Prodigal Son (2×09) The Killabustas Review

For our review of the last episode of Prodigal Son, click here.

Synopsis: Despite Gil’s fatherly concerns, Bright throws himself into a new case; Jessica realizes that she must dive deep into her past traumas in order to write a book and may need Gil’s help to do it; Martin’s relationship with Dr. Capshaw intensifies. (TV Guide)

In this episode, Edrisa finds love and we get to see her nice apartment as we see what she does in her spare time. Meanwhile, Bright’s issues are far from over as his battle with his inner demons continued and Martin and Capshaw grow closer.

Even though last week’s episode ended with Bright seemingly getting away with it, he was still haunted and looked to painting as an outlet while his mother was looking for the Surgeon’s case files to write a book (Bright got Gil to get them for her). Meanwhile, the team didn’t bother calling him for their latest case involving dismembered body parts belonging to a man (missing a head and a torso) found in a meat processing factory.

Gil was especially concerned about Bright and that concerned transferred to the others. He didn’t call him, worried about how losing someone would do to him. Their victim’s torso was soon found, wearing a shirt, covering a possible signature engraved into the torso of The Vulture. However, Edrisa claimed to have been responsible for it. She was part of a web-sleuthing group known as The Killabustas (hence the episode title) who were hunting a killer known as The Vulture who had gone from birds to humans and Arizona to New York. Meanwhile, Martin couldn’t stop thinking about Capshaw who acknowledged their kiss to be a mistake. As far as she was concerned, what they may or may not have had was over and she went out of her way to ensure that it was. He was distracted to say the least when talking to his son about the case.

The victim, a man named Alex, was a member of The Killabustas who was tracking The Vulture.  As Bright and Danny arrived at Alex’s house, it was the crime scene, when a masked man came out with an axe and ran to a car. Because it was a hybrid, Bright was not too concerned with standing in the middle of the road which was the wrong call. As they got out to inspect what happened, Edrisa, who showed up too, noticed that the three people in the car were also Killabustas (they were worried and definitely amateurs). Bright’s hallucination of Martin joined the other forces pressuring him to face his trauma.

The killer infiltrated The Killabustas, the only people who knew them. They were merely looking for a place to belong and their family was defined by their search for The Vulture. Thinking that it was a man named Blaze that took a liking to Edrisa, they followed him to her house where she was on a date with him. There, it was clear that Blaze was not the killer and they also received Alex’s head. Setting up a Killerbusta meeting in Bright’s apartment, they found the killer’s van outside where the first body was found but it was just a ruse from The Vulture, a man named Ashton whom was apprehended (Blaze was saved by Edrisa). Meanwhile, Martin spoke at Capshaw’s medical school, aspiring to be the next surgeon. Her reckless behavior in aiming for that goal got her to where she was. Some sweet-talking on Martin’s part got him a little more (they are much better as adversaries).

Once Bright started to open up to Danny, he almost let the truth slip but was saved by his hallucination of Martin. The episode ended with Friar Pete reminding Capshaw of what she just did.

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Keith Noakes

The EIC of the coincidentally-named keithlovesmovies.com. A Canadian who prefers to get out of the cold and into the warmth of a movie theatre.