Diksha Sundriyal
The fourth episode of Peacock’s ‘Poker Face’ Season 2 takes Natasha Lyonne’s Charlie Cale to the land of Florida. She lands on this destination randomly as she is now free to go anywhere since making peace with Beatrix Hasp. Here, she finds a noble cause to save innocent beings from falling victim to their circumstances. This time, however, the subject of her saving is not a human, but an alligator named Daisy, who is a pet of a cop named Joseph Pilson. His sudden death causes the blame to fall upon Daisy, which puts the entire police force on a mission to kill her. Charlie, however, believes that the creature is innocent and must be saved. SPOILERS AHEAD.
Daisy the Alligator Comes Close to Dying Several Times
If it weren’t for Charlie Cale, Daisy the Alligator would have died a gruesome death at the hands of Florida cops. Her owner, Joseph, is accidentally killed by another cop, Fran, who is devastated at losing the Flopacopa for Best Cop of the Year to Joseph for the eighth time in a row. She wanted to prank him by giving him the laxative he used on Daisy, and also used himself in very low quantities. But she misreads the limit of non-fatal quantity and overdoses Joseph, and he dies while sitting on the toilet seat. To save herself, Fran frames Daisy by getting her high on meth and letting her loose on Joseph’s dead body, which the alligator tears to shreds.
When the other cops discover Daisy has killed her own human and has a taste of blood now, they become convinced that the only way to stop her is to kill her. All the cops in the Flopacopas are armed to the teeth and ready to riddle the alligator with bullets, but Charlie, who has stared into the creature’s eyes and seen peace, knows that a human has framed Daisy, and she is not the violent animal she is being made out to be. Fortunately, Charlie is the first one to find Daisy, closely followed by Fran, who has her own agenda with the alligator. For the moment, however, the women agree that they need to get Daisy out of the building.
As they drive towards the river, Charlie believes that they are going to let Daisy into the water. However, it becomes clear to her much later that Fran wants to kill the alligator because she killed Joseph and wants to remove all evidence of her crime. As Fran points a gun at Daisy, ready to shoot her, Charlie asks her to look into the alligator’s eyes and see for herself that Daisy is a peaceful creature who would have never gone violent if she wasn’t high on meth. Interestingly, when Fran looks into her eyes, she sees the same thing that Charlie saw and realises her mistake. She immediately drops the idea of killing Daisy, and lets her go into the water and, for the first time, be free and wild.
Later, as Charlie is ready to leave the town, she comes back to bid goodbye to Daisy, but is scared as the alligator approaches her because she thinks that Daisy has a taste for human blood now. But as she drives away, we see Daisy flip in the water, indicating that not only does she remember Charlie, but she is also the same peaceful and playful Daisy as she was before she tore Joseph apart in a frenzy that she may or may not regret. Now, she doesn’t have to suffer through the daily rounds of sedatives and laxatives, and can be her true self, irrespective of her taste for human blood.
