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Tuesday 26 March 2013

666 Park Avenue 1.6 "Diabolic" Review

As more unfolds after the events of the Hallowe'en party it appears Jane (Rachael Taylor) is having yet more nightmares as she now dreams she's attacked in the shower some the psycho wielding an axe!  Hey I was going to mention movie Psycho anyway!  She wakes up with Henry (Dave Annable) beside her in his feeble attempt to comfort her.  That'd be enough to give anyone nightmares!  Saying the police are working on the case to find the maniac.  Then decides to make her breakfast.  Some comfort you are!

Well the police are working on the case and they turn up at the Drake to look into possible CS and the areas where Jane ran to, including the kitchen with the dumbwaiter, looked just like a basement to me. Anyway the woman detective shows Jane the dumbwaiter hasn't been used since it's inundated with cobwebs!  Thus perhaps Jane may have a few screws loose, a few bats in the belfry.  Even Henry has his doubts since by episode's end he's convinced she should talk to someone about it reminding her and informing us that her grandmother went insane and was locked up.  Subtle Henry!  This from him after Jane wants to return to Indiana where everything was simpler and she wasn't in any danger.  SO this conversation goes from being about Jane as Henry put it to being about him really, never mind the us.

Henry's now seen the light, you know, bright lights, big city and wants to stay here and make a stab at a political career.  Wish someone would, stab, er, okay can't help myself when it comes to wimpish Henry, Jane can do so much better!  Anyway this includes the detective,  Hayden Cooper (Teddy Sears) who was more understanding than Henry was or ever will be.  He returns to see Jane alone with a photo of the man in the devil costume having tracked him down after they ran a trace on Henry's phone when Jane called him.  Now you see she's not crazy after all.  He asks her why she lied and if she wants to tell the truth now.  She's afraid he'll think her crazy too.

Then tells him about Kramer and him being a ghost.  He understands and tells her the story of his grandfather and ghosts so he knows what she means.  Henry meets up with Laurel (Tessa Thompson) who has arranged  a meeting with him with four mayors, former mayors.  She changes his tie for him and afterwards even mentions dumping Jane since being single and eligible means more in politics.  Yes Jane dumb him first!

Meanwhile Gavin (Terry O'Quinn) is called about the box with a ransom demand of a million which Gavin increases to three million.  He also has Olivia (Vanessa Williams) checked out by Dr Scott (Enrique Murciano) and has her blood tested.  He knows Scott is in need of money since he finds it a little expensive paying rent and he's behind.  Thus Gavin loans him $50,000 for which he's grateful.  Great Scott sorry!) knew he had a gambling habit and he loses.  Well he's bound to now he's sold his soul to Gavin.  He later finds his chest on fire and bloody, ripping his shirt off he finds a tattoo with $50,000 emblazoned on his chest.  He confronts Gavin about this who tells him about the same, selling his soul thing and there is a way he can forget the loan.  He wants him to become his doctor on call and when he calls, he should pick up.

Chloroform was found in Olivia's blood which Gavin keeps from her.  Later two men find the man who took the box dying cos he opened it.  They set the place on fire and take the box.  Olivia takes Jane to lunch who isn't really in the mood, cos she can't hold her knife and fork properly, and when she's in the loo, a man, introducing himself as Victor Shaw (Nick Chinlund) appears to Olivia to give her the low down on Gavin being a "monster."  Isn't that exactly what her daughter wrote in the letter to her.  Also how Gavin lied to her and didn't tell her what was really in her blood.  Olivia asks Gavin about this and he tells her she'd been drinking plenty.  Having taken a blood test of her own, she finds out about the chloroform.  He tells her the safe was broken into using her as a distraction and she thinks the safe in the closet but it's the other safe.

Gavin has Tony (Erik Palladino) find out who tried to run Olivia over and takes Sam (Peter Friedman) to his 'interrogation'.  Where he realizes Sam was the one behind it.  He sends him into the Drake with endless corridors so he can't leave.  Jane even walks through him at one point, convinced she can hear voices.  Gavin uses Sam for his own ends and Shaw turns up to meet Gavin after Olivia recalls meeting him.  He gives him what Shaw believes to be bearer bonds to the value of $10 million and Shaw replies he's doing what Gavin does, takes from others.  He opens the present which was Olivia's idea to have it sealed with a bow and finds Sam's head inside.  Just one side of betrayal.

Gavin then pays a visit to Kandinsky (Misha Kuznetsov) and wants him to work for him.  Then calls Scott to help him escape when he's rushed to the hospital.  Jane in a rage throws the papers to the floor after Henry's little confrontation with her and thinks she made everything up after reading about the Hallowe'en story from 1929. She then notices the necklace the woman is wearing and makes the connection that Jocelyn is her grandmother.

So we finally get to see what most of us were thinking all along, that Olivia knows all about Gavin, or at least what he's capable of and asks if Shaw will open the box as he's threatened to do so and 'let him out.'  Leaving us with another mystery of who 'he' is.  Think Olivia knew all along about Gavin and one reason she burnt her daughter's letter about him.  But she must have made some sort of a deal with Gavin.  Don't think Scott will be around for long as he'll outlive his usefulness.  But Hayden also finds newspaper clippings which show accidents at the Drake which can't be a coincidence.  Yes Jane dump Henry for Hayden, ha, at least he has a brain especially since Henry doesn't even recall seeing Kramer in the lift when he admired Jane's necklace last ep, ugh??!!  Yes writers you forgot that didn't you!

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