Wrangling Walker: Season Four Episode Four “Insane BS and Bloodshed”
We got plenty of action in Walker 4.04 “Insane BS and Bloodshed” – the fallout of good intentions gone wrong, more reasons why secrets are bad, and proof that a serial killer is back in action. As always, I’ll leave the recap to others and focus on some themes and observations.
Captain James, Trey, and Cordell
I think Kelly was way out of line asking Trey and Cordell to keep their investigation of the Jackal a secret from Captain James. Kelly also oversteps a personal/professional boundary – family members have more leeway than employees.
Yes, James kept some of the investigation into Emily’s death away from Cordell but Cordell was undercover for part of that time, and as the boss, that was James’s call to make. James has a right to be angry about Trey and Cordell keeping him in the dark, even briefly. It was also sad to see him think that Kelly was keeping a pregnancy secret only to realize he had been kept in the dark by his wife and his subordinates.
Cassie and David Luna
They work together very well, and Cassie quickly makes her expertise clear, which David accepts. They had a great fight with the toughs at the motel. Cassie pretending to be a sex worker to explain her presence with David reminded me of that first scene with Sam and Ruby in Supernatural when Dean comes back from the dead.
David tells Cassie how James took it so hard dealing with the son of one of the Jackal’s victims. Then David and Cassie encounter a teenager at the motel whose mother is missing. They eventually finding her dying, the Jackal’s latest kill. (Why didn’t David and Cassie take spades with them, since they knew the killer buried people alive?) Cassie can’t get Cordell to pick up the phone so she calls James. It’s not a stretch to see why he considers their secret-keeping to be a betrayal. This is going to have repercussions.
Stella, Sadie, Auggie and Liam
Stella and Sadie are held at gunpoint by Witt who tells them how he survived after being shot, and how he got away from Jordan, the guy who put him up to the break-in. Witt says he shot Jordan but forensics incorrectly identified Jordan’s body as Witt. (That part didn’t make much sense.)
Witt tells them they need to find a missing necklace or ‘she’ won’t give up. He gives Stella his gun and apologizes, then walks away. Sadie wants to tell Cordell, but Stella is afraid Witt will go to jail. I get that Stella felt guilty thinking she had killed Witt, but otherwise I don’t understand her loyalty to someone she barely knows (and who just held a gun on them, which is a big deal-breaker). Sadie calls her on ‘misguided guilt’ and tells Stella she sympathizes too much.
I had hopes that everything Stella went through in the last season led to more maturity, but that doesn’t seem to be the case. Her motivation here doesn’t make sense, except for the writers to manipulate the characters into the next set of situations.
Meanwhile, Auggie and Liam bond over nachos. Auggie is worried about Stella, who isn’t answering his calls. Liam, who was just chased away by Stella, says she needs space. Auggie shows up at her dorm, and refuses to be sent away. Stella ends up telling him everything. Auggie says he will keep her secret and help her. Then Witt shows up, and they plan to deal with the missing necklace.
The writers needed to remind us better about the necklace and who the mysterious ‘she’ is. Even so, Stella is playing Nancy Drew again and by this time, she should understand consequences. Her loyalty to Witt makes no sense. I admire Auggie for trying to protect her, but he should also know better. Once again Stella takes in a ‘misunderstood’ stray out of misguided guilt and will nearly get everyone killed because of it.
I’m disappointed that Stella hasn’t learned from past mistakes. Sadie, who I mistrusted in the last episode, emerged as the voice of reason. If Stella thinks she felt guilty over Witt, wait until she gets Auggie hurt. It would have made much more sense for her to have tried to reach Liam and Cordell and for some reason have been unable to do so in a heat of the moment situation.
Supernatural fans know that keeping secrets, even for noble reasons, never turns out well. Looks like Cordell and his crew are going to need to learn that the hard way.
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