Owen returns!
In this episode, Jane and Grayson deal with the case of a
woman who wants to keep her fiancé’s ashes after his recent death, but is being
contested by his step-mother, to whom he left everything in his (3-yr old)
will. Also, Luke helps Terri out and Parker and Kim work through some sexist
whatnot.
Jane and Grayson
The case of the week involved a woman, Kathy, asking Jane
and Grayson to help her keep the ashes of her dead fiancé based off of a video
of her fiancé saying that he was hers, “body and soul”. Also she can see his
ghost and telling her in no uncertain terms that he wants her to have the
ashes, but ghosts aren’t really admissible in court. Usually Jane is the one
who is gung-ho to take a case even if the odds are ridiculous, but this time Grayson
wanted it because of the similarities between Kathy’s situation and his with
Deb.
So they take the case and it’s going really well for them
until the grossest reveal ever: Kathy has been eating the ashes. Explanation? It
lets her see her fiance’s ghost.
I’m pretty sure everyone who heard that except the people in
the show started thinking, “dangerous toxin! You’re going to die because of
some dangerous hallucinatory toxin in the ashes! Danger, Will Robinson!”
Because that’s what I did. Do TV characters never watch TV?
Anyway, Jane and Grayson still almost manage to pull the
case off. Unfortunately, Kathy lets it slip in court that she’s seeing the
ghost of her fiancé and then basically they lose the case because she seems crazy.
The obviously evil stepmother is given the ashes because Kathy is obviously
insane, and Kathy passes out because there were heavy metals in the ashes she
was munching on.
And then comes the
Jane-epiphany (you know, I really love this show, but it is pretty predictable)
where she realizes that the dead fiancé was poisoned by his stepmother, who
wanted his money, and that’s why his ashes are toxic.
And then Jane tricks the evil stepmother into confessing,
like a boss.
So, yeah. Fun case, except Kathy really needs some help. Slowly
killing yourself by doing something super creepy/gross just to see your dead
fiancé… Not the healthiest way to grieve.
Parker and Kim
I kind of love Parker, but he’s such a pompous ass.
He comes into the office, explains that actually, the FBI
sting was just a set up, everything’s okay, and he’s probably going to get a
medal. So you kind of want to smack him to start with, but then you realize
that he didn’t every tell Kim what was going on. Kim, his partner. Like, business
partner, not fun-times partner.
Then he sends flowers to apologize. Hah. Hah hah.
And then when that doesn’t go over so super well, he gets
some awesome advice from Terri to stop being such a pompous, sexist ass.
So then he figures it out and makes Kim happy and he’s a charming,
low-voiced devil again! Yay.
Luke and Terri
Luke and Terri got to bond this episode, and Terri got to
wear the best, most ridiculous outfit ever.
Terri almost got conned into dropping $1000 on a producer
after supposedly winning first prize in a music contest, but Luke saved the
day.
Isn’t it interesting that Luke helping Stacy in the last episode
and now he’s helping Terri? It’s like he started out as a terrible guardian
angel to Jane, but he’s getting better at helping her and other people.
And you know, I like Luke. I know almost no-one else does,
but he’s kind of awesome. I have high hopes for him.
And finally,
Jane and Owen
I’m kind of one of those people who likes Grayson a ton
(although I’m unsure if I can ever see him with Jane), so I was not super
excited to see Owen.
In my notes I had a list of the only explanations that would
excuse him not calling: “I work for the government”, “I’m an alien”, and “your
life depended on it” are about as far as I got, but I guess, “my heart stopped”
was pretty good, too.
But apparently almost dying made him rather over-cautious.
“I know this doesn’t seem fair” he says to a heart-broken (and then super
angry) Jane after taking back his proposal. Ack. It made me so sad; you could
tell it was difficult for him. But of course, it’s Owen and he's a good guy, so he’s rescinding his
proposal for Jane’s sake.
There is a juxtaposition between Owen and Jane here that was
kind of cool. Jane/Deb went through a death experience and basically decided to
take a hold of life and live it all the more. Owen went through a death
experience and retreated away from his life.
But then Grayson goes and accidentally shoots himself in the
face when he tells Jane that he loves how she “doesn’t take no for an answer”.
So she goes and doesn’t take no for an answer from Owen.
You know how I said that I wasn’t super excited to see Owen?
I changed my mind. The last scene was my favorite scene. Lex Medlin did a great
job of expressing a pretty fair range of emotions without saying much. When he
said “Of course I have the ring”, my
heart kind of melted.
This is the most I’ve ever liked them together, actually.
The look on his face when she proposed to him was priceless. Actually very
moving. I felt as moved by the look on his face as I usually am when people hug
and kiss in the same sort of situation. It was awesome, even as I was wondering
in the back of my head what’s going to happen to Grayson.
Overall, a big, good episode!
Extraneous Notes:
- There wasn't enough Stacy in this episode
- Stacy interpreting Jane’s dreams for her, and then pretending to be Owen because she had “robes” on—really cute. They have such a nice friend interaction!
- I can’t quite believe Grayson’s googly eyes when he looks at Jane
- Terri had some very interesting information about the original Lady Bodacious, or rather, Boudica. Link! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boudica
- The dead fiancé/ghost was pretty cute. In a Narnian faun kind of way. http://www.imdb.com/media/rm1216985088/nm3942723
- I like Kim’s pants in the beginning of the episode.
Credit:
Director: Michael Grossman
Writers: Josh Berman, Rob Wright
Last Note:
I am trying to get my word count down on these things, but I have so many things I want to say. It seems like once I get the brief summary down, I don't have room left to talk about the actual characters and the subtext and all the interesting bits. Anyone have any suggestions?
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