Main cast: Mary Frann (Veronica), Daniel Briquet (Roger), Frederic Norbert (Bernard), and Page Fletcher (The Hitchhiker)
Director: Jacques Richard

Before Secrets takes place, lovers Veronica and Bernard murdered her husband Roger and buried him in what seems like the middle of a park that the show people managed to hire for a rushed few hours of filming, er I mean the woods.

Now they are both having the same nightmare where they relive the murder and burial of the husband over and over. If that’s not annoying enough, they find it harder than expected to get their hands on Roger’s insurance money, which is the reason they murdered him in the first place. Still, now that they have managed to have Roger declared dead, they may finally have a great new life together… wait, is that Roger looking well and alive walking around town?

That’s right, Roger or maybe someone that looks like him has pushed himself back into the picture, and he wants in on the money she and Bernard will be getting their hands on.

Now, this episode could have been alright if it had been put together better. It wouldn’t be good, but it could have been a mid-tier episode in, say, The Outer Limits or something.

However, with it being what it is, the episode feels like a montage of scenes cobbled together from a soap opera. The cheap bright lighting and tacky-looking set pieces, the monotonous delivery of lines, the budget make up, the obligatory scene of the shirtless man and the fully clad woman in bed, the shopping mall track background music… everything about this episode screams of a soap opera made on a $50 budget and cancelled after three episodes.

It doesn’t help that the lead actress is overacting, complete with wild, crazy, unblinking eyes and delivery of every one of her line in a near-hysterical manner, while the rest of the cast act and deliver their lines in flat monotone. This makes Veronica come off as absolutely deranged as a result.

The story is actually a predictable kind of okay, and I could overlook the lack of budget under other circumstances. However, the acting is hard to watch, thus relegating this one to one of more painful, if sometimes unintentionally comical, episodes of this season.