My TV Musings

Very clever the way this episode was formatted, going back and forth between current time, when Dr. Jackman awakens with blood all over his shirt, and events that occurred the night before while Hyde was locked into a basement with Dr. Jackman’s wife and her boyfriend.

Dr. Jackman had forced the key to the basement door down the throat of the boyfriend so Hyde couldn’t free himself, but once Hyde discovered that fact, it really seemed that he would perform his first kill in order to extricate the key.  Mrs. Jackman was hiding in the basement and she knocked him out when he was about to kill the boyfriend.

When he came to, he was chained up and Claire was holding the key.  She and Hyde had a humorous conversation about whether or not she was married to him and was he cheating when he admitted that he does a lot of screwing around.  She asked him if he used condoms and he said “he makes me”.  She made the mistake of putting the key in her mouth to swallow it and then Hyde got hold of her and laid a kiss on her that looked more like a human vacuum and, sure enough, he was able to retrieve the key from her mouth.

These scenes were interspersed with scenes of Dr. Jackman awakening the next morning under a tree outside the house with blood all over his shirt, insisting to the police that he had killed someone.  When he saw the boyfriend walking around unharmed, he assumed he must have killed his wife.

Back to the basement, where Hyde is about to free himself.  Then the basement door is knocked down and the evil organization head, Benjamin, and his minions run down the stairs.  Benjamin proceeds to smile as he tells Hyde what will happen to him after they get him back to the laboratory.  Little does he know that Hyde has a knife, a really big knife, and with one brief back-and-forth stroke, Hyde slashes Benjamin’s throat.  For a moment there is no indication of injury except the widening of the man’s eyes, then he puts his hands to his throat and it immediately starts spurting blood all over Hyde and he dies.  Just like in The Wizard of Oz, when Hyde looks to the head of the minions for their next move, Hyde is told “I never liked him anyway.”

So Hyde escapes to the woods just outside the house and soon falls asleep.  After Dr. Jackman is taken to the police station, insisting he killed his wife and should be locked away, the minions pick him up and take him to  van which contains his wife, tied up, and her boyfriend who apparently is part of the evil organization.

We can only hope that Jackman can find a way to free himself and Claire because somebody has to take care of the kids.  Stay tuned.

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