Blackham- "What Rambo movie did you just pop out of?"
After two episodes, Persons Unknown continues to be a nice summer escape. Last night's ep was non-stop mystery with a touch of action and finally some characterization on the side. We're slowly learning a bit about each character, which always you feel for them as they get tortured in this mysterious ghost town.
We start the hour with Moira, who we later find out to be a psych patient and not a psychologist, performing surgery on her friends in order to take out the tracking implants. The Persons figure that they will now be able to leave this God forsaken place. Of course this is misguided because there is an outer fence around the town that is simply a microwave emitting forcefield that fries your skin when you try to leave. Something the marine knows a ton about apparently.
Charlie's plan to get past it? Watch as the hotel manager goes through it and then follow him out because the bad guys aren't going to let one of their own fry to pieces. But as the manager escapes their clutches and sprints through the fence, Charlie chases him and hits the microwave fence like a ton of bricks. Out cold.
So the question is, did the microwave thing get turned off and back on quickly to let the hotel manager out? Or could he just go right through it because he's not a real person. He seemed eerily like some sort of robot or hieroglyphic figure.
Oh but once they figured out how to get past this second fence it would be home free right? Of course not. After a lightning bolt destroyed the microwave fence, the Persons jumped in an empty van and drove past the line they thought would set them free. What did they find as the next obstacle? Just your run of the mill bright light transportation field that sent them back to the center of Ghost Town.
Now this is starting to make sense. This is a sci-fi show? Either way, the new development is a combination of awesome and ridiculous.
So what about Janet and the gun that was so nicely left for her in her room? Even though her fortune read 'Kill Joe and you'll go free', she declined the offer and shot up one of the thousands of cameras watching them. So what is the Big Bad's deal here? Is he just testing these people? If so, what if she had just killed Joe right then and there? Would that have been ok? If it's not a test, and the killing of each other is okay, then what is the point of this whole experiment?
I still have a lot of questions, the most disconcerting being why is Janet's mom such a scary old lady? According to the promo "everything will be answered by the end of the summer" so we should all look forward to that.
See ya at the Chinese restaurant for dinner...again.
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