So we ended on a
tense moment last episode with James finding Phil’s bloody clothes in the
washing hamper and demanding an explanation from Sarah - she fumbles and
finally recounts how she was bleeding heavily from the vagina after her
pregnancy and she used this t-shirt to stem the blood. Her heartbreaking
recount naturally directs James to get her to the hospital where they focus on
making sure Sarah is well and awesome midwife is there to look after her. And
free James up to return to shenanigans when suitably reassured that she’s ok
Kirstie has finally
tracked down her murderer - it’s policeman Chris’s brother. A man in a
wheelchair and with a brain injury after rolling his car when he was 19. Chris
insists his brother doesn’t remember anything which is not nearly enough for
Kirstie. Chris won’t let her see him and Kirstie accuses him of letting his
brother get away with rape and murder.
Which he is. Though
this can be described without disabled slurs.
She leaves and calls
James who is bemused as to what exactly he can do - he can’t exactly arrest a
man for murdering someone who is actually alive. He’s more concerned with
whoever killed Elishia since he assumes that a man in a wheelchair isn’t a
threat (this is a problematic assumption that infantilises disabled people - it
doesn’t take the ability to walk to use a gun).
James briefly holds
onto the idea that Owen is the one responsible for the murder of Elishia but
finally admits this is way more to do with Kate’s relationship and his
inability to get over her than anything else. Perhaps finally leaving that red
herring alone he goes to collect Paddy because he wants them all together and
safe. Oh James, don’t you know that working with the Risen is like herding
cats? He speaks to Beau and learns what Paddy’s up to but also that his
step-dad Phil is in town and had a near death experience
James makes a
not-entirely-unreasonable-but-still-a-bit-of-a-reach conclusion and tells
everyone that Phil is the killer. Because near-death = possession. He also
gives Chris a talking to about hiding his rapist brother but with everything
else going on he kind of puts a pin in that.
James’s whole
demeanour this episode is “seriously?! Now what!”
Of course, everyone
has scattered to the four winds. It started with a reasonable assumption that
being in public was actually safer than being isolated in a cabin, but they
quickly start splitting up
Kirstie tracks down
her murderer and tries to confront him about his crimes - but he cannot
remember them due to his head injury no matter how she threatens him she
doesn’t get an admission or any satisfaction. It’s a moving and painful scene
to see her pain and anger and having no real recourse for that - not even the
empty satisfaction of screaming in her victimiser’s face.
Charlie for once is
off doing his own thing and he decides to wander off alone while there’s a
killer on the loose as well. Because of course he does. Charlie’s story doesn’t
really add much to his present though - nor really build on anything from the
last story. He was a soldier, he came back from the war, he gambled a bit, was
robbed, but really raised some money to help found a veteran’s club and build
the pub and its kind of unofficial museum to those veterans so they’ll be
remembered. He contracted tuberculosis and committed suicide. It’s nice
and moving and emotional and… irrelevant? I mean Kate’s story is her ongoing
James issues, Kristie has a goal of hunting down her killer. Paddy is trying to
get his money in the correct hands. And Charlie is… Charlie: his knowledge
comes with no agenda.
And in a show with so
few episodes and so much going on it’s kind of unfortunate to have an episode
that adds nothing
All of this is
watched by Phil whose scar is magically healing. Being in public seems to be
the key to staying safe so he goes to hospital to pick up Sarah and basically
ask “hey why haven’t you murdered them all right now?!” Sarah’s clearly torn
because she’s looking after a baby and sees to be trying to decide where her
priorities are but Phil insists she get on with it: and he wants to help since
he’s still around and has done his own task (he clearly expected to be beamed
up or something)
Don’t you hate
over-achieving co-workers?
Sarah gets with that
when Kate comes to visit. Kate has a theory - they’re all Risen because they
were murdered - before she realised Charlie wasn’t actually murdered. And yes
Kate died of cancer - but while dying she asked Sarah to help her die so she
didn’t have to die horribly
She goes to Sarah to ask her about that… and we have a moving scene where Sarah says, yep, Kate asked and she planned to but then couldn’t go through with it. Which she regretted give how utterly horrible Kate’s eventual death from cancer was.
Oh and she plans to
shoot Kate but is interrupted before she can.
Kirstie ends up back
in the cabin where they’re all hiding out - and Phil is waiting for her. But
Chris and James intervene before he can hurt her (and she stabs him in the
leg). Which means they’ve now captured Phil who should have some answers. And
Chris has saved Kirstie but she makes it clear this in no way makes them equal
Meanwhile Paddy is
having fun with the Fitzgerald’s. Mama Fitzgerald’s grandsons kidnap him and
lock him in a basement but she apparently thinks this is not exactly what she
asked them to do. She frees him, gets him new clothes and nicely asks him about
how he knows so much about her secret family history. He reveals more of his
secrets and history including the will to leave money to his Aboriginal family
and how disgusted and outraged he is that not only was Paddy murdered, the
inheritance stolen but also Kalinda and her family were murdered and persecuted
by the Fitzgeralds.
He also has a
flashback of him beating his son which, along with what grandma recounts,
pretty much sums up the awfulness of the family for many generations. He
encourages her to change this and make this old wrong right… and she seems to
listen to him by her willingness to greet Beau warmly
Whether she’ll go
through with this is in question because Sarah finally gets round to murdering
a Risen - Paddy. I can’t say I’ll miss him, even remotely
While this is going
on - Hysen and William are doing Science in which William remembers that back
in Ye Olden Days he also died and came back to life - and before that he was
indeed like Elishia
I say again - ANGELS
