Contrasting Evening

After yesterday's blog, heralding my evening accomplishments, tonight was a complete contrast. I pottered idly online for a couple of hours, Chrissi and I watched last night's episode of Hunted (more later) and then promptly fell asleep for 4 hours as Chrissi went upstairs to redecorate her nails or something equally exciting. On reawakening on the sofa at 2:50, I quickly did the washing up and then came on here to blog, because even if I haven't managed to prepare ones for the weekend I can at least write tonight's now!

So, Hunted update. The body count continues to rack up and Sam has lost her hat collection - having barely spent a moment without one on in the first half she's now not worn one in the last two episodes. I realise I've now no idea what her mission was - it was originally 'spy on Turner and find out his bid for the dam', but as that was sorted out in the third episode it's now gradually morphed into 'stay in the house, wander around and read any interesting faxes left lying about'. At the same time she seeks information on shady timing device Hourglass - between spying for her company in night, for herself in the day and pretending to be a nanny when she has a spare moment, I don't know when she sleeps and fail to understand how she looks so chipper. Perhaps this explains the recent absence of hats.

This week she found out more on this ultra-secretive company by virtue of the top spy investigative technique on looking on the bedside table of Stephen Turner (son of professional menacer Jack) - who she slept with to distract from an awkward question he asked about where she'd been. Stephen's main job in the household is to walk around the house wringing his hands at not being included in conversations - why he needed to hire a nanny to look after his kid when he has ample spare time is beyond me. This week he slowly connected the dots that the mysterious explosion that coincidentally gave them the exact money they needed just when they needed it didn't happen by accident. At the end of the episode we saw him receiving a dossier on Sam, which will presumably be the topic of his hand-wringing next week.

The main focus this week was the arrival of a Pakistani politician opposed to the dam sale (we still have no idea why Turner wants to buy the bloody thing in the first place). While having no influence and not being able to stop it, she was targetted for assassination because you don't leave these things to chance, in a plot that involved a man dressed in a rabbit suit. After the Byzantium team confronted her by taking out her bodyguards to warn her she was in danger (a phone call might have been more subtle and less ironic), she narrowly avoided being shot while meeting with a whistleblower. True to form of the program so far, said whistleblower managed to give us only a tease of plot exposition before being killed. We're either being drip fed additional information with torturous slowness to keep us intrigued, or they're making up a bit of plot each week to cover for the fact they don't actually know where this is going.

So far, my money's on the latter - we've a lot to resolve in two episodes and I suspect it's going to be the equivalent conclusion for a thriller that a sci-fi program would slot the word 'quantum' in a lot and hope it covers for a lack of explanation. It'll be fun, join us for my commentary on those.