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Minority Report
Fredi
Original Air Date: Oct 12, 2015
Vincent Chia – Sr. Reviewer
vincent@thetwocentscorp.com
First, let’s have a few sentences about last week’s episode “Hawk-Eye.” Last week, Dash joined the police department as a civilian Hawkeye analyst. This move gives him a reasonable cover so that he can help Detective Vega solve crimes. Though, Art and Agatha believe that Dash’s work with the police will endanger all three of them. Wally the tech invents a bracelet/watch that keeps tabs on Dash’s vital signs and is able to warn him about 30 seconds before he goes into a trance and gets a murder vision. Agatha coerces a former government security contractor to help her.
Now, onto this week’s episode! Dash rudely interrupts his brother Art while Art is being intimate with a lady friend. Dash demands to know what Agatha’s vision was that suggests Vega is dangerous. Art doesn’t tell Dash any specifics.
Dash’s newest vision involves an “old money” playboy named Cayman Bellow. In the vision, Cayman is seen murdering a woman, but Dash can’t see her face. Vega and Dash decide to attend a charity event being thrown by Bellow.
At the event, Dash meets Fredi Kincaid, Bellow’s assistant. She wears the bracelet that Dash saw in his vision. Dash appears to have a crush on Fredi and later suggests to Vega that he “go undercover” and get near Fredi. Vega reluctantly agrees, but only on condition that Dash wears an earpiece communicator and also a pair of contact lenses similar to hers. When Dash turns on the lenses at first, he experiences sensory overload.
Dash manages to successfully flirt with Fredi and the two of them share personal information about themselves. It turns out that Fredi is only working as Cayman’s assistant so that she can get proof that Cayman was present during her sister Allison’s drug overdose. Allison went to college with Caymen and the two were dating. Fredi blames Cayman and his friends, but Cayman denied being there.
Dash asks Arthur to help him hack into Cayman’s security system, where Fredi says she can find proof that Cayman was with Allison at the time of her death. Art sends Dash to his “scrawler,” who is someone specializing in duplicating human tissue. Fredi brings a cocktail glass which contains some of Cayman’s DNA and the scrawler successfully clones Cayman’s eyeball. Fredi is excited and kisses Dash. Dash returns her kiss.
Akeela and Vega try to find more background information about Fredi. It turns out there is no such person as Fredi Kincaid. After some further digging, they find that one of Cayman’s friends name Matt Hildebrandt appears to have been recently murdered by Ricki Kerrigan, Fredi’s real identity.
Vega visits Dash’s apartment and tries to warn him that Fredi is dangerous but Dash refuses to believe it. Vega leaves. Fredi wants to take Dash to Cayman’s to confront him with evidence. Dash agrees, and pulls out his earpiece and lenses so Vega can’t keep tabs on him. Unsurprisingly, Vega is pissed.
Meanwhile, in the b-plot, Agatha has sent Charlie to go to Arthur to get a false ID. Charlie dumps a bag full of cold hard cash onto the table. Some of the bills appear to have President Obama’s face on it. Charlie uses his ID to get inside the Defense Intelligence Agency and accesses data regarding the precog program.
Back to the main plot, Fredi and Dash enter Cayman’s mansion with the excuse that Fredi has documents for him to look over and sign. As they walk through the house, Dash asks Fredi where’s the proof she intends to confront Cayman with. Then, the shoe drops. dun dun dun. She doesn’t have any proof. Fredi says that she’ll get the proof by making Cayman confess. Dash realizes that the situation can spin out of control fast. Dash confronts Fredi about what happened with Matt Hildebrandt. She is surprised that he knows the name. Although Dash tries to talk her out of her plans, she locks Dash out of the room and confronts Cayman. Fredi’s full name is Fredericka, sometimes nicknamed Ricky. She tells Cayman that she is Allison’s sister. Cayman calls for security, but Fredi uses the fake eyeball and cancels the call. She then points a revolver at Cayman.
So here, part of me wondered whether Cayman winds up killing Fredi/Ricky in self-defense. Another more complex line of thinking made me wonder whether Dash’s vision was actually Ricky killing Cayman, not Cayman killing Ricky. Then, even more deep, I wondered whether Dash had a vision of Cayman killing Ricky, but that the vision itself was just wrong. Thus, it would have actually brought in the whole concept of the “Minority Report.” Dash’s vision got the murderer and the victim reversed! Alas, that possibility wasn’t really explored. It would’ve been interesting though.
Anyhow, back to the actual episode, Dash sees a dog enter through a doggy door and proceeds to enter the room where Cayman and Ricky are in through the same way. He manages to convince Ricky to run. He tells her the police are on their way. Ricky asks how he knows, and he tells her that he works for the police. She runs just in time before Vega and a few more cops bust into the mansion. (pictured above)
Vega informs Cayman that she is arresting him for negligence surrounding Allison’s death. When he says he wasn’t there, Vega says that there are records of a music streaming service syncing his device with Allison’s device at the time of her death. She also seems to pretend to not know anything about Fredi/Ricky’s presence, even though it is clear that someone must’ve been there to shoot Cayman in the leg. She calls for medics to heal his wound. Personally, I’m not sure I agree with Vega’s action/non-action. Ricky was implicated in the murder of Matt Hildebrandt and the attempted murder (or at least non-fatal shooting) of Cayman.
Charlie gives Agatha the information the he stole from the Defense Intelligence Agency. It was about photonic milk baths and neuro connectors. Charlie has surmised that Agatha is a precog. Unfortunately for him, Agatha appears to have somehow set him up to be hunted by U.S. Marshals and Charlie is killed in a shootout. She claims she didn’t set him up, but who knows?
So that’s the episode. What did you guys think? Was it correct for Vega to let Fredi/Ricky escape? Would it have been interesting if they somehow figured out that Dash’s vision was wrong and got the murderer/murderee flipped? I’ve been wondering whether the concept of wrong predictions will ever play out in the episodes but thus far it doesn’t seem so. Maybe I’m just too obsessed with that concept?