'We Hunt Together' Episode 4 Review: Freddy already has a new victim in mind but can we really blame her?
Spoilers for 'We Hunt Together' Episode 4
What had started off as a sexy neon-lit dream fresh out of Nicholas Winding Refn style noir thrillers is now evolving into a much meatier plot with backstories unfolding and fleshing out the many layers of the cat-and-mouse tale in 'We Hunt Together'. Episode 3 kicks off with a deeper level of bonding for both the parties – the cats and the mice. Detectives Lola Franks (Eve Myles) and Jackson Mendy (Babou Ceesay) open up about their darkest family issues and deepest loss. Our Bonnie and Clyde in question – Freddy (Hermione Corfield) and Baba (Dipo Ola) on the Showtime drama, also take another trip down memory lane, but this time it's Freddy. The pathological liar and absolute murderous sociopath that she is, we still don't know if Freddy is lying to Baba about the next man on her hit list. But if she is not, can we really blame her for avenging what she calls her best friend's suicide?
The episode kicks off with a news report on Matt Bower's death. Local man found hanging from a tree over jilted love and the types – just the right kicker of a headline to make Freddy and Baba think they are in the clear. But as the two get on the phone and plan night of fun and relief danger lurks right behind baba in the form of Jackson Mendy. The writer plays amply with the characters and their tones in this episode. One can't be certain if Jackson already has suspicions surrounding Baba as Freddy's accomplice, or if he is just flashing his badge and asking for a regular glass of water while on his usual rounds. Either way, his attention gets sucked into the ongoing mess that is both his personal life and the professional one, thanks to his addict of a partner, Lola.
One might also argue how can Jackson be a detective and not notice his cheating wife or Lola's heroin addiction until actually informed by the respective individuals in as many words, but we shall let that slide. He has far more pressing cases to solve, like the current double murder with a femme fatale prime suspect they just can't seem to connect the dots around somehow. Yet the philosophical undertones once again drift in as Lola reflects on how she isn't allowed to feel okay about killing baby Jessica in a car accident and from Jackson's end its a deep understanding towards his wife's possible infidelity in the as a rough patch in their marriage.
On Freddy and Baba's end however, the contemplation is far more relatable. Basking on cloud nine, Freddy takes Baba to her hometown where she went to school. In due course of time and with people from her past constantly attacking her with a criminal reputation that clearly precedes her, it is finally revealed why she had to serve time in juvie. Freddy, after coming face to face with her school's headmaster, spirals into what looks like a shock induces confession. She tells Baba about her childhood best friend Freddy Lane, whose name she took up after the little girl mysteriously drowned in a nearby lake. Flashbacks throughout the episode show that headmaster offering a young blonde girl called Lily Jenkins some lollipops and it's enough to hint at the sexual abuse that had gone on in the past.
No stranger to twists and turns, Freddy turns out to be Lily Jenkins, and her dead friend, the real Freddy. After the little girl's death, her mother had become the new Freddy's legal guardian, as we learn from Lola's chat with the mother. That this new Freddy stopped writing to her all of a sudden also hints at a bigger plan that the current master manipulator might have hatched at such a tender age. And although she is might as well be fabricating this story, and could have killed her own friend out in the woods, instead of watching her jump in the lake as she so claims, if all of this is part of an elaborate revenge plan, then the headmaster on her hit list seems neither wrong nor unexpected. Only time will tell.
'We Hunt Together' airs on Sundays at 10 pm only on Showtime.
