After an accident, Frank wakes from a coma to hear Olga tell him that she loves him. Before long, the pair are making wedding plans, but Frank is forced to backstep on his wedding night and he must marry Olga all over again, unaware that he really married her doppelganger.
Strictly speaking, despite people dying, there is never a funeral shown, so the title doesn't quite work. This is a simplistic and at times unconvincing story which nevertheless has enough in it to keep viewers interested. You know from the start that the pair aren't going to finish up married, but it's not clear just when Olga's evil double Galina (from last season's There's Something About Olga) actually first turns up. Did Olga say she loved Frank, or was that Galina? We may never know.
The wedding is typical Parker, although the Chinese Elvis priest is a step too far and not in any way funny. Things are actually fairly convincing until 'Olga' stabs Donovan in the back. And the Backstep team should really discover his body quite quickly, rather than assuming he's sleeping off too much drink somewhere. Other aspects that raise an eyebrow include why the people who had Galina placed in an asylum weren't told immediately that she'd escaped and why the destruction of the Statue of Liberty with no loss of life (except of those who committed the crime) is worth a backstep and yet saving children from an underground explosion in For the Children isn't. Can't they just rebuild the statue?
There are some fun moments near the beginning between the backstep team as Olga and Frank plan the wedding, juxtaposed with the violent scenes at the end of the episode when Frank and Olga are held by Galina. The outcome is predictable but welcome. Justina Vail plays 'bad Olga' very well and makes a menacing enemy, with several creepy scenes. She also looks surprisingly hot on her wedding night with Frank.
This isn't a bad episode, it's just strangely paced, with the Frank/Olga wedding happening so quickly that you know it can't last. The plot to destroy the statue is barely given any time, serving as a pathetic means to an end to get Parker to backstep. There's also some rather dodgy dialogue towards the end. Creepy, but oddly watchable.
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