Preppy tells Slutty to climb over the guard-rail fence and inch past the door to freedom. He helps her over but instead of climbing to safety, she waits for him, watching, frozen with fright, as Wakefield bears down on Preppy. Prep tells her he loves her, then turns his rifle around to use as a bat, but Wakefield wrests it away and tosses it into the river. Then Wakefield rams the wickedly long blade through Preppy's clavicle as Slutty screams and screams and screams. As an appropriately overwrought Civil Twilight song begins, Wakefield tosses Preppy's body into the river then turns to Slutty.
See?
From the bluff, Abby and Henry see Wakefield and Slutty on the bridge. Wakefield extends the bloody mega-dagger toward Slutty. "You can't have me", she tells him in an eerie dead voice and then falls backward in a suicide dive, her body ending up floating next to Preppy's far below. Abby skewers Wakefield with a look of pure adrenalized hatred. Wakefield gives Abby a look of pure cold-blooded evil then walks back across the bridge.
Braids and Spiky emerge alive from the sewer pipe and head off down the gorge, brahs to the end.
GLC's attic. TS sifts through the file. We see a news clipping headlined "Is Killer Working Alone" then a Seattle Police Department mug sheet... for FISH HUNK.
Harpers Island road. PT's car is parked on the sewer grate most recently graced with Madison's waggling white mitt. In he driver's seat, Trish is slumped over, eyes shut. FH watches her from the passenger side. Her hand is on the rifle between them. He puts his hand on it, taking it from her. She jolts awake, startled. He tells her she shouldn't sleep holding a loaded gun. She relinquishes it and goes back to sleep, as he watches her...
VAGUELY DISTURBED.
I still don't believe it. Not him. No. Not.... Fish.... Hunk................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wait a minute. I smell herring in red sauce!
If FH is dangerously unhinged, why did GLC not only not warn Abby about him when GLC caught her having slept over at FH's house six or seven thousand episodes ago, how come GLC brokered a deal trading his own life for FH's??? The only info GLC didn't have is the whole Wakefield-has-a-kid bit which was in W's journal. I think FH will be vindicated right before Henry almost takes him out (as in kills, not "to a show") in the super-electrifying series finale on July 11.
One last note-- If somehow you haven't seen True Blood yet (and I know, HBO is expensive) treat yourself to Season One, now available on DVD. If you've been watching Harper's Island for eleven weeks, you deserve it!
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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