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Nancy Drew, Ep. 1x06 – The Mystery of Blackwood Lodge

Okay, it’s taken six episodes; but I’m hooked. I mean, I still am not invested in the relationships and such (although Bess and Lisbeth are kind of sweet). But I do like the quirky nature of the show and the mystery is quite good.

Ball, Pegasus, Kraken, Medusa. Nancy is trying to find out the connection between Lucy and Ryan based on a poem Lucy wrote. Those words are brought up. They will be important. Nancy goes to Ryan’s house and, because he didn’t answer the door after three seconds, Nancy figures that means she has permission to just walk inside.

Inside, she finds an overturned dining chair. We have a quick Lucy appearance. And then she finds an invitation with a bird on it. It’s the same bird that can be found drawn on Lucy’s poem. Then, Nancy flashes back to Karen talking about how Lucy changed after going to an underground party. The invitation itself says “The Velvet Mask,” and “dusk.”

Meanwhile, at The Claw, Bess is obsessing about her first date with Lisbeth. George just wants her to shut up and get to work. Nick asks if Nancy is at The Claw because he found more information on Owen (let me guess, we’re going to find out Owen was helping Tiffany at some point?). Nancy comes in and we get exposition about The Velvet Mask; that it is an underground party held by rich people every five years. It’s always held in a different location. That townies who go to the party, end up being…hunted? (Sure the last one is probably an urban legend, but who knows with this show).

Nick talks to Nancy about Owen, and reminds the audience that Tiffany was digging up information on the Hudson’s. Still, Owen’s name keeps popping up and the Hudson’s and the Marvin’s do do business together. Nancy says she’ll talk to Owen.

Nancy meets up with Owen and she asks if he and Ryan are business partners or mortal enemies. He tells her they’re both. He then asks if this question comes from Nick, as he’s noticed him following him around. Nancy then asks about The Velvet Mask, specifically where and when. Nick says he’s happy to talk to her tomorrow over dinner. Nancy deduces this means he has plans that night; which, given his look, is a yes. So, the invite must be for tonight. Then, he invites Nancy to go sailing with him sometime.

Nancy goes home. As soon as she steps inside, someone slams the door behind her. It’s Ryan who “didn’t mean to scare her?” (Really, dude?). He thinks someone is trying to kill him. Okay, info dump time. Ryan is there because he needs Carson, but apparently is willing to tell Nancy his story. Ryan thinks someone is trying to kill him. The night before he heard someone rummaging through his house and he went to sleep in a motel. The thing is Ryan owes money to some bad people and he can’t pay them because he’s been cut off by his father because his father found out about the kiss at the fundraiser. He, oh geez this is lame, just so happens to have these Roman Coins that he can sell at an underground auction tonight; except he can’t get to them because they’re in his family’s storage facility. He was hoping Carson could pull some strings. Of course, Carson is in Boston; but it’s a good thing that Nancy is a master at B&E. She’ll get the coins, if Ryan takes her to The Velvet Mask. We don’t get his answer her, but you know he’s going to do it. Also, Nick calls during this scene and Nancy rejects the call. This is the second time this has happened, which usually spells bad things in Teen Dramas. I’ve got a feeling they won’t last (and, uh, I kind of know what happens between her and Ace later).

Meanwhile, Bess has decided she and Lisbeth will have a late lunch at The Claw. Ace coaches Bess in the ways of dating, as she doesn’t date much. It’s a nice scene. Lisbeth comes to The Claw that afternoon and it’s an awkward cute date. However, Lisbeth has to leave early because of a family emergency; which Bess thinks was just her trying to get away from a bad date.

At the same time, Nick and George are looking through the files; trying to figure out why Tiffany was also looking at the Marvin’s. Nick isn’t sure what all of these documents are; but George knows that they are a shipping manifest (her family has been in fishing industry for three generations). George asks if Nancy got information out of Owen. Nick tells her Nancy hasn’t called back, to which George makes a face.

Back at Nancy’s, Nancy asks Ryan about Lucy Sable and if she was at The Velvet Mask the year before she died. But before this conversation goes on, there is a knock at the door. Nancy opens it to find Nick and George standing there. So, they’re wondering what’s going on and Nancy tries to make an excuse, but she opens the door too far and they see Ryan in the house. Nancy steps on to the porch and shuts the door. Nick and George are trying to figure out why Nancy seems to be helping Ryan, until Nancy mentions that she thinks Ryan killed Lucy. When that confuses her friends even more, Nancy finally admits to being haunted by Lucy. And if she’s bringing it up this soon, my guess is that Ryan may not have anything to do with Lucy’s death. Eh, scratch that, he may not have killed Lucy, doesn’t mean he doesn’t know anything about it.

Anyway, Nancy tells Nick and George she thinks that something may have happened to Lucy at the party. At which point, George and Nick wonder why Nancy has never brought up any of this before; like she didn’t trust them. (To be fair, though, neither of you two believed in ghosts until, like, yesterday, so….). Anyway, she tells them she’s hoping to find out information about what happened to Lucy (by going to a party, 20 years later?). Nick asks “what about Tiffany?” to which Nancy says she’s put some calls out to the person she sent the blood sample too. Nancy asks if they’re good, Nick says “100%.” They were, in fact, not good.

Nick and George goes back to his truck, where Gorge calls him out on his bs. However, Nick looks through the shipping manifest and finds something about Roman coins. It must be the same ones, but “what are the chances?” he asks. It’s called plot contrivance, Nick. But George asks the important question, why are they important? But they’re going to find out because George knows someone.

And (Good Lord George!) she apparently gets the guy, who used to date her mom, to The Claw by pretending that Victoria wanted to speak to him. She apologizes for Victoria not being able to make it, then Nick asks the man if he could look at something for them. Real smooth, guys. Uh…turns out it’s a shipping manifest of a ship that sank 18 years ago. All of it’s crew and cargo was lost. So, the coins are burial coins, the 12 coins of Charon.

Which Nancy has just stolen from the…That’s the secure storage facility?! It has a chain on the door!

Anyway, the man leaves and Nick and George discuss. It seems in Tiffany’s files there are several copies of cashed insurance checks. If the Hudson’s put in a claim for those coins, well obviously insurance fraud. But the more important thing is that, for them to have the coins, it is quite possible that they stole their own cargo and sank the ship/killed the crew to cover up their crimes. If Ryan is trying to sell them, he must not know the whole story. They figure that that’s why someone is trying to kill Ryan. Which is possible, but wouldn’t it be easier to just unfreeze the assets? Or move the coins to a location that Ryan doesn’t know about? I mean, I could totally see Ryan’s father able to kill his son, but….

Ok, so, back at Nancy’s home; Ryan is wondering where Nancy could be. Ryan drops his wedding ring and he stoops down to retrieve it. He hears creaking behind him, and he turns around. Lucy is there and he can see her. Furthermore, Lucy is able to grab Ryan’s arm. As she does so, the metal on his ring starts to glow red. Nancy comes into the room, she doesn’t see Lucy it seems, but she does see the burning ring on his hand and it’s clear something has his arm. Suddenly, Ryan is let go and he asks what that was. Nancy says it was Lucy.

Ryan thinks, at first, that Lucy is haunting the house; but Nancy lets him know that the sounds at Ryan’s place was Lucy too. Which means, was Lucy haunting him before Tiffany’s death? Tiffany heard sounds too. Nancy’s phone rings and she doesn’t answer. Instead, she gives Ryan the poem. Nancy believes Ryan is the Prince and he took Nancy to The Velvet Mask. Ryan says that they had a summer fling and that was it; afterwards she ended up getting killed.

Nick calls again and Nancy goes into another room to answer. Long story short, Nick doesn’t want Nancy to give the coins to Ryan as it is important to Tiffany’s investigation. Nancy says that the coins won’t help solve Tiffany’s death (how would she know? She doesn’t even know why their important). Besides, she needs to give them to Ryan to solve Lucy’s murder and she hangs up. Nick is understandably upset and doesn’t understand why Nancy is so single minded. George points out that this has always been Nancy’s nature. If they want the coins, they’re going to have to go to the party. And the only way in, is if they go as the guest of someone who’s rich; like Laura Tandy.

Nick talks with Ace and sees if he can talk to Laura. Now, while this is going on George is talking to Bess (this is right after the date) and asks if she wants a new dress and a chance to steal something at a party full of rich people.

Cut to the party and...where have I seen that staircase before? Wait, is that the Sisters of Quiet Mercy?! Fitting they used the same location. So, Ryan and Nancy go in. Ace, dressed as a Chofer, lets out Nick, George, and Bess. Nick tells the guard they’re guests of Laura Tandy. Nancy sees them arrive.

The three decide that they need to get masks before they go to the auction, where they plan to steal the coins. Meanwhile, Nancy has ditched Ryan and is looking for the other items in Lucy’s poem (but if the location is always different, why would she expect to find them?). Well, Nancy finds two of the clues in the shape of masks hanging on the wall. “I watched Medusa embrace the Kraken, but not her husband the King.” Ryan is the Prince, so the King is his father. Which would make Medusa his mother. Oh look, here’s Owen with more exposition. The Kraken was his Uncle Sabastian and he wore that mask every year until he died. It’s looking less like Ryan murdered Lucy, but his family…and Carson worked for the Hudson’s. Is that why the dress was there? Is he involved somehow?

Anyway, Nancy asks if Owen knows anything about Ryan brining Lucy to the party 20 years ago. But he doesn’t. However, he is interested in those coins. See, the ship was a venture between the two families. If Ryan has the coins, it’s proof the Hudsons double crossed the Marvins. One of the people on the boat was Sabastian, who was a rival of Everett Hudson. Nancy tells him she doesn’t have the coins. Owen tries to convince her to leave and she agrees to, if he can tell her where to find a Pegasus.

Meanwhile, Ryan runs into his mother, who is doing everything possible to get Ryan not to sell the coins. She even says that if Ryan gives her the coins, she’ll get the father to change his mind. Ryan refuses.

Nancy is lead toward the Pegasus, when they run into Nick. Owen reminds her to remember their agreement and tells her which room to go to. Then, he leaves Nick and Nancy alone. Nick follows Nancy, who hopes he isn’t here to steal the coins. Wishful thinking. Nancy’s says there’s too many of them there and they will all be thrown out before any of their goals are accomplished. Look, this is basically set up so the Nick asks Nancy to let him in and she turns him down. The problem is, she did tell him why she’s here; she’s being haunted by Lucy and she thinks that this party has something to do with her death.

We cut to George and Bess, who see Lisbeth working at the party. She works for the Hudson’s, but there’s clearly something else going on. Bess is frustrated and Lisbeth is…quite possibly turned on.

Cut to Nancy, where she finds the Pegasus on a piece of furniture. So, to put it together; Lucy was unhappy at the party and so she hid. From her hiding spot, she saw Sabastian and Ryan’s mother, Celia, together. But it seems that maybe Celia caught Lucy? She definitely catches Nancy. The mother tries to be all sweet towards Nancy, until Nancy tells her about her suspicions (oh, she and Betty Cooper would work together so well). At which point, the mother not-so-vaguely threatens Nancy. But she expects Nancy can be discrete, just like her father. Oh boy.

At the auction, Owen tries to convince Nick to work with him. That would be a no. Bess and Lisbeth flirt. The auction for the coin starts, George screams, Ace turns off the power (how’d he get back there), and in the dark, Bess and Lisbeth kiss. Then Bess remembers the plan and tries to grab the coins, but the lights come back on and she’s caught red handed. It looks like Bess is in trouble, but Owen vouches for them and promises they won’t speak a word. Nancy sees the three escorted out.

Ryan, at this point, sees a younger version of Lucy, who he calls Luce. He goes into the room were she is. Meanwhile, Nancy sees leaves on the floor, blowing in the wind. She goes back into the room and sees Ryan kissing Lucy; who’s back into her ghostly form. Lucy grabs his arm and his wedding ring starts to burn him again. Nancy realizes that Lucy is upset about the ring. On the ring, Lucy has engraved her name and an arrow pointing to Tiffany’s name. Lucy is trying to tell them her death lead to Tiffany’s. Ryan understands how bad this looks, but he didn’t kill Lucy. At the time, he was away a boarding school when Lucy was murdered. Ryan’s dad forbade his son to ever talk about Lucy again.

The truth is, Ryan did love Lucy and he took her to the party to impress her. He knows something bad happened that night, but she wouldn’t tell him what. Then, his parents wouldn’t let him talk to her and they told them they took care of Lucy. Nancy asks how and Ryan replies through Carson Drew.

Nancy goes home, afraid of what she learned. However, she gets some good news from the person she sent the samples to. Tiffany’s results aren’t back yet, but there’s information on Lucy. Turns out there were two different hair strands on the crown; Lucy’s and the killer. Furthermore, those hair stands belonged to a woman; which means Carson isn’t the killer. Maybe. Unless there’s another explanation for the hair.

At The Claw, the group is upset that their plan didn’t go so well (except Bess, she’s happy). Nick apologizes for getting the others in trouble. Nancy comes in and everyone is upset with her for not helping out. Even when Nancy shows them that she switched out the coins. (Um, three episodes ago, most of these people would have happily let Nick take the fall so they weren’t suspects anymore; so maybe not be so judgy against the person who’s currently being haunted.) Nancy’s tells Nick she hopes that this gives him the chance to do what he wants, to turn the coins over to the police. Nick’s response is that he hopes Nancy got what she want and…did he just break up with her? That just felt so final.

Nancy begins to tell the others that Tiffany’s and Lucy’s death may be connected, when they hear a car pull up to The Claw. It’s Owen, who won the auction. Owen is fine with loosing the coins as he knows that the reason Nick wants the coins to prove the Hudson’s were involved is some pretty immoral things. And he just so happens to have the number to an FBI agent, who he’s willing to give to Nancy in case she finds the coins. Wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Meanwhile, Nick is watching from the window. George suggests violence, but Nick says he’s good. It’s clear to Nick that it may not work out with Nancy. Meanwhile, Lisbeth comes by with pizza and so she and Bess seem to be working it out for now. Owen asks Nancy out, but she says her heart belongs to Nick (yeah, about that…). Nick is still watching and puts his head in his hands. The camera focuses on the coins, that are starting to stand on their ends.

#nancy drew #ned nickerson #george fan #bess Marvin #ace redacted #ryan hudson #celia hudson #lucy sable #owen marvin

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magic-multicolored-miracle · 5 years

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Nancy Drew and The Did I Miss Something or Was This a Totally Unconnected and Meaningless Episode Title?

So I was a little disappointed by this episode. Not in terms of anything significant really, but in terms of being let down by the buildup from the trailer and episode descriptions. For one thing, I was teased with ‘the group goes to a fancy masquerade and dramatic things happen’ which is one of my Favorite tropes, and then 1) it was only a small part of the episode and 2) it wasn’t a very good masquerade since the actual masks were obviously optional. For another, descriptions made it seem like the “deal” between Nancy and Ryan was going to be something much more sinister.

Those are small complaints though. I like that this episode largely focused on the inter-character relationships than just “here’s a clue and a half dozen new questions.”

These commentaries are my answer to not having someone to actually talk about the show with, so here’s our one-sided conversation for the week

Learn to use some basic English Lit class analysis of those metaphors, duh

Thank your antipsychotics for kicking in?

Abandoned breakfast? No answer when you call out? Suspicious. Ooh maybe somebody killed him!

Don’t snoop so blatantly. Geez.

I really like the opening credits. I really appreciate their commitment to spook.

Aww, nervous Bess is adorable

If you already know this stuff, why are you asking?

She is impressed and turned on by his snooping. As it should be.

Go away Owen!

Are his cheekbones actually that nice? I haven’t noticed.

Also if Owen knows Nick-not-Ned was following him, that could be a problem if he turns out to be evil/shady

That’s actually 3 questions Nan

The fuck Ryan?! That was the worst jump-scare so far in the entire show

So you broke into the Drew residence and gave the teen Detective a heart attack? That’s not helpful

Talking to Nancy will probably solve your problems faster than Carson will. Just with the side effect of insensitive questions

That’s twice you’ve ignored Nick’s calls

You deserve it. Get fucked. Also your father is a dick who should do the same. Also also, you were having money problems before Daddy cut you off so quit lying if you want help

Surely you know about her reputation, is that really a question you need to ask? – smart decision retracting your question or she might have told you about the number of times she’s broken into your home (at least twice)

Aww, Ace is trying to help, badly. Love a supportive dumbass friend

Both? I mean we all know Nancy can be trusted…and yet…

Blatant questions to suspected murderers while you are alone with them is a bad plan. We’ve talked about this.

It’s not what it looks like…

I completely agree with George.

Or she didn’t want to admit it because it sounds nuts, she was Camp Skeptic, and ghosts should not be real

That face says you’re lying Nick

Aw, that’s kinda mean. Poor harbormaster guy

Stop breaking into things with your obvious DNA/identifying traits exposed woman!

Ooh, love a good smuggling/insurance fraud. Did he use an orphaned orca to bring the coins up from the seafloor?

Or he’s stupid. Or both.

Sup Lucy…

Ookay. Lucy is a super powerful pissed off ghost. Got it.

No Ace. It doesn’t.

Aw. She’s so awkward, poor baby. And is trying so hard to help/be supportive but actually kinda probably making it worse by hovering

Or there’s an actual person trying to kill him. Or both.

STOP IGNORING NED’S CALLS

Went off the deep end? Elaborate on that please.

He literally just said they were the key to bringing down the Hudsons. So yes, they well could help solve Tiffany’s murder. Or at least put you one step closer. Listen when people talk

Oh no. That’s not a good sign. I wanted this date to go well…

Oh no, poor Lisbeth! (if it’s true, I mean that sounds like a ‘get me out of this terrible date code from a friend’) and either way, Poor Bess!

That’s not going to help things between them

Aw, see, they do like each other. Nothing cheers someone up after a disaster date like a fancy dress and encouraging their kleptomania

He might actually be trying to warn you. And when the worst person ever offers you a genuine warning, it may be wise to listen. Or maybe he’s just trying to cover something up/feeling guilty. I’m honestly 50/50

Oof, once again, they all look amazing in formalwear. Including Ace in his driver disguise. Though I don’t love his hat.

Weren’t expecting them to show up, were you Nance? Maybe if you worked WITH them instead of just including them when it’s convenient you wouldn’t be so blindsided by it

Is it a masquerade or not?

Kraken is a kind of rum?...or masks, we’re talking about masks. And now it seems like there weren’t actually metaphors in the poem. Boo.

She witnessed adultery and was killed for it maybe?

Something is definitely going to go down, and nobody wants Nancy there for it…The suspense!

So the affair was between Sebastian Marvin and Mommy (didn’t catch her actual name) Hudson

Ooh, that’s a suspicious exchange. Is there anyone in the Hudson family that isn’t shady af?

What exactly do you do for the Hudsons? It seems to be a lot. And all of it requiring…discretion

Huh. I didn’t think I’d actually be right or that we’d get to that answer so quickly

Oh good. Now you’ve been caught. Nice going.

Nancy! Subtlety! Try it.

That’s not 6.5 kilos of anything.

Focus Bess?

No part of this was a good plan ever. Less than half-assed

Just going to ignore the guy passed out in the hall? Okay (I definitely thought it was Ryan and someone had knocked him over the head)

Actually, this time might be good timing for a confrontation. Good choice asking while he’s literally down. You’re learning

The wedding ring being the ‘source’ of the haunting actually lends some, admittedly shaky, ground back to it not being a real ghost

Because you Dad’s a massive dick

Are you actually trying to make me feel something other than contempt and distaste for Ryan Hudson? Because I won’t

Catching his mother in an affair was bad…but was it enough to traumatize or scare her away?

So Carson used to be the Hudsons’ fixer? Really? I mean I believe it, but I don’t like it or get why

Why bother with a video call?

…or your Mom did…

That’s not a positive thing Bess…

Unnecessary drama is unnecessary. Let’s go back to being a team and friends and stuff.

Go away Owen.

True friendship! Offering to kneecap a guy

Good! Glad they got a happy ending to their date, even if it did require a few detours

In your face, Owen. Except that from Nick’s perspective at the moment, he’s very unlucky. Nancy, maybe you should TALK TO HIM

Floaty spooky coins are probably not a good thing… They’re going to turn out to contain the souls of the sailors killed in the ship ‘accident’ aren’t they? I mean they’re burial coins and there just happens to be the same number of them as the number of people killed. And it’s not like we don’t have enough supernatural shit going on already

Side note: looking up Mommy Hudson’s name led to the discovery that Owen is played by a Miles GastonVillanueva. I refuse to believe that is coincidental. Or maybe I just don’t like him because he is a non-Frank Hardy or Dave Gregory character interfering with this iteration of my lifelong OTP

#Nancy Drew #CW Nancy Drew #Nancy Drew tv show #Nancy Drew 2019 #semi-liveblogging #1x06: The Mystery of Blackwood Lodge #Nick-not-Ned #seeing them in true formalwear means I can now confirm: I definitely have a crush on Ace and Nancy #also after this episode I'm pretty sure I actually am George #am I the only one actually watching and enjoying this show? Despite the fact that it's vastly different than classic Nancy Drew in any form

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