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Saturday, 3 August 2013
Ringer (US TV Series) Review - Season 1 Episode 3 - Spoiler Alert
If You Ever Want a French Lesson
Siobhan meets Tyler Barrett, an international banker in Paris. She begins an affair but kicks him out when she becomes nauseous. She takes a pregnancy test and calls Henry but only listens to his voice over the phone.
Watching Ringer is like playing a game of musical identities. Half the fun of this mystery is trying to figure out who will lose their seat in the game first. Like I said above, we start off with Siobhan, who has assumed a new identity. As Cora Farrell, she picks up Tyler at a bar, telling the international banker to meet her at her hotel "If You Ever Want a French Lesson." But poor Tyler doesn't get very far. Things were looking rather promising until suddenly Siobhan was and shoving him off the bed and out the door.
At first, I'm thinking perhaps she's having second thoughts. Not quite. Siobhan's nauseous and that's when it hits me. Siobhan doesn't know that she's pregnant. That's what makes this show so interesting. Trying to remember who knows what about whom takes all of my attention.
The most telling part is what Siobhan does as she holds the positive pregnancy test. She calls Henry and simply listens to his voice. Obviously this isn't news to us because we found out that she was pregnant in episode 1. But it was Henry she called and she seemed genuinely upset and it appears that she does care for him, so it appears that Siobhan believes that the baby is Henry's and not Andrews.
Back in New York Bridget isn't pregnant but everyone thinks she is, that will certainly come back to bite Bridget at some point. I keep waiting for her to address that issue but I guess having armed assassins after her is a bit more pressing.
Malcolm is kidnapped, beaten, and pumped full of drugs by the people looking for Bridget. He must really care about Bridget because he goes through a lot and still doesn't tell them anything.
Henry tries to cash out funds from Andrew's firm without telling Gemma. Andrew's partner makes sure Gemma finds out. It appears she likes to cause problems for everyone. She does mention wanting to get Gemma's dad as a client because he is rich but with everything else that is going on I didn't really care about this and didn't think it was necessary. Maybe it will develop into something more interesting later.
Bridget finds paperwork that leads her to a divorce attorney Siobhan had visited. They thought that Andrew was hiding assets from her. When Bridget tries to investigate, Andrew catches her. Someone saw her at the divorce attorney's and told Andrew. He's hurt and angry. He thought their marriage had gotten better. Bridget goes to see the property 227 Pratt Street that she thought Andrew was hiding from her, again this bit seemed a bit pointless but who knows, after all this is Ringer.
So... do you think Andrew is really hiding something from her when it comes to the building at 227 Pratt? Everyone is keeping so many secrets it's hard to tell.
As Bridget tries to get information off of the dead man's cell phone, it rings. The voice on the other end tells her to hand over the phone and she won't be harmed. Bridget keeps the phone and calls Agent Machado. She pretends to be Siobhan asking about Bridget but it's enough so that the bad guys think she's speaking to the FBI. She tells the man on the phone that if anything happens to her, the FBI gets the phone.
Taking the phone back from the bench is a gutsy move on Bridget's part, but she must figure that phone is her only leverage with whoever is after her.
Bridget apologizes to Andrew and they decide to work on their marriage. Her apology at the end was heartfelt. I believe she has really grown to care for Andrew and she'd like to make it work, but it's unclear if Bridget is thinking in the moment or long term.
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