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| "You don't need more people?" "Nope, just us two. The FBI couldn't protect a kitten in a room full of marshmallows." |
Bad. So, so, so,
so bad. Watching this show is painful. I want to like it so much, but it makes
absolutely no sense. Even worse, the
show has some really nice character moments and arcs, but the details make no
sense.
Last episode, Joe Carroll stepped up his search for
Claire and tried to draw her out of hiding.
That plan didn’t work, but he got his cult did hack into the FBI’s phone
records and triangulated her position.
They surmise that she is being kept in…wait for it…a motel. The FBI is keeping a person who is in extreme
danger in a motel. Now, I’m not an FBI
agent, I’m not trained in the field of protecting endangered persons, but if I
was going to find a safe house, a place that needs to be secure and guardable,
I wouldn’t pick a motel. That would be
almost the last place I would put someone (the last place being a street
corner). Motels have customers coming
and going day in and day out. What
happens if someone checks into the motel and they mean to do the person you are
protecting harm. Now, they walk in,
check in with the front desk clerk, and go to their room. Now they have as much time as they want to
find out where you are keeping them and they can get pretty close considering
you have to deal with constant foot traffic.
“Hold on,” you might be saying, “The FBI closes down a whole
wing of the motel that they secure and watch with cameras.” But let me pose a rebuttal. Let’s say you decide to hole up in a house in
the woods. The house is surrounded by a seven
foot wall and can only be entered through a gate. You can post security and surveillance equipment
all through the gravel drive to the gate and along the wall. If someone pulls into the gravel drive that
isn’t cleared to be there, BOOM, they’re dead.
If someone sneaks through the woods and climbs the wall, BOOM, they’re
dead. The FBI has large amounts of money
and resources and you are going to tell me they don’t have similar establishments,
or at least something as secure?
Bullshit. Holding an endangered person
in a motel is moronic on a level never before reached. No wonder it was easy for the TWO MAN SQUAD
to almost catch Claire and Ryan. Two
men, that’s all they needed to foil the FBI.
Ryan and Claire get away and Ryan goes to a real safe
house, the house of an old friend who is in witness protection and has a lot of
guns. Everything seems okay as the show
slows down to show us a couple of meaningless flashbacks and exposition about
Ryan and Claire’s relationship until Claire realizes that one of the men at the
motel put a bug in her clothes.
Apparently everyone in the cult is a master at sleight of hand
considering all of the crazy shit they get away with. After they find the bug they decide to stay a
little bit longer. You know, because
that’s what you do when you know bad people know where you are. The bug is found in the daytime, but the bad
guys don’t show up until nighttime. Why
couldn’t they run in those few hours?
The bad guys can track the tracer down to meters (they send a guy out to
look for a house even though they can see the house on their tablet, but we’ll
leave that one alone for now), so why not take the bug and leave. Drop the bug off somewhere else, and skip
out? You have literally hours to fool
them apparently.
This show continues to have logical issues and weird
character choices which blow my mind with their stupidity. I didn’t even get to half of the things wrong
with this episode, only the two biggest grievances. I got around to reading some reviews on IMDB
over the week and I’m glad to see that at least some people can tell how stupid
this show is. I’m still astounded by the
booming success of this show while a similar yet better made (near perfect?) show
like Hannibal struggles to take off. All
I can hope is that NBC gets more of an audience on Wednesday nights so Hannibal
will get some more viewers. Now I’m
talking about another show…I better stop.
2/5
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