‘Farthingale’
Another piece of episodic brilliance has emerged in this fresh show. Our victim today is a man that has had a bomb vaporize the lower half of his body leaving the top half still upright. This scene is one of the weirdest I have seen on TV. If there was better access to recent pictures of episodes I would have it, but I am forced to recycle pictures from other episodes.
Well anyway it turns out that this extremely ordinary seeming man is actually leading two separate lives with two separate wives. One is a Mrs. Farthing and the other is Mrs. Gale. Somehow he has convinced both of these women that he is a secret agent for the government. With each woman he acts completely different with very few similarities. So Charlie starts doing a private stakeout on the lead detective in his own case. He sees him having a heated argument with some unknown man at the park. He snaps a couple of shots for his conspiracy wall. Charlie gets back on he case at hand by meeting Dani at the police department. While he is having a conversation with Dani about Farthingale they get a officer down call from in the building. Everyone rushes down to the parking deck only to find the body of the detective in Charlie’s case. Immediately the blame starts to shift towards Charlie even though clearly he didn’t do it.
After all that calms down for a minute they get a hit from the federal database. Apparently he did work for the government, wait for it, as an IRS agent. Charlie has an epiphany about the case. They start looking for only things that were the same in his double lives. It turns out that he did have a lead on a serial bomber. The whole time he really did truly just want to be a hero. Charlie and Dani catch the bomber and arrest him for Mr. Farthingale’s murder. By the way what is the twist of this week? The man arguing with the detective on the day he was murdered was Dani’s father. I hope everyone checks out my last post by clicking here.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 am
this show never lets up.