The penultimate episode of I Am The Night is here directed by Carl Franklin. He directed the movie One False Move (1992) fashioned out of the Film Noir mold. Jay is assembling the parts that is leading him to the Black Dahlia killer. Fauna is also close to finding a T.H. Apate at Yunahama, Hawaii that may lead to her mother. 1949, we get a recounting at court about girl, Temar, and her delusion. In court, we get Temar pointing to George as the Black Dahlia killer. A spot of blood falls onto her shoe. There are beer bottles and we see Jay bring several glasses of beer to his editor, Peter, and he also brings his article. He says he found Temar Hodel and also her daughter, Fauna. Peter takes Jay to the booth. Jay wants tickets to Hawaii. Peter authorizes the trip and reminds Jay of Emperor Trajian. Morning, Fauna is packing at the house when Jimmie is about to take her away. Jay shows Fauna the tickets. Jimmy tears up the tickets. Fauna angrily says she is looking for Temar. Jimmy takes a knife from the kitchen and chases out Jay and then Fauna to her room. Jimmy realizes that Fauna has slipped out the window and Jay pulls away with her in his car. Hawaii, we pan down to the road with Jay driving Fauna who is smiling. Out of the car, Fauna looks out to the sea. Jay has checked the map, but Fauna is nervous meeting her mother. It seems like Fauna sees this as opportunity, but she has been warned several times.
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I AM THE NIGHT -- “Aloha” -- INDIA EASLEY -- Clay Enos/TNT.
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Jay with Fauna pull up to a house, there is a group of houses, tourists and locals. Jay asks a shopkeeper about Temar and she says to check the mail. Fauna is frustrated and sets the hood over the car before it rains. She fears that Temar doesn’t want to see her. At a restaurant, Jay tells Fauna about Arnold Palmers, he says he came back to Hawaii from Korea. He mentions that the military should have trained soldiers how to return. A sailor goes over to play the jukebox and asks Fauna to dance. He won’t take no and pulls her away. Jay takes her away and he puts a pool ball into his sock to make a blackjack. The sailor comes back and is knocked out by the blackjack! The owner pushes back another sailor from continuing the fight. Night, Jay drives to a motel, he gets a room for Fauna and says he will sleep in the car. He sees the bloody face of Sepp whom he killed and then some Korean soldiers. Fauna in her night clothes bangs on the car door to check on Jay in the rain. She says he was screaming and tells him it wasn’t his fault in killing Sepp. Jay admits he found he liked the killing. Morning, Jay knocks on the motel door to get Fauna to cut the stitches on his head. They drive out to ask about Temar. Fauna sees two kids fight over a kite on a hill and asks if the girl’s name is Fauna. This is a random incident, but the truth can never be fully hidden.
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I AM THE NIGHT -- “Aloha” -- INDIA EASLEY, CHRIS PINE -- Clay Enos/TNT.
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They run and are followed by Fauna and Jay. In the darkness, back lit by the window is a woman who walks out and sees her daughter? We see the ocean waves and Temar (Jamie Anne Allman) walks with Fauna. She says her children call her Temar. Her mother says her father wasn’t black. We hear a whining sound and Temar’s speech is distorted. She said she wrote it on the birth certificate because she says all white people are liars. Fauna was a name from a Robinson Jeffers’ poem. I studied Jeffers in college. She brings up the trial which was before Fauna’s birth. The psychologist said at the trial she was crazy. Her father impregnated her! Fauna is stunned, can’t speak, and walks away. The dark truth is revealed on beaches of Hawaii, brilliant! Jay is asleep in the car when Fauna jumps in and wants him to take her back. Her world is destroyed. Jay tells the harsh reality, “sometimes you catch a bad one.” Fauna says she hates him. On the phone, Jay wants to leave out Fauna, but Peter wants her in the story. Night, Jay walks up to a Team and a group drinking around a fire. Temar she finds Hawaii “beautiful, but boring.” Jay says he covered her trial and that she can stop it. Temar says that the city protects him. She says everyone knew George Hodel killed the Black Dahlia. Thunder booms overhead. Temar brings back a box sent by her father. She leave shim as Jay assembles the paintings of George Hodel’s victims. Jay takes photos of them. He has the evidence, but there is a disconnect with the "unsolved" Black Dahlia murder.
Night in L.A., Fauna waits in the car, as Jay calls Peter in a phone booth. Peter tells him to bring the girl. They drive, but stop as youths run the streets past firebombed cars. It looks like this is August 1965 with the burning beginning of the Watts Riots. Jay drives on and stops telling Fauna to wait ten minutes. He confesses that her father is a murderer and that he killed the Black Dahlia. At a restaurant, Jay brings Peter the photos, his editor admits that he was part of the raid of Dachau. Guns are pulled on Jay by police officers and Officer Billis who calls him “Cupcake.” Peter has set him up and he is taken away in handcufffs. Fauna watches him taken away in a police car. At least, he was smart enough to keep her out of it. At Big Momma’s house, Fauna opens the door, it seems empty. She drops her luggage. Fauna calls up her momma, Jimmy, and apologizes. She admits “It’s horrible” and thanks her. Fauna wants to go back and covers her mouth crying. She asks about the trial. Jimmy tells Fauna to stay away and hangs up. Then, she looks to see George Hodel. Jimmy brings him a rare steak. He picks up two knives and goes to lock the door. Jimmy pours oil on the steak. They hear a banging on the door and Hodel stabs her. A man checks on her and then makes a call. George Hodel drives back in the night. Peter drinks. Jay is in a jail cell. Fauna is alone in the house. We find our characters in trouble and worse with the killer on the loose. The Black Dahlia murder is said to be unsolved so what happens to Jay and Fauna? Next week is the finale!
Four Cameras out of Five!
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