Season 5 Mockingbird

[**Mountaineer**]

I unfortunately missed epi 4 Mockingbirde, and i was reading the summary on abc.com and i was confused on the order of events. Now was this epi like the one in S3 where it goes back to something that already happened but in more detail?

 

[boyscout4747]

^Exactly.

The beginning showed Sydney entering a casino, Tom as a valet driver taking her car into the garage, then breaking in to give her the code to a safe. Dixon was a man at the casino that convinced the pit boss that Sydney was cheating, they took her in a back room, she tranqued them, went to the vault. You see Tom opening the trunk to get something as well, but you don't see what. Sydney gets some computer, Tom drives her car out front. She takes it and proceeds to the ferry docks where her car is picked up by a giant magnet and held over the yards. Someone calls her and tells her to give them Mockingbird or else she'll die.

Then they go back and explain that Rachel is Mockingbird.

Then when they come back to the casino mission later in the episode, you find out that Rachel was in Sydney's trunk when she drove up, and Tom opened the trunk in the garage so that she could help crack the code to get Sydney in the safe. Then she went back into the trunk as Tom took the car out front for Sydney, so when Sydney was held above the docks and the men wanted Mockingbird, Rachel was actually in the trunk.

 

[J Jones]

where it goes back to something that already happened but in more detail?

Speaking of which.. I was never very wild about that format in the past and when this episode started I thought .. ick. But it was dynamic! I don't ever remember the flashback being done so well and with so many additional things added. Normally it was just showing the events leading up to Syd being in a real fix. But this was awesome and I wouldn't mind more of the format.

 

[boyscout4747]

^Same here!

When they first introduced this plot device, they used it well (Like in "Truth Takes Time" and "Phase One"), because they made us think one thing, but it turned out to be something TOTALLY different.

But then they just started using it, just for kicks, and not really twisting anything around ("APO Part One" and "Pandora"). That's when it got really boring.

But in "Mockingbird" they went back to the old way of using it where it actually provided a twist in the storytelling. That's how they SHOULD use it from now on.

 

[verdantheart]

Really? I found it as blah as usual. Perhaps it's because I caught on to the probability that there was a person in the trunk by the way Tom was looking into it? It just seemed gimmicky and repetitive to me. But if it worked for the majority . . . I just hope they don't lean on it; I really don't want to see this structure every week. :blink:

 

[boyscout4747]

Obviously it would get trite if they used it every week. But I thought that they did a good job with it this week. If they were to do it right like this again, I'd be up for it.