666 Park Avenue 1.4 "Hero Complex" Review

Congressman Edwards cancels his interview with Henry (Dave Annabel) we all know who sent that e-mail!  Henry can't believe that happened.  Which bodes well for Gavin (Terry O'Quinn) as he's trying to convince Henry to aim for bigger and better, i.e running for politics.  The news isn't helped much since Henry is pulled in at work by his boss City Commissioner Pike (Jose Zuniga) and the investigator Regina (Jenna Stern) to tell him Gavin is being investigated and they believe Henry had a part in providing him with insider info re the Alpern case and that he 'flipped' over the property, knowing the land was contaminated.  Henry is a bit big for his boots, why would they be tailing him, when he asks if they're having him followed! Duh.  The investigators want him to get close to Gavin and find info on him which they can use against him.

Henry meets with Gavin to tell him of this and how he's a lawyer and can't be seen socializing with him since he's aware it's unethical and also the gifts he's been giving them.  Olivia (Vanessa Williams) mentions he should fire Henry and Gavin doesn't want to do that, not just yet anyway.  Olivia seems to be enjoying all the manipulation and intrigue that Gavin gets up to but I still want to know just how much she knows about him and what her deal with Gavin was.  Since you'll recall last episode when she mentioned their daughter, she said she was 7 and then suddenly she jumped forward and she was now 17 when she crashed the car.  That spells ten year deal!

Jane (Rachael Taylor) just can't get enough of that suitcase, she attempts to pry it open with all sorts when Olivia tells her about the thief and she wants her to find out who it is as she has a missing diamond brooch.   Jane also mentions her grandmother's necklace, gotta say that was one ugly looking piece of jewellery!  Jane and Henry have been invited to the Mayor's party and Jane tells Olivia she bought a D&G for 90% off, yeah that'll happen!

Henry attempts to take the initiative and breaks into the Penthouse to download files from Gavin's computer, including one about him and Jane.  Olivia returns and he leaves behind the top of the flashdrive.  What a wimp, not going back to retrieve it, not that it would have done any good since Gavin would have known with or without the evidence.  And you call yourself a lawyer!  Clearly Henry lacks legal prowess even if he claims to know about ethics and morals and possessing some!

The mysterious girl reappears to Jane telling her not to let him out as the suitcase tries to unlock itself.  Yes Jane that dirty suitcase going everywhere.  She puts it in the closet before they leave for the party.  The girl now hides under Jane's bed.

Annie (Aubrey Dollar) is still tied up and held hostage by Kandinsky (Misha Kuznetzov) who tells her no one knew him until she wrote about him.  To buy time she sends him on the trail of her editor and gets out of her ties.  Arriving at the editor's house she hears his phone ringing outside and finds him dead.  Kandinsky calls her and says she lied and she's next.  Thus she must turn to Gavin for help.  He tells her she wanted to change the world with her writing and if she writes about the city commissioner and his corruption, and links with the mob, that he's been taking handouts from developers, then he'll get Kandinsky off her back for good.  Now anyone knows that any perpetual deal with Gavin always turns out bad for the contractee.  The words he uses are she'll "never see Kandinsky again."  That bench they met on, was the one where Olivia burnt that letter, no?

Nona (Samantha Logan) is visited by her shrink, Ingrid (Wendy Moniz) and she says she's recovering.  Nona can't resist taking her sunglasses.  Jane meets her and also sees Nona with the glasses and finds out she's the thief.  Nona swears she didn't take her necklace, but we know she did, that's why she had her vision of Jane but didn't tell her about it.  Jane keeps her secret if she returns everything and Jane returns the sunglasses.  Nona's parents died in a car accident and she only has her grandmother, but is raising herself, which Jane can relate to.

Tony (Erik Palladino) takes packages and hears a noise coming from 3B and lets himself in.  He takes down the suitcase and opens it, releasing dark smoke which turns into a man.  Oh really, Supernatural demon smoke here, get your own!!  He then finds himself back outside as if it didn't happen.  Jane and Henry meet Nona in the lift and she stumbles out, Henry grabs hold of her and she has a vision of Henry being shot and killed by a man with a compass tattoo.  She warns Jane.

Annie publishes the story and sends it out.  When she's about to leave she hears of the mob ties and how the commissioner will probably be killed.  She rushes to the party to stop the killing.  Olivia and Gavin think Henry is blabbing to the commissioner about Gavin.  Jane sees the waiter with the tattoo and shouts out to Henry who prevents the commissioner from being killed.  However there is a Vic, Annie is shot instead.  Guess Gavin planned it that way.  Conveniently hiding upstairs away from the action and out of harm's way.

Gavin and Henry have their little tete a tete.  Henry says he was wrong and trusted the wrong people.  He should have trusted Gavin as he tells Henry the commissioner's been indicted to face charges.  Jane tells Nona she saved Henry's life and Nona acts surprised, she doesn't know what Jane's talking about.  Nona later tells her grandmother she thinks she can trust Jane and she'll be able to help her.  Has grandmother made a deal too, or Nona's parents which explains their car accident?  These seem to be the norm for people killing themselves or jumping from buildings.

At least we got a respite from the fledgling philandering couple, oh you know what I mean.  As I said before Henry is a naive one cos all he can think about is ending up back in Indiana, Even after Jane gives him a pep talk on being his own man.  No matter what, that's something Henry won't be, especially if he takes the political stage.  Everyone knows what's involved in politics, all the grovelling and granting of political favours. So he is being naive or not really thinking what this will mean as far as Gavin is concerned.  Of course he'll be under his beck'n'call.  Henry also throws the flashdrive into the fire without even opening the file on him and Jane.  Curiosity didn't get the better of him.  With everything he's been through would have thought he'd have done that.  Probably some sort of lure from Gavin and another way to test his loyalty.  Gavin knows all, as we have seen.

We've never seen Henry stand on his own two feet since he arrived here.  It's always Jane who has to instill her beliefs in him or Gavin convincing him he should dream bigger, so he wouldn't really be that big of a political impact, more like Gavin's puppet.  Olivia saying she knows Gavin can "work magic."  Sounds as if she knows what he's fully capable of.  Also can't believe Annie didn't think of writing Kandinsky away before turning to Gavin for help, I mean she created him and wrote him into existence.  Kandinsky the worst assassin going.  So much for saying he was elusive for so long!  Jane doesn't tell Henry Nona warned her about him and that she's the Drake thief.  At least the latter, not until Nona spills.