When we last left the Brogan family, they were just beginning to think the life of a witness protected family could end up working out for them. Mark had begun to talk again after four months, Zoe was making friends with the handyman, Danny was working on the bar and bonding over midnight soccer, and Evelyn was already warding off advances made by the town doctor!
This week’s episode brought much drama and even more destruction to what could never have been a quiet little suburban town. After being beaten almost to death, Jack Donnelly demands to be tranferred out of Meadowlands. Samantha agrees, on the condition he tell no one he is leaving. About the same time, Zoe decides she is Jack’s only hope at a normal life, after discovering his fear-induced and rage-based rapes and killings. Somehow she decides she can see the humanity in Jack and begins her quest to bring him back from the brink.
The Brogans also get a new neighbor, Gordon, whom Danny is convinced works for the crime family he is still afraid of. Why is Danny so afraid of them? We still don’t know if he ratted them out, if he was on their side or against them, if he was simply someone laundering money for them through his bar, or what. My guess? He started out laundering money and ended up an accessory to murder. At any rate, Danny’s paranoia kicks into high gear at the site of this man whom he remembers standing outside of the fire that nearly claimed Mark’s life.
Evelyn and Zoe head off to a dinner party at the good doctor’s house, wherein Zoe keenly figures out her mother’s flirtatious habits and knocks her down a few levels in her “mom rating”. Does anyone else covet Zoe’s hair? What about wanting to rip that choker off the good doctor’s wife’s neck? Why must she constantly be wearing such horrible items?
While the Brogan women are at the dinner party, Mark is at home alone, playing dressup in his sister’s clothes. All fine and good until Jack Donnelly shows up to tell Zoe he will be her willing patient, that he does not want to leave after all, and that he has decided to try to behave. This all goes down the crapper when he sees Mark’s fear, and attempts to rape him. Danny shows up in the nick of time, beating Jack to death with his bare hands.
It is at this moment Gordon shows back up, but in a twist so beautifully orchestrated it could have only been done by Showtime, Gordon was not sent into Meadowlands to kill Danny, but to kill Jack. When Samantha told him he’d be leaving, what she meant was permanently, and from the face of the earth.
Do we find out more regarding Gordon? What will the Brogan men do with Jack’s body? How long before we find out everyone’s dirty little secrets? Stick with me as I explore further into the dregs of Meadowlands!
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