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EPISODE 31

Tonight's episode is the in between episode. I can't say nothing happened, or nothing of significance happened and I can't say a lot of things happened because not much happened for the 1st 45 minutes. Anyway here goes the plot.

Vincent is dead. Very dead and the first scene we saw tonight was his face, black and white in his pilot uniform, like IC photo on top of a plane. Belle took his urn up to the sky and threw out his ashes into the sky whilst friends and family cried down below. Belle was ok, Sam was almost inconsolable but he didn't cry. Zoe looked at him, worried.

Later Belle went away with Coco and Vincent's parents for a holiday whilst Sam continued to work. Zoe met up with Sam and asked him with a very suffocating concern for Sam's well being whether he was ok and all Sam could say was "I will give you an answer..remember you asked me whether I have any feelings for Belle, whether I still have those feelings and the truth is..." and Zoe panicking said "You don't have to make a decision now..go take a holiday..not with me but just go think about it, don't tell me now" because she was afraid he would say I dump you for Belle since Belle is very available right now. Sam just said what Belle said and is fast becoming this series' most famous quote.."I don't know". That was Sam's answer and to Zoe it was like "Yes, I still have feelings for Belle". Later that night Zoe had some heart to heart talk with Paul and Paul said this will be the time to move forward with Sam, don't waste time but Zoe wanted to give him space and Zoe said "If he doesn't love me, I will leave but I could feel it, I could feel that I still have a chance...". Poor Zoe. Now Sam is becoming like Belle and Zoe like Vincent you know. Why can't Sam make up his bloody mind?!

Then we shift to Isaac who told Taylor that he wanted to change simulation flight partner (that will be Zita) and Taylor asked Zita if something was wrong between she and Isaac when they were all celebrating Zita's mom's birthday and Donald overheard and was I don't know, either guilty or worried. You must remember he overheard Chris and Roy said Zita loved Isaac first and Isaac had some feelings for Zita.

Anyway Zita went to Isaac and told him what happened in the past was the past. She's with Donald now, very happy with him and Isaac then told Taylor everything was ok.

Then Zita ran into some work problems. When at a restaurant, a Mandarin speaking man asked Zita to take a photo of him and his wife (guest starring Lily Lee) and the camera couldn't work. That man immediately blamed Zita and said she spoilt his camera but Zita walked away from that nonsense. That chauvinistic man then scolded his wife all the way to the airport departure gate and saw Zita walking by in her uniform. He stopped her and said he refused to fly in a plane she is flying as she can't even be trusted with a camera. Zita wanted to argue her innocence but Henry arrived and told Zita to get ready for the flight. Then Henry told that guy they will change flights for him but first must wait. The Captain then received a notice that the flight must be delayed 15 minutes to get that man's luggage and Zita was very apologetic since the problem started with her but the Captain said that man was unreasonable.

At this point I do wonder is an airport that accomodating? If I were Henry I would say stick to schedule integrity and that man will have to wait for his luggage to return with the return flight. Anyway, for a moment I thought Henry would say "Zita you're off the flight, customer is always NUMBER ONE".

Zita was upset but not that upset. Donald told Zita she could just quit her job and she can be a manager in his company and everybody will be happy. Hmmm sounded like his father which was strange as Donald never intended to work for his father, so how come he suggested what he suggested? Then Isaac overheard and Isaac told Zita to follow her dreams and Zita said she will never quit, Donald was just thinking what was best for her and Donald overheard and Donald was..jealous or ashamed, I really don't know. A lot of people overhearing stuff tonight.

Back to Zoe who didn't want to bother Sam in his times of confusion but Paul said call the mother, have lunch with her and she did. Mom called Sam but Phillip couldn't come, busy he said. Earlier there was this scene where mom said Phillip was avoiding her and Sam and Isaac saw dad doing yoga! Then Phillip wanted a new secretary and mom hired someone very young and Phillip looked, I don't know guilty or lusty. Then Sam was at the restaurant and he saw Phillip walking in with his secretary then he approached Phillip and saw him playing kissy-kissy hands with secretary and Sam warned his dad but Phillip said it was nothing. Back at home Sam warned Phillip again and Phillip said she was just his secretary. Strange though. Because for 20 odd years Phillip was never seen with another in front of the camera and suddenly now he is the lusty old man? I don't know what is going on, maybe mid life crisis or worse, dad has some life threatening disease and doing this to drive away mom? I don't know, we shall see as the series go along at its slow mo pace.

At the meantime Sam was guilty for neglecting Zoe and so he called Zoe for a dinner date. Zoe was very happy of course and was ready to leave her house when Paul said her face looked red, her body felt very hot and Paul was very worried so he asked Zoe to go see a doctor now! But Zoe sneaked out of the house and Sam also noticed she looked red all over. But Sam didn't suspect a thing and Sam was confessing to her how he was so sorry for neglecting her and how he will make it up to her when Zoe was getting worse and worse. Suddenly Zoe stood up, apologised to Sam saying it was nothing, it was not his fault and she ran out leaving Sam thinking she was still angry with him for neglecting her. Outside of the restaurant, Zoe fainted and Paul came just in time to see her fainting.

Tomorrow we shall know why Zoe fainted and her decision about her relationship with Sam. Very interesting but melodramatic stuff.

Performance wise, Francis had little to do whilst Myolie was just a bit too much. But I can see why. Her Zoe is supposed to be very understanding and yet very afraid Sam would leave her and yet tried to be cool about it. So she had to bee overeager.

Everybody else was ok.

I am still sore though the story between Isaac and Zoe never took off because tonight, Isaac approached Zoe advising her about her problems with Sam and I thought in real life, Isaac would be secretly in love with Zoe. The body language said so.

As for tonight's plot, I am very confused with Phillip's sudden change of behaviour and Sam's I don't know mentality and yet he knows later on. Very hot and cold. And also the Donald knowing Isaac loved Zita and Zita loved Isaac because that plot was redundant. Nothing was made out of it and frankly the whole plot of the S4 and its members were rather redundant. Nothing much happened with them anyway. As for Belle I was also very confused. One episode earlier she was almost hysterical with grief whilst on the plane imagining Vincent was still there and yet tonight she was all calm and cool. She could even laugh. I could even see lip gloss and shiny perfect hair. Shouldn't she be a bit more like a grieving widow since Vincent just died? And no news on what Vincent said on the phone message, maybe after that she will become hysterical. Even Vincent's parents were cool, cried a bit but generally not that grieving. I guess some people take everything as it comes, but imagine your only son died at such a young age, shouldn't the mom look lost or something? At least a tiny little bit?

End credits we have I can't remember, I think Sammul Chan explaining the power source of a plane.

3 comments:

Kidd February 14, 2005 at 6:02 PM  

Actually, Phillip has always been flirtatious since his wife left him. It was shown in the first episode when Sam came home, he saw his father having a great time (not the bedroom type) with his very young girlfriend. But he was never serious with anyone of them because his heart is still with his wife. It's only after he reunited with his wife that he stop playing around.

But it is true he did have a problem that cause him to start going out with young girls again. But you would never guess what it is.

Funn Lim February 15, 2005 at 2:49 AM  

Kidd, I'll take a wild guess. Ermm something got to do with the fact that he can no longer "perform"?

daybee February 15, 2005 at 5:01 PM  

Funn, I think if a passenger doesn't board the flight whether they just simply refuse to or they're late, etc. the airline/ground staff are obliged to unload their luggage as a safety precaution.

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