Do Unto Others - RECAP (Spoilers)

Ah -- finally, to Knapp and The Accountant.

Ok. They're in a previously unseen location. The Accountant is tied to a chair and has a microphone on a mike stand positioned in front of him, as well as a light-thing which may have a camera. GirlFriday (Turner) is at a bank of computer stuff. Knapp is closing a door.

"I should have killed you when I had the chance," says The Accountant (TA).
"I should have bought Microsoft at 22," says Knapp.

It's established that Knapp has given him a drug that causes delirium in the presence of pain. Sounds promising.
Also, TA can't close his eyes -- another drug-induced symptom. He's also gasping occasionally, but Knapp tells him not to fight it.

Turner is distinctly uncomfortable, but carrying on. Knapp checks on her ("would it help if I tell you he has no soul?", has a quiet conversation about the contents of TA's pockets. There's a "work phone" with a very advanced chip that Turner's never seen, and a regular phone with the regular sorts of numbers. Turner shows Knapp a wallet picture of a woman and points out that "he doesn't look like much" and Knapp replies, "Yeah, but he'd just as soon kill you as say "excuse me. Remember that."

Right away, and perhaps by design, TA is answering all of Knapp's questions. He doesn't know where Leo is, he answered to Schroeder, now he answers to "Guttman," who is, he tells Knapp, a woman. His call sign is "The Accountant." He doesn't know where Leo is.

"We'll see," says Knapp.

They go over the contact information, how he gets different cars. "When's the next drop?" Today. The phone rings -- the "regular" one. Turner tells Knapp that the caller ID says it's "Charlotte" and when Knapp asks TA about it, he gets increasingly agitated, saying (the yelling) "LEAVE HER OUT OF IT!"

FBI. King tells Atkins he's sending him over to the NSA to find Knapp -- telling him he "low-tech"d Knapp and giving him a small folded piece of paper. "That's what you're looking for" King leaves. Atkins unfolds the paper and sees that it just says "K".

Cain apartment. Ellie is giving her security information to someone over the phone. She hangs up quickly when Alice comes in. Alice is asking questions like "what did you have for breakfast" and "what color are you wearing" because she says she's writing a journal for Leo that he'll have when he comes home -- so he can catch up. Sweetie.

Atkins is at a federal office with some other guys, looking at satellite images -- extremely magnified ones that show the city.

Aubrey is in her room, looking at a picture of Diane and listening to music that is Better Than The Beatles. She also sees Leo in a mirror.

King is at the FBI, contemplating Virgil.

Atkins calls King. "Found him," he says. King wrote a "K" on the top of Knapp's car, which is now visible on the sat image. Heh.

Back at Knapp's hideout, the "work" phone rings, and once Knapp is sure Turner is ready, he duct-tapes TA and answers. Turner has rigged a setup whereby Knapp talks, but it's The Accountant's voice.

"This is The Accountant," says Knapp.
"Are you busy?" says The Voice
"I was just about to break for lunch"
"Write this down"
"Let me grab a pen and paper."

pause

"Ok"
"Your lease is up."

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Conrad has driven to a residential neighborhood (Sunnyside, the area where he grew up), and has Claire's letter with him. He adjusts the rearview mirror and there's Leo in the back seat. Leo takes on the role of exposition fairy, assuring Conrad it wasn't really adultery with Claire, since he and Ellie were separated...remembering that Conrad used to have an apartment across the park and the kids would come see him there and watch black-and-white movies, including "The Lady Vanishes." Leo looks at the house Conrad has parked in front of and asks, "Did something happen there? To Claire?" And he's gone.

Back at Knapp's place -- he's packing up with Turner expressing various concerns about what Knapp is walking into. All they have is the license plate of the new car for the TA and a key (this is how all TA's drops worked). She wants him to wear a wire. He doesn't like wires.

Their banter is interrupted by King and Atkins. Knapp and King take over the banter. Those two are so cute: they're the romance of the show.

King takes it all in, tells Atkins to get The Accountant, and kids Knapp about all the equipment. "Most parents give their kids a train set; did your give you "My first Guantanamo Bay?"

Knapp replies: "They also got me "Baby's First Meeting with the Next Guy Up The Food Chain."

Knapp and King argue. Eventually King gives him one hour, but insists -- to Turner's obvious relief -- that he not go alone, and that he wear a wire.

Conrad is being served tea by Claire's mother. "You were a sweet kid. Turned into a real bastard, didn't you?"
Conrad nods, ruefully. "It's good to see you, too, Annie."

They go back and forth about what happened to Claire (with Leo showing up at the fringes with occasional commentary), but finally it comes out that Ellie came to Claire and "didn't give her a choice." Conrad is clearly surprised by this. Annie asks again, "where's my daughter?" and when Conrad says he doesn't know, she loses it. Conrad leaves and Annie follows him out into the street, continuing to ask "where is she?" and "ask your wife what happened!"

When Conrad gets back in the car, Leo's in the passenger seat, asking, "Dad? What did Mom do?"

Annie is still yelling. "People have a way of disappearing on you! WHY IS THAT??"

Duh dun dun!

Knapp Central, with Atkins and Turner in an uneasy alliance while waiting (with TA still tied up in the background). Atkins tries to snoop, Turner shuts him down for a while and then becomes blabby. "Knapp isn't what you'd call stable, but he's dedicated beyond all reason." "We don't sleep together. I might, but he'd never. Or maybe it's the other way around. Workplace. But that's all in my file."

Then she gets down to it. "How does a 1C in Anchorage get a transfer to the big city?" (Clearly they've been reading each other's files, but Turner has gotten more out of them -- she has Atkins' number.)

Knapp approaches the car, conferring with Knapp via the wire. King is watching from a nearby rooftop with binoculars. As Knapp approaches the trunk, King says "heads up" because an ice cream truck as pulled up alongside. Suddenly, there's a tall guy (and what is this, the Home for Classic X-Files Villains? It's Tom Noonan -- John Lee Roache in 'Paper Hearts') who says "You're not the accountant" and tasers him. Noonan tosses Knapp in the trunk and takes off, with King getting to his car and attempting to pursue.

(now all we need is for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0751144/">Nick Chinlund</a> to show up and we'll be all set.)

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King has arrived back at Knapp's Torture Emporium and he's not happy. He smacks The Accountant around, threatens him, and doesn't get anywhere until he plays his recording of Knapp's wire where Noonan says "You're not the accountant."
This makes TA sit up and he says "Gibson." King and the TA simultaneously realize that they were going to whack The Accountant and King presses for more info on this basis.

"My wife. I need to see my wife," says TA, saying "They don't leave loose ends."

Yeah. Been there, done that, wiped the foam off his seizuring mouth.

"You take me to my wife, I'll take you to Gibson."

"Deal." (What? Um, King, cyanide? Remember?)


Ok, Knapp is now somewhere tied to a chair. It looks less like Knapp's playhouse than the one Sidney Bristow was in back in the first episode of "Alias." Lots of dental instruments and rusty clamps. Nasty.

Gibson (Noonan) arrives and hangs another IV bag. "This is ironic," says Knapp.

Gibson's not one for chatter. He bashes Knapp's head with his fist.


Toad is briefing a room full of agents on Virgil and his history of Navy Seal/Special Ops badassery. "Let's bring him in."

Virgil is at the bank, collecting the money Ellie's giving him. (What? Doesn't every Manhattan socialite have safety deposit boxes at separate banks with wads of cash inside?) Ellie calls to check on him, and asks Virgil "What do they want?"

"In my opinion," says Virgil, "they're getting what they want."

"This has got to end."

"It will. When I bring him home."

Ellie hangs up and sees Leo sitting on the bed. "So many secrets," he says.


King, Atkins and TA enter TA's apartment. Charlotte is on the floor, dead, blood everywhere. There's a flashback to Gibson coming in, attacking her, and bashing her head in with the base of a floor lamp. Brutal.

TA is kneeling at her side. "Gibson," he says, teeth clenched. "Gibson," agrees King.

Speaking of Gibson, he's getting started on questioning Knapp ("Where's The Accountant?") when his phone rings.

"Is it done?" says a Deeper Voice (computer-disguised like the Original Voice).
"We have an understudy" says Gibson.
"Who?"

Gibson snaps a picture of Knapp with his phone.

"Well. This is an interesting turn of events," says the DV.
"Who is he?"
"His name is Knapp. Find out where The Accountant is."
"Yeah, we're working on that. Then what?"
"Then kill him."

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King and The Accountant pull up in a warehouse area. King points to a building.

"Is that it?"
"Mmm-mm."

King tells him to stay with him and not to try anything. "If I even daydream about you making a move, I will wake up, and I will shoot you."

Ok, then!

They're at a doctor's office -- a doctor, apparently, who does work "on the side" for criminals. TA calls him Harvard," and introduces him to Agent King. Harvard starts to sweat. The Accountant is convincingly threatening, even with the FBI agent behind him. "Making a list," he says to Harvard, "Checking it twice." He's sure Harvard knows where Gibson is because Gibson would have had to come to him for the stab wound Charlotte gave him before being beaten to death.

Meanwhile, Gibson is doing the usual pre-dentistry torture talk for Knapp. Knapp continues to be a smart ass but it just gets him slapped around some more.

"Ok, I'll tell you what I know. North Dakota is the Flickertail State. Don't ask me what a Flickertail is." SMACK!

"The flickertail is a North American ground squirrel; it's often taken for a gopher. In 1954..." PUNCH!

After a bit more pain, Knapp suddenly "sees" a young red-headed girl on the other side of the room, and Gibson disappears. He whispers her name: "Annabelle."

"Why'd you give up on me?" she asks.
"I never gave up on you."

"It was easier to give up on me than keep looking. That's it, isn't it? That must be why you don't take the easy way anymore. You don't want to deal with losing anyone else.”

"No."

"I'm probably not even alive. Or maybe I am. You know how my brother likes a good joke."

(The brother, seen in flashback, is Kellogg)

"I'm sorry," says Knapp.

"Yeah. I know," says Annabelle.

Knapp seems about to ask her what she's doing in his vision when she says "Pay attention! It's right in front of you"
and we're back to the punching with Gibson.

"Ow." says Annabelle.

Annabelle encourages him to tell what he knows. "Then you can sleep like me." Knapp refuses. Annabelle suggests giving Gibson "the time zone thing." Knapp refuses. "Won't bring me back," says Annabelle.

Annabelle keeps telling Knapp "it's right in front of you," and finally Knapp lifts up his hand and sees that "TET" is carved into the chair arm under his hand. He sees Leo in front of him, and says "You were here," and Leo nods.

"What's TET mean?"
"You'll have to figure that out for yourself," says Leo, whose Vision apparently isn't as eager to be saved as His Real Self.

PUNCH!! And now, it's dental tool time!

King and The Accountant are driving along. Out of the blue, King punches TA, who gives him a "WTF?" look. "Just to remind you," says King, "that we have unfinished business when this is over."

"We can meet at the bike racks after school" snarks The Accountant.


Back at the Cains, Ellie is cutting an apple when Conrad comes in. Establishing that he's been to Sunnyside about Claire, he gets right to it. "Did you pay her off?" he asks. "Did you pay her to walk away from me?" "Yes," says Ellie. "I did it to save my family."

"Is there anything else you did?" She looks confused.

Alice walks in. "What are you guys talking about? It's for Leo's journal." Aubrey follows. "Do you know what day it is?" she asks the room.

It turns out that 8 years ago, Leo had his heart surgery. They all start talking about waiting for the surgery to be over and how they went across the street for pancakes and how it all worked out ok…and Alice writes it all down in the journal. It's a happy family moment.

King arrives at yet another warehousery location. He gets something out of the trunk and puts The Accountant in it.
"You wait here."

Knapp, whose mouth is bloody (yikes) is contemplating the TET. He imagines (flashbackish scene) a hooded Leo being brought into the room and secured to the chair. He imagines a hooded figure coming in and looking at Leo with red glowing eyes. That figure is tapping on a laptop and answers a phone saying, "he's ready. Flight's at 1:00. T.E.T."

Gibson returns, loading a gun. Knapp tries to stall him, but Gibson raises it -- at which point King and Atkins arrive, pointing guns, and everyone starts yelling. There's lots of "put your guns down" from Gibson, and "drop it" from King, and "Shoot him!" from Knapp. At some point, King and Atkins start to lower their guns to the floor and Knapp starts yelling at King about knowing that King got him kicked out of the Bureau, and “I know it was you who put me on medical leave…”and other stuff, and just as King and Atkins get their guns down to the floor, King pulls out his ankle piece and kills Gibson.

As King unties Knapp, there's some back and forth about the old case (the Annabelle case, I think), which King says "was destroying you." "For the record?" Knapp replies, "I was destroyed long before that. The Bureau is what saved me." And then he tells King about Leo.

At the Cain's, Ellie is serving pancakes, and everyone (but Alice) sees Leo standing in the kitchen with them.

Back at the warehouse, King and Atkins are helping Knapp to the car and they're all discussing how the kidnappers are "dreaming big" because they're willing to off their own people and replace them with others. They speculate that The Accountant, having missed Virgil and Devere, was going to be replaced.

"Where is The Accountant?" asks Knapp.

King opens the trunk. Empty.

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