Clarice
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A reporter who barely escaped with her life.
A disgraced ex-doctor who kills herself rather than be brought in.
A pharmaceutical trial with disastrous results.
The pending sale of the company behind it.
A sinister lawyer trying to keep it all under wraps.
And a big ol conspiracy wall in the FBIs basement.
What, if anything, ties together the case that has animatedClaricesince its inception?
And Nils Hagen is where this episode loses me.
Not through any fault of actor Peter McRobbie, an authoritative screen presence Ive enjoyed everywhere fromBoardwalk EmpiretoDaredevil.
Does that dynamic sound familiar to you?
That said, his casual, barely considered sexism is more on the money.
Good thing we get some good old-fashioned crime-fighting hijinks to balance things out.
Who is this girl, Nancy Drew?
Tripathi asks in the episodes funniest moment.
Its a far cry from the idealized father figure we got to know second-hand inSilenceand in previous episodes.
Meanwhile, Clarices best friend and roommate, Ardelia, is going through trials of her own.
I dont know that well get anything as transcendent asThe Silence of the Lambs riveting closing act.
