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After having seen "Slaves" from the end of the first season of SVU, some new shit has come to light.
Before you continue on, I should warn you that you will never watch Pretty In Pink the same way again.
In Pretty In Pink, we have the story of a fashion-conscious girl from the wrong side of the tracks, who wants nothing more than to be with the preppie that she has fallen for. That boy is apparently back from prep school, having inadvertently seduced the mother of his roommate, Rob Lowe, while on holiday in the Windy City.
His boyish charms are obvious, as are the many causes for her attraction to him. Unfortunately, the class divide is in the way, and his best friend is one of the primary obstacles in the way of their long-term happiness. Eventually, their love leaps across the chasm between their families' financial standing, and we are left to believe that their love lives happily ever after.
After seeing the episode of SVU--entitled "Slaves"--I am left unsure as to whether or not that is the fate that young Molly Ringwald enjoyed with her beau, Andrew McCarthy.
You see, in "Slaves," the season one finale, a Romanian immigrant is suspected of being in an abusive relationship from which she is unable to escape. As the search proceeds, we get two cast members of "The Wire" (Lance Reddick and Deirdre Lovejoy) and the striking Reiko Aylesworth guest-starring and a Munch rant on the dubious overthrowing of the Nicolae Ceauşescu regime. It is also discovered that Andrew McCarthy--now an investment banker--has beaten down her will to live, chaining her up in the closet and a box under the bed, tearing down her self-esteem and independence to the point of her suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
Having tortured Elena for two years to make her that supremely subservient, information presents itself illuminating the fact that not only did McCarthy hold his nanny in captivity for two years but that his wife was her predecessor in that role. In fact, his wife was so beleaguered that she was happy to have Elena serve as McCarthy's bitch in her stead.
The most disturbing part about the whole relationship with his wife is the fact that Andrew McCarthy had been the perfect gentleman at first.
This makes one wonder what happened to poor Molly Ringwald. She was already dealing with feelings of inadequacy as a result of her lower-class upbringing. Moreover, she has been absent from the public eye for years. The conclusion to be drawn here is obvious.
Perhaps the most important part of the puzzle that I have left obscured is the presence of his aforementioned best friend. Now that best friend had been our hero in the seminal youth in revolt masterpiece Tuff Turf, but clearly something went awry between that point and when he befriended Andrew McCarthy because Jimmy Spader turned dark as he became rich. Where Spader was at worst a manipulative and scheming dick at that pivotal time in McCarthy's life, he too endeavored down a path of dark sexual deviancy ranging from getting off on car crashes to... wait for it... wait for it... being the dominant in a dominant/submissive relationship with Maggie Gyllenhaal.
This is not coincidental.
The scariest part, though, is that it is very likely that it was in fact Andrew McCarthy who was the wolf in sheep's clothing. After all, he was seducing older women in hotels in Chicago while Spader was singing sweet tunes to the comely Kim Richards.
Which one is more depraved at this point?
So, then do we have Andrew McCarthy's perverse need for domination over the women around him to blame for the years of Ringwald absense? Shockingly, the answer appears to be yes.
And with all of those bombshells having been dropped, what really happened to Bernie?
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