It was The Maggie Ryan show on Pan Am this week as we learned more about the sassy brunette who rules the Clipper Majestic with an iron stiletto. Seems Miss Ryan isn’t quite the picture-perfect stewardess she likes people to think she is and she certainly doesn’t have a fan in Miss Havemeyer whom she sassed quite effectively back in episode one.
Framed by Maggie’s fight with Pan Am brass to keep her job we learn through flashbacks how she made her way from being a not very good waitress to the Goddess of the Jetway we see before us today. Maggie (Christina Ricci) is a fraud, a very charming and intelligent fraud who doesn’t speak the languages she claims to and earned her education by posing as other students who have dropped classes at Berkley. When she’s found out she bolts and charms her way into the blue suit. I actually like Maggie more now. She’s ruthless and while she can be a friend when she wants to be we learn that when the chips are down Maggie takes care of Maggie. And it was Maggie doing exactly that which landed her and doe-eyed Laura (Margot Robbie) in a Brazilian prison for buying stolen goods. And once again Ted (Michael Mosley) comes to Laura’s rescue. When are these two gonna go on a date?
But it wasn’t all about Maggie this week. The Majestic headed south to Rio and Captain Dean (Mike Vogel) is shocked to find Ginny his fling from Monte Carlo on board. She is headed south to join her “boss” but secretly wants to ride in Dean’s cockpit some more. Dean is smart enough to realize that there is turbulence ahead and shuts her out, at least until they get back to New York. But the Majestic has ears everywhere and Dean doesn’t quite know how to whisper. Ginny certainly wasn’t helping things when she invited Dean and Colette to join her and her lover for dinner where she proceeded to get drunk and flirt shamelessly with her Captain.
Kate (Kelli Garner) was grounded this week due to some mysterious mixup with her immunization records that turned out to be just her CIA contact making sure she stayed state side to work some covert magic on her new boyfriend Niko. Kate gets the info they need which leads Mr. Anderson to suggest she work on turning Niko into a spy. And just when poor Kate was falling in love! No good will come of this.
Sadly it was another week woefully devoid of any Colette goodness. Aside from providing some window dressing for Dean at dinner she was mostly seen fluffling pillows and being glamorous in the background. I long for some flashbacks into her past, and hopefully very soon. As the sun set on New York this week poor Maggie still has her job but at what price? Her betrayal of Dean (the plane has ears remember?) will surely come back to bite her in the ass in a big way, and it looks like she might already be regretting it.
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