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May 10, 2020 · Wicked Old World: Directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan. With Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, Kerry Bishé, Adriana Barraza. Tiago and Molly try escaping their complicated lives. Lewis interrogates a Cal-Tech student. Townsend and Alex's agenda is jeopardized by a Councilwoman.
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- Crime, Drama, Fantasy
- Sergio Mimica-Gezzan
- 2020-05-10
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Wicked Old World is the third episode of the first season of Showtime's Penny Dreadful: City of Angels and the third episode of the series overall.
Tiago and Molly visit Santa Monica Pier in an effort to escape their complicated lives. Livid at the murder of his friends, Lewis interrogates Brian Koenig, a young Cal-Tech student. Townsend and Alex's political agenda is jeopardized when Councilwoman Beverly Beck vows to fight them. Peter Craft discovers a dark truth when he visits Elsa at home. ...
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At the morgue, Lewis comes and sees the charred bodies of his friends Anton and Sam. He asks his friend Pat, the coroner, if they burned in the car crash. Pat confirms that the two men did indeed burn in the car crash, but shows Lewis the bullets he found lodged inside their skulls. Lewis asks Pat if he can pretend to have never seen those bullets just for a few days while he investigates it. Pat, for his part, says how he can’t lie on a report. Lewis explains how he’s not asking Pat to lie, but rather to temporize. Pat can temporarily lose the report and take his time finding it again as a favor for Lewis. He doesn’t wait for an answer, and instead walks out with the bloodied bullets in one hand. It’s not until he’s outside of the morgue that he cries. He rips part of the collar of his suit, gets on his knees and begins praying in Hebrew.
Later, at Maria’s house, she and Tiago are out in the yard. Her son asks when she has to go back to work. She tells him that it would be Sunday, when the Crafts need her for a party they’re having.
Inside the house, Mateo laughs as he recounts the story of how he met Fly Rico to a recovering Raul. Mateo mentions how Fly Rico stood there like fucking Pancho Villa and with a switchblade, that was like two feet long and made the cops pissed themselves. He calls Fly Rico so smooth and compares him to Fred Astaire. Raul asks his younger brother if now he wants to be a Pachuco. Mateo, for his part, just says that Fly Rico has pride. Raul is not convinced though and says that if they did have any pride, they would have stood with them down the street in the protest. Mateo changes the subject and asks Raul if he remembers the whole thing or even the police shooting at them. Raul admits that he doesn’t remember anything until the hospital. Mateo continues to prod and asks Raul if he doesn’t remember who shot him. Raul says no and jokes that it might have been Mateo by calling him a sketchy motherfucker. Mateo tearfully confesses that it was Tiago who shot him. Mateo then tells Raul that if he was a pachuco then, he would have slit Tiago’s throat for what he did. Raul grabs Mateo and tells him that Tiago is still his brother and he needs to respect him. He rhetorically asks his younger brother if he really thinks that Tiago wanted any of it to happen. Raul continues by saying how he’d rather be any fucking thing in this world than Tiago. Because in the end, he is not one them or one of the cops either. That he’s a cop, but also a Chicano and doesn’t know who the fuck he is. Raul finishes his speech to Mateo by asking him if he wants to see hell, to look in Tiago’s eyes for it. So ideally, he should be more kind to Tiago.
Once Mateo leaves, Tiago knocks on Raul’s door. Tiago asks his older brother how he is feeling, but Rail doesn’t answer. Instead, he grabs Tiago’s hand and places it near his heart.
At Town Hall, in a gym, Alex has began a dietary and exercise plan for Councilman Townsend, they discuss his schedule for the day, which includes the Rotary luncheon, a radio interview, and a zoning committee session with Via Hermosa Development. Townsend sees the newspaper that Alex is holding onto with him on the front page, detailing how he made a stand. He proudly boasts how it feels good to finally get the recognition he thinks he deserves. To which Alex reminds him that because he’s more in the public eye now, that Townsend will want to mind his Ps and Qs a bit. Since his life is more exposed, he needs to be cautious and not give ammunition to his enemies. Which to put simply mean that he needs to behave himself. Shortly thereafter, Councilwoman Beck comes to see Townsend and tries to make Alex leave so she can talk to him alone. Townsend stands his ground and says that Alex stays. Councilwoman Beck doesn’t fight this decision and gets right to the point. She calls the bloody cop shirt quite a stunt and commends Townsend for the creativity. She confronts him and says to Townsend that she has been knocking down piss-pot fascists like him since Townsend himself was at his mama’s titty. Councilwoman Beck further says that she’s not about to let him turn the Los Angeles City Council into his own Third Reich.
Starring
•Natalie Dormer as Magda •Daniel Zovatto as Tiago Vega •Kerry Bishé as Sister Molly Finnister •Adriana Barraza as Maria Vega •Jessica Garza as Josefina Vega (credit only) •Michael Gladis as Charlton Townsend •Johnathan Nieves as Mateo Vega •Rory Kinnear as Peter Craft •Nathan Lane as Lewis Michener
Guest Starring
•Santino Barnard as Frank Branson •Sebastian Chacon as Fly Rico •Christine Estabrook as Beverly Beck •Kyle McArthur as Brian Koenig •Rod McLachlan as Jimmy Reilly •Adan Rocha as Diego Lopez •Adam Rodriguez as Raul Vega •Dominic Sherwood as Kurt •Brent Spiner as Ned Vanderhoff •Thomas Kretschmann as Richard Goss •Amy Madigan as Miss Adelaide Finnister
Co-Starring
•Erik Altemus as Skip •Stephanie Arcila as Bernadette Romero •Scott Beehner as Frank Murphy •Christopher Darga as Coroner •David Figlioli as Randolph •Lindsay Musil as Nurse Laura •Benjamin Seay as Shooting Gallery Operator •Jordan Seigel as Band Leader
•Rio, the last of Magda's three major personas, makes her first appearance in this episode.
•This is the first episode in which all of Magda's major forms - her natural state, Alex, Elsa, and Rio - appear.
•Rio mentions that Los Angeles was in Mexico a mere 90 years before the series begins. She is referring to the Mexican Cession of 1848, in which the United States gained the Mexican territories of Alta California and Santa Fe de Nuevo Mexico, which included the entirety of the eventual states of California (including LA), Nevada and Utah, as well as parts of present-day Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Wyoming.
•Lewis directly quotes the title of this episode when telling Tiago that Sister Molly was having an affair with James Hazlett.
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Penny Dreadful: City of Angels episode 3, “Wicked Old World,” opens in the morgue, where Detective Lewis is once again skirting police procedure. It’s tough to draw the line on where...
Season 1 Episode 3: Wicked Old World Aired : May 10, 2020 Synopsis : Tiago and Molly visit Santa Monica Pier in an effort to escape their complicated lives.
May 13, 2020 · “Wicked Old World” treats us to a more emotional side of Detective Lewis Michener. Our opening scene has us entering the morgue, where Lewis is shown the corpses of his friends . At first glance, it appears that the cause of death was simply burning in a car crash, but the mortician shows that their skulls were actually riddled with bullets.
May 10, 2020 · The latest episode showed Lewis kidnapping the young man we saw talking to Goss in the previous episode. With two of Lewis’s friends being killed by Goss, it made sense that Lewis wanted answers. The scene where he hurt the young man and threatened to kill him was understandable. We all know that Lewis isn’t a killer.
May 10, 2020 · Townsend and Alex's political agenda is jeopardized when Councilwoman Beverly Beck vows to fight them. Peter Craft discovers a dark truth when he visits Elsa at home. Mateo visits the Crimson Cat dance hall and is invited into a seductive, dangerous new world.
