Goodness, so much happened in this episode that it felt like War & Peace, except with a real live jazz band tucked in it. The omission of the latter has been universally acknowledged as that masterpiece’s greatest failing. So let’s get started, shall we?
We open with some dude in a bowler hat, getting out of jail! No, it’s not Charlie Chaplin. No, it’s not the little guy from the Monopoly board game. Why, it’s Bates, you silly cows! And who should be waiting for him but Anna? “Thank God,” she exclaims. Yes, thank God that dull plotline is over and done with.