The Family
Jenny’s camo-powers have been knocked out of her by a powerful force. While the crime scene is covered up, Jenny eventually collapses on the floor, breathing heavily.
Jenny tries to keep her cool when she kisses Felipe as a way of dismissing him, but it only leads to Chris and Chauncey offering to drive her home. Unfortunately this complicates matters considerably, as Jenny and Felipe are both under the guise of Sara.
Jenny is suspicious of the woman who came to pick up her grandchildren. She tries to laugh it off, but Chris and Chauncey manage to prepare the hotel room just in time for the woman to arrive.
Jenny manages to convince Felipe that nothing untoward is going on. However, Jenny is forced to sleep with Felipe in order to keep her cover up.
Jenny is frustrated with the mirror because it doesn’t reflect her true self. Chauncey waits for her to get dressed so they can have a nice chat, but the rift between Becca and Jenny diminishes a little.
Chris and Chauncey discuss what they’ve learned about Felipe and Gideon. They’re now convinced that Gideon is working for someone higher up in the chain of command, and that Felipe is using Eduardo’s murder to try and convince people that the Spanish prime minister will destroy Russia.
Chauncey believes the Calero brothers are the key to catching bigger fish, and that could well bring them closer to Gideon. For Chauncey, he heads out and meets his contact. Only, he’s intercepted by Ohana and her agents, who work for Europol. Now, it turns out the CIA actually fired him but Chauncey manages to convince Ohana that he’s on a covert operation and working undercover. ..
Chauncey has a history of making big mistakes in high-stakes operations, specifically something that went down in Marseille which appears to have cost lives. ..
Jenny meets Felipe at his estate, where tensions between him and Diego continue to stir. When Jenny shakes hands with him, she intentionally does so to take his DNA and offer up another person she can transform into.
Felipe tells the dinner party about Eduardo, a police officer he knows. He tells the group about Faina, a woman he used to know from his past. Faina is distracted by her current situation and Ines reminds her of how she used to be.
Anya is shown speaking to her superior, Svetlana, about her work on the case. Svetlana reminds Anya that she is a Russian agent and should act like one. In fact, Svetlana even tries to get Anya taken off the case too. She speaks to her superiors and backtracks on her original glowing report of Anya being an “exceptional asset”. ..
They demand Anya be put back into the Yoraslav program. If she’s to fail, then they’ll take care of her and Svetlana too. Svetlana has her own problems though, leading all the way back to her first job. There’s a nasty scar across her breast, which is evidence of how badly things can go when an operation goes awry.
Claire is in for a long and difficult day as she tries to get back on the ice to skate. She has a hard time getting her skates on, and falls down.
Jenny decides to adopt Diego’s form, but begins to lose control. After telling the real Diego (who has just randomly woken up at that precise moment) to leave with his mum, she knocks him out and prepares to meet with Felipe.
Diego immediately shows up and pours his heart out, allowing Felipe to begrudgingly him a second chance and play the piano for them. Diego’s story is heartwarming and touching, and it quickly becomes clear that he has a lot of love for Felipe. He wants to make things right for him, and he’s willing to do whatever it takes to make things work.
In a meeting with the prime minister, Felipe starts by discussing the plan involving the prime minister. Gideon has the prime minister’s itinerary for the next 72 hours and they intend to send Ramon to handle this. However, Jenny – still disguised as Diego of course – suggests he lead this instead. Felipe warns that if he messes this up, then he’s going to kill him just like he did Eduardo.
Jenny begins to lose control of her powers again and begins turning back into Jenny again. In doing so, she decides to head into the hotel Andres entered a moment earlier and use that as an opportunity to spy. Unfortunately, Jenny is attacked from behind and ends up fighting with the returning Jackal. While she’s distracted, Andres slips out the back.
Just as the police storm the building, Jenny loses communications with Chauncey. Losing her chance to find Gideon and left with a dead body between her legs, things don’t look good for our espionage agent.
The Episode Review
Since the halfway point of In From the Cold, Jenny’s powers have been underused. She has been acting shifty and suspicious in every disguise she takes. If you compare this to Mystique in X-Men and X-Men 2, the differences are massive. I’m not saying that Mystique is a master of disguise but the mannerisms, dialogue and general skittish attitude displayed from Jenny on these operations is pretty poor. ..
The story is starting to get interesting now with the whole Gideon/Felipe political scandal looking like it’s going to kick off in a big way.
It seems that Jenny is about to face the wrath of the police first though, and that poses a particularly big problem for Chris and Chauncey who may well be left to their own devices for the foreseeable future. We will see.
The flashbacks and editing between the two states of mind on “The Crown” is still a point of contention for some viewers, as it feels like a cheap gimmick that’s overused.
