Nancy Drew and the Vision of the Birchwood Prisoner

 

 

Notice how Temperance wears long flowing gowns from another century and nobody comments.  It's that sweet face of hers.

Trott, the Serial Killer currently in jail as the Frozen Hearts Killer will be released because another similar crime was committed while he was in jail.

Nancy is determined to find a way to nail down his guilt. She asks Temperance to go with her to the jail and create a shared vision with him to find answers.

What they find is a memory of ten year old Trott finding a strange trapped creature in a cage underground. The creature has long claw like fingers that he uses to catch and extract the hearts of small creatures (mice/rats litter the floor).  Fascinated by this thing, he says he does not bring it any creatures to feed on and he did not release it from its cage. He merely watches it.

The Creature is the same "Man in a Hat" that attacked Nancy in an earlier episode.  She's seen him near the scene of the death of several teens.

At the end of Trott's memory, Temperance pushes Nancy away to get more information from Trott.  She also seems to have caused him to have a stroke.

 

Elsewhere, Ace was caught on camera picking up Bertram Bobbsey, the Bobbsey family patriarch recently released from prison at a Cannery.  That night, when he saw Bertram's knuckles were all bloody, he kicked him out of his car, unwilling to have anything to do with a crime.

Now Ace is charged with aiding Bobbsey in that crime. Ace also had passed out some chocolates for Bobbsey which were tied to drug transactions.

Carson tries to tell Ace to go to the police and tell him everything he knows, but instead Ace grabs the laptop with the screenshot and the drug packages and runs.

In a confrontation at the local library, there's a drug bust and the police arrive to save Ace just in time, led by Ace's former policeman father.

In an argument between father and son, Ace slips out a comment on his father's hidden son just as his mother walks out of the library.

Ace's father is furious having to face this with Ace's mother and kicks Ace out of the house. Now.

Elsewhere, George confronts the father who left her behind as a baby because he didn't want to feel trapped.  George's father looks just her age, so it's awkward.  He's played by Osric Chau, Kevin Tran from Supernatural!  He's way too young.

It was quite emotional for both of them, even so.

Previews for next week have The Drew Crew looking for the Creature's Lair.  Or at least the cage he was held in.

Way outta here theory of the week is Temperance kept the Creature and released the Creature.  Why remains to be seen.