Kish: Ice Capades

The action continued today up on Llantano mountain, even though Fish didn't have a great deal to do. Oliver was still with Rex and Schuyler when the episode started, and Rex was refusing to help them look for the pregnant woman lost in the snow. Why? Well, Rex wanted to get to Gigi and tell her about all the naughty things Schuyler had done, you see, and also because Stacy and the baby were 'Schuyler's problem now'.

Never mind that the baby is Rex's son Shane's cousin, it also happens to just be an innocent child! It certainly wasn't Rex's finest moment. In fact, it made me kind of hate him.

After Balsom had run off to find his Morasco, Schuyler told Fish that they had to find Stacy. Oliver assured him that he wanted to find her just as badly and Schuyler wondered why Fish was so invested in the search. Joplin didn't seem to buy Oliver's declaration that he was a cop and it was his job, and was about to press for more of an explanation when the two were interrupted by the arrival of Kim and Marty. The women had come up the mountain together to find Stacy and John, respectively.

While Oliver showed Marty where John's vehicle had gone through the guardrail and assured her that he hadn't found any bodies inside, Schuyler told Kim that Rex knew the truth about the baby.

Kim and Marty wanted to help search, especially after Marty realized that the guys were giving priority to the search for Stacy, but Oliver refused to let two civilians put themselves in danger (I see his point, but what are Schuyler and Rex, then, trained professionals?) and ordered the two women to head back down the mountain, promising to call as soon as he knew anything.

After Schuyler and Fish left, Marty and Kim each decided to pay no attention to Oliver's orders, which Kim saw as sexist. Kim headed for the cabin, while Marty immediately spotted something no one else had, including the trained cop who'd been standing in the same spot for quite some time: smoke, which was coming from the chimney of John and Natalie's abandoned cabin.

While all that was happening, Gigi and Stacy had realized that something wasn't right with Oliver's new daughter, Sierra. The baby had become pale and was looking a bit blue around the lips. Gigi decided to bundle her new niece up and walk her down to the main road, so that they could get some help in getting her to the hospital.

Rather moronically, Gigi wrapped the baby up in a warm coat but left her otherwise naked. Now, I know Viki's cabin isn't going to be stocked up with baby clothes, but at least put the child in a couple of your own shirts or something before taking it out in the middle of a blizzard! Would you go out in a snowstorm wearing nothing but a coat, Gigi? This character is supposed to be a really good mother, too. Yikes.

Rex arrived at the cabin after Gigi had left and found Stacy, who told him about giving birth and about her sister trying to get the baby some help. After Rex went out to look for Gigi, Kim showed up and she and Stacy had a nice reunion. I really do love their friendship! I hated Stacy before Kim showed up, but Amanda Setton's awesome performance has me loving Kim, and has actually made me start to like Stacy Morasco, somehow, which I would have said was impossible.

Gigi, meanwhile, was walking through the snow, frequently stopping to unbundle and look at baby Sierra, which meant exposing her naked torso to the elements. Gigi was a bit turned around in all the whiteness and, after slipping on some ice under the snow, came to the horrifying realization that she'd ended up in the middle of the frozen lake.

Instead of very carefully making her way back to the banks of the lake, which weren't really that far, Gigi decided to carry on walking across the middle of the ice, telling the baby about a book she'd read as a kid about the pioneers crossing frozen lakes in their wagons.

Oh, Gigi. Remember when she was a strong, smart single mother? Where did that Gigi go? I really liked her. How is it possible that I now like Stacy more than Gigi?!

At any rate, the ice began to crack beneath her feet and she froze in terror as Rex showed up on one side of her and Fish and Schuyler on the other.

That was all for this week, but what a week it was for Oliver! He saved Brody's life, survived an avalache, and became a father! Sadly, he lost his very cute hat in the process, but then that's life, isn't it? I wonder if Oliver will save the day again on Monday? He'll probably have to, since Schuyler and Rex will most likely stop to fight over who should get to jump in and save Gigi! Someone should really tell those two to get a room already.