And with the masked man is woman, a look-alike, a clone, a doppelganger of the stricken attorney. This fake lawyer takes the dead woman’s diamond ring and ID cards, touches up her own hair and kisses the mirror goodbye. There’s also some nonsense about pasting her thumb on some doo-hickey – I suppose that might be important later on, I dunno.
At the White House, Allison is not surprised to hear of the rogue Gaston and his side-kick canister. She tells Olivia about Hodges’ last words to her, “As God is my witness; I’ll never go hungry…” No, that wasn’t it. “Take this quarter, go downtown, and have a rat gnaw that thing off…” Nope. Not it. “Rosebud”? Oohh now I remember. Something about the fact that Jonas is not alone in his bad deeds, there are others and he’s just a ‘cog’. So Allison fears more acts of violence and retribution. She then asks for Jonas to be brought to the FBI headquarters for interrogation hoping to get to the truth before things get worse. (She must not watch the show, eh?) Things will always, always get worse.
Gaston has been working with Tony by masquerading as an FBI field agent in greater perimeter of the Starkwood compound. Tony is playing it as a semi-innocent bystander, he tells Jack and the too stoic Renee that he and Larry were ambushed. Since he’s considered less of a hostile than before – he’s privy to grid maps and the like at the FBI’s make-shift HQ. He then slinks away to either call some bad folk to report in, or to talk to Gaston and relay the best avenue’s of slipping through the FBI’s perimeters.
Cara, the fake attorney, goes to see Hodges. Of course he knows she’s not his lawyer, and he knows why she’s there. She quietly lectures him on how he’s disappointed everyone and put “them” at risk by treating the bioweapons as though there were for his own personal use. I almost feel sorry for the poor guy, as Cara brings up his family. But she assures him that his family will be fine, IF he does the right thing. And the right thing would be to swallow a little red pill, designed to bring on an untraceable cardiac arrest. Nice choice. Before Hodges can agree or disagree, Olivia comes to the holding center to announce that Hodges will be transferred to the FBI.
Pill-pushing Cara then reports in to a boss-type-person, a man named Alan Wilson (an uncredited coolly creepy Will Patton) who tells her that she’s responsible for Tony, and he better not screw up.
Article comments
1 - Dr Dreadful
What's the betting that when Jack gets to the bottom (and he will) of who's running this shady superorganization that Tony's working for, he will be told that it's just the tip of the iceberg and there's another even bigger, shadier superduperorganization behind that one. And so on and so on... Dammit!
Where will it all end? I suspect with a man in a shack who talks to his cat.
2 - Mary K. Williams
That was awesome Dr. D - Thanks for all the fish!
And regarding that Iceberg theory... I know exactly what you mean. It's like a more violent take on - "it's turtles...all the way down"