Yeah, it’s A Lot.
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The theme of this installment is, like the episode title tells us, “new beginnings.”
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It’s all about fresh starts.
You know, like the woman who wants to look 15 years younger after a breakup.
The shark fares much better.
It too is on its way to a fresh start when it runs into some problems.
Only instead of a facelift, the tiger shark is being released back into the wild.
So, it’s more of a “salt water” start, if you will.
That’s some ocean humor for you, you’re welcome.
Its trainer currently has his arm down its throat.
It’s not a great time, is what I’m saying.
So what do our friends do?
They hang that shark off the front of their firetruck and they get it to the water.
It’s likeFree Willy, but instead of a friendly whale, it’s a deadly shark.
A very different movie, but heartwarming nonetheless.
His name is Stevie, he’s not hurt but his dad did something bad, he says.
It’s all a big misunderstanding and everything is totally fine.
Better safe than sorry, always.
Just like Maddie, Athena leaves feeling unsettled.
She needs some answers.
Her first step is to listen to the 9-1-1 call that came in.
It’s weird because Stevie told Athena that it’s just him and his dad in the house.
Something is going on hereand we know what it is.
We see Stevie’s dad keeping a little boy in a hidden room inside a wall.
Stevie realized something was wrong with “his new brother” and was trying to do the right thing.
Unfortunately, the cops haven’t figured any of this out yet.
They pull prints and discover that Stevie is not Stevie.
He’s a boy named Jacob who has been missing for six years.
This man’s done this twice now.
This guy is an idiot, you know why?
Another train pulls up to the station and bam Athena Grant jumps out.
“This right here is your stop!”
she yells before the guy is taken down and she holds the two boys.
She saves the day!
They come to the station and he shakes their hands.
Oh, it is gutting.
Athena reminds him that this is a good thing, this is his fresh start.
Fingers crossed for that little dude!
Athena needs that reminder at the moment because right now as we speak, her parents are in town.
Athena’s dad Samuel seems innocuous, but her mother Beatrice is a Pill.
Michael is right to warn Bobby.
Beatrice is tough on Athena.
She’s mad that she didn’t know her daughter was dating Bobby, let alone engaged to him.
She’s mad that Bobby is already trying to act like a stepdad to her grandchildren.
She’s mad that her daughter is a cop.
Yeah, that bad.
Even after Athena saves the day with her case, Beatrice won’t apologize.
Athena won’t apologize either.
She loves her life.
She loves her job and the family that she’s built.
They part on terrible terms.
There is no starting over here.
Apparently, Maddie doesn’t get a fresh start either, no matter how hard she might try.
There is one problem, of course, which we already know about.
When we last saw him, he was sitting outside of her place just waiting.
His move was a little more complicated than simply confronting Maddie.
Well, Maddie dating someone else isn’t going to fly with Doug.
Just as Chimney is arriving at Maddie’s, she gets a call from her lawyer.
They couldn’t serve Doug with divorce papers because they can’t find him.
Now Maddie knows something is up.
Then he walks right into Maddie’s apartment and before she can even react he knocks her out.
Hey, remember when our biggest problem was just your average tiger shark in the middle of the freeway?
Can we go back to that?
