MILLENNIUM-CLOSURE, THIRTEEN YEARS LATER, and SKULL AND BONES
MILLENNIUM-CLOSURE,
THIRTEEN YEARS LATER, and SKULL AND BONES
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"Closure" Daniel Sackheim Larry Andries October
23, 1998 3ABC04 5.07[19]
The pursuit
of a remorseless killer gets to Emma Hollis, whose fierce resolve to nail the
slayer is tied to a violent incident that scarred her emotionally as a child.
MILLENNIUM-CLOSURE
I don’t get
how people do not like this tense filled episode. Robert Shearman in his book
gives it a one but honestly it’s really a 10/10 about the WHY not existing in
some killings and some evil that men and women (yes, the woman is just as
amoral and evil here, too) do. The set pieces and performances and script all
jive for once to give us an episode where anything might happen thanks to
killers who just do not care. Frank vs Emma’s conflict is just as good, too,
and Shearman thinks that this is just an attempt to give Emma depth but
frankly, she’s had depth from the start and Emma’s probably MILLENNIUM’S most
realistic and warm character ever.
There’s some
sexuality that must have been pushing the limits even by the end of the 1990s
and it works. Emma’s car ride with Richard, the worst of the trio of killer’s
is most unnerving but ends in a satisfying manner as Emma, with her seat belt
on, notices he has his seatbelt off so she crashes the car into a stone pillar
or one of those safety crash cement blocks, sending him half out of the
windshield.
Randy or
rather the actor from MONK who plays Randy appears as a mountain biker who
engages the trio and gets, for his efforts to bond, a game of William Tell with
guns, ending with him dead.
The female
criminal that engages with Emma after she’s caught is also a piece of work,
playing Emma when she asks Emma if there was anyone that she’s ever loved so
much she’d do anything for (Emma says yes and we think, rightly, that it is her
sister, who supposedly died at the hands of a white man who then later killed
himself). Emma says yes and the girl says not her. She also tells Emma, “You’re
in the wrong kind of work.”
Frank,
satisfactorily, tells Emma, “Officer Hollis, you are NOT in the wrong line of
work.”
There’s been
conflict between Frank and Emma throughout these four episodes, usually Frank
trying to protect Emma or Emma trying to help Frank or solve a case but these
moments of their connecting make it worth watching. Which is why the unresolved
feud between them later on is so frustrating. For now, MILLENNIUM is so much
better than it ever was.
50 5 "...Thirteen
Years Later" Thomas J. Wright Michael R. Perry October 30, 1998 3ABC05 5.37[20]
Murders
begin to occur on the set of a film loosely based on a grisly case from Frank's
past. Rock band KISS—Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley, Peter Criss and Ace
Frehley—appear as themselves and in small roles.
Marta is
named that but I can’t help but think she looks a lot like Marta Kristen from
LOST IN SPACE. I thought that even before I heard her name. We know Chris
Carter is an Irwin Allen fan and that he not only had Stefan Arngrim from LAND
OF THE GIANTS on MILLENNIUM before but he’s in a major role in this episode but
also that a clip from LAND OF THE GIANTS-THE MECHANICAL MAN graced WEEDS in
season one. AND…in THE X FILES, a main character played by THE INVADERS’ Roy
Thinnis is named Jeremiah Smith ( LOST IN SPACE-THE CURSE OF COUSIN SMITH).
In any case,
I don’t know why people complain about this episode and memory does cheat: I seem
to recall more with the KISS member in the fat costume or fat looking deputy
more and KISS featuring more prominently than they actually do. Unless the DVDs
are edited to have KISS play a lesser role than they did on first airing, memory
does cheat.
Some
reviewers called the KISS concert at the climax an orgy. It’s hardly that at
all and only a brief part of the episode.
More over
than anything else, MILLENNIUM here, at much as it can be, is fun again or fun
for the first time. There is, especially at the start to the mid point of the
episode, a great deal of funny lines and laugh out loud humor. I love that
Frank profiles JASON, FREDDIE, and MICHEAL MEYERS and there are also mentions
of THE OMEN, TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE, MOTEL HELL, PSYCHO, and THE HITCHER
(gross with the finger in the sandwich).
I love this
episode and would give it a 9/10, losing points for maybe two things: ONE: I
don’t get what the connection is to the man that tried to drive Frank crazy
three times in his life including mostly the FRENCHMAN? What? How is this
killer related to the Frenchman killer or is Frank just plain wrong? The ending
is also a bit weird, too. The other thing wrong is that the killer faked being
a victim or something. Did he cut his thumbs off and had to get 171 stitches? If
so, he’s pretty casual about it and recovering pretty quickly and Frank and Emma
don’t notice that?
All in all,
a fun episode that has faults and could have been better but certainly not the
worst the show’s ever done. And KISS does not overtake the episode (maybe they
wanted to) as on the DVD. Maybe it’s been altered? Doesn’t seem to be.
51 6 "Skull
and Bones" Paul Shapiro Chip Johannessen & Ken Horton November 6, 1998 3ABC06 5.07[21]
The
discovery of secretly buried bodies at a construction site in Atoka, Oklahoma
reveals an odious connection to the Millennium Group.
Gosh. I know
this episode is creepy and even scary in its premise. I know Peter comes off as
a real creep and that MILL assassin is back, too. The scene where Emma searches
the MILL kill farm house is very scary and when the music stops, it’s even more
effective and unnerving. Then the radio starts blaring and that’s unsettling.
Peter appears at the doorway. Very creepy. A totally riveting episode that
changes everything. Probably a 10/10.
BUT…this
changes the entire show and we can look at season one and even season two
differently. The GROUP is now covering up threats by…killing their own members
who might reveal thins the GROUP doesn’t want them to?
This might
jive cohesively with the recent school shooting episode where it means that
some must do whatever it takes to keep order and sanity in a world about to go
or has already gone mad and insane and to keep society mired in stability. It
is, if the last episode was not, as real as TV can get. Sadly, I wonder if the
gov’t or gov’ts of the world play this game, though it’s probably not as overt
at it is here. The idea of this is scary more than the actual events of the episode.
I love that
Andy lets Frank take the witness out of holding. Andy reveals himself to be a
true friend.
If you were
Emma would you not shoot Peter dead as soon as he handed the gun back to her?
Did he take the bullets out?
Unsettling
an episode that changes everything. But should it have? Is there coming back
from this?
I learned
from the MILL web site, THIS IS WHO WE ARE, that the assassin is named Mabius
and he may not be human as he changes forms in another episode much as Lucy
Butler seemed to. Is he her?
[Millennium Tribute] KISS - Thirteen years later (youtube.com)
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