You guys, we need to talk.
Eve made a brief return. It was amazing, other than the end. But we’ll get to that later.
Eve revealed that Remus has Hirschsprung’s disease, and that that was the reason for her return. He needed a bowel resection, and she couldn’t get him the treatment. Eve also told Boyd that she was going to turn herself in.
Dylan was very understanding of her situation – “for a straight white cis male, he’s extremely open-minded.” He pressured Boyd into not turning her in to the police. It wasn’t hard. In the course of one day, Boyd warmed up to her, and wanted to hide her in his apartment.
It was complicated to get Remus the surgery, since bringing him to hospital would make the police aware of Eve’s return.
Dylan convinced them that they could pass Remus off as some other baby called Oliver who was Dylan’s patient, which was absolutely insane. Then they discussed it loudly with the door open, of course. And Drew walked in on them, to their shock.
Boyd managed to get him to keep quiet about this.
They decided to go through with this insane plan.
Nicole immediately noticed that something fishy is going on, but decided not to prod Boyd about it. She had some great facial expressions, though.
Of course, Eve insisted on showing up. What is wrong with these people?
She sees Lincoln, and immediately tells him that he must have children – “Oh my goodness. Wow, you are beautiful. If you have not sired offspring yet, for the love of humanity, please do.” Oh my god, how we’ve missed you, Eve.
She wasted no time in threatening Dylan. Nothing gets past Eve.
“On the contrary, people only see what they expect to. You of all people should know that.”
“Remember that you’re speaking to a former sociopath.”
“You’re so deep in your own lies, you’re even lying to yourself.”
“But if you through action, inaction or inattention, cause my family any harm, I will kill you.”
Eve, you’re amazing. (Yes, that was her “disguise”.)
But then it gets infuriating. At the end of the episode, Boyd tells Eve to flee town with the kids, again, and she does. “I’m determined to become the woman that you once thought I was.” “They need their mum, not me.” What the hell?
So they had the opportunity to bring back the most compelling character of 2017 and provide closure for one of the biggest stories of that year, yet they decided to rush through it in one episode? (It was a double length episode, but still).
There was so much juicy material that they just rushed through. You’re telling me that within the course of one day, Boyd goes from hating Eve and preparing to turn her into the police to wanting to protect her and thinking that the boys need her? How is that possible?
Even if he did pull that 180, now he is perfectly content with his children being raised by a woman on the run? Will she send them to school? Where is she even planning to live? Will she be shuffling them around to a different part of the world every couple of months? And that’s not even mentioning that he won’t be able to ever see them again. And why would they need their mum any more than they would need their father? Give me a break.
They could have explored all of these plot points, and also allowed her to have more interactions with Dylan. The story could have lasted a week, at least. But none of this was explained, and instead she was quickly shuffled offscreen. And now the children are gone too. So what was the point? It doesn’t give Boyd any long term story, and everyone who knows about it has decided to keep it under wraps. So we’re back to where we were before this episode, with Eve on the run with the kids.
Rant over.