Abraham and Henry eat dinner (their dinner scenes are
always awesome) while discussing Jo’s dating Isaac including Abraham’s arch
comment “At least she’s getting back out there.” Unlike, of course, Henry.
Jo’s date with Isaac involves going to The Track Bar, a
punk bar which Jo is a huge fan of and duly impressed when Isaac reveals he
owns it… at least until she realises he plans to tear it down and build a
hotel. She speaks in defence – until she sees people taking drugs and Isaac has
to stop her going all cop mode.
At least until they find a body in the wall. Now she can
be a cop.
Back to the morgue for snark, science and Lucas – and getting
a call from a man who wants to know who the body is – because he’s in prison
for killing her.
Investigation time – the man in prison is called Eddie
and Lt. Reece remembers the case as she was a beat cop at the time. She tells
them that he was a violent man and that included attacking his girlfriend, Lucy.
Despite that she wasn’t happy about the case, the police presented them as “worthless
junkies” and didn’t exactly perform a thorough investigation – and the jury convicted.
The DA would like the case done with quickly, Reece, because she’s awesome,
wants them to take their time, be thorough – and bring in Henry.
Which is how Henry gets to go interview Eddie with Jo and
Eddie is visibly upset even as Jo points out the evidence doesn’t exactly exonerate
him.
More morguing (poor Lucas) and Jo arrives with some bad
news – Eddie is signing a guilty plea with the DA to help get the whole thing
swept under the rug. He gets let out on time served and the case stays out of
the media. Of course Henry doesn’t stand for that and goers to tell Eddie –
Eddie learns he will go free but if that happens the police will stop looking
for who did it. He refuses to sign
More investigating (including finding a lot of drug money
in Lucy’s jacket) and off to interview a photographer who covered the bar (now photographing
kiddies). He goes point them to a guy named Farrell – who is up to his neck in
a hundred serious cases and Reece makes it clear that they cannot possibly
involve him for fear of jeopardising these cases. She expressly forbids any of
her police from investigating him
Then quietly tells Henry that she doesn’t have that much control
over him. Because Reece is awesome. He can’t take police so he takes Lucas (Lucas
of course, thinks this means actual friendship. Poor Lucas). They plan to
snatch some of Farrell’s hair – except the man is inconveniently bald. So they
steal glasses instead
They’re not subtle so Henry is dragged before the man to
tell him how he thinks he’s a murderer – yes, Henry says it. There are
advantages to immortality. He ends up getting DNA from a woman’s ear. I don’t
care how charming and sexy Henry is, there’s no way that woman went for sexy
ear swabbing. I’m sure that’s a second date activity
They’re kicked out, Lucas tries to protect Henry and is
generally thrilled by the whole evening
While all this is happening Jo and Isaac are still dating
with him lavishing his wealth around; they also discuss Jo’s past – and kiss as
an indication of them moving on.
Back to the police station where the interview Farrel
because his DNA was found on Lucy – and he claims he gave her the money to help
her start a new life. He does reveal that Eddie’s band hated her because they
thought she’d split them up.
They go to interview the only band member who isn’t dead or
in prison. He’s a stay at home dad with a classic rebel teenaged daughter who
he tries to police – because Forever
likes its irony. Following some clues, he admits to hiding the body. When he
told Eddie Lucy’d been away with a man they fought and when he checked on her,
Eddie was gone and Lucy was dead. He also kept Eddie’s knife with Lucy’s blood
on it.
This kind of scuppers Henry who was so sure Eddie was
innocent. Eddie still maintains his innocence so it’s back to the evidence and
finding that Eddie’s knife wasn’t the murder weapon
Now the investigation goes beyond even TV crime dramas
sense of the plausible – as Henry and Jo find an ancient blood stained finger
print. Really, Forever, really?
Unfortunately, Eddie signed the plea bargain to get out. Henry
is very upset and Jo twigs that there’s something personal going on
More investigation after a drug screen adds another twist
– Lucy had a baby before she died. Jo insists the case is closed – Henry and
Lucas turn appealing eyes on her. So time to track down the son
Which leads them back to Carl, the photographer who
adopted him. They talk to him, the boy is Eddie’s son but Lucy didn’t want to
handle it or to make Eddie- so Carl took her away for several months, helped
her quit drugs and… then she went back to Eddie. Carl killed her. They arrest
him – but now we see why Eddie signed his plea bargain, so he could get out of
prison and hunt down Carl with a gun
Time for the son to come onto the tense scene for what
feels like a full minute of emotional facial expressions (they must have needed
filler). No-one gets shot – oh isn’t it about time Henry died again?
This week’s flashbacks go to a time when Abigail
disappeared for 3 months and Henry had trouble convincing the police,
especially since his wife, at the time, was 64. He’s in utter denial about the
letter she sent him – a Dear John letter. Abe recognises that a lot of Henry’s
issues over this case and a woman going missing relate back to Abigail’s
disappearance (a younger Abraham had to help Henry through that). Abraham faced
a major struggle to break Henry of his obsession and he worries about that same
obsession coming back. Henry relied heavily on Abraham – giving him the insight
to pass on that Eddie may need his son, not the other way round.
As a closing mystery, Henry sees a symbol of two doves on
the son’s birth record he thinks he recognises in connection to Abigail, but he
puts it behind him. Unlike Abraham who also recognises it – because he kept all
of his father’s research into finding his mother.
I like Jo and Isaac together, especially since we don’t
get the jealousy vibe so common on shows with opposite sex work partners.
Personally I find the uber-lavish shows of wealth a little creepy and
controlling with both his wealth and the locations chosen (which is why I like
the ending with Jo choosing the place and surrounded by her friends), but on
the whole it works, Jo is developing and using it as a means to work through
and develop her own issues and Isaac himself has some layers to him
I’m not sure if Abigail’s eventually disappearance
necessarily develops Henry and Abigail’s story after the very poignant story we’ve
already seen about Abigail aging while he didn’t – so I was actually quite
happy to see the odd mystery at the end which added a bit more relevance. But do we really have enough time left in this season to start this mystery?
