I guess it was time for Nancy Drew to get back to ghosts and sinking ships. Not every episode can be exciting standalone mysteries like last week’s. This week’s case opens with Nancy standing in her kitchen, having sexual fantasies about her ex and one of the local rich heirs, like you do. Does it count as fanfiction when it’s the actual character doing the shipping? In any case, the ghost of Lucy Sable interrupts whatever she’s doing and leads her to a storage closet. The investigation leads her to her mom’s old files. She was apparently Lucy’s guidance counselor. When Nancy peaks inside the folder though, she finds all the papers have been mysteriously ripped out. She visits her dad in jail but he can’t doesn’t have any answers for her. Instead, she decides to focus on getting him out of jail for now.
That means going to the Hudson family and asking for help. She asks Everett Hudson to make a call and help get the charges dropped. He wants something in return. He asks her to dig up whatever Owen Marvin has on the sinking of the Bonny Scott. By this point, it’s pretty clear the Hudsons had something to do with the ship’s destruction. If that information got out, the family could be charged with insurance fraud and murder. Nancy’s convinced to at least start sniffing around when she walks by the creepiest family portrait I’ve ever seen. Why you’d have your family painted surrounded by ominous shadow, with a big awkward space between the parents and son, I can’t figure out. But some mysterious seawater dripping from the corner, plus an appearance by Ghost Lucy in that big awkward space (so that’s what it’s for!) does the trick.
Miles Gaston Villanueva as Owen and Kennedy McMann as Nancy Drew — Photo: Bettina Strauss/The CW
Since Owen’s dodging her calls for some reason, she enlists Bess to help find him. When they confront him, he explains that he had found something and pushed everything and everyone else aside. But since Nancy tracked him down anyway, he might as well let her in on what he found, or rather, whom. There was a single survivor of the Bonny Scott wreck, a man named Bashiir. They ask him what happened on the ship, and he tells them a bomb went off. He says he knows what one sounds like from a war back in his home country. He can’t just come forward though. If he testifies, he’ll likely get deported. Nancy also notices some water dripping from the pictures in his apartment. The same thing that happened to the portrait in the Hudsons’ house. Well, that’s interesting.
This episode isn’t as focused as last week’s. It’s getting us back into the season’s larger mysteries, so I guess some lack of focus is unavoidable, with the way they’ve been written so far. Still, I’d prefer more episodes like last week’s to the more soap opera-style rich family drama. That said, the story eventually picked up and became much more interesting. Once most of the characters were in the same place, the drama got a lot more fun to watch.
Riley Smith as Ryan Hudson, Miles Gaston Villanueva as Owen, Judith Maxie as Diana Marvin, Maddison Jaizani as Bess and Teryl Rothery as Celia Hudson — Photo: Bettina Strauss/The CW
Nancy starts feeling conflicted about Bashiir. She could help her dad out by turning him over to the Hudsons, but who knows what they’d do to him? Even if she makes them promise to keep him save, could she really trust them? She enlists Nick’s help, and they end up leaving George to shuck oysters by herself. I’ll admit, the “I’ll guess I’ll just shuck myself” line got a chuckle out of me. She interrupts a very icy dinner between the Marvin and Hudson families and makes a big scene about Owen having found Bashiir. She convinces Everett to wire Bashiir $2 million to keep him quiet and safe. Then the cops storm the building, including Lisbeth, revealing her true occupation to everyone. It turns out the money actually went to the cops, who arrest Everett for 12 counts of murder. Nancy also finds her mom’s notes on Lucy Sable hidden in the Hudson family portrait’s frame. This was a fun twist, and it effectively set the story in motion for the rest of the season.
Now that Everett is in jail, Nancy convinces her dad to fight for himself rather than the Hudson family. He doesn’t have any evidence that proves his innocence, but he does have a lot of dirt on Everett Hudson. He figures he’ll use that to get himself a plea deal. He’d better get it fast. Celia, speaking on a burner phone, calls in a hit on Carson. She wants to shut him up and send Nancy a message at the same time. That’ll definitely give next week’s episode a shot of urgency.
Maddison Jaizani as Bess — Photo: Bettina Strauss/The CW
As always, the relationship stuff in this episode was hit and miss. Lisbeth and Bess’ relationship continues to be adorable, but just got promisingly complicated in this episode. The Marvin matriarch told her that she will be expected to marry someone in their same economic class, that an affair with the driver is just that. I’m not sure she’ll feel any different now knowing that Lisbeth is a cop. That’s gonna be especially difficult now that they’ve just told each other they’re falling in love. There are going to be rough times ahead, but I’m way more invested in this relationship now.
Then there’s George and Nick. I love them together. They have a whole side plot where the owner of the restaurant is going to sell it. It’s the one thing in the town that George is proud of, and the only place she was able to find work. Losing the restaurant would be a devastating blow. She throws a big party to bring in customers during the offseason and Nick helps… until Nancy drags him away for her case. They have a fight, but in the end, Nick makes it up to her. He uses the bonds Tiffany Hudson left him to make an offer on the place. He explains to George that it’s a loan. They’ll own the restaurant together and when it’s profitable, George will pay him her half. She agrees and lets him carve her name in the table under hers. They are so cute together, and yeah. After this, I ship them so hard.
Riley Smith as Ryan Hudson and Leah Lewis as George — Photo: Bettina Strauss/The CW
Finally, Owen and Nancy kissed after they helped catch Everett and she turned him down. Honestly? Good. I’m obviously not a Nick/Nancy person, but Owen is just so boring. Their flirty scenes together almost make me tune out entirely. To be honest, I’d be OK if Nancy didn’t have a love interest, even though I know that’s not where the show’s going. She has enough interesting things going on that her story really doesn’t need it. Especially now that she found some notes implicating Lucy’s mom in her death. We didn’t solve a mystery this week, but that’s an interesting clue.
Nancy Drew airs Wednesdays at 9 p.m. on The CW
Previously on Nancy Drew:
- Nancy Drew Season 1 Episode 10 recap
- Nancy Drew Season 1 Episode 9 recap
- Nancy Drew Season 1 Episode 8 recap
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