I’d like to preface this
review by saying that I personally found this episode rather challenging to
critique, which is the main reason why it has taken me so long to write this
review. The other reason why it has taken me so long is because I’ve been busy
with work, Christmas, as well as other projects. While I’d like to apologize
for me taking so long to write and post this review, I felt like I needed to
take some time to really think about this episode before commenting on it; that
being said, here are my thoughts on this episode.
When it comes to how I feel
about this episode compared to the first part of this two-part episode, I have
to say that I didn’t like this episode nearly as much as the previous episode.
The main reason for this being is that I feel like the previous episode had a
great deal of emotional sustenance and character development to go along with
the action packed nature of the episode. This episode on the other hand felt
like the exact opposite. I feel like this episode primarily action driven with
only a little bit of emotional sustenance, and if you ask me, that definitely
hurt the episode quite a bit.
Don’t get me wrong, I like
this episode and it definitely has some good moments, but every time I watch
this episode, I constantly find myself feeling like I’m watching an action
movie that’s 97% intense action and drama with only 3% of the movie being
devoted to character and storyline development. I know that most people like it
when a story is full of action, but I feel like this episode felt like such a
mindless action movie or TV show that sacrificed having any significant amount
of emotional depth in exchange for lots of action sequences, and as a result, it
actually led me to tuning out mentally quite a bit as I was watching this
episode.
At the start of the episode,
Anslo Garrick
was still hell-bent on getting his hands on Red, but Harold was refusing to
give Garrick the code to the box that Red and Donald were both locked in
despite the fact that Red was telling Harold to give him the code. While Harold
refused to give Garrick the code, Red got Donald to give him the code to open
the box by putting a gun to Donald’s head, which Red did once Garrick had
gotten his hands on Elizabeth and was threatening to hurt her. Once Red had
opened the box, Garrick managed to get away with him, which also allowed
Elizabeth to get away from Garrick’s men. Garrick’s escape with Red led to a
whole high-speed car chase and action sequence that I thought was more chaotic
than entertaining. It definitely grossed me out when Garrick’s men dug the
tracking device that Red was implanted with out of his body during the high-speed
car chase, but then again, I’ve always been pretty squeamish when it comes to
that kind of thing.
Garrick managed to get away with Red, and Red ended up being tortured by Garrick and a former colleague of his named, Mr. Fitch, who was played by Alan Alda. Mr. Fitch questioned Red about his relationship with Elizabeth, but that whole part of the episode failed to give the viewers any real insight into Red’s fascination with Elizabeth, which I found rather disappointing. (Sighs) In the end, Red managed to kill Garrick and get away after Mr. Fitch left Garrick alone with Red. The FBI showed up at the scene right after Red had gotten away.
