My boyfriend and I have started watching this show together on Tuesday nights. It’s a fun time for us. I’d forgotten how much fun it is to talk about your favorite shows with your friends. In college, I used to watch Felicity together with a friend on the phone while I lay across the single bed in my dorm and she laughed through the receiver into my ear. Fun times.
Anyway, in this episode Grace and the other two captives are able to bang a loose board long enough to allow Grace to squeeze out of the trailer. It was a pretty improbable scene, at least to my boyfriend and me. If Grace could crawl out, then why couldn’t the other two? Anyway, Grace crawls through the loose metal sheeting, and it somehow clamps back tightly together. She cant find the door that the deranged trucker uses to enter and exit the bunker, but she can find a pipe with flowing water in it. She frantically tears up the floor and finds a way into the ground just before Ronald the insane trucker bursts in and dives into the underground pipe in pursuit of her. The ground caves in between the two of them, and Ronald barely makes it out. He can’t tell if Grace has been buried alive or if she managed to crawl through to the other side.
Meanwhile, the other two girls are still trapped inside the metal trailer. Danielle screams frantically after hearing the cave-in.
Ronald confesses to Legarski that Grace is either buried alive underground or else she escaped and could be free on the other side. A peeved and worried Legarski takes off in some sort of fancy four wheeler that has a small storage thingy on the back of it just large enough to transport a body…
By this time, the drama is so intense I’m on the edge of my seat. Go, Grace, go!
Grace manages to climb completely through the underground drainage and out into the woods. She finds a fisherman in a stream and frantically tells him that she was being held captive and that others are still in captivity. Help her, please!
The fisherman looks like he wants to take her to safety, but lo and behold, Legarski spots them and pulls out a nifty crossbow and shoots the fisherman dead right in front of Grace. Wow, this is only episode three and he’s already stacked up two bodies. Grace is horrified, and Legarski, whom Grace doesn’t know and has never seen before until that point, attempts to manipulate her into thinking the fisherman was dangerous, and he even tells her he overheard her use the word “kidnap” or “captive,” and that he thought the fisherman might harm her. Grace doesn’t buy what Legarski is selling, so she shoves a fishhook into his cheek and tries to run away. Halfway up an incline littered with boulders, she’s slowed by the arrow Legarski shoots into her leg. Still, she tries to run, and he responds with an exasperated, “Are you kidding me?!” before piercing her leg with a second arrow. She appears to pass out, and he tosses her on the back of his four-wheeler.
Legarski wraps the fisherman in a plastic bag held together with duct tape. Why does he just happen to have these things on hand? How many folks will this man kill? Certainly, the fisherman’s family will scout that location in a future episode to search for their missing loved one. Legarski throws the fisherman’s body into some green, sulfur-y lake that looks like it belongs in my nightmares. Seriously, the water looks like it’s bubbling, and smoke rises above it like in those pictures you see of witches’ cauldrons.
Meanwhile, Danielle, after hearing the ground cave in and possibly kill Grace, has dried her tears. Rather than trying to squeeze out of the hole Grace climbed out of, Danielle and Jerrie share a heart-to-heart about bigotry. Jerrie admits her parents put her in therapy when she told them she was a girl. When the therapy failed to “cure” Jerrie, her parents put her out of the house when Jerrie was just fourteen years old. Jerrie reveals all of this to Danielle and they squeeze hands rather than try to escape. I appreciated that scene, but it felt like it came at the wrong time. The girls should be trying to jailbreak just then.
The best dialogue of the episode comes from Jerrie, who asks Legarski, “Aren’t you here to help us?” when he carries an injured and duct taped Grace back to the trailer dungeon while clad in his policeman’s uniform.
I’m much less invested in what Cassie and Jenny are doing. All they know so far is that they have a bad hunch about Legarski, especially after he fails to get them a search warrant for the church/cult compound that Cody was en route to on the day of his disappearance. Jenny does visit the compound, a place where young women are courted by much older men. The church security footage shows, of course, that Cody was never on the campus there at all. Jenny and Cassie are no closer to finding Cody than in the last episode. I don’t even care about Cody’s death nearly as much as I do about the kidnapped girls’ fates.
See you next week, Montana peeps.
Monic Ductan 
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