666 Park Avenue Recap: “Diabolic”

by Jessica Grafer:

666 Park Avenue Recap: “Diabolic”
Original Air Date (ABC): Sunday November 4, 2012
Season 1 Episode 6

What a fantastic episode.  It opens with a scene reminiscent of Psycho.  Jane is in the shower and what’s this?  Kramer is there with an ax!  Good thing Jane is only dreaming.  Poor Jane is really traumatized by all that happened Halloween night.  The biggest problem she has is getting people to believe that it was a ghost trying to kill her.  Two detectives come by later in the day to interview Jane.  When she shows them the dumb-waiter it does nothing for her story.  It looks like it hasn’t been used in years.  The cops are starting to think Jane made it up.

We find out that Gavin has also had four other buildings security systems hacked and disabled Halloween night.  Gavin sees it as a display of power.  Whoever is behind all this wants Gavin to know that he can get into anything.  Gavin doesn’t seem real worried.  He sets Tony off on a new job.  Tony is supposed to collect the gentleman who scared Olivia with his SUV and bring him to the Drake.  Tony is eager to make up for his having lost Olivia during the party, and for Gavin saving his life.

The guy that has the red box Wallace is just a petty thief.  He’s got the box and is ready to hand it over to the boss man.  Wallace even ups the dollar amount to 3 million.  The boss man says, 3 mil is ok, just don’t look in the box.  Wallace doesn’t know when to quit while he’s ahead and looks in the box.  The next time we see him, he’s laying half dead.  The boss man comes to pick up his box and torches Wallace and his place.  Plus, he just saved 3 million dollars!  If he was going to pay.  You never can trust a bad guy.

Jane and Olivia are having lunch.  Jane opens up to Olivia so far as to tell her she doesn’t feel like she belongs there anymore.  When Jane excuses herself a man comes and sits at the table.  Meet Mr. Victor Shaw. He knows all about Olivia and Gavin.  Even the fact that Gavin is hiding something from Olivia about what happened Halloween night.  Shaw tells Olivia that Gavin took something from me and now I have the opportunity to do something about it.

While Gavin and Tony are trying to get information from the kid who attempted to run down Olivia, Gavin’s lawyer says he shouldn’t be there and takes off.  When he tries to leave the elevator goes all wonky on him.  Then it almost seems to spit him out on some random floor.  Sam tries to find a way out but it’s just hallway after hallway of locked doors.  Finally Sam breaks down a door with an exit sign above it, only to find more hallways.  Gavin has put him in kind of a limbo at the Drake.

Jane visits the empty apartment where Kramer cornered her.  A detective shows up.  He shows Jane a pic of the guy who helped her by giving her his phone.  The traced the phone number from the caller id on Henry’s phone and got his I.D.  His girlfriend just reported him missing.  The detective wants Jane to tell him the truth.  She tells him a ghost attacked her.  The detective tells her a sweet story about his grandpa’s ghost.  He says some people want there to be logical explanations.  He, however, likes to keep an open mind.  Good for Jane!  She’s going to need someone on her side.

Gavin asks Olivia how she’s feeling.  Olivia gives him several chances to tell her the truth.  Gavin doesn’t pick up on it and Olivia is sad.  Olivia get’s new results from a different doctor and confronts Gavin with them.  Gavin admits the truth to Olivia and she realizes he was just trying to protect her.  Gavin shows her the picture of the man who has stolen the red box.  Olivia recognizes him as Victor Shaw.  She tells Gavin how Shaw tried to turn her against Gavin.  Ah, so there is a rat in their midst.  How else would Shaw have insider information.

Jane is walking the halls when suddenly she hears Sam, the lawyer screaming and catches a glimpse of him running through the halls.  We see Sam ready to hang himself.  It seems this is the only exit available to him.  Gavin appears and gets Sam to admit that he has been working with Shaw.  It’s all about the Benjamins for Sam.  That doesn’t fly with Gavin.  Sam doesn’t end up hanging himself but I bet that he wishes he had later on.

Henry had a meeting with Laurel and some big wigs.  At the meeting they kept asking about Jane.  Laurel is trying to get Henry to believe that Jane will never understand what he needs to do to move up the political ladder.  Henry says that Jane will be there for him no matter what.  Laurel says she hopes he’s right.  I think Laurel wouldn’t mind being a bit closer to Henry.

There are many sides to Dr. Scott.  This episode we find out that the ER doc can’t pay all his bills because of…student loans?  That’s what he tells Gavin anyway, and Gavin offers him a $50,000 loan.  Scott takes is eagerly and gets right to business.  Which for him means betting on the horses.  While Dr. Scott is rapidly losing that money he gets a pain in his chest.  Blood starts showing through his shirt.  When he takes off his shirt you can see numbers carved into his chest.  When Scott goes to see Gavin he doesn’t get any sympathy.  Gavin tells him you have been using my loan for gambling.  Debt is a mark against the soul.  Gavin allows Dr. Scott to be his on call doctor and that way they’ll call it a wash.

Jane comes home to find that Henry has discovered the article about the Kramer murders.  He thinks that Jane is making up being attacked since the stories are so similar.  Jane wants to move back to Indiana.  That flips Henry out.  When Jane accuses him of not believing her, he tells her the worst thing you can say when you don’t believe someone. “I believe that you believe it.”  What a freaking cop out!  I hate that.  Commit to something.  You don’t believe than fine, just say it.  Don’t sugar coat it for me.  Phew.  Sorry that just really steamed me.  Needless to say Henry and Jane are now on very unstable ground.  Henry goes out for a walk and Jane knocks the papers on the desk to the floor.  She notices that Kramer was a member of the Order of the Dragon.  She also notices her necklace.  She realizes what we smart ones have known, Jocelyn, Kramer’s daughter is her grandmother.  I think this revelation will make Jane stay at the Drake a bit longer to try and figure out this connection with her family.  So much for Indiana.

Gavin meets with Mr. Shaw.  Shaw wants to take everything away from Gavin.  Apparently Gavin did pretty much the same thing to Shaw in the past.  Now Shaw is at a point where he can do something about it.  Shaw has already asked for 10 million and it appears Gavin has brought it in a beautiful gift box.  Gavin says, what do you really want?  We know this isn’t about money.  Shaw wants the Drake.  If he doesn’t get it, he’ll open the red box.  Gavin years ago rescued Olivia from an unrequited love and had to imprison him in this box.  They do not want him out.  Gavin doesn’t think Shaw will open the box, because whatever is in there is too powerful to release.  He doesn’t think Shaw can control it.  Shaw is surprised Gavin brought the money.  Oh, it isn’t money, says Gavin, it’s what happens when I win.  Inside the box is Sam, the lawyer’s head.  Shaw doesn’t seem phased.

The detective has been going through past newspaper articles about the Drake.  He knows that something is going on there.  Gavin goes to see Kandinsky in jail.  He wants Kandinsky to work for him.  Next we see an ambulance pulling up to a hospital.  Kandinsky has been shanked.  Dr. Scott is the ER doc on call.  Gavin calls him and tells him it’s time for him to help.  Dr. Scott says he doesn’t want to kill a patient.  Gavin says you aren’t killing him, you’re setting him free.  Does this mean he’s literally going to help him escape, or by killing him that will set him free to do Gavin’s work in some ghostly way.  What do you think?

Jessica Grafer has loved the “darker” things since she was old enough to pick her own books. She is a contributor for DarkMedia who will be covering Revenge and 666 Park Avenue. She loves to walk the book store shelves and pick up whatever catches her eye. She is a movie lover with a great range in her tastes, and appreciation for all genres. Jessica is a writer and has several things in the works. You can follow her quirky Twitter posts at @scarletbe and check out her blog.