August 15, 2013

The Bridge (US) - Episode 6 "ID" Recap

Some interesting developments this week on "The Bridge".  But what the episode really revolves around are two scenes; funny that both of them involve Marco.

Spoilers ahoy in 3...2...1....


I guess I knew that girl's name was Gina.

Well, anyway, now she's dead from a stab wound to the ribs that probably shouldn't have killed her.  She ran away from Hank and Sonya while eating at a local burger joint.  Oops.  The cops told her that she was safer with them than not, but she just didn't want to listen.

Honestly, I didn't feel much of anything when watching that part of it.  Her character was introduced so haphazardly, as I wrote last week, that she really had no chance to make a meaningful impact.  And her parents are far more interesting: her father was a therapist who catered to law enforcement and had a side business of selling pills; her mother is an oxycontin junkie.  What is Gina, exactly?  A 15 year old girl that we know little about.  That doesn't really grab me, but as you can see, it fills me with enough bile to complain about it for two entries.

Onto the two scenes that "ID" revolves around.  When we learn that the late Dr. Meadows often saw law enforcement in a professional capacity, Marco and Hank meet in the latter's office to discuss an interesting finding.  Marco found Hank's file among Meadows' things, apparently.  And we learn something about why Hank and Sonya's relationship is the way it is.  Hank feels some responsibility to Sonya for shooting Jim Dobbs (the man who killed Sonya's sister in a grisly way) and leaving him brain-damaged.  I had a feeling something like this might be coming to explain the way Hank and Sonya interact; I didn't expect it to be like this.  Well-handled, on the whole.  The second scene has Marco taking the million dollars that was to be used as ransom in "Maria of the Desert" back to its rightful owner, Fausto Galvan. Obviously, these two have known each other a long time, which Marco admits outright.  What I found interesting is that the fathers of these two men went into business together.  I'm guessing that it wasn't completely above board, or else Marco wouldn't have separated himself from it, as Galvan alleges.

Other than that, we still have no idea who "The Beast" is, and if indeed he is the killer that has been the antagonist throughout the show's first six episodes.  Linder was conspicuous in his absence.

Also, while I'm not sure what Ray and Charlotte intend to do, it certainly looks like Ray is going to get himself in trouble, sooner rather than later.

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