Week Six, Part III
Laurelton, the mystery and relationship stuff: Terry is pissed about Anna reopening the Brownstone murder case. She wants so, so badly for the case to be closed, so she and Kevin can marry in Laurelton, and she can move forward from what happened on Valentine's Day, 1983. We still don't have all the pieces yet, so right now, it just seems like Terry's ashamed of a drunken episode. Which, fair enough, but it wouldn't explain why Jennifer & Ted are so determined to keep things so hush-hush. Anyway, the older folks create a phony motive for Mr. Russell (he supposedly was embezzling from Purity Water and killed Earl Moody before he could get fired), Patrick is presented to the audience as the most likely suspect or at least most outwardly suspicious (in both senses) individual, we waste a day or two with the question of whether or not Kevin did know Russell when he worked as a Purity Water delivery boy, we waste a day with the reveal that Russell was using Jennifer's gun, which he could have easily obtained from her house (and Felicia verifies this), and finally, Anna has both the murder weapon Purity Water medalllion and Jennifer's medallion (taken from her house during the latest excursion to Laurelton) and intends to use them to suss out which of the Laurelton five is likely to try obtaining the murder weapon. I think I have all my facts straight of what happened. This all started to bore me. Oh, and we've also got Burt still very much rooting for Anna, defending her to the mayor, etc.
Mike's Paternity: Rick spends much of the week concerned about the fate of Jeff, one of Mike's classmates. Jeff was named after Jeff Webber, a close friend of his father's. On Tuesday, there's a serious car crash. Jeff's father is DOA at GH and his mother finally dies on Friday. Not wanting the youth to wind up in the foster system, Rick persuades Ginny to allow their being Jeff's guardian. In the end, Rick and Ginny end up with two teenage boys, since they put the kibosh on Mike's plans to move in with Derek. A while back, I lamented that GH never did anything with an older Mike and Rick Jr., and that goes double for this kid Jeff. Imagine if he wound up raised by Jeff Webber and grew up alongside Elizabeth and Sarah. Missed opportunities. Also, I get where Lorena was coming from, figuring that Derek needed to take the opportunity to get what he wanted, but exploiting Mike's irrational, unspoken fear that Rick & Ginny would figure, "Oh, who needs Mike, we've got another kid!" is just plain tacky.
Other thoughts:
-- "Love dies a lot slower than it grows." A surprisingly poignant line from Lila to Monica.
-- Hey, It's Early 1986!: "Party All the Time" and "Conga" play at Terry's shower. Well, really it's Terry and Kevin's engagement party, but they keep calling it a shower.
-- I'm not 100% sure, but I think that's Lynne Moody as the mother of Willie, the other boy involved in the car crash.
-- I also got a kick out of Bobbie trying to gently find out when Jennifer and Ted are eventually going to leave the Brownstone. It's better than Bobbie's outright comedy scene, where she convinces Jake to get a new tuxedo for Terry's wedding. What clinches it is when Jake splits the ill-fitting one he bought at a thrift shop.
I'll try to be more concise next week.
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