Harper’s Island 1.04 “Bang” Recap

Trish is unpacking some china with Shea and is ecstatic. It's their mother's china, Shea had it shipped out for the tea they're having later in the day. There's a crash and Madison's wide eyes look at a broken cup. "I didn't do it!" She emphatically claims, despite the fact that there's no one else in the room. DRINK!

Later that day, and now on the boat, Booth is exclaiming that the pretty purple band's he's wearing have taken care of his seasickness and Henry thinks fishing is amazing. The groomsmen roll their eyes and Danny wonders if it counts as fishing if they don't catch any fish. In the back, Malcolm mopes. I'm guessing he didn't get the money. Henry tries to remind him that he knew it was a longshot going in, but Malcolm insists he had him. He had Wellington convinced but Richard sunk it. Booth asks about the money they gave him and is told that two grand doesn't go very far. "Two grand? We're kinda lame." I just agree and move on, but Malcolm's wallowing – he's completely tapped out. Before he can get to far into it, Henry gets a bite. For a moment it seems to get away, but with a fishy fury, they haul it in, flying and flapping onto the boat where Sully kinda panics and dives off.

No, really, he grabs Muffin for a float and jumps.

The groomsmen appropriately give him crap about it, and Henry tosses off a "be careful" – which is the writer's sign to have Sully disappear beneath the waves. Everyone looks worried for about ten seconds before Sully re-appears, laughing. It was just as corny as it sounds. Meanwhile, Danny's looking through a pair of binoculars at some seagulls hovering around, close to, huh, cold that be an abandoned boat? Thinking where there's gulls there's fish, the men go to investigate.

Abby's literally kicking the tires of Jimmy's truck, walking around it, looking disapprovingly at some rust, and generally paying more attention to it than to Jimmy who's just come from making his last delivery. She tells him he needs an alignment and new brake pads, and he makes a joke about her being an expensive date. Abby says he must be glad she left then. The mood gets darker as Jimmy admits he wasn't, he missed her, he'd wanted to be there for her. But he claims he's moved on, "a lot" and when they get in the truck he asks if there's been any great guys in LA for her. She evades a bit offering generalities about the nightlife and the LA scene, when Jimmy's radio crackles to life and his dispatcher says his girlfriend Julia's looking for him, her car won't start. Jimmy offers to take care of it later, but Abby insists that a small stop won't be a bother.

The intrepid sailors have pulled up to the abandoned water craft (shirtless Sully – DRINK!), wondering if the owner's scuba diving, when one of them asks, what's that? The camera pans across the blood splattered interior, giving the briefest of pauses on Uncle Marty's bag, and finally gives us a glory shot of a corpse without a face. Booth looses his lunch, I take a screencap for the gallery, we all cut to a commercial. When we return, Henry goes to call the harbormaster while everyone says their various ew's and ick's. All except for cash-strapped Malcolm, who's seen the bag of cash. He calls to Henry to stop and hops aboard. Every one starts shouting at him, but he's seen the money…and picked up the gun. Sully puts dead, gun and money together and comes up with drug dealer, but Malcolm's insistent and with the gun and money in hand, he starts to cross back over. Henry says no, they can't take the money, but Malcolm says they should vote. Everyone pretty much sides with Henry and when he goes to contact the harbormaster again there's a BANG! Everyone looks at Malcolm and realizes that he's shot a hole in the bottom of the other boat and it, and the body, are going to sink. Henry is shocked, "I guess we're taking the money."

Back at the Inn, Trish approaches Madison. Madison's worried that her mom's looking for her, but no, Shea's not. They're quickly joined by Wellington with a plate of cookies, ready to continue playing Go Fish with his granddaughter. Trish asks if he knows where Katherine is, but he says he hasn't seen her for awhile. Madison offers that she saw her over by the pool area. With a cheerful thanks, Trish leaves and the game continues.

Walking along the path, presumably toward the pool, Trish hears a whimper and some soft crying. Curious, she goes to investigate what looks like an overgrown, underground…something, where inside, Katherine has been tied to the ceiling, her clothes ripped (DRINK!), and blindfolded. Before Trish can sweep in to the rescue, a voice speaks from the darkness with the traditional, "scream, no one can hear you" routine. A hand reaches around and grabs Katherine by the throat as Richard slinks into view and Katherine begins laughing. The S&M twins strike again. Horrified, Trish flees.