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Keen Eddie
Sucker Punch
Season 1, Episode 5
Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
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Eddie and Pippin are staking out an illegal fight club. Eddie is a bit worried about Pippin’s virtue so he goes in first. It looks like he might be in a little over his head, though, when he’s immediately dragged into the ring with a brute twice his size. Aaaand… he’s down. Downed by the man with a Union Jack tooth.
Back at the apartment, Eddie learns that Nigel has been promoted and will be moving to New York with Fiona ASAP. Thrilling? Perhaps. But now Eddie’s got to find a new flatmate. Pippin’s friend Audrey is going to help him.
Miss Moneypenny has the results on Union Jack dental work: it has to be Jimmy Fishkin. Nathaniel breezes in and makes fun of Eddie’s bruised face, and Eddie in turn makes fun of the fact that Nathaniel never goes out in the field. Them’s fighting words where he comes from, evidently.
Eddie and Pippin go to track down Jimmy Fishkin at his place of residence. Despite a valient effort on his family’s part, Jimmy does not escape. He’s not the brightest crayon in the box. Eddie just wants Jimmy to give up his bosses, though he claims he doesn’t know who runs the fights. He finally confesses to know one name: Gary Singer, his manager.
Eddie arrives home and has an unfortunate accident with a pen cap dropping between a half-naked sleeping Fiona and the couch. And now he has another bruise to add to his face. She’s got moving men in to look at the place. She and Eddie both seem a bit reluctant to talk about the move. Fiona is nervous about how she’ll do in New York and Eddie reassures her a bit, but he doesn’t seem to want her to make that decision.
But she has, and he has to move on. He starts that movement by answering a bunch of inane questions put to him by Audrey, geared towards finding his “perfect roommate.” He’s saved by Jimmy calling and letting him know that there’s a fight tonight. He meets up with Gary and Mr. Fu. They immediately know he got caught by the cops. Gary threatens Jimmy with a breach of contract suit for consorting with the police. It doesn’t look good for Jimmy.
Nathaniel’s suffering from low self-esteem so he goes to Miss Moneypenny and asks her to reassure her that he’s not hanging back too much. He’s not convinced, so he decides to make himself more visible in the public’s eyes. He goes out on the fight club raid with Pippin and Eddie. Him and a tv crew, that is.
Unfortunately it’s a bit of a bust when he bursts in and finds the warehouse empty. Jimmy must have tipped his bosses off. They put an arrest warrant out on Jimmy and go to see his family. They tell them where Jimmy is and they all troop off to find him. And Eddie finds himself in yet another fight against Jimmy’s fist.
The next day the cops put a tail on Jimmy and follow him, Nathaniel and all, to what they think is another fight. However, it’s Jimmy’s other great talent at work: musical theater. Jimmy is rehearsing for a play.
They take him in to see if they can turn him back to their side. Eddie tells Jimmy that he shouldn’t have to bear the burden of his entire family, that they could get jobs for themselves. Jimmy promises that he’ll tell them the location of the next fight. Soon he’s back in front of Gary and Mr. Fu, and it all starts again.
Fight club take two: Eddie, Pippin, and Nathaniel burst in and take down the house. Jimmy gets to go free and has the chance to star in his play.
The next day Eddie watches Fiona get in a taxi and drive away with Nigel, and then his “perfect roomate” shows up. His name is Roger and he’s a pilot. He’s basically a carbon-copy of Eddie and Eddie is intrigued. Not just intrigued, but basically in love. However, Fiona takes that opportunity to come back in, having changed her mind, and kick Roger unceremoniously out. Looks like she’s here to stay. And Eddie really doesn’t seem to mind.
There wasn’t really much to this episode, case-wise. Jimmy didn’t do much beyond playing the basic informant, but I don’t think that was really important. We got to see another side of Nathaniel, though he still seems infinitely more comfortable sitting behind his desk. On the other side, Eddie and Fiona’s friendship/sexual tension seems even more set in stone.
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