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Charlie (Victor Garber) sends the angels to rescue Tess (Krista Kalmus) who was kidnapped 3 weeks ago. She's the sixth American kidnapped in this area. Bosley (Ramon Rodriguez) is already in Cuba making contact with an inside man. They are to go in undercover as American tourists. Abby (Rachael Taylor) comments, "Loud and obnoxious." Charlie's yacht will be international waters in 24 hours.
Havana, Cuba: The hotel man registers them and tells them to leave their bags so can plant stuff in it and have a drink. He makes a phonecall. Bosley waits for them at the bar suited out in glasses, he's a lawyer. Abby says, a Communist lawyer, "that is so cute." Santos(Romero Fumazoni) is their man on the inside. Their bags contain drugs and Bosley tries to help, introducing himself as Jose Juan Bosley but bails out on helping them as soon as drugs are mentioned, so they are arrested.
Prison De Val Verde, Cuba: The warden (Elizabeth Pena) slaps Eve (Minka Kelly) when she protests at being kept here. She replies Americans have no rights here. Santos gives them earwigs and Abby her tools. Tess is in the hole after attacking the warden, well she was as headstrong as Eve. Eve and Kate (Annie Ilonzeh) get themselves thrown in the hole too after fighting the inmates where they get hosed down for talking.
Eve tells Tess she's been in prison before. Bosley tells Santos he's not changing their plan now and the angels are "good at what they do." Bosley is held up by Samantha Masters (Erica Durance) he was her ex hacker playboy and they had a good time until he found out she was CIA. She was demoted when she failed to catch him. Bosley is in a rush to leave so tells her to shoot him as he has to go. She's been watching him. He isn't a criminal anymore and was given a second chance by a "powerful mentor." Samantha refers to him as a "nameless angel of mercy." He runs a detective agency.
Abby must overpower the fat prison guard and the others can't hear her cos of water in their earwig,s which turned out to be damp squibs. Bosley has no plans on returning to rescue them and he was right there wasn't going to be a chase. Santos is found out, shot and the angels are stuck inside prison. Samantha doesn't have any reinforcements to call, there's only her as she was exiled.
The women are taken in the van and Samantha recognizes Jonathan Cartwright (James Morrison) a businessman she told the CIA he was here. The warden tells them to pick a dress for their customers, she only does this to Americans and no one else. Eve rejects having to play dress ups. Tess is threatened with a gun. Ugh those outfits, especially Kate's one again. Someone has weird dress sense. They need to contact Bosley. Charlie knows Cartwright. It will take a while to track him and his yacht will be arriving in six hours. They ranged from calling it a yacht to a ship to a boat.
Abby gets a man drunk and she uses his phone to call Bosley to track their location, getting sprung by the warden who tells her to find another man. Bosley enters dressed a security and leaves a gun for Kate. They shooting the air and Eve exchanges herself as a hostage in place of Tess and the others. As in the Pilot, Eve will be subjected to more beating. Bosley promises to get Eve back. Cartwright shows the warden footage of Samantha from outside the prison and hits the warden, calling her a peasant. She has to earn her share of the new Cuba.
Cartwright guesses Eve is freelance and she refuses to talk. Bosley isn't leaving Eve behind as Samantha calls her an acceptable loss. Bosley: "No loss is acceptable." Speaking from personal experience. She asks if he's worried about Eve cos of Elizabeth. He talks in his sleep, that's dangerous. Bosley: "Don't mention her name again." The angels were standing there but didn't seem to be too curious about who this mysterious woman was that Bosley didn't want mentioned again. Bosley forces the hotel man to call Cartwright who he tells them he knows of the angels as he has money and contacts cos Eve didn't talk just like she said she wouldn't. They decide to exchange Eve for Samantha. Abby: "not a woman to negotiate - my kinda girl." Bosley says Samantha lost her career cos of him but she won't lose her life. So another one who lost her career just like Kate, though with Kate it was her own fault.
Samantha is adamant when the CIA find she was murdered by Cartwright, he'll be thrown in Guantanamo. Bosley likens Samantha to Elizabeth, "smart, stubborn, I did everything I could to save her." He doesn't want to lose her too. Samantha is a public servant, it's in her job description, there's an anonymous wall of stars for her back at Langley. At the exchange Samantha takes Cartwright hostage. The warden arrives. She wasn't going to let him get away with treating her like that. Bosley made a deal with her, he'll do anything to protect them all, no matter what the cost, but he won't let the warden get away either. He recorded what she said against the government on microcam. Old school entrapment. Bosley adds he learned from the best. Bosley: "They do answer my prayers." Samantha is staying behind to get Intel on Cartwright's deals. This isn't the Casablanca ending?? The warden will end up an inmate in her own prison.
Bosley speaks with Charlie about bringing up old ghosts like Elizabeth. Charlie doesn't blame him for what happened to Elizabeth. It wasn't his fault. Elizabeth loved Bosley, never forget that. Elizabeth was his daughter. Is that why Charlie started his own agency, to help women cos he couldn't help Elizabeth. Now that she's mentioned we should get more on her, she can't turn up cos she's dead, or is she?
Erica Durance turns up hot off Smallville, kind of, and she didn't do a bad job with the material she had to work with. Actually I found myself getting into the show and just as I did, it was cancelled. Spoiled sports. The original episode of Charlie's Angels Angels in Chains was also 1.4, where the angels were hired by Christine to find her missing sister, Elizabeth, who disappeared after she was parolled and refused to become a prostitute for the prison. Charlie's daughter was called Elizabeth. Charlie appears to have settled down in this new series. Also no head shots from the back for Charlie, he clearly remains just a voice and he doesn't have a female 'companion' every episode either. That would have been too sexist for the twenty first century. I liked the way they kept Elizabeth for Charlie's daughter, as an homage to the original episode and then had her being dead too.
The 1976 episode of Charlie's Angels got a mauling in the press. TIME magazine 22nd November 1976 issue recounted the story as : "...the matron, dressed SS style ordered the girls to 'strip down to your birthday suits'." It even went on to call this episode "family style porn and raunchy." Feminists were in uproar too, describing the series as "exploitative and misogynist." In this episode Kim Basinger played an inmate and was hired by the Townsend Agency as a receptionist but wasn't shown again. The two episodes even had similar prison outfits in blue jeans and shirts. It was suggested by some that Cartwright did more than just beat up on Eve as he removed his jacket. Rather it was more to keep it clean from blood. Eve is not the type to keep something like being physically assaulted to herself.
As for those descriptions of the original Angels In Chains, not so for this new version. Bosley's past turned out to be more interesting and intriguing than the angels! Turns out he was a bad boy and yet seems he suffered the greatest loss and heartbreak with losing Elizabeth whom he loved. Showing why he's so protective of the angels and would not leave Eve behind. Perhaps cos of this Charlie offered him a way out and maybe a means of helping his daughter. Or did they meet when Bosley had turned a different corner. He was/is quite the ladies man but Elizabeth came before he met Samantha. Who certainly wasn't going to let Bolsey escape her clutches without a passionate kiss. There must have been some feelings still there or was she merely a one night stand.
Eve bonded with Tess cos of her own experiences in prison.
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