Goals for this episode: 1) Introduce the antagonist, Gordon Tate; 2) Open things up by going outside of the office.
What I really like about this episode is that Celeste is out of the office and dressed for a party. We get a glimpse of her in a social setting, a single woman whose friend is trying to fix her up. As far as Trudy is concerned, Celeste’s biggest problem is that she doesn’t have a boyfriend. If she only knew.
I wanted to immediately establish Gordon Tate as the antagonist by his behavior towards Celeste regarding her meeting with the FBI rather than by exposition about his illegal activities. Their interaction starts out as friendly and playful, and then it turns and takes her by surprise. She has never seen this side of him before. Gordon’s dialogue had to be threatening without being on the nose. The threat had to be implicit in the warning, “don’t fuck with me,” and she had to react to it as such. As he walks away, she touches her neck as if he’s had her in a stranglehold, indicating that he achieved the desired effect of intimidation.
This encounter makes Celeste a little more sympathetic because she’s confronted directly by the antagonist, and we see the first crack in her confident facade. She is visibly shaken. The FBI didn’t scare her because she experienced the meeting with Agent Taylor on an intellectual level and made the decision — however misguided — that she had nothing to fear from them. But Gordon got in her face and triggered a visceral reaction in her to the extent that she experienced a physical threat. Gordon made it real.
The question at the end of this episode should be: What is she going to do about Gordon?
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