Harper’s Island 1.04 “Bang” Recap

Back at the bachelorette party, Trish is having her cards read. Death ("but not for you, Gunslinger") appears and according to Karena it signifies a change and a betrayal. Trish says it won't be by Henry, and everyone tells her to drink. Apparently "Henry" is the word of the evening and it might help to explain why Trish is DRUNK. Trish says she knows betrayed her, and it's a woman. Karena disagrees, saying that it's a man and he'll also be her savior. Everyone goes, "ohhhhh" and Trish, unconvinced, simply says, "Really."

Into the woods with Booth and the bag as the former has a flashlight and a shovel with witch to bury the latter. He stumbles and trips and generally looks really spooked.

At The Cannery, the bachelor party is in swing and Danny and Sully are talking. Sully doesn't want everyone bogged down so he called Malcolm, laid down the law and reminded him that it's all about Sully Henry. Malcolm should be on his way. They look over and Cal is by the jukebox doing a dance that has nothing in common with the music that's playing except that it's almost on the beat, but not really. At the bar, Henry's chatting with Nikki when she goes to help someone. Henry spies Richard, sitting alone, looking…well pathetic kinda covers it. And his night isn't going to get better because when Henry joins him, the first words out of his mouth are, "Trish saw you." Uh-oh. He plays it off for about thirty seconds and when he realizes that Henry's not just making conversation, he simply says, "Ok." Henry asks if that's the best he can do, and Richard…pretty much says, yeah. Henry's aghast, Trish is freaking out, and what happens if Wellington finds out? Richard tells Henry to tell him and find out before swallowing the last of his drink and leaving.

It's Abby's turn with Karena and they make jokes about this encounter being better than their previous. Abby removes her necklace and passes it over, Trish exclaims that it's beautiful and Karena asks if it was her mother's. Abby nods and Trish, poor, drunk Trish, says she wished their mothers could be there. She wishes her mother could be there. Karena holds Abby's mother's necklace, closes her eyes and the soundtrack gets scared. With a gasp, she drops the bauble, and hastily exits. Everyone kinda pauses and looks at each other, but Abby brushes it off saying she doesn't believe in that stuff anyway. Trish agrees, she doesn't believe in it either, but she grabs a drink and declares, "But you know what I do believe in?" Half the room shouts with her, "Henry!"

Who does not look happy. Big surprise. A drunk Sully comes to join him at the bar to ask him if he had fun that day. Because you know what, Sully had fun. And it's awesome that he gets to be Henry's best man. And Abby should be there with them. Hey, "where the hell is Abby?" Sully starts looking around like she actually is there somewhere and he sees Big Guy Number One and Big Guy Number Two enter the bar. Now he's a little panicked and tells Henry to play it cool. Number One approaches saying he's looking for a guy named Sully. Playing along, Nikki nods "no". He asks Sully and Henry, and Sully tosses Henry under the bus saying it's him. "You go the money?" Number One asks. Henry tries to look cool, but confused. "The money," Number One continues, "for the girl." Yes, it is true, on Harper's Island, strippers come with armed bouncers. Sully is uber-relieved and very excited. "Booth is gonna pee his pants."

Which brings us to Booth, who is still freaked and hears something behind him in the woods. He grabs the gun, waving it around. Malcolm appears with the traditional, "Don't shoot!" Properly confused, Booth asks what Malcolm's doing, following him, and Malcolm BS's that he's watching Booth's back. Booth looks like he just might believe him, and so he goes to put the gun down. BANG! It goes off and both of them jump. Malcolm's all checking himself and happily declares that it's ok, he's not hurt. Then he looks at Booth…who isn't so lucky. There's blood on his thigh. Confused, Booth says it must be a flesh wound because it doesn't hurt. They joke about close calls when Booth collapses. Malcolm looks at Booth's leg and there's blood spurting out of it. "I think you hit something…damn, where's it coming from?" And yes, if you're like me, you think this is the dumb and dumber version of a death scene. So I'll cut it short. Booth dies, Malcolm cries, and we cut to a commercial. God what a waste of a good gunshot. I mean, points for self-inflicted, but really?

Back at The Cannery, everyone's lined up for the show when the "smokin' hot" Stacy starts doin' her thing. She crawls up and gets close to Henry and pauses, "Henry? Henry Dunn?" Yes, ladies and gents, it appears Henry's known the stripper since she was like, ten. This is what you get for hiring local girls, SULLY. Stacy doesn't seem to mind, in fact she seems to enjoy it, but Henry? Is just smiling and nodding and wondering if there's a nearby hole he can crawl into.

Abby's headed outside for some fresh air, when Karena sneaks up on her with a jump on the soundtrack. "You have to leave…he want's you dead." Abby's looking kinda freaked out. Seriously, Madison and this lady in the same night, I'd be a little jumpy, too. But Karena's adamant, "Please, he won't stop."

Cannery. Danny's playing quarters with the bouncers, Sully's got his arm around Muffin, and Cal has the stripper on his lap while he's talking about Chloe. Sully's watching and asking Muffin the blow-up doll if she honestly finds him attractive. It's riveting, folks, riveting. And even better when Malcolm arrives. A drunken Henry orders Malcolm a drink and says it wouldn't be the same without him. "Hey, have you seen Booth?" DRINK! Malcolm stammers and lies that he hasn't seen him.

Abby's walking, we don't know where and she gets to a door. She knocks and Jimmy opens it. She's looking a little shell-shocked so he just pulls her into his arms for a hug.

In Booth and Malcom's room, Malcolm's closing up a duffelbag full of cash and stowing it under his bed. He looks across the room at Booth's things and begins crying.