A Room with No View

Season 2, Episode 20, Aired

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When Frank and Peter help track down Landon Brice, an ordinary teenager who recently went missing, they believe that the boy was abducted. But the investigation brings Frank to believe that Lucy Butler (the prime suspect in the murder of his friend Bob Bletcher) is behind an entire series of abductions so he sets out on a mission to avenge Bob's death.

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  • The demonic Lucy Butler returns, this time kidnapping youths and taking them to a rural farmhouse for reasons unknown. She demands total obedience from her victims, the alternative being death...

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    By peteblack, Nov 04, 2011
    Frank is asked to investigate a murder, the culprit assumed to be the young man's disappeared roommate. He then realises the roommate has been abducted, but by whom? We soon find out the abductor is Lucy Butler, who has an entire farmhouse full of missing young men. She also has a vicious dog to keep them in line, and a mysterious accomplice...or is it Lucy's "other" personality? Frank and Peter race to find the abductee.
    At last, the return of Lucy Butler, wonderfully played by the angelic-looking Sarah-Jane Redmond. She has a basement full of victims, explaining to them the value of being ordinary, while the same horrid Muzak track plays over and over at deafening volume-a great, memorable touch.Unfortunately we're still none the wiser about who or what Lucy is, and perhaps they've left it to us to make up our own minds. It's a tense episode, and Lucy makes a great arch-villain for Frank, but a little more information about Lucy and her motivations would have been appreciated. Still, a handsomely produced, intelligent offering.moreless

  • A very interesting idea, showing a version of a living hell, and a new side to an old character.

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    By Hungry_Homer111, Feb 29, 2008
    Season 2 of Millennium was a season which had a lot of experimentation through the different episodes, and "A Room With no View is definitely no exception.

    The episode is about a highschool boy who gets kidnapped, and Frank has to find him. It turns out that the boy was kidnapped by Lucy Butler from season one. However, Lucy has a very different personality than the one she had before.

    The episode is shows the boy in his captivity as he is put into a kind of living hell. He is forced to listen to bad music being repeated over and over again, he is "loved" by Lucy Butler (who is very seductive in this episode, in a very creepy way), and is forced to lose a sense of who he is. The only thing, outside of this psychological torture, that he has to pass the time is counting the time that he has been stuck in that place, and talking to an unresponsive roommate.

    While the episode does show Frank trying to find the boy, which is pretty interesting, it isn't the best thing about the episode. It's the representation of the boy's time in captivity that makes the episode really interesting. The writing and directing really help to capture this feeling of hell. It also really does a good job at conveying Lucy as this very different, very creepy and seductive character.moreless
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    • While Frank, Peter, and Geibelhouse are cross-referencing the missing children on the Millennium Group's databases, one of the schools listed was Butler High. This is possibly a reference to the criminal of this episode, Lucy Butler.

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    • Title: A Room With No View This is an obvious reference to both the estate agents' old parlance when describing apartments for rent - 'a room with a view', and also to the E.M. Forster book and subsequent film, A Room with a View, whose rather old-fashioned, sweet storyline was as far removed from this episode as possible.

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