And Even More Flashbacks!
Episode 7 of Pieces of Her starts with Jane leaving prison and being given a new life. Her birthday is changed and she’s given a whole new identity. Jane is encouraged not to act or speak like herself anymore, adopting and embracing this new Laura alias. ..
In the present, Andy meets up with Charlie, giving the location of the shootings by the side of the road. The whole place has been cleared up though, with no evidence that people were even there. Someone is covering their tracks. However, Charlie does confirm that Michael is stable and has been moved to a secure location.
Andy thanks Charlie for his help, as Charlie opens up that they’ll find Laura no matter what. He also theorizes that she could be in a cabin in the woods up north. This is somewhere that she has ties with in the past.
In a flashback, Jane’s faith in the program wavers. When Andrew is shot and starts to lose consciousness, he admits to doing what he believes in. Jane also reveals that she’s pregnant to home, as she pleads with Andrew to stay with her. However, Nick didn’t have him killed after all.
Jane tries to have Nick taken to hospital but he refuses to allow it. After escaping the trainyard and with Maplecroft dead, they need to lay low. Unfortunately, Nick beats her when she refuses to listen, forcing Jane into submission.
Jane ignores Andrew and team up with Clara and Eli – two other members of the Army – to take him to hospital. Once there, Jane makes a deal with Jasper, deciding to turn herself in and reveal everything – including what went down in Oslo and Jasper’s secret deal.
Jane allows her brother to take control of the company, as Jasper admits he had no idea Nick was going to have Martin killed. In exchange for a deal that would see her go into witness protection, Jane rat out Nick and everything he’s involved with. This explains why he’s so dead-set on getting revenge.
On the road, Charlie’s car is struck, prompting them both to spin out of control. When Andy wakes up, miraculously with a few cuts and bruises (the wonders of plot armour, eh?), she holds her head as a migraine is all she sports.
Andy is currently residing in a remote location, away from the main road. This is where it appears that flashbacks are leading us - to learn more about Andy’s upbringing, specifically how she was kept at a safe house with Clara and Eli while Laura sorted out her affairs in order to get them relocated. ..
Nick tracked down Andy in the woods and tried to take her away to the creek. However, Clara calling out for Andy interrupted this plan. So he gave her a coin and implored her to keep this all a secret between them. And she did too. At least until the final scenes of this episode where she showed off the coin and spooked her mother. ..
When Jane is ready, she picks up her daughter Andy, but the little girl doesn’t want to leave. As Jane runs away, hiding in the outhouse, Jane tries to talk her daughter around. Eventually Andy agrees to leave. ..
As the episode ends, we cut back to the present as Andy heads downstairs to find Nick very much alive and lighting the stove.
The Episode Review
The flashbacks in this novel follow the life of a woman named Her. She is a woman who is constantly being told that she is nothing, that she doesn’t matter, and that she isn’t good enough. The flashbacks are followed by later flashbacks which show her life in more detail. Then, later still, there are flashbacks to earlier memories which help to explain what the main plot of the novel is about.
The show has lost its focus and momentum since the Queller incident. This is a real shame because the first few episodes had a lot of promise. Sure, the incident involving Queller is intriguing and there’s a decent plot and mystery at the heart of this, but it’s lost in a sea of flashbacks that don’t really add too much to this story. ..
With the reveal that Nick is still alive and plenty of drama still to come, the finale looks set to crash things out with a bombastic final action showstopper.
