A good sign of a strong miniseries is the opening scene to each episode, and this opener for program #5 was a winner. Em is sitting in on the police interview of the girlfriend of ex-baseball player Clay Bishop, and she says, "People don't just wake up one day and become a monster." Em walks out of the room because the line is too close to home after she has just beaten her boyfriend, "Tough Luck" Tommy, to a bloody pulp!
A sign of a weak miniseries is the necessity of introducing a new character in midstream to keep the narrative afloat. Such is the case in this program #5 with the introduction of 6' 4", 220-pound Rex Wolfe, a former special ops member of the 75th Army Rangers. He was awarded the Silver Star and the Medal of Valor. His DNA was a match to blood on a pit bull.
As a "professional ghost," the chameleon Wolfe is able to infiltrate the convoy taking Mills to court. Wolfe gets the drop on the other officer in the cargo van and murders young Mills with another lethal injection of fentanyl. In the forest, Wolfe gets the drop on Nick, who later confesses to Em about his captor: "I obeyed." Em knows what that is like from six years of hell.
It is not yet clear what all of the six victims of Wolfe have in common. But Em has a clue: the Catalyst Diagnostics company's logo appeared in the belongings of Em's mother Valerie. The common thread was that all six victims were at once normal, mild-mannered people who suddenly went out of control in behavior and then were killed by Wolfe. But Em cannot investigate further because she and Cal Isaac have been sent to Moldva in Eastern Europe in hot pursuit of Wolfe, who has fled the country and may well be seeking work as a foreign merc. Em's dad gives her a necklace of St. Michael's for protection, as she heads into the night.
Despite all of the action and the new plot line, the best scene in the film was a quiet dinner scene with conversation that escalated into Family Dysfunction with a capital "D." In this regard, one of the most interesting characters is Alice, whom Grampa refers to as "Susie Homemaker." In fact, she is a tower of strength, who has lived through a nightmare of family toxicity with her alcoholic parents.
A sign of a weak miniseries is the necessity of introducing a new character in midstream to keep the narrative afloat. Such is the case in this program #5 with the introduction of 6' 4", 220-pound Rex Wolfe, a former special ops member of the 75th Army Rangers. He was awarded the Silver Star and the Medal of Valor. His DNA was a match to blood on a pit bull.
As a "professional ghost," the chameleon Wolfe is able to infiltrate the convoy taking Mills to court. Wolfe gets the drop on the other officer in the cargo van and murders young Mills with another lethal injection of fentanyl. In the forest, Wolfe gets the drop on Nick, who later confesses to Em about his captor: "I obeyed." Em knows what that is like from six years of hell.
It is not yet clear what all of the six victims of Wolfe have in common. But Em has a clue: the Catalyst Diagnostics company's logo appeared in the belongings of Em's mother Valerie. The common thread was that all six victims were at once normal, mild-mannered people who suddenly went out of control in behavior and then were killed by Wolfe. But Em cannot investigate further because she and Cal Isaac have been sent to Moldva in Eastern Europe in hot pursuit of Wolfe, who has fled the country and may well be seeking work as a foreign merc. Em's dad gives her a necklace of St. Michael's for protection, as she heads into the night.
Despite all of the action and the new plot line, the best scene in the film was a quiet dinner scene with conversation that escalated into Family Dysfunction with a capital "D." In this regard, one of the most interesting characters is Alice, whom Grampa refers to as "Susie Homemaker." In fact, she is a tower of strength, who has lived through a nightmare of family toxicity with her alcoholic parents.
