Something Very Bad Is Going To Happen “The Witness”

Actor Zlatko Burić is someone I don’t think I have ever seen or heard of before, but then he popped up as a warmongering president of a fictional country in last year’s Superman movie, an eccentric movie director in this year’s Wonder Man, and here…he’s the Witness.

He’s kind of distinctive at this point.

Up to this point, nothing that happened in this mini-series was anything that couldn’t be explained by the fact that the Cunningham family are, to put it kindly, eccentric.  Yes, different members are awful in different ways, but there’s nothing supernatural about that,

Then this episode says, “Hold up a minute.”

See, Julian told his son Jude there was no Sorry Man, that he made the Sorry Man up, and then some guy kidnapped Rachel from the house.  Said guy had been spotted by Jude during his playing around with a video camera.  And when Jude showed it to Julian, well, Julian decided to act.

Clever bit: the man who took Rachel is her father Jay.  He has a video that shows Rachel’s mother died of weird hemorrhaging from her eyes and nose on her wedding night.  Rachel’s mother was very pregnant with Rachel.  She did not die in the hospital as Jay had told his daughter.  Jay thinks it’s the area or something is bad.  Then Julian shows up with a gun to take out the Sorry Man.  There is a Sorry Man!  And he’s Jay!  And…it comes from Julian’s witnessing, while hiding under a table, Jay’s delivering of baby Rachel from his new bride’s corpse via an emergency C-section, crying, “I’m sorry!” over and over again.

That…is some good writing actually.  I liked that move.  It’s an explanation for the Sorry Man and something of a supervillain origin story for Julian, possibly the worst member of the Cunningham family since, you know, he saw that as a child without any context.

But see, Jay showed his daughter the wedding video, and Rachel recognized a guy from the bar she stopped at during the pilot episode.  One quick trip over there, and he explains himself:  he is the Witness.  He was supposed to marry Rachel’s great-great-many times great-grandmother, but when told of a curse that would befall  the wedding if he did not marry his soulmate at midnight then someone would die, he didn’t go through with it, and the weird curse went to Rachel’s family instead, making the Witness immortal and, you know, a witness to every family wedding as a punishment..  As such, if Rachel does not marry her soulmate, even if she doesn’t believe in soulmates, by midnight on her wedding day, she will die the same way her mother did.

Is Rachel marrying her soulmate?  And does she believe the Wintess’s story?  Well, he keeps going to weddings.  Maybe he just likes the movie Wedding Crashers.