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WHAT'S LEFT BEHIND RECAP for all you DEVOTED MOONLIGHT FANS
“I didn’t realize how much I wanted a family until I almost had one.” Poor Mick! Well, let’s go back and see what led up to this revelation.
We start out with little Jacob, scared out of his mind in his bedroom, because he hears scratching and creaking all around him and above him. He bravely gets out of bed to shut the door, but no sooner does he get back in bed, than someone drops from the ceiling and snatches him. (I hope no youngsters were watching – they will be awake for weeks!)
Beth and Ben Talbot are on the steps of the courthouse having coffee and Talbot asks her how unemployment has been treating her. She jokes that she’s been doing a lot of baking. They talk about the kidnapping case, and Beth says it sounds a lot like the ones she covered for BuzzWire before she left. Talbot admits that he saw her research on the similar cases, and she says how the boys in those cases were found dead and they never caught the guy. Talbot asks Beth if she wants to help him with this case.
At the Fortress of Style, Mick and Josef are arguing – apparently when Josef asked Mick to go for a night out on the town, Mick thought he meant jazz, smoking cigars, and fresh-from-the-vein pitchers of sangria, not window shopping for sofas for Josef’s new office. Josef complains about having to fire his “boneheaded” decorators and Mick asks if they will be found in the tar pits.
Josef: “Mick, please! I don’t have the energy to kill everyone who pisses me off. I’ll have to hire some people.”
They both see a news report on the television where the father of a kidnapped boy is begging for his return. Beth is in the background of the shot, and as Mick looks on, Josef can’t resist ribbing him.
Josef: “You’re positively Pavlovian where that girl is concerned.”
That obvious, huh?
Mick is standing outside of the house of the kidnapped boy’s family when Beth sees him. She asks what he’s doing there and he tells her he grew up in this neighborhood. She asks him if he’s okay just as Talbot calls her away. He says he’s fine, but has a flashback to the day he and his friend, Ray, left to fight in World War II. He remembers how Ray’s wife, Lila, asked Mick to take care of him while they were gone. Then Mick’s VO states that he loved them both, but he betrayed them, and we are treated to a scene of Mick about to get busy with Lila on the porch of the same house (I hope it was the back porch, because the neighbors will talk!)
Inside the house, detectives are going over the case with Robert Fordham and his wife. Mick sees a photo on a shelf of Ray and Lila. When Robert comes out, Mick asks if they were his parents and he says yes. One of the detectives tries to kick Mick out, but (say what?) Talbot says it’s okay if he stays. The detective interviews Jacob’s parents and they admit that Jacob had nightmares and told them he had heard tapping in the walls.
While the interview is going on, Beth asks Mick again if he is okay.
Beth: “Do you know Robert?
Mick: “No. Why?”
Beth: “I don’t know--you’re acting odd.”
Beth comments that the MO for this kidnapping is the same as the others, but that the perp is a ghost. Mick says “Or a Vampire.” He thinks he knows a possible suspect.
Mick has another flashback of him with his patrol in Italy, sitting around eating rations. While he and Ray reminisce about Lila’s cooking and joke around, someone starts shooting at them. Ray goes after the shooter and saves Mick.
Back at the house, Talbot tells Beth that he didn’t issue an open invitation, and comments on how Mick and Beth always seem to end up at the same place. Beth is looking into Jacob’s room and notices his toys lined up. She thinks it is a perimeter Jacob built to keep the monsters out. Talbot lets on that he knows about Beth’s kidnapping.
Talbot: “Is that what you did after you were taken as a child?”
Beth: “How do you know about that?”
Talbot: “It’s my job to know. Come on, tell me you didn’t Google me after we first met?”
Mick shows up at a children’s playground and confronts another Vampire, Leo, who is watching the children playing there. Leo is a nervous type, always tapping his fingers. Mick asks him point blank if he took Jacob. He says no and tells Mick he just likes their (children’s) blood. Mick asks him where he gets it and he says he takes it from runaways and then leaves them money. Mick vamps out a little and tells Leo to leave the runaways alone. And then Leo runs away.
Back at the Fordham’s, Beth asks Robert if Jacob could have been scared of anyone from real life – a housekeeper that was fired, an angry ex-wife (think about Coraline much, Beth?). While she’s talking to Robert, she sees a photo on the shelf of Mick with his patrol.
Meanwhile, Mick is looking up Robert’s birth records. Robert was born only 7 months after Ray’s return home and Mick has another flashback of him and Lila on the porch (again, the neighbors, Mick!) Beth shows up and says she saw his photo at the Fordham’s.
Beth: “Why didn’t you tell me you knew the family?”
Mick: “Because they may be my family.”
Beth asks him how, and he tells her about his time in Italy during the war. He flashes back to an attack where Ray was hit and asks Mick to take care of Lila. Another explosive falls and Mick is knocked out, only to wake up a week later and is told that he was the only survivor of the attack. When he gets back home, he goes to see Lila and they are both devastated. Mick tells Beth that soon after that, the war was over, and people were celebrating and starting over. He flashes back to when he was helping Lila around the house (anyone notice he’s with a dark haired beauty in a red dress? A sign of things to come, maybe?) They talk about Ray, and Mick admits that Ray asked him to take care of her. They look at each other and are drawn into a kiss.
Beth asks how could he not know Robert was his son, and Mick says he didn’t know Lila was pregnant when he left. When Beth asks why he left, he says that Ray was actually alive – he’d been in a coma and had lost his dog tags. When Ray came home, Mick made himself scarce; after all, he’d left his friend for dead, then stole his wife. Beth tells Mick it wasn’t wrong if it was love.
Beth: “Was it love?”
Mick: “Yeah, I think so.”
Back at the Fordham’s, Mick’s VO observes that Robert looks old enough to be his father. Robert looks at Mick strangely and asks if he knew any of Mick’s family. Mick and Beth thank Robert for letting them come back to look around. Mick sniffs and determines that this kidnapping was a human crime, not a Vampire one. Beth asks Mick if he can smell if Robert is his son. Then she asks about Mick getting a DNA test performed, and he says that his DNA was permanently changed when he became a Vampire. As they go over Jacob’s room, Mick finds residue of powdered metal. Up in the attic, they find an opening in the ceiling right over Jacob’s bed. Then in a move that would make Cirque de Soleil proud, Mick swings down through the opening, demonstrating how the kidnapper snatched Jacob from his bed.
Downstairs, Mick asks Robert for the names of all the contractors that were in the house during the renovation project. They find all kinds of access into the house – through coal chutes and through the basement. Beth and Mick agree that Jacob was right – there were monsters in the walls, floors and ceilings. While they are searching the Fordham’s house, someone sits in a pickup truck at the curb watching their every move.
Back inside, Talbot asks Mick how he knew about the coal chute. Mick explains that he grew up in a house like this one.
Talbot: “Here in LA?”
Mick: “Yeah.”
Talbot: “What school did you go to?”
Mick: “What, are you investigating me now?”
Talbot: “Depends. You got something to hide?”
Mick: “No, not anymore. The paparazzi exposed my deepest secrets: shoe size 10 1/2, favorite color blue . . .”
Beth: “Boxers, not briefs.” (!! And you know this how??) How did we get onto this delightful subject?”
Talbot: “We digressed.”
Fordham brings in a file of all the contractors from the renovation project. Beth suggests they look into the other homes of the kidnapped children because they were Victorian homes as well. Mick tells Robert to go get some rest and puts his hand on his shoulder. As Robert walks away, he is able to get a few strands of Robert’s hair for a DNA sample. Beth tells Mick that they will get to the bottom of this case, because Ben’s office is good.
Mick: “’Ben?’ Wow. Should I be jealous?”
Beth: “Of course. Even if I have no romantic interest in him, your jealousy makes me feel desirable.” (Raowr!)
Back at the Fortress of Style, Mick brings out his army footlocker, looking for something that he can use for a pre-Vampire DNA sample of his own.
Talbot speaks to Beth about becoming a civilian investigator after discussing the fact that the Victorian houses all had access like she said. She asks him if he is offering her a job because she’s not a cop, and he says that she doesn’t have to be; she will be working for him.
Again at the Fortress, Josef walks in on Mick looking through his footlocker.
Mick: “To what do I owe this pleasure?”
Josef: “I left my cell phone here yesterday. I spent 400 years without one, now I can’t go a day . . . (seeing Mick’s footlocker) So, G.I. – Mick. Why the trip down memory lane?”
Mick tells Josef about the possibility of fathering a child with his best friend’s wife after the war. He waits for Josef to make a smart remark, but Josef says he’s actually jealous. He never had children and he regrets it, and he doesn’t do regrets. Mick tells Josef that the kidnapped boy may be his (Mick’s) grandson. Josef consoles him by saying it’s his last contribution to the human gene pool unless he and Beth can rewrite the rules of Vampire love and procreate. Just as he says this, he turns around to find Beth standing there.
Josef: “Hi Beth. (whispers to Mick) Beth’s here.” He hightails it out of Mick’s loft.
Beth tells Mick that the kidnapper probably had the original blueprints of the house, but can’t get them on the internet – he can only physically sign them out. Mick offers to drive Beth to the Hall of Records.
Outside the Hall of Records, Mick approaches the subject of Josef’s statement back at his house.
Beth: “What? That we can’t have a baby?”
Mick: “You want to have my baby?”
Beth: “How about Elliott for a boy?”
Mick looks at her, shocked.
Beth: “I’m just kidding.”
Mick starts to say he understands if being unable to have children is a deal breaker, but Beth protests that they’re getting ahead of themselves.
Beth: “We haven’t even slept with each other yet. It might not be any good.”
Mick looks at her like Are you kidding me?
Beth smiles and tells him they should focus on finding Jacob, and will worry about their children when the time comes. She gets out of his car and goes into the building.
Back at the Fordham’s, Mick tries to get Robert to recall any of the contractors that might have been behaving strangely, especially around Jacob. Robert is overcome with emotion thinking about Jacob and tells Mick that Jacob was a “late-in-life” child for them, a miracle like he himself was for his parents. Mick asks him why and Robert explains that his father was partially paralyzed when he returned from the war. He was born 7 months later, and was one of the biggest preemies anyone had seen. Mick takes that to mean that Robert really is his son. He debates on whether or not to share this news with Robert, but decides against it. Robert says he thought he’d never know what it would be like to have a son. Mick silently agrees. Finally, Robert remembers one construction worker who liked to work at night. He identifies Ken Verdolino. Just then, Verdolino calls Mick and asks him if he knows him. Mick wants to talk, but Verdolino spills the beans that he knows Mick, knows the car he drives, and knows Beth and that she’s alone at the moment at the Hall of Records. A shot of Beth alone at the Hall of Records confirms this. Verdolino threatens Mick by saying that he always liked the smart girls.
Beth is concentrating on her research and doesn’t hear her phone, which she has set on vibrate. (That thing was jumping all over the table! Beth, Beth, Beth!) Suddenly, the lights go out and Beth calls out that she is still in there. She gets her flashlight (she must have been a Girl Scout in her youth: Always Be Prepared) and sees someone through the bookshelves. She takes off running and runs right into Mick coming in from the doorway. He tells her who the kidnapper is and tells her to stay right there.
Verdolino gets away, but Mick startles Beth when he comes back into the room.
Beth: “If you keep sneaking up on me, I’m gonna mace you one of these days.”
Mick: “It’s only a matter of time.”
Beth shows Mick the blueprints she has found and tells him Verdolino’s address, which Talbot has managed to dig up. Mick immediately starts to leave to go find Jacob, but Beth tries to stop him to wait for the warrant. Mick says he knows what he’s doing and leaves anyway.
Mick’s VO: Verdolino knows I’m onto him. He’s out of time. So is Jacob.
Mick finds the old neighborhood under the freeway where only the basement access is still left. He searches for Verdolino and tries to reason with him. Meanwhile, above ground, the police arrive at Verdolino’s house and break the door down. They search the house for him, but come up empty-handed. Mick is telling Verdolino he knows how he feels – isolated and cut off from society – but Verdolino says he’s trying to help Jacob get over his fears. Mick catches him using his super vamp skills, and Verdolino shoots at Mick. When Mick doesn’t fall, Verdolino says he’ll never find Jacob and shoots himself. Back inside Verdolino’s house, at the sound of gunshots, Talbot pulls Beth down out of the way of gunfire. The police all run outside to follow the sounds.
Down in the basement, Mick calls out for Jacob. He hears a heartbeat through a brick wall. While Talbot, Beth and the police team run to find the basement access, Mick starts tearing into the brick wall to get to Jacob. He finds him and carries him out. The paramedics check him and say he will be okay.
Later, Mick and Beth are sitting in Mick’s car outside the Fordham’s house, which is decorated with balloons to celebrate Jacob’s homecoming. Beth has the results of Mick’s DNA test. He opens the envelope – Robert is not his son. Mick is glad for his friend Ray, but Beth says she is sorry with tears in her eyes.
Mick: “I didn’t know how much I wanted a family until I almost had one.”
Beth: “Family’s not only about DNA.” She lovingly strokes Mick’s hair.
Inside the Fordham house, Jacob tells his father that he sees Mick. Robert thinks he means outside in the car, but Jacob corrects him. “No, in the picture.”
Robert looks disbelievingly at the photo and runs outside just as Mick and Beth pull off. He drops the photo on the ground and as it flips over, the names of all the soldiers written on the back are revealed – including one Mick St. John!
OOPS!
(Stay tuned for scenes from the next Moonlight.)
This is for all the DEVOTED FANS OF MOONLIGHT -- VAMPIRE SOLIDARITY, RAH, RAH, RAH!
Until next week . . .
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May 10, 2008 2:38 AM
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Hello Moonlighter,
Excellent recap!! This was a very good episode, the time literally "flew by". Some very serious relationship talk when the dating has barely begun. Josef has quite an influence on Mick. The promo for next week does not look good. Will the writers kill the buzz already? This seems very odd to me. We have invested so much emotional energy for nothing to happen between MickBeth. Yes, there are obstacles to human and vampire relationships; yet the writers should explore how this relationship could work. Let's break tradition!! Also, notice the promo said "Season Finale" not "Series Finale". Let's hope this is good news, but don't kill the MickBeth romance.
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May 10, 2008 6:02 AM
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Great recap Moonlighter! You should write a book!
I LOVED this show. Mick was so tender throughout. I loved the car scene when Beth tells him the sex might not be good, OH Please! How cute was that!
The previews for next weeks season finale looks awful. I'm hoping our Mick comes through and tells Beth he loves her dearly. Hopefully CBS is playing with our minds and we are seeing something that we really aren't seeing, ya know?
I love it that Beth is going to work for Talbot too, more of an investigator. I'm hoping Talbot is not going to make a play with Beth, too obvious. They just need to be good friends.
Love Josef, his character is growing that I want more of him. I love his banter with Mick.
I give WLB an 11 1/2!!!! Would have been a 12 if Mick had kissed Beth!!!
Long Live ML.
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May 10, 2008 6:51 AM
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Nice write-up M00nlighter. You go girl!!!
I love your comments. My 2 favorite:
Then in a move that would make Cirque de Soleil proud.
That was a cool move.
Beth: “Boxers, not briefs.” (!! And you know this how??).
Remember this question was asked in the promo "Interview with a Vampire". Considering how low those pant's were in the FTP beach "swanning", I say no underwear. LOL.
This was a serious episode for me. The focus was on Mick more than the MickBeth dynamic. I was hoping for some more MickBeth action but the writers are saving the best for last.
Love this MickJosef moment.
They both see a news report on the television where the father of a kidnapped boy is begging for his return. Beth is in the background of the shot, and as Mick looks on, Josef can’t resist ribbing him.
Josef: “You’re positively Pavlovian where that girl is concerned.”
Pavlovian Conditioning for all you inquiring minds: All animals, including humans, are born with a limited set of reflexes--genetically wired-in responses to specific environmental stimuli.
The promo was interesting for next week. Does every woman flirt with Mick? I will keep my speculations to myself for now. Can not wait for next week.
I guess I better get dressed and get out of here. I have a lot to do today.
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May 10, 2008 7:54 AM
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RAH RAH RAH MOONLIGHTER! THREE CHEERS FOR OUR GIRL!
This episode made me sad. I'm sad it's coming to an end, and the episode was sad. It really threw into high relief how lonely Mick is. I love the way he looked at Beth when she said 'family isn't all DNA'....
I HATE WHEN THEY DO THAT WITH THE PROMOS!!! I have abandonment issues! Don't play with my heart that way!!!
I'm going to go with Kandye girl's take on it -- she's probably saying that about something completely unrelated. If not, she gets over it. Remember the kiss at the end of the last promo? If you read Kristin's article on Eonline, Werksman and Stanton are playing with us and say slyly, 'we think fans are going to like the last scene.' Let's hope it's sweaty romantic and total sex!
Bye. Gotta go... my suitcase awaits me.
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May 10, 2008 8:39 AM
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Well the story line was good. A little bit of Mick's past. Beth now has a job working for the ADA...she surely will have lots of ??? asked of her by Talbot about Mick in season 2. Wonder how she'll wiggle out of them? Josef was his usual snarky self...good for that.
And we all know Mick & Beth work well being detectives and gathering info to solve the crimes.......JUST LIKE "GOOD FRIENDS" WHO ARE RUNNING A BUSINESS. If it wasn't for the two car scenes with the verbal exchange about babies and family you would think they were bother and sister!!!! I have no feeling whatsoever about romance going on between these two characters....NONE WHATSOEVER!!! and I'm pissed. So now next week they're going to fling in my face another hugh kiss and I'm supposed to believe that these two people love and desire each other???
I'm not feeling it!! They could have had Beth at least sit a little closer or lean into Mick during the baby talk. OR, at the end when she touched his hair she could have nudged him towards her and they could have kissed.. even a little kiss.
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May 10, 2008 8:54 AM
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Great recap Moon...it was a good episode.
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May 10, 2008 9:35 AM
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Moonlighter - Great Blog as always! My hearing isn't the greatest so sometimes I don't always catch every word and you seem to always come through with the ones I missed in the blog!
Cobby, I feel your pain I was wanting some lovin for this episode also, however it was a fairly serious show and my take is that the writers were thinking that maybe Mick and Beth really weren't feeling that way at that time. After all Mick was dealing with some major guilt and Beth was thrown for a loop finding out that Mick may have a son and that vampires can't have kids. Throwing romance into this could have cheapened it somehow. Mick always comes to the rescue and if he suddenly stopped to kiss Beth it may have just looked wrong with everything going on and the fact that he thought that boy was his grandson.
I think the promo is just to scare the hell out of all of us. Mick is never going to let Beth go without a fight and we know Beth would have been running on emotion right at that time. We will get plenty of loving next week!
I do believe it is a good sign that they are calling next week the "season finale" I don't think CBS is going to shut this show down, they have begun to promote Moonlight more. I remember when you couldn't even see a Moonlight commercial until at least Wednesday and I started seeing promos for Moonlight on Monday. CBS is starting to take our show seriously.
Well got to go for now.
LONG LIVE MOONLIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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May 10, 2008 9:46 AM
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elcajonfan - where on the West Coast do you live?? CA perhaps? Reason for asking is, I and some friends are thinking about visiting L.A. and doing all the typical tourist things and traps. We'd like to go to Jay Leno, Ellen DeGeneris, Family Feud, Price is Right, etc and tour the "lots". What is the best time of year to do that sort of thing?
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May 10, 2008 9:47 AM
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Great recap Moonlighter...
I enjoyed the episode. I do not think Mick betrayed his friend. He and the wife thought he had died. They were both grieving - not so unusual they turned to each other.
This show has everything - romance, action, beautiful actors and great music. But, I have to admit, I watch for the MickBeth romance. I like all the other stuff, but miss when there is no romance thrown in there. I think we got spoiled last week, because every time we turned around, Mick was asking Beth over or out to dinner, etc.
I was sad after watching the promos for next week. I'm hoping they are just messing with us. I do not want them to change Mick's character. I understand he is ok with being vampire now, but do want him to keep his morals. Sounds funny, doesn't it? Anyway...think y'all know what I mean - as that is the Mick we fell in love with. I'm hoping it has something to do with case he's working on.
It did not show the boxer/brief scene where I live. It went for a commercial and when it came back it was a blank screen for what seemed forever - when it finally came back it was Mick and Beth talking and Beth mentioned Ben having a good team and Mick asked if he should be jealous. When I checked the websites after everyone was talking about boxers/briefs and I had no clue what they were talking about. In reading the recap - that whole scene was missing. I've been checking CBS.com so I can watch, but so far, it is not on there. That is frustrating. 
I felt the same way after watching the promos that I did after Sleeping Beauty. That one really bummed me out. And anytime I see the pic of Mick with his hand ont he cab window, it just breaks my heart. Anyway, I'm thinking positive thoughts and hoping they are messing with us.
I did notice right off, when they said SEASON finale. So thought that was a good sign.
By the way, was there any music in this episode? I did not even notice that - guess I was too absorbed in the story!! lol
Enjoy your Saturday
Chrystal
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May 10, 2008 10:20 AM
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Hi Moonlighter,
Thanks for the very detailed recap. I agree with the posters who wrote that, with the kind of case Beth and Mick were investigating and Mick feeling personally involved, any romantic scenes would have been inappropriate. It would have seemed false to me, what with Mick's mind preoccupied with finding who he thought was his grandson.
I love shows that time-travel to the past, as Moonlight did last night. If any of you watched the New Amsterdam series, you'll remember we had similar flashbacks to past eras, which was my main attraction to that show. I'm hoping it also will be renewed.
As for last night's case, I have an adorable 7-year-old grandnephew named Jacob, so I found that first scene especially chilling. The thought of my Jacob going through something like that is unbearable. Mick has never been more sexy in my eyes than when he tenderly cradled little Jacob in his arms after pulling him out of the hole in the wall. I'm a sucker for scenes like that.
I like to be spoiler-free when watching a show, so I had to stop reading all of the posts when next week's episode was mentioned. I just hope it's a seasonfinale, and not a series finale.
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May 10, 2008 11:26 AM
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Hi Sisters,
MOONLIGHTER, class act again, thank you!!
I too took heart from them calling next week the "season finale" but I agree with TPHILLY; the promo was kinda a buzz kill for me.
And I also agree with CHRYSTAL that the whole ep ended on kind of a depressing note. I too went to bed thinking back to the Sleeping Beauty episode. Just kinda sad in the end. In part I think, as COBBY said, maybe she shoulda kissed him in the end scene in the car. He was really sad. It's sweet she stroked his hair but that is not as comforting as a kiss, even a chaste one, and I think finding out you don't have a family after all is kinda an excuse for a kiss.
I did enjoy most of the episode tho. I liked the flashback device and hope they will do more of that, for Mick and for Josef.
I also think the reason Talbot is having Beth work for him is to keep better tabs on Mick. Talbot remarked in that one scene that wherever one of them is, the other one is sure to follow. So with his Mick File, I think he is angling to keep his eye on Mick through Beth.
BTW, did anyone else notice that Ghost WHisperer went long--my tivo picked up the last couple minutes of that--and then NUmbers started early--again tivo picked up the first minute of that. SO our show was like the shortest of the night?? WHy is that?
And I know about the tivo cause I've had that sucker playing all day for ratings, if that really does work. My husband asked why did we have to play Moonlight all day and I answered, because we can.
A gentle reminder ladies, if you haven't emailed CBS that you watched and enjoyed the show last night, this is as good a time as any!!
Love to all--and I understand we will hear on Wednesday of this week about next season, so fingers crossed!!!!! Toes crossed. Eyes crossed... whatever you can cross! Rah rah rah.
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May 10, 2008 1:22 PM
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For the posters who think any romantic scenes would have been inappropriate should re-read what I wrote. I did not say a sex act should have been included. An affectionate hug or a slight kiss...read back to what was written...a hot sex act is not what I was talking about. If you recall, when Mick thought Josef was killed in Sleeping Beauty, Beth put her arms around Mick for empathy and sympathy...a sign of affection. That's what I was talking about.
Just because the story was serious doesn't mean a good-bye kiss in the car or a hug would have been inappropriate.
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May 10, 2008 1:26 PM
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Cobby - Didn't mean to upset you! I did want some romance too and I agree that the final scene would have been a nice time for a kiss. I just think that this episode wasn't about the romance aspect of the show with everything that was going on and the secrets from the past that came out and with Mick preoccupied with the possibility of having a son and a grandson.
I am sure we will get the loving that we all want so bad next week. The episode was shot to be both the season finale and the possible series finale (which isn't going to be the case!) and I know the writers will make this a good season ending for us all! They hinted as much in an interview that the fans will really love the final scene!
Peace and LONG LIVE MOONLIGHT!!!!!!!!!
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May 10, 2008 1:59 PM
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MOONLIGHTER, you are the BEST! Your recap was like watching "WLB" again.
As usual, ep. 15 flew by. I learned a lot about Mick before he was turned. I felt bad for him after he told Beth how much he yearned for a family. Beth always knew what to say to comfort him, "family doesn't have to be DNA". (something like that) In a way, Mick is "family" to Beth because, with the exception of Beth's mom, we know nothing about her family. Maybe the writers can explore a bit more about Beth's family in Season 2. Also, I thought Lila & Coraline looked similar, tall, dark hair & striking looking,. I guess Mick loved that type of looks in women. Interesting to see now that he's a vampire, he prefers a natural beauty like Beth, who is the complete opposite of Lila & Coraline.
I agree with Cobby. I felt a big let down about Mick/Beth. Granted "WLB" was an emotional, serious type of episode, but the writers sure can put at least a hug or two between Mick/Beth, who are supposed to be madly in love & dating!!
They acted like brother & sister or just two good friends instead. For example, after the baby talk, Beth could have planted a good-bye kiss on Mick's cheek before she left the car. Mick never even asked Beth if she was ok after Beth was left in the dark in the Hall of Records. When Beth touched Mick's hair to console him at the end was the only one tiny tender moment! Grrrrr!!
To be honest, what attracted me to watch Moonlight was the vampire/human love story, as was advertised. The magic was in all the previous 12 episodes. Of course, ep. 13 was great, too. But starting ep. 14, the real Mick/Beth moments began to fade. There is definitely a change in the direction & emphasis of Moonlight since Chip Johannsen left. Other Moonlight addicts from the other fan sites are complaining about the same thing, too.
SPOILER
This is my thought regarding the ep. 16 promo. At least this promo said "Season Finale" instead of last week's "Only 2 episodes left. You will miss them when they are gone". "Boys will be Boys" were flashed across the screen. We now know that Mick has accepted the vampire way. I think one of the things that vampires do is to feed on freshies. Mick had Josef's blood in him, & Josef often feeds on freshies. So, maybe Josef invited Mick for a "boys night out", like playing a game of basketball & then Josef may have encouraged Mick to try feeding on freshies & he did. Unfortunately, Beth walked in & was horrified by the harsh realization of what Mick was doing. I think Mick had gone to explain this to Beth in her place except he said "It's no big deal". So, Beth cried & replied "I don't think I can do this anymore". This should be a perfect moment for Mick to declare his love for Beth & plant some passionate kisses on her to make up. (If not, I'd like to hit Mick on the head to put some sense in him to hold onto Beth!!). I am pretty sure that will be the season finale. I'd like to hear your comments.
BTW, I was so disappointed that CBS.COM didn't put up ep. 15 for viewing yet. I don't have a DVR. I really want to see it again this week. I don't remember about the "Boxer, not brief" scene.
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May 10, 2008 2:27 PM
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