If logic holds, when you’re halfway through a series’ first season, you should have some sort of concept of what the hell is going on. I absolutely don’t, y’all.
I’ll catch you up all the same — maybe with Episode 5 tomorrow, we’ll have a breakthrough.
In Episode 3, “Time Has Come Today,” Jack returns home to Amy, who flits back and forth between Amy and some alter-self while she and Jack tear each other down and it becomes plain that he’s had a history with booze. Maddie spooks her driver enough with her multi-century ramblings that the gal calls the police, and Maddie kills her. Shepherd covers it up, and has flashbacks to making a deal with (a) Marcus (Da Vinci’s Inquest‘s Alex Diakun) to bring him back in exchange for a payoff.
In Episode 4, “Ave Verum Corpus,” Gary lays the facts out for Amy’s weird disappearance, which ties to a philanthropist who left her in charge of a building handed down to a secret society over the years. When they go visit the guy, there’s Amy, plus Shepherd, plus a tribe of other folks, working some sort of ceremonial mummification mojo on him while he’s still alive.
Maddie has flashes of being Maddie and calls home but Marcus blacks her out before she can tell her mom where she is. Then she goes to see Amy’s boss and threatens him until he throws her out of his office and she menaces him from the street below. Jack and Gary find the guy whose family Shepherd murdered in episode one, and he explains that he was working on sound research, and evidence of ghosts with a “ghost machine,” which the philanthropist offered him an obscene amount of money to abandon. Before he can get too far along his reasoning for refusing the money, Shepherd arrives and shoots him (in the middle of a packed restaurant).
And that brings us to Episode 5, “The Shepherds and the Fox,” which I’m guessing will focus on Shepherd.
I like the cast, I like the location, but I sort of want my four hours back if we’re not going to let the audience in on everything. Right now it feels like it’s taking way too long to set the stage for wherever it is we’re going.
Here’s a sneak peek of tomorrow’s episode, which airs at 10 pm e/9c on BBC America and 10 pm e/7p on Space:
