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Not as humorous as the other recent episodes, I suppose in response to the Pixie incident. It felt as though the therapy session with Chris Sutton and his amazing Technicolor jumpers, was being used as a kind of send-off for the character, with emotional declarations of how nice she was.
Quite a violent episode in fact. I know emotions would be running high, but it seems there was hardly anyone who didn't get to throw some punches. Especially normally non-aggressive characters - Marlene (with Alice), Lexie (with Marlene), and Matt (with Frank).
And this episode seems to have spawned a couple of new extras I notice,
including a big one with a white sheepy hairdo.
Odd how Lexie always seems to refer to Marlene as "the rabbit", even when in conversation with Bobbie, who called her just "Rabbit". Maybe she knew something we don't. (Ok, maybe not.) When Lexie and Marlene were arguing, I loved Lexie's line: "Whoever invented you ought to be shot!". I’ve heard unkind viewers say similar things.
A nice scene, with Bobbie and Marlene in the cell just after the humiliating card game. I actually felt very sorry for Marlene. Quite nicely handled, I thought. The actress playing Marlene isn't actually too bad at all, and Bobbie's acting skills had certainly come a long way since she used to shout her lines at Minnie in a flat monotone. As for the cards.. "Good, Rabbit. I love your finger action." Er, right.
The card game was an interesting situation, I thought. Both players knowing the situation, but both going ahead with it regardless, because of
other pressures (Lou, and personal pride too). A nice touch.
Were my eyes deceiving me (it was early in the morning) or did Lexie have a bowling pin stuck on the board alongside her Boy George posters?
Sam still remained fairly pointless and uninteresting, and having finished boring the pants off everyone by going on about the mural, she had now started droning on about her robot at every opportunity. Yaaaawn. I noticed her dropping big hints about an escape plan to Yemil, who surprisingly managed to stay awake throughout the conversation.
Interesting to see the white haired detective was showing an interest in Erica's former pride and joy, her complete collection of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The first time I can remember those tomes having any kind of acknowledgment in the series.
Amusing line from Len Murphy, when Joan made references to his homophobic attack on Kevin Nielsen. "You don't think they're gonna believe those fairy tales?" Actually, I liked the way we saw Len in the governor's office (in charge of prisoners) smoking, and shortly afterwards we saw him sitting in a grotty cell (as a prisoner) smoking. Quite a nice bit of subtle irony. I also loved him calling Joan Ferguson "You lying cow!".
I'm quite puzzled about Joan visiting Len in the cell after his arrest. What was the purpose, other than to look smug and threaten to reveal more of his past to the police? What I mean is, that's hardly what she'd tell the officer in charge, as surely she'd need a very good reason to visit someone who'd just been put in the cells for a violent crime like this, especially as she was one of the main witnesses. And as for being left alone with him in the cell..
Ann had dug out her rather poor taste post-mastectomy jumper (the pattern strangely missing over one breast). Nice to see her fondness for hanging onto the past, even if fashion had changed. And I was pleased to see her chipmunk-tail hairdo had been tucked back in tidily at last.
Bobbie was back at the workplace again, sporting some more highly dangerous dangly earrings, this time in the shape of dominos. Clearly she brought a whole selection of novelty jewelry when she was put inside. How strange, considering she probably wouldn't have been allowed to wear any of it around the prison. After fixing the complicated wiring of a huge industrial crane, I see this time they gave her a plug to wire. Hmm.. something seems the wrong way round here. I had to chuckle to myself, when Peter was trying to ask her out on a date, and ended up staring at her chest and saying: "Make it hard, don't they". Very naughty.
So Dennis the Yorkshire Pud was back, looking rather less pud-like I thought. And how nice that the union had decided to lift his suspension so that he could return to work. Er, I thought that had been sorted out, and he'd just gone back home to England. Maybe he forgot. He referred to himself as "The one with the funny accent". I’d have said that was his wife.
This no-lagging rule seems too complicated for me to understand. Did I imagine it, or was there a blatant bit of lagging, when Lexie told Joan in front of everyone that Marlene had torn up her poster, resulting in Marlene being put on a charge? Strange how nobody even seemed to notice or show interest, yet on other days, the person would be sent to Coventry, or bullied, because "nobody likes a lagger".
Joan told Meg there was a phone message for her, then went into quite a lot of detail about it - that it was for a trial, whose trial it was, when it was, etc. In fact, I'd be quite scared by the lack of discretion by the senior police there - I'm surprised they didn't blab that it was to do with her rape, and start giving out details. And all this to some unknown third party who works with her. Hopefully real police would just ask for her to call back.
But the best bit of the episode..? More shots of Matt's very nice bare tummy, thanks to Frank pulling up his teeshirt for us during the fight scene in the library. Yes, I know it's sad..
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