In the last episode of Furious, Alice (Emmy Rossum) found herself in the biggest coincidence of her life when she headed to the former safe surrender spot connected to Isabel’s (Larissa Campos) bracelet and ran straight into the woman everyone has been looking for: Catherine (Lola Petticrew). Warning: Spoilers ahead for Furious Episode 6 “They Make a Noise Like Feathers.”
A chance meeting brings together the hunter and the prey
Catherine’s picture is all over the news, but she is hiding out at a safe surrender/women’s shelter in an effort to get refuge. Alice isn’t technically on the case and can’t call it in, so she pretends to be a sex worker with an abusive boyfriend so she can stay at the shelter with Catherine.
Once inside, she calls Nora (Quincy Tyler Bernstine), tells her everything, and the two put a plan into motion. With police having found Hal’s (Campbell Scott) tortured body, Nora sets a plan in motion to have officers sent in and back up Alice.
Meanwhile, Alden (Steve Way) is making life increasingly difficult for Agent Choi (Rob Yang) and Danny (Scoot McNairy) by confessing to Hal’s torture and murder in an effort to stall them from chasing his beloved Catherine.
After being set up by Alice, which has harmed his career, Marshall has slipped back into his old ways. Now officially off the wagon, drinking beers, and fixating on Alice, as he uses police department equipment to stalk her to the women’s shelter. He sits in his car, fuming, drinking, and plotting.
At the shelter, Alice is placed in a room with “Grace” — a.k.a. Catherine — and attempts to get close to her by telling her own story about the shower. Catherine opens up in return, revealing that she has been involved with the shelter since she was 16, and it has saved her life on multiple occasions.
Nora and Ed’s backstory revealed
Nora, meanwhile, has been stalling to keep her boss Ed (Danny McCarthy) from finding out what is really happening. When he finally confronts her, she makes the case that capturing Catherine could give them someone willing to testify against Jay Easton (Peter McRobbie). But Nora also decides it is finally time to have a very different conversation with Ed…
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Nora brings up the Jane Doe/Isabel case from 2012, involving a dead sex worker (who we know is Isabel) whose face was destroyed. At the time, Ed forced Nora to close the case. Nora went along with it, believing it was simply a bad case and knowing Ed would soon leave, allowing her to take his position. But one question has continued to haunt her: How did Ed know about Jane Doe before she did?
Nora finally puts the pieces together. Jay Easton had been Ed’s source on the banking case that made his career and made him a superstar in the department. In return, Ed became Easton’s private fixer, making the dead woman and the investigation disappear. By the time Nora finishes laying everything out, the balance of power has completely shifted: She owns Ed now. Or so she thinks.
The hunter becomes the prey, but then an even bigger threat arrives
Back at the shelter, Catherine realizes something is amiss and tries to leave. Alice chases her into the showers, where Catherine gets the jump on her, knocks her out with her handy dandy drug kit, and takes her gun. With her cover blown,
Alice finally tells Catherine who she really is and that she knows Jay Easton killed her friend. She wants Catherine to testify, but Catherine refuses.
Catherine also reveals just how little she remembers about what Easton did to her and Isabel. She remembers going to his house, and then Isabel was dead. But she does have the videos and photos Hal collected against Easton. She also reveals that Isabel’s baby is Elaina, who is currently with an abusive man named Big Man. Catherine admits she doesn’t know how to take care of Elaina herself, but she promised she would find out who killed Isabel. Now she wants Alice to get the girl away from Big Man.
At the FBI, Ed retaliates against Nora by taking the case away from her and reporting her for alcoholism. This means that no reinforcements are coming for Alice. She is all alone with Catherine.
At the shelter, Catherine comes to the conclusion that no backup is on the way and makes a run for it. Alice follows her outside, only to be attacked by Marshall, who has stalked her to the shelter.
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Jack Lacy explains Marshall’s warped “love”
Speaking to TV Insider, Jake Lacy explained that he believes Marshall genuinely loves Alice, but his brutality has warped his sense of what that love looks like, allowing him to justify his increasingly destructive behavior toward her.
“I think he does love her, at least like Marshall believed that. I don’t know if it’s a healthy love, and I don’t know that it’s a version of love that any that I would want to give or receive. But Marshall’s not using it as a manipulation,” explains Lacy. “He really believes that they love each other, that they’re meant for one another, and I think some of [his] rationalization is like ‘Oh, it takes two to tango.’ Like Alice also has done, and does, some questionable things to Marshall, and I think there’s also an element of him not rationalizing some of that. But I think that there is part of him that knows that behavior is unacceptable.”
The final reveal raises a chilling question
Screaming for help, Alice gets an unexpected helping hand from Catherine, who shoots Marshall. Catherine and Alice share a glance, and Catherine asks if Alice wants him dead. Unable to answer, Catherine takes off, leaving a bleeding and dying Marshall in the hands of his victim.
And then comes one final, troubling discovery: Alden gives Danny the hard drive containing the illicit files taken from Jay Easton’s laptop. Years of images and videos featuring young girls that can put the billionaire away for years. When Danny opens it, among everything Easton has collected is a folder with one very familiar name: Alice.
It raises a disturbing question: Why is Alice’s name in Jay Easton’s hidden files?
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