The scene opens with Gavin (Terry O'Quinn) walking out of the lift to the tune of 'you belong to me' which was appropriate considering practically everyone's soul from the Drake does belong to him. Especially ironic, eerie as the same line plays when Henry (Dave Annable) walks out too. Lift inspection shows there was nothing wrong with the lift and Jane (Rachael Taylor) goes into the room vacated by John Barlow in the Pilot; since the wall 'devoured' him. Jane is peeved and tells Tony (Erik Palladino) about this since she's the manager and no one told her. Also telling him it was Gavin who gave her the job, seeing as he may have wanted it. Masses of birds fly out through the window, exiting from the hole. Of course all Alfred Hitchcock fans will point to his movie, The Birds. Which I also mentioned even before Jane does.
She gets in an exterminator who tells her they're starlings and there are hundreds of them down there. Jane was game popping her head through the hole, anything could have happened, but it wouldn't, not to Jane, not yet anyway. He tells her the starlings are called 'murmurations' like a murder of crows, collectively used to describe them. She also has him dig open the hole in the laundry, where the door was concealed.
Henry and Jane have been invited to yet another party thrown by Gavin and Olivia (Vanessa Williams). Where Henry was meant to chance upon the new building Gavin wants to build on the land he is acquiring in a deal with Frank Alpern (Mike Doyle). The couple are also introduced to Danielle (Mili Avital) who remarks on Henry being 'a keeper.' She's having troubling dating and keeping any man and Gavin books a table for her at a swanky, romantic restaurant for her and her date.
Jane sees Nona (Samantha Logan) and tells her about her missing necklace, belonging to her grandmother and she'll keep an eye out for it. What I want to know is why if Nona is a clairvoyant doesn't she save the people she sees in her visions, or at least tell someone about them. Not that there's anyone she can trust there, so maybe she may find an ally in Jane. It's almost as if she's part of some 'deal' with Gavin. Nona ventures down to the laundry and steals the exterminator's rabbit's paw, having a vision of him being attacked by birds and killed. Though when we see him he's attacked by the birds and is run over. hey she stole his good luck charm!
Henry's invited Gavin and Olivia over to dinner and Jane must cook for them. He also mentions the case he's working on, re the land acquisition to Jane and the land has traces of poisonous elements so can never be developed. He can't tell Gavin cos he'll lose his job and he'll end up in Indiana.
At the restaurant, Gavin invites Danielle over to join him and his friend, Frank, for a drink as he's interested in her and naturally they hit it off, or so she thinks. Jane had another dream the night before, though it wasn't really a dream, but she sees a dead man wake up, when she goes to get the laundry late night. She asks Tony about any murders at the Drake and he tells her there have been suicides but no murders. Yeah the suicides being of people who can no longer live with the deals they've made.
When she returns home from visiting Louise (Mercedes Masohn) in the hospital where she doesn't want to get in the middle when Louise suggests she's thinking about suing Gavin for the lift incident. Jane finds an envelope slipped under her door containing a cutting about the murder of a man at the Drake, shot to death. Jane later has a vision and sees him being shot by a woman. Relevant since Frank tells Danielle he's married and she's sure she didn't see a ring before. So she was just a one night stand to him and she stabs him. Gavin naturally walks in to save the day and reminds her of all the other men she's killed over the years. She glimpses herself in the mirror and she's old. He tells her she'll be fine in the morning, which she is. Gavin wanted her to kill Frank since he wanted to get out of the investment with him.
Gavin tells Henry he knows he couldn't tell him about the land and he's glad since it shows he's got integrity. Anyway he sold the land to a Chinese company before news got out it's worthless. Brain (Robert Buckley) is finally seduced by Alexis (Helena Mattsson) and no amount of curtain drawing will change that. Gavin gives Louise a cheque, virtually buying them off for the lift 'accident.' So they're his now. Funny the timing of that cheque which came after Brian has been unfaithful.
The scene where the exterminator was attacked was reminiscent of the bird attack in The Birds, where they wait to pounce on their Vic, which was rather atmospheric. Olivia, only used in the dinner scenes and taking Danielle shopping. Please, that's all she used to do in Desperate Housewives and prob Ugly Betty too. the dead man, Ed was a resident of apartment 7G, which is now inhabited by none other than Danielle. But the apartment was probably hers to begin with.
Gavin doesn't want Jane to remove the birds since it's their home too and will come in handy no doubt to remove future dissatisfied 'customers.' He also wants Jane to clear up the basement.
Gavin: "Finding love makes it worth the pain of searching for it." Gavin's creepy line which he says twice and both times to Danielle. I want to know what happened to Olivia's daughter and why she didn't or couldn't save her. Did she make a deal, or couldn't she? Also wondering how she met Gavin to begin with?
This ep was relatively tame, you know, no scary, terrifying moments which you'd think you'd get in a show with such a title. Seems the powers that be are taking too long in building up the stories and the suspense, no wonder it was cancelled by ABC. The plots needed to be more attention-grabbing from the outset. Should have taken a leaf out of Supernatural for how to do scary!
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