I always feel exhausted after watching an episode of The Event. I think it's just my suspension of disbelief faculties working overtime. I was never a 24 viewer, so this kind of high-stress plot involvement is a new thing for me.
This week's episode, "A Matter of Life and Death", flips the script, relegating last week's cliffhanger to the B-plot while we deal primarily with Sean and Leila. Sean and his new cop buddy (yes, I did already forget her name) are hunting down Vicky Roberts while, in Snyder, TX, Leila attempts to and succeeds at freeing herself from her captors, only to get caught in the web again -- one of the cops she finds after escaping is working with Vicky in order to capture Sean. Interspersed in this story were flashbacks to Thanksgiving dinner five years ago, when Leila's parents meet Sean for the first time. The flashbacks were great in this episode, but they added little to the situation at hand, which was a little disorienting.
So, those airplane passengers? They're alive because of this Other named Thomas, a rogue who would prefer to use means of terrorism (as opposed to diplomacy, Sophia's preferred method) in order to free the prisoners at Inostranka. He makes a menacing(?) threat to the president that unless Sophia and the other Others go free, more people will die. And then their noses start bleeding -- because LOST didn't make that piece of business scary enough already.
All in all, this episode was weaker than last week's, but still stronger than the first two. The show has definitely figured out how to balance the time between flashbacks and present-day stories, but there hasn't been an attempt to make a thematic connection. When that spark hits, I'm bound to give a glowing review. Until then, The Event continues the mighty first-season struggle to find itself. Lucky for them, I'm a patient man.
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