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Episode Title: "Love Lasts Forever"
Current air date: August 12, 2010
The basics (from tvguide.com):
Synopsis: Mick and Beth attempt to rescue Josh after he is kidnapped by a vindictive drug lord.
Written by: Josh Pate
Directed by: Paul Holahan
Original Air Date: Jan. 11, 2008
Guest Cast:
Jordan Belfi: Josh Lindsey
David Blue: Logan Griffen
Brian White: Lt. Carl Davis
Margaret Easley: Dr. Alison Lin
Emilio Rivera: Chemma Tejada
Maurice Compte: Bustos
Luis Moncada: Huerta
Manuel Urrego: Jorge Perez
My own thoughts about this episode:
At the end of Sleeping Beauty, Beth went back to Los Angeles, determined to make things right with Josh. And she tries--she really tries.
Meanwhile, Mick is working out
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For me, the theme of this episode is upheaval and catastrophic change. Everything breaks here: Mick's hopes for finding out how the Cure works are dashed when Coraline disappears, and her blood turns out to contain... nothing?! And then he breaks the vial of blood as well. Beth's hopes for making a go at a "normal" life with a "normal" guy are destroyed, first by her knowledge that she simply cannot keep pretending to adore a man whose touch she can barely tolerate, and then when Josh is killed (in a shocking and heartbreaking scene that was Emmy-worthy, in my opinion). Beth's trust and respect for Mick are shattered when he does everything humanly possible (but no more) to save Josh.
Mick won't turn Josh, but he sure does unleash the vamp in another way. The scene with Bustos, and later in the bar and Tejada's office, is just amazing. Here's Mick as we've never seen him before: brutal, totally in control, and out for blood, as only a vampire can be. But this, too, is part of the theme. Mick's determination not to revel in his vampirism has been broken, too. And later, when he goes to see Beth after that bloodbath, she says things to him (in her grief and shock and...guilt?) that are really unforgivable. Mick's left wondering if he can preserve any sort of relationship with Beth at all... and if he's lost Beth, how will he go on living?
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At the end of this episode, I was left with tears in my eyes and a lump in my throat-- and a horrible, sinking feeling that I had no solid ground under my feet anymore. And neither did anyone else.
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Links:
http://www.tvguide.com/episode-recaps/M ... -7085.aspx
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1077033/
(No Wikipedia page is available for this episode)