This week the team reflects on revenge and letting go when the number of the week goes after his wife's killer.
I'd say this is an improvement on the previous episode, but just barely. I usually love episodes that explore Harold's past, but even that is not enough to make this into a great episode. We are starting to get closer to the end of season 4, so I wish the show would start getting into the endgame of this season instead of giving us basic number-of-the-week episodes.
At least this week's number is given more backstory and purpose than the previous number. And I like that we don't get the answer to what really happened to Edwards' wife. Because the episode is not about justice over what happened but getting revenge on the guy that might have killed her. This show is never really concerned with giving us proper answers. Things are left open, ambiguous, and I love that. We never found out what John did to the serial rapist Andrew Benton from season 1 or who the mysterious Alistair Wesley was, for example.
"I think by now you count as one of Harold's nut ball friends, Lionel." "With you people there's no other kind." Oh, John and Fusco, you never fail to amuse me.
The flashbacks to Harold's past are the highlight of the episode even if it is jarring to see him act this way. He is usually so opposed to violence and killing people. But I suppose this is where his moral code comes from. Previous flashbacks have shown that Nathan was the one who was concerned with the morality and ethics of what they were creating. And it was Nathan's death that served as a wake-up call to Harold and I think that is why he is doing all of this. Yes, his moral code has come to reflect Nathan's but more importantly this is a way for him to keep Nathan's memory alive.
So this shows that when Harold and Nathan gave the Machine to the government, they had not given it a voice, it could not communicate with them. So when did Harold fix that?
Can we now get back to Root and what she's doing? I need more of that!
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