2.07 "Ghosts" TV REVIEW
Episode 2.07
Writer: David Eick
Director: Seth Mann
THE ONE WHERE With a nod to Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None , Martin, Lucy, Jake and the Breakwire team are locked into their offices on a dark and stormy night by Ortiz, who hunt🌳s down Jake and kills those who get in his way.
VERDICT “Ghosts” starts so well. There are a couple of quiet, touching little scenes between Martin and Jake (dad goes to brush his kid's hair; Jake almost lets it happen) and Lucy and Martin (he does get to brush her hair). Then the tension starts to build as we realise that Ortiz is up to no good, chaining shut the doors of the Breakwire office and knocking out the power (notice how the lights go off in the skyscrapers on the horizon, too: imagine how many people's evening meals he ruined, the git). We see Jake starting to rock, affected by the presence of his enemy, and as the torches come out and the lightning flashe🍒s, it's a dramatic time for our heroes...
NUMBERS GAME 10 26 2000 – the date of Jake's birth, and the date Ortiz lost his wife and child, which we see briefly in flashback. Perhaps because we'r🃏e seeing it through his eyes, her face is in colour and everything else is in black and white.
BUTTERFLY FAIL Jake colours in a page of a book to make what is clearly half of a butterfly. Yet Lucy doesn't recognise it until she ho♓lds the book up to a mirror, reflecting back the other side of tꦰhe insect. Does she need glasses? It's obvious! Perhaps this made more sense in the script than on screen.
HIS NAME'S BAUER... JACK BAUER Blam! Blam! Blam! Martin blows Ortiz away like he's a terroris🎀t threatening to blow up Los Angeles/kill the president/kidnap his daughter. Go Jack! Er, Martin.
LEARNING CURVE Jake and Ame💖lia can now talk telepathically, which is pretty cool. Even cooler, Jake talks to Ortiz using his thoughts, almost stopping him dead.
WHERE IS AMELIA? Th🦹roughout the episode, as a lovely counterpo🌊int to its dark and gloomy feel, we see Amelia in a bright, sunny garden. At the end it's revealed that she's actually sitting in a laboratory and the garden is all in her imagination.
BEST LINE
Lucy: “What is this place?” [So good she said it twice!] [ You’re taking the piss, aren’t you? – ed ]
Jayne Nelson
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