s to check the blood and see if the
crime scene blood and the blood he tracked in are the same, all while Catherine
expresses her complete faith in him. Yes it does appear that Catherine has just
wandered off in the middle of a case again. JT checks – the blood doesn’t match
so it probably was whoever lured Derek to the Bell Tower that night. Of course,
it doesn’t change that Vincent was covered in blood.
Meanwhile Evan is looking up that check mark with
totally-not-suspicious-eager-intern Peter. He finds it – a cadaver from the
medical lab was removed and dumped with the mark on them a year ago in a sick
prank. Perhaps practice for a real murder. Leaving
suspicious-eager-intern-who-was-probably-at-the-university-at-that-time behind,
Evan goes to the crime scene to check it over, noticing how staged it was. He
calls Catherine to talk about it – and gets smacked on the back of the head and
kidnap him.
Time for a meeting of the police under Joe. Evan wasn’t
just knocked out, he was kidnapped. All the police are brought up to speed and
they also have a list of students who had access to the morgue where the body
was taken a year ago – and, lo, Suspicious-Intern-Peter is on it. I’m shocked
guys. Truly. This is my shocked face. They realise he’s a criminology student
who is getting his jollies following the investigation of a murder he committed
from the inside.
They go to his flat and find pictures of a famous murder
from the city’s past and realise that Derek’s murder had been staged to copy
it. They realise this means he’s not going to kill Evan randomly, he’s going to
kill Evan in a way that mimics a previous, famous, New York City murder. So they
just have to narrow it down to a murder that has been committed in New York
city in the past. That should be oh-so-easy.
Based on the fact it’s daylight and he’d want to go somewhere hidden, Catherine makes the massive logical plummet of assuming Peter’s going to try and mimic the killings Vincent committed protecting her in the subway. And she even has an idea of which disused subway track he’s going to use (don’t ask how she’s guessed all this – she’s Catherine, leaps of logic are required). Because the track is so long she decides the best thing to do is abandon the police and Tess during a huge race to save Evan’s life and go to Vincent and appeal for his help searching the tunnel.
Evan and Peter play headgames with each other (blaming
Peter’s killing on seeing his father’s suicide when he was 7 and claiming Peter
will be bothered by not being able to exactly duplicate the previous crime
since Evan is a random victim of opportunity and not planned)
And Vincent has an episode. He tries to give Catherine
the tranquiliser gun but she refuses to take it (whyyy?) and when he falls to
the floor and goes all animaly, she points it at him – but lowers it (that’s
it, kill her now, she left her survival instinct at home. I could understand it
if it were an actual bullet gun – but tranq?) Thankfully, this is when Peter
decides to stab Evan in the leg and when Evan screams it attracts Vincent’s
attention –he runs down the tunnels and nastily mauls Peter, while poor Evan
listens and gets spattered with flying blood.
Vincent starts to advance on Evans but Catherine fires a
warning shot with her real gun – the bullets hitting near Vincent. He turns to
her and growls. She fires another one and Vincent runs off (presumably to find
another victim, but we don’t care about the pesky collateral damage).
Catherine goes to wash up and panics about the whole
situation until JT rings her and assures her that Vincent is back and under
control. Catherine worries about the latest cover up they’ll have to pull off,
but JT advises her to just be normal and pretends she doesn’t know what
happened.
The next day she sees Evan who does an amazing job of
both being reserved and burying his pain while still expressing it. And he says
that whatever attached Peter wasn’t entirely human and compares what she saw
when her mother was murdered. She instantly works on saying how that was wrong
and she knows it was just a human who saved her back then.
To the desk where Tess arrives and wants to talk to
Catherine about her being the wingman with the cute firefighter! And why is she
so distracted, it must be a guy, who is he?! (hello, kidnapping and torture of
Evan? Ring any bells Tess?). Which is when Joe the boss steps in with images of
what was left of Peter after Vincent finished with him. He says the vigilante
went above and beyond on him and has now jumped to the top of the most wanted
list – and every precinct is on it.
Catherine goes to JT and he drags her out on the carpet.
When Vincent started to black out why didn’t she trank him. She says she took a
chance to save Evan, he’s angry because she didn’t think of the price Vincent
would pay (especially since not a few minutes before Vincent told her how
killing those people one the subway hurt him, even though he did it to protect
her). I’d also like to throw in she didn’t know if Vincent would go after the
killer, her, Evan, the police searching the subway – anyone around for that
matter.
JT opens a secured cell to show her that Vincent has locked himself in. If he can’t control himself then he needs someone else to do so. Catherine demands the key (why?! This seems pretty damn reasonable all things considered). JT drops another bombshell – every time Vincent has had a blackout it has been related to Catherine.
How does Catherine constantly disappear even at the most
desperate, time intensive moments to go see Vincent? It’s getting almost
farcical.
I really hope that the fireman-number thing doesn’t
develop into any kind of conflicting love interest, we already have that with
Evan and it’s getting silly. I mean, she actually seems to have some level of
feelings for Evan, she has actual, dramatic feelings for Vincent – but guy with
calendar photo comes along and inserts a third contender? Really? Or was that
scene an attempt to characterise Tess (if so it failed. Men are already Tess’s
single topic of conversation. Seriously she talks about men and she talks about
work).
Evan needs to stop with that good acting. It makes the
others look bad.
Catherine’s behaviour
this episode was beyond spunky. Assuming that blackout Vincent - WITH NO
HUMAN REASONING – would be safe to use as a weapon against Peter. Assuming he
wouldn’t kill anyone else before he reached JT. Using Vincent as a weapon. And
discounting the blood that is already on his clothes – sure it wasn’t Derek,
but he’s clearly badly hurt someone! And at the end trying to get Vincent out
of the cage… so, what? He can run and rampage again? Because she luvs him she’s
going to ignore the body count? Is she going to change her name to Elena
now?
