The Closer - 6.7: "Jump the Gun" Review

Major Crimes investigates bank robberies this time round and Fritz tells them the bank robbers are part of a gang the FBI is hunting. Fritz breaks the news he's the FBI/LAPD liaison. The short list for the position of Chief is announced.

Major Cases looks into the deaths of two bank robbers killed in a stand-off with police whilst robbing a bank and having killed a security guard in the process.   Hostage negotiator Det Heyward (Tom Verica) attempts to negotiate the release of the hostages, which they do release, but the robbers leave by another exit.   Fritz (Jon Tenney) thinks the gang has three more members since they all belonged to the 'Dear Jane' gang, as he explains to Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick).   They hand over the note to the bank teller asking for money, using the bank teller's name.   They were wearing hoods and one of them is described as 'brown overalls' aka Dennis Bailey, their normal MO is to wear baseball caps.   Gabriel (Corey Reynolds) and Sanchez (Raymund Cruz) find safes at one of the robber's apartments and leave them in Taylor's (Robert Gossett) cubicle.

Brenda along with the others watch the surveillance video, after which they view the footage from the bank.   The two robbers are Dennis and Jason McDonald.   A security guard is also killed.  Tao (Michael Paul Chan) and Buzz (Phillip P Keene) look at footage from the parking lot and Buzz notices the number plate of the getaway car in the reflection of another car.   Tao IDs the plate as belonging to Heyward.   Fritz deems it a suitable time to inform Brenda, Pope and Taylor that he has been appointed the FBI liaison to the LAPD, which is a shock to everyone, especially Brenda, who doesn't even congratulate him until Fritz mentions it.  

Didn't look like she wanted to work with him more than is necessary and you know what they say about working with family, at least Provenza (GW Bailey) will mention it later.   Pope thinks it a significance as she's running for Chief of Police and the shortlist is due to be announced soon.   Also that Fritz being appointed may have something to do with him knowing Brenda.   Fritz replies he knows Pope too, but can't really tell him anything about Pope's personal life when he asks.   Fritz wishes him luck anyway.

Heyward can't explain why his car was there since his wife was driving it to church.   Gabriel interrupts Brenda and Pope, informing he hasn't found Dennis but he has located his brother, Jed.  (Craig Zimmerman)  That was a coincidence everyone being in LA, small world.   When questioning Jed about his brother and his activities, Jed plays dumb or at least tries to and is shocked when he hears Dennis was killed during a bank robbery.   Though he does appear to be genuinely upset.   His neighbour, Gene (Mark Ankeny) asks if he's fine and he looked to be playing the too nosy neighbour.

At Dennis's apartment overalls are found, showing he kept his clothes from previous robberies, as well as money and a baseball cap.   Flynn (Tony Denison) comes across a receipt for a blue rental car with the license plate from Heyward's car.   Following up on this leads them to Boyd at the car rental place and he quietly makes a quick getaway in one of the cars.   Fritz comments, he made a good getaway.  

Tao is told that Heyward's wife reported the front number plate from the car as missing.   Fritz tells Brenda the FBI have Boyd as the driver but she wants him for murder.   He doesn't believe Boyd is the brains behind the robberies.   They argue over the case and one thing to look forward to are the blues between the couple, especially when it's about work.   Fritz thinks she's mad cos the only reason he's been promoted is her running for Chief and not cos he deserved it.   He leaves the room and she whispers, he stole her suspect., which he did but then they've been doing that enough times already anyway.

Heyward's alibi checks and Pope demands to know why he and his wife are still in custody, since his Union rep has been here.  She replies he's helping with their investigation and working overtime.   Gabriel finds a connection between Heyward and the gang: Jed and Heyward attend the same church and Jed and Jason were Frat brothers at college.   Brenda wants to search Boyd's apartment but needs a search warrant.  "Liaising" with Fritz over the phone, she searches for a choc bar in her candy drawer cos of her frustration and cunningly tells Fritz will be named as the witness in the warrant, and asks if he does want to be named as a witness or an informant, unless he answers some questions for her.   One gang member still alludes them and Provenza asks if the Heywards can leave.  He finds a choc bar for her.   She gives him candy for the Heywards.

Having had her question answered they find Gene doing a runner when he sees them, so he was the last member of the gang.  Jed's finances show he spends far more than he earns.   Gene confesses; which proves useful and Brenda needs to place Jed at the bank so out comes another ploy to fool him into confessing.   Jed denies he was there for the robbery but admits he checked the bank out and decided against it as there were too many exits.   Why did a bank have that many exits anyway?   He's arrested as an accomplice to murder as he admits he 'cased' the bank.   There he was trying to be clever again, they always fall for it. So much for being the criminal mastermind of the gang.

Fritz made a deal with Boyd who thinks he'll only be charged with being the getaway driver, but Brenda charges him with murder.  The FBI take Gene and charge him with the bank robberies.   Pope wants Brenda and him to salvage their relationship when this is all over and he receives a call telling him he's not on the shortlist, especially when he told Fritz earlier he worked his whole life for this and it comes as a major blow.   Brenda tries to be sympathetic, saying she doesn't even want the job, but he wants her to leave.   Brenda gets her own call informing her she is on the shortlist.

It's looking more and more like Brenda will be made Chief,. Can't help but think Fritz's appointment may have something to do with this since it seemed a little more than just a coincidence.   Everyone else seems to  think so too.   Pope argues with Brenda over this case and her running and she finally decides to have it out with him once and for all, when Gabriel interrupts their argument  which was a shame, as she clearly had plenty to say.

Supernatural - 6.16: "And Then There Were None" review

Mother of all makes an appearance wrecking havoc everywhere she goes. Sam, Dean, Bobby and Rufus must contend with Samuel and a strange creature inhabiting their bodies.

A man at a petrol station gives a woman a ride, who turns out to be the mother of all.   Eve kisses him and he gives her a sermon on how Jesus loves them.   The apocalypse came and went and he didn't even notice.     A mother wouldn't abandon a child and she's a mother.   She whispers in his ear and Rick (Brent Stait) goes home where he kills his wife (Kimberly Unger).

Bobby (Jim Beaver) tells the others how hunters are finding vampires, ghouls, werewolves, on the I-80.   Dean (Jensen Ackles) refers to it as the monster march.   They speak to Rick in jail and Bobby tags along too, all having to don suits.   Sam (Jared Padalecki) views footage and they see Eve (Julia Maxwell).   Dean: "freakish nightmare what the hell was that?" Dean refers to Eve as Big Momma.   Bobby thinks they're over their heads.   Another man goes mad at the cannery.   Rufus (Steven Williams) arrives there before Bobby.   Rufus is tracking "81 flavours of crazy."  Flavours being Dean's word.   Rufus wants to partner like the old times and Bobby wants to drive, just like Dean does.

Bobby and Rufus perform an autopsy on the dead man and Bobby notices a substance in his ear.   Yuk.   It's not ectoplasm.  They all worked at the cannery.   Hey, Bobby was driving when they met Sam and Dean.   Bobby suggests Dean, Sam and Rufus should get a room as they're so friendly.   Gwen (Jennifer Heafey) and Samuel (Mitch Pileggi) are already at the cannery and Dean pulls a gun on him and this time Sam stops him (last time Dean stopped Sam from shooting him).   Sam thinks he may know something.  Dean asks Sam if he recalls what Samuel did to them.   Samuel calls Bobby the man pretending to be their family.   Well he was more family than Samuel ever was or could be.   Sam got his soul back, no thanks to him and Samuel is hunting Eve.   She's escaped from purgatory.   She was on earth 10,000 years ago.

Bobby says he threw Sam and Dean to the ghouls and Gwen asks Dean if that's true.   She was awfully naive not knowing the man she's been hunting with for so long.   Dean replies, Samuel "didn't even blink." Dean shoots Gwen cos he's been possessed by the the thing and runs away.   He has discharge in his ear.   Sam says they need to find Dean alive or Sam will put a bullet in Samuel's head - that was prophetic coming from him as he'll do just that.     Sam calls Dean.   Dean mentions a "12" harpy crawled out of his ear."   Calling it a 'Khan worm on steroids'.   Rufus checks his ear.   Dean comments he needs to buy him a drink first, before he lets Rufus get so close, and there was Bobby telling them to get a room.   Ha.   Rufus: "second date."  Bobby gets everyone to lock their guns away.   They make calls to see if anyone knows anything and come up empty.

Sam and Dean follow Samuel to the loo and Rufus mentions Omaha.   Bobby calls that low.   Dean asks how Samuel sleeps at night after feeding them to Crowley.   Samuel isn't apologizing.   Sam is angry he still sold him out even after he spent a year with him.   Samuel doesn't believe that compares to what Sam did, but Sam didn't have a soul.  What was Samuel's' excuse aside from wanting Mary back, which he didn't get?   Samuel is possessed by the harpy.   They retrieve the guns and insist on staying together.  Sam stops them from stepping on a trip wire, that was set up quickly.   Sam gets separated and comes face to face with Samuel.  Sam wouldn't go with Samuel he'd shoot him.   Samuel wants to tell Sam about what he did in that year and Sam puts a bullet in Samuel's head.   That's what he said he'd do.

Sam is handcuffed and he insists he's Sam and no one saw anything come out of Samuel and nothing is found in his ears.  Rufus suggests they cut him open.  Er, who will watch Dean, watch Sam, watch Samuel.   Sam gets his soul back and ends up being the one to shoot Samuel and Dean knows he did the right thing.   Dean will assume Sam is really him.   Sam doesn't recall the good things about Samuel and what he did to them.   Dean recalls Mom would say, "Just cos you're blood - it doesn't make you family.  You've gotta earn that."

Bobby says Omaha was his fault and says sorry Rufus lost her.   Rufus will never forgive Bobby for what happened.   Samuel wakes and the harpy goes into Rufus or Bobby and gets electrocuted  forcing the harpy out.   It's in one of them.  Sam checks for goo and decides to use electricity on each of them.   Bobby goes last so it has to be him.   Rufus has a pacemaker.   Bobby stabs Rufus, should have seen that coming.   Sam asks why Dean keeps talking about harpies.   Dean protests he doesn't and tells Sam to shut up.   Yeah Sam this isn't the time for harpy talk.   The harpy (ha) doesn't leave Bobby with the use of electricity.

 There's no name for the creature yet and apparently Eve made it.   She's the mother, we know that by now, and has a message for them: they're all going to die.   Sam tapes Bobby's mouth and Dean has to be the one to electrocute Bobby, as Sam can't watch, the benefit of a soul wherein Dean has to be the one who continues doing the dirty work just as in earlier seasons.   Bobby is free and the worm is killed.   Okay I stopped calling it a harpy too.  As for calling it a harpy Eve made it so it must be female, ha.

They bury Rufus.   Everyone went out in this episode and thus the title.   Bobby tells them about being a mechanic and how his wife went psycho, Rufus saved him and taught him what was out there.   Dean says it doesn't matter what happens cos at the end of the day they're all family.   He knows something will get them eventually and he's knows it's okay whatever happens and he'll forgive them for it, blank apology.   Bobby pours scotch over Rufus's grave.

The title also reminds me of the Agatha Christie book, Ten Little Indians which was changed for the purposes of the movie and stage play to And Then There Were None and in some ways this episode lived up to that.   All the Campbell's are gone - that we know of, and Rufus too.   The plot of the book: people get killed off one by one and one isn't really dead, who turns out to be the killer.   This is what happens here, especially when Samuel came back to life with the harpy/worm still inside him.   They also suspected each other of being the one possessed just as in the book/movie, they all suspected each other of being the killer.

So many met their doom in this episode.   With Samuel it was anticipated after his betrayal of the Winchesters.   He couldn't really be expected to get off scott free.   But he was still hunting, even if we never figure out if it was still for Crowley or not, still in the hopes of bringing back Mary.   As he was a hunter, that's one less around to hunt monsters etc.   Gwen being killed was a surprise but it wasn't as if she was a major character. To have her die as soon as she found out about Samuel's betrayal of his grandsons didn't leave for any condemnation or retribution on her part.

Rufus was expected to also meet his maker eventually, not this early.   Another reason for the title, as said before.   Pedantically speaking - there were three still left standing .   Eve was introduced now when there's six episodes left, so take it she won't amount to much, since she was being built up as someone/thing to fear since 6.5 when mentioned by the Alpha vampire.  Releasing a 'worm' , oh sorry harpy, on the world to 'corrupt' people to her will wasn't very original and she came across as weak if this is all she has to offer.   Let's face it, demon possession is much more interesting and more down Supernatural street.

Somewhere Sam would have thought, if not said, they can't save everyone - meaning Rufus here and maybe Gwen.   Ironic in some ways that it was Bobby possessed by the worm/harpy who killed Rufus, especially after he said he'd never forgive him for Omaha.   Also when Rufus met Bobby he helped him with his possessed wife.   Sam showed very little remorse for killing Samuel although he has a soul.   Dean justifying he had little choice.   To be fair, think he felt a little left out in not being the one to pull the trigger out of revenge.   Dean was once upon a time so very trigger happy.   Now that's Sam's forte.   They reversed it here as it was Dean killing Gwen when he was possessed and Sam being the one to kill Samuel without being infected.

As far as episodes go about being 'taken over' by entities or viruses, season 2's Croatoan was much more exciting and atmospheric with everyone being stuck in the clinic and being taken over and killed off.   More drama , more brotherly discourse and discussion, with Dean wanting to give up the fight and hunting.   Years later he's still here.   Dean in that episode, "massacre a town." Here it was more like massacre the human race and his line, "one way to wipe out a town, take it from the inside." Which appears to be Eve's intention.

Also the season 1 X-Files episode Ice, referencing the movie The Thing; being isolated and having to work out who was infected with the extra-terrestrial parasitic worm.

Samuel was already on the case and knowing about Eve. Did Crowley tell him?  Also, he seemed to be hiding something about Sam and his "lost" year.   Chris Cooper, the name on Sam's phone is named for the props master on the show.

CSI: Miami - 8.8: "Point of Impact" Review

A car crash for the Miami-Dade CSIs to investigate this time round, with enough twists and turns as the cars themselves, finally revealing the driver to be someone they wouldn't suspect.

An SUV crashes into a stationary Bentley, causing one death and one survivor who is pulled from the wreckage by a man who appears to be an innocent jogger.   Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) comments he saved the boy's life by pulling him free (thought you weren't meant to move vics from their cars).   Calleigh (Emily Procter) covers the DB woman so that her son wouldn't see her and be left with the trauma of replaying what he saw over in his mind.   Funny she calls him her son, when they haven't established who any of the passengers are yet.   Jesse tells her she's compromising evidence.   Leading to this week being Calleigh's turn to do something she reprimanded Jesse for doing in the Dude Where's My Groom episode, when he searched the suspect's bag without a warrant, or consent.   Which would lead some to comment on this being self-righteous on Calleigh's part.

Horatio (David Caruso) finds a girl who was thrown from the car and she's still alive.   He believes the car was driven by "somebody with something to hide" and you know he's right.   Ryan (Jonathan Togo) takes photos of the accident.   The second driver was driving a stolen car.   Jesse tells them they didn't know which car was at fault yet but Walter (Omar Miller) adds that innocent drivers don't run.   The seat was further back than his is so they're looking for a tall driver.   or as Jesse teases, they "must be looking for a big guy."  In relation to Walter.

Walter: "Word is tall."  Great to see them jibing each other like that, adding a fun dynamic.   Thus Jesse comments on the "good Samaritan, being not so good." The driver, Victor (Paul Gasol) pretended to be passing by and he wants to speak with a lawyer.  He was turning and the SUV came from nowhere.   Jesse notices he escaped without any scratches and this will be relevant for later.   He was returning the car for her sister, she took it from her boyfriend.   His sister Martha (Paloma Guzman) later tells Jesse he was returning it for her.   He always helps her out.   Victor later turns up DB in custody.   Why did they call out for Jesse to help, they're all officers but they can't handle an emergency inside the station themselves!

ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) notices this is the largest Vic he's ever examined.   He explains to Jesse why he died using a tub of jelly (jello).   The Vic's head and brain, before the crash was solid and after it got shaken around, his brain became all mushy.  He suffered a "diffusional injury from the impact."  His head "fractured with invisible cracks.   Tom says his brain stopped working, known as "Talk and Die syndrome."  He could have been like that for days and no one would have noticed.

Ryan comments on how Victor thought he had dodged the bullet and assumes that Victor drove into the SUV.   Without all the evidence being in, Horatio wouldn't be happy if he heard that.   Walter says the car was turning right and the SUV came from over the bridge.   Ryan sees the tyre treads are away from the centre of the road and so the SUV braked before the impact.   But why did it swerve?  Walter believes the driver could have been drunk.

Cue Tom once more.   The woman's blood/ alcohol lever was .115, she was over the limit.   They contact the Vic's husband, Ballard (Henry simmons) who tells them the children were at a Pep rally and Karen (Sherri Saum) was picking them up.   Calleigh passes her own judgements to him about having a drinker in the family and knowing how difficult it must be.   Again she hasn't grasped the full picture either and though her husband may have been unaware of certain things about his wife, he would know if she was a heavy drinker or a drunk.

Dave (Wes Ramsey) retrieves the GPS data from the car and finds Karen was at The Rum Room earlier in the day.   She left her glasses there and only ordered one drink, which was guzzled by her male friend.   She was having an affair.   Horatio believes they may have got a 'false/positive' from the blood test.   Calleigh tells him the blood was collected post mortem, thus bacteria built up producing ethanol.   The vitreous humour in her eye would clarify this, but the one eye that was still attached to her DB is compromised.   Leading Calleigh on the hunt for Karen's eyeball.   Walter has to show she was in the driver's seat before the accident.   Calleigh's looking for her eyeball and he doesn't want to know or help since eyeballs are like Kryptonite to him.   So that was horrible of Calleigh to scare him with the eyeball like that after she finds it.

ME Tom finds Karen's blood/alcohol level was .02.   She wasn't drunk.   Ryan analyzes the tread on Karen's shoe from the tread on the brake pedal and finds it doesn't match her shoe.   Karen wasn't driving.   Calleigh apologizes to Ballard for accusing his wife but she doesn't tell him about her affair.   She asks for their children's Lily's (Nieko Mann) and Greg's shoes.   Greg has a suspended licence so he couldn't drive.   From then on they should have realized this would have only left Lily.   Ryan and Walter discuss whether they'd want to know if his wife was having an affair and Ryan says he would.

The treads match Greg's shoes.   He drove two weeks ago and was racing that's why his licence was suspended.  Tripp (Rex Linn) adds he had Marijuana in his possession too.   They check out the SUV and Walter surmises that soft plastics do not need a high temperature to melt.   Greg could have been driving the car on another day and braked hard.   They need to trace the path of the passengers.   Walter explains friction would cause the fibres from clothes to fuse to the car panels.   Ryan has a go at Walter by saying he was "promoted from the nightshift and now he thinks he's God's gift to forensics."   Umm, could say the same thing about Ryan too.   He was promoted from his traffic gig and has been in trouble ever since.  Ha.   Though admittedly, sometimes through no fault of his own.

There's a match from Greg's jeans to the back door, so he was in the back, leaving either Lily or Karen as the potential drivers.  Calleigh believes there'll be evidence of Karen under the steering wheel.   Concluding Lily was driving.   Lily explains her mother didn't have her glasses, so she had to drive and swerved to avoid the alligator on the road.   The steering felt heavy and she couldn't control it.   Leaving yet more pieces of the puzzle to be solved and more likely for Horatio to check out the car.   He finds that the steering fluid was low and the pipe had been cut.   He thinks Ballard tried to hurt his wife, but why would he since his children would also be in the car.   Tripp is the one who breaks the news of Karen's affair to him.

Calleigh sniffs an odor coming from the car, which Jesse describes as Marijuana.   He asks why she's smelling him and then Ryan tells her he didn't do anything.   Yeah Calleigh suspect all of them and not yourself, ha.   Then she lets Jesse be the one to pull out the part from the car.   It was hidden in the car and Greg cut the steering line when he hid it there.   He was selling it to his friends only, as if that makes it any better.   So Greg's actions led to his mother dying and there was Calleigh saying he'll play what happened over in his mind, at the beginning.   Which he will do.   Now he'll have the guilt to deal with too.

Jesse tells Martha her brother saving a life and was a hero.   A bit of a long winded episode with many twists leading up to the son being the one responsible for the accident even if he wasn't driving.   With Walter, Jesse and Ryan all teasing each other again, as is the norm with them now.   Something that Speed (Rory Cochrane) and Delko (Adam Rodriguez) used to do in the early days.    

Eddie got to meet up with his former Sunset Beach co-star, Sherri, though not having much of a role, they didn't really get any proper scenes together.   As well as Jason George appearing in the first epsiode of this season too.   Another of Eddie's former co-stars.

Lie To Me - 1.10: "The Better Half" Review

Finally we get to meet Cal's ex and find there's still unfinished business between the two as far as their feelings are concerned when she asks Cal to look into a case of arson for her.

Cal's (Tim Roth) ex turns up for help on an arson case and Ria (Monica Raymund) gets to meet her: Zoe (Jennifer Beals) is the Assistant US Attorney.   A family's house was set ablaze and their grandmother died in the fire.   The boy, AJ (Griffin Cleveland) saw Jack Garcia (Kurt Caceres) a TV  reporter, at the house.   Cal talks to AJ asking if he knows about the boy who cried wolf.   AJ doesn't back down and is certain he saw Jack.   Jack claims he hasn't seen Frank Ambrose (David Harbour) the house owner in a while.   Cal watches the tape of the interview Jack did with Frank and notices the contempt shown by Jack for Frank.

Gillian (Kelli Williams) appears to be concerned about Cal working with Zoe - she always messes him up after she leaves.   Cal disagrees and asks Gillian what she's doing in the men's room.   Gillian corrects him, he's in the ladies room.   Proving her point.  As already we see Cal isn't over Zoe.   Jack doesn't like Frank as he asked him for money and was all high and mighty about it.

Gillian and Ria meet with Det Riley (James MacDonald) investigating  the murder of Dante Edwards, who worked for rapper, Little Sid (Harold 'House' Moore) the enemy of fellow rapper, Caden (Allen Donshik).   Caden and his cousin Benny grew up with Dante and Caden exhibits genuine sadness over his death.   A killer, says Gillian, wouldn't show remorse for his Vic.    Cal sits with AJ colouring in and pretends to have an invisible friend, Penelope.   AJ doesn't believe he has one.   Gillian asks AJ about Santa Claus, whom he thinks is real, he's at the age where he still believes this.   Gillian posits AJ can tell the difference between reality and fantasy.

Zoe finds that Frank's house was worth more in insurance burned out.   Cal realizes Frank's wife, Cheryl (Mireille Enos) was having an affair with Jack (aren't they always) and finally broke it off, though she was going to leave Frank at one stage.  She's sure Jack wouldn't burn the house down.  Eli (Brendan Hines) speaks with their daughter Maggie (Annalise Basso) who displays obvious anger towards her mother - she knew about Jack as she saw then together.   Cal asks Zoe why she didn't cheat on him, was he expecting her to at some point in their marriage.   She replies he would have found out, she wanted someone who didn't know everything about her.   Jack's wife, Sarah (Karis Campbell) is angry at Jack over his affair and he told her about it two weeks ago.

Eli watches a video of Little Sid at a party and he finds the hostility between him and Caden was faked in order to sell records.   Eli asks Ria to identify from two groups of men, those that exhibit the same expression as Dante.   She picks the ones from the left side, who Eli explains are gay.   A study has shown gay men all reveal similar facial expressions and so can be identified as such.   Little Sid's song displays animosity towards gays, but he insists it's just for record dales and he didn't kill Dante.

Gillian thinks someone has conditioned AJ to lie about seeing Jack at the house and it could be either parent.   Frank is genuinely shocked at the revelation of Cheryl's affair.   Roger proposed to Zoe and Emily (Hayley McFarland walks in to find Zoe is only now just telling Cal.   Cal says he enjoyed sex with Zoe since the result was Emily; who later goes through their family photos and Cal likes one of the photos Emily doesn't.   They were happy back then.   Cal misses the fights with Zoe.   Emily knows how her parents feel and that's why Zoe hasn't worn Roger's ring, she's still in love with Cal, giving Cal an idea as to who may be behind the fire.   It's not Maggie cos she wouldn't endanger their grandmother's life.   Cheryl tells her she'd never leave them and Maggie was the one who told AJ about Jack.

Ria realizes Dante and Caden were together  and if news got out it would affect record sales.  Ria sees Benny shows contempt towards Dante and he was the one who killed him to save Caden's name.   Caden answers he was prepared to lose everything if he still had Dante.   Another fire is reported on the news and the FBI thinks a serial arsonist is behind it.   The couple saw their house on fire but Cal watches the husband secretly smile, being happy about the fire.   He was glad the house burnt down as they were breaking up and didn't have any money.   His wife had an affair with Jack too, thus Sarah being the most obvious suspect as the arsonist, exacting revenge on the women he had affairs with for taking everything from her.

Zoe didn't find the right time to tell Cal about Roger, and Cal wants her to go ahead if it makes her happy, she should wear his ring.   They end up in bed together.   Gillian takes a backseat in this episode, with the two stories being about love affairs.   Finally we meet Cal's wife as she was mentioned before in the show, maybe an intro in the flesh much sooner would have been better.

Zoe: "You always did like them so young ...his proteges - they're usually young.   It's easier for him yo try to mould them in his image."  Which surprises Ria who thinks she means something else by the comment.    Cal ending up with Zoe at the end which anyone could see would happen, and even Gillian warned him to be careful and not take the case.

Torch Doctor

Matt looking cutesy and proud all at the same time!!

Wasn't it great to see Matt Smith carrying the Olympic Torch in Wales on 26th May 2012.  A huge crowd turned out to watch and Matt commented:  “I would do it in my underpants - it’s the Olympic torch. I would probably get a bigger crowd for that...I don’t even know where I am running to. I try and run in a straight line."

He also felt privileged and spoke of the "torch and the idea of the torch has been around  along time"  he ran from the Norwegian Church to the National Assembly building.

A bit of irony here, or not, as the tenth Doctor David Tennent in an ep of Doctor Who, Fear Her (2006) carried the Olympic Torch in 2012 Olympics when he went forward in time.  So the 'dream' become reality for one Doctor after all!

Doctor Who - 5.13: "The Big Bang"

The Doctor travels back and forth through time in an attempt to save Amy, the universe and himself from never existing. Lots of laughs, thrills and sad bits in this season finale...

18 years later...Amelia's house and she reads a Dear Santa letter at Easter, which is the same scene from 5.1 The Eleventh Hour.   She wants someone to fix the crack in the wall.   She has a painting with stars and her aunt Sharon (Susan Vidler) and another woman say there are no stars in the sky and none can be seen.   (No, cos Vincent Van Gogh painted them all, okay another bad joke!)    Whilst she's listening on the stairs a man drops a leaflet through the door - left by the Doctor (Matt Smith) of course.   Marking the Pandorica exhibition and the words, "Come along Pond."  Pointing to the museum.   Amelia (Caitlin Blackwood) stops at the Dalek exhibit before slurping her drink, so you notice her drink.   A Post-It note on the Pandorica reads, "Stick around Pond."  Since her aunt couldn't find Amelia why didn't the search for heh continue, or is that the norm in museums, to leave missing children, missing.

Amelia touches the Pandorica and it opens, revealing Amy (Karen Gillan) inside.   Amy: "Okay kid, this is where it gets complicated."  Well only parts of it.

1894 years previously...Rory (Arthur Darvill) holds Amy and tells her about the universe ending in 102AD.   Rory wasn't born twice and neither was she.   Rory asks for a "ridiculous miracle." And the Doctor appears sporting a Fez and a mop.   Rory must release him from the Pandorica.   He gives Rory the Sonic and then re-appears telling him to leave it in her top pocket.   Rory releases him and the Doctor asks how he did that.    The Doctor's still got his own Sonic with him.   It's down to different points in the time stream.   Doctor: "I've got a future - that's nice."  He explains all the Daleks, Sontarans etc, were echoes, after-images, as the universe never happened.   They're the last lot to go out.  

Rory killed Amy and the Doctor describes him as a "lump of plastic with delusions of humanity" from the Nestene conscious.   The Doctor says he'd rescue Amy if she had the time, she's not as vital as the rest of the universe.   Rory punches the Doctor.   He had to be sure he's really Rory.   He's got a "bit of a plan."  The Nestenes took Amy's memory print and he locks foreheads with Amy, leaving a message for her when she wakes.   The Pandorica is the "ultimate prison, forces you to stay alive."  It will scan her living DNA in 2,000 years to restore Amy.

Amelia touched the Pandorica, it's 1996 and Amy looks at the 'Pandorica As Seen Through Time' poster on the wall.   The Doctor uses River's (Alex Kingston) time/vortex manipulator to travel back and forth.   Rory stays behind to guard Amy inside the Pandorica.   He'll be completely conscious and she'll be safer with him around.   Doctor wonders why Rory is so human.  

According to legend, the centurion was there guarding it and he was last seen during the Blitz, dragging the box from the flames.   Amy cries.   The Dalek also awakens.   The Doctor arrives, "two of you, complicated."  Rory is also there with his torch and gun hand.   Amy and Rory smooch, well 2,000 years to catch up on!  As the Doctor tells them to breathe several times.   Doctor:"Well, somebody didn't get out for 2,000 years."  The light from the Pandorica affected the Dalek.   Amelia asks for a drink.   The Doctor wears the Fez and Rory tells him he also carried a mop when he gave him the Sonic and returns back in time to give Rory the Sonic.   Amelia gives him the leaflet for him to write on and put through the letterbox and he takes Amelia's drink, when she was in the crowd to give it back to her now.   The Doctor falls down the stairs.   It's him, "me from the future."  Future Doctor whispers to present Doctor.   When they showed his double from different angles, he had more rounder cheeks than Matt does.   He's got 12 minutes to live.

Amelia's disappeared.   History is still collapsing, they're all anomalies.   Doctor: "Today just dying is a result."  Amy is adamant he won't die and time can be re-written.   The Dalek awakens once again.   They go outside on the roof, for the Doctor to look for the TARDIS.   Every star in the universe hasn't shone, then the one shining is actually exploding.   It's the TARDIS and it makes it's customary noise.   It's been keeping the Earth warm.   Rory hears River, "I'm sorry my love" repeated over and over.   Rory: "trust the plastic" pointing to his ears.   The TARDIS put River into a time loop to save her.    The Doctor enters the TARDIS: "Hi, honey I'm home."  River asks what time he calls this.   River: "What in the name of sanity have you got on your head?"  Doctor: "Fez's are cool."  The Dalek flies up to kill them.   IT will kill him in 4.5 minutes.   The restoration field from the Pandorica, when it blew up caused a time explosion, every atom was blasted, except inside the Pandorica.   The Pandorica has a memory of the universe and  light transmits the memory, that's how they'll do it.

Transmit light from the particles to every single  area of the universe - he only needs a spark for Big Bang 2.   The Dalek exterminates the Doctor, but not quite.   Amy tells River he went down 12 minutes ago and died.   River stays to destroy the Dalek - killer that she is and this part showed her dark side.   Dalek: "Records indicate you will show mercy."   She's River Song and he should check the records again.  So the daleks had records about River too.   The Dalek begs for mercy and she kills it.   The Doctor isn't downstairs but in the Pandorica.   He told them he was dead.   River: "Rule number 1: the Doctor lies."  As he said last episode.   He's done what future Doctor told him to do.  

River says reality is collapsing, speeding up and he's working on Big Bang 2.   The TARDIS is still burning.   He'll throw the Pandorica into the heart of the fire, then "let there be light."  The light would explode everywhere at once.   The vortex manipulator is wired to the box so he can fly the Pandorica into the heart of the explosion.   They'll wake up where they're meant to be but won't remember what happened.   The Doctor will be at the heart of the explosion, the cracks will close and he'll be trapped on the other side, the nether side.   River: "All memory of him will be purged from the universe - he will never have been born." He doesn't know River yet, "now he never will."  But River will remember him, so all memory of him won't be purged.

The Doctor talks about the girl who waited in her garden.   Amy was worth the wait.   He lied (surprise, surprise) there was a reason why he took Amy with him.   Her house was too big, where were her parents.   Amy lost them, she can't remember.   The crack in time was eating at her life.   Amy Pond, all alone.  "The girl who didn't make sense, how could I resist...nothing is ever forgotten, not really." She must remember her family and they'll be there.   The universe is pouring into her head, she brought Rory back.   So will he be brought back.   Amy won't have her imaginary friend anymore.  "Amy Pond crying over me - guess what - gotcha."  River receives a message from the Doctor: "Geronimo."  He sacrifices himself, knowing Amy will remember and he'll return!

Flashes to past episodes, 5.11, 5.12 and he wakes up in the TARDIS.   "Bow tie, cool."  He tells Amy about the automated sand, but he's rewinding, erasing.  The crack appears in the monitor of the TARDIS.  "Hello universe, goodbye Doctor!"

Episode 5.11 The Lodger, shows Amy having put the card in the window and she can hear him.   The crack appears on the road.  Episode 5.5: where he told her she has to trust him.   What he told her when she was 7: she must remember and leaves.   This Doctor was from the future.

Amelia's house when she was 7, when she waited and fell asleep in the garden.   He carries her to her room and tells her a story, so she'll remember him.   If she could hear him, he could hang on.  "Silly old Doctor."  She won't remember him - only a little, a story in her head: "a daft old man who stole a magic box." (He borrowed it as will be said in 6.4 The Doctor's Wife.)  She'll dream about the box: "big and little at the same time.   Brand new and ancient and the bluest blue ever."  (What he really means is 'something old, something, new, something borrowed, something blue.')

The times they had still in her dreams.  "The Doctor and Amy Pond and the days that never came." The crack is closing and closes completely when he's on the other side, he doesn't belong here.  "I hate repeats - live well, love Rory.   Bye bye Pond."  Amy wakes to her wedding day and her parents are back.  Amy calls Rory, she's forgotten something important but she can't remember.   Her father, Augustus (Halcro Johnston) will need some more time for the speech.   Amy sees River outside but doesn't know her.   She left a blue book for her.   Amy's crying, she's sad.   River's journal is just like the TARDIS from the outside.  Rory reminds Amy of the old wedding saying.   The journal is empty.   Amy notices the bow tie on the boy and a man's braces.   A tear falls onto the journal.   Someone important is missing.   Amy recalls her imaginary friend.  "The raggedy Doctor, my raggedy Doctor - I remember you...and you are late for my wedding!" The brand new, ancient blue box.   Something old etc.

The TARDIS materializes (surprised none of the guest passed out from the shock.)   Rory remembers the Doctor.   How could they forget him.   He didn't expect that - so that's why he had his suit and bow tie now.   Amy wants to kiss him again!  But he's here to dance.   Doctor: "2,000 years, the boy who waited, good on you mate."  The TARDIS lands in Amy's garden and River asks if he danced.   He always dances at weddings.   "Spoilers."  There's writing in her journal but he didn't look.   (Hell, we'd have looked!) The Doctor asks if she's married.   River: "Are you asking?"
Doctor: "Yes."
River: "Yes."
Doctor: "Did you think I was asking you to marry me, or asking if you were married?"
River: "Yes."
Doctor: "Was that a yes or a yes?" He asks who she is and he'll find out soon.
River: "Yes and I'm sorry that's when everything changes."

The Doctor returns her vortex manipulator.   He tells her the TARDIS exploded for a reason, but why now.  "The Silence, whatever it is, is still out there."  The phone rings, there's an Egyptian goddess loose on the Orient Express in space. Amy and Rory go with him.   That would have made for a good Christmas episode.

Rory tells Amy's parents the Doctor was a stripper at his stag do (from the Vampires of Venice epsiode) and that he was plastic, did they need to know.  The first scene of this episode is reminiscent of 5.1 but the Doctor doesn't crash into Amelia's garden.  The Doctor in the episode Flesh and Stone is from the future, as the current Doctor in that episode didn't have his jacket.   Amy stroking the cat wasn't seen in 5.11.   (But the Doctor later spoke with the cat on the stairs.)  The crack in the road wasn't shown in this same episode either.

The Doctor mentions his legs when he wakes up in the TARDIS and he said the same in the episode, The End of Time.   The Fez scene and the Doctor holding the mop was also done by the seventh Doctor (Sylvester McCoy) in Silver Nemesis Part 1.   Amy's line is also repeated from the episode In Space and Time : "Okay Kiddo...complicated," when she was in two places at once.

Lots going on in this episode and plenty of tear jerking moments too and not just for Amy when she recalled the Doctor at the end.   Rory instantly remembered him too; as the Doctor said, she was the one who had to remember him.   The Doctor in 5.12 said to Amy he lies and River tells her the same here.   He even tells her later that he lied when he took her with him.

The Doctor and River now making those comments about being married or not; and if he's asking her, now asked by them two.   Before it was Amy who asked River and the Doctor and he seemed to answer dubiously, with a double meaning.   I.e.  you could take it to mean they were married, or they weren't.   But why will things not be the same between River and the Doctor, since everything has yet to happen between them: Amy and Rory - in their future.   River wasn't giving anything away again as to what happened to the Doctor in this episode, as she already knew.

There was a paradox here: the Doctor could only escape and tell Rory what to do; after Rory had gotten him out of the Pandorica.   One reason why it could be confusing to viewers.   Once again, Matt Smith portrays the Doctor with much emotion, especially when he's in the Pandorica doing what must be done; not once, but twice, since he then has to step into the crack in the wall, which is just waiting for him to no longer exist.   What a spectacular and elaborate scenario dreamt up by the Nestene conscious just to rid the universe of the Doctor; but why did they have the Pandorica keep him alive, making it possible for him to return and save the day and the universe.   Seems they didn't realize that or neglected to think about it when attempting to save themselves.   As well as not thinking about the consequences that the universe will be destroyed irrespective of them holding him prisoner in there.

No one said this, but it was as if the universe was enacting its revenge on the Doctor for interfering in matters and the world where she shouldn't have.   Also the Silence being mentioned for a reason, viz, for the purposes of season 6.

Merlin - 3.3: "Goblin's Gold" REview

Merlin lets loose a goblin on Camelot, which after entering Gaius' body demands gold from everyone. Great laughs in this one as we get away from the tensions of the past two episodes, before getting some more darker stories later.

Whilst on a quest for a book for Gaius (Richard Wilson), Merlin (Colin Morgan) chances upon a secret room in the library and sets loose a goblin, which proceeds to cause havoc on Camelot.   This is Merlin's comedic episode, as every series of the show has at least one or two episodes that are played purely for laughs.   A case of Merlin opening Pandora's box, instead of leaving things alone.

The goblin had been trapped in the box for over 50 years and now he's out; he's going to have fun...and breaks things.  The goblin appeared to be Merlin's answer to Gollum from The Lord of the Rings.

The goblin escapes Merlin's attempts to ensnare him and starts to throw books around, incidentally, actually throwing the one Merlin was looking for.  Then scours the castle in search of gold.

Arthur chances upon Merlin and his messy bed chamber.   Merlin was doing a bit of Spring cleaning.   The goblin steals Morgana's (Katie McGrath) healing bracelet.

Arthur (Bradley James) warns them not to laugh if they all value their lives, before he shows them Uther (Anthony Head) -- he's been turned bald by the goblin.   (Most probably their take on The King and I.  They can't help laughing, before Gaius tells Merlin what Uther would have done to the one who set the goblin free.

Arthur (shirtless, yet again!)  Merlin steals Arthur's gold coins to set a trap.  Arthur is awoken by Merlin's presence, so Merlin magically throws the bed curtain over Arthur.

Trying to lure the goblin with the gold, the goblin turns himself into a ball of light and enters Gaius' body, taking him over.  (How could Merlin not have seen that coming?)  Gaius, as the goblin, relishes licking the gold coins!  Then heads to the tavern.  Here Gaius arm wrestles for more gold and then tells the knight, "You don't look so good yourself, what's your excuse."

Next day, Gaius orders Merlin to fetch his breakfast from the market, whilst he has another lick of his gold coins.  Morgana asks Gaius for a sleeping draft as her healing bracelet has been stolen.  (Wonder why she couldn't just magic herself to sleep.)  Gaius refuses her request and can see right through Morgana.  She has a "cold heart."  She might be able to fool Uther, but she can't fool the goblin.  He tells her what she desires: to see Uther dead and Camelot destroyed.  "There is evil in your heart."  And Morgana fears the truth.  He casts a spell on her sleeping draft.  And suggests she should count sheep like everyone else.

Gaius goes around town giving remedies to people, only in return for money.  (Good to see Richard Wilson back in the comedy role for which he's well known for in the UK.)  He even manages to get a gold coin from Gwen.  If she doesn't oblige she'll end up with boils on her face.  He gives Uther a potion to help restore his hair, before engaging in some head slapping to restore the circulation in Uther's scalp.

Merlin challenges the goblin when he spies him licking the gold coins, but the goblin tells him anything he does will only hurt Gaius, if he kills the goblin, Gaius will die too.

Arthur explains the incidences of looting the night before, whilst Uther, Gwen (Angel Coulby), and Morgana all relieve their flatulence.  Uther has taken to wearing a hat for his baldness and demands a remedy for the affliction.  Gaius goes on to cure Uther from his baldness and his flatulence.

Merlin reveals his magic and his secret to the goblin, but the goblin is safe since he can cause as much damage as he wants to Merlin, but not vice versa.  Gaius is abusive to the librarian and tells him to "lose some weight, fatty!"

Arthur arrests Merlin and brings him before Uther, explaining he was responsible for their "afflictions."  Gaius tells of the magic book he found in in Merlin's chamber and says he's been taken over by a goblin, corrupted by magic.  Uther sentences Merlin to death for using magic.

Gaius heads to the tavern once more and here he insults the knights, before backing down, he's had too much to drink; then spikes their ale.

Merlin needs to get hold of the key to escape from the dungeon, but why, when he could have just used magic on the lock itself?  He seeks refuge at Gwen's house.  Gaius then accuses Arthur of incompetence and apologizes.  Merlin tells Gwen they need to force out the goblin from Gaius' body, she needs to convince Arthur of this.  However, Gwen is embarrassed and won't go to Arthur after her bout of flatulence!  Even though everyone does it, it's not in public and she wouldn't fart in front of Arthur because she has feelings for him.  Merlin reassures her Arthur likes her irrespective of her warts and farts.  She tells Merlin she doesn't have any warts.

Arthur offers Gaius a drink for ridding him of his lazy servant; he'll be hanged tomorrow.  (What, and not burnt.)  This was a test on Arthur's part and confirms his suspicions, as Gaius wouldn't want to see Merlin hanged.  Arthur is knocked out.  Gwen finds Arthur in his chamber, braying like a donkey and with donkey's ears!  He scratches behind his ear, to which Merlin can only laugh.

Merlin's plan is to make Gaius die so that the goblin will leave his body.  He can then trap the goblin back into the lead-lined box.  That was a big clue as to saving Gaius which Merlin missed, when the goblin said if he kills it, then he'll be killing Gaius too, which Merlin had to look up in a book!  The knights from the tavern have boils on their faces and Gaius wants gold before he cures them.

The antidote must be given to Gaius a few seconds after he dies.  Gaius licks the gold coins with the poison, but Gwen slips and drops the antidote bottle, mixing it up with the other bottles.  The goblin enters Merlin's mouth, but he manages to spit him out into the box.  Merlin administers the antidote.

Gaius confesses to Uther that he was responsible, allowing Uther to pardon Merlin.  Uther asks who let it out.  The goblin is put back into the vaults.  Gwen and Arthur decide not to mention their awkward moments.  Arthur still brays like a donkey when he laughs and Merlin tells Gaius he's leaving him like that for another day.

How could Merlin be able to undo the magic the goblin did, when he wasn't able to restore Uther's hair, or cure their flatulence, the boils and everything else the goblin did?  If the goblin sensed Morgana's evil, does this mean other magical creatures can do the same?  Also, showing that the goblin wasn't purely evil or bad, just greedy and mischievous.

CSI: NY - 1.6: "Outside Man" Review

Mac lets Danny be lead on a case involving the shooting of several staff in a diner. Whilst Stella and Mac investigate a leg found in an alley. Danny is heading for promotion to Second Grade after solving his case.

In the first story, people with plastic bags over their heads beg for their lives, before being shot.   One survives.   The police arrive to find two DBs in the basement.   Terrel (Greg Davis Jnr) is found upstairs.   There's another DB behind the counter.   Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) asks Flack (Eddie Cahill) to get the paramedics to preserve the duct tape, used to tie them.   To bag their hands and to use gloves.   Flack relays what happened as the uniforms had to break in, the door was locked.   There were two DBs on the floor next to the counter.   The back door to the alley was open.  The alarms weren't on and the place closed at 11pm.   Danny: "sounds like an inside job."  Mac (Gary Sinise) "then that's where we'll start...you're in charge.   Your three years in promotion to Second Grade doesn't come easy."

There's a dumpster upstairs and down.   Danny: "This would be the deep end we've been thrown in."  Danny and Aiden (Vanessa Ferlito) process the CS together, double checking each other and move out from the centre.   Surprised there was any or much evidence left after the number of people who would have trampled through there.   Still it was a bloody scene.   Flacks IDs a woman as Gina Robeson, the waitress.   Jared Perkins was the cook.   Danny finds a .32 calibre Magnum was used, there were no extractor marks, so the shooter used a revolver.   Firing 5 shots.   Aiden comments he needed to be calm.   Octavia was with the night deposit and was planning a trip.

The plastic bags used were identical on every Vic so the shooter didn't being any.   Aiden asks why he bothered bagging the heads.   Danny: "I'd stick to the how."  (Like Nick (George Eads) and Cat (Marg Helgenberger) in CSI.)  He didn't bring any duct tape with him and so he knew about the bags, bringing only what he needed.   Aiden believes it could be a robbery since wallets and jewellery were taken from the DBs, then asks why they were killed this time.   She's persistent with her 'whys'  Danny: "it was worth it to someone."

In the second story, a leg is found in an alley.   Mac comments the lower leg is 15% of the body's weight.   Stella adds "all we have to do is find the other 85%."  Yeah that was funny.

Danny examines the Vic in the kitchen who suffered a single, medium shot to the back, no powder burns, contact head wound, muzzle stamp and burns to the temple.   Misting spatter on the oven shows he was shot there.   There's blood on the phone so Terrel called for help.   Aiden says this makes him a hero.   He carried Octavia upstairs and called for help.   Danny calls the shooter cool enough to reload but he left the casing behind carelessly.   Danny again calls it an 'inside job' and asks how they all got shot.

Hawkes (Hill Harper) conducts a medical exam on the leg which shows signs of stabbing and cuts.   There's scar tissue in the wound, a femur injury caused by a power drill.   The bone was cut with a high speed saw, a surgical amputation.   He doesn't think there was anything wrong with the leg.   There's a rod in the tibia from which he collects a serial number.  Which comes back as a match to Frank Herzberg (Laurence N Kolder).   Doctor Willems (Patrick Bauchau) tells them Frank was cleaning his gun and it went off, a lesser surgeon would have amputated it and he saw him several months ago.

Danny looks at a model of the cafe layout, with the DBs laid out according to the evidence of the shooter.   Someone let him in.   Aiden goes over the sequence of events: Octavia was downstairs.   Lipstick with Gina's DNA is found upstairs.   Patel had cleaning fluid.   Jared and Terrel were eating upstairs.   Hawkes found traces of sucrose in Jared's teeth, he was a known user of drugs.   Danny finds blue fibres on the edge of the tape.   Aiden finds a print on the tape.   The blue fibres could be from a carpet, from anywhere.   The tape has Terrel's print.

Mac and Stella go to Frank's apartment and find him dead on the bed with a missing leg.   Mac says that's the other 85%.   So not funny either.   The EMT (Michael B Silver) talks to the police at the scene.   Mac notices signs of putrefaction, showing he was dead 24 hours.   Gangrene speeds up decomposition.   He knew he was dying.   Mac: "Everything's odd about this place, including time."  That was a clue.   A blood stain on the floor is revealed by luminol.   The leg was amputated here.   Frank was married and there's a file of people with missing limbs in photos.   Stella finds a finger in the fridge.   Stella: "This place gives a whole new meaning to the term chop shop."  Trust her to come up with a line like that.

Octavia is dead.   She had children and a brother.   Terrel didn't see anything and claims his prints were on the tape cos the shooter made him tape the others first and them himself.   Danny needs to prove the killer was allowed to enter.   There are prints on the key, belonging to Najiv Patel, the print was smeared, trying to open the door.   Danny does a complete 180 turn and works from the outside in, that was a clue to this case.   They talk to themselves here and they didn't do much of that later on, when processing a CS and putting the evidence together.

Hawkes finds there was nothing wrong with the finger either.   A handsaw was used to finish off the amputation, but why?  'Why' seems to be the question for this episode.   The finger is a match to Joe Garford.  (Paul Perri)  Stella: "Only takes one print to finger someone."  Oh here we go again.   Frank was oppressed by his leg and wanted it removed.   He didn't feel complete until it was removed.   They were "wannabes," wanted to be amputees.   Some have surgery for this.   Frank's wife, Deidre (Kristen Shaw) shows them a photo from their honeymoon, only in Frank's one there's no leg.   Frank was planning on doing this.   Joe came up with new ideas to remove a leg.   The condition is known as "Apotemnophilia" i.e.  Body Integrity Identity Disorder: where part of a body is hated.

Danny believes they'll find something in the dumpster so he and Aiden go on trash duty once more.   He finds syringes. "One's a fake, two's a pattern, three's a suspect."  A bloody fingerprint from the syringe is identified to Jose, but the blood is Octavia's.   Luis (Jacob Vargas) tells them the children are his and he was let in before they locked up.   Jose says the back door was open.   Terrel hasn't seen Jose before.   Danny has to move forward by going back, follow the trace to see if they missed something.   There's a palm print on the front door, so someone looked through it.  It's  match to Lemar Adams, ( De'angelo Wilson) he wears a blue wristband, but claims he saw nothing.

The wristband doesn't match the blue fibres, which are synthetic not cotton.   Aiden says she has good news, the main component of the tape is aluminino silicate, with traces of zirconium.   Danny knows zirconium oxide is heat resistant and is used mainly in car repairs.   Two different duct tapes were used.   The distributor of the tapes is cross referenced.

The Tox report on Frank shows he had post-operation prescriptions, only available in the hospital, pointing to the doctor.   Stella discovers he has a history of removing limbs in Holland, but he won't risk his career, claiming drugs are stolen everyday.

The duct tape is narrowed down to 5 auto shops and muffler tape.  One is owned by Luis.   Danny looks at his car and finds a duct tape imprint from the roll in the boot/trunk on blue carpet.   This tape was found on Octavia's neck.   Flack searches his apartment, taking it as informed consent on Luis' part.   But comes up empty.   They look a the dumpster at the shop.   Aiden: "You think we got enough experience going through other people's garbage?"  Danny: "Notice how we always get put on trash detail." Yeah we did.   Aiden: "when you make it to second Grade - it's be a thing of the past, my friend."  Danny: "from your lips to God's ear."

Hawkes reconstructed the bone.   The femur end was intact and he sawed some samples.   The dark area could represent a burn mark.   Stella saws the leg and there's a power shortage.   The clock's stopped.   She finds a print on the fuse box in the apartment.   The paramedic did it.    Mac's says there was an electricity failure.   The EMT carried out the surgery and had to finish with a handsaw.   He took his gloves off first and left the print.   He needed the money and was a pre-med student.   Mac asks him about the Hippocratic Oath.

Danny and Aiden examine the trash at Luis' garage and find a plastic bag, identical to the ones used on the Vics.   The ends are compared from the roll, until one matches the bag.   Octavia was going to leave with Luis' kids to escape her brother.   Mac tells Danny he's on the promotional grid, but Danny hates how life is so ordinary and then one day it hits you.   He's not really bothered about promotion in that instance and Mac should have realized that.

Great episode in showing so much of Danny's character and his dedication to the job.   No wonder he was singled out for promotion.   The last scene with him is so touching, showing he truly cares and how deeply this case has affected him.  Outside Man, Luis was looking in and Danny had to go from outside in to investigate.

Though the two stories were heavy in terms of the violence factor: one where people were robbed of their lives and one where people weren't really aware of how lucky they were to be alive, robbing themselves of their limbs.   Although it is a disease, can't help thinking it's all so senseless; as were the needless and senseless murders.   How far is it to drive to Albany to see his kids.   Plenty of forensics involved in this episode, especially with story 1, Danny keeps calm and doesn't vent his emotions until he's solved the case.   Also it was more about the 'why?' rather than the 'how?'   This was one of Carmine's fave episodes.

Desperate Housewives - 8.12: "What's the Good of Being Good" Review

Bree continues in her downward spiral of drink and men. Claudia comes looking for Alejandro. Ben admits to Renee he wanted her for her money and Lynette dates.

Mary Alice: "Bree Van de Kamp had always enjoyed a sterling reputation...kind to strangers and for greeting them with a warm welcome...never had the heart to turn anyone away...her generosity knew no bounds." Bree (Marcia Cross) tells her latest conquest to leave, as she's clearly out of control when it comes to men.  The alarm rings so that Karen (Kathryn Joosten) doesn't see them leaving her house.   Bree isn't in a relationship with anyone.   Mary Alice (Brenda Strong) "Yes Bree had always enjoyed a sterling reputation and she saw no reason that should change."

Mary Alice: "In the life of every housewife there comes a time for renovation...when a romantic evening becomes an unsightly mess - sometimes the only thing that needs to be removed is a memory."  Gaby (Eva Longoria) wants her place redecorated by Renee (Vanessa Williams) and Lynette (Felicity Huffman), especially the room where Alejandro carked it.   Lynette has other ideas in wanting them to set her up on a date.   Gaby responds it's a challenge setting her up.   Lynette feels someone must like her qualities.   Renee thinks Lynette always wins and gets her own way cos she's so feisty.

Bree finds a man still in her bed when Karen comes over wanting help with the bake sale.   Karen sees the man. So much for Bree trying to hide him, and she saw the others too, as well as the empty wine bottle.   Ben (Charles Mesure) is getting rid of his fave stuffed swordfish for Renee.   Claudia (Justina Machado) arrives in search of Alejandro/Ramon.

Renee confirms her appointment with Frank, (Patrick Fabian) her hair dresser, who likes Lynette's hair.   Lynette wants a date with him.   Claudia plasters missing posters of Alejandro everywhere on the Lane and in the papers, which Gaby sees.   Susan (Teri Hatcher) tells her what she did in Oklahoma and Gaby asks when her guilt will end.   Susan saw that look in Marissa's (Daniela Bobadilla) eyes that she's seen in Gaby eyes before.   Marissa hasn't told anyone and Gaby thinks she should just talk about it.  She agrees to talk to Claudia.  "The one woman who's gonna tell her the truth about her husband."

Frank's ex wanted things her own way like Lynette.   She wants to help Frank as a motivational technique she just can't help herself.   Rev Sikes (Dakin Matthews) finds Bree at a bar cos Karen blabbed, well she had her best interests at heart or was it just the bake sale she was worried about?   Rev doesn't believe Bree's behaviour is representative of who she really is.   Bree says she'll find out who she is in a bar.  

Lynette works out a business pan for Frank.   Next day he messes up Renee's hair cos of Lynette.  She looks like an "extra from Foxy Brown."  Ben proposes to Renee.   She opens up not trusting anyone until he came along.   He sees sense and takes the ring back, admitting he wanted to marry her for the money but she doesn't wait to hear him say he loves her.

Marissa hasn't told anyone about being abused by Alejandro and Gaby tells Claudia about him.   Take it Renee's moved out of Bree's place then, obviously so Bree could bring men over.   Lynette knows Renee was right about her and Renee is determined Lynette can do anything she wants.   Ben meets with the loan shark (Sal Landi) who finds out where Mike (James Denton) lives, so we know what's coming next...  

Claudia decides to leave and Gaby tells her about her own mother not believing her and she sees the red stain on the carpet again.   She advises Gaby should get rid of it, so she knows about him.

Bree bakes and drinks and makes a nuisance of herself at the sale especially when she finds out Greg (Cameron Mathison) is married and his wife confronts her.   Bree: "Every bake sale needs a tart." She's really let herself go and for what?  There's no one around to see her falling to pieces and her friends don't want to know her.   Thus the cavalry will arrive with Orson no doubt.   Also so much for the wife calling her a whore, what about her letting her husband get away with sleeping around!  Yeah well the man never gets the blame for such things.   It's always the woman's fault oh sorry was I ranting.

Mary Alice: "Yes in the life of every housewife there comes a time for renovation...she may be doing away with an unpleasant memory...but no matter how a housewife may embrace the life she's making, the people in her street, may take a different view." So Bree decides to act like the street whore now in public.   Bree's storyline just gets recycled over.   She has been on the drinking binge, going after men bender before and quite frankly it's getting old.   Hard to believe Claudia accepted what happened to Alejandro so easily, even if he was an abuser.   She doesn't seem like the type to just back down.   Though Gaby saw sense and told her the truth for Marissa's sake.

Lynette was just Lynette.   Can't imagine her changing for anyone, she didn't even try when she was on the date and it was played for laughs that scene.   Yes but it is the series finale after all, so they could have had her making an effort.   Renee finally didn't want anything more to do with Ben when he came clean about wanting money.   He could have asked her for a loan without proposing but now she doesn't even want to hear him out.   At least she didn't stay with him just cos of wanting/needing a man - as she would have done last season.   So she's come some way in changing.   Susan still remains dormant Susan.   Still guilt ridden.   Next thing you know she'll feel guilty over bringing Claudia down and her finding out Marissa suffered the same way Gaby did.

Bree becoming the very thing at the end of the episode that she despised at the start: people seeing her as a drunken whore and her criticizing Greg's wife over her "dry muffins" was a gem.   It was an appropriate episode title for for Bree. What's the point of being good, if you're gonna get found out?   This applies to Bree.   Also Ben admitting he wants Renee's money when he ended up losing her.

On the downside Lynette's awful Brit accent!  Susan being seen as a husband stealing skank again, as in the episode That's Good, That's Bad, where Carol Prudy thought she was with her husband, Addison, who was actually Susan's birth father.

The Vampire Diaries - 3.10: "The New Deal" Review

Klaus announces his intentions to stay in Mystic Falls and demands his family back by threatening Elena's family. Stefan admits to Damon why he foiled their plan to kill Klaus.

We open with Bonnie (Kat Graham) at the haunted house to find four coffins there, which obviously Stefan (Paul Wesley) has hidden there.   But she's dreaming.   Elena (Nina Dobrev) is followed by a man when she's out jogging and bumps into her from the other end of the street.   She tells Bonnie she's becoming paranoid and asks Bonnie if it's a "witch dream" she had.  

Stefan betrayed them and Damon (Ian Somerhalder) is drinking at the bar (so what else is new, "brunch in a bottle,")  wanting Alaric (Matt Davis) to join him.   Damon can drink but then "somebody's getting naked." Ooh Damon, not again.   Alaric is waiting for Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) who failed his midterm.   He's also been fired.   Tyler (Michael Trevino) and Jeremy bond, kind of out shooting cans in the woods with arrows.   Alaric is Jeremy's guardian and Tyler dares Jeremy to shoot an arrow at him, which he catches.

Elena describes Jeremy as moody and not talking to anyone. You'd be mistaken for thinking she was describing Damon, who tells her Jeremy still has her.   Damon doesn't have any "attractive look." Klaus (Joseph Morgan) shows up along with Tony, (Zane Stephens) the man Elena saw whilst jogging.   Rebekah (Claire Holt) is missing and he breaks the news about staying in mystic Falls.   Elena says his family is his and Stefan's problem and not hers.

Bonnie goes to the house and finds it empty, except Stefan arrives too.   He followed her here and has Klaus's family.   He needs to keep them hidden as his family is his weakness.   Such as it is for Stefan and Damon and Elena and her family too, as well as her friends.   Elena knows Tyler is dangerous.

Damon drinks again and senses Klaus behind him.   Damon never misses the chance to drink to an epic failure of a plan.  Damon and Klaus appear to bond over their respective siblings, not that they're best buds or anything.   Alaric asks Tyler what the difference is between sired and compelled.   Being sired means having the faith to do something cos it's right.   Tyler doesn't serve Klaus and Tyler is indebted to him for freeing him from a curse.   He'd follow him blindly, hey this was my line, then Elena talks about his blind faith, as does Jeremy.   Tyler has the ability to make his own decisions, that's what he thinks.

Damon: "bond over the mutual loathing of my brother."  Damon doesn't work for him and Klaus knows he's been drinking vervain so he can't compel him so Klaus needs a demo of violence to drive the point home, no pun.   He calls Jeremy.   Alaric comments on Tyler's weird cult logic after his explanation of being sired and Jeremy has left his ring behind and stands in the middle of the road, leaving Alaric to save him from an SUV, driven by Tony.   Klaus has a new compulsion.   Tyler tells Klaus he thought he was only sending a message and didn't think he'd kill anyone.   Klaus wants him to get over his guilty conscience.  Not another one.

Tyler took Jeremy's bracelet and Damon tells Elena Klaus is sending them a message.   Jeremy wants to leave town.   Elena decides to give Klaus Rebekah in return for Jeremy's life but Damon warns she'll come after Elena.   Elena tells Bonnie about the coffins and her dreams and Damon and Elena go to the haunted house.   Damon thinks witches are fickle, Klaus said that about Rebekah.   Damon burns once he steps inside the house, so from outside he listens to Stefan and Elena.   Stefan refuses to give Klaus anything and her family is not his problem.   Elena slaps him, like that'll hurt.   That's what Elena said to Klaus, about his family being Klaus's problem.

What Damon puts himself through to see Stefan as he goes back into the house.   Damon doesn't care about the coffins and they fight outside.   Damon stakes him as payback for messing up his plan.   Stefan did it to save Damon from Klaus's hybrids if the plan had worked.   Damon: "Stop saving me."  Tyler didn't think Klaus would kill Jeremy cos he doesn't know Klaus at all.   He's naive, even after Klaus was going to use Caroline in the ritual.   Jeremy posits everytime Klaus is involved someone gets killed.

Alaric is dead again and wakes coughing up blood.   Tony compels the paramedics to leave and she can use his blood to save Alaric.   Jeremy turns up and shoots an arrow in his back and then hacks off his head.   That's another mess for Damon to clear up no doubt.   Damon asks why Stefan saved him and he doesn't reply.   Damon commenting he "invented deflection." So it won't work on him.   Stefan wants to use Klaus's family against him.   Klaus can't live forever and there has to be another way.   Damon wants in cos he's better at "cutthroat decisions."  It'll be between the two of them.   SO that's another plan, how long before that goes awry too.

He goes inside and shows Damon the coffins which are still there, the witch spirits are hiding them with their powers, which explains why Bonnie was dreaming about them.   Dr Meredith Fell (Torrey DeVitto) wants to know Alaric's secret and wonders if he has a guardian angel or sold his soul.   He replies a bit of both.   Elena gives Klaus Rebeka back.   Klaus tells her anyone can be next, Caroline, Bonnie or Damon, if he doesn't find his family.   Stefan doesn't care about her anymore, that's what she thinks so he's Klaus's problem.   Elena warns Rebekah wants Klaus dead cos she knows he killed their mother.

Alaric has Damon's blood to thank for keeping him alive.   Jeremy knows things like this will always happen.   Damon took care of the DB as said and Elena admits she returned Rebekah and she doesn't trust Stefan.   Jeremy can't live like this, he's only 16.  Klaus tells Rebekah it took a thousand years to get home and daggers her - they'll meet again one day.   Is that cos sister dear will get him for killing their mother.  Oh Elena had to blab.   Damon has their 'talk' with Jeremy and compels him to leave town.  "You have a better life."

Bonnie sees the coffins in the house but Stefan can't open them. They've been closed with a spell, so perhaps what's inside is their answer.   Damon tells Elena Stefan saved his life and calls himself an idiot and shouldn't feel guilty anymore "for wanting what I want."  He kisses Elena so he has something to feel guilty about.   That was coming.   Since Elena kissed him last season, this time he kisses her.   That kiss most were expecting, it was that apparent, others didn't want it cos Elena belongs with Stefan, though she's having more doubts than usual about this now and that kiss made a lot of people jealous!!  Cos Damon doesn't belong with Elena, he's mine, er, I mean ours!

Funny how Tyler was the one to tell Jeremy how to kill a hybrid, from their little tete a tete in the woods.   Jeremy also invites Tyler into their home - silly boy - for dinner, thus allowing him to feed off anyone, oh you know what I mean, if the need ever arises and all that, especially since he's in league with Klaus.   Rebekah can't really be dead cos he just daggers her all over and suppose she had to go cos of mommie dearest and knowing he offed her.

Damon appears to be more human than Stefan - though he doesn't like to admit it, thus he does the so very human thing and snogs Elena cos vampires don't have guilty consciences, not all of them.   More importantly, yeah cos that kiss meant nothing, ha.  why is Klaus so hell bent on getting the coffins back and is so protective of them?   Granted his family is in there - but does that mean his entire family, including his mother cos we don't know what Klaus did with her after the killed her?  

Bonnie says whatever is inside "is their answer." Anyway his mother did put a curse on him.   Also the witches are helping to hide the coffins in plain sight and Bonnie hasn't mentioned she saw Klaus in her dream too, inside one of the coffins with a necklace around his neck, not too dissimilar to Elena's necklace.   (No doppelganger theories please cos that'd be too obvious and too Elena/Katherine.)  She could have seen Klaus inside the coffin as a foreboding of the future instead.

Klaus: "My sister is missing..."
Damon: "Cute, blonde bombshell.   Psycho.  Shouldn't be too hard to find."  Hey, was the description necessary?

CSI: NY - 1.5: "A Man a Mile" Review

Mac, Flack and Danny investigate the death of one of New York's tunnel builders, whilst Aiden and Stella delve into the murder of a student attending a private school for rich girls.

Underground workers known as the 'NYC Sandhogs' blow up a tunnel and one man gets left behind.   He's later found under the rubble.  Identified as Pete Riggs (Eric Ritter) who has been on site ten years.   Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) appears to be nervous about going underground and Mac (Gary Sinise) asks him if he's bathophobic (fear of depth.)  Danny: "I'm not anything-phobic, just a few things that shake me up..."  One of them being a 100 feet of granite between "me and daylight."  Mac adds they're going to work the same way here as the men do, "rock by rock."  A sandhog is anyone who helps in building tunnels, even if they're not actually in the tunnel, they're still one of them.   The Vic wasn't shot or stabbed before the explosion but there's trace under his fingernails, which are covered with a plastic bag to protect the evidence.   The DA wants the site cleared and running.   This is described as an accident.   The Sandhogs measure progress by a man a mile (alluding to the title) because that's the deathrate.

In the second story, Aiden (Vanessa Ferlito) and Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) investigate a DB found in a water creek.   Hannah was DOA and her mother is from Broxdale, where they lived.   She filed a missing persons report as she left home three nights ago and never came back.   She went to a friend's house to study, a Melissa Westley (Shashawnee Hall).   What's surprising is that she was her friend, or at least claimed to be and yet, she didn't realize she was missing, or more likely didn't care.   Which should have sent danger signs flashing.   They question the girls and Aiden tells them she went to a school like theirs.   They find clothes with their labels cut off in the lockers.   Aiden admits she lied about going to such a school since "they cut through the attitude if they think you're one of them."  A uniform represents social equality.

Hawkes (Hill Harper) carries out  the autopsy on the Vic in story one.   He comments a human skull  has 206 bones, 200 were broken in the Vic.   He suffered multiple fractures and he was hit on the head before the explosion and the COD was asthma.   Pete didn't have an inhaler.   Blood was found on the tracks and the walls of the tunnel.   His inhaler is found near the phone and is empty.   Mac notices the evidence leads to one direction where he died but that he was moved, somehow, ending up in a different place.   Danny doesn't suspect this was an accident and Mac believes he knew he was going to die.

The medical exam on Hannah reveals peticule hemorrhaging.   She was dead before she ended up in the water, she had been drinking and there was a gold fleck found in her throat.   Mike (Tom Zito) tells them he didn't see Pete leave the tunnel and Joe Riggs (Joe Sikora) believes it was an accident.   Danny gives Joe his card if he wants to talk.  Their code is that every man comes out of the tunnel.   They examine Pete's clothes.   Danny knows his brother, Joe has something to say.   Mac: "Based on?"  Danny can tell.     Why not have Flack (Eddie Cahill) bring him in.   Mac: "Danny, your intuition is great."
 Danny: "But let's see what the evidence has to say first." Mac takes a sample from the foreman's shirt and sees if it matches Pete.

Aiden tests different belts to match the markings around Hannah's neck.   The crocodile skin one matches the ligature marks around her neck.   Gold leaf was found in her throat as Stella explains she was a floater so it could have come from the river.   Diatoms, like algae were also found and act like sponges, absorbing whatever was in the water.   Such as lead cadmium.

Mac talks about the theory of quantum physics and his, "everything's connected" theory.   Danny finds the presence of blood on Al McGrath's (Mel Rodriguez) ring and they fought after work.   He hit him cos he insulted the rangers.   The ring is important and it appears somebody had his ear "Tyson-ed."  An impression is taken so the Vic's teeth can be matched to the bite mark, but there isn't a match.   Danny is confused if the bite mark wasn't made by Pete, then why lie.   Mac: "Depends on what the truth is."  The dental impressions are a match to Al.   Mac doesn't think Al's lying, but covering for someone.   This is no longer murder, but conspiracy.   Pete dropped his keys one day and Mike got hit on the head.   He bit Al.

Stella and Aiden find that the creek has an ebb tide causing an eddy effect.   The current travels South until it hits an obstruction and then reverses.   She was thrown into the water in the North, where people dump things illegally.   The entire area is industrial.   Aiden finds Matt Paulson, (Joshua Leonard) Tina's (Sarah Foret) brother opened a club there.

There are no prints or trace found on Pete's inhaler.   Pete was careless and he wasn't responsible for him but his men.   The Sandhogs operate like a union, forming a bond like the Marines.  something which Mac should know all about seeing as he used to be a Marine too.   Danny: "Well if the evidence isn't talking, we gotta fill in the blanks somehow,"  when they reach a stumbling block.   Mac: "We have pieces of evidence, there's nothing conclusive yet."  Joe will find he doesn't have a brother anymore and in my world, "a guys gotta protect himself and his family.   I mean who would you protect your brother, or some union."  You can see Danny is all about family here, even before we find he has a brother too and get any real background on him.   Seems like everytime Danny wants to talk from the heart or about family, Mac shoots him down in favour of the evidence.

Hanna and Tina went to England.   Matt denies Hanna was at the club with Tina.   The surveillance camera doesn't work.   Stella notices cameras that do work outside and the footage shows Tina entering the club with a bag.   Matt and Hanna kiss and are seen by Tina.   Hanna had a crush on Matt and Stella feigns the need to use the restroom at their house, which she never did again in any subsequent episode.   She sees a horn with a strap attached.   Tina was bloodied in a foxhunt.

Mac comments on "pieces of evidence" again.  
Danny: "You made that clear.   I just don't see your point."
Mac: "My point is you're not seeing the connection.   It's what we all look for."  Danny asks if he feels it.   Mac does, all the time but he doesn't act on it until he's got proof.   Danny: "I can't do this job your way."
Mac: "Well you can't do it your way either.   You're coming up on your 3 years.   That means you'd be taking your exam to bump you to Second Grade.   When I put you lead in a case, I wanna make sure you're bringing me evidence.   Not intuition." ( as in episode 6 Inside Man.)

Joe is beaten outside a tunnel but no one sees anything.   Danny knows he was beaten to silence him, but he still refuses to talk.   Danny: "Well if he's not gonna tell us the truth and the evidence has gone sour.   Then what's left?"  Mac: what's been telling them the truth the entire time.   X-rays reveal Pete's fourth metacarpal was dislocated, which is inconsistent with his other injuries.   Hawkes: "Possibly inconsistent  without context."  Love that phrase.  I.e if it couldn't be placed then the evidence would seem inconsistent.

Stella finds Hanna was never meant to be part of Tina's family.   Tina's bag is seen without a strap.  Tina's father chose Hanna for the honour of being bloodied.   Matt was also interested in Hanna.   The strap from the bag is found in Tina's bedroom and matches Hanna's blood.  Tina strangled her and enjoyed watching the life drain out like that in an animals's eyes.

Pete wasn't wearing his ring when he died.   The explosion was to cover the evidence.   Joe broke their code and left Pete down in the tunnel.  Joe threw the ring done and it hit him on his head.   Joe looked after Pete growing up and this was the only job he'd ever get.   Pete was his responsibility.

These two stories though separate, were brought together by family.   Tina didn't want Hanna being part of the family and was jealous.   She killed her to keep her out and cos everyone paid attention to her and not to Tina.   With Joe it was about family.   Pete was his responsibility but he didn't really take care of him.   He left him down there to teach him a lesson, which he sees as okay.   Danny mentions family all the way through this episode as something that is clearly important to him.   Throughout this episode it appeared Mac was 'grooming' him and preparing him to take over as lead in the next episode.   At least Danny was asking questions all the way through, even if a lot of them were from his gut and were about relying on instinct.

Mac mentions his theory of "everything is connected" for the first time.    Which will crop up a few times, before it's forgotten.   Okay though it's not said many times later on, we're meant to recall this is what it's about for him.   As for Danny's promotion, we're aware things go awry for him later on this season and he doesn't get his promotion until season 7.   Also he takes his Sergeant's exam then without telling anyone, including Mac.   Maybe he thought he'd jinx it or Mac may prevent him from taking it, seeing as how he put a spanner in the works this season for Danny's promotion.

As for Flack, well he all but disappeared, think sometimes the writers were at a loss as to how to include him in the show.   At least that improved later on.

Apparently this episode is said to have been filmed at Ground Zero.   The title actually alludes to having been uttered by the Chinese who laid tracks for the Transcontinental Railroad.  "There is one dead Chinese for every mile of that railroad."  When Stella speaks with Tina about foxhunting, saying it has been banned in England.   The bill outlawing it  was not passed until 18th October 2004 and did not come into force until February 2005.   Danny forgets he is already wearing a glove in the scene where he and Mac talk Sandhogs and in the next shot, it has disappeared.

Mac's pep talk, a bit like Gil's (William Petersen) one to Nick (George Eads) in Crate 'n' Burial where Gil tells Nick to work harder before they can make an arrest.   CSI season 3 episode, Lucky Strike, also had a killer hide a DB by detonating explosives.