Review: Stockholm Syndrome at worst
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2012
SPOILERS - Vile, disgusting, there is nothing redeeming about this man NOTHING!!We meet Nickolas interviewing Morgan  (recently released after serving 5 years) Morgan has no hope of gaining the position. Nickolas doesn't care for Morgan she is dressed in a very short skirt, chewing gum, and spent 5 years for murder, which was later determined to be self-defense. When Morgan get's up to leave she says that Nick's mom sent her over, Nick calls the front to stop Morgan from leaving and calls his mom. His mom explains that Morgan has been wrongfully imprisoned and severally abused prior to her incarceration.Morgan tries to leave the building and is manhandled by security she defends herself and the security guard is injured. Nick goes to Morgan apartment (half-way house) and is attacked by one of the tenet's Morgan tires to help and injuries Nick and both go to the hospital. Morgan explains what happened and the cop informs them that Murphy's things have been destroyed. Morgan is attacked in the hospital but refuses to say who attacked her.She accepts the job as Nick's receptionist/secretary, as she can't go back to the half-way house she moves into one of the apartments in the building that Nick owns. Morgan has violent nightmares stemming from 5 years prior when she was kidnapped and held prisoner for 9 days; she was raped repeatedly and sold to other men by the man who kept her tied in the basement. Morgan kills the man who kidnapped and spends several weeks in a coma when she wakes she is in prison and serving life for murder. After 5 years Nick's mother working as a counselor at the prison is able to get her conviction overturned, Morgan has only been out of prison for a week when she meets Nick.After working for Nick's for several weeks Morgan is broke, she has no credit history so can't cash her paychecks she tries to explain this to Nick and is directed to accounting and thinks no more of the matter. Morgan unable to cash her check finds work at a bar where she and the owners become good friends. Nick continually treats Morgan deplorably, during any interaction Nick is verbally assaulting Morgan, and Morgan holds her own but still is very traumatized by her past.  Morgan meets Nick's brothers and become great friends with them, Nick believes Morgan to be a "gold digger" though nothing in her actions suggest she even wants a man.Morgan is hurt, Nick and his brother Bryon come to help and discover the apartment bare, Morgan lives in the bathroom and the brothers see that she has not truly left prison. Morgan goes to Nick's brother Diamon to help with her foot, and is told to stay off her foot. As she can't walk she is pressured into going to Thanksgiving at Nick's mothers, his brothers are there with their families and Morgan see's what a great family they are. Nick and Morgan are caught in an embrace and everyone is happy for them. Morgan and Nick are making out on the couch when Morgan has a flash back to her attack, she faints and wakes later in bed with Meggie Nick's niece and everyone rally's around Morgan. Morgan tells Nick about her attack and Nick seems to come around willing to help Morgan.Nick finds some papers about himself and his $$ worth, believing Morgan is after his money Nick treats Morgan deplorably. They go to bed and Nick starts to scare and hurt Morgan while having sex, he accuses her of trying to trap him, and calls her a whore, he claims that Morgan was never attacked or held captive that she murdered an innocent man and got away with it. Morgan retreats into herself while Nick basically rapes hers. When Nick is finished he tells her to leave, Morgan calls Mick (her boss from the bar) to come for her, she starts to walk and leaves a trail of blood behind. Mick finds her just as she is about to faint from blood loss. She wakes in the hospital and Damon is there (Nick's brother and her DR). Mick explains what happened and Damon tells that they woke up to find a trail of blood and no Morgan, worried they didn't know what to think Nick told everyone they got into a fight and believed she went to another room to sleep not knowing that she left the house. Morgan refuses to explain what happened and says only that she doesn't want to see Nick again, Damon returns her belongings and Morgan goes to work for Mick at the bar full time.Having knowledge in web-design from her time in prison she updates Mick's bar website, and is even receiving referrals which lead her back to Byron (Nick's brother), Morgan stays friends with Nick's brothers and mom, but refuses to speak or see Nick. Morgan finds out she is pregnant and begs Byron not to say anything she explains why Nick may have thought she was after his money (Morgan helped Nick's nephew with a report on Nick). Mick's wife explains to Morgan that by law she must tell the father about the baby, as she is a lawyer she is willing to help Morgan with the paperwork. Nick receives the letter and blows up, saying the baby isn't his, he didn't "finish" inside Morgan and that she only wanted money, feeling vindicated at last. Nick receives a call from the hospital that Morgan is there he goes with Damon and find Morgan has been badly beaten again she won't name the attacker. Nick demands a paternity test, he meets his brothers a few days later to discover that all want to marry Morgan Byron to protect her, Damon feels sorry for her, Spencer (Meggie's fathers) to give Meggie a mom and because Morgan is real good with Meggie, Devon doesn't offer as he is acting as Nick's lawyer in the paternity case.They receive a call that Morgan has confessed to the murder of a couple of cops, turns out said cop is her attacker (both attacks). After speaking with the detectives it is determined that Morgan didn't kill the cops they killed each other she tells Nick she wanted to go back to prison that she knew what to expect and she doesn't belong anywhere else. Nick feels guilty knowing his part in her pain, still treats her horribly. The paternity results come in and Nick is the father of TWINS (boys). Morgan is not informed of the results as she is determined to put the baby up for adoption or give to Nick.Nick pressures Morgan into marriage with a pre-nup, Morgan agrees and a hasty civil ceremony is performed.  Nick purchases a house, car, and has a live-in nurse, he places money in account for Morgan and pays all household expenses, Nick never moves in and they live separate lives. Morgan refuses to use the car or money and works long hours a day on a web-design project. The house is broken into when Morgan is out and the nurse is injured when Morgan see's on TV what happened she calls Bryon. Nick meet's Morgan's bus, she is asleep inside and goes to her in her sleep she tells him she loves him and Nick doesn't know what to say. He picks her up and takes her to his apartment as the house is not safe. Morgan wakes in Nicks bed and he basically wants sex again (as much as possible with her advanced pregnancy), he seduces her and they have oral sex. Morgan tells him she loves him and Nick tells her he doesn't, feeling foolish Morgan runs from the apartment (7-8 months pregnant) running down 9 flights of stairs she collapses, and is rushed to the hospital. Nick acknowledges to himself that he loves her and how he had basically raped her on the night the babies were conceived, and breaks down.  Morgan wakes in the hospital 4 days later and is rushed to delivery. After giving birth Morgan prepares to leave, she has had Libby (her lawyer-Mick's wife) prepare documents that will leave her children everything she was given by Nick - the house, car, bank accounts, some photos of her while pregnant and letters from her. Mick helping Morgan leave takes her to Nick, Nick received the documents from Libby and apologizes to Morgan for what he has done, and that he does love her. Morgan says "OK" I love you too and let's go home with our babies.Nick is disgusting, he treats Morgan like dirt, grops her, presses himself on her and belittles her intelligence he knows she has been horribly raped yet doesn't care, there is NOTHING to like about him in the end I was left feeling that Morgan was once again trapped in the basement.Pass on this one try Vittorio's Mistress by Kimberley Reeves