Episode 1 of Eye Candy premiered last night and we’re here to recap its debut for you!
Sara and her cutie, sitting in a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G!! But the kissing and cuddling is cut short as another young lady pulls up and yells for Sara to get into the car. Dragging herself away from her teenage Romeo, Sara reluctantly climbs in and the two girls drive off.
In the car the two fight and bicker with each other about how Sara is choosing to live her life and we get pretty quickly that that these two are sisters. Although they may not be the closest of siblings it seems as though Lindy may have been the one looking out for Sara for quite some time. Maybe even before the passing of their mother…
After a little more reluctant heart-to-heart in the car, Lindy decides it’s time to take a pit stop and insists that they go and get her sister fed. Sara exits the car to go use the restroom and as the catchy pop music fades away you realize tension is building and something unsavory may be about to happen.
As Lindy pulls into the most narrow drive through in the history of the world, Sara, finished with her bathroom break, stands under the awning waiting for her sister to drive around.
But before Lindy reaches her turn in line, a mysterious van pulls up behind her sister and some unknown person grabs the girl from behind and pulls her away.
Sara puts up a fight and Lindy struggles to climb out of her car any way she can, but by the time she’s wormed her way out of the backseat window and climbed over the cars in front of her, it’s too late.
She’s watched her very own sister be kidnapped right in front of her face.
From there, things fade to black and we get a title card telling us we are now three years in the future.
Lindy sits in a room taking to a woman about how she understands the unfairness of having someone taken from you. But you can tell this isn’t some typical run of the mill therapy session. As Lindy asks questions about the young woman who has gone missing, virtual text bubbles and imagery start to float around Lindy’s head.
This isn’t a group therapy session of any kind; they’re actually speaking to each other through cyberspace. But before Lindy can reach into the computer to gather more clues about the missing Julia Becker, she’s snapped out of her hacker zone by George – friend and fellow IT colleague.
He knocks her out of her daze and warns her that she can only get away with doing her ‘charity work’ while on the job, for so long. Eventually she’s going to be caught and the bosses won’t be too pleased.
Lindy only stays at work long enough to recruit George into helping her track down information on the above-mentioned Julia and then she takes off on a covert meeting of some sort.
But before we learn where Lindy is headed, we get a look at what Julia Becker has actually been up too.
We find her through the eyes of stranger – a man who has arrived at her door ready to take her out on a date. Through his internal monologue we learn that the two met over the Internet and that this clearly isn’t his first foray into online dating.
His voice is haunting and his perspective warped. The man becomes obsessed with the tiniest of flaws he finds with her teeth and he launches into an internal tirade about how everyone online are liars and fakes.
It only takes a few minutes to understand that this is the villain of our show and he’s finding his victims by stalking their online profiles.
Eventually, Lindy arrives at her hidden destination – the parole office – where she’s scheduled to have her ankle monitor removed. Unfortunately though, a guy named Ben is discharging her. Someone she clearly has a past with.
You can see the heaps of both romantic, and just plain regular tension, between the two – which probably has something to do with the fact that Ben is the one who got Lindy arrested in the first place. Of course that had to be sometime after he hit on her at a club and they cozied up together…
Basically, stamp ‘it’s complicated’ over their heads and you get the picture.
Free from under the thumb of the law, Lindy goes to check in with her best friend and roommate Sophia. They celebrate with shots, bemoan having to see Ben, and make plans to meet up later that night.
Lindy then returns home to continue her investigation on Julia Becker. Though Lindy may not know where Julia has gone to, we the audience do. The camera pans away to a random street where Julia’s lifeless body lays. A cold and morbid site to behold.
When we return, it’s nighttime and Lindy and Sophia have met back up. As they walk along to their destination, Sophia insists that Lindy start putting herself out there more and enter back into the dating scene. In fact, she’s already created an online dating profile for her partner in crime.
Dubbing her ‘Eye Candy’ on the Tinder-like dating site Firtual, Sophia reluctantly drags Lindy into the modern world of dating.
The two girls enter their destination. Which is a completely amazing club that Sophia apparently owns. They then meet up with Connor, who has a mutual dislike thing going on with Lindy, but they’re both willing to stick it out for Sophia. Lindy spends her night burning through guys she finds on Flirtual, but as she goes to leave for the night a detective Callia stops her.
He seems to be completely aware of all the illegal behaviors she’s been up to lately, but must be lacking sufficient proof. Because rather than bringing her in, he simply warns her that regardless of whether or not Ben loves her, he’ll do his job.
As Lindy walks home she gets a text message from an unknown number. It looks like Julia Becker’s attacker has a new victim in his crosshairs and Lindy realizes for the first time that someone is watching her every move.
The following morning she, Connor, and Sophia devise a plan for her to lure the Firtual stalker in through a series of dates. Sophia recruits Ben as well and the three unlikely partners watch over Lindy as she meets up again with the dates from the previous night. Hacking each man’s phone, trying to collect leads.
As she parts from her final date of the night, Lindy realizes she’s picked up the wrong phone. Tracing its location through her own bug, she’s lead back to a dead body and the stalker threatens her with another text.
From there Ben and Tommy bring Lindy into the cyber crime unit and she shares what information she’s managed to collect on the mysterious serial killer. Shaken up, Ben takes her home and insists on spending the night to look after her. The two dance around each other for a while but end up reconnecting with flirty flirty roof sex on top of her apartment building.
Everything builds to a head the following night.
At work, Lindy’s office computer gets hacked and she’s sent footage of Sophia walking around in their apartment. She calls Ben for help and then Sophia to warn her, but soon realizes this must be old footage because her friend is at her club.
Lindy races to her apartment to warn Ben of the trap, but it’s too late. Ben has been taken and a video message from the man waits for her. Telling Lindy not to come looking for him.
Realizing he’s on the same roof where they spent the previous night together, she ignores the warning and runs upstairs only to find him tied up with his throat slashed.
Tommy is seconds behind her and drags the kicking and screaming Lindy away.
The episode closes with Lindy sitting on a park bench with the killer’s voice laid over top. “I had to kill Ben. You’ll understand one day,” he says. Promising Lindy that they’re just getting started.
‘Eye Candy’ Music Guide : ‘K3U’
Tanya Batt – “Secret Doors And Passageways”
Sohn – “Bloodflows”
Until The Ribbon Breaks – “A Taste Of Silver”
The Highfields – “Never”
Alesso – “Tear the Roof Up”
Northeast Party House – “Embezzler”
Saint Motel – “My Type”
Joe Banfi – “Future”
Zola Jesus – “It’s Not Over”