Ringer- Shut Up and Eat Your Bologna

"Why are you calling yourself Siobhan Martin?"


Watching this show gives me gray hair, I swear. I have never watched a show that leaves me so anxious and nervous I feel as if I am in the show myself.

Right from the beginning we are taken to a flashback six weeks ago. It happens to be the same night as the very first episode of Ringer where Bridget ran away from the hotel room with the stolen gun and fled to her sisters apartment in New York. The real story is that the cop that was suppose to be protecting her told her to run. He said if she stayed and testified against Macawi she would be dead. He planted the idea in her brain that she should go to her sisters and planted the gun in her purse. By the end of the episode we find out that the cop (who might or might not have actually been a real cop) was hired by Charlie, or should I say John. Gee, there is a lot of people with the fake identity Charlie on the CW this season don't you think?  John is working for Siobhan and everything has been set up from the start. Siobhan wanted to lure Bridget to her so she could execute her plan (and what that plan is I am still not quite sure), have Bridget assume her identity, and she led her straight into Charlie's arms. The only more twisted thing now could be that Siobhan is actually working with Macawi. That would be something else. What could Bridget have done to her sister that could have made her create this elaborate scheme?

Jemma is ALIVE. Oh thank god, although her screen time today was limited. All we know is that Charlie/ John has another apartment where he actually lives. Got to give props to Malcolm for his extraordinary spying skills. He picked up on little clues that led him to believe that Charlie didn't actually live in the apartment he was letting him stay in. He checked out his wallet while Charlie went to shower and found that it was pretty much all empty, except for some keys to a mailbox. He located that and got the address of his second apartment. Meanwhile Bridget went to Shiv's old therapist and actually enjoyed herself. Her motive was to find out why her sister was prescribed anti-depressants. She found her answer after she snuck into the therapists office during lunch, stole her information from the last session, and basically ruined any relationship Shiv had with the therapist. Close call! But this way we found out that Siobhan was suffering from paranoia. Was she really hearing voices or is this whole plan set up because she knew someone was out to kill her? Will we come full circle right back to the hit-man that tried to shoot her in the loft? Whatever happened to him? 

Bridget followed the evidence to a church which was abandoned and for sale. Downstairs in the rectory was some sort of bar/ lounge type thing, which seemed quite odd to me but I get the sense that Siobhan was an odd person to begin with. Bridget spots Charlie there drinking and learns that his name is John. Comparing everything she found with everything Malcolm found she regrets giving Charlie the gun, or any information about her life. Lesson number one- don't trust ANYONE! As she sets up a meeting to meet up with Charlie and ask for the gun back, Malcolm breaks into his second apartment and snoops around. As he tries to break into the locked basement (where he would have found JEMMA!) Charlie catches on that Bridget has figured him out and dips from the coffee bar. Truthfully though, there is no logical way out of the story for Bridget. In order to clean this whole mess up she has to come clean. If she finds Jemma they are going to wonder why she's at Charlie's. Which leads to why she ever went to AA. Which leads to her being Bridget. Is Charlie going to run now or is he going to try and kill Bridget and Malcom? 

On to happier moments in the episode, Bridget's relationship with Andrew is going strong. Too bad it is all based on a lie... If Andrew was to find any of this out he would never accept her and she would be crushed because like she admitted at therapy, she's falling in love with him. Just a thought though, does Bridget not make the correlation that at dinner a guy called her out for sleeping with him and calling herself Cora and now at therapy apparently Siobhan uses the name Cora as her decoy? Wouldn't you put two and two together and think maybe Siobhan is really alive? I mean the thought isn't that crazy considering everything thats going on and since she already assumed Charlie and Shiv knew each other maybe she should consider it! Meanwhile his obsessively-jealous assistant Olivia is on a mission of her own. She wants Jemma's sick father to sign over his share holdings to their company and the only way to do this is to persuade Henry. Andrew doesn't agree because of Henry's fragile condition so she goes behind his back and does it anyways. Meanwhile being her snoopy self she digs through Henry's phone after he goes to check on the kids and finds a picture of him and Siobhan that she will of course use as blackmail to ruin their finally happy relationship in the future. Everyone in this show is just so damn clever, twisted, and evil that it fascinates me. One week break until the next episode, where everything is about to blow up in everyone's face.... Lightly put.

Memorable Quotes

• Andrew: You know I'd say your entitled to some payback. If you want to take scissors to her wardrobe i'll turn a blind eye.
• Bridget: I'm calling Machado.
• Cop: Don't. Look half the bureau is on Bottoways payroll. You testify against him tomorrow and your dead. You can't trust the feds.
• B: And I can trust you?
• C: I'm not asking you to trust me. I'm asking you to run. Now.
• Malcolm: It's easy to believe there are no god people left but somebody proved me wrong.
• Bridget: It's only a matter of time before they figure out I'm not Siobhan.
• Malcom: You're pretending to be his dead wife how can there be any trust in there. I'm sorry but this prince charming fantasy you got going with Andrew was supposed to be temporary. This is not your life. 
• Siobhan/Bridget: Oh my god. I'm falling in love with Andrew... All over again.
• Andrew: Would you stand with me?
• Siobhan/Bridget: I'd stand with you.