Winter is the ultimate psychotic. Chance is, for all practical purposes, a dreamer. For whatever reason, he has this ethic that Winter can be cured. In this episode, Winter confesses and names names. So he is to turn himself in and face a court that will probably place him in an institution for the criminally insane. But he is allowed to do this on his own. I don't buy Chance's argument about coercion. We have D facing off against his father who has been harassing him forever. And, we finally have the police coming for Nicole. This one is hard to believe because she is picked up like she is a serial killer.
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"Treasures in Jars of Clay" Season 2, Ep. 6 SPOILERS
hilaryjrp22 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW
The sixth episode of "Chance" is the saddest hour of the show's two seasons. It opens with the killer still confessing to Chance the usual grandiose serial killer crap he began in the previous episode. It all verges on being very "Criminal Minds"-y, until this killer's screed hits home. He assures Chance poolside at his mansion that victims are vulnerable without knowing it--and he says this to Chance's vulnerable face.
Beginning-to-end, the episode is about grandiose dreams of starting over. Each major character has a story line where plans (and that word, "plan," is stated at least a dozen times in the hour) are made only to be dashed. D, as usual, is the person who says to Nicole that that is exactly what happens with plans--they "never go how you expect." In his case, he has an unusual and pretty medieval-monk-like way of disciplining himself. He has finally, finally, confronted his wicked father, the guy who abandoned him as a young child to a sadistic abuser. D confronts him in the old man's bedroom, and although he has brought a knife, he lets the rotten, corrupt villain reach for a nightstand pistol to shoot him. He will tell Nicole that fear is a thing that must be killed--and kill his own fear, of his old man, he does indeed.
But then he goes to the warehouse where his "tribe" does their mixed martial arts and asks them to beat him and try to hurt him. It seems like an unusual request--at first. But when we see Nicole's, Hynes', and also Chance's mindless happiness after their own apparent victories (Nicole returning the homeless man's stolen dog, Chance putting in action a "plan" to separate Winter from Lyndsay, Hynes agreeing to meet Lambert in the small hours at Winter's mansion, where Lambert has promised him something big regarding Winter), we see how much of a cold, gimlet-eye D has when it comes to the danger of reveling in success.
The episode belongs heart and soul to Brian Goodman, who plays one of the most tragic roles of this series. Kevin Hynes was introduced as a menacing but mysterious figure last season, working for Internal Affairs and professing suspicious willingness to help Chance "get" Blackstone. Hynes' reappearance in Season 2 was worse than menacing; it was to blackmail Chance over the way Chance solved all his problems with the crooked cop and Jaclyn.
But throughout Season 2, Hynes has been the volcanic counterpart to D. His depression in this episode after losing his job is so strong, it seeps through the screen. The audience might remember how grandiose he was after being fired in the previous episode, how he pretended indifference, foresaw for himself eventual ticker-tape parades in his honor, and spouted quotes from St. Augustine. Brian Goodman's portrayal of this aging, desperately unhappy--but finally out of the closet--man would be beyond heartbreaking even if the episode did not end the way it does.
Unlike D, he is proud of the fact that never once in his career did he fire his gun. He and D are temperamental opposites with identical passions for justice. Unlike D, he is still crippled by shame, in his case about his homosexuality. In the scene with Carl Allen, he naively asks Carl if Carl never tried just to "forget" he was gay. Then melodramatic Carl proceeds to quote Scripture to him ("treasures in jars of clay" comes from 2 Corinthians 4, if it matters) about God's love.
Hynes' depression FINALLY begins to lift, and briefly, he is neither menacing, brooding, or closeted, and he and Carl share a cup of tea. He looks sincerely hopeful with (uh-oh) a vague "plan" for a new life as a guy at peace with his sexual orientation. Carl too has plans--D insists on driving him to his dying ex-wife's apartment, where Carl's family waits for a reunion whose bitterness or happiness the audience doesn't see.
And then-- Then comes the concluding scene. Just as with Nicole in her short-lived happiness after returning the homeless man's dog to its owner, Hynes sees his own newfound peace brought very very low. The metaphor by St. Paul is ironic here: Carl Allen may be very correct that God regards humans as "treasures," but "clay" is very, very breakable.
This episode of "Chance" contains a great amount of action, dialogue, and character development. It also contains the season's greatest tragedy.
10 out of 10.
The sixth episode of "Chance" is the saddest hour of the show's two seasons. It opens with the killer still confessing to Chance the usual grandiose serial killer crap he began in the previous episode. It all verges on being very "Criminal Minds"-y, until this killer's screed hits home. He assures Chance poolside at his mansion that victims are vulnerable without knowing it--and he says this to Chance's vulnerable face.
Beginning-to-end, the episode is about grandiose dreams of starting over. Each major character has a story line where plans (and that word, "plan," is stated at least a dozen times in the hour) are made only to be dashed. D, as usual, is the person who says to Nicole that that is exactly what happens with plans--they "never go how you expect." In his case, he has an unusual and pretty medieval-monk-like way of disciplining himself. He has finally, finally, confronted his wicked father, the guy who abandoned him as a young child to a sadistic abuser. D confronts him in the old man's bedroom, and although he has brought a knife, he lets the rotten, corrupt villain reach for a nightstand pistol to shoot him. He will tell Nicole that fear is a thing that must be killed--and kill his own fear, of his old man, he does indeed.
But then he goes to the warehouse where his "tribe" does their mixed martial arts and asks them to beat him and try to hurt him. It seems like an unusual request--at first. But when we see Nicole's, Hynes', and also Chance's mindless happiness after their own apparent victories (Nicole returning the homeless man's stolen dog, Chance putting in action a "plan" to separate Winter from Lyndsay, Hynes agreeing to meet Lambert in the small hours at Winter's mansion, where Lambert has promised him something big regarding Winter), we see how much of a cold, gimlet-eye D has when it comes to the danger of reveling in success.
The episode belongs heart and soul to Brian Goodman, who plays one of the most tragic roles of this series. Kevin Hynes was introduced as a menacing but mysterious figure last season, working for Internal Affairs and professing suspicious willingness to help Chance "get" Blackstone. Hynes' reappearance in Season 2 was worse than menacing; it was to blackmail Chance over the way Chance solved all his problems with the crooked cop and Jaclyn.
But throughout Season 2, Hynes has been the volcanic counterpart to D. His depression in this episode after losing his job is so strong, it seeps through the screen. The audience might remember how grandiose he was after being fired in the previous episode, how he pretended indifference, foresaw for himself eventual ticker-tape parades in his honor, and spouted quotes from St. Augustine. Brian Goodman's portrayal of this aging, desperately unhappy--but finally out of the closet--man would be beyond heartbreaking even if the episode did not end the way it does.
Unlike D, he is proud of the fact that never once in his career did he fire his gun. He and D are temperamental opposites with identical passions for justice. Unlike D, he is still crippled by shame, in his case about his homosexuality. In the scene with Carl Allen, he naively asks Carl if Carl never tried just to "forget" he was gay. Then melodramatic Carl proceeds to quote Scripture to him ("treasures in jars of clay" comes from 2 Corinthians 4, if it matters) about God's love.
Hynes' depression FINALLY begins to lift, and briefly, he is neither menacing, brooding, or closeted, and he and Carl share a cup of tea. He looks sincerely hopeful with (uh-oh) a vague "plan" for a new life as a guy at peace with his sexual orientation. Carl too has plans--D insists on driving him to his dying ex-wife's apartment, where Carl's family waits for a reunion whose bitterness or happiness the audience doesn't see.
And then-- Then comes the concluding scene. Just as with Nicole in her short-lived happiness after returning the homeless man's dog to its owner, Hynes sees his own newfound peace brought very very low. The metaphor by St. Paul is ironic here: Carl Allen may be very correct that God regards humans as "treasures," but "clay" is very, very breakable.
This episode of "Chance" contains a great amount of action, dialogue, and character development. It also contains the season's greatest tragedy.
10 out of 10.
Treasures in Jars of Clay
bobcobb30111 November 2017
Warning: Spoilers
I was expecting Hynes to perish at some point, that is how these shows usually go, the detective gets his win, but it happens post-mortem. That was surprising to have it wrap up so quickly.
I liked the secondary storyline with Nicole stealing the dog back. As a dog lover it was great to see justice prevail and a homeless man with so little get his best friend back.
I liked the secondary storyline with Nicole stealing the dog back. As a dog lover it was great to see justice prevail and a homeless man with so little get his best friend back.
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