133 - Deja Vu
Summary
Jay McCann, a man who awakes after 3 years in a coma, disappears after going on a walk just before being discharged from a rehab center. Meanwhile, Jack, who is far from recovered, leaves the hospital to search for Jenn who calls him because the remaining guy who kidnapped her (the guy who shot Jack because Jack went rogue) is after her.
Rating
I would give this only half a star, but I like the story about the coma guy. Coma guy brings it up a full star. Without stupid rogue-Jack (i.e., if coma guy was the only storyline), I’d probably give it 2.5 stars.
Discussion
I’m hoping this is the end of rogue-Jack. Rogue-Jack is annoying and not at all fun to watch. The story about the guy who disappeared was pretty good, but not good enough to overcome the other story (rogue-Jack and the kidnapper), which just needs to be finished. And what happened to Vivian’s task force? It seems to have just been forgotten. (Task force? What task force? We don’t need no stinkin’ task force with rogue-Jack in our pocket!)
Also, I don’t quite buy that Samantha tells Jack she can’t get away and will have NYPD go check on Jen. I buy that she’s busy with the caseload, but why not send someone else from the FBI (like, maybe, someone working on the task force)? Our agents have previously dropped things to check on something else. And then when the NYPD doesn’t find Jen… that’s it as far as Samantha and everyone else is concerned. I realize the writers just want to set it up so Jack must leave the hospital, still all wounded and weak, so we can all feel the emotion and drama of whumped-Jack, but it just seems too forced. Way too forced. In addition, I totally did not buy that anyone would ever tell Jack if they’d seen Jen when he looks like a creepy, diseased pervert. I’d be more likely to call the cops on someone who looked like him trying to find some young girl.
Also, Jack should totally and completely be fired. He has demonstrated incredibly, majorly, totally bad judgment when he went after Joe alone and got himself shot two episodes ago, and he clearly is not demonstrating any better judgment (though setting it up so no one would help him is just bad writing). I am not exaggerating in any way in declaring that he deserves to be fired. Immediately. Obviously that’s not going to happen and he’s going to continue being the supervisor, which leaves me very irritated with the writers of the show. Dumb, dumb, dumb. I’m glad the multi-part storyline is presumably over now.
But back to the missing guy story. He was a wealthy, successful businessman before the car accident that put him a coma. He was kind of a jerk both in business and with his wife, but since awakening, he’s been a nicer guy, which his wife likes. He is missing some memories, though.
So what are the early possibilities?
- The team looks for enemies who came after him - he put a lot of people out of work when he moved jobs overseas, he won contracts through bribery, and he has other nasty business dealings.
- The brother is also checked out.
- Something involving the car crash that seems to make Jay upset.
- And then a security camera picks up what looks like Jay being kidnapped at gunpoint.
- Kimberly (the coma guy’s wife) had a relationship with someone else (Bruce Myer) while Jay was in a coma, and that someone else kinda sorta looks like the guy with the gun. Was it the wife after all?
But, alas, it was Doug Gilbert, a guy with a son in a coma. He just wanted Jay to… do something. What that something was, even Doug wasn’t so clear about. He just hoped Jay somehow had some secret, some way to bring his son out of his coma. But of course Jay couldn’t help and Doug let him go. Jay looked more into his past, which wasn’t so great (an affair, blackmail, a missing woman that his brother accidentally killed). And then something happened when Jay was on the way to the police to turn himself in, a mugging perhaps, and Jay suffered another head injury, and he returned to his coma.
Notes
Martin has what looks like a wedding ring on his finger (actor forget to take it off?). It is seen when he and Vivian confront the brother with the photo of the missing woman and accuse him and his brother of being involved in her disappearance.
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