Earlier tonight, I watched the series premiere of Ringer on the CW. I thought the premiere was very good and will continue to watch the show in the future. I did take notes during the episode, but my summary may not be a completely accurate representation of the episode as this is the first time I've ever done this. Some of the names I have gotten from reviews and IMDB.
The episode started out with one of Sarah Michelle Gellar's characters running from and finding herself trapped by a mysterious man in black. We do not know which one she is yet, only that she is not the one that the man wants. Cue short intro. In the next scene, days earlier, Gellar's character Bridget Cafferty is at a meeting of recovering alcoholics. Bridget mentions that she is wanted dead and later in the episode I learned that this is because she is the sole witness in a murder trial. After the meeting, Bridget talks to a man, played by Nestor Carbonell (the never-aging Richard Alpert from Lost), who is her FBI agent.
Bridget flees to New York and reunites with her rich twin sister Siobhan Martin. For years, Bridget and Siobhan had been estranged. Siobhan even mentions that her husband, Andrew, has doesn't know that she has a twin sister. Having seemingly mended their relationship, the two sisters go on motor boat ride. After waking up from being drugged, Bridget finds that Siobhan has disappeared. All evidence points that her sister is dead. She finds Siobhan's wedding ring in a pill bottle and decides to take her sister's place because it is an opportunity to escape her own life.
Later in the episode, Bridget, now posing as Siobhan, goes to the opera with Andrew. While she is at the opera, Bridget notices that she is being watched. After the opera, Bridget is walking around in the building when she is taken aside and finds herself making-out with her best friend Gemma's husband Henry, who Siobhan was apparently having an affair with. I don't remember the exact details of their conversation. After the opera, Andrew notices that "Siobhan" has been different since she returned. "Siobhan" says that she doesn't want to play games, and Andrew remarks that he doesn't believe that she has really changed.
The next day we see Bridget at another AA meeting with her sponser Malcolm. She explains her situation vaguely and is told to take responsibility for her actions. When she returns home, she finds her step-daughter Juliet hooking up with an unnamed man. Bridget's FBI agent, whose name we learn is Victor Machado, comes looking for Bridget who has seemingly disappeared. Victor tells "Siobhan" that Bridget was arrested for prostitution and was the only witness of a murder. "Siobhan" makes it clear that she doesn't know where her sister is. After Victor leaves, "Siobhan" receives a call telling her that she is pregnant. OMG! This is very bad for Bridget because she is clearly not pregnant. Making things worse, Henry is there when "Siobhan" receives this phone call. Henry thinks that the baby is his since they had been having sex on a regular basis, and it very well could be since Siobhan and Andrew barely speak to one another.
Afterwards, "Siobhan" learns from Andrew that Juliet has been kicked out of boarding school for an undisclosed reason. They don't want to have Juliet around when the baby is born, but Juliet has no where else to go. Bridget goes looking for her best friend Gemma and finds herself being chased by an attacker. Bridget manages to shoot him and finds a picture of Siobhan in his pocket. Was she set up? In the closing scene, we see that Siobhan is still alive in Paris as she receives a mysterious phone telling her that "we have a problem".
There was a lot going on this episode that it was almost hard to keep up. Bridget clearly wasn't expecting the complications in Siobhan's life. She isn't any safer than she would be otherwise. I wonder what she's going to do now that she has killed a man and how she's going to deal with her not-so-little problem of not being pregnant. And did Siobhan know that Bridget was going to take her place when she decided to fake her own death? What about the affair between Siobhan and Henry? Will either Andrew or Gemma find out? I love the mystery of Ringer and can't wait until next week's episode.
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