"Absentia" Nobody's Innocent (TV Episode 2017) Poster

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(2017)

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Cell Phone in the Cereal Jar
lavatch15 June 2019
Warning: Spoilers
The man who pointed the shotgun at Em turns out to be a friendly brother trucker named Larry Novo. There are only two things that Larry hates in life: his ex and the law. It is mighty kind of him to befriend Em, providing her with fresh clothes and dropping her off in Boston.

The skeleton discovered at the Nottingham Park site is belatedly named "Yorick" at the morgue. But there will be an entire family of Yoricks eventually discovered in the mass grave. Still, the dim-witted police and FBI, including the gullible Nick, still believe that Em is capable of this level of genocide.

The major turn of events in this episode relates to the title "Nobody's Innocent." Em has made a beeline for her brother Jackie's apartment. To her horror, she discovers on his laptop a disturbing set of files of women who have been assigned names of flowers. When Nick later learns of the laptop, he asserts that it is only "circumstantial evidence." But it is much more than that.

Jackie lost his license not only for showing up drunk on the day of a surgery. He also embezzled medical equipment from the workplace, which he apparently later sold to a wholesale medical firm. At the minimum, Dr. Jack is looking a jail time as a felon.

Em has been shadowing Jackie, who has linked up with a call girl. In a scene out of Hitchcock's "Rear Window," she watches Jackie engage in the rough stuff with a Russian woman. Em then follows the young woman to the "S. Club" AT 429 Boardman in Eastie.

Em holds the young woman at gunpoint in the "web cam" room of the S. Club, which is one of Semerov's old establishments linked to a website. She learns that the woman was contacted by Jackie at the exact time of Em's abduction six years ago. Jackie then renewed the association at the moment Em was discovered and freed from captivity. In fleeing from the S. Club, Em is seriously wounded in the crossfire of a shootout in the club.

In the closing scene, Jackie fields a message from his sister left on a cell phone that she placed in his kitchen in a large cereal jar. The message is that she has been shot and is waiting for him at the grave of their mother. This film is turning into the Electra-Orestes myth of brother and sister who have major issues with their parents!
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