Monique, many of your thoughts are mine. And some things you mention are on my to-be-dealt-with list. Once I've slept.
Having very, very briefly met Emma Stone, I can't really deny the Lohan comparisons since I was thinking them, and she was making them herself. But yeah, she's like Lohan back when Lohan was profoundly adorable and not... sort of tragic.
Beth is a friend of ND's, and he was totally psyched to see her.
Ooh! Just tonight we watched her in
Sordid Lives.
She was fantastic.
In conclusion: recapping made me like Ivy quite a lot. I think she's my anti-Wesley; she's an obnoxious ass, but she's usually right. (I can't quite figure out why I find that so appealing, but I'm sure it'll come to me later.)
The knife is interesting, though. Wouldn't think the lowly getaway car driver would need that.
The getaway man is never lowly. But I think the more important implication was that it wasn't exactly an isolated case.
The fake cop was playing down the sinisterness of the getaway driver, but it seems silly to imagine Tim would cast Nathan as even only that.
Maybe Alex was like The Transporter, a specialist getaway car driver? Or else perhaps he was previously blackmailed into as such for ultra-secret Black Ops teams....
I am presuming Alex was a getaway driver for bank robbing, where one of his jobs went wrong, people died, and this forced Alex out of the game. Either that or something else forced him out.
I think it's nice to have a lead guy who isn't just A Cheery Guy or A Slightly Nasty But Basically Clean Cut Person With A Pun As A Name. It also, in my head, leads to possibility of a whole 'Beige Alex' arc -- by the time he finds Katherine, will she even want him? Also, this has gotta make Alex pretty skilled and connected if it's deep in his history, which has gotta be fun to play with on a weekly basis.
I think there's more going on than that. For one thing, I'll bet there's something in the path from race car driver to bank robber that's maybe more important to the story than what happened with the shooting.
I also wonder about possible connections to other players: Salazar, Sr.'s business connections seem a little shady, and Wendy Petrakas may just be terrified of her husband because he's abusive or she may be terrified because he's abusive and powerful.
Yeah, you know, I was thinking about Wendy. This is a woman who had the cojones to leave her newborn son with someone else in order to join a - say it with me -
cross-country illegal road race
, and who was, however reluctantly, ready to shoot someone to death to accomplish her goal. If getting away from her husband was as easy as packing up and walking out, with or without skilleting him in the head, I bet she'd have done it already. She needs money, the kind of money you can disappear behind. Which makes me think he's more powerful than your ordinary abusive SOB.
He did get those cops after her right quick, too.
Do you think she left her son? I was thinking he'd been at least semi-taken -- that she'd been strong-armed into leaving him with the race people, if she wanted their help getting away from her husband and into the race.
That could be so, Cindy. I had thought the fruit basket phone service had been to make her the offer. She had the kid in her arms when she answered the phone; if they were going to kidnap him and then make the offer, as they did with Alex and Katherine, why would they give her a 'head's-up" by calling her beforehand? It's hard for me to imagine her saying no to the offer and then ever leaving the boy alone, and also hard for me to imagine them forcibly taking the boy away from her. I dunno. Let's ask Tim.
