Threshold: The Order

I guess that The West Wing's White House isn't the only TV government building that has a leak. Though this one doesn't turn out to be someone doing it on purpose. The Washington D.C. paper (I think it's The Globe) has a column about Threshold, though not the details of the alien invasion. The restaurant where Fenway eats all the time has been bugged by a private eye working for one of his ex-wives because she's curious about his new job and his alimony payments. Maybe Cafferty was right when she said she wants to keep the entire team together away from the public.

Speaking of restaurants, several patrons of a Broxton, Rhode Island (side note: is it just me or did they call it Braxton in the opening scenes??) have been infected, and they're having those damn dreams of a glass forest. Could it be the food? Could it be one of the workers? Could it have some connection to the infected ship from the first episode? The team investigates.

A senator finds out about the project (via that newspaper column), and he's brought into Threshold and given a tour, including a meeting with the infected military student who won't talk to Cafferty but pleads with the senator to let him go. Something told me that they shouldn't trust this senator, and we later find out my suspicions were accurate (really cool scene with the distorted cat, Threshold writers!). Maybe they should keep those CDs with the alien signal on it under lock and key instead of out in the open next to Fenway's Hall and Oates Greatest Hits.

I think I mentioned in another review that the beginning narration by Carla Gugino says "I have a plan...Threshold." I'm still trying to figure out what the hell the plan is, unless "plan" can be defined as "a new problem arises every single week and we have to think fast to figure out how to stop it."

Oh, and another thing: at one point tonight one of the team members mentions that the whole episode with that ship took place two weeks ago. Two weeks ago? All of the action in these episodes have taken place over 14 days? I think that's what he said. Anyway, no matter. This was the best episode yet, if only for the great twist ending that dispatches of an important character and raises the stakes quite a bit. It's one of the more important plot developments in any of the new sci-fi/horror shows, and shows once again why this is up there with Surface as the best of the crop.