Prodigal Son 2x05 Thoughts
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Good episode.
+ Jessica and Martin deciding to team up to protect their kids is an amazing turn. I loved the way Martin asked "what do you need from me" and Jessica's desperate "a partner". Poor Jessica's wide relieved smile when Martin said he'd do anything to save his family (and thus would be there to support her) was kind of disturbing but also delightful. I love the idea. I am so down for this.
I am pretty sure Jessica is going to regret this because I don't think they have the same ideas on what 'helping' means (I'm pretty sure Martin's involves more murder) but I feel for her. She's been placed in a really difficult position here and it's clear that she's spiralling and doesn't know what to do. But at the same time it's like a car crash and I'm left going 'oh Jessica no'.
I loved how all the Martin/Jessica scenes contrasted with the Gil/Jessica ones. Jessica is so desperate and she keeps going back to Martin - to reprimand him, to beg for him to act like the man she married and be there for her - because there isn't anywhere else she can turn. Gil is the obvious choice - warm and supportive and emotionally committed to both Jessica and Malcolm, and he tells her that he's there for whatever she needs. Except what she needs is help and support with protecting her children after they committed and covered up a murder. It unfortunately takes Gil out of the running. (Or does it?) Which leaves... Martin. The worst choice.
Meanwhile Martin is having the best year. His daughter is a killer, his son and him conspired to cover it up, he and Malcolm are closer than ever, he's working on a plan for escape, Endicott and the danger he presented is gone forever and now Jessica has turned to him asking to be partners. His smiles at the end - it's all coming together for him. Fun!
+ "You were right on time for me." - Gil to Jessica. Aw. I loved his smiles as he walked away. So I guess things are better with them now?
+ I'm feeling bad for Gil preemptively. This is going to hit him so hard when he learns the truth, especially the longer this goes on and the more complicated it gets. I do wonder if he's going to learn the truth and then choose to cover for Jessica/Malcolm(/Ainsley) because he loves them even while being hurt and angry?
+ Ainsley had full on murder eyes as she walked up behind Rachel. She definitely seemed to enter the same stabby dissociative state as when she killed Endicott and interestingly both times it was triggered by her family being threatened.
+ I loved Malcolm pleading 'don't do this' - at Ainsley stalking up behind Rachel and not the serial killer holding a gun on him.
+ I was surprised that Ainsley wasn't mad at Malcolm over her getting pistol whipped and I was expecting her to at least be annoyed with him for stopping her from taking down Rachel. Does she not remember that she was going to stab Rachel?
+ "What if hiding the truth hurts people? Turns a person into something they are not." Hey Malcolm, this excellent profiler has some good advice. Maybe you should consider following it in your personal life.
+ Ainsley was 100% right in calling Malcolm on his massive hypocrisy. Lecturing Ainsley on not taking murder seriously when he started the episode with a gleeful smile and frankly greets all murders with joy plus lecturing her on being reckless when that seems to be his favourite thing to be are ridiculously hypocritical. Dude. Look in a mirror. Honestly it's kind of nice to see Malcolm forced to be on the other side of dealing with someone reckless and who treats solving murders like it's fun/a game.
+ I loved Martin saying that "Ainsley's made of tougher stuff ... because she's her mother's (daughter)".
+ I loved that Ainsley figured out the tea was drugged and played along.
+ "You know that's not how cancer works, right?" LOL. God, Martin is such a dick.
+ Jessica telling Mr. David "I promise, no stabbies" was hilarious but I can't believe that he actually left them alone.
+ I liked Malcolm using etiquette to profile Ms. Windsor. He knows the etiquette he just usually chooses to ignore it.
+ I'm a little surprised that the show didn't have Ainsley kill Rachel and then conveniently have the evidence burned up when Ms. Windsor burned down her school. That would have been an interesting direction to go.
+ I liked Malcolm's smile at Edrisa explaining her drink (and Gil's 'are you serious' look).
+ I understand JT's choice but it was also a little disappointing. I'm not sure if I'd rather the show dropped this storyline from this point or kept going with it.
+ I feel like there is an implication that Ms. Windsor got pregnant as a teen but the timeline really doesn't add up. She's in her 60s and Rachel is in her 20s/30s? Is Ms. Windsor just that damaged that she couldn't handle an out of wedlock pregnancy in the '80s/'90s?
Good episode.
+ Jessica and Martin deciding to team up to protect their kids is an amazing turn. I loved the way Martin asked "what do you need from me" and Jessica's desperate "a partner". Poor Jessica's wide relieved smile when Martin said he'd do anything to save his family (and thus would be there to support her) was kind of disturbing but also delightful. I love the idea. I am so down for this.
I am pretty sure Jessica is going to regret this because I don't think they have the same ideas on what 'helping' means (I'm pretty sure Martin's involves more murder) but I feel for her. She's been placed in a really difficult position here and it's clear that she's spiralling and doesn't know what to do. But at the same time it's like a car crash and I'm left going 'oh Jessica no'.
I loved how all the Martin/Jessica scenes contrasted with the Gil/Jessica ones. Jessica is so desperate and she keeps going back to Martin - to reprimand him, to beg for him to act like the man she married and be there for her - because there isn't anywhere else she can turn. Gil is the obvious choice - warm and supportive and emotionally committed to both Jessica and Malcolm, and he tells her that he's there for whatever she needs. Except what she needs is help and support with protecting her children after they committed and covered up a murder. It unfortunately takes Gil out of the running. (Or does it?) Which leaves... Martin. The worst choice.
Meanwhile Martin is having the best year. His daughter is a killer, his son and him conspired to cover it up, he and Malcolm are closer than ever, he's working on a plan for escape, Endicott and the danger he presented is gone forever and now Jessica has turned to him asking to be partners. His smiles at the end - it's all coming together for him. Fun!
+ "You were right on time for me." - Gil to Jessica. Aw. I loved his smiles as he walked away. So I guess things are better with them now?
+ I'm feeling bad for Gil preemptively. This is going to hit him so hard when he learns the truth, especially the longer this goes on and the more complicated it gets. I do wonder if he's going to learn the truth and then choose to cover for Jessica/Malcolm(/Ainsley) because he loves them even while being hurt and angry?
+ Ainsley had full on murder eyes as she walked up behind Rachel. She definitely seemed to enter the same stabby dissociative state as when she killed Endicott and interestingly both times it was triggered by her family being threatened.
+ I loved Malcolm pleading 'don't do this' - at Ainsley stalking up behind Rachel and not the serial killer holding a gun on him.
+ I was surprised that Ainsley wasn't mad at Malcolm over her getting pistol whipped and I was expecting her to at least be annoyed with him for stopping her from taking down Rachel. Does she not remember that she was going to stab Rachel?
+ "What if hiding the truth hurts people? Turns a person into something they are not." Hey Malcolm, this excellent profiler has some good advice. Maybe you should consider following it in your personal life.
+ Ainsley was 100% right in calling Malcolm on his massive hypocrisy. Lecturing Ainsley on not taking murder seriously when he started the episode with a gleeful smile and frankly greets all murders with joy plus lecturing her on being reckless when that seems to be his favourite thing to be are ridiculously hypocritical. Dude. Look in a mirror. Honestly it's kind of nice to see Malcolm forced to be on the other side of dealing with someone reckless and who treats solving murders like it's fun/a game.
+ I loved Martin saying that "Ainsley's made of tougher stuff ... because she's her mother's (daughter)".
+ I loved that Ainsley figured out the tea was drugged and played along.
+ "You know that's not how cancer works, right?" LOL. God, Martin is such a dick.
+ Jessica telling Mr. David "I promise, no stabbies" was hilarious but I can't believe that he actually left them alone.
+ I liked Malcolm using etiquette to profile Ms. Windsor. He knows the etiquette he just usually chooses to ignore it.
+ I'm a little surprised that the show didn't have Ainsley kill Rachel and then conveniently have the evidence burned up when Ms. Windsor burned down her school. That would have been an interesting direction to go.
+ I liked Malcolm's smile at Edrisa explaining her drink (and Gil's 'are you serious' look).
+ I understand JT's choice but it was also a little disappointing. I'm not sure if I'd rather the show dropped this storyline from this point or kept going with it.
+ I feel like there is an implication that Ms. Windsor got pregnant as a teen but the timeline really doesn't add up. She's in her 60s and Rachel is in her 20s/30s? Is Ms. Windsor just that damaged that she couldn't handle an out of wedlock pregnancy in the '80s/'90s?
