Gracepoint episode 3 answered the mystery surrounding Mark’s whereabouts on the night of Danny’s murder and opened a whole new can of worms.
Poor Beth. As if learning that your son is dead wasn’t bad enough, just a few days later you have to find out that your husband has been cheating on you! This is the worst week ever.
Our Gracepoint recap breaks down the events of episode 3, including Mark’s no good, very bad day.
The storyline begins with Mark entering his son’s bedroom, a crime scene, where he discovers Danny crying in the closet. Oh wait, it was just a dream. Damn, that would’ve been a twist! Dad’s day would’ve been decent if he was actually alive.
The investigation
Next, Carver and Ellie meet at the edge of the cliff where Danny allegedly fell. She’s still hung up on the unimaginable: That Carver could actually think Mark is a suspect. He eloquently reminds her that the evidence certainly looks that way (notice how they’ve been getting ruder and ruder to one another?).
At Danny’s house – where Beth is apparently checking in on a baby bump! – Mark enters the bathroom and texts his friend to create an alibi for his whereabouts the night of the murder. In his interview that morning, Mark tells the detectives he was with Vince – his sparkling new alibi – the night Danny died, and explains why he was at the rental place on the cliff. Carver isn’t buying it however, and to Ellie’s dismay suggests he made the alibi up “overnight” (he’s right!).
Mud is discovered on Mark’s boat after he tells them that he owns one (did he really forget to clean it?). To make matters worse, rental home cleaner and generally-creepy-woman Susan claims that Mark never borrowed the keys from her like he claimed in his interview.
Vince is next to speak to the cops and gives lots of details about his dinner with Mark, but it all falls apart when his mother claims she went out to get him cough medicine that night.
Mark’s brought back in for questioning and claims the blood on the boat was from Danny — but it happened during a fishing trip a couple weeks ago. Carver, angry as always, arrests him for obstructing the investigation.
Carver then interviews Ellie’s son, who clams up when he’s asked about Danny’s relationship with his father. Then, evidence of Mark’s violent behavior begins to mount when Ellie’s son reveals Danny had spoken about physical abuse.
And then, finally, a little breakthrough: At Chloe’s suggestion, Gemma goes into the police station to reveal that it was she who was with Mark the night of Danny’s murder. It turns out that they were sexually involved with each other that night.
They let Mark go thanks to this new information, but now Beth is suspicious of her husband. She questions him in bed, but he bizarrely doesn’t say “no” to the question of whether or not he killed Danny.
Instead, he leave the house and goes to meet with his lover. He chalks it up to a “stupid, terrible mistake,” but she calls it “anything but.” They start making out, just as Beth walks up to the scene and witnesses the infidelity. Meanwhile, Carver calls Chloe to ask about the source of the cocaine (viewers know it’s her boyfriend).
At the end of the episode, forensics discovers a phone number left in the jacket Danny died in. Carver begins to search for the phone number’s owner, but the episode ends there. (Hint: It’s not the psychic’s number, despite having similar digits.)
Elsewhere…
– Beth invites the priest over to talk about the dramatic day, and the two briefly touch hands. Is a relationship brewing? Especially now that Beth knows Mark is cheating?
– Carver meets with his doctor about his recent medical issues, and the doc advises the detective that he needs to stop stressing himself out over the case. Carver doesn’t want to listen because he’s set out to right his wrongs from his previous detective work. He wants to get out of Gracepoint, so he says, because he hates the people, air, everything.
– Beth decides to accept a message from Danny via the creepy psychic. “Danny wants you to know he’s okay, he’s not in pain,” he says. “He says he was on a boat and he says don’t look for who killed him because he knew this person well. And he doesn’t want you to be upset.” Does this psychic really know something? He appears to have been kind of right about the boat.
– Journalist Renee tries to get Owen to help her out with the investigation in exchange for sharing bylines, by he won’t have it. There’s a lame moment where Owen is unable to withdrawal money from his bank account just as Renee suggests that working for her paper could open up new opportunities. The timing was too perfect.
Renee pushes forward anyway with her investigation, trying to interview Vince, but she hits that I-won’t-talk-to-the-press-wall again.
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