She Wants Her Baby, Dammit!

And Eleventh Hour is back after being bumped for March Madness. Sadly, it’s also the season finale, so enjoy it.

We open at the Ray Wynne Residence in Alexandria, VA. He is the Deputy Director of the FBI and introducing Hood at a big, fancy dinner. Outside, Rachel talks to a guy in a car while inside, Ray’s wife is getting ready. We see someone grab a gun while Hood admits to wearing a clip on tie. Ray’s wife calls him up while Hood calls Rachel, who is still standing outside. She says guy in car was reporting a prowler. And then Hood hears gunshots. Found the prowler! He and Rachel race to Ray’s room, sending his teen children back to theirs. They find a crazed woman asking for her baby. Rachel takes her down.

Outside, we learn her name is Sophia Lions and she was an FBI lab tech. Her no-good boyfriend left her while she was pregnant. Then she went insane, insisting the FBI had taken her baby and Ray was her lover. In the cop car, Sophia shows Hood an implant being used to give Sophia her drugs. She insists she is trying to remain sane and that she is telling the truth. She begs Hood to remember her. He doesn’t believe her. However, the implant makes him curious. He declares her dangerous as we tick to the credits…

We return to the Crystal Springs Recovery Center. It’s been a week since the opening, thank you, Rachel. Hood is still wondering about the implant, especially since he noticed a major anti-psychotic drug. He says that to use the implant, the patient has to give informed consent (the bane of House’s life on his show) and Sophia clearly couldn’t give that. They find Sophia at the pool, now a lot calmer. She asks the duo to forget the events of the week prior, claiming she wasn’t herself. She praises Ray, blames the no-good boyfriend and says the baby never existed. She goes to wash the chlorine out, giving Hood a view of her new implant. He asks for a hairbrush, so Rachel snoops. She comes up empty so Rachel sends her to Sophia’s room. Hood hands Sophia her sunglasses, wondering at Sophia’s pool privileges. She says it’s from agreeing to an implant.

Hood goes to talk to Sophia’s doctor. He praises Sophia’s progress. Hood asks about the implants and the doctor says it could be a lifesaver to many people. Hood doesn’t buy it but switches to Sophia’s drugs. He mentions the drugs may cause contracted pupils, but she had normal ones. This unnerves the doctor as Rachel and Hood make off with Sophia’s hairbrush.

Felix joins them in the lab, where Hood is studying Sophia’s hair for drug use history. Felix is impressed with the science. Meanwhile, the doctor tests Sophia’s eyes. As his back is turned, she lifts his keys. Back at the lab, Hood discovers that Sophia did in fact deliver a baby full term. Meanwhile, the mommy in question walks across the lawns as her doctor realizes he doesn’t have his keys. Hood looks at her drug use history, noting crystal meth and DXM (active ingredient in cough medicine). Together, they cancel out the anti-psychotic drugs. Hood believes that Sophia thinks she’s clinging to reality. She drives off as we tick to commercials…

Hood, Rachel and the doctor find Sophia’s stash. They question her roommate, Louella. Louella sides with Sophia. The others try to convince her Sophia is delusional then threaten her privileges to find Sophia. Louella doesn’t respond until Hood promises they want to help her friend. Louella says Sophia was going to catch the big man. Rachel and Hood go to Sophia’s apartment, breaking down the door. She isn’t there, but Hood smells bleach and battery acid. Hood recognizes the ingredients to build a bomb. Rachel calls Felix to secure the Wynne family. Ray orders the family to a weekend house—really a nice house in a gated community.

Rachel and Hood drive up. He asks to be able to drive, to give Rachel a break. She refuses, saying she let him drive once and never again. They arrive just as the house explodes. Rachel exits the car to see the family safe on the lawn. Sophia told them to get out, showing Rachel where the crazed woman went. Hood calls 911, waiting for someone to pick up. You know, the time I call 911, I didn’t even have to wait for a ring! Meanwhile, Rachel walks into a scene from a slasher flick. There is fog and deserted streets and nearly manicured lawns…and a crazed person with a crossbow. She shoots Rachel, which Hood notes immediately. As help arrives, he runs to find Rachel. Wynne regrets not pressing charges. Hood feels it was so the real story didn’t come out—Sophia had the baby and there is no no-good boyfriend except in her FBI file. Hood realizes that Sophia hasn’t lost touch with reality, Ray is making her loose her touch. Ray threatens to slap Hood in the mouth. Seriously? That’s something you do to a naughty toddler so they understand biting hurts and is not good. Not to a grown scientist.

Hood talks to Sophia, who has an injured Rachel. She says she will only deal with Hood and wants Ray punished and her baby back. She keeps Rachel as Hood pleads with her. We tick to commercials…

We return to a seedy hotel. Rachel is cuffed to the bed, screaming for help. But the other tenants are having a rowdy party, so no one hears her. Sophia brought Rachel painkillers for her leg and a WiFi phone, difficult to trace. Rachel is not in a good mood, announcing Sophia will go to jail. Sophia tries to make the agent more comfortable, but she’s in a lot of pain.

Back at the house, Felix finds Rachel’s gun and a crossbow. Wynne orders a search party and then tells Felix it was his crossbow. The Director shows up to comfort Ray. Ray complains about Hood, surprising the Director. Ray believes Hood will get Rachel killed. Felix says Hood left with the state police. He’s in what I assume is his house, watching his laptop. Oh, he’s in Sophia’s apartment as he takes her call. Sophia says she ix-nayed an abortion, but agreed to an adoption. But she changed her mind after her son was born. Next thing she knew, she woke up in her apartment without her son and missing 36 hours from her memory. Sophia says she’ll trade Rachel for her baby. She says if that doesn’t happy, someone will die. She ends the call by sending a picture of Rachel over.

Rachel is in a lot more pain so Sophia tries to offer more painkillers. Rachel refuses. Sophia tells her that Hood will get her baby back and they will have a new start. Rachel tells Sophia not to put too much hope in Hood’s ability to get her son. Sophia tells Rachel her baby’s weight but refuses to tell her his name, knowing she’d have to change it once she skips town. Rachel tries to reason with the woman.

Ray goes to talk to the Director with Rachel’s phone. He found Sophia’s fingerprints and notes the last call was to Hood. Ray feels Hood is in on it. The Director correctly points out that any agent would chase down his/her partner. Ray spins it so that Hood does in fact sound like the Big Bad Wolf. Felix takes a call from Hood, who is on a pay phone. He needs Felix’s help to track down the kid. Ray comes in to announce that Hood is a person of interest in Rachel’s case. He reminds the agents that Hood is not sworn in and is not one of them. He orders them to get Hood so he pays for betraying Rachel. Hood hangs up, angrily.

Felix meets Hood in an internet café. He assures the scientist no one followed him and then tries to convince Hood to come with him to the Bureau. Hood says no thanks and dismisses Felix if that’s all he’s going to do. Felix pulls up a chair to view…Maya Wynne’s MySpace page. Namely, her brother and father’s pictures. They both have a yellow-tinge to the whites of their eyes. Hood believes the condition would’ve been passed to Sophia’s son.

In the hotel room, Rachel tries to reach the phone while Sophia snorts some meth. Sophia comes out, thinking Hood called. She tells Rachel to call her if the phone rings. Felix schmoozes with the receptionist at the National Institute for Health. He pretends to be working on a case. She finds one with the syndrome Hood mentions and shows an adopted son in Virginia. However, Felix tells Hood the kid is in Carroll County, Maryland. Umm, wrong state there, Felix. VA=Virginia, MD= Maryland. Hood calls Sophia and asks that Rachel listens in. He gives her an address and mentions a diner with the worst pancakes in the world. The FBI moves on the address, which Rachel tells Sophia is a fake. But she knows the diner.

Sophia and Rachel pull up to the deserted diner. Hood rushes to cradle Rachel, calling Felix. He is stalking the baby’s adopted parents. Hood shows the video from Felix’s phone to Sophia, who watches her son. The FBI tracks down Hood while Sophia goes nuts. She wanted her son physically in her arms. Hood tells her to let her son remain with the adoptive parents to give them time to sort things out. She yells at him and he yells back to think of her son. She yells she wants him with her and then pulls the arrow out of Rachel’s leg, essentially allowing her to bleed to death. Sophia takes the phone and the car, but Hood finds a car with a screwdriver for a key. He loads Rachel into the car, trying to keep her with him. She tells him not to feel guilty if it doesn’t work out.

Hood races to the closest hospital, carrying Rachel into the emergency room. A team of doctors take care of Rachel as Hood waits in the waiting room. Ray comes to see him. Felix and the Director follow, showing the video of his son. Hood now has proof Sophia was telling the truth and that Ray abused his power. The Director does not look pleased—he was betrayed by his deputy who in turn made him betray his friend.

Meanwhile, Sophia finds her son playing with his adoptive mom in the park. She pretends to be a random parkgoer who thinks the baby is cute. She asks for the baby’s name and is told it is Michael. Felix finds her and she goes willingly.

A doctor tells Hood Rachel should make a full recovery. She is channel surfing as Hood enters her room. She says she starts physical therapy and asks about the case. He says Ray is in jail and will be kicked out of the FBI and Rachel hopes Sophia will get the help she needs. Rachel says that his new handler better not get comfortable. As Marley Shelton is pregnant, this is probably the cover for Rachel not to be in the first few episodes of the new season. I’d imagine Rachel will make a return about November sweeps. Hood, however, offers to let her switch assignments. I originally thought he was going to say he was getting out of the FBI, leading to episodes where he keeps having to solve mysteries before running into Rachel again, finally returning to the Bureau. However, Rachel protests saying that she wouldn’t switch assignments, especially since Hood is a bad driver. I would’ve felt it more appropriate for her to repeat the line she said in the premiere: that he wouldn’t get rid of her that easily.

And thus ends Season One of Eleventh Hour. It is usually in the Nielsen Top 20, so there is a good chance the show will be renewed for next season. Chances that it’ll retain it’s plump time slot behind CSI are a bit shaky as CBS likes to debut shows there and then move them around. Anyway, Harper’s Island replaces Eleventh Hour next week, a murder mystery series. I think I’ll give it a go, mostly for Christopher Gorham, who I loved as the adorkable Henry on Ugly Betty.

So, after Hood’s reaction to Rachel’s abduction and injury, how long before we see a Rachel-Hood relationship?

Quote of the Episode:

“It’s the pancakes, they probably poisoned someone.”--Rachel