Ron Does Stuff

Just like Hannibal, the last time I watched an episode of this show was last year. Unlike Hannibal, this show really isn’t something to miss. But I’m still watching it anyway! Because I’m a glutton for punishment.

When last we saw Clarice, she was getting injected with something at a medical establishment by Marilyn Felker’s twin. Who is Marilyn Felker? She’s a doctor involved in the clinical trial where the women killed in the previous episodes were a part of.

Back to this episode. Clarice wakes up, and she can’t feel her legs. Has she been asleep that long? Or has she been injected with a paralytic? Apparently, it was just an epidural, but I guess it affects you differently depending on which part of the spine it’s injected? Marilyn Felker’s twin threatens her with this to discourage her from screaming.

Clarice pieces things together as she talks with Marilyn Felker’s twin, who, as it turns out, is actually Marilyn Felker. She’s incapacitated her twin sister for reasons that may have been explained before, but I honestly don’t care enough to look back. Marilyn is wondering why the FBI hasn’t come looking for Clarice yet, and when Clarice doesn’t give an appropriate response, she puts her back to sleep.

She may not be asleep for long, though, as Aredelia figures out she’s in trouble when Esquivel calls her looking for Clarice. She’s off to look for her, while Marilyn Felker is talking to someone, asking how Clarice managed to find her when she was supposed to be untraceable. Obviously, this person is part of the Big Bad because they’re instructing Marilyn to find out what the FBI knows and anything about the reporter who ran away in a previous episode.

Back in her bed, Clarice has taken those oxygen things that I’ve seen once or twice when I’ve been hospitalized, those little glass things on the wall. I’ve always wondered what those were for. Clarice is also having…hallucinations? Involving the moths from The Silence of the Lambs, but we don’t know if that’s from the drugs Marilyn Felker injected in her, or from PTSD.

Over at the FBI, Ardelia and the rest of the team are figuring out where Clarice could be, while Krendler is at a family thing. That family thing? Divorcing his wife. I dunno, maybe it’s just because I’ve started Hannibal again, but this all seems like reheating Jack Crawford and Bella Crawford’s nachos.

While all of that is happening, Clarice is literraly getting tortured by Marilyn Felker over at wherever they are. She’s using the defibrillator as a torture device to get Clarice to talk about the reporter who uncovered the clinical trials that led to the women in the previous episodes being assassinated. Clarice is standing her ground, though, and is even trying to get into Marilyn’s head and make her realize that she’s being set up by whoever it was she was talking to on the phone. However, that doesn’t work out, because now that Marilyn’s realized that torturing Clarice won’t get her desired result, she resorts to killing one of the other patients in the ward instead.

Over at Marilyn Felker’s house, Esquiviel and the Other FBI Guy are realizing that Clarice was right; they found evidence in this home too easily. This prompts Other FBI Guy to call Krendler, who just harshed his soon-to-be ex-wife’s buzz by telling her that he wants custody of their kids. The wife leaves as soon as Krendler answers his phone and tells the team he’ll come in.

Back at the hospital of horrors, Clarice is being Hannibal-y with Marilyn Felker by telling her that it’s going to be a quid pro quo between the two of them, especially now that Marilyn’s already killed one of the patients. The questioning is just a ruse, though, as Clarice tries to use the oxygen thingie she took off the wall to stab Marilyn. Unfortunately, Marilyn fights it off, and now Clarice has been injected with a paralytic and intubated. Marilyn’s also dressed her up in bandages, as Ardelia and Tripathi have arrived in the facility, and Marilyn can’t have them finding Clarice, can she?

With the FBI fooled for now, Marilyn is back at it again, but so is Clarice, getting into Marilyn’s head in the same way that Hannibal did to her. She manages to rattle Marilyn, which allows her to escape, but she runs into another person, who is obviously whoever is behind this whole thing. She hears snippets of the conversation the person has with Marilyn, but she still can’t see his face.

Eventually — because this is a 13-episode show and you can’t have the person the show is named after die — Clarice manages to escape Marilyn, and, luckily, the FBI team arrives as well. Marilyn kills herself rather than surrender, and now we are left with no leads, again, for the show’s main mystery.

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