Every telly show has an emotional gist , something that all the action revolves around . After last nighttime ’s sequence , it ’s clear that Alcatraz ’s essence is the Madsen family , with all of its unfinished business . What ’s more , there ’s in reality some hope that there might really be a nerveless story to tell about these dysfunctional peep .
Will the Madsens ever be as captivating as the Bishops ? Probably not , but at least there ’s hope . spoiler onwards …
Let ’s recap the natural process using our patented Alcatraz - type O - meter :
This week ’s sentence - jaunt rapscallion : Guy Hastings — our first Alcatraz safety . He does n’t have a reprehensible record or an M.O. , so it ’s impossible for our zep to experience what he ’s up to . And in fact , unlike other time - travelers who combine a crime fling with following out the parliamentary law of the mysterious sentence - nappers , Hastings ’ delegacy is entirely metre - napper inspired . And now , I want to start calling the evil masterminds behind Alcatraz ’s worldly disappearance the Time - Nappers from now on .
What worked up unfinished business concern does our con - of - the - hebdomad grappling with ? Not much . I mean , he suppose his family line is dead , but then it turns out his girl is alive and has a whole family . But mostly , it ’s about the Madsen house and their bare business this calendar week .
What unethical thing do the “ good cat ” do to keep the Alcatraz thing a secret ? Not letting Guy Hastings talk to his girl who think he ’s been idle for almost 50 years .
Hurley ’s precious geeky dude second of the week : Not much . He does go to Doc ’s Comics and get the stockboy to help with some kind of extremely dubious “ find the neighborhood in the Bay Area base on computer architecture ” wizardry . Speaking of which , this show look less and less like it ’s really take place in San Francisco . Or Daly City , as the casing may be . But I love that Doc ’s Comics has a cable television car plump justly past . I ’m judge they film a ton of establishing shots of Doc ’s Comics , during their one day of factual shooting in SF .
problematical - but - evil Emerson Hauser moment of the week : Not a mint . He grumble a average bit , and then at one point he ’s ready to hit Guy Hastings in the head , or at least he vaguely act like it . He ’s stick gentle , and when Rebecca quizzes him early on in the episode he telegraphs he ’s lying with a giant blaze away sign made out of fireworks .
What do we learn about Rebecca ’s exalted - dada issues ? And this is where the sequence get interesting . Turns out that Ray is n’t just an erstwhile acquaintance of Rebecca ’s grandfather Tommy — they were brothers , and Ray shift his name so he could become a guard at Alcatraz after Tommy got lock away up there . ( Because obviously nobody did background checks on guards . ) Tommy tries to warn Ray to get out of there , under covering of assaulting him , and Ray is forced to beat Tommy to a pulp — so he can stick around as a guard , so Tommy wo n’t be alone . Yes , he beats Tommy one-half to death out of brotherly love . In the present day , meanwhile , Ray screw that Tommy is back but wants nothing to do with him — or Emerson ’s taskforce .
And Rebecca realizes her surrogate grandpa , Emerson , urgently needs someone with tie to Tommy Madsen on his taskforce , because Tommy ( who ’s now neglect or off the rails ) is important somehow . Which means , as Rebecca puts it , that Emerson needs her more than she needs him . The sibling relationship between Ray and Tommy is already the most interesting affair about this show , and if Rebecca seemed to have an emotional connection to either of those guys , we ’d be manipulate with gas . ( woefully , Rebecca continues to have one personality trait : Dim sum . )
The week ’s mystery fresh fish : Well , we hear more about the hospital and the mysterious blood - draught and experiment . And we finally hear the story of what it was like to be time - catnap , from the perspective of someone who was there . ( See clip , above . ) At one point , Emerson goes into the “ Room ” to spill the beans to his weird panel of experts about Tommy , and nobody seems to know much . But the main revelation seems to be that the Time - Nappers have lost track of Tommy , and he ’s incredibly important to both them and Emerson for some reason . Is it something to do with those experiments that Tommy underwent ? Or does Tommy hump something ?
How sadistic are the flashback scenes , on a shell of Club Fed to Gitmo ? Not that sadistic , although Ray beating Tommy to hamburger was pretty violent . Mostly , the flashback scenes stay on to be the best part of the show , part because they tell an interesting story and partly because someone obviously spend a ton of metre research Alcatraz . The amount of detail packed into this episode , about the topsy-turvyness in the peck Marguerite Radclyffe Hall and about the way the cell door operated with lever , is gratifying to keep an eye on . This is a show where the past times is vivid and straightaway , and the present tense feel sort of remote .
This workweek ’s random moment of creepiness : I ’m straining to call up of one . I hazard Dr. Beauregard stitch a guy cable up without anesthetic was mistily creepy-crawly . But not “ dance around next to a clay ” creepy .
J.J. AbramsTelevision
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