Titled: “The Edison Effect”
“The Edison Effect” is the 10th episode in a 13-episode season — which means there’s no way everything will work out this early. But that didn’t stop me from hoping it would. And it didn’t stop me from being shocked with that horrific ending.
But before we talk about the episode, let’s talk about science. The Edison effect, for which the episode is named, was first described by — you guessed it — Thomas Edison in 1883. He noticed that when in a vacuum, electrons would flow from a heated element to a cooler metal plate, but not in the reverse. This effect was put to use in 1904 with the dun, dun, dun…radio.
Are the writers trying to tell us Raimy and Frank can’t reverse what they’ve done? Maybe. Am I reading too much into a science thing I Googled? Definitely. So, let’s talk about everything that happened in “The Edison Effect” instead.
We pick up the morning after the *hookups* — Frank and Julie are in bed discussing their future plans (Frank wants to pick up and leave Bayside forever) when Young Raimy crashes in and wants to know if daddy is living at home again. Awkward.
Adult Raimy is in a postcoital glow herself, but instead of lounging in bed with Daniel, she’s calling a psychiatric hospital for Meghan’s records.
And Meghan is having the worst morning out of everyone. Serial killer Deacon Joe has her tied up in a cabin, where he’s trying to help her. “If I am forced to save you,” he tells her, “I’ll make sure you die a good death.” Umm, what?
Frank better hurry up with his assassination plan. He tells Raimy over the ham he has it all planned out for the next night. He’ll clean out the house so it looks like Joe fled and no one will search for a body. Frank, obviously, is hesitant about this, but Raimy tells him it’s the only way to save Julie…..
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