Brief Synopsis: Jordan and Bug find themselves
trapped in a multicar pileup in the Ted Williams Tunnel when a mysterious
blackout hits the city; Macy, Nigel and Woody learn that the blackout was a
critical element in an elaborate jewelry heist.
Wow…strong season opener. Lots of emotion and tension, and
some comical moments thrown in.
We start the episode out with Garret and Nigel at a power
plant. A dead body in a mess of high voltage wired and Kenmore Square in the
dark. They remove the body, go to turn the power back on and then poof! All of
Boston goes dark. At that moment, Jordan and Bug end up in a huge pile up in
the Ted Williams Tunnel (TWT) and Devan and Woody are stuck in the freight
elevator (with a smelly body) at the morgue.
All the stories entwine at the end, but I’ll start with
Woody and Devan. Woody arrives at the morgue to pick Jordan up as his date
(well – arm piece, I think is the more accurate description) to the Governor’s
Ball (the biggest night of his life—he’s getting an award for bravery - only
he's mixed the date up, as we learn at the end).
Jordan’s not there. She’s making a drop off—once again avoiding Woody.
Is this going to be an occurring them AGAIN this season? (Do I even need to ask
that question) Devan
teases Woody mercilessly (as she says though, she wouldn’t tease if she didn’t
know he could handle it).
They get in the freight elevator and that’s when all of
Boston loses power and they get stuff. Devan has a way about her. She ticks
Sydney off big time by constantly referring to him as ‘new guy’. Once she’s out
of the elevator (which really wasn’t even Sydney’s doing) she goes back to
calling him ‘new guy’. Sydney was quick and witty and I liked him. They mange
to get themselves out of the elevator and no sooner do Garret and Nigel arrive
with the burnt to a crisp body. They know the man isn’t the 60 year old guy
(long time employee) who was at first thought to be the victim. They learn who
the deceased is and head over to his apartment where they find detailed plans
for a robbery/heist of some kind.
While this is going on Jordan and Bug are in the TWT in a
big pile up. There’s a dead guy in the first car of the pile up and Jordan
tells Bug it’s the car that cut her off. She wonders where the second
person/passenger is. She swears there were two people in the car. Bug says he
wasn’t paying any attention. They gather up everyone and check people out for
injuries. There’s a few minor injuries, the most serious though is a mother
pinned between the seat and steering wheel of her car. Her daughter probably no
more than eight years old, is worried and looks to Jordan for help. They manage
to get her out but she’s in rough shape. She’s broken a leg and Jordan thinks
there’s probably some internal bleeding going on. Jordan handles the little
girl well. She comforts her, tells her a joke, even promises that her mother is
going to be okay (a bit rash, but Jordan will make sure she does everything in
her power to keep that promise). It was nice to see Jordan interact with a
child. She did a good job, even though at first she seemed to be a bit like a
fish out of water.
While Jordan is tending to the mother, Bug is taking the
dead body out of the car. He realizes that the body was murdered, before the
crash ever happen. He played his role beautifully. Went along with
Jordan and her 'shredding the stomach line' (or something of the such) story.
There are times when I think Bug is too meek, but he was strong in the face of
disaster here and I think he did a wonderful job.
Back to Garret and Woody, they figure out what’s going on
with the robbers and realize that the robbers are in the TWT with Jordan and
Bug. Garret calls to warn
Jordan what’s going on, but it’s too late. We’ve gone from four bad guys to two
and now to one. He then forces Jordan and Bug to do
some dissecting. That whole scene was wonderful. I wanted to laugh
despite the fact that the guy was holding a gun on Bug and Jordan. It
reminded me of the episode in season one (For Harry with Love and Squalor) where
Garret totally bluffed his way thru a situation the exact same way.
All ends well. They did a good job of
keeping the villain from us. I figured there were three, just from the
beginning scenes, but I didn’t think there was a fourth till the plane ticket
and by then the episode was almost over. I always like it when I’m surprised.
A side note, when Jordan learns that Woody’s left with
Devan, she’s definitely surprised. I think it’s a good kick in the butt for
her. She briefly starts to tell Bug how she and Woody have been playing a
bazaar mating dance for the past three years, but he doesn’t want to hear.
Maybe seeing Woody and Devan together will make her a little more possessive and
actually go after Woody. My bet is she’ll sit back and little Devan move in.
Maybe she’ll get jealous enough to stand up and claim what she wants—Woody.
Missing from the scene of action was Peter. He’s upped and
disappeared. Sydney I suppose is in to replace him. He’s quite a different
character (first impressions) than Peter. Liked him though. I didn’t like
Peter when we first met him, but he grew on me, I didn't missed him though.
My
hearts not broken that he’s gone for good.
I loved the last few
minutes with the song Hero playing. I just thought
the whole sequence of events in the last five minutes
was a great ending for the season opener.
4 out of 5 Dead Bodies. This was an intense episode that
had everyone on edge. Some great tension, great emotion, and Woody, as always,
added a great bit of humor.
