After a very slow start, things are actually moving at a decent pace now. But I'm still not sure what direction they're going. The fairy tale links remain as tenuous as ever and we're still left frustratingly in the dark about a lot of things. Some of that is because the protagonists are equally confused, which is fine, but they've also started concealing things from the audience that the characters we're watching do know, and that's annoying.
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| Hansel's hurt his leg but Gretel's mostly OK. |
After the car crash at the end of the previous episode, Hansel and Gretel crawl out of the wreck and escape. One of the fake cops survived to give chase, but they manage to evade him and Gretel hides the money. Unfortunately they get separated and Hansel stumbles upon a seemingly helpful woman who actually turns out to be one of the bad guys and recaptures him.
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| Running into her like this seemed pretty contrived. |
They lay an ambush for Gretel, but she gets the upper hand and kills the fake cop. But this leaves her with no idea where the bad guys have taken Hansel and them with no idea where she's hidden the money. They call her on the dead man's phone and offer to exchange Hansel for the money, telling her to go home and await further instruction.
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| It was a pretty good fight scene. |
Meanwhile, the pigs' wolf is now hallucinating the little pig and trying to convince himself that he will be able to kill the big pig when they finally meet. It also seems like the cops might have some idea that he's involved, because the main detective finds the murder/suicide suspicious and they found the pig head. And his own friends are increasingly worried about him, but don't yet know what he's up to.
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| Such vivid hallucinations suggest there's more going on than just grief and anger. |
Anyway, he kidnaps middle pig's wife and threatens to kill her if middle pig doesn't bring him big pig. Middle pig agrees, and then immediately tells big pig what's going on. Big pig assures him that he will deal with it. All three (four including the hostage) meet up and there's a brief stand-off before big pig just decides to kill everyone. He shoots middle pig and his wife, but the wolf gets away. He's seen big pig's face now, but as far as tracking him down goes he seems to have hit a dead end. I guess we're going to get more focus on the cops now since they've got two more murders to investigate.
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| Not sure why middle pig thought this was going to end well, honestly. |
And even Red Riding Hood's story is picking up a bit now, although it's still the least interesting of the three. Red finds out that her wolf talked to her dad, and she and her friend decide to do some internet detectivery on him, only to discover that he's using his brother's name for some reason. Seems unlikely that he'd be able to get a job at a school under a fake name, given that all his qualifications were earned under his real name, but I'm willing to believe it's possible in America.
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| This reads like an obituary. |
Red also finds something that shocks her, but we don't get to know what it was. Whatever it is, it convinces her that they need to break into his house, which they do. Red has her friend stand lookout, but of course her phone is set to silent so she doesn't hear the warning and the episode ends with the wolf about to walk in and find her there. Before that though she finds a painting by Abby Powell, which I think is Red's mother? And I'm guessing the thing she saw on the internet was that the wolf went to the same school as her mother and at the same time. So maybe he engineered their meeting somehow? Not sure where they're going with this, honestly.
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| This is the painting. |
And I think I know how the stories are connected now. Red Riding Hood's dad is friends with the pigs' wolf, and big pig is the one whose money Hansel and Gretel stole. That's the extent of it. If the three stories were being told sequentially then that would seem like a neat little easter egg, but in this format I keep expecting more.
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| His page on the school website reads like a dating profile. |
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