Memory of a Killer Season 1 Episode 7 Reminds Us the Ferryman Is Always Three Steps Ahead

Critic’s Rating: 4.3 / 5.0

4.3

Oh, brother.

Angelo is in BIG trouble, but at least he now knows the police are closing in on Henry Bloch’s killer, even if it may be too late for him to fix things.

At least he’s not completely in the dark, though it may be too late for him to clean up his mess.

As Memory of a Killer’s first season nears its conclusion, I am focused on whether Angelo can possibly escape his predicament. And if not, what direction the show could take if renewed.

I want Angelo to find a way to kill the Ferryman, eliminate his enemies, and avoid jail.

But I don’t see a path forward for him, especially considering his health.

Memory of a Killer Season 1 Episode 7 was all about Angelo looking to the past to try to make sense of what was happening in his present through the Dr. Parks murder, and I’m shocked this seems to be one of the first times Angelo delved deeper into one of his jobs.

I guess in theory, an efficient hitman doesn’t have the room to look beyond the job at hand, but if you’re standing across from someone, ready to kill, and they tell you that you were lied to, you’d think that would be something that would stick with you.

And it did stick with Angelo, but we’re now far removed from that killing, making it even harder for Angelo to now retrace his steps.

This show tends to just drop information on you without much detail. Or they drop little crumbs along the way and hope we’re all able to retain everything as the episode flies by.

We’ve never even been fully briefed on Angelo and Dutch’s complete history, whether Dutch has a boss, or exactly how he gets the jobs he then passes to Angelo.

One of my issues with the series thus far is that they’ve crafted this supremely complicated and emotionally rich character in Angelo, while the secondary cast falls extremely flat.

None of them are interesting outside of their connection to Angelo, and because of that, it’s tough to feel attached to any of these characters.

Of everyone, Dutch has the most potential, but often, he’s relegated to giving Angelo orders or swooping in to take his place as Angelo’s savior. It’s so obvious that he can still not be trusted, and his reaction to Angelo’s very real concerns only proved it further.

If they have some kind of hitman code about not hitting civilians, then finding out they may have done just that would have me sounding the alarms, because it’s very possible that whoever ordered the hit could have gotten them in big trouble.

Dutch’s nonchalance was infuriating, but I should have realized he was just faking the funk because he has his own secrets he’s keeping from Angelo.

Now, this random lady showing up, Gilchrist, who’s apparently running for Congress or in Congress, was equal parts scary and frustrating.

She refused to answer any of Dutch’s questions and just wanted to dole out threats, which should have set off all kinds of red flags for Dutch, but he’s also straddling the fence.

He’s lying to Angelo, sure, but it’s not as if he’s trying to deliver him to Gilchrist on a silver platter.

He’s got his own agenda, just like Gilchrist clearly has hers, and Angelo has his.

Angelo was on a mission to remember everything he could about the hit on Parks, and I’m glad that he felt like Joe was someone he could trust at this point, even if, theoretically, he has no one else.

Joe’s proven himself to be an asset, not a liability, and do I believe he can be fully trusted? Probably not, but if Angelo wants to track down the Ferryman, there are certain things Joe is capable of that will help him to do that.

When I can’t find my earbuds, I also retrace my steps, so it was relatable to see Angelo walk around the now-abandoned lab, trying to see if he’d missed anything.

We got way more details about what happened during this hour, and I wonder whether the flashbacks we saw before were just Angelo misremembering, or if the show simply didn’t go into enough detail before.

When Angelo went to see Wesley and gave him that tracker to put into his next set of Ferryman bullets, you knew Wesley was a dead man.

Angelo’s very inconsiderate at times, which isn’t a surprise, obviously, given he kills people for a living, but Wesley had done everything he asked, and he even said he was looking to get out of the business.

But here goes Angelo setting him up.

His death was the least surprising thing this show has ever done, and if this doesn’t wake Angelo up to the fact that the Ferryman is three steps ahead of him, then what will?

He’s still spending time with Nicky, and I want to think it’s because he’s still trying to figure out how she fits into everything, but I’m genuinely not so sure anymore. Is it possible he’s had a change of heart after she didn’t fall for his very obvious setup during Memory of a Killer Season 1 Episode 6?

Speaking of Nicky, she’s diabolical.

If sparking up a little friendship with Maria wasn’t bad enough, planting little seeds of doubt in Angelo takes the whole cake.

Angelo’s got so many different things happening right now, but one of the first things he should do is put a camera up in his house so he can start monitoring himself.

As he gets treatment, and if he does start to see any signs of the disease slowing down, these tapes could prove vital in helping him see if there’s a trigger to his lapses or anything like that.

I’m not sure if that would be something even remotely helpful or suggested by professionals, but I also need him to do it so he can see how much Nicky has been playing him.

Now that we know for sure that she’s doing all this because she’s in debt to the Ferryman, I must admit I’m super confused about how she was brought into this plan, because she and Angelo seemingly met by accident.

It’s not like she bumped into him on the street and then wormed her way into his life. He went to her club on Memory of a Killer Season 1 Episode 1, something she could have never known he’d do, and then they connected.

So, did the Ferryman approach Nicky after finding out she was hooking up with Angelo? And what did he have over her to make her commit all kinds of crimes?

This is just one of the questions I had as the hour went on.

Perhaps the biggest question I had was, Earl just being in Maria’s home, because what the hell? I don’t want to hear he had a legitimate job and blah blah blah because it was so far-fetched, I assumed it was a hallucination the entire time the scene was playing out.

What I think we can currently gather is that Earl is connected to the Ferryman, and that Leah’s death was maybe not just a drunk driving incident. Right?

I’m supposed to believe Earl, Nicky’s Ferryman contact person, hasn’t somehow been a part of this whole thing from the jump? I was born at night, but not last night, or whatever!

Maria had to deal with almost being killed, and now she had to deal with her mother’s killer chilling in the sanctuary of her nursery? She’s been through hell and back, I swear.

Something I just thought, and I don’t know why it’s taken me so long to hone in on this, but everyone and their mother is hunting for Bloch’s murderer. But why are they not searching for the person who hired Bloch?

Is the thought process here that the killer will lead them to finding who hired Bloch? Like Bloch was killed by the person who hired him for botching the job.

That MUST be it, because you find the person who kills him, and then what? What if it puts you no closer to finding out who the hell hired him and almost killed Maria in broad daylight?

Dave’s a little dry, but he means well, and he’s now got a very clear reason to suspect Angelo may have had something to do with Bloch’s murder. And the question now becomes what he’s going to do about it.

Dave’s very obviously still smitten with Maria, so no part of him wants to break her heart, but he also seems like a pretty by-the-book cop.

I assume the subsequent hour will involve Dave definitively identifying Angelo as a suspect, but will he actually arrest Maria’s father? Or will he warn Angelo, and maybe the two of them can track down the Ferryman together?

With only three episodes left, the central question remains: how will Angelo navigate the chaos and danger closing in?

All I know for sure is, you’re in trouble, Angelo.

Killer Notes

• Joe’s dad was so rude! I’m glad Angelo put him in his place because who even calls their son stupid to a total stranger?

• So many people on this show are so scary. That doctor is “helping” Angelo, knowing full well Nicky is out there with his medical records, doing God knows what.

• Where has Agent Grant been? Imagine if she knew about the fibers and the button. Angelo would already be in jail.

So, at this point, who do you think the Ferryman is? I think I still need some more information before I make an educated guess.

This was another strong hour, and as the walls continue to close in on Angelo, I am seriously questioning how he figures his way out of this mess.

Let me know in the comments below your thoughts on this one, and what you think is ahead this season!

You can watch Memory of a Killer on Mondays at 9/8c on Fox.