She's Ruining Everything
Bridget leaves Malcolm a voicemail saying that she shot and killed a man (in self defence) because he was trying to kill her (Siobhan). Yes I know what you are thinking, if you do ever kill someone the last thing you do is confess on someone's voicemail. But luckily Bridget deleted that message to Malcolm. Confessing to a murder via voicemail is never a a smart idea. I'd ask what she was thinking, but given that she just shot and killed her attacker, who at first she thought was trying to kill her but then found out he was trying to kill Siobhan I'll give her this moment of stupidity.
She then has to try to hide the body. It was pretty funny watching poor petite Bridget drag that body across the floor, leaving a huge blood smear across the concrete. I hope she bought the value size bottle of bleach. After a few close calls of the body being discovered, first by Gemma, then by Agent Machado and then by about 20 workers that Andrew has hired to organsise a party in the loft Bridget finally hides the body in a steamer trunk. Yes it was one problem after another again, it seems like this is going to be typical of Ringer but it ensures that there is never a dull moment.
However, I was disappointed that we didn't get to see her try and haul that 200-plus pound body into the trunk. Now that could have been entertaining. Even though, I have to admit, that I did think to myself, Buffy could do it. This is only episode 2 and I still think of Buffy whenever any sort of strength or fighting is involved, but any other time I do not compare Sarah Michelle Gellar's characters to Buffy.
In between hiding the body in different places and almost getting caught, not knowing what to do with the body, Bridget plans to run to Malcolm. She finds that Siobhan had a secret emergency bank account and she withdrawals the cash and closes the account. But when Andrew informs her about the party in the loft she realises she has to stay a bit longer to ensure that the body stays hidden.
Gemma continues to search for the woman her husband is having an affair with.
Agent Machado crashes the party at the loft to question Siobhan about Bridget but she tells him nothing.
Bridget spends the whole party ensure that the body in the truck is not discovered.
And why would Andrew think the loft was the perfect place for a party? I suppose he was in a bind, but the place was a construction zone. Little did he know about the added bonus of a decomposing body in the corner.
The body in the trunk was a nice touch during the party scene, but eventually it's going to start to smell. And it was certainly disconcerting having Agent Machado walk up as Bridget was moping up a dead man's blood.
During a speech that Andrew is giving to his party guests a phone starts ringing, and people quickly realise that it is coming from the truck, of course it is. Luckily Bridget gets to the truck and phone before anyone else, but someone is watching her.
After the party Bridget grows closer to Andrew but she is still planning on running off to Malcolm. As she is trying to sneak out she finds Juliet throwing up in the bathroom because she took something at a party and didn't know what is was. Its a lovely scene and it appears that Siobhan and Juliet may start getting alone as Juliet asks Siobhan to stay with her. In flashbacks we see that years ago a fed up Siobhan frequently helped a drunk Bridget. Bridget stays and leaves Malcolm a voicemail.
The flashbacks were obviously meant to give us some insight into Bridget's past but I found Siobhan's scene the most interesting. She was fed up with her sister, yet wasn't nearly as cold and certainly didn't have the money she has now. Perhaps both came with her marriage.
Slowly, Bridget's going to care more and more about her new "family" and that will make things even more complicated. Heck, it already has. And at some point she'll have to deal with the fact that she isn't actually pregnant. I'm looking forward to her dealing with that twist.
When Malcolm is listening to the voicemail we see that the man Bridget was suppose to testify against is following him.
In Paris, Siobhan tries to cash out her emergency fund only to find the money gone. She makes a phone call to someone and tells them, "She's ruining everything."
So we got another look at Siobhan in Paris. Tough break when your doppelgänger sister steals your secret stash. Was Siobhan's plan to kill her sibling and make the world believe she was dead, therefore having a clean slate with which to start over? If so, what was so horrible with her life that a nice divorce settlement wouldn't cure?
When Bridget goes back to the loft to, I assume, move the body again, although I am not quite sure what she was planning on doing with it, she discovers that the body is gone. Who saw that coming? My other half did and was waiting the whole episode for it to happen.
Ringer, has again left us with more questions than answers but that's the fun of this show. I'm looking forward to seeing where this mystery leads next.
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