Faith regained consciousness, having to quickly remember what had just happened. She was ready to arrest a suspect, but there must have been another person in the room who knocked her out. She now knew of all of the evidence that linked this man to a drug cartel. The evidence was in the building that she was in at the time. But this building was going to be demolished very soon with people in it besides them clearing it of people and other important things.
This leads to her current problem. While her suspect was supposed to have been taken into custody, it was her who wound up handcuffed. She realized that her arms were now stuck behind her back, attached to each other at the wrists. She also realized that she was blindfolded and couldn’t take off her blindfold due to the handcuffs. She carefully stood up, knowing that she was probably in the same place where she was knocked out. She didn’t have time on her side. All of the evidence was either known by her or in this building she was now trapped in. If the building were to be destroyed with her still in it, she would die as would all of the evidence of the crime.
Thinking quickly, Faith had to figure out how to get out of here. She didn’t know if anyone other than the people who left her here knew that she was still here or here at all. She wasn’t sure if her team had any idea where she might be other than looking into the case at hand. She hadn’t contacted any of them since last night and they might now know that she was now in danger. She had to get out of this building somehow. And she had to do it without the ability to see and with limited use of her arms.
Have you ever watched an episode of a TV show where there is an introduction in there that does not have anything to do with the rest of the episode? It is often a cheap trick. They are putting something in there that will only be covered in future episodes that you’ll have to come back to see later. Why would they do that? It is quite annoying and shouldn’t be done.
It was after the pandemic that there were a few shows here and there doing this as part of the show. Starting with what became the season premiere, they added a tease that they wouldn’t get back to for quite some time. Dynasty had a flashforward of some unknown character’s funeral taking place. This was years after Arrow did this in season 4, setting up a future character’s death in the season premiere. NCIS also did this by including a moment that had people feeling, what? They showed Gibbs shooting another fellow agent for reasons yet unknown and didn’t get back to this for a while, but still much shorter than Dynasty’s gap wound up being.
But while those are shows that I like, shows that are brand new don’t win me with this gimmick. The show Trickster had a weird scene that they began with that they never returned to in the pilot. They might have in future episodes, but the promise of extra salty fries could not keep me interested in this show at all. The show Filthy Rich also started with an angry woman setting a fire to a house of a man that she didn’t like before going back to the present. Skimming the episode’s plots shows me that they did not return to this exact moment again until the episode that became its series finale. I also did not care about that show to ever see it again.
There was a show that FOX aired where this gimmick actually had the potential to work. Although, I can’t remember the name of the show even. It started with the main character, a man, in traffic but in like a bind of something that he was trying to get out of while someone took him out of it and then they didn’t go back to this in the pilot. I wanted to get back to this summer show, but for various reasons that I don’t remember, I never could see any episode that revealed why this man was like this and what had happened to him to get him either in or out of this situation.
The worst example I can think of this is the TV show Sherlock that aired on BBC. This wasn’t the first episode of the series, but it was something I found quite appalling. You see, there was this dramatic hook at the beginning featuring Sherlock being confronted by Moriarty and an unseen gunman. And after this intro, we never again see Moriarty for the rest of the episode and the plot of the episode is completely unrelated to the very beginning. I felt betrayed by this. It has this potential to be full of all of this great stuff and was a 90 minute episode of a show that they never went back to in that episode. Why would they do that to people?
This, of course, leads back to the beginning of this post. Can you imagine how big of an asshole I would be if I never went back to it or paid off to it in this whole post? If you had to wait until some unknown future post to find out what happened to Faith?
I’m not going to be so cruel to you. In fact, if it wasn’t already clear, I don’t know all of the aspects of my own made up story relating to this right now. I do know that it wouldn’t be how I’d want to actually begin whatever TV show episode in question would start this way. I was thinking that her being knocked out would be the cliffhanger of a previous episode with the actual beginning being the criminals then talking about her and putting her in that situation with the reason why they went with that instead of simply shooting her dead in there as well. Most of the episode would be in real time with the team noticing that Faith is missing and trying to find her while the villains are trying to lead them on a wild goose chase to ensure that Faith is in the building when it gets destroyed. Of course, Faith is in there trying to get out.
And I will spoil the fact that she would survive this. She manages to bust out of the building despite it being locked on the outside all while remaining blindfolded and handcuffed. Her team is able to find her as she gets out of the building. In a moment of poetic justice, she is able to get one of the villains after all, using the very handcuffs she was in her when she arrests him while saying, “Let’s see how you like wearing them.”
There are other works of fiction that I was working on such as one where the opening was actually a set up to something that didn’t happen until the planned series finale. I wouldn’t actually do this in this show that needs a whole lot more work on so that things in it make more sense. But you don’t need to know more about that now. All that you need to know is that I don’t want to do that gimmick ever. The intro should have to do with the rest of the episode or it shouldn’t be there like that. Otherwise, you are doing a cruel thing that shouldn’t be done.
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