Oh my, Roger, Roger, Roger.
Rebecca gets Powell on his way. THAT ALONE SHOWS THE TRUTH. If she was afraid, or hating Todd in any way, she would have NEVER protected him and lied about him being inside. She WANTED to be near him, she just didn't want to let herself admit it.
There's that Todd music in there...the scary one from the Spring Fling....interesting why it's placed there when she returns to Todd. God how beautiful can this guy get? He always surprises me with how he looks to my eyes.
Wow I LOVE what he says to Rebecca here. He admits EVERYTHING he's done wrong. He does not want to go back to jail, and who would? Especially a rapist; they receive special treatment there. Hopefully there is more on that in Todd's future if the Real One returns.
He does NOT deny that he was going to kill them both. That is what I always believed about the cabin scene but deep down, if they went that route, I don't think Todd could have killed REbecca in the end. He COULD HAVE killed himself though. If Roger was not a huge success as he was, that could have happened. Imagine if Todd were played by someone like the current Todd. The suicide would have been months earlier and really happened. LOL!
I LOVE when he wants to trade a kiss for leaving. "You want me to go, don't you?" OMG, he is so gorgeous. ANd....she's going to let him go. Of course, she doesn't plan on kissing him....or does she?
"I am not going to kiss you." LOL! Ok Rebecca, with THAT MAN in front of you, give it a try resisting! LOL! This, of course, is when we all KNEW what Rebecca really really really felt deep down, when the kiss happens between these two for the first time. When he says "Come here" and barely touches her face, she looks like she is going to pass out! LOL! He has that affect on people.
Sorry, in the middle of the kiss event, Powell starts to figure out who the Genie is and asks them to describe him. I LOVE SARAH, looking to the ceiling for a way out of that one!!! LOL!
Back to the moment, he's describing a moment in a dream to her. So romantic. How can ANYONE SAY Todd's not a romantic guy. He totally is, deep down where it counts. What can be more romantic than his pitch to her about the kiss? "I want to feel you that close to me for one last second." OMG. WHO could say no?
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Let's play that part over with a different actress, say, me, in the role:
TODD: "I want to feel you that close to me for one last second."
KIM: (runs out of the shed)
TODD: "Wait, where are you going? It says we have a kiss!"
KIM: (poking head back through the shed door) "Kiss nothing, I am going to get my bags and my birth control. Be right back...Ali!" (winks and runs off).
The END.
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Ok back to reality. What I call the "Elizabethan" music is playing....everything is perfect, he's DROP DEAD SEXY and she's about to faint from sheer expectation. Remember the Slow Burn conversation we were having? THIS IS THE STUFF MISSING FROM SOAPS TODAY!
"I'll never forget you, Rebecca."
And that begins another phase of The Masquerade, when Todd goes to NY to escape the police!
Pan to Sarah, "And he's got this funny thing on his face." LOL! So cute. Powell knows, oh well, here we go, Todd on the run again, but some of my favorite on the run scenes.
Rebecca tells. I think she did this for two reasons. To protect people from him and to protect HIM by having him be caught and put back in a "safe" place (which is how she sees it). She can't stop thinking of that kiss!!! WHO COULD!!????
The rest of this is Todd running away, Powell acting like a hero (gag), Rebecca looking lost, BO and Nora finding out again that he's not dead and around, and Cord looking through the woods.
Amazing that in a few months or so (a bit longer), Vicki will be bringing Todd into her home as her brother. It's discovered that it really is Todd, police become involved, the kids get a talking to, etc. Powell gets ACCOLADES for his finding Todd's knife. He used it to carve a beautiful bird, a cross and some pendants. "He did a lot of damage out there."
Here's the "I ain't Cappy" scene. I love it. I've used it in the guess the line game, and no one got it. It's between Todd and these two guys he runs into.
FAIL: How come POWELL gets accolades and poor Todd gets wrecked? Exactly that. TPTB at the time wanted us to pity Todd and made it easy to do so. This was his turnaround story. His psuedo-redemption, part 1.
Sound off! A lot here today!
Yeah, I think you bring up a good point about Rebecca not understanding what prison is really like for him. I don't agree that he was actually being raped in prison behind the scenes, as that would also have essentially rendered the Todd/Powell showdown towards the end of 1994 as somewhat moot; Todd would have already known EXACTLY what Marty went through and there would have been no need for him to "identify with his victim" through that scene.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I do think there was more than they showed on screen...perhaps Todd knew it was inevitable he WOULD be raped, or killed, if he didn't escape.
Besides...if Zach, who was much smaller than Todd and not a football player, wasn't sexually assaulted, I think Todd was probably OK for the time he was in there. Keep in mind...Todd DID destroy everyone in prison football, despite the "rough rules"...so he wouldn't have been easy prey.
However, something interesting I just thought of: Rebecca thinks prison is the safest place for him, not understanding what it's like. RAY, on the other hand...wanted Todd to get his freedom. Ray, of course, knew exactly what it was like having served a sentence for rape himself. Just an interesting contrast and a good job by the writers of adhering to the characters.