[Warning: The next accommodates spoilers for the newest episode of Prodigal Son, “The Professionals.” Learn at your personal danger!]
Nicely, properly, properly, look who received the cuffs slapped on him this time. Monday night time’s episode of Prodigal Son, titled “The Professionals,” was a quadruple whammy as we came upon some horrible information about Eve (Molly Griggs), sat in on that long-awaited Whitly household reunion, lastly noticed Jessica (Bellamy Young) and Gil Arroyo (Lou Diamond Phillips) slice by way of all of their romantic stress, and watched Malcolm Vivid (Tom Payne) get arrested for homicide. Multi functional episode!
Sure, it was as if this installment made all of our twistiest hopes for this present a (tv) actuality in a single fell swoop. Not that we wished something unhealthy to occur to Eve, in fact, now we have been hoping to see all of the Whitlys in a single place for months, and the Jessica-Gil connection has been apparent since this present first began. As for what’s occurring to Malcolm proper now, properly, there are fairly just a few completely different potentialities.
To recap, Malcolm was arrested for homicide after he visited Nicholas Endicott’s (Dermot Mulroney) hitman, Eddie — who’d killed Eve and tried to assassinate Martin (Michael Sheen) for telling his household about Nicholas’ true enterprise — within the hospital. The employed gun ended up lifeless with Malcolm’s DNA beneath his fingernails, and the proof towards him was so stacked that Gil had no selection however to have J.T. (Frank Harts) and Dani (Aurora Perrineau) deliver Vivid in. We do not precisely know what Malcolm did in that hospital room, however we do know that he was totally conscious that they’d be unable to flip the man towards Nicholas, their actual goal for Eve’s homicide case, utilizing conventional police interrogation strategies.
Frank Harts, Tom Payne, and Aurora Perrineau, Prodigal Son
As a lot as we might like to present Malcolm the good thing about the doubt and belief that he is harmless of this crime, we have definitely seen him go to the darkish facet earlier than. In truth, the final time we had an eerie feeling about the place he was headed, he stabbed his personal father within the coronary heart. So, prefer it or not, Malcolm’s able to a whole lot of wretched issues, and we can not rely out the worst-case state of affairs proper now.
Within the spirit of embracing all potential outcomes, listed here are 5 theories about what’s subsequent for Malcolm and his household now that he is the prime suspect for the hitman’s homicide (and has grow to be totally satisfied that Nicholas Endicott is the largest baddie on the town).
1. Malcolm actually is a assassin. Prodigal Son‘s writers prefer to throw us a whole lot of curveballs, so we will not rule out the chance that subsequent week’s finale may reveal one thing deeply unsettling about Malcolm. In spite of everything, he’s the very broken son of the Surgeon, and we have seen how equally expert he’s with a weapon previously. It is onerous to consider a extra surprising end to the present’s first season than if Malcolm was revealed to have lastly succumbed to his violent tendencies — whether or not it’s a current improvement or one thing he is been utilizing his profiling thoughts video games to hide this complete time — on account of his girlfriend’s demise.
And who is aware of? Possibly it was him who took out Eve within the first place? Possibly Nicholas is not the one one who does not like to listen to the phrase “no,” and since Eve did simply finish issues with him, properly, the timing of Malcolm revealing Eve’s breakup voicemail to Ainsley (Halston Sage) is fairly suspect if the girl had already been lifeless for 2 weeks by that time, simply saying. Plus, we all know from the Nightingale (Dagmara Dominczyk) that Eve’s killer needed to be somebody who spent a whole lot of time along with her, and the season finale is ominously titled “Like Father…” Dun dun dun.
2. Malcolm’s night time terrors have taken over. One subplot of Prodigal Son that has gotten rather less consideration in current episodes is absolutely the lack of management Malcolm has over his behaviors whereas he’s experiencing an evening terror. It is also onerous for these round him to inform that he’s asleep when he is up and wildly swinging knives at individuals, so it would not be utterly out of left area for him to commit some act of violence with out even figuring out he is finished it, even when it seems to be like he is awake to these round him. Certain, he did not look like mid-slumber when he confirmed as much as Eddie’s hospital room, however we have seen weirder issues occur throughout one among his episodes — bear in mind when he by accident rolled out of his mattress and thru a second-story window? Enjoyable instances.
3. Martin had one other of his sycophants end the job. It has been a very long time since we have seen Martin’s affect over different lively serial killers come into play, however because the copycat killer case proved all the way in which again within the pilot, the Surgeon does nonetheless have some followers who’re able to hideous issues. Judging by the way in which Martin handled Eddie’s eyeballs earlier than Vivid and the remainder of the NYPD ran in to cease him, Martin actually did not need his fake guard to outlive that assassination try. Maybe he used his fancy cellphone privileges to get an outdated good friend over to Eddie’s hospital room?
There are a whole lot of the explanation why Martin may need Eddie lifeless — there is a good probability Eddie is aware of about Martin’s personal historical past with Nicholas, and he does not need that to get again to Malcolm, or possibly he actually was simply mad that Eddie went after somebody so near his personal son (uncertain). Figuring out Martin, he might’ve additionally put in a request for his personal employed gun to border Malcolm in order that his son would wish his assist once more. He actually did wish to have that household sport night time in his cell, guys.
Frank Harts, Tom Payne, and Aurora Perrineau, Prodigal Son
4. Ainsley is the undercover mastermind. OK, OK, so this one’s a little out of left area, however Ainsley has been a clean operator because the very starting of this present, and now we have to present her the respect of recognizing that she could possibly be fooling everybody, us included, proper now. The way in which she performed Nicholas in that dinner scene was simply plain masterful and demonstrated how adaptable and fast her thoughts is. Would not it’s a jaw-dropper if, after enduring a complete lifetime of everybody being attentive to Malcolm’s ache and issues, it was the prodigal daughter who turned out to be probably the most affected by her sordid household historical past? It is price declaring that it actually was unusual how she was there visiting Martin by herself earlier than Malcolm and Jessica confirmed up. One thing’s up along with her, in some way.
5. Nicholas Endicott is doing precisely what he stated he would do. The obvious final result right here is that Nicholas Endicott is solely following by way of on the menace he made to Martin all of these years in the past when he first set him up with that soft jail cell. As we noticed in that key flashback sequence, Nicholas promised Martin that if he ever revealed his true enterprise — which we do not totally know the main points of however has one thing to do with “the science of the human physique” — Martin would pay the worth.
“I’ll bankrupt your property, wreck your youngsters, and make like to your lovely spouse,” Nicholas promised over a pleasant glass of Châteauneuf-du-Pape. We have, um, already seen item number three come to fruition, so possibly he is checking the bins off in reverse order and has framing Malcolm for homicide subsequent on the to-do listing? Come what may, we already know for positive that Nicholas Endicott is unhealthy information, and his connection to some other crimes we’ve seen is bound to be revealed soon.
We’ll discover out whether or not any of those predictions are right when Prodigal Son‘s Season 1 finale airs on Monday, April 27 at 9/8c on Fox.
Frank Harts, Tom Payne, and Aurora Perrineau, Prodigal Son