The second season of “The Big Bang Theory” proved to be an intelligent mix of humor and action. The handling of the narrative allowed Cuoco an opportunity to showcase her underrated acting skills. It also marked another instance of an unlikeable lead character pulling themselves together and redeeming themselves in the eyes of the audience at the end. ..
Season 1
The Beginning in Bangkok
Cassie is a flight attendant for Imperial Atlantic Airlines. She is reckless and has a drinking problem. On one of the flights to Bangkok, she meets a charming stranger, Alex. They meet at the hotel and sleep together. The next morning, though, Cassie finds Alex murdered in bed beside her. In a panic, she cleans up the mess, leaves her fingerprints on the broken wine bottle, and misplaces her ID somewhere. She leaves soon thereafter, fearing she has done the horrible deed in a drunken state.
Although being questioned by FBI Agents Kim and Van back in the US, she realizes that there was another person with them the previous night. Through the strange callbacks with a dead Alex, she figures out her name: Miranda. Cassie feels as if she is the key to unlocking the mystery of Alex’s death and proceeds to visit his office looking for her. ..
Cassie Brings back a Stranger
She alerts the FBI with her move and in a moment of desperation, reveals that she was with Alex the night he was murdered. Her friend, Annie, who is also her lawyer, says that because the FBI does not have sufficient evidence against her, they’re letting her go. The previous night, Cassie has another argument with her brother Davey and sleeps with a stranger. Unknown to her, Miranda has taken Cassie’s information from her credit card and follows her back to New York. She breaks into her house looking for more clues but doesn’t find anything. The next day, Miranda breaks into Cassie’s house again and finds a laptop that has been password protected. She unlocks it and finds incriminating evidence on Cassie’s computer that links her to Alex’s murder. In a panic, she leaves town before the FBI can arrest her. ..
Cassie and Miranda are best friends. Miranda has her own problems, but none bigger than conspiring with the Korean government. She steals data off of her husband’s computer and exchanges it for money.
Cassie’s Flashbacks and the Funeral Chaos
As the funeral approaches, Cassie begins to remember some of her childhood days. She flashbacks to when she was younger and her family was living in a small town in upstate New York. She remembers her father being a strict father and her mother being a loving wife. However, something inside Cassie always felt like she was missing something. She couldn’t quite put her finger on it but she knew that there must be something else going on with her family. The funeral arrives and Cassie begins to pay attention to the people around her. She starts to notice that some of them seem familiar but she can’t put a finger on why. Suddenly, she remembers what her father used to say at funerals: “There’s nothing like a good death.” And with that, Cassie realizes that Miranda is probably dead too - just like her father had said before.
Annie is caught snooping and stealing papers from a company called Lionfish, but one of her clients saves the day. Max, Annie’s computer-savvy boyfriend, helps Cassie make sense of the papers she stole. Miranda continues her probe into the matter but is asked by her employers to do another task. Cassie again has an argument with Davey about their relationship and proceeds to sleep with Buckley again. ..
The Mystery of the Empty Planes
Now the picture starts to come into focus. Alex’s parents own Unisphere, where he worked. They also chartered empty flights from New Jersey to Maine once a week. While Cassie and Max investigate, they decide to look for more clues in Alex’s apartment. Something interesting manifests that will make sense in the end. Cassie is asked by Annie’s client to repay the debt by delivering a message to a prisoner. Little does she know that she is actually handing him his death sentence. ..
After Megan’s husband, Max, and their daughter Cassie find an abandoned area with information on dead people’s passports, they become concerned. They notice that the computers in the area have this information and run away before Max is run down by a car.
Cassie’s Personal Life Spirals out of Control
Annie pleads innocence with Cassie for getting Max hurt by saying that they transferred data from the computer to a pen drive. But, she dropped it while running from the place.
Annie breaks ties with her, and so does Davey, who is annoyed with her for not seeing things from his side. Buckley and Cassie, who are still continuing together, are arrested by the police when an FBI agent following Cassie turns up dead.
After a series of flashbacks with her old friend Alex, Cassie realizes that she was wrong to break up with Davey. She redeems her relationship with him by apologizing and working together to make things right. ..
Old Foes Turned Friends
When Miranda tries to murder her boss, Victor, she bails out her friend Cassie and they try to figure out who killed Alex. Miranda suspects Victor, her boss, is involved in the entire situation and has ordered their hit. They go on the run but do not take Annie’s help. Annie makes up with Max and declares her love for him. Cassie’s trauma is finally revealed: she feels responsible for her father’s death when they were driving in the car. This is why she has a drinking problem. ..
The true nature of Buckley’s ordeal is revealed in Alex’s apartment. Buckley is Cassie’s true attacker, and he has been keeping her movements in check all along.
The Final Roll of the Dice
The Bangkok police have reconstructed the broken bottle and Cassie’s fingerprints are on it. Cassie and Miranda go to Rome to bait Buckley. Miranda also takes the money from Victor, her boss, and kills him. Annie gets her hands on the pen drive, thus proving Cassie and Max’s innocence to the police. Buckley overpowers them both but is neutralized in time by Shane, one of Megan and Cassie’s crewmates, who turns out to be an undercover CIA Agent. Miranda eludes Cassie and the police. Shane asks Cassie to become an asset for the CIA; an offer she thinks about with a smile.
In the first season, we followed the story of a flight attendant named Jenna who was working for a airline. In episode 8, Jenna is fired from her job and goes on a rampage at the airport. She’s eventually apprehended by the police and is charged with disorderly conduct.
The Flight Attendant’s story was interesting and I thought it was well-written. However, I found some important details that were left out in the recap and I would like to know more about them. Do you have any more information about them? Let us know in the comments below!
