Kit Willesee

This episode begins with a recap of Part 1. The creative team of writer Rick Copp and director Greg Pritikin return along with the main cast from the first episode. Ana Alexander as Camille, J.C. Brandy as Maxine, Heidi James as Big Aggie, Will Poston as Rafe, and Kit Willesee as our lead character Lacey Rivers.

I mentioned how impressed I was with Willesee’s performance in part 1, convincingly portraying a naive innocent girl. Well, I’m equally impressed here as she takes a 180 and is now playing Lacey as a conniving seductress.

Lacey seduced Rafe, who tells her that he’s in love with her and she swears she feels the same way about him, and gets him to get her a private meeting with the prison warden who is played by Paul Mazursky (who directed Scenes From A Mall, my favorite Woody Allen movie that wasn’t technically a “Woody Allen movie”). She charms the warden, an older man on the verge of retirement, and convinces him that she doesn’t belong in jail. Then she launches an elaborate plan to get Rafe to kill Maxine, getting him to stab her to death with the knife she stole from Big Aggie. Then she frames Camille for murder, and Camille gets arrested and taken away. On the promise of getting a movie script that he’s written produced, the warden arranges for Lacey to get released, so she can do community service instead of serving jail time. When Rafe finds out that she’ll be getting out, he’s excited because he thinks that it means he and Lacey will be together, but she laughs in his face and blows him off because she’s a movie star and isn’t going to be with a lowly prison guard.

Rafe gets angry and, to Lacey’s horror, he locks her in a cell with Big Aggie. THE END

As much as enjoyed part 1, part 2 is even better, at least in terms of being a representation of what this series is more often about, as Lacey is a true femme fatale, and the episode ends with an unexpected plot twist that involves someone getting their commupance.

There’s less female nudity and sex in this episode, there’s just the one full sex scene between Willesee and Poston, but that doesn’t make this episode any less compelling. As I noted before, that’s the only thing that makes this a “softcore series,” and it may have been daring back in 2011, near the end of the “skinemax” era, but today it’s no more explicit than most “mainstream” cable shows. Oh, and we do learn what the secret from Lacey’s past that Maxine was planning to blackmail her with was, but I don’t want to spoil everything.

Chacebook rating: FIVE STARS

P.S. I also think it’s interesting to note that 5 years later, in April 2016, Kit Willesee and Greg Pritikin got married, and are still together today with two daughters. I presume they met on the set of this show, and I think it’s pretty cool that it worked out for them.

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