Many reviewers of Episode one pointed out the poor acting and script. This second episode in the series is far worse.
I think there is no chemistry between the leads because they can't believe they are having to deliver such embarrassing dialogue.
This time the Agent Jim Conner has been "invited" to consult so I can only assume this is why he doesn't seem to know the first thing about anything and takes his lead at every turn from Ms Fielding. Another reviewer felt the script could have been written by a 6th grader .. I think someone much younger! Poor Agent Conner isn't sure that the 16th century means the 1500s and seems to think her Archeologists Society might be able to change that mode of dating. At Quantico he was apparently taught to trust his gut rather than facts and obviously never learned Latin.
But it's the way he even delivers lines that she did in the last movie when she was the "consultant". He's supposed to be the real deal so when she suggests he come with her to meet a suspect it's pathetic that he questions "We?". Even if it's supposed to be a deliberate "nod" to her same comment in the previous episode... it's just embarrassing to watch. I also love that the minute they saw Webster's body through the hole in the wall Conner announced he was dead and then she asked how? She could see the knife wound in his back just as easily as he could but how did he know he was dead from that distance and how was he supposed to how? It's stuff like this that is just grueling to watch and listen to.
Then there's her behavior of knocking down the wall to the murder room with glee after the "hopeless" police have finished with it as a crime scene. Previously Fielding clearly pointed out that knocking down the wall would "ruin the integrity of an historical site". Go figure??
Another reviewer commented that the movie reminded them of the Scooby Doo. It's true!! I watched some of it again with that in mind and it was hysterical.
No drama, no suspense, Agent Conner is asleep through the whole movie or he's forgotten his training completely. Fielding is a self-assured, annoying and bossy bore.
I like that the producers took note of a reviewer's negative comments re Conner's appearance in Episode one. This time his shirt is buttoned up higher to hide his medallion most of the time and he's clean shaven!!
