Allison and Carter are on their honeymoon – a trip that does not go as Allison planned. She was thinking more “Fiji” and less “Dilapidated cabin 10 minutes from town.” The cabin is in serious need of repair and in what I can only assume was a metaphor for their relationship, Carter convinces Allie to help him spruce it up and make it uniquely theirs. This plan to refurbish leads to finding a safe in the floor – which Carter’s foot has just gone through – and with the help of Deputy Andy they find that the safe contains files from Sheriff Cobb (Remember him from all the way back in the pilot?). Andy takes them to town and brings Jo into the loop.
Meanwhile, back at Global Dynamics, Zane, Henry, Fargo and the returned Grace, are all working to complete the bio printing of Dr. Holly Martin’s new body! They finish the printing and transfer her consciousness, but much to Fargo’s dismay, she doesn’t wake up… that is until he gently kisses her and she does a gasping bolt upright. Delighted to be back among the non-holographic, and enthralled with the “bendiness” of her new body, Holly agrees to stay in the lab for testing and to make sure they don’t “frighten the villagers”. However, things start to go wrong when she confides in Fargo that none of this is real, they’re still stuck in the computer construct and “they” are listening. Fargo confides in Zane that Holly is going crazy, though in the morning she seems back to normal – if a little hungry. Zane manages to reboot Holly’s brain, but not before she nearly shoots Carter with his own gun (and why wouldn’t she think he was trying to kill her again).
As Jo and Andy go through the “cold case” in Sheriff Cobb’s safe, they decide to bring Henry in on the project, when they find a strange disk in the file. Henry tells them it’s a holographic disk and offers to help them, but the disk bursts into flames because someone tampered with Henry’s equipment and in an attempt to ferret out who sabotaged the disk, they enlist the help of Vince, who, like the gossip monger he is, tells anyone who’ll listen that they can and will restore the disk and find out who the spy was. The saboteur then goes to the lab to steal the disk so the information cant befound and we find out that… Grace is the one behind it, because she’s protecting Henry from the version of himself that existed in the previous timeline.
Overall: This episode felt oddly flat for me and seemed disjointed. Maybe it was simply the combination of these three barely interwoven plot lines… I’m not really sure, but I got to the end of the episode and wondered if I hadn’t missed something.
Allison & Carter: I’ll say it again, I don’t know why they’ve chosen to make Allie so Bitchy in this season. She does have a few moments that endear her to me, but overall she doesn’t try to make things work until the end. I will concede that she’s not the sort of woman to be thrilled at the idea of this and so, it stands to her character’s reality that she would be appalled by the idea of it… but still go in with her teeth gritted.
Fargo & Holly: I love Fargo’s fight. He wants holly back and while, in previous episodes he had closed himself off to the possibility of losing her – which in turn hurt her – he struggles through the after effects of her neural transfer like a champ. It’s obvious he’s scared, but he doesn’t let that get to him.
Felicia Day’s performance as Holly just gets better and better. She is adorable in her silliness and I can’t help but think her addition to the cast was the best thing the writers, etc, could have done. For this slowly dying series.
Andy, Jo, Henry & Grace: This seems like the worst bit of detective work ever on Jo and Andy’s part. I did chalk a lot of it up to Andy’s enthusiasm and desire to trust people, but it seemd very foot in mouth at first. I did appreciate the way the story pushed you to believe it might be Vince before revealing that it was Grace trying to protect Henry.
The one thing this episode made me the most curious about was how Grace and Henry’s relationship was before the timeline switch. It’s obvious to me that the Henry in the computer construct was based on the Henry before the switch and I have to wonder why Grace, knowing that the old and new Henry’s are so disparate would be as disturbed as she was when they got back. I’ve always been suspicious of their relationship before the time shift… and now, I hope we’ll get some more answers.
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