Well have to say now this is over what a shambles of a show this turned out to be. With some promise at the beginning, it just turned out to be a mish mash of hastily put together snippets from the series into some sort of a conclusion and a very unsatisfactory one at that.
Henry (Dave Annable) runs his campaign for election and Nona (Samantha Logan) turns up as intern. He gives some flat speech to his helpers about being dedicated etc and then Gavin (Terry O'Quinn) tells him he needs to engage in dirty politics. But he was the only one who didn't blacklist or make any snide comments against Councilman Frank Sullivan (Richard Joseph Paul) for his affair and his marriage ending. He wants to play it straight. Later a drunken Sullivan accosts Henry in the street telling him they have blood on their hands and they are responsible for it. Henry dreams of Sullivan in their apartment with bloody hands as he places them on the mirror and has a gunshot wound to his head. Nona shows him the news showing Sullivan killed himself. Gavin tells him the same thing again about Henry not commenting about Sullivan in the press and thinks it was a calculated move but Henry assures him it wasn't.
Jane's (Rachael Taylor) dad, Nate (William Sadler) talks about her mother, Catherine in the bar and how he loved her but she died. Just as Jane lies in the bathtub and is pulled under as the plug hole chain tightens around her leg. She manages to come back up and sees a man in a striped tie standing over the bathtub. No surprises for guessing who that was, cos you'd be right. Jane meets Nate but he still doesn't tell her about her mother and that she died. He wants Jane away from the Drake and she insists she should know why. Also he can't be a father to her now.
As for Brian (Robert Buckley) and Louise (Mercedes Masohn) they decide to bury Alexis in the basement and hole her up in the wall, Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat anyone, where the killer trapped the act in the wall where they buried the body, a giveaway to the police. Here Louise leaves her earring behind which Gavin tells her about when they're back in the lift. Again it was Gavin who most probably took the earring. As they return to retrieve it and open up the wall, they find Alexis gone. Gavin arrives and tells them she's with him and he throws the earring at them. They were both living on borrowed time and he's terminating their lease. Brain wanted to be on top again and he will be. His play become successful but he won't be around. As for Louise well she pretty much sealed her fate when she knocked Alexis over. Thus ends the tale of this couple. At least they got satisfactory comeuppance. But why Gavin's role to play god and mete out punishment?
Jane and Nona look through more clippings after Olivia (Vanessa Williams) and Gavin tells Jane her mother was most likely killed and the police suspected her father. They only realized Jane lived at the Drake on the night of the engagement party when her father turned up. Saying she had a different last name. Apparently she and Nona find clippings where her father was suspected of her murder after he found out she was having an affair.
Nate takes Jane gun at gunpoint since he wants her to leave the Drake and be safe. She knows she's in
danger here but she wants answers. The lift stops and begins to go up. Cue Gavin again. He sure was getting around in this final episode!
Nate still wants to leave with Jane but Jane doesn't go with him, instead she runs to Gavin. Nate tells her the gun won't move out of his hand and he can't move his arm, still insisting he didn't kill her mother. Gavin wanted to talk but instead the situation has changed. Henry returns home and finds the water running in the bath and bloody handprints on the bathroom mirror. Still dense Henry didn't put two and two together, that he was being manipulated by Gavin all along. Seems this final ep Henry begins to dream just like Jane did.
He takes the lift up and walks in on the trio, the gun cocks with a little help from Gavin and Nate shoots Henry. Nate runs and is taken to the basement by Kandinsky (Misha Kuznetsov). Jane wants Henry saved and Gavin can do that. She'll do anything. Gavin admits he was having an affair with her mother but she betrayed him, so he drowned her in the bath, as he's revealed as the man in the tie. Jane is his daughter. So Jane was okay with the killing.
One year later
Nona still collects clippings about the missing couple in the Drake, Brian and Louise. She puts Jane's necklace around her neck. Henry wins the election by a landslide and they celebrate with Olivia and Gavin. Who tells Jane the Drake is her legacy and her birthright. Once day soon she'll have a baby who will go on to change the world, be a great leader and heal it. This meant to be the '666' aspect here as we step into The Omen territory. Jane calls him dad now. She tells Henry she's pregnant as he places his hand over her stomach.
SO Gavin sacrificed Sasha for Jane cos he wanted her all along. Wonder if Olivia knew about her? Thought Jane had more backbone than that and she just accepted her fate, who she really is without much of a battle, all to save wimp Henry. Yet she was this great crusader when she started out doing what was right and good. She fell into the same trap as everyone else and "there is always a price to pay" as Gavin kept saying all along. To give birth to the Antichrist eventually, which explained her new made over Gothic look, complete with dark make up and bright lipstick, something she never sported in the show. Or was this cos of the election and being the councilman's wife.
Who really killed Sullivan? Could it have been wimpy Henry and then forgot about it. Especially since Jane used to have dreams and would end up back in her bed after she had actually been to the basement. So it seems plausible Henry did kill him. Have to add after all his do-gooder act, he did look cold when he walked out of the lift with Jane at the end into the Doran's apartment.
Jane clinging onto Gavin for dear life when she wouldn't go near him and suspecting him of all kinds of things, all went out the window. Though there could be a little hint of her being his daughter, why else would he have wanted her around here and how she was able to come back after descending the staircase. How everything she did never landed her in trouble. She's renovating the Drake full scale now as they talk of her completing the Starling room. Suppose that's where the birds hide out just to put unruly tenants into line every now and then. She just relished being Gavin's daughter and that was an unexpected change in her. Looking back to last ep and Hayden, now we know why Gavin said he'd protect Jane. That's exactly what he did. How did Nona get hold of her necklace, did she steal it again and is she going to be the thorn in Jane and Henry's side?
Oh forgot to add we never got a reveal on what the heart of the Drake is in that box Gavin and Olivia were so desperate to get back from Shaw.
Could have been much better!
This was the final episode still to air in the US next month.
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