There's not a great deal of must-see TV of late. One show that is must-see is FOX's THE CLEANING LADY. Below, Rebecca writes about last week's two hour wrap up for season two.
'the cleaning lady.' stop reading if you haven't watched, there will be spoilers.
the 2 hour season finale packed a punch and then some. it was a great way to go out.
kamdar
was convinced the tests were lying. he suspected every 1. nadia was
nervous (it wasn't a heart attack, remember, she poisoned him) but kept
trying to calm him. thony came by and he kind of thanked her for saving
his life. he asked her what it could have been. she went over a
number of options including that it could have been a drug that
interacted poorly with something else. nadia walked thony out and
whispered to her, with kamdar's men watching, that thony sold her out.
thony told her that kamdar obviously already knew that he might have
been drugged and he would have been more suspicious if she hadn't said
anything. nadia vowed to tell arman that thony sold them out.
thony
took luka to an amusement park. it was for his birthday. she left. i
think this is where she met with garrett (f.b.i.). he confronted her
on the fact that arman told him how his snitch/source died and not
thony. he yelled at her and only stopped when she had a call. it was
fi. she'd taken luka to the hospital.
luka's body was rejecting the transplant.
thony
made a receptionist call a 'code white.' told her that it was her son,
she was a doctor and that he would die if she didn't do it.
the doctors didn't take thony or fi very seriously.
the doctor in the case was a man who really didn't seem to care.
thony
knew she had to get the drugs she brought back from the phillipines for
luca. remember, a few episodes back, to get those drugs, she offered
to bring back other drugs for kamdar. then kamdar was putting the
squeeze on arman and arman decided to steal the drugs. kamdar wouldn't
know because arman had already worked it out for his wife nadia to
poison him. but then thony came in during the 'heart attack' and saved
kamdar's life.
thony told arman luka was dying and needed the drugs.
arman
took her to where he was hiding the drugs. they were trying to find
the specific drug for luka when the man hiding the drugs sold arman out
and kamdar's men arrived.
he had thony look for the drugs she needed for luka and he went to try to hold the men off.
he
had some success and might have had more but while thony was getting
the medicine, fi was calling her from the hospital - luka's nose was
bleeding and he was talking strangely.
they
heard the cell phone ringing and came into the trailer that thony was
in. she got on top of the trailer and tried to run away but lost her
purse (with the drugs in it) and arman ended up shooting every 1,
getting on a motorcyle with thony and as she reached down for her purse,
he shot the last bad guy.
the doctor at the hospital had already refused to use the drugs before thony went for them. they're not approved in the u.s.
thony
made it back to the hospital. she needed a ventilator to administer
them and they needed somewhere private - it would take 36 hours. the
smart thing would have been to have checked luka out or just left with
him. instead they holed up in the chapel and did it there.
of course, they were caught.
the doctor agreed to continue the meds on luca - they couldn't be stopped now.
but he also brought the police and a social worker. fi and thony were under arrest. the social worker would stay with luka.
they were both being hauled out of the hospital in handcuffs.
kamdar
has been acting like he trust nadia. but he doesn't. and he comes
behind her while she's in the bath and tells her he knows she poisoned
him. she denies it and he shoves her under water. she struggles and
finally comes up. she tells him to stay away from her and runs to the
bedroom. she grabs clothes, shoes and her purse while he's banging on
the door. she slips out another door and is almost out when one of the
men who works for kamdar stands in front of her. she begs him to let
her go but he says he can't and she looks behind her to discover kamdar
is right ther.
as
the police are trying to load fi and thony into the car, garrett shows
up. he flashes his f.b.i. badge and tells them they can't take thony
she's working with them on a case. he also tries to save fi but they
refuse to wait while he gets authorization.
thony has to tell fi's 2 kids what's going on. they're upset. fi's boyfriend's furious (i really hate him).
thony visits fi who says she doesn't want any 1 to see her like this. thony promises she will get fi out.
thony
meets with garrett and russo (garrett's boss and, this episode, his
romantic partner). there's nothing they can do. but kamdar's the
bigger target and thony talks about how he smuggled in street drugs and
she saw them. great. if they can prove that, they'll work on getting
fi out.
they can't find the drugs.
there's nothing they can do.
thony knows better. she said she can work kamdar. they don't want her going near him. he'd kill her on the spot.
they're watching kamdar.
which is how they learn thony ignored them.
kamdar
tells her he can't trust her. she says every thing she did, she did
for her son so he should be able to trust that. she also points out
that it's her connection in the phillipines. without her, he's got
nothing. okay, he says, but they move the drugs now. nadia says not to
trust her and then says that they should just leave for the caymans
like they planned. kamdar ignores her.
the f.b.i. follows.
they get to the location and garrett's brought arman in on it. he even gives arman a bullet proof vest.
kamdar doesn't see them. but he does try to kill thony.
she
runs off and garrett and arman move in shooting. garrett gets close to
thony and arman provides fire cover so they can try to make a break for
it. but they get exposed and garrett tells thony to stay down. he and
arman shoot at kamdar's men and garrett and thony manage to move back.
all the f.b.i. arrive in vehicles and kamdar surrenders.
thony notices garrett's bleeding. he dies in front of her as russo comes over.
russo has never liked thony. but she will make sure fi is safe and in the country now that they have kamdar. great, right?
bad about garrett, but great for fi.
woops.
kamdar posted bail. a judge let him out after he surrendered his passport. fi's safety depends upon a conviction of kamdar.
thony feels like she's done everything she was supposed to. russo's not moved.
thony
says he's going to flee the country. she says he has his own plane,
she talks about how he has customs in his pocket. and then she
remembers what nadia had said about the cayman islands and realized that
nadia was tipping her off.
does thony know where kamdar's plane is?
she does and she can take them there. so the fi deal is on.
and then it's off again.
why?
arman
tricks kamdar. he has his own men at the air field posing as kamdar's
men. arman walks up and kamdar's surprised to see 'his' men flee. he
tells arman that he can't kill him. arman hands the gun to nadia who
shoots him dead. they then flee on the motorcyle just as the f.b.i.
lands in a helicopter.
kamdar is dead.
the deal is off.
fi is taken off by ice and put on a plane back to the phillipines.
this is a very depressing episode. garrett's dead and now fi's being forced out of the country.
thony goes to arman's club. he sees her and they walk off to a room.
she
tells him that his killing kamdar meant fi got deported. that's not
going to be the end of it. fi is her family and he is going to help her
get fi back.
so how?
arman
and thony are going to continue to import drugs from the phillipines.
thony meets with the crooked custom agent. she tells him kamdar's dead
but their deal is still on. and he'll still be getting paid. but the
next shipment that they bring back, they'll also be bringing back a
person.
so that's the end. and thank goodness because to have gone out with no plan for bringing fi back would have been way too much.
it's bad enough that garrett's dead.
i
have no idea why arman is staying with nadia. but when nadia finds out
that he's back in business with thony, she's going to hit the roof.
let's close with c.i.'s 'Iraq snapshot:'
