![]() ![]() With the help of rival casino owner Beatrix Hasp (Rhea Perlman, VO only), he plans to off his boss for good and frame Charlie for the crime instead. His resentment for his boss growing, when Frost decides to have Cliff not kill Charlie, but instead bring her to him so he can give her a job, Cliff finally snaps. Spoiler: it was a lot of nights in crappy hotels. In “The Hook,” we get to see what Cliff had been doing for the full year(!) he had been chasing Charlie on Frost’s behalf. In spite of the revelation that the events of the episode allowed Charlie to accidentally fake her own death, the final twist of the hour is that Cliff had found her anyway, and was ready to strike at Frost's command.Īnd then, quite literally, nothing happens. With Charlie’s life in the balance for most of the episode, obviously the stakes feel higher than usual, and the hour continually pays off all that high tension with every desperate, heart-pounding second. By far the best hour of the season, and certainly a competitor for best television episode of the year, the episode juggled suspense and wit, humor and horror with ease. Basically a full movie in itself, “Mountain” was full of twists, turns, intrigue and energy. A series of unfortunate events (including but not limited to Charlie being gravely injured by a car and dumped into a hole in the middle of the woods) eventually leads the pair to a cabin-style motel in the mountain, but unbeknownst to them, their hosts (Joseph Gordon-Levitt and David Castañeda) may be the ones responsible for Charlie’s near-death - as well as the disappearance of a popular snowboarder on the same mountain 10 years earlier. A friendly, kleptomanic stranger who Charlie only knows by the pseudonym Mortimer (Stephanie Hsu) agrees to help Charlie out in exchange for a rise off the mountain, but things slowly go awry when Charlie’s car gets stuck and an intense blizzard blocks off all the roads. Starting with “Escape From Shit Mountain,” we find Charlie stranded in the Rocky Mountains for the winter after a prolonged tryst turns sour and leaves her without money or gas.
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