What can’t be doubted about “Rabbit Hole,” regardless of the fixed sideswipes and the illusions upon illusions upon illusions, is that when the present goes down the titular burrow, Kiefer Sutherland actually sells it.
It’s not a shock by any means – his portrayal of Jack Bauer was, on the calmest of instances, intense and entire-hearted – nevertheless it does enable the present extra wiggle room in its confusion makes an attempt, particularly in an episode like “Gilgamesh,” which focuses fully on John and the truth he’s shedding management of.
For all of my criticisms over current weeks of the sheer variety of plot twists and divulges, this hour finally works in addition to any a part of this present has. It’s efficient at a number of various things: clearing up a whole lot of the lies and potential lies being upheld by Ben specifically, grounding John’s psychological state from its erstwhile spiralling, and establishing precisely how harmful Crowley is.
In abstract: Miles is, in actual fact, useless. The Magic Squares messages got here from Crowley, who has accessed his knowledge at Arda and found the way in which they convey, and so they had been used to lure John out into the open. It labored, and through a Kyle kidnapping, Crowley was capable of communicate with John to say that Ben’s behind all the things. But Miles was forward of the sport, making a video recording explaining that he and Ben nonetheless have work to do and sending it to John hidden in a Gilgamesh pill, which they realized about at school collectively.
Decode the second message from “Miles” and also you’ll discover it say “Crowley is Ben. We need to meet.” That assembly demonstrates that the Peter Weller character is just not Crowley, reasonably his physique double of types; Padmé Amidala-style, besides with out the acquisition of an annoying, quickly-to-destroy-half-the-galaxy youngster. That rug pull means the message may nonetheless be true, however absolutely – absolutely – that twist is a step too far, even for this present. Also: an actual disgrace that Weller’s not the massive unhealthy, given how a lot enjoyable it’s to observe he and Sutherland yell at one another.
For as little time as we spent with it taking part in out within the current day, the John-Miles relationship is clearly essentially the most vital within the present. As we attain the church scene it’s laid out, as we knew, that Miles was the one to maintain John stage-headed. This clearly isn’t a present with a “true message” of friendship or bromance or something like that – nevertheless it does reiterate its precise tone: belief. From what we’ve seen, the one folks in John’s life who haven’t come into it both by means of realizing mistruths or a line of labor that calls for liars are his ex-spouse and Miles. And Olivia is hardly a mainstay.
Miles is the one particular person John can absolutely belief, not solely to listen to the reality – any reality – from, however to be the one to inform the reality to. Think again to the planning flashbacks earlier within the season, and John holding the data of his son from Ben. Homm says on this hour that he didn’t know John had an ex. With everybody, John shares no extra data than is required for the subsequent 10 minutes of life; with Miles, he shared all the things.
So affirmation of his loss of life, and the way in which through which Crowley makes use of John’s hope towards him, spurs on our protagonist to simply accept doing no matter it takes to cease their enemy. The entire factor illustrates how terrifying Ben’s worry really is, provided that John was ready to kill his father on his enemy’s say-so all due to messages purporting to be from his greatest pal. Imagine the sort of management you will have when utilizing legit knowledge towards anyone.
The kind of management, maybe, that permits you to manipulate the FBI. Though Deputy Director Morello’s title is, presumably, not within the file given to Agent Madi by Hailey, it will appear he’s concerned someway, given he presents Madi no matter she desires with the intention to overlook the file existed. Could he be Crowley? Whatever his position, Madi’s acceptance of the commerce – in a approach, it appears like she’s blackmailing him – suggests she knew of his involvement someway and she or he’s taking part in an extended sport. Then once more, possibly she’s that determined to seek out John Weir. After all, her at-house conspiracy board screams ‘obsessed.’
Madi could also be onto one thing in her organisation of the case. Given how complicated “Rabbit Hole” has been throughout its seven episodes, viewers definitely wouldn’t be worse off with an analogous board of notes to maintain monitor of all of it. But with one episode remaining, the state of affairs is thus: John, Ben, Hailey, and Homm – essentially the most weird of all save-the-day groups – are going after Crowley to place an finish to his manipulation as soon as and for all.
Whatever comes, it needs to be a enjoyable trip.
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