Gracepoint Recap: "Episode 3"

Written by John Edward Betancourt

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When Gracepoint ended last week on FOX, I was left sitting on my couch with my jaw on the floor over the revelation that Mark Solano was hanging out near the area where his son was murdered, on the night that Danny died.  It was an incredible twist to the show and it led us right into last night's episode.  

Shortly after this dark discovery, Mark is brought in for questioning and well...things get worse.  Mark refuses to tell Detectives Carver and Miller where he really was the night that Danny died and his alibi is quickly proven to be a lie, leading to Mark's arrest for obstruction of justice.  In fact it begins to look grim for Mark. There is blood on his boat that he even admits belongs to Danny from a fishing accident.

But it turns out that someone knows where Mark was the night that Danny died, Gemma Fisher.  She has his whereabouts on good authority since Mark spent a better part of the night with her in bed.  It of course gets Mark out of jail, but the affair he tried to keep a secret is quickly revealed to his wife and a new clue has arrived...a phone number that made it into the lining of Danny's jacket.  

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I do love the little clues that this show keeps peppering us with, and how well...we really know just as much as the Detectives.  Mark for a moment seemed like a viable suspect, and is instead becoming more of a scumbag than anything else, and we are back to square one.  But as I said before, it's the little things on this show, and there is plenty going on behind the scenes.  

For example, the person to get Gemma to reveal the affair was Chloe. She was the one to send the text message that got Gemma to head down to the station and reveal the truth. And Mark's apprentice...he clearly knows something with the small amount of blood present in the back of the van.  But Chloe is quickly becoming a bigger concern. She clearly has knowledge of a great many things, and at last it looks like she will have to face the music since Carver finally asked her about the cocaine.  But the phone number is the key, whose number did Danny have? Sadly we won't find out until next week.  

But before I wrap up this recap, I think we need to take a moment and discuss Detective Miller.  She's a character I'm quickly coming to not like.  Simply because...she's not a cop. I get the small town mentality and the desire to make this as painless as possible, but quite frankly she is delaying the progress of this case. Carver is the right man for the job simply because he isn't letting anything interfere with the facts, but with Miller...it's all about handling this like a friend and I get the feeling it will come back to bite her in the ass real quick.  Until next week...

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