'Harper's Island': Ka-Blam!
Previously on "Harper's Island," the kindly Reverand Fain lost his head, Kelly and Cal were left hanging but only Kelly stayed that way, and poor socialite Lucy was en fuego (which nobody seems to notice or care about. WTF, show). Who will be offed tonight?
I Shot the Sheriff (summary)
Sheriff Mills discovers Kelly was murdered. The killer left red ink in her eyes and on a newspaper clipping about his catching John Wakefield, saying, "You found her, now find me." Henry gets an anonymous tip that Hunter Jennings is staying at a local motel and snoops through his room, discovering that Daddy Wellington bought Hunter's ticket to the island. Later, Henry lets Thomas know that he's on to him. Looks like future son-in-law grew a pair! Finally, Psycho Shane runs JD Dunn down with his truck, then strings JD up to kill him and make it look like a suicide because he blames JD for Kelly's death. Sheriff Mills and Abby narrowly save JD.
Big Shot (key players)
Abby is pretty disturbed about Kelly's death, her mind immediately going to John Wakefield. JD Dunn has a fairly tepid reaction to the news of Kelly's death, which is interesting. Chloe and Cal get back at Sully for leaving Cal hanging in the woods by honeying and feathering him in the spa. Hee! It turns out that Stepmother Dearest Katherine Wellington is schtupping her step-son-in-law Richard Allen. Way to keep it in the family. Henry sets a trap to see if Trish would go back to Hunter and she doesn't go for it, but we don't know if it's because she doesn't love Hunter or because she chickened out. Hunter tells Mr. Wellington he'll leave the island for $50,000 and zooms off into the night with a big fat check, only to come across Uncle Marty's bag o' cash on the speed boat.
Hit Me with Your Best Shot (who died)
It's our first episode with only one death: Hunter Jennings.
Shot Through the Heart (how they died)
Poor Hunter took off on a sabotaged boat and when he went to restart the engine, a rigged shotgun turned his face into Spaghetti-Os.
Shot in the Dark (gruesome scale)
Hunter's shotgun to the face wasn't that gruesome, but I did enjoy the shot of the barrel with all the blowback on it. 3 out of 10.
Double Shot of my Baby's Love (hope you die next)
Well, I got my wish this week in Hunter. I'm still rooting for Shane and Sully to bite it. No one else is really pinging on my radar just yet. Chloe and Cal were edging there until this episode. I'm starting to enjoy them quite a bit.
I Shot William H. Macy (favorite lines)
There were some good zingers tonight. It isn't technically a "line," but the entire S&M scene between Katherine and Richard was fantastic.
[Chloe does yoga out in the yard]
Richard: How on earth did you land her?
Cal: Well... I graduated from Cambridge, I'm a medical doctor, an expert philatelist... I think it's the accent. I wake up every day praying she doesn't meet a cool British person.
Richard: Or any other British person.
[Sully runs by covered in honey and feathers]
Danny: Looks like Pooh Bear got in the honeypot.
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (best scare)
It was decently creepy when Abby found JD hanging and then Shane came up behind her and sinisterly asked, "Are you looking for me?" Second, I figured Hunter's boat was going to blow up, so the shotgun blast made me jump about a foot.
Shotgun Willie (lead suspects)
I think I can leave JD and Shane and their petty psychoses out of the suspect mix. I'm still not giving up on Thomas Wellington, though. The Wellingtons are from the island too, not just Henry and the Mills family. We don't know what connection he could have to the Wakefield stuff. I also like the idea of a mild-mannered guy like Henry being behind it all. Plus, both Henry and Thomas were shown to be quite handy with guns.
A Shot in the Arm (weekly death roster)
Cousin Ben: this was no boating accident
Uncle Marty: bridge to tear-in-halfia
Reverend Fain: someone should've given him a heads up
Kelly Seaver: you hang in there, buddy
Lucy Daramour: what a little firecracker!
Hunter Jennings: he lost the face-off
Side notes: so far I love this show, but it is majorly bugging me that nobody wondered where Lucy was all damn episode. On an upbeat note, I am loving the score. The music sets a great uneasy feeling and creepy atmosphere.
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'Harper's Island' death gallery: How they died and who's still alive
Another good outing this week.
While I'm still keeping Henry as my lead, shot-in-the-dark suspect, I think I'm going to have to add Sheriff Mills as a back-up suspect. I really hope it's not him though because then it'd have to be one of those lame multiple personality killers.
I really wasn't expecting Hunter's death at all. I was kinda hoping this is the episode they will realize that people are getting killed. This episode was fun especially Chloe and Cal's little revenge!LMAO!LOVE THEM BOTH!
Is there a particular reason why everybody is ***uming there's a single killer? As opposed to, say, two people working together, or maybe one Big Bad Killer and a couple of other minor murderers with their own axes to grind?
'Hmmm. Who did the anonymous tip come from?' Uh - Henry thanked the actual tipster for her call right there in the lobby of her hotel !
Agree that last night's formal dinner for Daddy dearest was the writers opportunity for Lucy to be missed. Everyone from the wedding was there except Marty and Lucy - and they think that Marty sent a note saying see you at the wedding.
Rohrshack - agree with you. Have been feeling that there is more than 1 killer, but can't think of any 2 of these people that would be working together. Kinda like the idea that the groom Henry is behind it, but can't see who he would partner with
What if it's the groom AND bride behind all of this??
Have to agree that really bugged me too, with there being NO mention of a distinct wedding party guest (Lucy). Plus, since she carried around that little dog all the time, she really set herself apart. Add to the fact you have a few horny guys checking to score with other wedding party guests, someone would have to notice. But no mention at all - Boo I say to the writers. And someone would notice the Reverand missing too (it's not that the man does one wedding a year and this was it). Writers chose the easy way out and not say anything.
We were wondering too why no one was missing Lucy. I don't recall the dog being thrown into the pit so shouldn't that thing have run back to the house and someone notice it is by itself? Or remain by the pit barking and drawing attention?
And the Reverand. Weren't all those people suppose to be visiting the church as part of their scanvanger hunt? And many seem to be taking paths through the woods to get to places so shouldn't they have come up upon the headless body?
I was expecting an outside door to open when the guy had all the honey on him at the spa and a swarm of bees to come in and kill him. Didn't expect it to be part of a joke. Good one.
Still suspecting Henry and Abby to be the killers, although Wellington's wife seems to be triggering some curiosities too. Maybe she has a dark past tied to the island and she and Henry have been enjoying an affair.
my money's been on abby/henry since ep 1 too. but i have no idea about their motive.
I think it is the Sheriff, the killings were probably some kind of cover up to make it look like a cereal killer becuase he killed his own wife. He said he killed Wakfield (but did he really) was that just a cover up too. It's either him or his daughter, just hoping the twist and they mystery makes sense because I hate bad endings without any thought, endings should tie everything together so "you" go "owe ya that make sense".
One more thing, I know its just a four day event, but like someone else said, how come no one is even noticing people are missing yet? That to me is not very good writing, thats a big detail to leave out.
I'm leaning towards Henry because he seems to be harboring resentment towards the finanically wealthy. Last night he made many comments around not having $$ while growing up and that will change once he's married.
I bet we see some sort of flashback to when he was taking care of Wellington's boat and he was treated like dirt so this is his revenge.
Not sure about the motives for all the killings years earlier though.
Still think there is a second person who has additional motives for killing people like the uncle (if it's Abby or Wellington's wife maybe the uncle came onto them too strongly and this was payback), and also some of these killings look to require two people to accomplish.