Nick Cannon (The Masked Singer) and Patrick J. Adams (Suits) star in Fox’s Accused season two episode three. “Marcus’ Story” will air on Tuesday, October 22, 2024 at 9pm ET/PT.
“Marcus’ Story” Plot: A successful tech entrepreneur (Cannon) finds himself on trial after creating facial recognition software, which leads to devastating consequences in the all-new “Marcus’ Story” episode.
Season two of the anthology series features episodes starring William H. Macy, Felicity Huffman, Michael Chiklis, Ken Jeong, Debra Winger, Christine Ebersol, Mercedes Ruehl, Taylor Schilling, Justin Chambers, and Danny Pino.
Accused is a collection of intense, topical and human stories of crime and punishment. Each episode is a fast-paced provocative thriller, exploring a different crime, in a different city, with an entirely original cast. Based on the BBC’s BAFTA-winning crime anthology, each episode opens in a courtroom on the defendant, with viewers knowing nothing about their crime or how they ended up on trial.
Told from the defendant’s point of view through flashbacks, the show holds a mirror up to current times with evocative and emotional stories. In the end, audiences will discover how an ordinary person gets caught up in extraordinary circumstances, and how one impulsive decision can impact the course of that life – and the lives of others — forever.
Monster swells kept everyone busy and turned the ocean deadly on Fox’s Rescue: HI-Surf episode five. Episode six, “Drift,” will find the lifeguards coming together to mourn the loss of Rocky.
“Drift” airs on Monday, October 21, 2024 at 9pm ET/PT.
The one-hour drama stars Robbie Magasiva (Wentworth) as Harlan “Sonny” Jennings, Arielle Kebbel (Midnight, Texas) as Emily “Em” Wright, Adam Demos (Sex / Life) as Will Ready, Kekoa Kekumano (The White Lotus, Aquaman) as Laka Hanohano, Alex Aiono (Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin) as Kainalu Emerson, and Zoe Cipres (Roswell, New Mexico) as Hina Alexander. Sea Shimooka (3 Body Problem), Shawn Hatosy (Animal Kingdom), and Ian Anthony Dale (The Resident) guest star in recurring roles.
“Drift” Plot: The swell has settled down, and the North Shore community comes together for Rocky’s paddle out. Hina thinks about switching districts and Em tries to console her after the recent tragedy. Meanwhile, Laka, Will and Kainalu try to save a beachgoer who accidentally spears his own foot while fishing. Romance heats up between Sean and Em, and Sonny takes a personal day to go on a motorcross ride to clear his head, but ends up losing control.
Rescue HI-Surf Series Description, Courtesy of Fox
Rescue: HI-Surf follows the personal and professional lives of the heavy-water lifeguards who patrol and protect the North Shore of O’ahu—the most famous and dangerous stretch of coastline in the world. Each episode will feature these dedicated, heroic and adrenaline-seeking first responders saving lives in the difficult and often life-threatening conditions of Hawaii’s Seven Mile Miracle.
Daniel Sunjata and Kaitlin Olson in ‘High Potential’ episode 4 (Disney/Carlos Lopez-Calleja)
Morgan (Kaitlin Olson) arrives at work with an extra pep in her step as ABC’s High Potential episode four kicks off. Today’s the day she receives her official ID badge, which, in her mind, is a huge step forward. Lt. Selena Soto (Judy Reyes) and the detectives aren’t as enthusiastic, but that doesn’t break her stride as she snaps selfies in the bathroom.
Things turn serious when she’s joined in the bathroom by Mia (Madeline Zima), a sobbing mom. Her ex, Wendell, was supposed to drop off their young daughters, but he’s ghosting her. She’s on her way to talk to the detective but confesses she has a really bad feeling about this.
Mia’s joined by her dad, John Ashford (Christopher Cousins), as she explains the situation to Selena and Detective Adam Karadec (Daniel Sunjata). Wendell has become obsessed with environmentalism and wanted Mia and the kids to live off-grid. But Mia runs an online business, so she moved in with her dad and left Wendell. Selena says they’ll issue a BOLO for Wendell’s car but have to wait 24 hours to issue an Amber alert.
Mia confesses she doesn’t know if Wendell will harm their daughters.
Detective Lev ‘Oz’ Osman (Deniz Akdeniz) learns Wendell applied for passports for his daughters. And Detective Daphne Forrester (Javicia Leslie) discovers Child Protective Services deemed him unstable. Selena wants a search done to see if he booked tickets out of the country. Before heading out to Wendell’s house with Adam, Morgan promises Mia she’s in good hands.
Wendell’s house has solar panels and a compost bin, but that’s not what Morgan notices right off the bat. A pink stuffed bunny is lying in the yard, and Morgan recalls seeing it in professional photos with the kids. It’s probably a favorite toy and wouldn’t have left it behind unless something happened.
Morgan and Adam look around the house, which is full of kid-friendly stuff. Three breakfasts remain on the kitchen table, along with half-empty drink glasses. Morgan spots a greenhouse, and inside are hundreds of healthy fruits and vegetables. However, the cucumbers and tomatoes are planted next to each other which is, apparently, a big gardening no-no.
These particular plants haven’t even rooted, and Morgan deduces they were just recently planted. Morgan thinks something is hidden there, and Adam points out it could be a body. They begin digging and discover Wendell isn’t ghosting Mia. He’s dead.
Daniel Sunjata and Kaitlin Olson in ‘High Potential’ episode 4 (Disney/Nicole Weingart)
Police dogs are called to try and track the girls as scores of cops look over the crime scene. Wendell was killed by a blow to the back of his head, presumably by the nearby shovel. He was murdered within the last 12 hours.
There’s no sign of the girls but Adam’s assuming they were taken alive since no other area in the garden was recently disturbed. Oz reports Wendell was seen at a café arguing with a woman just yesterday. The woman is described as having long red hair and glasses.
Morgan discovers a photo hidden in Wendell’s survivalist handbook, but they don’t know who the people are in the picture. There’s nothing else in the book that’s helpful.
Tire tracks in the dirt are being investigated, and Morgan points out the odds of the girls being found alive are 42% – if they were taken by a stranger. They head to Mia’s father’s house, and it’s obvious he’s incredibly wealthy. He owns Ashford Luxury Estates so they can’t rule out this is a kidnapping for ransom. Adam and Morgan break the news about Wendell’s murder, and Morgan makes an excuse to leave the room. She gets into the housekeeper’s good graces by pouring her a drink and learns Wendell was a sweet man and a great dad. The housekeeper reveals she saw Wendell coming out of Mia’s dad’s office last weekend. She has no idea what he was doing in there.
Back at the station, Lt. Solo’s pulled some strings and got the media to report on the missing girls. Hundreds of calls have come in as a result, but they aren’t any closer to discovering the girls’ location.
Morgan determines nothing in the incredibly negative CPS report about Wendell is true, based on what they’ve learned about him thus far. Morgan believes the social worker must have hated him. What do you know? She has long red hair and glasses. Bingo! They visit social worker Sarah Keller, and Morgan points out all the past-due bills on her table. Plus, she buys cheap dishwashing soap. She’s broke yet somehow just vacationed in Kauai. (Morgan sees a fresh lei and Sally’s wearing comfy high-end resort slippers.)
Sally confesses that John Ashford paid for the vacation and that she had to do what he asked and write a negative report or she’d have been fired. Adam wonders if maybe she killed Wendell so Wendell wouldn’t get her fired. Sally’s shocked they think she’s a murderer. Her argument with Wendell was over the report, with Wendell warning her he was going public with what John did. Sally wanted to write a new report to make this all disappear, but Wendell said John needed to be exposed. He had evidence that John bribed lots of people, and it was time to stop John from destroying the planet.
After their argument, Sally told John Ashford what Wendell planned to do.
John Ashford’s arrested, but his wife and the chauffeur, Curtis, claim he was down in San Diego last night. He couldn’t have been at Wendell’s house at the time of the murder. Adam asks about toll receipts, but Curtis claims he used Fast Pass. When Adam asks for the license plate number to check the toll roads, Curtis is forced to admit he doesn’t know where John was last night.
Morgan steps into John’s office and makes a copy of her hand. The copy has the same pink streaks as the photo she found in Wendell’s survivalist handbook. Adam interrogates John, with his attorney present, and points out a bag from one of John’s hotels. The man in the photo is a San Mateo judge who allowed John to build a hotel in a protected area. Plus, that same judge spent his 60th birthday with his family in the Maldives at one of John’s resorts.
Wendell’s dead, so he can’t testify about what he’s discovered, but Sarah Keller knows what John’s capable of. Right after Sarah called John warning him, John texted a pre-paid phone: “Must speak. Urgent.” John refuses to say who he texted, and Adam says he believes John pays people to make problems – like Wendell – go away.
“How long do you think your pre-paid phone guy is willing to risk leaving your granddaughters alive?” asks Adam. John finally caves and provides the name Eddie Malone and where to find him.
Morgan and Adam stakeout Eddie and arrest him. Unfortunately, the girls aren’t with him when he’s taken in.
Back at the station, Eddie confesses that John paid him to keep Wendell quiet. However, when he went to Wendell’s, Mia was there arguing with him. Morgan can’t believe Selena and Adam are taking Eddie’s word over Mia’s and think Mia might have killed Wendell. Selena advises Morgan that they need to go into this with open minds. Adam adds fuel to the Mia fire when he confirms the tire tracks belong to her car. And Daphne just discovered Mia withdrew $100,000 this morning.
Morgan’s frustrated they’ve landed on Mia as the primary suspect, and Selena suggests they all go home. Adam sticks around with Morgan, who is adamant that Mia is a terrified mom and not a murderer. Morgan admits she hasn’t slept in 27 hours, and this case is going to keep her awake.
Matthew Lamb, Taran Killam, and Kaitlin Olson in ‘High Potential’ episode 4 (Disney/Carlos Lopez-Calleja)
Morgan returns home and suddenly decides they’re getting a compost bin tomorrow. She gives Ava a big hug and kisses Elliot. It’s been a rough day and this case has gotten to her. As she’s talking to Ludo, the news comes on about the missing girls. A photo of the two kids shows a Buddha in the background that wasn’t there when Morgan visited the house. She quickly connects the dots and realizes something in the cabinet behind the Buddha was switched.
Morgan catches Mia at an antique store and confronts her about her mom’s love of Chinese antiques. Morgan believes the Ming in the cabinet is fake and opens a box next to Mia, revealing the real Ming vase. Mia comes clean and says she’s got to put together $200,000 tonight or her girls will be killed. She’s selling the Ming to help pay the ransom.
Mia also admits she went to Wendell’s to beg him not to turn her father in. She’s supposed to meet the kidnapper at midnight, and Morgan insists on going with her. Morgan alerts Adam to what’s going on, and he surprises Mia by meeting them at the drop-off. Mia insists he can be trusted, and they need him as backup.
The kidnapper texts her a location and Adam has Morgan give Mia her phone. Adam calls it and has Mia keep it on while she goes to the meeting. Mia’s instructed to enter an auditorium and place the bag on a hook. The kidnapper refuses to let her speak to her kids and takes off running after grabbing the bag. Adam pursues him and is forced to fire a shot, but the guy gets away.
Adam’s tracking the money bag and they find the guy’s car in flames. Mia’s frantic that her girls are in the trunk, and Adam pries it open. It’s empty.
Lt. Selena Soto and the cops arrive, and Morgan inspects the car. She listens to the car’s radio and it’s on a station reporting on sports betting. She pieces the clues together and realizes the kidnapper is Mia’s dad’s chauffeur, Curtis. She believes Curtis is in love with Mia, and after not making a fortune betting, he decided to kidnap her kids for ransom. He’d have to be rich to date Mia, and picked a slimy way to do it.
Curtis was free during the hours of Wendell’s murder, and Morgan believes he got into a fight with Mia’s ex before kidnapping the girls. Curtis is brought in and confesses to the murder and kidnapping but claims not to know where the girls are. He took them to the mountains and they ran off.
The detectives join Search & Rescue as they scour the mountains. Morgan uses instructions from Wendell’s survivalist book to track their route and finds an arrow pointing to their hiding place. Mia’s reunited with her kids, thanks to Morgan.
Later, Adam thanks Morgan for trusting him, and Morgan thanks Adam for not Rambo-ing out. Neither are sure they’ll have this amount of trust again, and they’re okay with that. Adam scores a few points by placing Morgan’s badge around her neck. She wasn’t even aware she lost it in the woods.
Episode four ends with Morgan returning home and falling asleep between Elliot and Ludo on the couch.
Pop star Skye Riley (played by Naomi Scott) thinks she’s going crazy in the final trailer for Smile 2. Released just ahead of the film’s October 18, 2024 release, the minute-long trailer is completely bonkers and shows poor Skye being terrorized by smiling faces.
The cast of the R-rated sequel also includes Rosemarie DeWitt, Lukas Gage, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Peter Jacobson, Ray Nicholson, Dylan Gelula, and Raúl Castillo. Smile‘s Kyle Gallner reprises his role for the sequel.
“About to embark on a new world tour, global pop sensation Skye Riley (Scott) begins experiencing increasingly terrifying and inexplicable events,” reads Paramount Pictures’ synopsis. “Overwhelmed by the escalating horrors and pressures of fame, she must confront her dark past before her life spirals out of control.”
Smile‘s Parker Finn wrote, directed, and produced the sequel. Additional producers include Marty Bowen, Wyck Godfrey, Isaac Klausner, and Robert Salerno.
Laura Harrier, Margaret Cho, and Kate Berlant guest star on ABC’s Doctor Odyssey season one episode four. “Wellness Week” will air on Thursday, October 17, 2024 at 9pm ET/PT.
Joshua Jackson (Fatal Attraction) plays Dr. Max Bankman, Phillipa Soo (Shining Girls) is Nurse Avery Morgan, Sean Teale (Little Voice) is Nurse Tristan Silva, and Don Johnson (Rebel Ridge) stars as Captain Robert Massey. Ryan Murphy, Jon Robin Baitz, and Joe Baken write and executive produce the first season.
“Wellness Week” Plot: During a week dedicated to wellness, The Odyssey ironically finds itself overwhelmed by a surge of ailing patients. Meanwhile, Tristan’s new romance sparks jealousy, and Capt. Massey must bring the ship to safety in the midst of a hurricane.
Don Johnson, Marcus Emanuel Mitchell, and Joshua Jackson in ‘Doctor Odyssey’ episode 4 (Disney/Ray Mickshaw)
Doctor Odyssey Plot Description, Courtesy of ABC:
From the brilliant mind of Ryan Murphy comes the high-octane procedural Doctor Odyssey. Max (Jackson) is the new on-board doctor for a luxury cruise ship where the staff works hard and plays harder. It’s all hands on deck as Max and his small but mighty medical team navigate unique medical crises and each other miles from shore.
Laura Harrier and Sean Teale in episode 4 (Disney/Ray Mickshaw)Margaret Cho and Kate Berlant in episode 4 (Disney/Tina Thorpe)Sean Teale in episode 4 (Disney/Ray Mickshaw)Phillipa Soo in episode 4 (Disney/Ray Mickshaw)
Gary Oldman in ‘Slow Horses’ season 4 (Photo Credit: Apple TV+)
Apple TV+ renewed its critically acclaimed spy drama Slow Horses for season five ahead of its season four premiere. Today, the streamer announced the series has also been renewed for a sixth season.
“Audiences around the world have fallen in love with the Slow Horses, and I’m delighted that Gary Oldman will be leading this star-studded cast on another acerbic and action-packed adventure,” stated Jay Hunt, creative director, Europe, Apple TV+.
The series is based on Mick Herron’s Slough House books, with season four adapted from Herron’s fourth novel of the series, Spook Street. Season five is based on London Rules, and season six will be adapted from books six and seven – Joe Country and Slough House. Per Apple TV+, season six will consist of six episodes and will follow “the Slow Horses on the run as Diana Taverner embroils them all in a fatally high-stakes game of retaliation and revenge.”
Oscar winner Gary Oldman stars as Jackson Lamb, the “brilliant but cantankerous leader of the spies, who end up in Slough House due to their career-ending mistakes as they frequently find themselves blundering around the smoke and mirrors of the espionage world.” Oscar nominee Kristin Scott Thomas, BAFTA Scotland Award winner Jack Lowden, Saskia Reeves, Rosalind Eleazar, Christopher Chung, Samuel West, Sophie Okonedo, Aimee-Ffion Edwards, Ruth Bradley, Tom Brooke, Joanna Scanlan, and Oscar nominee Jonathan Pryce also star.
Co-executive producer Gaby Chiappe is adapting Joe Country and Slough House for season six, with Adam Randall on board to direct. Gary Oldman, Jamie Laurenson, Hakan Kousetta, Julian Stevens, Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Adam Randall, Gail Mutrux, and Douglas Urbanski executive produce.
Neon’s new teaser trailer for The Monkey is as gruesome as you’d expect for a film from Osgood Perkins (Longlegs) based on a Stephen King story. “For the longest time, there was nothing. But then it appeared. A beast not from this Earth, smiting the ones who deserved it, the ones who didn’t, and everyone in between,” says a voiceover, adding, “Whoever controls it, controls life and death.”
“When twin brothers Hal and Bill (played by Theo James in later years, Christian Convery plays the younger twins) discover their father’s old monkey toy in the attic, a series of gruesome deaths starts occurring all around them. The brothers decide to throw the monkey away and move on with their lives, growing apart over the years,” reads Neon’s synopsis. “But when the mysterious deaths begin again, the brothers must reunite to find a way to destroy the monkey for good before it takes the lives of everyone close to them.”
Osgood Perkins adapted King’s short story and directs. Atomic Monster’s James Wan and Michael Clear, C2 Motion Picture Group’s Dave Caplan, Range Select’s Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, and Odd Fellows’ Chris Ferguson serve as producers. Executive producers include Range’s Fred Berger, Stars Collective’s Peter Luo and Nancy Xu, and John Friedberg for Black Bear.
Neon is unleashing The Monkey in theaters on February 21, 2025.
Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh in ‘We Live in Time’ (Photo Credit: Peter Mountain / A24)
As usual, A24 is on a rampage this year. The studio/distributor has released early the Oscar contenders Sing Sing and A Different Man. They’ve given us the horror gems MaXXXine and Love Lies Bleeding. They’ve made us think with Civil War and Planet Janet. They’ve even brought audiences two of the strangest films of the year with Tuesday and I Saw the TV Glow. And now, we’ve got their innovative little love story, We Live in Time.
We Live in Time is about a talented chef named Almut (Florence Pugh from Midsommar) and a smart marketing exec named Tobias (The Amazing Spider-Man himself, Andrew Garfield). The two meet in a chance encounter, fall in love, and navigate the blue skies and stormy weather of a ten-year relationship.
The story of We Live in Time is typical sappy romance stuff. The approach that writer Nick Payne (Wanderlust) and director John Crowley (Brooklyn) take, however, is anything but. The plot unfolds non-linearly, showing different sections of Almut and Tobias’ relationship at a time and giving the viewer information in the seemingly random order that Crowley wants to provide it.
This skipping around does make the events in We Live in Time a bit difficult to follow at times. With very few time-based landmarks, it can be tricky to figure out what point in the ten-year span of Almut and Tobias’ journey the film is showing at any particular moment. Once the viewer gets over this hump, however, everything clicks into place. It’s just one more thing that makes an already fascinating movie even more fascinating.
Like any good love story, We Live in Time is only as good as its lead characters, and luckily, Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield are at the top of their game here. The actors make their characters human, which helps the audience sympathize with and care about them not just as individuals, but as a supportive couple.
As such, the audience is not forced or asked to take sides. There are no good guys or bad guys here, just as it should be in a movie like this. Neither Almut nor Tobias are depicted as villainous or “wrong,” so when there is friction in the relationship, the audience feels for them as a unit. There is little question (if any) that they belong together, even when they do have more downs than ups.
The lack of a tangible antagonist in We Live in Time does not mean there is no drama in the movie. There’s plenty of conflict, it just all comes from outside. It’s just Almut and Tobias against the forces that oppose them. They are tested and challenged in many ways during their ten-year journey, and what makes the movie compelling is seeing how they rise to those tests and challenges.
So essentially, with We Live in Time, A24 has given us the most A24 romance that they can. It’s quirky without being too left-of-center, it’s experimental while remaining mainstream, and, most importantly, it’s simultaneously uplifting and heartbreaking. It’s about as A24 as A24 movies get.
GRADE: B
MPAA Rating: R for language, sexuality, and nudity
Ashleigh LaThrop, Spence Moore II, Alex MacNicoll, Aury Krebs and, Zachary Quinto in ‘Brilliant Minds’ episode 4 (Photo by: Pief Weyman/NBC)
NBC’s Brilliant Minds episode four opens with a voiceover from Dr. Oliver Wolf (Zachary Quinto) revealing that the most common question patients ask when they are told they’re dying is how long do they have left. As Wolf continues, we see a happy couple celebrating their wedding. The groom offers his new bride drugs – even though it’s not their thing – and she accepts.
“What they’re really asking is, how much time do I have left to free myself of guilt before I go,” says Wolf.
Wolf sits next to John Doe’s hospital bed on a Saturday night and carries on a one-sided conversation. A nurse informs Wolf that John’s being transferred to a long-term care facility in the morning. The order came down from someone higher up than his Chief Medical Officer mom.
Wolf immediately summons his interns from their various Saturday night activities. They review John’s medical history, which is full of infections and drug-resistant bacteria. Wolf wants them to help figure out a reason for John to remain at the hospital. Of course, they don’t get far into the discussion when the episode’s titular character wanders in.
The bride from the opening minute looks as if she’s been in a car crash. She doesn’t seem to know where she is and keeps asking about her new husband, Charlie. The interns rush to check her vitals as she keeps repeating, “He has cold feet.”
The blood on her dress isn’t hers, and her eyes don’t track Wolf’s flashlight.
A short while later, Dr. Carol Pierce (Tamberla Perry) joins Wolf to examine the bride. She’s now lucid and admits they took Molly. After that, all she remembers is a car brought her to the hospital. Wolf assures her they’ll help find Charlie and figure out what happened.
Carol and Wolf believe she’s got disassociative amnesia from a trauma. Wolf thinks the bride’s mind is protecting her from something.
Police arrive and Carol convinces them not to arrest the bride until they can get more information from her about what happened. The interns find the bride’s purse and learn her name’s Bridget and she has a hotel key card. They toss out ideas of how she got her injuries, including a possible car crash. Van (Alex MacNicoll) reminds them she kept saying Charlie has cold feet. Maybe she killed him, given the amount of blood on her dress.
Tamberla Perry as Dr. Carol Pierce, Samantha Hanratty as Bridget, and Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf in ‘Brilliant Minds’ episode 4 (Photo by: Pief Weyman/NBC)
They have to act quickly, so Wolf makes the impulsive decision to get inside her head by taking the same drug she ingested. (There was one in a packet inside her purse.) The interns are shocked, but Wolf believes he needs to put himself in her state of mind.
Dana (Aury Krebs) isn’t thrilled she’s been chosen to accompany Wolf to the hotel in an attempt to retrace Bridget’s steps. Meanwhile, Carol tries hypnotherapy on Bridget to recover her memories. Van assists and takes notes as Bridget recalls dancing at her wedding on a rooftop. They were so happy, and then they went into a room that was like ice.
Over at the hotel, the Molly’s kicking in as Wolf and Dana search Bridget’s hotel room. It’s freezing cold, but there are no obvious signs of a struggle. They head to the nightclub on the roof, and the combo of face blindness, dislike of crowds, and the Molly can’t be good for Wolf. Dana promises to have his back and then notices the cops have already arrived. As she’s describing the situation, she realizes Wolf is no longer by her side. Just then, Van calls with the results of Bridget’s toxicology labs. Wolf is now on Molly laced with PCP!
He’s dancing in the middle of the crowd as Dana listens to Van list the possible effects of the drug combo. One is flashbacks, which Wolf is currently experiencing. He recalls a time when his father played music to help a patient. It was also when his father assured him that although he had to move out, he still loved him. His dad asked him to consider moving in with him, instead of living with his mom.
Aury Krebs as Dr. Dana Dang and Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf in ‘Brilliant Minds’ episode 4 (Photo by: Pief Weyman/NBC)
A douchebag hits on Dana, and Wolf reacts violently, which leads him to believe Bridget also could have reacted violently to a currently undetermined situation. Dana declares that she hates being “‘drug sherpa” as they head off to get food. Bridget apparently was also really hungry while high.
It turns out Charlie works as a sous chef at the hotel’s restaurant, but he isn’t there. Wolf is worried about the douchey dude and thinks he might need rhinoplasty. He latches on to that word and declares that he should fight a rhino. Dana convinces him otherwise.
Wolf feels like he’s on fire and wants to get inside the freezer. Bingo! Bridget said Charlie got cold feet and that’s because they went into the freezer. Charlie’s still inside it, frozen on the floor with a very weak pulse.
Back at the hospital, Ericka (Ashleigh LaThrop) and Jacob (Spence Moore II) start work on John Doe’s case. Jacob doesn’t think there’s anything they can do in just a few hours, but Ericka is convinced they need to do everything possible to figure things out.
Wolf’s met at Emergency by Dr. Josh Nichols (Teddy Sears) and quickly describes Charlie’s condition, including that he has a penetrating abdominal injury. Josh realizes Wolf’s high, and Wolf admits he is.
Carol can’t believe Wolf took the drug without knowing for sure what it was, but Wolf firmly believes Charlie wouldn’t have been found alive if he hadn’t. The cops were there but didn’t look in the restaurant’s freezer.
They break the news to Bridget just as the cops arrive to arrest her. They found the icepick used to stab Charlie and think Bridget attacked him. As they’re basically dragging her away, Bridget has a seizure. She comes to and remembers that she tried to kill Charlie.
Josh and Wolf engage in another round of witty insults as Bridget undergoes an MRI. The images pop up, and Josh and Wolf realize she’s got cerebral edema, without an obvious sign of trauma or a tumor. Wolf and Josh’s most recent brain bleed cases both died, so Bridget’s prognosis isn’t good.
Ericka continues working on John’s case while Jacob makes out in a closet with Portia. After being called out, Jacob gets back to work but not without accusing Ericka of kissing up to Wolf. Ericka’s had it and reminds Jacob that this is her dream, not a fallback plan because she can’t play sports anymore.
Jacob gives up on John, but Ericka believes caring for patients isn’t futile.
Charlie regains consciousness and confirms that Bridget stabbed him. He’s worried the drugs he gave her caused it, but Wolf doesn’t think so. Charlie explains Bridget’s been stressed about the wedding and even went on a “ridiculous” diet – low-carb, high protein, no sugar – to look good on their big day. They ultimately decided to elope and avoid the stress.
Wolf has a flashback that reveals his father was terminated from the hospital yet still showed up to see patients. Oliver was with his dad when a security guard asked him to leave.
Dana goes through Charlie’s possessions as Wolf apologizes for his behavior. Dana finds Charlie’s vows comparing Bridget to smelling like Vermont in the morning. He also wrote that she’s never been sweeter than she has the past two weeks (when they were dieting). Vermont makes Dana and Wolf think of maple syrup. Bridget has maple syrup urine syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that stops the body from breaking down protein. It caused her brain to swell, confusion, and violence.
Without the stress and the drugs, she probably would have gone through life without ever having a violent episode. However, the condition would have ultimately killed her. This violent episode and Charlie’s description of her normal behavior saved her life. She’s worried he’ll never forgive her, and Wolf suggests she forgive herself.
Ashleigh LaThrop as Ericka Kinney and Spence Moore II as Jacob Nash in ‘Brilliant Minds’ episode 4 (Photo by: Rafy/NBC)
Later, Ericka walks in on Jacob shaving John’s face to help him look good before his big move. Ericka suggests they take him outside to feel the breeze, something he probably hasn’t done in a very long time. Jacob tells Ericka she’s a good doctor who doesn’t need to prove herself to anyone.
As they’re sitting outside with John on a gurney, Ericka accuses Jacob of fondling her. However, it turns out it was John. His toe is moving!
As Wolf wheels Bridget to see Charlie, Dana pulls him aside. She starts crying as she tells Wolf there was a complication and Charlie died. Wolf and Carol comfort Bridget, telling her she’s not to blame. “I killed him. I have to live with it,” says Bridget. She wonders if she’s always been someone capable of violence, and Carol assures her they will be there to help with future treatments. She won’t be on her own getting through this.
She wants to see Charlie one final time and Wolf accompanies her. She strokes Charlie’s face and kisses him, while in a voiceover, Wolf says the hardest person to ever forgive us is ourselves.
Bridget’s escorted out by the cops as Carol, her husband, and their daughter, Maya, discuss the state of the marriage. Neither Carol nor Morris have been open about what’s going on, and Carol admits they’re taking time apart, although they still love each other.
Wolf examines John and initially believes the movement was just a reflex that happens in paralyzed patients. He compliments Ericka and Jacob’s passion and work, even if it didn’t get the desired result. Suddenly, he stops and shines a light in John’s eyes. “That’s not a reflex,” says Wolf, adding, “I don’t think this man is in a coma.”
Ericka and Jacob have given John a reason to remain in their care.
Later, the interns take a break, and Jacob leads a toast to their own Red Wedding. Dana jokes about seeing Wolf dance, even though they thought he was only into classical music.
The episode ends with Carol talking about Maya and asking Wolf if being the child of divorced parents ever gets easier. He admits the divorce was messy, but he did something that he’ll never forgive himself for.
Juliette (Rebecca Ferguson, Dune Part 2) is willing to do whatever it takes to get to the truth in Apple TV+’s Silo season two’s trailer. The two-minute trailer shows Juliette surviving the harsh environment outside her silo and determined to bring the truth about this dystopian world back to her fellow survivors.
In addition to Rebecca Ferguson, returning stars include Tim Robbins, Common, Harriet Walter, Chinaza Uche, Avi Nash, and Alexandria Riley. Shane McRae, Remmie Milner, Clare Perkins, Billy Postlethwaite, Rick Gomez, Caitlin Zoz, Tanya Moodie, and Iain Glen also reprise their roles for the much-anticipated new season.
“Silo is the story of the last ten thousand people on earth, their mile-deep home protecting them from the toxic and deadly world outside. However, no one knows when or why the silo was built and those who try to find out face fatal consequences,” reads Apple TV+’s synopsis. “Ferguson stars as Juliette, an engineer who seeks answers about a loved one’s murder and tumbles onto a mystery that goes far deeper than she could have ever imagined, leading her to discover that if the lies don’t kill you, the truth will.”
Poster for ‘Silo’ season 2 (Photo credit: Apple TV+)
Season two premieres on November 15, 2024, with new episodes of the 10-episode season streaming on Fridays.
Graham Yost created the series, based on Hugh Howey’s bestselling trilogy, and serves as showrunner and executive producer. Additional executive producers include Michael Dinner, Nina Jack, Joanna Thapa, Ferguson, Morten Tyldum, Howey, Fred Golan, Rémi Aubuchon and AMC Studios.
