By Alex A. Kecskes
Fancast.com
This season's 14th episode of Moonlight opens with a white-knuckle car chase through Beverly Hills as flashy celeb babe, Tierney, and bodyguard, Mick, (riding shotgun) evade paparazzi in black SUVs. Later, BuzzWire’s new chief tells Beth to get the scoop on the curse of Tierney's new movie from Mick. So Mick and Beth meet at a Hollywood bash…and almost kiss (don’t worry, it’ll happen and you can “repeat-TiVo” it to your heart’s content). Besides, you want Mick to miss that distant noise—and, regrettably, guilt— when he finds Tierney dead in the water? No way.
While following Scott, Mick runs into two Scooby-doo paparazzi vamps, then discovers Tierney was being blackmailed by some sleazoid paparazzo named Foster. That night, a nut case bounces Mick off his windshield. No biggie, right? Wrong. A lurking Foster “shoots” Mick walking away unscathed, emails the photos to Beth, and threatens to dig into Mick’s identity if she doesn’t tell all about Tierney.
Meanwhile, Logan’s research reveals Jason was broke and needed to bury Tierney’s new flick to collect insurance. But when Mick and Beth track him down, he pleads his cowardly excuse, saying investors would’ve smoked him unless he killed the movie—which Tierney kept alive, so he sent her to sleep with fishes.
Beth, wrestling with Foster’s threat, asks Mick how vamps deal with being exposed. “They move to another city,” explains Mick. In almost mob fashion, Beth asks Josef to “handle the situation,” realizing what will happen. Josef’s final caveat to Beth, “as a reporter, you’ll always be a danger to Mick.” At dinner, Beth tells Mick, “I quit BuzzWire.” Really? Cut to our Scooby-doo vamps, also at dinner, feasting on Foster. We fade out as ADA Ben shuffles through photos of Mick rebounding from the hit and run. A penny for his thoughts?
