Ringer (US TV Series) Review - Season 1 Episode 7 - Spoiler Alert

Oh Gawd, There's Two of Them?

Oh my god there was a big shock right at the beginning of this episode but unfortunately my surprise and excitement didn't last long. 

At the start of the episode the police take Andrew, Henry and Bridget (as Siobhan) in for questioning about Gemma. Andrew and Henry both get shown a photo of Bridget and are asked if they know who it is. We then go to a split screen shot and we see both of them answer at the same time "Bridget Kelly". 

Wow, I actually thought oh my god they both know about her. What is going on?

But then straight away we see a flash black to the day before where Bridget (as Siobhan) tells Andrew and Henry about her twin sister, Bridget Kelly in anticipating of the police hauling in all three of them in for questioning about Gemma's disappearance. 

Still interesting that they finally know about Bridget but I thought that we were in for another exciting twist and I was slightly disappointed. However, it isn't that often I am disappointed with Ringer.

Every week on Ringer, Bridget Kelly dances faster and faster, trying to keep up with her web of lies, and I am just about keeping up with them all. But it may be too late now.

Finally Bridget (as Siobhan) has to tell everyone that she has a twin she's been hiding. Juliet's reaction was perfect. "Oh Gawd, There's Two of Them?" Other than that, Juliet really didn't care. She had a party to get to.

Agent Machado announces that Malcolm is missing and Makawi is most likely involved. Bridget is heartbroken as she remembers their one night together. Nice to finally see a bit of Bridget's and Malcolm's past.

Juliet's friend gets drunk at a party and Juliet drives her home with only her learners permit and she has also been drinking. She gets into an accident but isn't hurt. Andrew is furious and freezes her trust fund. 


What was Andrew thinking when he said Juliet could run off to Connecticut with her new friend? Seemed like a lot of trust to place in a girl who really hasn't earned any lately. I gave him some credit for at least calling Monica's parents but Juliet finding trouble this weekend was a given. 

At least he finally took away something the girl really cared about. The money. That certainly got her attention. Not that she'll starve but life without her limitless credit cards should be more interesting.

Henry didn't seem bothered by the news of Siobhan's twin. I suppose he had other things to worry about. For once, he actually seemed concerned about his missing wife. Nevermind that he cheated on her for months and then destroyed all evidence of her abduction to supposedly save his mistress. Now that Gemma might be dead, he's realised what he threw away. Too little too late.
 

Bridget tells her sponsor, Charlie that she is Siobhan Martin and asks him to check on Gemma's car at the airport.

Charlie calls the real Siobhan in Paris. They are working together. Charlie attacked Gemma and cleans up his blood from Gemma's car. I knew that something wasn't quite right with Charlie and I seem to always be suspicious of everyone in Ringer but I didn't see that one coming.

Poor Gemma. It appeared as though she might truly be dead. I know that was a lot of blood in the house, but somehow I had hoped she'd survived. However, from the looks of that fight with Charlie, it seems unlikely.

Why was Bridget trusting Charlie with so much information? I know he's her new sponsor but he's also a former addict and in the scheme of things she's known him for all of 10 minutes. I suppose she had to ask someone for help and Charlie had the police connections she needed... but talk about a bad call.

Who the heck is this guy anyway? How is he connected to Siobhan other than he now appeared to be her hired henchman. Now that Charlie's covered his tracks, will Siobhan set up her sister for murder? I really want to know why Siobhan has done everything she has done but I guess we have to keep waiting for answers. Ringer seems to like creating questions rather than providing answers.

Malcolm escapes for Makawi's men and heads to New York. When Bridget sees him she passes out. 

Malcolm got away from his captors, only to find out they're following him in hopes of tracking down Bridget. So what does he do? He heads straight for her! How could he be certain he still wasn't being followed? No good can come of Malcolm being in New York.

And couldn't Malcolm go to the cops, tell them he was kidnapped and tortured by Malawi? It's not a murder case but it could still put the bastard behind bars and buy Bridget some time. Just a thought.

At the hospital, Bridget awakens to a concussion, a worried Andrew and finds they are about to do an ultrasound on the baby. After seeing the flash back to the night that Bridget and Malcolm spent together one thought that crossed my mind is that it will turn out that Bridget really is pregnant and that Malcolm is the father. That would definitely add in some more twists. 

The person I felt for the most this week was Andrew. First his newfound trust in his wife was put to the test when he found he'd been married five years and never heard about her twin sister. Now that twin may have something to do with the disappearance of their good friend. His daughter's troubles continued and, to top it off, he's about to learn the baby that now means everything to him doesn't exist. Ouch. That's assuming that my theory of Bridget being pregnant with Malcolm's baby doesn't happen. 

The ultrasound will probably show that there's no child or at least no heartbeat, but could it show she was never pregnant? Could Bridget get lucky and possibly have this written off as a miscarriage? Or will the truth come out? I don't know how Andrew will deal if he's hit with one more lie. How fast can Bridget spin a new tale if this all goes wrong? I can't wait for next week to find out.