WordPress did another change regarding how it editor looks but…I don’t completely hate it, if I’m being honest. Yes, there’s still something about it that I dislike, being that the header from the other pages for my behind the scenes stuff is now being dragged to the editor when I had already gotten used to it not being there, but the rest of it I feel is actually pretty good. Hell, I absolutely love what they set the new default view for font size in paragraph blocks to be! I know that nobody really cares about that, but I want to give WordPress credit where credit is due, as I don’t want to be all negative about them.
Anyway, onto the episode.
We start with Nonna talking to Victoria, with Nonna pointing out that Victoria looked like her mom did when she spaced out. This is where we learn more about Nonna’s original mom. She’d leave the house at night to go to what I can only assume is her job. When she comes back home, she’d sleep until noon, leaving again once it’s dark.
It makes me feel so bad for Nonna. I don’t know if we’re going to learn more about Nonna’s life prior to getting adopted by Victoria, but just based on the snippets we know so far, it doesn’t seem like Nonna had a good life prior to getting picked up by Victoria. Thank you Victoria, for being a good mother, unlike Nonna’s birth mom.
Victoria seems to take this as getting lost in thought being wrong, only for Nonna to be like “no, that’s not it”, she just wants to know why Victoria was spacing out. Victoria opens up about what happened at the dance party/ball, which Nonna finds to be incredible. But Victoria’s like “yeah, that’s why I decided that I don’t want to get you involved, so I’m going to start running even if there’s a bad guy” only for Nonna to be like “no, can’t we fight together?”, for Victoria to say that protecting Nonna is more important. Nonna’s response to this is “I don’t want you to disappear too, so beat up the bad guys!”
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I think those emojis properly portray exactly how I feel about that scene. It’s just…Nonna. 😦 It’s clear that she’s suffering from her mom abandoning her. Baby. 😦 She even started crying. 😦
Thankfully, Victoria pulls the responsible mom card and hugs her and uses the caring mother card. Go Victoria! Yay! 😀
Though Nonna does get to ask to see how Victoria beats people up, with Victoria even asking Nonna to keep what she’s about to see secret, before showing off just that. Victoria also decides that she’s going to be more open with Nonna.
We then go to another day of Victoria working, with Victoria sorting books (and Nonna helping for a bit before reading a book herself), though she does stop by the window for a bit. In fact, she stops by that window multiple times during her shift.
So when Jeff arrives and asks her to dinner, she requests for the dinner to occur at her place instead of a public location, like he likely was going to do, considering the last time they had dinner together. After the dinner, while Nonna is sleeping, Victoria opens up to Jeff about how she feels like she’s being followed. Jeff opens up about what he talked about with the other people he was talking to last episode, with Victoria being like “if I still get followed for something I didn’t do (even though I 100% did it)…”, though Jeff confirmed that he’d try to talk to Prince Conrad to see if he can cease that surveillance, with Jeff even saying that he gets the feeling that Victoria could disappear at any moment.
Oh, Jeff, if only you knew who Victoria actually is. Victoria herself is like “I wouldn’t do that” when this worry of his is brought up.
But yeah, after that talk’s done and Victoria and Jeff say goodbye, we skip ahead to Victoria walking Nonna to a slumber party that’s occurring at Ms. Susan’s place. While we don’t get to see the drop off, we do get to follow Victoria to a pub, where internally she’s like “yeah, I would’ve disappeared if the royal family took an interest in me, but since I’m not being followed anymore, I’m not going to disappear.”
We also learn that Victoria only ever really trusted one person, being her former boss, but once he trampled on her trust, she decided to run away and start a new normal life. Honestly really sad, only for some dude to be like “yo lady who’s alone, have a drink with me”. Victoria does the responsible thing of paying for her drink and getting out of there, only for the guy to follow her outside. Which, rude much? 💢 She clearly wanted to get out of there, and a no means no, even if the signs of it are subtle!
The person behind the counter decides to also go outside, sensing trouble, only to see that the guy has gone off elsewhere, and Victoria is on the roof with an angry black kitty.
We then see one of the shifts Victoria has, where it turns out her boss fell from a stepladder and broke his arm, but the person who reported this to her does have a job that Victoria’s skill set could help out in, especially with her knowledge of foreign languages. When me and my mom got to that point, we managed to figure out that this was where we’d see the second kid in the intro, even if it was only my mom who vocalized the deduction.
And yes, this is in fact where we meet the second child in the intro, Clark Anderson. Victoria gets to tutor him in two foreign languages, mainly because he’s expected to know them since his father is the foreign secretary. It seems that whatever tutoring methods that were being used on him before aren’t working, however, to the point that he appears to have low self esteem and believes that he can’t do anything well.
After Nonna shows off her own skills, however, Victoria decides to combine stretching with learning the languages, splitting the tutoring time between training and learning. I think this is a rather interesting way of pulling this off, and could even provide Clark with things that he can do if the questions get too difficult for him. Based on his presence in the intro, I suspect that we’ll be seeing more of him around in the series, especially since the events here got him fired up.
While heading back from that shift, as Nonna shows how she’s gotten fired up too, Victoria feels like she’s being watched again. When Nonna comes down, Victoria tells here to go straight home, which she complies with. Once Victoria finds the person watching her and has a quick spar, she also reveals that she knows they have a knife, and that she’d fight with one too since they brought one. This is enough for the attacker to turn around and run away. Victoria’s guard isn’t down, though.
The next day, she does talk to Jeff, opening up about what happened…only to find out she attacked the second prince, who left incognito and came back with two broken ribs. So, she asked the question that also serves as the name for this episode.
“Captain, are you going to arrest me?“
Luck is on Victoria’s side, however, as Jeff says that he will not. Prince Conrad does scold his brother, don’t worry.
Then, there is one last scene in this episode I want to talk about. Victoria opens a letter from an ally that she still keeps in touch with, revealing that someone’s investigating the real Victoria Sellars. Victoria burns this letter. “Out of sight, out of mind” or something.
While there is another scene in this episode, it basically boiled down to “the culprit trying to take someone down at that ball/dance party had a justifiable reason to do it, but because they were caught, they ended up in a sort of ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’ situation”. I honestly don’t want to go into the details because that would require adding a content warning to this post just to cover one scene at the end, so I’ll leave this as spoilers you have to watch the episode to find out.
This episode felt…sort of all over the place, in my opinion. For some scenes, I failed to see the string that was connecting them together. At least in the previous episodes I could tell what was connecting the scenes together. Maybe it’s a “Sara doesn’t like this style of storytelling” issue and not an issue with the episode (and on a wider scale, the series) itself. Because, I’ll be honest, I prefer it when there’s clear strings connecting the stories if they’re not explicitly marked as being separate stories in the same episode. So if this a me issue, then I’ll accept that instead of trying to claim that it makes the series terrible.
After all, it seems like, unlike some people on the internet, I’m pretty sure I can tell the difference between “I don’t like the way that this was done, but I feel like it’s effective for some people” and “this is objectively bad”, though the only real complaint I have with this episode is in the former camp.
It was still an enjoyable episode, however. Maybe the remaining episodes will remain up to my standards.
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