Ryn has been taken to
the police station - by two cops. Ok, I want to see the deleted scene where 8
or 9 police all have their limbs ripped off OR Ryn gets shot - because I don’t
see her reacting to the THREAT of a gun being pulled on her (because does she
even know what a gun is?) and I fail to see how any amount of cops could
restrain her without injury given the whole super strength and hyper
aggression.
Sheriff Bishop interviews
her, apparently taking her obvious cognitive and communication difficulties to
waving her right to a lawyer and Sheriff Bishop needs a swift kick in the
yin-yangs for this one. Either he thinks she’s impaired by drugs (his obvious
theory) or he is mentally disabled either way she at least needs a competency
check not questioning for murder.
Unsurprisingly Ryn
confesses everything but doesn’t understand when Bishop asks her who helped her
- because he doesn’t believe a tiny woman like Ryn could have done the damage
she did (again making me question why she didn’t use her strength when she was
arrested). She says Ben and Maddie helped her because they did - albeit not
with murder
So Sheriff Bishop
calls in his daughter so they can have a serious discussion about how they
swore to always tell the truth to each other and how he’s really hurt by her
lies and their deep and profound
Also she’s an accessory to murder. Just, y’know, in case anyone was interested? No? Ok
Maddie realises that
they need to tell her dad the truth especially since Ben has gone out in the
boat with Xander and Ryn is worried that Donna will murder them all as is her
plan. First we have Maddie drawing upon her and her dad’s Native American
heritage to tell stories about shapeshifting people. And they even have
panpipes and drums behind it - really? Oh the cringe the cringe.
Thank gods her dad
doesn’t just decide to believe in shapeshifters because he’s Native American -
so Maddie dumps some salt water on Ryn to make her arm turn scaly. I think
terrible skin conditions are more convincing.
Of course “I wasn’t
covering for a murderer, I was covering for a murderous alien sea-creature who
responds with violence in the first instance, is super strong, can mind control
people and also I may be on the hit side of a military conspiracy” may not
necessarily be better?
But back to that
boat. So Xander is obsessed about finding and catching a mermaid. Ben isn’t
really in for that but he is for stopping the military trawler from catching
any mermaids. His plan is… Look, as I’ve said before the characters of Siren
are not known for their decision making. He intends to do something which
doesn’t involve the military shooting them or the mermaids eating them
Cal and Chris are
along for the ride even though they’re both on record with not really wanting
to be or trusting Ben for that matter. Things get a little complicated when
Xander’s dad wakes up - he’s been staying on the boat due to some marital
difficulty and Xander didn’t notice because, damn man, you need to call your
mother more often!
He wants to know why
the hell the boat is out at sea in the middle of the night. The explanation
“we’re hunting mermaids in the middle of the night while fighting/avoiding the
navy” doesn’t sound like a great response… which gets to him and Xander arguing
since Xander thinks this is his one chance to be something more than a
fisherman (Siren logic again because… how? I mean how is going to make
money off this? Sell a mermaid, display one? Either way the Navy’s going to
swoop in as they did last time - like they did with Chris)
Eventually Ben
convinces Xander senior (I’m not looking up his name, he’s not going to be
around much longer) to do it anywhere because government bad or something.
Cut to dry land where
Decker, whose evening listening includes recorded Siren music which cannot be
healthy - gets a message from the Ominous Admiral that they’ve lost contact
with navy trawler. Yes ominous
When Ben & co
arrive on the military ship they find huge Narwhal tusk spears, no people and
everything shut down all Mary Celeste-esque. They’re smart enough to realise
it’s time to run as fast as they can but not enough - Donna is here. And so is
a merman wielding narwhal spears
We have lots of
fighting and running through big shadowy ships but, despite murdering who knows
how many navy sailors, Donna and merman don’t slaughter Ben & co. Instead
the rag-tag crew manages to drive them off - but not before Donna gives Chris a
dose of Siren Song and Xander senior gets fatally wounded so he can tragically
leave his boat to his son with all the sadness et al
Personally I think
people really need to stop trying to fight mermaids on the water without lots
of machine guns.
It will be useful to
have Sheriff Bishop on side - though not if we charge into full Native American
woo-woo level
We now have 2 violent Black mermaids to contrast with the more reasonable, more human white mermaid
