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Friday 1 July 2016

The Whispers 1.3 "Collision" Review

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Claire (Lily Rabe) looks trough Sean's (Milo Ventimiglia) bag which was conveniently left behind and tells her mother, Willi (Dee Wallace) that he's still alive and she saw him, but he looked right through her.  Her mother thinks it was like before she imagined it, but she says it was real.  She finds a receipt with numbers and says what Wes (Barry Sloane) says to his team about if needing to know where a man's going, you need to know where he's been, as she follows up the lead at the bakery. Obviously the man, Hamal (Riyaz Janif) wouldn't tell her anything even if she flashed her badge, but his wife, Nathifa (Camilla Mahal) stares at her, in that fashion which says, 'I know stuff but I'll only tell you if my husband doesn't find out' deal.  Claire speaks with her and she replies the numbers are an account (for an FBI agent she couldn't tell or have an inkling) after telling her the man's her husband, but Claire doesn't care what they're doing here. She saw him a month before as well, which makes her connect it to the building involved in the earlier explosion.

Wes watches footage of the building explosion and he sees the boy walk into the room which then explodes, he sees a man enter the room and says he was the target.  There was a flickering of lights there too wasn't there, unless my Internet connection was bad and I shouldn't have been watching through a thunderstorm! ha.  He's given a file which the dead man was sending out but the only thing that got through was an attachment, so you weren't so clever in destroying that were ya Drill.  But he doesn't know what's in the photo, it was sent to Harrison Weil (Jamison Jones) the Head of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.  Right that's torn it, nuclear stuff's involved now.

Sean takes Maria (Catalina Davis) hostage and makes her drive to a gas stop where he makes her buy shaving stuff, as he shaves his beard.  He doesn't know where he's going or why until he gets there and she leaves Claire's card in with the money, with the assistant, being slow off the mark in calling her number.  Obviously she wouldn't be there as Jessup (Derek Webster) been assigned to the case by director and he doesn't want any judgements about her, he needs to do the work and she'll fix all the personal things in her life.  He answers the phone and gets en route to the station.  In the bathroom, Sean gets a message through the flickering lights and after all that the message turns out to be 'run.' Stealing a car he makes her drive to the nuclear facility.  But she doesn't answer him as to why she has the gun.

Wes talks with Harrison who tells him the photo shows some pipeline and he locks down the facility, after Minx (Kylie Jones) reluctantly agrees to talk with Claire after Lena (Kristen Connolly) asks her to and what she found, a symbol which is the mark of the facility and she has other plans which make a larger puzzle.  There's unexpected activity at the nuclear facility and Harrison is called but Harper (Abby Ryder Fortson) texts back saying he'll handle it and then disposes of the phone.  Her mother (Autumn Reeser) awakes cos she's played her part of the game.  Minx also has a session with a psychiatrist and he tells her Drill's not real, but he's not too happy with that and as she told about the plans, he makes the doctor have an accident by using a child whose ball rolls in front of his bike and he drives into a car.

Maria crashes the car and ends up at the facility, but Sean doesn't get hurt, he instead fizzles out the electricty barrier.  She got him right where he wanted to be.  Of course it's anyone's guess whether Sean is really bad or being manipulated, but Claire's decided he is bad as she tells Wes this.  Henry (Kyle Harrison Breitkpof ) asks Drill to bring back his father, who left for his mission three months ago, after he found out about her affair.  As Claire blames herself for what happened to their son. There's quite a bit of exposition on the affair between Wes and Clare which slows things down a bit and really isn't very exciting to know about.  People have affairs yeah, guess the main question will be why did they and how did Lena find out.  Other than that they should've concentrated on the main plot about the children, Drill and Sean and how they're all connected.  Maybe that wouldn't have made 13 episodes but it could've been done.  There needs to be more character development and right now the only interesting aspect is Drill/Sean (and no this is no indication of any bias towards Milo either!)

Though Sean does get some hilarious lines about seeing a psychiatrist and he told him he was crazy, as if he wouldn't!  And Maria: "What do you think you're seeing?"
Sean:" I can't explain it. It's like deja vu...it just feels familiar."
Maria: "It's hard to have deja vu when you've got no memories."  Ahh but that's Sean the man without memories, he appears to be influenced by something, as we know, so the thoughts of what he's doing or has to do, might have been embedded in his mind which also caused him to lose his memory, as he also asks who the woman is who was looking for him.  But I have to say I had deja vu whilst watching this show!

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