Happy Town - Polly Wants a Crack at Her, S01E03

Although Happy Town has been bumped for the rest of May Sweeps, and will likely not be renewed after the last 5 episodes are aired starting June 2, I'm enjoying it. Apparently we will learn who the magic man is by the end of the run, so hopefully that will be enough closure, but with all the crazy, I sadly doubt it.

This week was more subdued than the last; the new complications were far less overt and in your face, which was a nice change in tone.

We still had new developments in the shape of a love interest for Henley (Lauren German). Aiden (Warren Christie) is a very attractive and charming young man who just happens to also be the 5th Stiviletto brother and who lifted the weird hammer off of Henley. She got played. Aiden (or Greggy as he is called by his brothers) also has it out for Tommy Conroy (Geoff Stults).

Things are not going well for Tommy. Though he is not yet aware of the return of Aiden, who is supposed to spend 2 more years in jail, he did have to arrest Andrew Haplin (Ben Schnetzer), which has him in trouble with the Haplin family. He's also trying to delay the inevitable arrest of his best friend Dave (Abraham Benrubi) for the murder that started off the series. And if that wasn't bad enough, his darling wife, Rachel (the talented Amy Acker) was apparently just carried off by the Magic Man. Things are not going well at all.

My current theory is that Aiden is somehow the Magic Man. That whatever the Sheriff was talking about before he cut his hand off - now that blood has been spilled, the Magic Man will return after 5 years - has brought Aiden back 2 years earlier than expected. Then again, Merritt Grieves (Sam Neill) did give Rachel and her daughter the notebook that she had when she disappeared.

But we won't know anymore until June 2, and we may never know enough.