Beauty and the Beast 2.07: "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?" Review!

Finally!  
This week's episode of Beauty and the Beast 2.07 "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?", was full of information, twists and good surprises.

The first scene of this episode opened with Cat (Kristin Kreuk) and Vincent (Jay Ryan). I was pleased to note that Cat did not gloss over the violent episode that occurred last week, in which Vincent ripped Windsor's beating heart from his chest. Cat is now having a hard time relating to Vincent and I was proud of her for sharing her feelings with him; in the past she would have just bottled up her emotions. It is a good thing they talked things over since she and Vincent have both been invited to Thanksgiving dinner at Agent Reynolds', (Ted Whittall) who is Cat's father.

At first, Cat declines Agent Reynolds' invitation to Thanksgiving dinner; but when Vincent discovers that the handler sending him on missions might be an FBI operative, Cat comes up with a plan to use her father's connection to the FBI to determine who is controlling Vincent's missions. Little do they know, her father has been the man ordering the missions all along. Luckily for Agent Reynolds, his was able to disguise his voice or he may have found himself in big trouble with Vincent. 

Following a team meeting, Cat and Vincent go to Thanksgiving dinner with her father; while Tess (Nina Lisandrello) and J.T. (Austin Basis) work on analyzing the recording of the handler's voice. Once at Agent Reynolds', things get awkward what with meeting his daughter's boyfriend. Not to mention, that he is not only aware that Vincent is a beast, he is also the unknown handler. Reynolds' plan was to utilize Vincent to kill all the other beasts and then dispose of him. But Reynolds' plan to kill Vincent was foiled early in the episode because Vincent sensed something wrong in the phone calls from his handler. Now, if only Vincent knew who was standing right in front of him.

Things remain awkward, until Cat finally opens up and begins telling her father that she and Vincent have friend in need. She goes into the details about this friend being part of the Muirfield experiments and that he/she is a beast. Reynolds tries to tell her that all the experiments were destroyed long ago and if there are still some beasts out there, that they're monsters that can't be saved. But she is persuasive and eventually convinces him to at least look at the information they have gathered. There is just one problem: they didn't bring any of the information with them. When Cat calls Gabe (Sendhil Ramamurthy) and explains the situation he agrees to bring them the information, but not before Cat reminds him not to bring anything that is connected to them. 

Tori, (guest star, Amber Skye Noyes) who we met as Windsor's daughter in last week's episode, “Father Knows Best”, arrives with Gabe. She has been hospitalized after a suicide attempt that everyone thinks was just an accident. She had decided she didn't want to live after she learned she is also turning into a beast like her father. Gabe checked her out of the hospital and brought her to Reynolds' because he didn't want her to be alone on Thanksgiving. Things are going fine until Vincent senses Tori's presence. Vincent then attacks Reynolds, who had been making snide comments about him, and runs from the house.

Even though Vincent has now exposed himself as a beast to Reynolds, Cat begs her father to give Vincent another chance. (She doesn't realize her father has already identified him as a beast). She wants to work things out because she is his daughter and she and Vincent need his help. He finally agrees and they sit down together for Thanksgiving dinner. Talk about a tense dinner table! Tori tries to make her father give Vincent credit for saving her life. At that moment, Tori and Vincent's hands touch and Vincent freaks out and runs out again. This causes Tori to have a panic attack, which brings out the beast within her and she flips the dinner over, table and all!

Everyone is shocked to find out that Tori is a beast as well. Genetically, something that must of have been passed down from her father. at birth. Reynolds leaves the room and calls one of his agents. He informs the agent there are now two beasts to be taken care of. Cat and Gabe attempt to calm Tori down, but she runs out. She finds Vincent and he tells her to stay away from him because whenever he's near her something happens to him. She explains that she does not want to be a beast and she needs someone to help her through it. They connect in that moment, and Cat walks in just in time to see them kissing.

Vincent runs after Cat to reassure her there's nothing at all to worry about and the kiss didn't mean anything, it just happened out of the blue. She tells him it's not the kiss she is mad about but the whole situation. She tells him that her father may still be able to help him but he needs to come back in. He then tells her maybe it's for the best if they part ways. But he only tells her that because Reynolds informed him that if he leaves Cat alone he won't turn her into the FBI. She seems stunned and hurt but tries to appear as if she just brushes it off.

J.T. and Tess have fun in this episode, I was really excited to see them working together to figure out whose voice was recorded telephone call. They have a heart-to-heart kinda talk about her family and her relationship status and he asks her why is she is single. Finally, a nice long kiss between the two of them, the moment I have been hoping for since season one. After the kiss, they try again to determine the voice on the recording, but all Tess can manage to hear are church bells in the background.

Reynolds' agent arrives at the house and convinces Tori he is her father's private driver sent to take her back to the city. Meanwhile, Tess and J.T. tell Cat they have identified church bells on the recording and Cat passes that information to Gabe. She and Gabe don't think too much of it at the moment. Reynolds comes in to apologize to Cat and as they are speaking Gabe and Cat become aware of church bells ringing outside Reynolds' home. And that is where the episode ends!  

What a cliffhanger! I really enjoyed this episode of Beauty and the Beast and can't wait for next week's mid-season finale. It seems like the episodes are flying by so fast this season, which is a sign the show is interesting and interested holds my attention. I do hate when shows take breaks, but it's understandable that they need time to film more episodes and have at least a little break for the actors and crew. I just hope the mid-season finale doesn't disappoint.

Beauty and the Beast season 2 airs Monday nights at 9/8c on The CW.

"Guess Who's Coming To Dinner?" was written by Wendy Straker Hauser and directed by Jeff Renfroe. 

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