#kit nelson

Television of 2012:

Hello all it's time for another review of Alcatraz, this time for episode 3 titled "Kit Nelson". I'm assuming that the episodes are named after the criminals that show up in that particular episode and will continue to be that way until they capture all the prisoners. I seriously hope that the criminals have different stories, I can't just watch different criminals doing the same thing, that's just asking for the series death. I doubt, however, that they will show 302 episodes each devoted to just one criminal.

Anywho, last night I was preoccupied with some government/school stuff so I wasn't paying attention as I should have been. Quite a frustrating night. Bear with me.

The episode starts with a prisoner being beaten up by all his fellow inmates. Of course this is planned because the guards just look away, it's like they had nothing better to do than to stare at the walls.  At first I was like poor guy, then I realized the reason why he was being beat up. I could only imagine that either he was gay or that he was a pedophile. Pedophilia is regarded as the worst crime in prison. You mess with a kid and all the prisoners will be at your throat. The latter turned out to be somewhat true, Kit Nelson was a child murderer. Fast forward to our time and Doc hears about a missing 11 year old boy on his police scanner. I can only assume he has one because it gives him inspiration to write comic books, or he got one because of Alcatraz. Is that illegal? He runs off to tell Rebecca and Hauser, the old FBI jerk, because he recognizes Nelson's MO. He kidnapps a boy, leaves a Chrysanthemum on the bed, murders the child within 48 hours, and returns the body to the residence the following day.

It becomes creepier after that. I felt like I was watching an episode of "Criminal Minds", but that's the direction I feel that Alcatraz is heading to. Kit Nelson takes the boy fishing then decides to get in the water. He tells the boy to hold his head under water for as long as he could, then it was his turn. It is completely scary but at the same time I was wondering, is this some sort of game to him?

Back to 1960 and Nelson has recieved a visit from his estranged father. We learn that Nelson had a brother named Elliot and that he had supposedly died of scarlet fever, however his father suspects that Nelson did in fact murder his brother. Later on in the episode we learn that he did murder his brother after he was thrown into solitary confinement by the Warden. His brother also loved swimming and cherry pie. Nelson left his mother a chrysanthemum as a "consolation prize". What's more disturbing is that even though Elliot was the mother's favourite, she couldn't bear to lose 2 sons in one day. So she kept quiet and grew more and more afraid of her only child left.

Of course Doc discovers all this and decides to track the murderer on his own, after Hauser cancelled the Amber Alert. This is where I realized that Doc is my favourite character. That particular scene where he confronted Hauser, just shows how human Doc is, he doesn't care about catching the prisoner if that means losing the victim, in this case the child. Yea, Hauser you ain't human. Take that. I think I would be completely offended if someone said I was a robot, that would mean I'm void of all feelings. Clearly this didn't mean anything to Hauser, and made Doc more endearing.

Doc eventually confronts the murderer when he stops to have some cherry pie at the same diner that Doc was in. Rebecca came after and tried to stop him but he escaped, but not before Doc told the kid not to give up. Long ending short, the kid was ingenious and threw his shoe at a light bulb in order to escape. Rebecca and Doc came and were trying to talk him out of it, when it didn't seem like Nelson would ever give up, Hauser shot him. The kid was safe and Nelson's body was taken to Alcatraz's secret lair where the same doctor from 1960 was there to do the autopsy or whatever he does, while smoking and listening to some 50s music. Quite a hilarious scene for a disturbing episode.

Revelations: The same doctor from Alcatraz in 63' is in the present; Doc was also abducted as a child.