Medium Liveblogging: Night of The Wolf (MED-004)
Episode Name: Night of the Wolf
Episode Number: 004 (1.04)
MED-004 Summary | All Episodes
A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket. Allison walks through a deserted airport terminal wearing a Red Riding Hood cape and carrying a basket as children sing a nursery rhyme in the background. She hears a growl behind her and turns to see The Big Bad Wolf in the form of a real wolf that takes chase after her. Run, Allison, run!
In the gate area, she sees an open door and heads down the jetway, only to find herself at the top of a three story drop. No jet! With the wolf coming for her, she has no choice but to jump –
And wake up in her daughters’ room with a Little Red Riding Hood storybook open in her lap.
In the morning, Bridgette locks herself in her room and refuses to go to school. Allison goes to the window outside in her PJ’s to find out why.
Bridgette: Don’t worry about me. I’m fine. I’m just going to stay in my room for the rest of my life.
Allison takes this in stride and asks what she should tell Bridgette’s teacher, as she and Joe have a meeting with her later that day.
Bridgette: Tell her I hate school.
Allison says okay, then praises Bridgette for being so brave about wanting to stay home when everyone will be out of the house at work or school and she will be ALL ALONE.
Bridge decides to stay in her room for the rest of her life on a day when Allison doesn’t have to go to work.
At the parent/teacher conference, Bridgette’s teacher is concerned about her social skills. She spends most of her time playing by herself and the other kids avoid her. Sad! Joe and Allison are shocked. SHOCKED. As they load up baby Marie in the car, Allison blames herself then freaks out that she has to go to the D.A.’s office so she can’t make calls that afternoon to set up play-dates for Bridgettes and maybe this wasn’t the best moment to decide to go back to work. To which Joe replies they can make the calls later that night.
Joe: We’re talking about helping our six year old make friends, not curing cancer.
Go Joe! The voice of reason. I love engineers.
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At the D.A.’s office, Duvalos hands Allison a stack of files and sequesters her away in a supply room that doubles as a makeshift office with not one but two desks. She will be sharing space with the police sketch artist, as well as a janitorial cart, metal shelves filled with junk, and a wall-high stack of file boxes that doubles as a room divider between the two desks.
Allison: You spoil me.
Duvalos asks her to take a look at the cold case files he has given her and see if she can get some sort of “vibration” from them. Ha! As Allison peruses the files, the sketch artist arrives with a distraught woman who is there to describe the man who murdered her fiance right in front of her. They do not realize Allison is on the other side of the boxes.
As the woman describes a short, white male with blondish brown hair, Allison sees a tall, black man with shoulder-length braids. What is going on? Why would that woman lie about the man who murdered her fiance and, as we see in Allison’s vision, try to murder her too?
* * *
At home, Joe is on the phone with the mom of Bridgette’s schoolmate, Cassie, trying to set up a play date. He finds himself sorely lacking in the “proper yuppie parenting” arena. No online calendar for Bridgette? No horseback riding lessons? No fundraiser appearances to help flesh out the six year old’s future high school transcript? To top off his feelings on inadequacy, the mom asks which Bridgette it is again and backpedals when she finds out it’s Bridgette DuBois. She needs to check with Cassie before setting up any definite plans so she’ll call back if Cassie is interested.
Sure. She’ll call. Uh-huh.
* * *
Late that night, Joe lies in bed in the dark as Allison tries to sneak in quietly so as not to wake him.
Joe: Ah, my prayers have been answered. A woman is sneaking into my room and, wonder of wonders, she actually looks like my wife. The better to ease the guilt. God is good.
Allison got stuck at work going through mugshot books trying to find the murderer she saw in the woman’s mind. No luck. Allison is upset the police are looking for the wrong guy but she can’t very well go to the sketch artist and say, “I know what she told you but this is what he really looks like.”
Allison gets a little emotional boost though when Joe tells her Bridgette made a friend at school today named Bobby. They make sweet love in celebration. (Do married people still do that?)
* * *
Allison sees Bridgette playing with Bobby on the playground after she drops the girls off at school in the morning. Bridgette really does have a new friend. Yay!
* * *
To get a proper sketch of the murderer, Allison asks Wayne the sketch artist to draw her “husband” from her verbal description. It is a birthday gift for the man who has everything, she explains. The first question he asks is about his complexion, which she says is “very much like yours, actually.” Wayne looks surprised. Oh, did I mention Wayne is black? No, no I didn’t mention it because it shouldn’t matter. Yes, that is probably a typical response when someone finds out a blond, white woman is married (or represents that she is married) to a black man, but that doesn’t make it any less annoying. When will that stop being an issue in this country? ::sigh::
Allison takes the sketch to Duvalos, but he can’t do a thing with it as long as the real witness keeps lying.
Allison: Well she’s not lying exactly. She’s just afraid of being involved.
Duvalos: Allison, that’s lying. Exactly.
* * *
Joe picks the girls up from school and is disturbed to see Bridgette playing with Bobby on the playground. It’s not so much the playing part, as it is the Bobby-is-invisible part.
Ariel: Why does she have to be so weird all the time!
At home, Bridgette gives them Bobby’s last name so they look him up in the phone book and let Bridgette call him. Only Bobby’s mom wants to talk to Bridgette’s parents and Allison finds out Bobby died. Five years ago. Bridgette’s new best friend is a ghost. Figures.
Joe and Allison lie in bed obsessing later that night, until obsession blossoms into a full blown fight. Joe accuses Allison of being “almost proud” that Bridgette sees dead people.
Allison: Sorry to have polluted the gene pool. Just because you see one ghost, doesn’t mean you see every ghost.
Joe, looking incredulous: If you say so.
Allison stomps off in a huff to lie down with Bridgette and tell her it just isn’t going to work out with Bobby. She doesn’t tell her he’s dead but instead asks if there’s anyone else at school she likes. No.
Bridgette: All the other kids are mean. Bobby was the only one that was nice to me.
* * *
The next morning at the D.A.’s office, Allison reads an old article online, “Boy killed in schoolyard accident” before joining Duvalos for a meeting with the murder witness. Duvalos cannot show her Allison’s sketch of the real murderer without opening the door for defense lawyers down the road to say he influenced the witness.
Allison: You mean we can’t even show it to her?
Duvalos: I didn’t say “we” I said “I.”
Sneaky! Duvalos tells the woman they lost her original affidavit saying her sketch (the one that looks like Matt Damon) accurately represents the murderer so they need her to sign a new one. They give her every opportunity to change her story yet she sticks with the Matt Damon doppelganger. As Allison hands her a pen, she lets the sketch of the real murdered slip out into view. The woman looks decidedly uncomfortable but signs the affidavit anyway!
Allison goes off on her for giving an inaccurate representation and the witness goes off right back at Allison, chiding the police for not even knowing the guys name and making it clear she is in fear for her life. She leaves, having signed the affidavit for the wrong sketch yet again.
* * *
Allison arrives home to the girls shrieking at each other and shrieks right back, sending Ariel to her room and telling Bridgette to get her coat.
Bridgette: Where are you taking me? To jail?
Awww. When Joe asks her plan, Allison says she figures if Bobby is going to be Bridgette’s best friend she should go and have a chat with him.
Allison and Bridgette arrive at the school yard in the dark, where Allison explains that Bobby never sleeps because he is afraid he’ll wake up far, far away. He is afraid he will never see his friends or his parents again but Allison says the far, far away place is good and she and Bridgette have to help Bobby get there.
They find Bobby on the swings where he is a little disconcerted to find that an adult can hear him. Apparently it’s been a while. Allison tells him how wonderful the far, far away place is and that it is okay to relax and close his eyes so he can go there. She settles with him and Bridgette under a tree and it must have worked because we next see Allison arriving home with a zonked out Bridgette.
As she puts Bridgette to bed, Joe hands her the phone (who would call so late?) saying he thinks it is her witness.
* * *
Allison tells the airport security guard she is there to secure an affidavit from a witness that is leaving the country. She meets the witness at an airport coffee shop, where Allison asks what kind of criminal this guy is.
Witness: He’s the worst kind. He’s a cop. My boyfriend told me nobody moves any kind of narcotic in South Arizona without him getting a taste of it.
As she leaves, the witness puts on a long red cloak with a hood just like the one Allison was wearing in her dream. Allison yells after her to wait, asking the name of the detective.
OHMIGOD it’s the murderer checking in with the same airport security guard Allison just talked to! Ack!
Murderer: Wolfe. Detective Wolfe. I’m here on official police business.
As Allison tells the witness she wants to walk her to the gate, the witness sees Wolfe over Allison’s shoulder and takes off running. She and Allison head up an escalator and down the gateway with Wolfe hot on their heels. Allison sees the gate number for the same unoccupied jetway she entered in her dream and steers the witness into it.
Allison: Don’t stop!
Witness: What do you mean?
Allison: Just trust me!
They round a blind corner and jump out into open air…landing on a big soft suitcase transport going by on the tarmac three stories below. They look back to see Wolfe get taken down by airport security.
* * *
As Allison drops the girls off at school the next morning, Bridgette accuses her of lying about Bobby always being with her after he goes to the far, far away place. Allison tells her “he’s there” and points to Bridgette’s heart, then repeats it and points to her head. That seems to do the trick. Hm. It would have taken a lot more than that to convince me. Perhaps I was cynical even at six.
The camera seems to float down from the sky above Bridgette playing in the sandbox and settle on the ground to watch her. Bobby perhaps? Just as I think how sad it is that Bridgette is back to having no friends, a girl in braids approaches and invites Bridgette to play with her and her friend, an imaginary spotted giraffe.
Bridgette: The kind that lives in Africa?
Girl: Well of course Africa. That’s where spotted giraffe’s are from.
I didn’t hear the little girl say “duh” at the end of that sentence but I’m pretty sure it was there.
So the bad guy is in jail and Bridgette has a new friend that people can actually see. All is right with the world.
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