Frequency - The Edison Effect - Review: Be Perfect

"I shot the son of a bitch. And none if it matters."


The Edison Effect

There are only three episodes to go until this crazy ride ends, and I'm excited but terrified, because odds are, we're not going to get to see more of this amazing story, and that is just unfair. There are many factors that go into the failure or success of a show, some of it has to do with promotion, some of it is just luck, sometimes it's quality, but this is not the case and it's frustrating when such a good show is so overlooked. I was afraid of getting into it at first, since I don't like watching shows with such a strong possibility of cancellation, but I don't regret this for a second, this is already one of my favorite shows of all time, and it is worth watching no matter what.

This episode picks up the next morning, after the hook-ups, Frank and Julie are still in bed and Raimy doing some research on the case while Daniel has breakfast, they look like they fall into their "old" routine easily. He wants to stay all day in but Raimy urges him to tell his fiance the truth and he agrees, maybe not the most tasteful way.

Daniel: You've got a serial killer to catch. I've got a heart to crush.

Frank is so happy that he tells Julie they should run away, they seem very happy but he says there re still things they need to talk about. In that moment Raimy walks in asking if daddy is moving back home, they both laugh embarrassed and say it was a sleep-over but later he goes to Satch's to grab his stuff and they argue about Stan again. Satch says things are more complicated than they seem, and Frank says it's actually simple, he can't trust him, and now that he knows who he truly is, he doesn't want to see him again.

Raimy and Frank go over the plan to kill the nightingale, he seems to have some doubts and is worried about making things worse but he commits to it anyways, she even suggests he should steal money from the church so it looks like he run away. Frank has been studying Joe's movements and they agree he'll do it the next night, she says he has to be perfect, which is weird because the idea of perfection was a recurring subject in this episode, but I'm not exactly sure why. Later, he goes to the hospital to bring Julie flowers and coffee, she says he can stay on the couch and says they should go to Raimy's concert the next night and make a plan out of it, but he can't. She seems disappointed but understanding. Once she leaves he steals drugs from a case, I just hope no one finds out. He also goes to the store to get some tools and runs into Gordo and his dad (Chris McKenna) who's a lawyer and even jokes about Frank's killing tools, but he brushes it off effortlessly, he's clearly picked up some things from being undercover.

Deacon Joseph Hurley has Meghan in cabin, he looks like a completely different man, and way more creepy. He's very menacing, telling her if he has to "save" her, he'll make sure it's a good death, but he says he didn't kill the women the police are accusing him for. Maybe I'm forgetting something, but Meghan's brother, Robbie, was never found, right? What if he's actually the Nightingale?

Over at the precinct, Raimy listens to Meghan's sessions with a therapist, and listens to many anecdotes that illustrate the family dynamic with Deacon Joe. Meghan and Robbie listening to Joe as he hits their mother, after which he wants them all to go for ice-cream, and then a family dinner, with a cop friend of Joe's, where Robbie makes a mistake, and then is punished that weekend at the shed of a cabin in the woods. The place where the killer's hiding now.

Meghan: He always said that he wanted us to be perfect, but he lived for the imperfections. Saw them as opportunities to teach us.

Gordo comes over to Raimy's house and tells her he invited his father, with whom they seem to have a very complicated relationship because, in spite of having a law degree, he never practiced and decided to be a stay at home dad. Once Gordo leaves his father tells Raimy his new wife kicked him out and maybe he's coming back, and she tells him Gordo is a great dad, which seems weird cause all we ever see him do is drink beer, watch TV and play video games.

Raimy hears Kyle got in a car accident chasing a suspect and is in surgery, when she gets there his mom is by his side, he's probably still groggy because that doesn't stop him from talking about Raimy's eyes and beauty, she's mortified but agrees to go to a family dinner. When he talks to her dad she seems confused, she has feelings for Kyle but she knows once their plan succeeds everything will go back to the way it was in the past timeline. She tells him in another life she could really see herself with him.

After that talk she decides to tell Daniel to give his fiance another dinner and she goes to see Kyle, knowing this is her last chace to spend time with him. She kisses him and they talk about the Sunday dinner, as she listens to him speak she sheds a tear, thinking that, if everything goes well, he won't even remember her.

Once again, we see a parallel of the two peak moments of the episode, as Raimy gets a call from the precinct because Meghan was able to contact them from the cabin, and Frank breaks into Joe's house, drugs him an puts him in his trunk. Joe in the present kills Meghan and runs into the woods, so they chase him. Once Raimy catches up to him, he drops his gun and gets on his knees, but thinking it won't matter if Frank kills him in the past, she shoots him right there, and as the other cops catch up, she tells them she shot him and none of it matters. In the past, Frank gets a message from Julie saying Raimy forgot her clarinet in the car and, when he's distracted, a car crashes into him.

I'm not looking forward to Frank getting caught, I mean, I'm sure he'll live, but what are the chances no one finds the guy in his trunk? It would be interesting if there's a trial parallel, with Gordon Haas Sr. representing Frank in the past, and Raimy in the present.

What did you think bout this episode? Would you like to see a trial? would you like for them to get away with it easily? what do you think about Gordon Haas Sr. and Gordo? Do you think maybe Joe is not the Nightingale? Did you pick something up about the recurrence of the word perfect, which was mentioned five different times? I'd love to read your thoughts.