666 Park Avenue Recap: Ripped from the Headlines

Recaps

By SnoopK8 | Thursday, October 18, 2012 | 5:03 pm | 5 Comments
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Brian and Louise are getting frisky in bed the next morning, when, all of a sudden, Alexis walks in on them to pick up Louise for yoga. That’s what happens when you give crazy bitches the keys to your apartment. Brian is upset and complains about Alexis being a freaking stalker, but Louise just says that Alexis is the only thing keeping her life together.

Henry and Jane discuss the secret basement room while Henry gets dressed. She says the secret room isn’t on the blueprints that she has, but she can tell that there’s been a renovation.

That’s weird. I don’t see a secret room on here full of dolls, ghosts and body parts.

She wants to get her hands on the ORIGINAL plans so she can continue to flesh out all the building’s creepy secrets.

Jane goes up to Gavin’s office and mentions the orchids that are displayed all over the building. The flowers are a memorial for the Dorans’ daughter Sasha, who died ten years ago that day. Jane offers to come back later, but Gavin says he’s focusing on the future and asks her what she wants. She confesses to smashing down the basement wall and finding the secret storage room. She asks him for the ORIGINAL building plans. Gavin’s all, why you wanna know that? Jane says she wants to find out why somebody wanted to bury the Drake’s history.

Gavin eyes the orchids sinisterly™ before saying he’ll look for the blueprints. In the meantime, he asks Jane to keep an eye on Olivia that day because she is all sad horns about her dead daughter. He says she gets “destructive” every year on this date. At that moment, Olivia comes waltzing in with two armfuls of shopping bags. Jane invites her to lunch. Olivia knows that Jane’s just doing it because Gavin asked her to, so she decides to be snotty and say she’ll meet Jane in the lobby in an hour, which will give her time to change out of her tacky poor people clothes.

Annie the Lowly Obit Girl is in a cab stuck in traffic. Through the miracle of the in-cab TV screen, she learns that traffic is tied up because of a funeral for a famous cold war double agent named Oscar Diebold. Everything she wrote in the obit seems to have actually come true. She jumps out of the cab to run back to the Drake to confront Gavin. She admits that she made the story up, and Gavin tells her not to take away the guy’s American hero status. Gavin says he has a feeling that things about to turn around for her.

Yup, shit’s about to get realllll

Gavin and Henry are playing racquetball. Gavin asks Henry what he wants. Henry says water. Gavin says he’s not joking. So Henry says he wants to marry Jane. Gavin’s still not impressed. He smacks Henry down and tells him not to lead with his love life. Henry finally gets that Gavin is serious and says he wants to be chief of staff to city councilman Bill Edwards who plans to run for mayor someday. Henry actually has an interview with his office in four weeks, but Gavin says the job will be gone by then. He yells at Henry not to stand in line, but grow some balls and take what he wants.

I just want a Gatorade and a shower

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5 Comments

  1. 1
    Lizbot
    Posted October 18, 2012 at 8:16 pm

    I liked the episode, but it ended a little abruptly for me. And there’s a couple of things I hope the writer will explain sometime soon as well.

    1) What is with the mishmash of residents, from filthy rich to near-dirt poor? And I’ll say it again: a luxury building with a basement laundry room? Makes no damn sense

    2) I hope they’ll come up with a rationale for why a supposedly average to above average characters like Jane and Henry would be stupid enough to enter a creepy secret room in a basement without making any attempt to prop open the door after an incident when one of the two said characters was trapped in the same said room after having said door mysteriously slam shut behind them. I don’t get while she’d enter the damn basement any time at all (at least not by herself), but I’m willing to let that one go. Hopefully the explanation for why they would be so stupid about the door will also cover the issue with them not reading the lease….

  2. 2
    Lizbot
    Posted October 18, 2012 at 8:17 pm

    Oh yeah, and I don’t think they’re going to kill off Annie that fast. I think Gavin has bigger plans for her.

  3. 3
    sagittariuskim sagittariuskim
    Posted October 18, 2012 at 8:42 pm

    I was wondering when were going to get a creepy ghost child.

    And now we know Alexis isn’t that whorey she won’t strip for just anybody.

    And Jane continues to annoy me.

    I really want more of Olivia’s and Gavin’s back story. How much does Olivia know about what Gavin is and does?

  4. 4
    timgunnssister timgunnssister
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 8:31 am

    In the premiere, Gavin explained there are some rent controlled units in the building so they have tenants from blue collar to the super-rich. They had to do that for the wealth of stories this needs.

    Starting to feel a little ‘LOST/The River’ish to me. And Jane is annoying and Henry is seriously dim.

  5. 5
    Lizbot
    Posted October 19, 2012 at 6:25 pm

    @timgunnssister: thanks for the explanation. I missed/forgot that part of the premiere. That also answers my question about why they would have a basement laundry room in a luxury apartment!

    I never got into the River, but I totally don’t mind the Lostishness of the show. It’s got enough of the spirit of Lost without totally mimicking it that it fills the void that Lost left for me after it’s disappointing series finale.

    I do hope that they give Terry O’Quinn the chance to exercise his range of acting chops though. The thing I loved about his character on Lost is that he got to play the range from pathetic and vulnerable to omnipotent and menacing. Maybe some flashbacks to what Gavin was before he became the all-powerful soul-slave master that he is today? But they had have to be careful not to make it too John Locke-like.

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