Avi has been seeing hallucinations of his father and sees one that night. Avi reaches the station early and tells Kathleen about his theory that Elisabeth planted the bomb. ..
He fears that his vision might foreshadow a real bomb going off someday. Elisabeth posted several messages online against Anna and called for shutting her daycare down. She might be hiding out somewhere in the States to prevent arrest and planning a real bomb. Danny innocuously informs Paul that his mother is coming home but Paul will have to move out for that to happen, The detectives ask for access to any of Elisabeth’s electronic voice recordings, and Janine ventures out into their bedroom and finds an invoice.
Danny walks up to them and changes his stance on who planted the bomb. He thinks that his mother did it, as his first dad tells him. Earl is tailing Brad Holt as the suspicion is still not off him. One of the strange things he does is just sit outside the daycare and camp there for long durations. Anna does not recognize the voice when Avi plays the tape to her. Janine handles Sarah and plays the same thing for her too. Desperate to make amends and start off her career, she tries once again her hand at interrogations.
The woman successfully manipulates Sarah, albeit talking smack about Kathleen. She knows Janine did it to get information from Sarah and also feels Janine has a long way to go in her career. Sarah reveals she does not like Anna and her opinion resonates with that of the others. She is not a good person and maybe knows who is making the threats. But she has not commented on Elisabeth, perhaps indicating to the detectives that jumping to conclusions about her is not the right strategy.
The police now have two open investigations: the daycare bombing and the disappearance of Elisabeth. Avi and Janine go to the Valley Forge gallery, where Elisabeth worked and Paul currently has an assignment (they locate it via the invoice). Rasgon greets them but is very discreet about the details. He only reveals that there were rumors around the club that Peter Hanney, a billionaire, was having a fling with Elisabeth. But he has no idea where Hanney is. ..
Kathleen informs detectives of Serras’ shaky financial condition. Is that the reason for Elisabeth’s disappearance? Earl follows Brad and the places he visits give him anxiety. He actually might be planning to bomb the daycare. The detectives visit Elisabeth’s psychologist, who reveals that she was a very devoted mother and would not desert her children like this. She also loved her job (she does not know that Elisabeth left her job) and how her family was positioned in life. ..
Janine meets with Darren, who turns out to be her ex. He is in finance and she wants information on Hanney. From what Darren tells her, Janine suspects Hanney, in his ego and hubris, maybe could not take Elisabeth’s rejection and killed her. The detectives sit outside Hanney’s childhood home. Janine gets triggered when Avi mentions her supposedly affluent background. Both of them share an aversion to rich people but she walks out and knocks on the door.
Avi and the detectives visit Paul, who is working on an assignment in a house. They try to glean something from Paul by antagonizing him. But the end result is zilch.
Brad and Earl are called in to help with a situation at a warehouse. They find someone in a compromising position and Anna is left unconscious.
The Episode Review
The Janine story is a bit of a mystery. We know that Anna and Brad had an affair, but we don’t know why it happened. It could be because they were getting close to each other, or it could be because the two of them were trying to build up a case against each other. But whatever the reason, the bomb seems to have been placed in order to make things more complicated for Anna and Brad.
The next episode of the show seems to be setting up a major reveal about Janine that is not adding up. It seems like Janine could be a real candidate for the role of detective, and Canfield is playing her quite well. However, it has been oddly satisfying how Janine is portrayed as a real person with changing moods and priorities.
In Episode 6 of “The Crown”, we learned that the real ambition of Crown’s captain, Elisabeth, is to become a captain one day. However, it seems that her true ambition may be something else entirely - she seems to be interested in becoming a murderer. Being rich is definitely a crime like Avi says, so it’s likely that she has committed one. We need more flashbacks to properly establish her in the narrative, and until this point, she has been a ghost but we cannot feel for her. Make her a person and see our reaction change.
