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Tuesday 9 April 2013

666 Park Avenue 1.8 "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?" Review

                                             
Olivia (Vanessa Williams) Gavin (Terry O'Quinn) and Henry (Dave Annable) are confused, and worried about Jane's (Rachael Taylor) disappearance and good ol' Det Hayden Cooper (Teddy Sears) is on the case.  Nona (Samantha Logan) said she was last seen in the basement when they were searching for her grandmother.  Henry passes out flyers with Jane's pic on them with Gavin offering to call the mayor and the commissioner.  Henry also takes out the engagement ring he bought last ep but by eps end looks like he's not going to propose for various reasons.  Jane finds herself in Times Square but the crowd don't see or hear her, except one woman tells her she shouldn't have come.  Finally the crowd comes alive and Jane is taken to the hospital.  Here she's kept for observation for 48 hours but she doesn't remember what happened to her.

Henry thinks she's lost the plot and is well, far from the concerned boyfriend as he reminds her that her grandmother had mental problems, yeah subtle Henry!  Nurse Potter (Kerry O'Malley) is about to take her blood pressure  and Jane resists.  She has a vision of someone talking to her and her arm being tied.  She's sedated but lucid enough to hear the nurse talk of another patient here Julian Waters found in the same circumstances as Jane.  He's in D wing, maximum security.  Jane takes the pills the nurse gives her, wonder why she didn't spit those out before and gets into D wing.  Was that a 'D Gavin' name written on one of the doors, or did I imagine it?

Anyway she opens the hatch to speak to Julian but he thinks she was sent here.  Jane tells Hayden about the other man and he says he'll try to get her out sooner than later, as well as giving her an envelope that Nona left for her; saying she'll understand what it means.  It's her necklace and photo as a child.  Jane tells him it's of sentimental value and she thanks him for believing her.  Yes Henry that should be you.  Anyway Henry sees her hugging Hayden, wonder what he thought then.

When Jane goes to see Julian again she finds him hanging and mysterious symbols drawn on the wall which she later copies using crayons.  Yeah that's how you make someone loony give them crayons and let them draw in a hospital.  She's given more pills and this time Doctor Anton (Rocco Sisto) comes in just as she's hiding them.  He drags her out and Hayden is there to take her home.  The doctor needed help with a DUI.  Jane finds the ring in the drawer but as said Henry's probably having second thoughts about her now especially since he doesn't want to be lumbered with her if she's got 'mental problems.'   She doesn't tell him Hayden got her out.  Nona comes to see her reminding her she went down the spiral staircase and never came out.  There's someone who can help her remember and outside the door, Jane finds a similar symbol that she saw in Julian's room.

Louise (Mercedes Masohn) gets home and admits to Brian (Robert Buckley) she was in rehab, thanking Gavin for sending her there.  Alexis (Helena Mattsson) later tells her a sob story about being involved with a married man and how his wife's a bitch. Brian and Louise think this will be a fresh start for both of them and Dr Scott is mentioned and that's about it, we don't know what happened him after he brought Shaw home and whether he's still alive or not.  Great, what was the point of that character then since everyone else got an ending.

Brain tells Alexis it's over between them and she tells him he's writing now but it won't last long.  When he returns he find she can no longer write, his computer won't work, neither will any pens or pencils.  Confronting Alexis she tells him he writes cos of her, what is she his muse? and suffers writer's block cos of Louise before they're in the throes of passion once again.  Alexis tells Gavin she can't do this anymore and he adds she should have questioned her conscience before she agreed to this.  Whatever this is.

On the other continuing storyline Kandinsky (Misha Kuznetsov) tortures Shaw (Nick Chinlund) for the whereabouts of the box but he's not talking.  Gavin knows his real name after his father who left him and his mother in the east and defected, he knew his father.  Also Shaw tells him Sasha didn't die in an accident but committed suicide.  Olivia knows all about it.  He confronts Olivia who tells him she had a note from her which she burnt.  She didn't want to hurt him cos of what it contained and she loved him.  She suggests he should us the same kind of treatment on Shaw.

Gavin makes Shaw think he's seeing his father and he gives away the whereabouts of the box, where his mother's buried at a church.  Thus we get o see Gavin enter a church and talk with the priest, Father Douglas (Remy Auberjonois) who was told he wouldn't be able to enter hallowed ground.  But he can and he just loves churches.  Thus making us believe Gavin really is the devil, incase anyone had doubts about that.  The song would have been a giveaway too, Sympathy for the Devil.

Olivia slaps Shaw around for mocking her when he tells her Sasha is alive since no one else knew about the note.  He'll take her to Sasha.  Gavin finds him gone when he returns.  The action is meant to be hotting up but we don't get any answers instead we just go round in circles and are left with more questions.  Such as not finding out what really happened to baby Jane.  Though Julian reveals he came up the stairs and didn't go down.  Did he come out cos Jane opened the mosaic and she was taken instead of him, replacing him?

Aggh had my share of Henry, how much more can Jane take of his lack of supportive anyway, he just doesn't know what to do or say.  He's so annoying, as is that Alexis and her storyline.  So Sasha is meant to be alive but how could Gavin not know about this since he seems to know plenty of what's going on with other people.  Not even when he sat there a few weeks ago on that same bench where Olivia burned the letter.

Obviously the title is from a Bette Davis movie but they probably used it here for Jane.  Rachel Taylor gave a convincing performance of 'playing crazy' though and showing her desperation in not being able to recall what happened to her having to resort to looking for answers on her own.

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