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Beth Barrington (Amber Borycki) - Harper's Island

…Beth Barrington aka “The Single Girl”

Katherine Wellington (Claudette Mink) - Harper's Island

…Katherine Wellington aka “The Stepmother”

Last night’s episode of Harper’s Island was another pretty intense one. We not only got 2 new victims, but we found out that Abby is Wakefield’s daughter AND that the Sheriff was the one who kidnapped Madison… say what? Am I wrong or did our reader Dani call this last week?

Even if the Sheriff is involved, I have a feeling that he is not alone, and I don’t know why I got a pretty weird vibe from the wedding planner this week. Could she be in on it?

Oh and I have to ask, where has Nikki “the Biker Chick” been? What is the point of putting her as a main character if we’re never going to see her?

Don’t forget that you can keep track of the victims here.

My pick for next week? Isn’t time for Cal or Chloe to be next? I feel like one of the two is going to have to die before the end, unless they’re the killers…

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  • http://danitime.blogspot.com/ Dani

    Hey Sandie!

    I had to go back and read my comment last week because my feelings change so quickly with each episode. I did call the Sheriff last week, but after watching Saturday’s episode, I am not so sure. I have a feeling that it is going to come out that he hid Madison for her own safety and to ensure that no one left the island, although I am not sure why he needed to do that. Since everything in the preview looks like the Sheriff is the one, my best are now that he is not.

    I also got a weird vibe from the wedding planner, too. We will have to watch her. Agreed about the biker chick – where is she?

    Now, I am also feeling weird about Jimmy but am not sure if it is the character or bad acting. He just doesn’t seem to react to something. While it looks like he might meet his demise next week, I am wondering if it is just a ploy and he really jumps off the boat before he is harmed.

    Continuing to think…I will be back.

  • uhh

    Sadie,

    Do you even watch this show?

    Abby COULD be Wakefield’s daughter. Shane is the only person who has convinced himself that Abby IS 100% Wakefield’s kid.

    Madison is twisted. She has a long / established history of lying. You can’t take a word she says seriously.

  • Walter

    I don’t believe that Abby is Wakefield’s daughter. I found it odd that he would put the word “child” instead of “son” or “daughter” in his journal. My guess is that by doing that, pretty much anyone left could be Wakefield’s offspring. I think the wedding planner might be somehow involved in the murder’s; she certainly would know everything about the inn (though I found it a little odd that she claimed she didn’t know anything about the tunnels). Certainly she could not have dragged Beth into the tunnel. I wonder why Beth’s body was dragged into the tunnel at all. Maybe to provide a distraction for the killer to kill Katherine.

  • http://daemonstv.com Sandie

    @ uhh – I guess I just reacted to what the episode wants us to believe. Abby being Wakefield’s daughter would explain a lot of things, but it is a cliche as well.

    As for the Sheriff, I do believe he had something to do with Madison and I cannot wait to find out what.

    I do think that things are not what they seem though, and in the end it might end up being something nobody expected, or at least I hope so.

  • http://angiebatgirl.wordpress.com AngieBatgirl

    I don’t think Abby is Wakefield’s kid. I think whoever is Wakefield’s kid is one of the murderers (I believe that there’s more than one). As for the whole Sheriff kidnapping Madison thing, I thought maybe the murderer told Madison he was the sheriff and she didn’t know any better. I can’t remember if Madison ever met Abby’s father.

    I don’t want Cal or Chloe to die. I’ll be bummed if they do.

  • Hannah

    I’m gunna keep clinging to my Cal/Chloe banner here and say that I found it interesting that one of the first things Chloe did on the island was to go and visit Wakefield’s grave. Visiting long-lost father’s grave? idk idk.
    Also what the heck was with them popping off for a shag and a nap? Sure, I can just about buy a shag, but a little shut eye? at a time like this? Whaaat.

    I might be desperately grasping at straws now, but I just looked at the big post with all the character’s headshots on and I feel like there’s some kind of rhyme or reason behind their head angles. There are an awful lot who are posed dead on, sometimes looking up, really reminiscant of funeral-bodies-in-caskets shots (Abby, Henry, JD, etc.), while there’s a whole slew who have their heads tilted to the right in a rather coldly appraising way, almost at the same angle (Beth, Booth, Cal, Danny etc.). Then you have Trish, Chloe and Kelly with the exact same pose — coy-ish?
    The more I look at it, the more almost everyone has a double.
    Jimmy & Madison
    Henry & Abby
    Cal & Danny
    even Uncle Marty & Mr Wellington have matching rather snarky “I can see right through you” expressions on their faces.

    I am clearly, clearly overthinking this. Necks only have so much movement in them, and thus so do heads.

  • Hannah

    ooh also, when Chloe was at the gravesite and Sully was all “oh hay bb” she seemed distracted, quiet and even a bit snappy. A bit more emotionally bought in than a tourist?

  • Calfan

    With information coming from the preview for the next episode,
    I don’t believe that the Sheriff is the killer, or that Jimmy
    will die from the explosion. I mean, sure he might die sometime
    but would they really give away all that information in just a twenty
    second preview? I doubt it.

    As for the Cal/Chloe thing, I love these two but would the producers keep a
    small couple together for this long? I am a huge Cal fan, but thinking about the way everyone moves and reacts to the murders, they seem like they might go soon or might even be the killer.

    Shane, Sully, and the other creepy characters seem just a little to obvious to be the killer and will probably be killed soon. Danny was freaking out when he found Beth in the tunnel, so maybe he will go next.

    Shea seemed pretty confident to go out on her own…..could she be the killer?

  • Calfan

    Also…just thinking about this but if Abby is not Wakefield’s
    daughter than it must be someone who has been on the island before
    the wedding. The Sheriff hated Jimmy, and he also hated Wakefield.
    Is there a connection? And what about Henry? What happened to his parents?
    I think that it could be either one because those are the two that Abby is
    really close to and might even be her half-brother.

    Maggie does give off a creepy vibe, but I think that she is to obvious and I actually thought she was going to die in this episode because they started to focus on her a little bit more.

    But who knows? They could be saving her for the last few episodes!

  • Calfan

    Another Idea….I don’t think that the Sheriff is the killer
    because how could he come in and out of the Candlewick with
    a wounded leg to kill katherine without Shane noticing? Im
    sure some people would say the tunnels but he would have to
    walk straight through the room at one point!

  • Andrea

    OK IDK if its just me making a big deal out of nothing but did anyone notice if henry had that big bruise on his head in the last episode before he went in the tunnels because he got in that fight with shane or did he just have it when he came out of the tunnels because abby kicked whoever grabbed her while she was alone in the tunnels? also i think henry is abbys half brother who is jelouse because their mom only claimed her and not him.

  • Andrea

    Another thing I think madison only told abby that it was the sheriff because she has no real idea what is going on and that she was playing a game and that the sheriff cant be the killer because that would mean that he was the original killer 7 years ago instead of wakefield but then abby and jimmy would no since jimmy saved abby when the original killer (wakefield) went after her

  • http://danitime.blogspot.com/ Dani

    wow! Everyone has been so active while I was at work and unable to comment. They are throwing so much at us that it is almost like everyone is still a suspect. I think I will agree for Andrea now. I think the killer needs to be someone close to Abby – Jimmy or Henry (still vying for Henry) especially in light of the fact that JD said it was all about her to Abby. It would seem that he would know just by the identity of the killer that it was about Abby as I doubt the killer stopped to explain anything to JD before he killed him.

    I also think, like Andrea, that Henry is still top of the list and that he is probably a jilted child of Wakefield. Perhaps he and Jimmy are even in on it together although that might be a bit too much Scream-like.

    Finally, they never explained why Henry suddenly appeared over Abby and JD full of blood, did they?

  • Hannah

    I noticed nobody really asked Henry why he was bloody, but to be honest, his brother was dying just there in front of him and I just figured he tried to help, heard people coming, and hid in case he was in danger. When he realised it was Abby, he came out.

    If Henry had killed him, I would have thought JD would have warned her with his dying breath, instead of getting all cryptic with “It’s all about you Abby”

    I do think they’re setting Henry up to be the killer though, you’re right. And I’m running out of people I don’t mind dying. :( :( :(

  • Andrea

    Another reason why I think it is Henry is because he went off on his own when everone knew about the killer anyway, but Hannah does have a point maybe I’m wrong and the show is just trying to make everyone think it is Henry when in reality it’s not just to surprise everyone. But I’m sticking to my its henry theory till he dies or the end of the show which ever comes first.

  • http://danitime.blogspot.com/ Dani

    Hannah – you are right that JD might have warned her except (a) maybe Henry didnt appear until after JD died and (b) JD wasted his breath saying “it’s all about you” instead of “hey the killer is so and so”. That kind of aggravated me. They shouldn’t have had him speak at all.

    Andrea – I am with you. I think there is something incredibly fake about his smile and demeanor. I hope it means he is a killer and not just a case of bad acting.

  • Hannah

    Heh, especially since the question wasn’t exactly ambiguous “Who did this?” really requires a name as a response, not “IT’S ALL ABOUT YOU.”

    I guess my problem with it being Henry who stabbed JD is that he was stabbed in the stomach area, you’d probably see who did that. He also seemed like he was bleeding out pretty quickly, so to me he looked freshly stabbed. Thus Henry must’ve either stabbed him or been doing something quite useful to prolong his life. Hence the blood either way.

    ALSO, Henry must’ve either a) stabbed JD, b) seen who stabbed JD, or c) heard at least the same info from less-dead JD who stabbed him/It’s All About Abby, if not more? who knows how long they were alone together for. The cuts on his arms indicate some kind of struggle one way or other, why does no-one on this show follow up questions with “Oh hey, you never told me who stabbed JD/how you got those cuts/who took you/what that note said” etc etc. arghhh.

  • http://danitime.blogspot.com/ Dani

    Hannah – I feel the same way. Those are similar complaints that people had about Lost. The people on the show never asked anyone questions that they needed asked, at least the important questions. Same thing here. How could you NOT ask Henry if he had (a) helped his brother, (b) saw anything, or (c) heard anything.

  • Calfan

    I agree that it does seem like they are setting up Henry as the killer, but doesn’t it seem odd that Henry would kill the remaining members of his family?(JD, Uncle Marty) He was always whining about how much they mean to him since they were they only ones left.

    And yes I still think that Henry is Abby’s half -brother.(Thanks for stealing my spotlight Andrea!)

  • Andrea

    Hannah and Dani- I feel the same way you do, but I also think that JD possibly commited suicide instead and blamed it on Abby. It really iritated me the way they ended episode 8 with Henry showing up all bloody because I knew they would never tell you why he showed up or why he was bloody.

  • nette

    I think abby and Henry are the same age. Maybe they are twins.

  • http://danitime.blogspot.com/ Dani

    Andrea – I dont think JD committed suicide. He was basically shot or stabbed in the stomach. Not quite the way you would think to kill yourself. I also dont think he was blaming Abby as so much as warning her, albeit VERY ineffectively and mysteriously.

    Calfan – I can totally see Henry killing his family members. Something was shady with Uncle Marty and all of that money and if Henry is truly Wakefield’s child, JD probably found out from the journal in the cabin, so he needed to die.

    nette – that could be! I just went back and looked at the victim chart analyzing it like Hannah did and the only two that struck me as looking identical were Abby and Henry who were both kind of looking up.

  • Andrea

    Dani- I never really believed the senerio myself but it was the only possible explination i could come up that might make his death a little more understandable since nothing else was, but ur right it doesnt make any sense.

  • Andrea

    Also nette- I dont think that henry and abby are twins that wouldnt make much sense since one of them is most likely wakefields kid and the other is the sheriffs kid and even with the affair going the probability is slim to none that it could happen in real life and thus be too unbelievable, but i do think they are really close in age and half siblings.

  • http://danitime.blogspot.com/ Dani

    Andrea – good point about the twins. Plus the journal said “child” not children.

  • Hannah

    If the twins thing flies, maybe Wakefield didn’t know the pregnancy was “children” and made the assumption it was “child”. IMO it sounds to me like he doesn’t know that much about the kid, or he would have called it by its name/gender?

  • http://danitime.blogspot.com/ Dani

    Hannah – very good point. Most people at least would write “son” or “daughter”. Writing child seems like he doesn’t know much about it.

  • Andrea

    OK assuming they are twins then why don’t they know that already and why would their mom have to give one of them up?

  • Hannah

    Maybeeeeee, the daughter reminded the Sheriff of her mother? and Henry was passed over because he didn’t? might explain why the Sheriff flipped out so much when Sarah died.
    Maybe they just gave the other twin a different birth date/told them their birthday was different. Anything up to/around a year wouldn’t result in too many questions, but they’d be in school together.

  • Calfan

    Andrea-Thats what i’m thinking as well. Wouldn’t somebody have told them by now? I don’t think they are twins but could be related in some way or might just be really good friends!

    I might be overthinking this a bit but Shea is a little suspicious to me. I know she probably isnt the killer, but i was wondering why she had THE TOWER card under her luggage bag. I think its weird because Madison asked in the third episode I think if the card meant death. Shea didn’t know for sure if that is what it meant…..and yet she kept the card. Why would you keep a card that meant death unless you knew something was going to happen?

    Another thing…The killer would have to be someone who came on the boat with the wedding group because someone had to tie cousin ben to the bottom of the boat.

  • Andrea

    Calfan- I’m with you Shea is wired but then again so is Madison her daughter so I think it is just their personalities.

  • Calfan

    Andea- you are probably right….hmm.

    But since Harper’s Island comes on tomorrow night and I have locked in my pick-the-victim game person…. the person that I think will die in the next episode will be the Sheriff. Only because in the episode with Richard dying, he was suspected as the killer, as well as in JD’s episode.

    [IMG]http://i555.photobucket.com/albums/jj445/deederbug1/sheriff.jpg[/IMG]

    And I have two main guesses as to who the killer is…Jimmy & Henry.

    Jimmy was never seen during any of the murders. When someone was murdered when Abby slept over at his house, we have all seen those tv shows where one was able to slip in and out of the house un noticed. And for the first death-cousin Ben- Jimmy worked at the marina so he certainly had the tools to get to Washington and back.And when they told Jimmy that there was something caught in the rutter of the boat, he just conveniantly pulled the one rope that wasn’t connected to cousin Ben.

    [IMG]http://i555.photobucket.com/albums/jj445/deederbug1/jimmy_mance.jpg[/IMG]

    Henry could be trying to get revenge against Abby. His parents died while he was away at college in an explosion. Maybe that explosion was the one that happened at the marina that was meant for the Sheriff. And when the Sheriff didnt die but others did(Henry’s parents) Henry was so angry that when he was given the opprotunity to return to Harper’s island, he killed other people to make the Sheriff look like the killer.

    [IMG]http://i555.photobucket.com/albums/jj445/deederbug1/henry_dunn.jpg[/IMG]

    Unfortuanatly, if anyone else dies besides the sheriff i think it will be Chloe. I really don’t want her to die, but the way Cal’s face looked in the preview I don’t think anything else would make him look like that.=(

    Also here is a few paragraphs from lawrence.com
    that i found!

    Here’s what we know: Abby is with various members of the bridal party or with Jimmy throughout the episode. Jimmy is accounted for at least during Harkin’s death, when he’s with Abby. The sheriff witnesses Harkin’s death — I don’t see how he could have accomplished it alone. Trish, Shea and Katherine are never alone. Danny, Sully, Chloe, Cal, Beth — none alone long enough that we know of to go kill Harkin for whatever reason and/or J.D. Shane has been locked up through too many deaths.

    So who is alone to kill Harkin? Henry, when he says he needs to search for the bridal party after starting the generator. There’s also exactly one minute I believe Henry is innocent when he’s standing by Abby during Miranda’s call, but after the commercial break, neither he nor Abby can purportedly get a signal to call the others on the island, which suggests Abby’s call came from the immediate vicinity of herself, Katherine and Henry. So either Abby called herself for the prerecording of Madison, or Henry dialed while Abby and Katherine were looking at Richard. I like scenario B.

    Could there be multiple killers? Yes. Could the killer be a minor player — the innkeeper or the bartender, or that crazy cab driver with the eyepatch from the first episode? Possibly. But unlikely. No, I think it’s significant that we’re down to one Dunn brother. And he ain’t servin’ coffee.

  • http://danitime.blogspot.com/ Dani

    At this point I agree that Abby and Henry are not twins and are probably not related. I think it is a foil to throw us off. Either Abby is Wakefield’s child or there is another child out there that is not even on the show. The explanation about Henry’s parents and being angry at the Sheriff are very plausible. I still stand by the fact that Henry is the killer.

    It is also probably the case that the Sheriff gets killed next. It is true that everytime we are led to believe someone is the killer, they get killed in the next episode.

    I am not going to be home until later tonight but I am going to DVR it and may have to stay up late to watch it.

  • Hannah

    I still completely tip Cal and/or Chloe. Despite all my swanky new-fangled theories and the fact that I just spoiled this episode for myself. I HATE BEING IN AUSTRALIA AND RELYING ON A BOY TO DOWNLOAD THIS STUFF FOR ME :( :( :(

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