The Strange Case of Discovering Who You Can Trust in 'Annika' Season 2
Annika picks up not quite two weeks after last week's disastrous open-mic experience. Honestly, I'm not sure what Annika thinks she's doing. The obvious answer is opening a deck chair on the roof to enjoy an ice cream, but it's all gone wrong. It's a pretty blatant metaphor for her failed attempt at telling Michael about having an extra daughter, but at least he's come back, like a pup who couldn't stay away. She's relieved — apparently, she thought he'd quit altogether, which was the opposite of what she intended. She worried he'd take the girl from her, and he hadn't even told Astrid.
Annika: I thought only Bond villains had aquariums in the basement.
This week's victim is high profile, a billionaire named Fabian Hyde, a green tech entrepreneur who drowned in his shark tank. The name should have been a tip-off of the week's book even before Annika mentions Robert Louis Stevenson, but if you don't remember your seventh-grade reading, it's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Honestly, the book is less about the case than it is about her and Michael, but that's been a running theme all season, so no surprise. Annika would divide the team up and spend the day with Blair while Michael hung with Tyrone if she were an intelligent woman. No one said Annika was smart.
