This episode, it appears every two episodes has a new director, is directed by Victoria Mahoney, who directed the drama Yelling to the Sky (2011). We had Fauna Hodel and Jay Singletary almost crossing paths last time. Now the tension is ramping up. We get the date, 1945, and then the pan into the Hodel mansion. A peek into a party with men in chairs and women in underwear and masks. George Hodel looks at his daughter, Tamar (Kassidy Slaughter), who is peeking in as he undresses a woman and stares at her. He covers a woman’s head with a black hood, then appears with his face in meat with a bull’s horns. We hear the eerie words of George Hodel as all of this unfolds. Then, he rises up from his chair. This is the first time that we stray into the adult territory of the story. Next, we get the 1965 date as Fauna walks on a night street, followed by the man with the hat (Dylan Smith). He tries pulling her, but she slips away and a police officer sees her in a patrol car. Jay wakes up on his couch. There is a Korean soldier loading a rifle, then police officers break into his apartment. They see the photos of the women and take him away.
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I AM THE NIGHT -- “Night Flower”-- INDIA EASLEY -- Clay Enos/TNT.
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Fauna looks at herself in the mirror. Then, she sits at the breakfast table with the family. Jay has his head down snoring on a table. He is woken by the officer, Billis (Yul Vazquez), dragging his finger on the table. The officer tries to warn him about looking into forbidden things. He threatens to take his eye and takes a pencil to stab him. Jay makes enough noise that other officers to remove him. He is saved again by Eddie. Billis is told by Eddie that in the Korean War, Jay killed seven soldiers with his shovel to protect him. A mannequin has hair strung through screws in the face. It is getting dark! Fauna explains to her cousins about her mother. Terence defends her for looking for her family not the money. She gets a telephone call. It is Nero and a tape records their conversation. A man in the car is making the recording. He follows Nero. Tells Jay that he has run out of favors and moved to animal control in Santa Ana. The house of Corinna Hodel, Fauna slips into the gate to watch the door. She sees Corinna leaving in her car. Fauna knocks on the door calling for Tamar. She checks open doors and finds one with the mannequin! Fauna goes up stairs to enter another door. Jay enters the bar to see Peter who is in a meeting with his reporters. He explains that he was roused and tells that an abortion clinic is protected by the police. Jay falls down and sees another man that he pummels angrily. He is tossed out of the bar.
Fauna walks up more steps searching the house for Tamar. In a room, she searches through envelopes and then the trash. She’s sees part of an address. Fauna is the detective. There is a framed picture of George Hodel. On the wall is the bull mask. She connects his face to the man at the bus stop and at the museum. The door suddenly slams! A man in jacket walks slowly in the house then up the steps calling out Fauna’s name. Fauna runs. Cat and mouse. The man takes out a mask. He is interrupted by Corinna saying she will call the police. Jay looks at the house from a wall above. He sees Corinna walking out the man. Then, Fauna slip out o fate other side of the house. I need the commercial break to break the tension! Fauna is followed by another man, this time Jay, who asks about Tamar Hodel. She runs. The other man cuts her off. Jay asks if she is okay. She is caught between two strange people and chooses Jay who faces off with the other man. Jay has got his lead, but on shaky ground. He says he is on Tamar’s side. At a diner, he gets some pie, and he finally introduces himself. Jay says he saw her come out oof the window and suspects that she knows gymnastics. He offers to pay her to talk. Fauna introduces herself. Jay says he is a reporter and wrote about Tamar. Fauna doesn’t know where is Tamar. His lead is unraveling and Fauna tells him that Tamar may not be alive. She walks away to the restroom. A car pulls away and Jay realizes that Fauna has left.
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I AM THE NIGHT -- "Night Flower” -- CHRIS PINE -- Clay Enos/TNT.
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Jay slaps his head at losing Fauna and sniffs some cocaine. He parks at an army recruitment center. Jay says he wants to re-enlist, but he is too old. He picks up a magazine of the Black Dahlia. We finally get the Black Dahlia connections. The mannequin has a violin attached to it’s back. George Hodel examines the work. He wants Sepp, the man in the hat, (now we know his name) to watch the girl. Fauna returns home and Big Momma is worried because Nero was killed with his tongue cut out. Terence goes to his car and is surprised to see Fauna in the car. She is worried about staying at the house. Finally, Fauna understands the danger she is in. The night streets, Terence drives his car to his house. She wants to use his phone and calls up her momma, Jimmy, to ask questions, but Jimmy says she’s coming to Los Angeles. Terence is worried about Fauna. Jay is in his car with the passed out woman and checks the Black Dahlia article. We get George Hodel in his robe as Jay sorts through photos. George walks down a hall. We see the night. George stares at bull hooves under a door. Symbolic? The bull in mythology represents the sun and fertility. This is getting compelling and tense! The mystery that ties everything is where is Tamar Hodel? Will Jay or Fauna find out before George Hodel catches both of them?
Four Cameras out of Five!
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