angela’s eyes
eyes of the father (4/13)

Continuing tonight on Five is the US drama series that focuses on the work of Angela Henson – an FBI agent with a unique talent for seeing through people’s lies. This week, Angela tackles a fatherand-son team responsible for a chain of robberies, while her relationship with her mother is put to its ultimate test.

When Angela and her team arrive at the scene of a robbery at a diamond merchant, they suspect the work of a prolific, high-tech criminal gang: this is the latest in a string of big robberies throughout the city. As with the other cases, the robbers escaped before the cops could react to the alarm. This time, however, Dozer notices that they have made a mistake: though they hid from the security cameras, a reflection in a glass panel shows the grainy image of a man’s face. The picture is sent out to the press, and the police have soon received 400 calls relating to the man’s identity.

After a scan of the recordings, Angela identifies a genuine call and heads with Leo to the home of a woman called Danielle Harlow. Danielle says that she returned from work to see an image of her father, Stuart, spread across the news. She claims to be loyal to him, but adds: “If he’s guilty, I want him prosecuted”. Leo suspects that Danielle has an agenda, but they decide to track Stuart Harlow’s activities nonetheless.

A few hours of surveillance later, and all Angela and Leo have come up with is that Stuart has received a delivery from a courier company. “He’s planning something,” theorises Angela. But Leo remains unconvinced: “I guess it’s a start,” he says. The first real breakthrough comes later when Dozer is scouring the surveillance photos of Stuart: the suspect seems to be spending a great deal of time with an unidentified male. While Dozer initially suggests that Stuart is gay, it seems more likely that he has been with his son, Kevin –a possible accomplice in the robberies.

The team heads back to Danielle’s house for further questioning, but she refuses to accept that Kevin could be involved –he and his father do not get on, she explains. However, when she sees the images, Danielle’s mood changes. “We could really use your help,” implores Angela, but Danielle clams up: “You’re going to have to do a lot better than this flimsy evidence to make me want to help you any further,” she spits.

The investigation takes a step forwards when Stuart and Kevin are spotted revisiting a large sports arena –could they be planning yet another heist? Dozer and Leo head straight to the scene and have soon located their targets. Kevin seems to be setting up a scam in the corporate hospitality area. Convincing a receptionist to leave her desk, he places an electronic device on her computer before making a swift exit. Though they are now convinced of the father-and-son team’s guilt, the agents do not have enough evidence to make any arrests. They must therefore return to Danielle to ask for help before another robbery takes place.

Danielle eventually agrees to assist the agents, but refuses to give up her brother. She is fitted with a wire and goes to meet her father at a cafe, with the intention of trapping just him. The set-up is going well, until Danielle covers up the microphone and whispers something to her father, prompting him to flee. “We need to find out what Danielle told him,” says Angela, ominously: “and I know just they way to make him talk.”

Also in tonight’s episode, Angela discovers that her estranged mother is dying. When her boss, Gene Taylor, informs her that her mother has been tranferred from a high-security prison to a hospital, Angela knows that it must be serious. Visiting her mother in hospital, she discovers that the only thing that will save her life is a bone marrow transplant –from Angela. Will she be able to forgive her mother long enough to save her life?