Tonight on the ABC The Catch airs with an all new Thursday March 31, season 1 episode 2 called “The Real Killer.” On tonight’s episode, Alice (Mireille Enos) is hired by a man wrongly imprisoned for killing his wife, but she loses focus on his case as she tries to locate Ben. (Peter Krause)
On the last episode, Alice was on the top of her game, but when her fiancé, Benjamin Jones, conned her out of millions and disappeared, she suddenly became the victim and went on a private mission for payback, stopping at nothing to catch her man. However, she was not the only one chasing Ben. Did you watch the last episode? If you missed the episode we have a full and detailed recap right here for you.
On tonight’s episode as per the ABC synopsis, “Alice and the team take on a very public client, a husband who was wrongly imprisoned for murdering his wife. Alice, however, is distracted with a mission of her own: track down Ben and figure out his next move. Meanwhile, Ben, Margot and Reggie are in desperate need of cash since Alice foiled their last plan, and the three con artists set their sights on a new target.”
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The man that Alice once knew as her fiancée was revealed to be a con artist on last week’s episode of “The Catch”, but that doesn’t necessarily mean he didn’t and wasn’t still in love with her.
“Christopher” whose real name was actually Brian had left something behind at their apartment just for Alice. Apparently he had gone back there, even after she and her team had stolen all of his money, to leave a painting that he had once promised to buy her as a wedding gift. The painting being of lovers in an embrace. And so Alice hadn’t known at first what to think when she first saw a brand new painting hanging in her bedroom.
Although, she eventually came to it as a threat. She later called one of her associates to help get rid of it and she had told her friend that she thought Brian was threatening her because he had wanted her to know that he could still get into the apartment. Sophie on the other hand thought that the “Christopher” had been trying to tell Alice that it wasn’t all fake and that maybe he did care about her and their relationship.
Only Alice hadn’t wanted to consider any other possibilities. She felt she had been duped enough and so she refused to consider that any part of her fake relationship with someone that didn’t exist was real. So Alice had told Sophie that she was going to be putting “Christopher” behind her and she tried to focus on work. Yet, the firm’s latest client didn’t exactly help her get her mind of what happened. And that’s because she was dealing with a man that was accused of defrauding his much older wife before killing her.
Jeffery Bloom had come to the city to make it as a model when he met Edith Rockwell. Now Edith was a famous fashion designer so she had money, but she was also more than forty years older than her spouse. So it had ended up accepting her son and only child Payton. Payton had apparently threatened his mother with an ultimatum not long before she was murdered. Where he demanded that she either choose Jeffery or him.
But it looks like Edith had chosen her new husband. There hadn’t been a picture of her son anywhere in her house and she had allegedly told Jeffery that she had had it with Payton’s “childish” demands. Only she died before she could follow up on that threat and afterwards the police looked at both husband and son yet only considered the husband.
It seems Jeffery had been at the opera on the night in question and witnesses had seen him. However, the opera had been four hours long and the police had assumed that had given him enough of a widow to kill his wife and be back by the intermission. Meanwhile Payton’s alibi was a little more concrete.
Payton had been talking to a waitress about his mother all night and he had been so drunk that she had stayed to listen out of pity. Yet, Jeffrey’s new wife still thought Payton made the better suspect. The new Mrs. Bloom had apparently met Jeffrey while he was in prison because she had gone there to interview him and she said that at first she thought he was guilty too, but that certain discrepancies stood out.
She said she had noticed that his own lawyers had failed to bring up Payton and that the police had targeted Jeffrey right away. However, Alice for one hadn’t actually began to doubt Payton (she was still apprehensive about Jeffrey’s real motives in marrying Edith) until Sophie and Danny found evidence of a prior relationship between Payton and the waitress. So it seems he lied about knowing the young woman because there were several photos up online making out all up and down the coast.
Not that Payton was ever going to admit to it even though there were photos. Alice had gone by Payton’s place to talk to him and she had tried to approach him as someone simply looking for the truth. Which in this case would be justice for his mother.
Yet, Payton hadn’t cared about anything else once Alice had identified herself as someone working for Jeffrey. He said he wanted to be left alone and then he had nearly smashed up Alice’s car just to get away from her. And oddly enough she still thought he was innocent after all of that.
She had told Danny that there was no reason for killing his mother. He had already been written out of the will by then and so he had nothing to claim once she died and Jeffrey was arrested, but Danny hadn’t been so sure. So they had both searched Payton’s place and surprisingly they ended up finding Edith’s jewelry there.
The same jewelry that her killer had initially taken in order to make her death look like a burglary. Though that hadn’t fooled the police so they had kept looking for their murderer rather than a thief. And yet Payton had left the jewelry nearly out in the open almost as if he hadn’t cared that someone was going to find it.
And that had made Alice had feel likethat maybe she was losing her touch. She had been wrong about her fiancée and she had been wrong about Payton, but Alice had tried to rectify her mistake by finding Payton. Patyon had quickly gone on the run after Alice and Danny had the proof to convict him. So Alice had gone back to Edith’s house.
She had thought Payton would go back there seeing as he had a weird connection to his mother. But she had actually run into Jeffrey. Jeffrey who had the same kind of substance that had been near the boat where Alice had found the jewelry.
So Jeffrey as it turns out had killed his wife however he had recently been acquitted thanks to his new wife Rebecca. And therefore he told Alice that he could get away with what he done because there was such a thing called double jeopardy. That meant he couldn’t be convicted of the same crime twice.
Although he had told Alice this because he had been trying to threaten her. He said the police couldn’t arrest him unless he committed an entirely different crime. Such as murder of a new person, but he hadn’t expected that his wife would overhear that part.
Rebecca Bloom had put her life and career all on the line to get him out of prison. Yet, he had used her and had tried to use Alice’s firm to frame an innocent man. So she had lashed out and had ended up pushing her husband down a flight of stairs that resulted in his death.
And so back at the office, Val had told Alice that she didn’t want her to go down the same path as Rebecca. A woman that was so hurt that she was now claiming self-defense to escape a murder charge. But, while Alice may have promised to not let her need to find “Christopher” get the best of her, she was keeping secrets.
She and Sophie had hacked Brian’s code for picking new identities so she knew he was Michael Thorne just as Michael was attempting to con a princess.
THE END!
