‘Beauty and the Beast’ season 3, episode 7 review: Cat and Vincent, Tess and JT make differing decisions

While “Beauty and the Beast” is a show with a heavy component of science fiction, you really should know pretty well at this point that it is primarily a love story above all else. Therefore, can you really be particularly shocked that many of the main events tonight traced around the two predominant couples at the center of everything?

For Cat and Vincent, the mission was simple: Expose some of those behind the experiments by luring them out in the open with the ruse of eloping at Niagara Falls. Cat was completely on board with this idea, feeling that it would work. At the same time, though, she also admitted that she had zero problem whatsoever with potentially getting married in this situation if it came down to it. Vincent disagreed, and this tension caused their original plan to fall apart.

Meanwhile, they did still manage to confront and even defeat a certain powerful woman behind at least part of the effort, who had already managed to kidnap Heather for information after we thought she was going for a job interview. This was probably the episode’s weakest moment; we’ve never had much story from Heather’s point of view, so we knew something was off when suddenly she was getting a significant chunk of screen time.

The other breaking story during the episode was the apparent breaking up of Tess and JT, which came after she felt completely disrespected and not listened to at all. Given where this story took us over the episode, we have to say that it is really hard to blame her. Tess has been feeling somewhat neglected ever since the beginning of her Captaincy by her friends and her boyfriend, mostly because they are far more interested in pushing forward their own agenda than actually taking her feelings and her work responsibilities into consideration. She had actually our favorite parts of the episode, mostly because they were so human. Obviously we do want to see Tess and JT end up together, but this is a learning moment for him as a character.

Overall, this was a strong if somewhat-predictable episode of the show, which sets us up hopefully for a real wedding now that Catherine agreed at the end of the hour that she was glad the elopement didn’t happen. Grade: B.

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