70 Hours Missing
No one has seen her in 3 days. She attended St Urban’s for the past year and helped with the prayer group and youth literacy. She was a private person. Danny (Enrique Murciano) asks why he’s sure she hasn’t just gone away for the weekend? He replies because she specifically requested a hymn for Sunday : Be Thou My Vision, it was Irish and from the eighth century. Her name is Stephanie Healy (Sandra Nelson).
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Martin (Eric Close) says her car isn’t in the garage and Sam (Poppy Montgomery) tells of her neighbour overhearing an argument on Wednesday night and things being broken. Sam finds a missing picture frame from the wall and broken glass on the floor. Martin comments her Pinedale bank mug collection remains intact and he hates that bank as it sends him so much junk mail. He then finds flowers and a teddy bear in the bin. Martin assumes she had an argument with her boyfriend.
Viv’s (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) husband Marcus (Joseph C Phillips) comments on her doctor has told her the beta blockers are doing nothing for her. Viv thinks perhaps a new dosage will help. He mentions steptoe ablation myectomy and the only other option is open heart surgery. Viv reassures him she won’t go through with anything until she gets a second opinion. Viv reminds him he has students waiting for him.
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Viv tells Sam when Stephanie can’t sleep she watches QVC as she’s made 11 calls to them. Her family doesn’t keep in touch. Sam asks Viv about her test results. She’s still waiting on them. Sam mentions she looked up everything on halter monitors online and it looked serious. She’s concerned and asks if she should be at work? Viv ‘s doctor said it’s okay. Sam tells her Martin told her of the Chelsea Prince case and what happened there. Viv swears her to secrecy again. Martin finds Stephanie’s work history shows she’s had 4 jobs in the last 3 years, all in banks, but she keeps on moving. Her DMV photos show she also kept changing her appearance.
The bank manager tells Danny and Jack (Anthony LaPaglia) that Stephanie hasn’t been stealing from the bank, she didn’t check out her last job references because she told her she’d been sexually harassed and she respected her decision. Danny asks about references. Kirk (Brian Tee) saw her 4 days ago when she withdrew money and gave it to a man outside the bank. She was overdrawn $187. They argued together. Jack asks for the security camera footage.
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Edward Ferguson (Dale Midkiff) sent her the flowers. He lives in her building and has been seeing her 8 months. They fought Wednesday night after he heard a message on her answering machine asking for Steven. Stephanie told him Steven was her. She had a sex re-assignment 4 years ago to become a woman. Edward pushed her away and broke the frame. This was the last time he saw her and 2 days later sent her flowers. He loves her.
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Danny says the phone message outing Stephanie came from a hospital payphone in Stanford. Sam says she was issued with a new birth certificate but her social security number was the same: Steven Patrick Healy. Martin says this explains her moving around. Sam thinks maybe the payout was for the man to keep quiet. Danny discovers her gender Re-assignment doctor was Dr Vernon Metzger (Tony Pasqualini).
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She wrote a cheque to the doctor last December. He performed the surgery on her 4 years ago after a psychological evaluation, as well as some cosmetic surgery. Danny thinks she may have been the victim of a hate crime. The doctor says he was desperate for love and affection and probably looked in the wrong place for it. Viv says family members could be violent. Jack pays a visit to Lisa (Stephanie Venditto) and asks for a prescription because he can’t sleep but he doesn’t know why. She writes him one this time only.
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Sam finds a photo of Steven in the New Haven register. He was married 7 years ago. Martin tells her ERT went over her apartment and didn’t find anything. There was no record of Lillian J Schneider there. Stephanie’s e-mail record from 1 week ago was from Larry (Kevin Rankin) in Allentown, PA. There’s a record of a Lillian Schneider. Martin deduces Larry and Lillian are the same person. He’s in the photo from the bank footage.
Larry went to a female support group when he began his transition She wanted him to give the money to a friend at home. She didn’t want to go back herself and he thought she should be proud of who she is and follow her advice to him. The money went to Bridgeport, to a Maura McConnell (Eileen Ryan) at a a pub.
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Maura knew Stephanie since she was little. Danny asks what the money was for? Her father’s memorial. Her ex-wife and children moved away. Danny asks if she stayed in touch. She didn’t call back after her mother died but but she wanted to sing a hymn at her father’s funeral. Her brother Robert (Jamie McShane) couldn’t afford to throw a party. Danny asks if things between them were bad. Robert was surprised when she turned up and didn’t recognize her at first and was angry. She disgusted him. They went outside together and he had his hand in a towel when he returned., bleeding.
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Robert says Stephanie left. She broke their parent’s hearts and said he wanted to do this since he was little. He divorced Bev and moved to Danbury. She remarried, someone named Eastwick, he thinks.
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Danny notices something wrong with Viv which she puts down to tiredness. The barman recalls Stephanie was here Saturday night and was upset. Her children’s photos were old and he said she deserved a more recent photo. She made a call at the payphone and left. Viv uses the restroom. Danny thinks he was trying to contact her children. Martin finds a call was made to Dwight Eastman (Michael Toland) at 7:31.
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Bev (Maragret Welsh) doesn’t want to talk with Danny and Viv. Sam brings a search warrant. Her car was in the driveway. Danny wants to hear Eastman’s version of what happened but he asks for his lawyer. Bev says she was here a few minutes when her husband was out. He made a mistake leaving her. Her husband returned and knew she was her ex. Martin finds Eastman used the ATM near Fairfield Mall at 11:39pm. He was abusing his wife as the police stopped by the house because of domestic disputes. He went out at 10:45pm. Sam promises he won’t hurt her anymore. He dragged Stephanie out and took the car. He returned late. Sam finds a broken heel outside and assumes he got violent. Viv tells them he’s not talking. Sam thinks the money was for a taxi.
Danny and Viv find a broken road barrier where the car must have driven off. Danny goes down to look and finds the body in her car. She’s still alive. Viv collapses in the rain.
Stephanie was missing for 3 days before anyone noticed. This case went over the customary 48 hours and remarkably she was found alive.
It appears that things are a little better between Sam and Martin in this episode though no explanations for our benefit. Oddly they both go to her apartment and find the scenes of a fight and Martin finds the flowers. Signs of a lover’s quarrel, something they’re both familiar with!
Viv: “So you two have been discussing this?”
Sam: “No, he noticed something, he came to me. I didn’t say anything.”
Viv: “not an issue and I would really appreciate it if you kept it to yourself.” So Sam managed to keep quiet about it and didn’t let slip in an argument.
Martin: “She okay?”
Sam: “”I don’t know.”
Martin: “I can’t believe we didn’t know she used to be a man.” This could be interpreted to mean a criticism on his part. Viv just happened to have done the legwork in this episode along with Danny rather than staying in the office, leading up to the final moments of this episode.
Jack says his daughters are like “little women.” Referring to the book perhaps of the same name by Louisa May Alcott, since they’re miles away, having to deal without their father being with them nearby. They think Chicago has “funny accents, weird pizza.” Obviously he’s not a fan.
Jack can’t sleep and pays a visit to the shrink, Lisa for reasons other than talk, at least in this episode. His lack of sleep builds up nicely to episode 22 where one could say the pills seem to have a strange effect on him, at least his dreams.
Jack: “They can read that.”
For such a thought provoking episode in the controversial area of gender re-assignment, leading to all sorts of problems such as hate crimes, as mentioned by Danny, strangely not one of the team had any thoughts on this or any comments to make.
Robert mentions the famous Irish saying of “may you have gotten into heaven half an hour before the devil knows you was dead…” Of course said by that other Irish half-man, half-demon, Doyle in season 1 Angel. Played by Glenn Quinn, sadly no longer with us.
Also mentioned is the movie The Witches of Eastwick, though makes you wonder why he thought of his name being Eastwick, something to do with witches or being a monster Eastman.
Danny: “Wanna rack ‘em up? Viv, what’s going on?”
Viv: “I’m just a little tired today.” So she could’ve asked to work in the office or Sam could’ve offered to take her place in the field.
Danny asks if she’s okay again? Viv was too ready to reveal what was wrong with her. It was for the benefit of the viewer – we already knew. Then Sam looked it up on the Net and told her blatantly. She didn’t say she was worried first and then looked it up. She should’ve talked to Viv about it instead of going behind her back, then she has the nerve to accuse Martin of keeping things from her, like not talking about Viv’s condition with her, she didn’t do the same after they all found out.
Danny likes to throw his weight around with suspects like ordering them to sit own. So does Jack as he always invites people to sit down next to him on the sofa. As for Eastman using an ATM machine when he clearly needs an alibi, well couldn’t he have paid for the taxi when he got home or did he not have any money there either. When Viv collapses it’s left to Danny and Jack to find her as if there was no one else bout.
The well-known storyline done on CSI where the man finds out about the woman not being as such and then things turning ugly.
Danny has his own umbrella when they find Viv and also he found the missing person again, though this time she was still alive. Danny got his hands on a an umbrella finally. Yeah, it was Viv’s! as he didn’t have one in season 3 episode 2 Thou Shalt Not either!
No one commented about the operation in this episode, as if everyone was trying to be all PC. Remember the season 2 episode 10 Coming Home, when Danny commented on how the man should’ve made up his mind if he was gay or not before he got married to save everyone the trouble, whereas Sam thought he was being homophobic, which he wasn’t and when Jack said it’s not their job to judge but only to find the missing person. Also no one said anything to Martin when he said he couldn’t believe she was a man.
Viv in the field with Danny when she obviously wasn’t well, as opposed to Sam volunteering to take her place. By now even Danny sensed something was wrong. Viv should’ve confided in him – not like he would’ve blabbed and he could’ve kept a closer eye on her! Not like Viv did in episode 21 when she called Jack and told him about his visit – granted she was concerned but Jack wasn’t with him; so couldn’t really keep an eye on him. Danny wouldn’t have expected that from her.
No one came up with any 'he/she' comments. Martin saying he couldn’t believe they didn’t know she was a man without anyone making a big deal about it. Also season 2's episode, which I have already mentioned, never mind,. When Danny said he should’ve realized his sexual orientation before he got married so he wouldn’t hurt his wife and save everyone the bother etc and would probably still be alive and Jack having a go at him by saying they only find them and it’s not up to them to pass judgement. Also Sam implying Danny was being homophobic. Especially since Danny wasn’t or making such a comment either. He knew he was gay and yet he hid behind a sham of a marriage – did he love his wife and if he did, he had an affair anyway.
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