Saturday 26 May 2012

Ringer Series Final Recap & Review (1.22: I'm The Good Twin)


What’s with all these television shows teasing out their final episodes? A constantly guilty Bridget wakes from her wedding dream just as a threatening Bodway Macawi walks towards her. Someone’s getting cold feet.

And now off to rehab, where she receives her one year chip. Really? Bridget stills has time to go to these meetings when she’s not trying to take down ponzie schemes, or having to deal with her fake soon to be renewed husband’s schizophrenic now lesbian ex? Bridget sure knows now to multitask. And… WHERE IS MALCOLM? She reveals to her group she plans to come clean to her family about who she really is.

Solomon tells Bridget what we are all thinking. The whole point of becoming Siobhan was too hide from Macawi, and revealing herself as Bridget would mean wasting all her time she spent posing as Siobhan to protect her life. I suppose it’s meant to demonstrate character growth or something, Bridget will now rather die than hurt the ones she’s grown to love but… common sense, Bridget!

Tim Abargast (love that surname) conveniently buys out Martin & Charles. God forbid any main character in a drama series pays for they’re actions, so yes, Andrew doesn’t go to jail, but unbeknown to him, gains a boss who really has it out for Siobhan and Henry.

At the hospital Henry finally stands up to Siobhan, he wants to leave for Chicago to be close with his family, and he’s only waiting for her, and she’s… possibly still hung up by her vendetta against Bridget.

Machado gets his badge back, on the condition he severs all ties with the Bodway Macawi case. Like that’s ever going to happen!

Bridget (as Siobhan) returns home to find Jimmy in her apartment, he tells her he no longer wants to be Macawi’s bitch, and he wants Siobhan to pay him like she did last time. Cue the flashback! Despite knowing everything that happened all already, it’s always still interesting to see how things unfold. This leaving Bridget in a sticky situation, she has to pay James, because otherwise he is still working for Macawi, which means he will still be after her.

Henry comes home and Siobhan is packing, for Chicago, where she says she will meet him when the twins are ready to fly, leaving her enough time to try one last scheme against Bridget I bet.

In Denver, Colorado at the FBI Headquarters someone tells Machado that a body has been found that matches the facial structure of Malcolm Ward, and that Jimmy has escaped from prison. If that doesn’t put a person back on a case I don’t know what does.

At dinner, Bridget plans to tell Andrew and Juliet that she is not Siobhan, but it can’t be that easy, right? Juliet gets an urgent text from her friend Andrea and leaves the room, and then Andrew gets all soppy talking about vows, poems and love.

In the South Bronx, Jimmy tries to leave with the money Bridget as paid him, but as he does so Macawi confronts him. Jimmy tries to explain and tells Macawi that Siobhan is Bridget, but Macawi kills him. I which they had had more of his character throughout the series, he had the potential to be truly menacing, but he just didn’t get enough screen time.

Bridget continues to ponder Siobhan’s actions, as she’s been doing all season: why would she pay someone to make Bridget run to her and then commit suicide a few days later? Hmmm. Also she’s given a gun by Solomon who is going to the Hampton’s later do to some more pointless investigating.

Siobhan opens Henry paternity test, and confronts him about it. He asks her what it says, and she tells them the girls are his. But shock horror, once he walks away Siobhan reads it revealing that he is not the biological father.

As Andrew leaves the office Tim tells him that he has to tell him the truth.

Andrew arrives home at their going away party, and makes a huge scene, telling Siobhan he knows about her affair with Henry, and that the marriage is over.

Siobhan calls out to Henry as she’s looking over her accounts, they’re empty and Henry reveals he took the money. He tells her that he wanted to take away the one thing that meant something to her. He reveals he rang the hospital before the arrival of the letter to find out his paternity. He tells her he is going out, and that he wants her gone when he gets back. You go Henry!

At her now empty apartment Bridget sees that Jimmy has been killed on the news and knows that Macawi is in New York. She calls Machado for help, but he tells her his job is on the line. Andrew arrives home and Bridget tells him… that she’s Bridget!

Andrew is understandably conflicted with emotion: he loves Bridget, but their entire relationship is a lie. Bridget tells him she regrets everything she’s done expect for loving him and Juliet, because having two people in her life that love her kept her sober. He tells her to leave.

She goes to her friends house, where Juliet has been, and tells Juliet she’s Bridget as well. Juliet tells Bridget she’s worse than her mother and leaves.

Andrew goes to Henry’s house and punches him in the face.

Andrew and Juliet, with luggage in hand, wait outside their apartment building, heading to the beach house. As they leave, Siobhan sneaks out into the lobby. As she’s stealing jewellery from the apartment, all the security feeds go out at the security guards desk and Siobhan hears a smashing sound before Macawi attacks her.

Bridget returns home in an attempt to reconcile with Juliet. She walks into the lobby and finds the security guard dead. She confronts Macawi with Solomon’s gun, and Siobhan runs off, Bridget thinking Macawi was chasing Juliet. Macawi lunges at her, and Agent Machado enters the room, and Bridget shoots Mawai in the face.

As Siobhan looks at her babies, she tells them she has to get her old life back.

Solomon returns from the Hampton’s with security footage from the marina Bridget and Siobhan took the boat out from. It shows that Siobhan is alive three hours after Bridget presumed her dead.

Bridget goes to Henry’s apartment and confronts him. He tells her why Siobhan wanted Bridget to take her place, she knew someone was trying to kill her.

Rating 3.5/5

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