This episode did nothing for me, and since it's the lowest rated of this season, it seems others agree with me. And didn't this season include a clip show? This was worse.
So some skeevy, greasy guy we've never seen or heard of before shows up by trying to break into Sydney's room. Why break in instead of knocking? No idea. He's yet another man who's very important to Sydney, but she's just never once mentioned him in two years. The guy announces he's going to die in exactly 12 hours like he swallowed a time bomb or something. Apparently the writers figured since the show involves magical objects, healthcare can be magical also. We've never heard of him, he just showed up, he's gross, yet we're supposed to instantly care deeply about his fate.
It turns out an even skeevier, way greasier pharmabro guy has some evil plan that is also impossible to care about. (Who cast these actors anyway? They all seem like wooden extras in something filmed in a still communist country.) Turns out Pharmabro's father, some billionaire owner of a pharmaceutical company is also dying. And we're expected to *not* root for his slow, painful death?
The story takes FOREVER to finally seem to get going. Way too much time was spent as they visit the first site or two. We're forced to watch the complete lack of chemistry Sydney and Allen have for each other - over and over. He's really quite yuck, but he's he's the healthiest looking man just hours from death ever found, so there's that. He didn't even give a few courtesy coughs towards the end to show he was getting worse. And he got shot on top of that! All the supposed passion and affection between them is never earned, is very forced, and badly timed.
Then there's generally some Raiders of the Lost Ark, cheesey rip off stuff with a cross.
Most tragically, for Claudia's last show, she's given a really poor send off. She spends most of the show at the very low end of her annoying scale, to the point where I had to tune her story out. Something about her feeling insecure. She had some real high points over the series and I was liking her more and more, until this. Well, she's off to bigger and better things as a librarian.
Then, everyone met up in one location and they were racing around and I was thinking "Finally! This is getting good!" Sadly, it was actually the end. The only plot point that wasn't known from the moment the show started, whether Allen lives or not, was answered. Bleh. And it was over.
So I definitely agree with most of everyone else here. If not the worst of the season, it's in definitely the bottom two. And the other isn't the clip show.
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