This week’s episode of Frequency proved that just when I thought the creep-o-meter had capped out on Nightingale, he adds another layer of fear. Frank dealt with the ramifications of some choices he made while undercover and Satch thought long and hard about if this job was good for him anymore. Here are some events that happened in episode seven, entitled “Break, Break, Break”.
CAMP NIGHTMARE | Frank (Riley Smith) gets a hit on the vin number of the Nightingale truck and he and Satch (Mekhi Phifer) go check out the owner who never reported it missing. The man told them he kept it up at his cabin in the Catskills and hadn’t been there for two years so the two of them decide to go check it out. Before they go, Frank tells Raimy (Peyton List) about the truck and she agrees to look into any connection to the Catskills. Raimy goes to Satch and asks for his help looking into it so he takes her out to the garage where he has a whole setup with hiw very own murder board and everything. In her investigation Raimy comes across a file of Laurissa Abbot, whose partial remains were found up in the Catskills. She was reported missing in 1994 but according to their file, wasn’t a nurse and wasn’t found with rosary beads. However, Raimy points out that an explanation for her remains being found the way they were would be if her arms were originally bound. Satch agrees and they call in the victim’s brother for an interview. The brother mentions that his sister had a second job at a Christian summer camp up in that area as the camp nurse (oh no). They do some more digging and determine that the only way she and the Nightingale killer could have crossed paths would have been at the camp, which has been abandoned since before she went missing, so they drive up there to check it out. Satch and Raimy wander around the abandoned camp… AT NIGHT… when there is an honest to god serial killer associated with it. Have they seen Friday the 13th? Do they have a death wish? Come back during the day. With an army. Raimy finds the infirmary, full of creepy drawings on the walls and a cross in a bathtub. A shadow moves behind her but it’s just Satch (even though I screamed like a banshee). They bring CSU to the camp to collect the everything and Raimy shows Satch what she’s found on the creepy drawings on the walls. They are apparently a reference to Ars Moriendi, or “prayer rituals for a good death.” They determine that the Nightingale killer thinks he is saving these women.
OUT OF SIGHT OUT OF MIND | We get another look at Frank’s undercover life but this time, before and after the fact. He is promoted to detective in narcotics back in 1994 and is excited to work as an undercover but Julie (Devin Kelley) is far less thrilled. In 1996, a woman, Miracella (Alyssa Diaz), shows up on Julie’s back porch looking a little roughed up. She tells Julie she knew Frank and that he and her brother were friends. Julie lets her in a patches her up but is not particularly happy to be cleaning up the woman she very quickly realizes Frank cheated on her with. Miracella is still angry at Frank for lying to her while he was undercover and for letting her believe he cared about her. Frank comes home later and Julie confronts him about her. She tells him she took her over to his new place (Satch’s garage) and they fight again. He accuses her of moving on with Ted (Nicholas Gonzalez), Raimy’s coach and she lets him believe they are indeed a thing. Frank goes to see Miracella at Satch’s and she tells him all she wants from him is a way out of town. She refuses to say what happened to her because she knows what Stan (Anothony Ruivivar) does to people who know he’s dirty. He tells her he will help her but he can’t be with her. Julie goes to see Ted and they end up in bed together. He seems very pleased with this turn of events but she is looking like she is having second thoughts. Frank confronts Stan in the elevator and tells him to back off both Julie and Miracella. Later, Frank goes to the garage but Miracella is gone.
FIND YOUR FAMILY | Raimy is shocked to learn that Satch turned in his retirement papers. Even worse, she had to learn from Stan. Back in 1996 Satch was on track to be Sargent, his wife and kids were proud of him, and he had just helped thwart the Nightingale’s attempt at kidnapping Amanda. In the present, he just learned Nightingale got to Amanda anyway and he is all alone. The closest person in his life is his dead partner’s daughter. He tells Raimy he doesn’t think he can do this anymore. She won’t let him stop trying so she drags him into her investigation into the Catskills. He tells her his parents immigrated here from Cuba when he was eight and he has spent so much of his life trying to figure out where he belongs. She tells him the force is where he belongs, that they are his family. When they finally get a big lead on the Nightingale killer, Raimy notices that Satch has got a bit of spring back in his step as he takes charge of the crime scene.
OTHER THOUGHTS:
• I would love to get to punch Stan in the face. It seemed really satisfying but I think Frank should do it again, just for good measure.
• Seriously, has no one seen a horror movie? NEVER split up when you’re investigating the creepy summer camp. Don’t investigate that creepy camp at night or without say, a hundred or so armed guards.
• Just when I thought Nightingale couldn’t get any creepier…he proved me wrong.
So what did you think? Where you expecting Nightingale to be an “angel of death” per say? What do you think is going to happen with Frank and Julie? Will they make up in time? Will Satch change his mind about retiring?
Frequency airs Wednesdays at 9/8c on The CW.