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The way that Mack connects the dots to the Fishers I found rather good and very believable. I already covered that it’s a slight contrivance that Ben and Mack just happened to find the Fishers’ address a few eps back and just happened to stop by the house and just happened to not see that they had a set of twins and all that stuff, but that’s a teeny tiny nitpick that I’m gonna go ahead and overlook now. Basically, the characters are hanging out at, I think, Pacific Cable Whatever, and Mack happens to see a piece of newspaper with the announcement of Greg leaving the senate or whatever, and then he says to Ben how he remembers the moment they found out that Greg was stepping down from the senate and he remembers exactly what they were doing, hanging out with Sheila Fisher. I should probably mention that, at this point, they have this list of people who could be involved in illegal adoptions, but they have no addresses or nothing, just names. But the name “Harry Fisher” has been sticking out to Mack, and he doesn’t know why, but now he puts it together; they were standing in the Fishers’ house when Greg resigned, and now they know they just need to go back to the Fisher house.
Meanwhile, Abs is figuring out the exact same information thanks to the little deal she worked out with Ava. See, in case I forgot to mention it before, Ava didn’t just have Abs pretend to be sleeping with Greg and upset Laura because she hates Laura, but because they had worked out a deal. If Abs agreed to her little plan, Ava would give her the pages that she’s been seeking for the majority o the season, and now she proves her word is good by giving Abs the information. This works out well for Abs, who can now tell Val what she has “discovered” and come out looking like the big hero, which is of course what she does. She finds Val sitting at the beach (of course) and she tells her how she got a phonecall asking for “Mrs. Ewing” and at first she thought they meant her, not Val, but after a bit of talking, she realized they were looking for Val. Then she lets it out of the bag and says, “Val, your babies are alive,” and tells her where they are and that she can take her to them. From there, the two ladies hop into Abby’s car and drive off together.
What an interesting sight this is. When was the last time that Abs and Val were alone together for an extended period of time? Maybe somewhere in season three? You’ll recall that during seasons two and three, Val and Abs were kinda chummy, but that has all changed since Gary ran off on Val to be with Abs, so it’s a unique sight to see these two ladies one-on-one in a scene, pretty much managing to get along. Also interesting to note in this scene is how calm Val is. When she hears that her babies are alive, it’s not like a big dramatic thing; you get the feeling that she’s been waiting for this moment. After all, she never stopped believing they were alive, now did she? Abs even notes Val’s serene demeanor and asks her what’s up and Val tells her she knew this would happen, that she never lost faith.
At the same time that Abs and Val are driving to the Fisher house, Karen, Mack, Ben, and Gary are all doing the same thing, but one thing I really appreciated is that they get lost. Not only is this a fabulous reminder of a pre-GPS world in which you just sorta had to know addresses and how to properly read a map (a skill I never learned), but it’s just so wonderfully down to the earth and real. We’re right on the precipice of finally solving this big baby mystery, of finally finding the babies and returning them to their rightful mother, but then there’s a delay in the action because the characters can’t remember how to get to the house. This feels totally realistic and like something that would happen in real life to any of us, so it successfully keeps this whole situation from feeling to melodramatic or soapy or over-the-top.
While all this is going on, what’s happening over at the Fisher house? I’m glad you asked, because we have some really interesting moments between this couple right near the start of the ep. I think I already established that I just inherently like this character of Sheila Fisher. I think she seems sweet and nice and like a loving mother and I feel bad for what’s about to happen to her. However, I’m not sure I like her husband and I’m not sure I’m supposed to. Real fast, I wanna note that Harry is played by an actor named Joe Regalbuto, and I didn’t recognize him from anything, but I did some research and found out that he was a series regular for all ten years on Murphy Brown, a show I’ve seen maybe five eps of in my entire life (but I will say I enjoyed all five of those eps), so there you go. Anyway, when we first see the couple, Sheila is in the middle of the usual breakfast chores and Harry is sorta ignoring her. There’s some good suspense building because the newspaper is on the table with a picture of Dr. Ackerman on the front page and a headline saying something like “Baby stealing doctor blows head off in concluding moments of KL episode,” but Harry is more interested in the stocks pages and fails to see this big old cover story. We all know that if he saw it, he’d probably freak out, but he checks his stocks, gets real grumpy that one of them is down or whatever, and then he heads off to work. Tellingly, Sheila is talking to the twins and says something like, “I know it may not seem like it, but your daddy really does love you.” Wow, what a fascinating line; what are we supposed to make of this? Is this put in here to establish Harry as a bad man? Or is he, like all of our KL characters both large and small, simply complex? We are still unclear on exactly how he got involved with Dr. Ackerman, so we don’t know how aware he is of what duplicitous means were necessary to obtain these babies in question. In any case, I’ll say that I like Sheila but I don’t like Harry, and perhaps we are not supposed to like Harry because it would simply be too hard and too sad to watch a nice, loving couple have the babies they adopted yanked away from them. By making the husband something of an asshole, it makes it sting less.
A little later in the day, Harry hears the news about what happened to Dr. Ackerman and he immediately rushes home to find Sheila and the twins, only the house is empty. He finds Sheila taking a walk around the neighborhood with the twins and says how they need to get out of here right away, pack a big suitcase and hit the road. Sheila is confused, and justifiably so, as Harry is acting like a bit of a psycho, not pausing to explain anything to her, just throwing out frantic comments about how she’s been bugging him for a vacation and now they are taking one. Sheila says how they can’t just run off, how she has to go to the pharmacy to pick up some sort of ear medicine for the twins. Harry says he’ll go do that and when Sheila reminds him that she can’t very well pack while also attending to two babies, Harry takes one of the babies with him.
TO BE CONTINUED
The way that Mack connects the dots to the Fishers I found rather good and very believable. I already covered that it’s a slight contrivance that Ben and Mack just happened to find the Fishers’ address a few eps back and just happened to stop by the house and just happened to not see that they had a set of twins and all that stuff, but that’s a teeny tiny nitpick that I’m gonna go ahead and overlook now. Basically, the characters are hanging out at, I think, Pacific Cable Whatever, and Mack happens to see a piece of newspaper with the announcement of Greg leaving the senate or whatever, and then he says to Ben how he remembers the moment they found out that Greg was stepping down from the senate and he remembers exactly what they were doing, hanging out with Sheila Fisher. I should probably mention that, at this point, they have this list of people who could be involved in illegal adoptions, but they have no addresses or nothing, just names. But the name “Harry Fisher” has been sticking out to Mack, and he doesn’t know why, but now he puts it together; they were standing in the Fishers’ house when Greg resigned, and now they know they just need to go back to the Fisher house.
Meanwhile, Abs is figuring out the exact same information thanks to the little deal she worked out with Ava. See, in case I forgot to mention it before, Ava didn’t just have Abs pretend to be sleeping with Greg and upset Laura because she hates Laura, but because they had worked out a deal. If Abs agreed to her little plan, Ava would give her the pages that she’s been seeking for the majority o the season, and now she proves her word is good by giving Abs the information. This works out well for Abs, who can now tell Val what she has “discovered” and come out looking like the big hero, which is of course what she does. She finds Val sitting at the beach (of course) and she tells her how she got a phonecall asking for “Mrs. Ewing” and at first she thought they meant her, not Val, but after a bit of talking, she realized they were looking for Val. Then she lets it out of the bag and says, “Val, your babies are alive,” and tells her where they are and that she can take her to them. From there, the two ladies hop into Abby’s car and drive off together.
What an interesting sight this is. When was the last time that Abs and Val were alone together for an extended period of time? Maybe somewhere in season three? You’ll recall that during seasons two and three, Val and Abs were kinda chummy, but that has all changed since Gary ran off on Val to be with Abs, so it’s a unique sight to see these two ladies one-on-one in a scene, pretty much managing to get along. Also interesting to note in this scene is how calm Val is. When she hears that her babies are alive, it’s not like a big dramatic thing; you get the feeling that she’s been waiting for this moment. After all, she never stopped believing they were alive, now did she? Abs even notes Val’s serene demeanor and asks her what’s up and Val tells her she knew this would happen, that she never lost faith.
At the same time that Abs and Val are driving to the Fisher house, Karen, Mack, Ben, and Gary are all doing the same thing, but one thing I really appreciated is that they get lost. Not only is this a fabulous reminder of a pre-GPS world in which you just sorta had to know addresses and how to properly read a map (a skill I never learned), but it’s just so wonderfully down to the earth and real. We’re right on the precipice of finally solving this big baby mystery, of finally finding the babies and returning them to their rightful mother, but then there’s a delay in the action because the characters can’t remember how to get to the house. This feels totally realistic and like something that would happen in real life to any of us, so it successfully keeps this whole situation from feeling to melodramatic or soapy or over-the-top.
While all this is going on, what’s happening over at the Fisher house? I’m glad you asked, because we have some really interesting moments between this couple right near the start of the ep. I think I already established that I just inherently like this character of Sheila Fisher. I think she seems sweet and nice and like a loving mother and I feel bad for what’s about to happen to her. However, I’m not sure I like her husband and I’m not sure I’m supposed to. Real fast, I wanna note that Harry is played by an actor named Joe Regalbuto, and I didn’t recognize him from anything, but I did some research and found out that he was a series regular for all ten years on Murphy Brown, a show I’ve seen maybe five eps of in my entire life (but I will say I enjoyed all five of those eps), so there you go. Anyway, when we first see the couple, Sheila is in the middle of the usual breakfast chores and Harry is sorta ignoring her. There’s some good suspense building because the newspaper is on the table with a picture of Dr. Ackerman on the front page and a headline saying something like “Baby stealing doctor blows head off in concluding moments of KL episode,” but Harry is more interested in the stocks pages and fails to see this big old cover story. We all know that if he saw it, he’d probably freak out, but he checks his stocks, gets real grumpy that one of them is down or whatever, and then he heads off to work. Tellingly, Sheila is talking to the twins and says something like, “I know it may not seem like it, but your daddy really does love you.” Wow, what a fascinating line; what are we supposed to make of this? Is this put in here to establish Harry as a bad man? Or is he, like all of our KL characters both large and small, simply complex? We are still unclear on exactly how he got involved with Dr. Ackerman, so we don’t know how aware he is of what duplicitous means were necessary to obtain these babies in question. In any case, I’ll say that I like Sheila but I don’t like Harry, and perhaps we are not supposed to like Harry because it would simply be too hard and too sad to watch a nice, loving couple have the babies they adopted yanked away from them. By making the husband something of an asshole, it makes it sting less.
A little later in the day, Harry hears the news about what happened to Dr. Ackerman and he immediately rushes home to find Sheila and the twins, only the house is empty. He finds Sheila taking a walk around the neighborhood with the twins and says how they need to get out of here right away, pack a big suitcase and hit the road. Sheila is confused, and justifiably so, as Harry is acting like a bit of a psycho, not pausing to explain anything to her, just throwing out frantic comments about how she’s been bugging him for a vacation and now they are taking one. Sheila says how they can’t just run off, how she has to go to the pharmacy to pick up some sort of ear medicine for the twins. Harry says he’ll go do that and when Sheila reminds him that she can’t very well pack while also attending to two babies, Harry takes one of the babies with him.
TO BE CONTINUED
