This second episode of "The Widow" dispensed with many of the flashback scenes that bogged down episode one. Now, the plot truly thickens! If there is a theme to this episode, it is that nearly everyone of the characters has a secret or intentionally concealing something from another character.
The focus is primarily on Georgia's obsession with finding the truth about her husband Will and whether may have survived the plane crash. The action takes place around Punia in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Joseph Conrad's famous novella "Heart of Darkness" was set in the Congo region in the nineteenth century, and "The Widow" follows a similar pattern of the protagonist taking a harrowing journey into the heart of darkness.
On this episode's journey, Georgia is surprised when she receives a "free" rental car. Unable to find the man who rented it, she continues to follow leads on the mysterious Pieter Bellow, who appears to be swinging an arms deal in Kisima. The rental car that would have taken Georgia to the airport and onto the Kisima region, explodes, killing poor Emmanuel. With her nerves already frayed, Georgia, who had previously made an attempt on her own life, must now carry the guilt of the nice man's death.
In Rotterdam, Beatrix cannot get Ariel to open up about the plane crash. After an argument, the two blind people have a heart-to-heart conversation in which Ariel reveals the truth about the plane crash. Their "relationship" has now gone well beyond Ariel waxing philosophical about his favorite painting, "Whistler's Mother" at the Musée d'Orsay.
Ariel relates that on the flight out of the Congo, there was a bomb scare, and the person carrying the bomb was Emmanuel's beloved wife, Gaele, who agreed to take onto the plane a knapsack with a green lion. She was unaware that the bag contained an explosive device. According to Ariel, everything about the official story of the plane crash is false.
In what on the surface is a minor subplot, a truck driver meets a mysterious young woman who gives him a wad of cash to take a crate across the Congolese-Rwandan border safely into Rwanda. The crate is surrounded by large sacks of coffee. Inside the crate is none other that good, ol' Will!
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