BWW Recap: Depictions of 'Afflictions' on RESURRECTION!

With Halloween being two nights ago, I was under the impression that, just like most other shows, RESURRECTION would have a holiday-centric episode. Clearly I was wrong. Despite the lack of All Hallow's Eve and my initial disappointment, this week's RESURRECTION proved to be plenty spooky and satisfying. Finally we're getting some answers, but at the same time, due to all of the drama, we're getting more questions too.

Apparently the Elegant Woman was involved in some sort of airplane crash and has a yen for Citrus Fizz soda. She gets a call from Bellamy who is in the middle of heaving and coughing to tell her he's sick. He ends up passing out on a nasty bathroom floor.

Maggie's back at her place distraught over Bellamy's disappearance. Elaine comes over to make sure she's ok and to tell her about Barbara and Margaret's meeting and the fact that Barbara basically vanished into thin air. Maggie then goes over to Lucille and Henry's to find Margaret. She comes home with Jacob and is immediately questioned by Maggie. Margaret lies and acts like she has no clue what happened to Barbara. I'm pretty sure Margaret is a sociopath because she shows no remorse whatsoever.

Bellamy wakes up in a government facility and learns he has "the virus," which is described as a mutated form of the Spanish Flu and is contagious but only among The Returned. There isn't exactly a cure, but there's an experimental treatment. Bellamy asks to see the Elegant Woman but is told he can't because he'll start bleeding out of his eyes and ears and his skin will turn blue. What the smurf?! (Get it? Smurfs are blue). Bellamy doesn't care and demands to see her anyway.

Henry is back at the factory and gets a flood of memories. It seems like he's going forward with his plans to rebuild the business. After Jacob questions if he'll be around long enough to take over the company, Henry tells him "no one can predict the future. But that doesn't mean that we should live as if we won't have one. We have today. We have right now and we hope for tomorrow." In my opinion, this was so perfectly put and absolutely applicable to life. By far one of the greatest things said on this show thus far. Henry meets a man outside the factory who is hoping to buy the property. However, Henry isn't looking to sell and tells him he's in the process of rebuilding the business back up.

Bellamy, still in the hospital, gets a visit from the Elegant Woman despite the threat it has on his life. She explains that they think a Returned brought the virus back from the 1900s. So far they've lost 66 to the virus, which has a 23% survival rate. Despite the low chance of beating the virus, the Elegant Woman tells him that it's important to continue to retrieve data about the virus itself as well as how the Returned respond to the treatment. We find out that she, in fact, is a statistician. Ehh pretty anticlimactic if you ask me. When Bellamy is getting his treatment shot, the Elegant Woman notices a birthmark on his back. She then has a flashback to a crying mother who has lost her son who "has a birthmark in the shape of a crescent." Then the Elegant Woman just leaves the room. Ok bye, Felicia.

Jacob and Margaret go to Elaine's café...clearly Margaret has ulterior motives. She tries to convince Elaine that she wasn't there with Barbara last night and in the process, creeps/scares the hell out of her.

Maggie shows up at the precinct to tell Fred about Barbara's disappearance. She then explains the whole situation about Elaine and Margaret. Poor Maggie is clearly extremely high-strung and is in desperate need of a break. She looks at a picture of her parents on her father's desk and starts hyperventilating but collects herself by the time Fred comes back with her tea.

Back at the hospital, Bellamy seems to being somewhat better. He lures a government agent into his room and sticks him with a needle, causing the man to pass out. He then takes his badge and breaks out of the room. He makes his way down to L2 where the Elegant Woman works. He sneaks into an office and takes a look at a white board, which looks like it came straight out of THE BIG BANG THEORY. He then takes a look at another board full of newspaper clippings about various airplane crashes. Finally, he finds his own Returned file sitting on the desk, which includes his real name - Robert Thompson- and the fact that he is a Double Returned. Uh oh, double trouble!

Fred surprises Margaret back at the house and demands she tell him what happened last night with Barbara. He knows she's been lying the whole time she's been back. No s**t, Sherlock! She blames Barbara for breaking up the family and explains that she's only trying to fix that. Things get hostile and Margaret asks what Barbara ever did for Fred. After letting go of her arm, he replies, "she gave me Maggie." And thank God for that!

The Elegant Woman walks into her office, which is the office that Bellamy snuck into. Based on the nameplate on the wall, we have finally found out that her name is Angela Forrester. I understand why she didn't want to give her name before. I'd prefer Elegant Woman if I were her. Bellamy confronts her about not telling him all the information in the file. She claims she just pieced it together that morning. Bellamy gets angry because he's been "dead the whole time" but Forrester claims that he's "one lucky son of a bitch" because he's cheated death, twice. Bellamy asks to meet his birthparents (the Thompsons) and Forrester explains he already has. Cue flashback! Bellamy wants to see them but can't because they disappeared three days ago. Damn, give this guy a break for once! However, his sister, Jennie is actually in the hospital. Bellamy explains to her that her parents were sick and most likely aren't coming back. He promises that once everything is ok, he's going to take care of her. She doesn't know that Bellamy is her brother.

Bellamy is cleared for discharge and is given medicine to inject himself every 12 hours. He's only give a 10-day supply because that's all Forrester has. When asked about the obsession with all of the airplane crashes, she tells Bellamy it's just a hobby. Yeah, that's normal. It's actually because she was in one and Bellamy just doesn't know yet! She claims that she can predict things that people claim can't be predicted - when people are coming back, when they'll disappear, etc. Before Bellamy is released, he discovers his face has to be covered and he asks if it's really necessary. After it's covered and he's injected with something causing him to pass out, the government official claims "not anymore."

At the end of the episode, Jacob asks Margaret what happened to Barbara, to which she replies, "it was just time for her to go away." She claims she had to lie about it because regular people wouldn't understand. Bellamy returns to Maggie's and gives her the authority over the distribution over the treatment. Henry calls the man interested in getting involved with the factory, and we find out that his grandfather is a Returned. Clearly something bad is going to happen. Bellamy uses a cellphone tracker to track his cellphone that he left at the facility in order to find its location.

Who is going to expose Margaret and all of her lies? How many more Returned are going to disappear? What's going to happen to the Langston factory? Keep watching RESURRECTION on ABC to find out!

Photo Credit: Guy D'Alema | ABC

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