Barroom. Townie keeps trying to cut Wakefield, who jabs him in the shoulder with his razor-sharp, two-foot, double-edged sword. Then the stomach. Then down the length of his arm. All very painfully, from Townie's agonized man-screams.
Bathroom. Trish aims the rifle at the door. Instead of running out and taking advantage of the fact that Wakefield HAS NO GUN.
Barroom. Townie swings at Wakefield, trying to land a punch. This just amuses the super-monstrous killer, who impales Townie with his enormous shiny blade. Townie hits the deck, looking pretty dead.
Stop Or My Puffy Bride Will Shoot
Bathroom. TS wants Trish to come through the window instead of bravely aiming at the restroom door. Trish says she's coming and tells TS to go! TS goes. Trish hears Wakefield coming and fires through the door, which flies open, revealing Wakefield, as Trish appears to be out of ammo. Wakefield glares at her sadistically, relishing her imminent well-deserved death. But Townie has dragged himself to the bathroom door, providing enough distraction for Trish to escape. Wakefield glares at him sadistically, then moves forward for the kill.
Ext. Marina. The panicked ladies scamper away from the Cannery. Trish says Wakefield got Townie and FH (excuse me, you don't know that!!) but she knows where the gals can go.
Ext. Private dock. Preppy and Spiky arrive but there's no sailboat. Looks like they're stuck! Preppy says it's all his fault for going to the wrong side of the car. Spiky says if he hadn't, the bullet would've hit S. Preppy insists that his medical attention pit-stop cost them their way off the island. Spiky tries to make him feel better. For all they know, the sailboat could've been gone for days. Spiky makes a joke about banging Slutty then joshingly elbows Preppy in his wound. Looks like they're gonna be friends after all. They head back to the car.
Ext. Cannery. Henry, Abby and Braids tote their shotguns toward the bar entrance. The front door's open and a tired redneck oldie blasts from the jukebox.
Int. Cannery. The three enter and are horrified to see Townie, strung up and butchered!
It's like that N*SYNC video, but less atrocious.
Back from commercial. PT lies dead on the floor. Braids clobbers the jukebox, silencing "Brandy". Henry checks the place. Everyone's gone, including Fish Hunk. Abby and Henry are relieved their love interests seem to have escaped. Braids provides the promo sound-bite. Braids (staring at Townie): He's not done. He's nowhere near done. A-men, sistah.
GLC's house, attic. Trish leads the Pussy Posse into GLC's Wakefield and Related Murders Shrine, explaining that she came here with Abby and Henry when they were looking for GLC. Trish bolts the trapdoor as Madsy checks out the bulletin boards of CHOTSONA (Concisely Headlined On-Topic Sequentially Ordered News Articles, in case you were absent.) TS pulls her away from them, because some newspaper clippings might be upsetting after play-dates with a serial killer and witnessing live homicides. Way to parent, TS! Slutty says it's as if GLC was "just waiting for Wakefield to happen again." Whatever, Paris. You try creating such a cleverly instructional obsessive shrine.
Cannery. As Henry covers bodies and checks ammo, Abby says that Wakefield's changed the game. Before, he was content to pick victims off from the shadows. Since GLC's murder, he's stepping out. He wanted Abby to see him. She says Wakefield could have slipped away and people would have blamed GLC for the killings. What vile plan does he have in store for them?!! Braids starts to lose his shit-- Wakefield's not gonna stop until they're all dead and I can't handle it, man!!! Abby says check yo'self befo' you wreck yo'self! They have to finish this.
When I grow up, can my carpet and drapes not match, too???
GLC's attic. When TS shudders at Wakefield's heinousness, Madison says he was nice to her. John Wakefield is a sociopath! Slutty snaps semi-hilariously. Then, feeling bad for hollering at the tot, Slutty explains that some bad people pretend to be nice to get what they want. LIke Jay Leno. Trish snoops through GLC's file cabinet until she finds blueprints showing the underground tunnels beneath the Candlewick extend all over the island. This is how Wakefield gets around! From outside, a church bell tolls. Slutty, TS and Trish look vaguely disturbed.
Cannery. Henry thinks the bell could be Daphne Trish. Velma Abby says it could be a trap.
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Comments (9)
Yes, I smell the scent of the herring in red sauce, myself. GLC used to not like FH back when he and Abby were younger, but now they were good friends. I think that the rapsheet is from a long time ago. If GLC knew he had been a hoodlum, he wouldn't want him dating his daughter. However, as they got older and he saw that he had matured, he befriended him. I am still on the fence about whether he is Wakefield-spawn, but I don't think he is a helper.
There was a moment when Wakefield was in the Cannery after the Pussy Posse went into the lav. Wakey and Townie were standing there looking at each other and I expected them to start laughing and for Townie to call him dad. Clearly this did not happen.
Also, for the record, I teared up at Dr. Prepper and Slutty. 'Nuf Said.
Thanks for another great recap, LL!
1 of 9 | Posted by Snootchy Bootches | Posted on June 28, 2009 11:08 AM
wonderfully funny recap! LOVED it! thank you!
as for True Blood funny you mentioned it i just added it to my netflix cue and its at the top of my list - cant wait to start getting the dvds mailed my way!
happy sunday
rebecca
2 of 9 | Posted by Rebecca1968 | Posted on June 28, 2009 1:58 PM
I cried at the end-it was truly touching, wonder what will happen next week
3 of 9 | Posted by yuds101 | Posted on June 28, 2009 2:21 PM
Was anyone else troubled by the fact that Slutty could have escaped if she'd climbed along the fence and crawled up on the other side of the door? I don't think Dr Prepper was worth dying over! But it made a classy, dramatic show-moment and those are tougher to find than a negative word about Michael Jackson this week. That tired thing is moonwalking in hell now. R.I.P. Wacko Jacko "Beat It" still kicks ass!
4 of 9 | Posted by leia labiblia | Posted on June 29, 2009 7:20 AM
Yeah, LL, I thought about that too (Slutty escaping, that is), but then I imagined what I would do if that was my husband. I couldn't just run off the bridge knowing he was going to get knifed. Now, that isn't to say that I would have necessarily jumped, but I don't think I could have abandoned him.
I agree with you: it did give the show one "moment" amongst so much blah.
RIP MJ. You definitely had some "issues" in your life, but it doesn't change that the music was (and is) good.
5 of 9 | Posted by Snootchy Bootches | Posted on June 29, 2009 8:56 AM
Well, I thought that Preppy Snot might have actually been a foreign exchange student who had lived with the wack Wakefield family in the late 90s. Boy do I feel stupid now!
I don't know how it will end, but I am quite sure it will include purse dog hopping onto the precocious Madison's lap as she stares into space and makes us realize there will be a return to Harpers Island, 2019!
Great recap! You are hysterically funny!
6 of 9 | Posted by mullymoon | Posted on June 29, 2009 11:01 AM
I don't think FISH HUNK is the killer or son of Wakefield. It would be terribly gross to think so.
7 of 9 | Posted by kissmymanolos | Posted on June 29, 2009 2:59 PM
First off, great recap Leia. Serious LOL moments on every page.
So, assuming FH is a red herring, I wondered why he looked at Trish with the evil eye as he tried to take the gun. Maybe he has figured out that Trish is the killer and was trying to get the gun away from here. And his look was one of suspicion and not "I will soon be enjoying your liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti."
Of course Trish is the killer only if the writers are trying to do something surprising. The last twist they managed was having the secret killer be a known homicidal maniac--one whom a main character had been accusing since episode 2. So who knows? Maybe they have given up on twists and all the FH foreshadowing in the previews will lead to the "shocking revelation" that he is actually guilty.
I think we can almost guarantee that everyone but Henry, Trish, Abby, and FH will be dead before the finale is over. With the exception of Madison, who can't die on network TV.
8 of 9 | Posted by WiseOwl | Posted on June 29, 2009 7:50 PM
I can't believe no one has mentioned the cheesy ripoff of Last of the Mohicans when Blondie dropped off into the water.
9 of 9 | Posted by RugDoctor9 | Posted on July 7, 2009 5:04 AM