'Moonlight" Sometimes you get what you need

A lot has happened in a short time on Moonlight. Mick revealed himself as a vampire to Beth and last week he even ended up having to feed from her (hot) after wandering through the desert (also hot, but in a completely different way). The show has been slowly reaching its stride and I'm starting to feel pretty optimistic about its progress.  The episode tonight had less inconsistencies then ever, and another fantastic ending.

It starts with Josh and Beth running into Mick at a doctor's office, where she was getting a blood test to make sure she didn't have tetanus form the chain link fence she injured her arm on. At least, that's the story Josh got. We know better. Josh invites Mick to their house for a party celebrating their one year anniversary and Mick predictably begs off. Who could blame him? Elsewhere a mysterious guy in some shadows peruses an online escort service, picks a girl and calls her, making a date. He goes to meet her and she takes one look at him and says "No, Honey, I just can't."  We know he's the bad guy when he doesn't take no for an answer. Mick, on the other hand, says yes to two parents from a rural town hoping to find their daughter. She hasn't been answering their calls and they found out she works as an escort. The next day, Beth is at the scene of a crime, as per usual. At the escorts house, in fact. All our tumblers are falling into place!

At their anniversary party that night, Beth gets a phone call and tells her party she has to leave to go to the morgue. I would have asked if the party was that bad, but Josh is far more understanding - in front of guests. Outside the apartment, he tells her she is being rude and that it is suspect that "he" calls and she comes running. The he in question is Mick St. John, of course. The only problem is, it wasn't Mick on the phone. Thus, we know Josh's spider-sense has been tingling. Beth tells him it was just a contact and that now is not  the time to talk about Mick. Josh tells her to take her time at the morgue. Ouch. Beth's contact gives her a look at the body of the dead escort, but a moment later she has to duck into a office when her contact's boss shows up. With Mick, who has brought the parents to identify the body. Which, they are relieved to discover, is not their daughter, but her former roommate. Mick sniffs Beth out and confirms for her that the bad guy is a vampire while she accuses him of avoiding her. He reminds her she has a party to get back to and she reminds him that she fed him. Touche!

One of the more interesting segments of the episode involved Beth meeting Josef and Ryder - the hacker who had been tracing the phone calls to the escort service to help Mick find the girl. They use Beth as a vocal decoy, calling all the numbers who had called the service in the previous 24 hours to try to find the guy. While the premise is specious because Josef has had plenty of other women around in the past, it allows for some great dialog as Beth does her best to impersonate a call girl. Especially when she tells Mick she can do "whatever you want" in a seductive tone, causing even Josef to do a double take. Soon enough they find their bad guy when he mistakes Beth for Cherish and asks if they are still on for tomorrow at Greenies and they go to his apartment. They knock, but when there is no answer, Mick picks the lock and gingerly steps over the threshold. To be jumped by cops and FBI agents who were lying in wait. Them getting busted by the cops reveals two important bits of data: the profilers are way off in looking for a 40 year old man (he's actually 197 ... and a half) and Beth is a thief. She takes a day planner form the apartment, discovering in the car that it belonged to the dead escort.

In the planner is a picture of the dead escort and the former farm-girl Mick is looking for. And written on the back of this picture is a phone number. They call, but Cherish doesn't answer - she's already on her date with the creepy teen vampire and he ordered her not to pick it up. As Mick and Beth rush to Greenies, she asks him "How does it work - the sex thing?", specifying of the vampire/human variety. You know, chit chat! Mick manages not to choke and to act like he believes her when she swears she only means it hypothetically, and tells her that it doesn't work, it always ends badly. There are many naughty things I could say here about sex ending badly, but I am going to try and rise above the urge. Or sit on my hands.

Our action sequence is memorable and spans the entire day. They arrive at Greenies at mid afternoon, and manage to chase the vampire and Cherish onto the pier where they eventually get her away from him, but lose him. He's hiding under the pier and comes back out once it's dark and everyone has left for the day. Everyone except Mick, who turns the carnival lights back on while calling out to our wayward teen, telling him he's been where he is. Which is weird when you think about it, since the teen is actually older then Mick. I guess being trapped at puberty forever means you never reach emotional maturity, just like you never outgrow acne. That is an eternal hell. This is where the biggest inconsistency came in: it looks like Mick flies up to land on the tracks of a roller coaster - something we were told he couldn't do. At the very least, it is an inhuman leap. He is joined on the tracks by the teen vampire and they fight while the train barrels down on them.  The teen manages to get in some decent jabs, including a big bloody bite from Mick, but in the end, he gets trapped on the tracks and ends up decapitated by the train.

The show ends with Beth helping Mick reunite Cherish with her parents and refusing to take photos for her editor to publish. Mick does his usual disappearing act, but she runs after him. As luck would have it, he's been delayed from his usual hasty escape by having dropped his keys, so she manages to catch up to him. She accuses him of leaving without saying good bye, but he's barely gotten out a "good" before she's planting a kiss on him. The moment is shocking and there is no way I can write about it in a way that is as cool as it was, so you will just have to take my word for it. It was awesome. So was the little grin Mick flashed as Beth walked away. How lame am I for being jealous?

What did the rest of you think of tonight's episode? How come Beth doesn't get arrested every time she crosses the police tape? Can her contact on the force really protect her that well?  What was with the flying? Oh yeah, and what about THE KISS?!

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