Episode three of Season One starts off with Swamp-thing uncovering a brief case of money hidden amongst some trash in the swamp. There it cuts to Jim meeting a man Buckholt drinking from their house tap and during their conversation he mentions he grew up in his house. Suddenly the man is in pain, so Jim takes him inside the house to the bathroom. After a while there's no noise and he finds Buckholt slightly passed out where he mentions to Jim that he's his uncle. A blonde lady Eleanor is in town looking for Buckholt and for good reasons. So Jim seeks help from Swamp-thing, who hesitantly agrees and heads to the house. However Jim's mum Tressa turns up, leaving Swamp-thing to hide in the attic. Tressa then discovers the man in the bathroom, where Jim tells her that it's her brother. In which case she explains she doesn't have one, but the man was one the house's caretaker's children. While getting taken away, Buckholt whispers to Jim the whereabouts of the hidden money and looking on happens to be Eleanor. Swamp-thing stays hidden in the house, but needs the swamp to energise him. So he waits until dark to sneak out, but is interrupted when Tressa wakes. Leaving him to head back up to the attic. While this is going on Eleanor sneaks in to the house, threatens Jim for the money and then Tressa walks in on them to only be shot. Eleanor flees; swamp-thing comes back down and heals Tressa for her not to remember anything as if it was a dream. Eleanor comes to the swamp to discover one of Arcane's mutations. She scares it away by shooting her gun and then finds the briefcase. But the money isn't inside and there she's shot dead with her own gun by the mutation she originally scared off.
This confoundedly junky episode felt more like an incoherent one-off with no real connections to the bigger picture of series, as Jim's relationship with Swamp-Thing only grows and a real test of character begins to show. The plodding story throws up a predicament, where helping others come before someone's own need. This is shown in the developing situations that the stranger Buckholt and swamp-thing encounter, where as the femme fatal Eleanor's selfish nature becomes her own downfall. Swamp-Thing gets a little more screen time than usual and his presence is formidable, but again he doesn't get up to hell of a lot. It's interesting the way they presented the sequence of Tressa being shot, cutting in slow motion and dramatic echoing the sound. Never do you feel like she will die making it less harrowing like it should have been. Jessie Zeigler's performance as Jim is starting to build some solidarity and Cynthia Harris' femme fatal role added some venom.
"What a lovely place to die".
This confoundedly junky episode felt more like an incoherent one-off with no real connections to the bigger picture of series, as Jim's relationship with Swamp-Thing only grows and a real test of character begins to show. The plodding story throws up a predicament, where helping others come before someone's own need. This is shown in the developing situations that the stranger Buckholt and swamp-thing encounter, where as the femme fatal Eleanor's selfish nature becomes her own downfall. Swamp-Thing gets a little more screen time than usual and his presence is formidable, but again he doesn't get up to hell of a lot. It's interesting the way they presented the sequence of Tressa being shot, cutting in slow motion and dramatic echoing the sound. Never do you feel like she will die making it less harrowing like it should have been. Jessie Zeigler's performance as Jim is starting to build some solidarity and Cynthia Harris' femme fatal role added some venom.
"What a lovely place to die".
