Stalker’s latest episode, Fun and Games, was anything but and we’ve still yet to learn if it’ll be anything more. If you don’t want spoilers then know there will be a few here in this post. The biggest spoiler would be if CBS doesn’t air the last three episodes of the season and leave us with nothing past this episode.
That. Would. Suck. Majorly.
At least give us those episodes, please!
Perry is like a kid who’s never been told ‘No’ and thanks to over-protective parents, never has to think past supper. How else do you explain him getting Ray freed and then taking Ray to LA? Dude was in over his head with this one before he ever started. Ray is no joke. Perry may be intelligent but Ray is psycho … the two don’t compare in terms of thought process, right and wrong or the benefit of others. Perry wanted to play a game, Ray’s in it to destroy win it.
Huge difference between the two and it took seeing Ray’s special brand of crazy to make me feel sorry for Perry.
Ray attacked Amanda outside of Jack’s house after she dropped their son off for the night. That’s how last week’s episode ended, quite the cliff-hanger! This week we found her in the hospital with no knowledge of what happened or who hurt her but Beth recognizes Ray’s work immediately. He’s going to divide so he can conquer, get Beth to isolate herself in order to keep those closest to her safe. She makes her team aware of this and they rally around rather than run off to save their own skin.
Perry’s dad hired a detective to find his son, a cocky condescending guy who, after finding Perry, proves to be no match against Ray. Why didn’t he pull the gun before Ray was completely in the room? He knew Ray was mental yet he waited until he was inches in front of Ray before going for his gun. Death wish, that’s what that was. Seeing Ray kill the man didn’t do anything for me, really. They’d already established Ray was a psychopath before we even met him.
The team was able to track Ray and Perry down to a smaller area thanks to Ray sending Beth flowers. As predictable as that was I didn’t see Ray taking Tracy hostage coming before it happened. That’s where we saw Perry come full circle to a bit of redemption. He used Tracy to get to Beth but he never wanted to see her come to harm. It was all a game to Perry. He hadn’t spent the last however many years of his life biting at the chomp to get Beth/Michelle back like Ray had. His childish need to dominate, for the sport of it, trumped his ability to recognize danger. He tried to help Tracy escape and that led to Ray killing Perry. I felt for the guy. This may have been his doing but, I felt for him all the same.
Ray took Tracy as part of an elaborate ruse to get Beth alone at her house. He knew she’d send her team out to save her best friend and while they were there searching the junk yard, he would be at her house. Ben answered the door when Ray knocked and Ray shot him. Fatally? No freaking clue! Cliffhanger’d that one for us though it did look like his wound was bleeding which would mean his heart was pumping. Ray took Beth from her home and stuffed her in the trunk with a dead Perry. Beth found a flashlight in the trunk, found Perry and …. the end.
Maybe they’ll treat this episode as the season finale and move those last three episodes to season two. Or maybe they’ll go ahead and fit them in the schedule once Criminal Minds wraps up this season. Whichever, I want to see them! Beth can not live forever trapped in a trunk with a decomposing Perry! If Ben looses anymore blood he’s a goner for sure! I want to know what happens next. How do you think they’re going to play this? Think Ben is dead? Will Ray be caught or killed? How badly do you want to see those last three episodes for this season?? Let me know in the comments!