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The InBetween series premiere recap: Breaking down the episode

By Mads Lennon

THE INBETWEEN -- "Pilot" Episode 101 -- Pictured: (l-r) Cindy Luna as Maria Salinas, Paul Blackthorne as Tom Hackett, Justin Cornwell as Damien Asante -- (Photo by: Sergei Bachlakov/NBC)
THE INBETWEEN -- "Pilot" Episode 101 -- Pictured: (l-r) Cindy Luna as Maria Salinas, Paul Blackthorne as Tom Hackett, Justin Cornwell as Damien Asante -- (Photo by: Sergei Bachlakov/NBC) /
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THE INBETWEEN — “Pilot” Episode 101 — Pictured: Sarah Abbott as Abigail — (Photo by: Sergei Bachlakov/NBC) /

Scary ghost child? Check!

Between helping her father solve his murder mystery, Cassie has to contend with a rambunctious ghost child running around her home. Abigail is resentful of her mother’s new baby, Crystal, and even comes close to the possibility of murdering her because she feels her mother has forgotten all about her.

Cassie helps her understand her anger is misplaced. Truly, her grandfather was an abusive monster who used to drug her whenever he babysat and one night he overdosed and Abigail never woke up. I like that Cassie doesn’t try to take the high road here, there is a morally gray area in the world of mediums. She lets Abigail exact her vengeance on her grandfather from where he sits in prison.

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THE INBETWEEN — “Pilot” Episode 101 — Pictured: (l-r) Anne-Marie Johnson Lt. Swanstrom, Justin Cornwell as Damien Asante — (Photo by: Sergei Bachlakov/NBC) /

Villain of the week

Once Tom and Damian discover the killer was trying to trick the police into believing Shannon’s death was at a different time, they immediately turned to her slimy ex-boyfriend to question him once more about his alibi. Unfortunately, the only thing Steven Archer is guilty of is being a cheater. The real murderer is a faux-coroner named James Stark who was hiding in plain sight the day they found the corpse!

Why did James do it? Well, it all goes back to the dream Cassie had at the beginning of the episode. She didn’t witness Shannon’s murder but she did see Megan Waterman’s death at the hands of serial killer Ed Rogan. Her son, Mark Waterman, grew up with a serious psychological complex after what he witnessed and in an attempt to take back control, he morphed into a copycat version of Rogan. Waterman changed his name to Stark and claimed his first victim in Shannon.

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THE INBETWEEN — “Pilot” Episode 101 — Pictured: Justin Cornwell as Damien Asante — (Photo by: Sergei Bachlakov/NBC) /

Partner with a mystery

Damian Asante is Tom’s new partner and initially, Tom isn’t thrilled by the fact. Damian is something of a skeptic and he doesn’t believe in Cassie’s abilities, at least not until he starts seeing the results firsthand. But Damian has some secrets of his own.

At the end of the episode, he visits a woman named Sally Bishop in the hospital. She lies comatose in her bed. Given the way he interacts with her, it would appear she is a woman he loved, perhaps a girlfriend or maybe a sister? How did she wind up in the hospital? Will Cassie help Damian communicate with her?

Creepiest dream visitor

Just when you thought we’d seen the last of Ed Rogan, he pops up in Cassie’s dream. The final scene of the episode is Ed singing the eerie Peter Rabbit song while he tells Cassie he needs to speak with her. What could a dead serial killer from Texas want to talk to Cassie about?

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Odds & ends

  • I loved Damian’s rational about the purpose of the bear claw, “The bear claw is a Venn diagram where bribery and apology meet.”

New episodes of The InBetween premiere Wednesday nights on NBC.

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