For this one, we open up on Lewis
doing more deplorable things. Namely, murdering a random dude and breaking into
his apartment, assumedly to use as his new base of operations. He tries to free
the dead man’s birds, for some reason, but they stay put.
FYI, this is one of those “Shooter”
type stories. Over the course of the episode, we’re shown different
perspectives of what transpired before begin given the full picture. Not my
favorite framing device, but hey, got to work with what you’re given. The framing
device is that everyone is giving Sgt. Brett Mahoney their testimony on what
happened when Lewis busted in to murder Senator Ori. He’s an anti-gun senator
introduced in the last episode. Fun fact, Brett Mahoney is an officer that has
been a recurring character in the Marvel Netflix shows. He’s the cop that Foggy
Nelson would bribe with cigars for his mother and he had a few run ins with
Jessica Jones as her kidnapping case got more and more screwy.
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| Mahoney is clearly thinking "Oh great, another crazy one." |
We start with Russo’s perspective.
After informing his new client on the best ways to avoid getting murdered, he
gets a call from Frank. Castle knows that Lewis is going after Ori, and that
he’ll help Russo take him down. Russo pretends to agree, but I think we all
know he’s planning on killing Castle along with Lewis. Lewis, meanwhile, sneaks
in and up to the room Ori is staying at in a stolen ANVIL uniform. He also two
guards on the way.
Senator Ori and Karen Page are
interviewed back to back. They tell basically the same story, they were
chatting about Ori’s gun control legislation when the door was blown open.
Lewis busts in and starts shooting. Castle follows and does his best to stop
said shooting. The main difference in their remembrances is that Ori remembers
firing on Lewis himself before running for help, while Karen remembers him
sniveling cowardly before Castle literally dives in to take a bullet for them,
and shoves Karen into Lewis as he runs away. Classy. Lewis uses a bomb vest to
keep Castle from doing what he does best and makes a break for it.
Madani has some info too. She’d
just come off leave and informed her boss about what she knows about Castle,
Cerberus, Kandahar, and Rawlins. She also uses the hidden bug in her office as
proof. Her boss, Rafael, gives her the files on the goons that jumped her
sting, and she notes that all of them work for ANVIL. She was at the hotel to
confront her casual partner about what he knew. Russo plays dumb, claiming that
guys like these are true mercenaries, jumping between agencies and causes based
on who’s paying best. They’re interrupted by Lewis’ explosion.
While Lewis was escaping Frank,
Madani was tracking down Frank. She corners him in a stairwell, and reveals she
knows he knows about Kandahar and Zubair’s death. Frank pulls the “if you’re
going to shoot me, then shoot me,” bit and puts his head to her gun. They’re
pulled out of their standoff by Castle getting shot in the head. Well, not
quite, he just got winged, but he’s bleeding badly. Russo claims that he
thought Castle was going to kill her. Both Castle and Madani realize that Russo
is evil, just as a bunch of cops bust in to end the standoff. Madani and Russo
are pulled out, but Frank makes a break for it. He uses a firehose to bungie
down to the bottom floor.
In the present, Madani meets with
Karen. She tells Karen that she knows Castle is a… not-bad-guy and wants to
work with him. The plot thickens.
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| Considering this latest GSW, I'm starting to think Frank has the ability to simply ignore bullets. |
Back in the past, Lewis makes it to
the kitchen, still keeping Karen on a short leash. Karen tries to talk him
down, but the kid is obviously barely holding it together. Frank busts in,
Lewis grabs Karen and the standoff begins anew. In a bit of brilliance, Frank
distracts Lewis by talking to him, while feeding Karen the info she needs to
free herself. He mentions that Lewis is a CREATURE OF HABIT, that he did the
right thing by telling Castle to PULL THE WHITE WIRE to save Curt, that Karen
is also a CREATURE OF HABIT, and that EVERYTHING she has is IN HER PURSE.
Karen, taking the hint, yanks the wire out, and then uses the gun she had
hidden in her purse to blow a hole in Lewis’ foot.
Lewis falls back into the freezer.
Frank tries to talk him down again, but Lewis just rewires his detonator and
kills himself. Frank pretends to hold Karen hostage to get to an elevator. Once
inside he escapes out the emergency roof exit and ziplines away. Cover in
blood, arm and possibly leg broken. Not good. But, terrorist handled and now
Castle knows that Russo is against him. Better.
Again, not a fan of the disjointed
narrative. If you’re going to show me something, at least keep it in sequence,
all I’m asking. This isn’t an epic Greek poem. But, I did like seeing Castle
take on Lewis, and the way that Frank was able to outwit the kid. It’s a shame
that the kid ended up choosing to end it all rather then face the consequences
of his actions, but seeing Frank show off some tactical brilliance was almost
worth it. I don’t know if I’d consider Karen Page to be either incredibly brave
over the last few episodes, or if she’s suffering from a death wish. She seems
to have a bad habit of pissing off very dangerous people of late. Maybe the
apparent death of Matt Murdock has left her with an adrenaline itch to scratch
or something. Russo making it clear to
both Castle and Madani that he’s part of whatever conspiracy that’s going on
was a little odd, but hey, now they both know that the guy is a psycho. Maybe
now they can make some headway against Rawlins. Fingers crossed.
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