The Nevers
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Lavinia Bidlow pays her respects.
So does Marys ex, Inspector Frank Mundi, wearing a black armband.
How did the purists come to assemble?
True toThe Nevers form, questions come faster than answers.
Wheres the lady who can see the future?
(Shes also hitting and kissing people.)
Theres little for the ragtag team to go on.
Augie Bidlow makes the list for no apparent reason.
So does Lavinia Bidlow, who knew where and when Marys concert was taking place.
In place of murderous rage, Penance discovers Augie has a crush on her.
No way, couldnt be, but does it with a great deal of charm.
True has a touch more luck, extracting what she takes to be a non-confession confession from Lord Massen.
Unless, he supposes, she wanted it to happen.
Its an intriguing insinuation.
But instead of taking swift, sweet, savage revenge on Massen, she opts for a surgical strike.
Mundi, too, is interrogating suspects, or at least violently throwing them against things.
Back at the precinct, Mundi has a ding-dong with Maladie that finally earns that reputation for police brutality.
Then he protects her from being murdered in custody, which I guess is supposed to be redemptive?
Theyre both pugnacious brunettes who insist theyre loners despite being drawn to cliques.
Amalias inquisition is only one part of Lord Massens bad day.
Massen threatens to bring in scabs, and the men immediately disperse back to work.
But its his anti-union drivel thats interesting here.
To band together when you could stand alone?
I expect more courage from Englishmen.
Its nationalism and its an analogy.
To Massen, the social order is as natural as God.
The dockworkers and the touched are free to exist, so long as they know their place.
Class is a preoccupation this week onThe Nevers.
At St. Roms, Lucy rails against Massen, who underpays employees for the hazardous work he demands.
Maybe the purpose of the touched, assuming they have one, is to disrupt this thinking.
It cant be an accident that so many of the St. Roms orphans are young women.
Dr. Cousens is a man, but hes also Black Caribbean.
Could it be that the touched were chosen from among the ranks of Victorian Londons most vulnerable and underestimated?
If so, not everyone is grateful for the reversal of fate.
Lucys turn the grip strength to crush rocks ruined her life.
In this light, Lucys pronounced grief over Marys death looks more like a guilty conscience.
Amalia banishes Lucy from London, but not before extracting the real location of Massens munitions.
While Amalia and the adults were busy hunting Marys killer, the orphans have been busy, too.
But before we get to that, readers, an observation.
First, she knows shes not from here, by which I mean the planet Earth.
She was left here by whoever made the touched, perhaps by accident.
The gist is that shes not alone: I didnt leave you.
While the mission is incomplete, the speaker had to go inside the city to heal.
She tells Amalia to be ready.
Come below and find me, she beckons.
The translated song is, in theory, a moment of emotional catharsis, something worth Mary dying for.
Instead, it hits like another underwhelming answer to another round of whodunnit.
Amalia isnt alone, okay.
But who is she with?
This mission is incomplete, noted.
But whats the complete mission look like?
Anyway, I do like how Penance and Amalia frequently eat French fries.
