Tessa's friend, Natalie is attacked by a serial killer named The Scalper. She goes to recover with Duncan and Tessa at their place. This episode was a bit odd. Duncan immediately jumps to the theory that the attacker is a copycat of a serial killer immortal from decades earlier that Duncan killed. I thought it was too little to go on for Duncan to come to this conclusion.
The Scalper is lame. The writers never bothered giving him any layers. He's just a copycat, that's it! The serial killer immortal, Marcus, from decades earlier was only on screen for about 3 or 4 minutes. He had so little screen-time yet he is far more interesting and layered in that short amount of time than The Scalper who had way more screen-time. Go figure.
There's some bad fx of when The scalper goes into hunting/killing mode. Basically it was an over-saturated high-contrast filter, that just looked so amateur to me.
When Duncan remembered the Indian motorcycle why didn't he tell the police? I know he's wary of too much scrutiny on him due to his immortality, but this literally had nothing to do with immortal stuff. He remembered after the fact. That's common with witnesses to remember things later. Instead he tells Randi Macfarland. Kind of dumb
Duncan reams Richie out when he tries to follow The Scalper on his motorcycle and wipes out. He's bumped up pretty badly. Duncan is right to be concerned, but he's more angry than what would be considered to be reasonable. This is foreshadowing for what comes later in season 2, when we learn why Duncan has been watching Richie so closely.
I think the woman going to the fake audition that was attacked could have a good lawsuit against Duncan. The police probably could have charged him too for something, even if the killer was caught, but at the expense of another woman being attacked. The killer didn't kill or scalp her because she wasn't blonde(she had a blonde wig on), which was part of his M.O. But still pretty traumatic for the lady. This is just kind of swept under the rug.
Tessa is very angry about her friend being attacked and wants to help catch him. Tessa ends up running him down to protect Richie. I had to laugh when everyone, including Randi is standing over the guy and not bothering to call the police or an ambulance, until Tessa suggested it. Tessa is disturbed by what she did. Good job by the actress conveying that and showing that it's not as easy as some people think it is to cause violence to another person even when that person is evil. She's not happy nor proud. She's shaken, that is her humanity showing. Good job by Stan Kirsch with his expression when Tessa runs down the killer. I gave this episode a 6/10.
The Scalper is lame. The writers never bothered giving him any layers. He's just a copycat, that's it! The serial killer immortal, Marcus, from decades earlier was only on screen for about 3 or 4 minutes. He had so little screen-time yet he is far more interesting and layered in that short amount of time than The Scalper who had way more screen-time. Go figure.
There's some bad fx of when The scalper goes into hunting/killing mode. Basically it was an over-saturated high-contrast filter, that just looked so amateur to me.
When Duncan remembered the Indian motorcycle why didn't he tell the police? I know he's wary of too much scrutiny on him due to his immortality, but this literally had nothing to do with immortal stuff. He remembered after the fact. That's common with witnesses to remember things later. Instead he tells Randi Macfarland. Kind of dumb
Duncan reams Richie out when he tries to follow The Scalper on his motorcycle and wipes out. He's bumped up pretty badly. Duncan is right to be concerned, but he's more angry than what would be considered to be reasonable. This is foreshadowing for what comes later in season 2, when we learn why Duncan has been watching Richie so closely.
I think the woman going to the fake audition that was attacked could have a good lawsuit against Duncan. The police probably could have charged him too for something, even if the killer was caught, but at the expense of another woman being attacked. The killer didn't kill or scalp her because she wasn't blonde(she had a blonde wig on), which was part of his M.O. But still pretty traumatic for the lady. This is just kind of swept under the rug.
Tessa is very angry about her friend being attacked and wants to help catch him. Tessa ends up running him down to protect Richie. I had to laugh when everyone, including Randi is standing over the guy and not bothering to call the police or an ambulance, until Tessa suggested it. Tessa is disturbed by what she did. Good job by the actress conveying that and showing that it's not as easy as some people think it is to cause violence to another person even when that person is evil. She's not happy nor proud. She's shaken, that is her humanity showing. Good job by Stan Kirsch with his expression when Tessa runs down the killer. I gave this episode a 6/10.
