The Closer 7.4 "Under Control" Review

A frantic mother searches for her son and Tao's (Michael Paul Chan) son, Kevin (William jay Behlendorf) brings him in to investigate.  The boy, Eric disappeared from voluntary Summer camp and no one knew was there or even missing since attendance wasn't taken.  Which is pretty stupid where children are involved.  Raydor (Mary McDonnell) finally gets to question Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick) over the Shootin' Newton murders and plays back the video confession to the killings by Turrell.  Rador claims Brenda knew his gang would kill him and Brenda saw them there.  Brenda insists she took him back home as per his request.  As for what happened to him, she calls it a "happy ending."  Which Raydor explains is why she wasn't recording the interview and how that confession gives Brenda motive.

Tao calls in Sanchez (Raymond Cruz) to help in the search and he talks with the mother, Tina's (Meredith Monroe) boyfriend, Marcus.  Who claims he doesn't want to help or get involved.  He's a yoga instructor.  Eric's parents are divorced and they bicker.  Tina notices the bike and it's propped up.  Clue for later.  Sanchez searches in the helicopter and spots a floating body in a nearby pool.  Kevin volunteers at the camp and helps them out with some information on the parents and other things.  He appears to be on the ball just like his father.  Pope (JK Simmons) suggests to Taylor (Robert Gossett) they get the press involved as soon as possible and meets Kevin.

Raydor tells Brenda her team are capable of handling the case without her.  Kevin and Tao have father/son issues and he needs to improve his grades which is why he doesn't have a car.  Kendall didn't find any signs of abuse or trauma on Eric.  Brenda talks with Glen, (Marcus Giamatti) the father and he isn't told about Eric.  He says he was at a gas station and then went to work.  Whilst Tina had her car detailed.  Gabriel (Corey Reynolds) finds that strange behaviour when her son is missing.  Of course they suspect her but Glen looks more like the real suspect with his overly abusing Tina over Eric and letting him ride the bike.  See at the start he asks Tine how long the bike was there and whether she saw it or not, directing a great deal of attention towards it.  Even saying she wasn't meant to let him ride it irresponsibly.

Gabriel checks their alibis and Kevin points out to Tao that Glen's left the interrogation room.  Why was he left alone anyway like that.  Usually Brenda leaves someone with them.  Glen hears Tina in the other room and storms in breaking the news about Eric to her.  Marcus (Shane Johnson) attacks Glen.  Kevin watches everything as it's the first time he's seen what his father has to deal with at work and it ain't pretty.

Pope asks Brenda about Raydor and she hasn't finished with the questions yet.  She has to deal with this case first.  Which really just gave her an excuse not to deal with it for as long as possible.  Provenza (GW Bailey) goes to find the counsellor.  Glen blames Tina, again with the blame.  Dr Morales (Jonathan Del Arco) doesn't find any foam in Eric's lungs so he didn't drown and was already dead.  He doesn't go into the autopsy room to tell her, preferring to stay outside.  A case which gets to everyone.  Brenda goes in, even though he's not put him back together yet.  He also found purple fluid in his stomach, chocolate and traces of sedatives, which can't be identified until tox results are in.  But if she has a suspect she can get search warrants.

Gabriel found Vicodine and Soma in Tina's house belonging to Marcus.  As well as an LVPD uniform.  Fritz (Jon Tenney) explains Marcus was a policeman in Las Vegas and had to leave before his wife filed a lawsuit against him and the LVPD for domestic abuse allegations.  Marcus told Tina from the outset he didn't want to be a parent and wouldn't marry her.  Glen calling that immoral.  He later proposed to her but she refused. Again suggesting she's the killer.  He was more of a father to Eric than Glen.

Tao's wife, Cathy (Patti Yasutake) arrives to take Kevin home and they quarrel over his being there and not being able to get a driver's licence.  Kevin says he won't drive away like Eric did with his bike, giving Brenda a clue about the bike.  Kevin's 16 and he can't treat him like a child.  Tao hugs Kevin saying he can hold onto him forever.  Clearly this case is close to home for Tao as he has a son too and is protective of him.  Which he has every right to be after what he sees in his line of work.  Brenda finds their conversation moving.  We have a situation with Tao and his son which is in stark contrast to the case involving Eric and his parents. Eric was the one who suffered his parent's anger and inability to get on, even for his sake.  He was used as a pawn by them both.

Brenda is angry she couldn't go to the CS cos of Raydor and Fritz asks if she wanted to be there when they found Eric.  She wants to see their divorce decree and settlement.  Tina took him for everything he had and then for everything he would make.  Glen wanted primary custody calling her an unfit mother.  Brenda is told by Raydor that she needs to get her own lawyer since Brenda maintains Turrell was her responsibility only as long as he was in her custody.  Tao has a hard copy of Glen and his alibi and Brenda shows him buying  a purple drink and a chocolate bar at the mini-mart.  He gave Eric the bike so he would pester his mother until she let him ride alone.  He admits he killed Eric so she couldn't have him and so she won't get his money anymore.  He took what she had and she'll have to live with that forever.

Seems like they were both unfit parents.  Tina wanted to torment him by having custody and by getting alimony from him so she didn't marry Marcus.  But he only wanted Eric to torment her back.  Eric was the innocent one here being pulled part by his parents until he is finally killed over their petty squabbles over money.  In short neither one deserved to have Eric.  Buzz (Phillip P Keene) tells Tao at least he got the killer.  Tao agrees to driving lessons for Kevin.  Flynn (Tony Denison) asks if anyone knows what Raydor is doing here.  Provenza replies they're the police and they're always in trouble.  Well, speak for yourself, Provenza attracts trouble judging from the last episode, ha.

Raydor takes Brenda to Turrell's house and shows her his blood and where he was eventually killed.  Her criminal liability would be cleared by her explanation that he wanted to go home and her responsibility ending but not from civil liability.  If the attorney settled then that would leave Brenda to take the blame.  Raydor: "for your own sake get yourself your own lawyer."   Does this mean Raydor is watching her back after all? Beneath all the facade Brenda is worried about this case and I wonder if she thinks she would have done things differently now.

As the title suggest everything isn't under control, not for Brenda and certainly not for Glen and Tina.  Oh what a horrible, selfish set of parents for Eric to have had the misfortune of having.

Supernatural - 1.17: "Hell House" Review

Sam and Dean look into the activities of a house where teens are attacked by a man. It's the practical joke episode where the brothers play tricks on each other, instigated by Dean.

Richardson, Texas,  2 Months Ago:   Group of teens enter a house with a Pentagram on the floor and symbols on the walls.   A man strings  up girls in the cellar, one of them says.   The cellar contains jars and a girl is hanging.

Interstate 35  Present Day:  Sam (Jared Padalecki) is asleep in the car and Dean (Jensen Ackles)  puts a plastic spoon in his mouth and takes a photo.    Sam says they're not children anymore and it's not the prank shift again.   Dean: "what's the matter Sammy, you afraid you're gonna get  a little Nair in your shampoo again."  Sam warns Dean to remember he started it.   Dean: "bring it on baldy!"  They talk about a local haunted house and girls dying there.   The legend talks of them being strung up on rafters and some teens saw a dead girl in the cellar.   When the police arrived there was no body.   Read accounts on  paranormal website: hellhoundslair.com

Sam is still going on about how it was a mistake to let Dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) go.   Each of the teens tell them their accounts of what they saw and each one varies from the Vic having black, blonde and red hair.   Craig (Shane Meier) works in a record store.   Sam and Dean feign being reporters from the Dallas Morning News.   The killer appears to be Mordecai Murdoch (Nicholas Harrison) and the house is known as 'hellhouse.'  In the 1930's Mordecai lived in a farmhouse with 6 daughters and he hanged them, before hanging himself.   His cousin, Dana (Krista Bell) told him.   Dean looks at the records, cos it's his kind of record store, i.e.  vinyl, well he's into cassettes still.

Electric wiring is interfering with Dean's readings from his EMF.   Sam comments the reverse cross symbol was used by Satanists for centuries.   The sidual of sulphur didn't show up  in San Francisco until the late '60's.   Dean: "That's exactly why you never get laid."  Well, Deano, hate to break it to you, but some girls prefer brains, ha.   Yes it is a joke.   Sam notices a symbol he's never seen before and Sam takes photos on his phone.   Notice how they stopped taking photos and filming the scenes in later episodes, until this completely disappeared.   Dean's seen the symbol before somewhere.   Sam notices it's freshly painted.

Dean thinks the police might be right in calling them suicides, as two guys break in with cameras, calling themselves professionals, paranormal investigators and have a card.   Ed Zeddmore (AJ Buckley) and Harry Spangler.  (Travis Webster) and they run the hell.com website.   Dean: "We're huge fans."  Love it when Dean goes all sarcastic.   They "know they're amateurs looking for ghosts and cheap thrills."    They're conducting a scientific investigation and tell them about EMF detectors; entities cause fluctuations.   Sam: "Woah."  Sammy's not so bad at sarcasm either.   Dean asks if they've seen ghosts before.

At the public library (where's the old computer then Sam?)  Sam doesn't find any record of any killings and nothing matching the description of the dead girl.   Dean's car wipers and radio goes off.  Sam calls that 1 to him.   Dean just sees it as weak.   More teens enter the house and one is dared to retrieve a jar from the cellar.   She is also hanged.

The police think it's suicide as she's a straight 'A' student and Dean is sure they missed something.   The two ghostbusters turn up and Dean comments, "Who you gonna call?"  The police chase them, leaving Sam and Dean to go over the house.   Dean still can't place that symbol.   Then dares Sam to drink from a jar.  Eeww why would he, disgusting.   Sam asks why?  Then double dares him.   A noise is heard from the cupboard, it could be rats, but Dean hopes it's a ghost.   They shoot at Mordecai but he still comes after them.   The other two return as Sam and Dean come running out of the house.  "Sweet Lord of the Rings."

Dean draws the symbol again and is bothered as to why in the legend he "only goes after chicks." Sam: "He does."
Dean: "That will explain why he came after you - why me?"
Sam: "Hilarious."  Mordecai slit his wrists and carries an axe, but in the actual legend he keeps hanging them.   Sam then reads a new posting saying Mordecai was a Satanist who chopped his Vics up before slitting his wrists.   Dean realizes where it began.

Dean buys an album from the store and explains the symbol doesn't mean anything.   It's the Blue Oyster Cult logo.   Dana showed the girl the house and made it look haunted, taking symbols from Theology text books.   They made up stories and posted them on the web.   Dean asks how they'd explain the appearance of Mordecai.   Dean puts itching powder in Sam's clothes.   Sam says it's a Tibetan thought form: a Tolpa.   Sam shirtless and in a towel!!!  In 1915 Tibetan monks visualized a Gollum in their heads and meditated so hard they brought it to life.   That was only 20 monks.   These are 20,000 websurfers.   Dean says as people believe in him, Mordecai is real.   Dean: "People believe in Santa Claus, how come I'm not getting hooked up every Christmas."
Sam: "Cos you're a bad person and cos of the Tibetan spirit sidual on the wall."  The sidual was used for centuries and thoughts were amplified like a magnifying glass and could have brought the Tolpa to life.   Dean says rock salt didn't work as Mordecai is not a traditional spirit per se.   Dean wonders how to kill the idea.

Sam thinks he's allergic to the motel soap and realizes it was Dean when he sniggers.   The ghostbusters, later to be known as Ghostfacers are warned not to return to the house, but if they can get footage they'll get movie deals and money as well as "sex with real girls."  What as opposed to inflatable ones!  Dean: "Action figures in their original packaging, what a shocker."  Dean wants them to shut the site down.   Sam thinks they could tell them about Mordecai but it still wouldn't help them, they'll shut down the site.   Sam says from the death certificate, COD was self-inflicted .45 gunshot wound with rod iron rounds, which killed the SOB, i.e Mordecai.   Dean pushes the string on the laughing fisherman toy commenting Sam needs more laughter in his life.  Think he gets enough from Dean.  

Dean's hand gets stuck on his beer bottle.   Courtesy of Sam.   They leave the fisherman outside for the police to find as a distraction to enable them to get into the house.   Dean doesn't have any skin left on his palm he says.   Cue ghostbusters and Mordecai with axe in hand.   Bullets don't work on him and the server conked out.   Sam acts as bait so they can escape and Dean uses fire, Mordecai can't leave the house and they can't kill him so he improvises and sets the house alight.   Sam retorts that's his solution.   Well, no house = no haunting.   Sam asks what will happen if the legend changes and Mordecai returns.   Dean replies so will they.   Sam:  "kind of makes you wonder of all the things we hunted, how many existed just because people believed in them."  The ghostbusters get a call from a Hollywood producer wanting to option movie rights.   Sam called them and Dean put a dead fish in their backseat.   Sam and Dean call a truce; for the next 100 miles at least, adds Dean.

Great episode in the sense that it was purely about hunting the beast and putting him down, what they do.   The addition of the Ghostfacers was a little annoying upon watching for the first time, but they have their fans and their moments.   Love AJ Buckley as lovable Adam in CSI:NY, which I think is more his niche.   An episode full of laughs, killings aside and showing us how juvenile Dean can be, which is just a reflection of not just his funny side, since he doesn't get serious very often and especially not when Sam wants to talk feelings and he doesn't.

As for Dean's comment about Mordecai coming after Sam, implying he's a chick, kind of became redundant since the legend kept changing, so Dean couldn't really call Sam a chick this time round.  Since he also came after him.   Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear the Reaper was used in 1.12 Faith and here the band is mentioned again.

In joke: Jensen hails from Richardson, Texas.   Eric Kripke told TV Guide how fans wanted to see Jensen and Jared in little clothing and so he wrote the towel scene so Jared would be shirtless!  Er, naked, practically!  In the opening when Dean turns up the song, the lines heard include: "a fire of unknown origin took my baby away."  Alluding to Mom and Jessica.   The song is entitled Fire of Unknown Origin by Blue Oyster Cult.   Dean saying he hates rats and prefers ghosts and his use of "pursqueeter."  Casting your minds forward, Ruby played by Genevieve Padalecki, will use this in a season 4 episode.   Sam saying he could probably bitch slap both Ed and Harry.   Britt Irvin, credited as  'first teen girl' went on to play Stargirl in Smallville.

Desperate Housewives - 7.09: "Pleasant Little Kingdom" Review

Paul's mysterious plans for Wisteria Lane are revealed. Lynette and Tom argue as usual, then count their blessings for having each other, whilst Renee laments letting Tom walk.

Mary Alice (Brenda Strong): "There are things every parent should remember...how quickly their children grow up."

Lynette (Felicity Huffman) is upset at the prospect of not being able to have any more babies, how many more does she want and only last time she was complaining about how difficult it is to raise children too.  Tom (Doug Savant) reminds her then there'll only be two of them, which is the best bit.   Suddenly getting them all hot and passionate!  Then in stumbles Susan (Teri Hatcher) right into the nursery, catching them flagrante delicto.   That's their problem, one word or one conversation on anything in the entire world, gets them in the mood.  

Mary Alice: "Questions we all ask ourselves: do I trust the folks next door...will the couple across the street be there when I need them...great neighbours are ones that do exactly what they're told."  Leading to Paul (Mark Moses) continuing his mission to buy up Wisteria Lane and puts up a sign outside informing of his plans.   Well about time his plan was revealed, thought it would be dragged out for a while yet.   But we just had to wait  a few minutes longer for it to be unveiled.

Susan knocks on the door this time and has a conversation about Tom being well endowed in the private parts department and how Lynette hasn't told any of them; a proud Tom listening in the next room.   With Lynette telling her she doesn't want to tell everyone.   Of course as soon as he hears this, there'll be trouble brewing!  Tom and Lynette having one of those volatile relationships that flare up into huge arguments, you'd think half the time they only have such fights for the sex, make-up sex that is.   However it's the case they don't really need any excuse, as I just said.

Gaby (Eva Longoria) overhears Carmen (Carla Jimenez) planning to leave for Mexico, to be with (Danny Trejo) until he can find a way to sneak back into the US.   She suggests Grace (Cecilia Balagot) should stay with her until they're settled.   Then there's an argument with Carmen telling Gaby she's not a good mother, look at how Juanita (Madison La Garza) turned out: spoilt.  With Gaby rubbing it in that she's Grace's birth mother.

Paul's plan is to open a Community Correctional facility, called Second Chances.   That's why he's buying up realty.   A bit disappointing, would've expected something more than that.   He recalls how he felt when he was released and had nowhere to go, but here, remembering what it was like here.   It will be a "testament to how I feel about each and every one of you."  Don't really need his feelings spelled out to us, they're obvious and the residents know him anyway.

As if Susan couldn't do anymore walking in on people, it's Renee's (Vanessa Williams) turn now, Renee is crying.   It's her birthday but that's not why she's in tears.   Susan asks her out for drinks to celebrate.  For someone who she doesn't like, Renee agreed to go out with her, must be desperate! Gaby decides to report Carmen to Immigration and picks Bob's (Tuc Watkins) brains on this.   He replies it's legal as she's the birth mother, she could keep Grace, but it doesn't make it right.   That's not something Gaby is good at listening to.   As we know, Gaby always tends to do the opposite of what she shouldn't and goes ahead anyway.

Tom asks Lynette why he's always the butt of everyone's jokes and why she never tells anyone about his manhood; but is first to tell them of his mess ups.   That's a bit of a silly question to ask, since he's been married long enough to know what she's like and it's not something she would come right out and bring up in a conversation.

Keith (Brian Austin Green) dons a suit and stares at the engagement ring again.   Whilst Bree (Marcia Cross) has a conversation with Richard (John Schneider) about why he's wasting his life away indoors.   She thinks he's handsome and a catch, inviting him to dinner.  Way to go Bree, ask the father to dinner too, it's not everyday his son wears a suit, didn't she think there was something behind it; or did she think they were at the stage of their relationship where he'd change how he dresses for her.

The Homeowners Association needs to approve Paul's idea for the halfway house, he needs 14 votes and they're all sure he won't get them.   Starting another argument between Tom and Lynette, by Susan this time, as she lets slip how Mike (James Denton) would deal with Paul if he was here.   So naturally, they go round the room wondering who the best macho man would be for the job, such as Carlos (Richardo Antonio Chavira).  It's even suggested that Lynette could beat up Paul; everyone thinks she's tougher than Tom.   So Lynette mentions his manhood in her usual abrupt and angry style and he's still not happy with that either.

As the ICE agents stop outside the house, Gaby sees Carmen with Grace and realizes she may have been hasty and wrong, that'd probably be a first.   To save them, she passes herself off as Carmen; and is arrested.   But Carlos tells her since Gaby made fools of a US government agency, Carmen and Grace are leaving for Texas and can't come back to the house.   Now if she hadn't meddled, they would still be there.   They thank each other for taking care of their babies.

At dinner, Bree invites her friend Tracey to join them, they were in the church choir together.   That backfires, as Tracey goes on about how she doesn't have faith in the church anymore, something Richard doesn't want to hear.   He's an army man after all; his faith kept him going through combat.   She nearly swallows Bree''s engagement ring in the shrimp cocktail.   That was a shock to Bree as she wasn't expecting him to propose, and now he probably won't.

It's a wonder Susan and Renee weren't at the same place.   Renee: "when you said you were the fun one on the lane, who was your competition, the mailbox?"  Susan believes birthdays are difficult when you're single.   Unless Renee tells her what's wrong, she'll continue with her 'what to do with chicken leftovers' .   Renee was thinking of a man from her past, they had one weekend together, 20 years ago, he was the one and she let him go.   She calls Susan the smart one.   Debatable!

Lynette admits to Tom everyone sees him as thoughtful, having a sense of humour, whereas everyone sees her as a bitch.   For 20 years she was sick of people telling her how lucky she is to have him.   Hey, don't tell me, Renee and Lynette were thinking that right at the same time!  And about the same man, spooky.  Tom's lucky to have a great wife.

Meanwhile, Renee gets drunk and mentions 'her man' lives here on the lane.   Tom is "the love of my life."  Which Susan hears.  Now the cat's out of the bag, it won't stay a secret long, let's count the episodes until Susan blabs.   Richard sees his chance to tell Bree she should go after someone her own age, someone who shares her values and her faith.  Didn't take long for that to come out, but it was on the cards.

Paul brings up his 7 votes at the meeting and he needs one more.   Everyone is angry at Lee (Kevin Rahm) for selling him the houses and begin to squabble with each other.   Falling into Paul's trap, because that's how he's going to get his 1 house, they're going to make it easy for him with their in-fighting.   Yes but this is Wisteria Lane and we all know who has the winning vote on this lane and show!  With a halfway house house prices will tumble.

Mary Alice: "Do I trust the people who live next door...can I count on the woman who lives down the block...if we discover our neighbours can't be trusted, then it may be time to move."  No can't really picture anyone moving from this lane.  Unless they're carried out.   Not very much going on in this episode, a little predictable in places too.

CSI: NY - 7.4: "Sangre por Sangre" Review

Mac investigates the deaths of gang members, which at first appear to be linked to a rival gang, before the suspects are narrowed down to one in particular, whom Mac had a past association with.

Mac (Gary Sinise) bleeding from a wound to his arm, chases a man to a deserted building.   He raises his gun and fires at Mac.  This chase scene was reminiscent of the one he had in season 4 DOA for a Day, when he cornered the serial killer, Suspect X, in the building and also shot and killed her too.

12 Hours Earlier


Mac is called to a CS at a hotel, where a DB has been discovered impaled on  the spike of an awning (and still they persist in having these dangerous spikes everywhere.) He is identified as Panthro Torres (Eddie Fernandez) from the El Puno gang.   Flack (Eddie Cahill) believes it to be a hit from a rival gang.   The room is in shambles, Flack: "This is why they take your credit card when you check in."  He was shot twice and fell back through the window, or as Flack more poetically puts it, "...hazing out the window...ends up a shish kebab."  That's another shish kebab allusion there, the first was in CSI's Blood Moon episode by Doc Robbins.  (Robert David Hall.)  Mac: "A lot can change in one day."  So true as we'll see.

These split screens are put to  much better use in CSI:Miami, they seem out of place here.   Sid's (Robert Joy) out of the lab for a change and finds defensive wounds on the Vic, gun shot wounds from a large calibre, through and through and another went through his chest.   Inside, Lindsay (Anna Belknap) finds no signs of forced entry.   Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) makes the same comment Flack did about it possibly being a rival gang.   He finds something in a bottle which he describes as "something ugly." As well as 2 glasses.   Lindsay sees lipstick on a mirror.

Sid comments on there being 6 million ways to die and that Panthro died from 3: a cracked skull from hitting the awning, a ruptured vena cava from a fragmented .45 and he would have died from exsanguination too.   Jo (Sela Ward) jokingly tells Mac to "give me 'til lunch" to solve the case.   All she did mostly this episode was to stick sad 'smiley' faces onto deceased gang members, sadly for me, that wasn't much! Instead we had to endure Lindsay with her rolled up jacket sleeves, someone should've told her that went out in the '80's!  Also Danny and Lindsay working the CS together again, does not make for interesting viewing either!   Jo tells Mac, Lisa (Yara Martinez) is the brains of the outfit; Rick (Yancey Arias) is the 'muscle' and the least brightest.  

Mac pays a visit to the restaurant owned by the El Puno gang and is told by Luthor (Edward James Olmos) he'll give him his word there will be no retaliation for Panthro's killing until after his funeral.  Luthor tells Fernando Flores (Mario Ardila Jnr) he should go to Mac if he needs to as he's  "a fair man."  Luthor and Mac shake on the undertaking he won't take matters into his own hands, Mac put away Luthor for assault.   If he does get involved he'll put Luthor away and this time he won't get out and he was right.

Adam (AJ Buckley) doesn't find any prints on the glasses, but only 2 separate DNA profiles, one from the Vic and the other one isn't in CODIS.   (See later with this major bloop!) He doesn't know what the fishy thing in the bottle is, but he knows a man, who knows a man, etc.   He looked so uneasy there when he said that.   Hawkes (Hill Harper) says the bottle was tampered with.  Danny gets a DNA match on the lipstick to Hazel Ortega (Lymari Nadal), an escort.

Hazel carries a .45 and Flack apprehends her.   En route to the station, well he's hardly left the alley when he's ambushed by 2 men with guns.   In one of Flack's best action scenes (my bias again!).   He anticipates it's a hit and tells her to get down, saving her life and fires off bullets to defend themselves.   Hazel is wounded and Flack  tells Mac: "I'm good, I'm pissed" she was shot on his watch.   Hawkes finds the bullets are marked with a letter 'P', which Flack says are for intimidation.   Mac wants them found as they fired 50 rounds into a police car.   (Yeah more worried about the car than the Flack!)

Neat trick, cutting to the ambulance, making us think for an instance, that Flack maybe didn't get a shot off or was hit!  Also before this scene when the shooter had the gun pointing to him, it appeared Flack turned around and just froze, as he did in one of last season's episodes and couldn't fire his gun, like he almost hesitated - luckily he just ducked!  Great to see him saving his prisoner when faced with fire from all directions.   He was on the ball with his quick thinking and reflexes to determine it was a hit.   Good to see he was concerned about Hazel being wounded on his watch too.   He's come a long way from season 1.

Adam calls the fish head in the bottle 'Fishzilla' - a snakehead fish which are illegal to the US.   Jo at the hospital, talks down Hazel from holding a policewoman hostage and she insists she didn't kill Panthro.   He was alive when she left, but someone else came in but she won't say who, out of fear.   Mac meets with Luthor once again and doesn't believe his getting out of prison and the deaths are just a coincidence.   Luthor doesn't hustle, he won't look Mac in the eyes and lie.   He didn't order the hit on Hazel but someone in his gang did.   The men will surrender themselves at a designated place.

Hawkes discovers the stria from Hazel's gun don't match, but he pieced the bullet fragments together to find a 'P', revealing it to be an inside job.   That was obvious when Adam made the comment about the snakehead eating its own.   Flack says much the same thing with his "someone inside's eating their own" comment.   None of the El Puno gang can be found, but Mac comes across Fernando running from the restaurant, seconds before it explodes.   Lisa's body is found inside, along with a cut gas line, a palmprint and Danny finds another bottle.   Mac determines a Molotov cocktail was used to start the fire.

Sid tells Mac there was no smoke in Lisa's lungs, she was shot twice, he found "mushroom .45s."   Danny finds another snakehead, "Cajun style."  Adam's source informed him of the arrest of a smuggler who sold 3 of the snakeheads to a Puerto Rican man.   Fernando turns himself in and will only talk to Mac as he's "a fair man."  Lindsay calls him telling him she matched the palm print.   Which was to Luthor.   Funny that when Adam examined the DNA on the glasses he only got one hit back and didn't get one for Luthor, as he's an ex-con his prints would have been in the system and should have come back much sooner!

Mac finds Luthor and Rick together and warns Rick he's the next target but he doesn't believe him.   Rick fires at Mac, thus the wound in his arm in the opening teaser, and then runs away.   Turns out the man Mac was chasing in the opening was Luthor.  Luthor's motive was the way in which the 3 of them had changed the ideals of the gang from the old days, it was not about protecting the neighbourhood any longer.   Luthor fires at Rick, Mac turns around to see Rick fall to the ground - only after he's got off 3 rounds of his own at Luthor.   He doesn't want Mac calling for help.   He started it and he ended it too.

Going back 12 hours made very little difference to the plot of the episode or the outcome, since it w as apparent Mac would not be fatally wounded in any way.   Due to Luthor's conversation of the 'old' days and ways, Mac should've realized Luthor wouldn't kill him, since Luthor had kept his word on all occasions with Mac, like not going after the others until later.   Although Luthor wanted to be the one to bring the other gang members to book for corrupting his gang.

The  chases were left to Mac this episode.   Think these gang episodes are better suited to CSI:Miami, got to admit they do them so much better.   With Mac stealing Horatio's (David Caruso) line here of telling Luthor "you should've come to me" and they would have taken care of it together.   Mac didn't need to get 3 shots off since he just appeared to be going for a kill rather than defending himself.   It was a case of what Hazel said to Jo about 'whoever got off the most kill shots, survives.'  That's what Mac did here, but he shot at the wrong man and from their 'understanding'  and they shook hands, Luthor had too much respect for Mac.   He was there to kill Rick and that's what he eventually did, to the detriment of his own life.   Shooting his own brother to save Mac isn't too heroic since he wanted him dead anyway.   Mac again just appeared to be there for the job and to get it done "at all costs"  in a cold way.

The title meaning "blood for blood."

CSI:Miami's Spring Breakdown episode had a DB falling out the window and being shot by a flare gun, before landing on  a large protrusion.   Also the episode, Dude, Where's My Groom, where Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) discovered a palm print on the limo which lead to the identity of the killer.

NCIS - 7.22: "Borderland" Review

The death of a marine, discovered without feet leads to Mexico, where Abby is sent by Vance and it's all part of Gibbs' past catching up with him, as we near the end of the season.

A DB bleeds from a car in a scrapyard.   Ziva (Cote de Pablo) goes over the First Amendment.   Tony (Michael Weatherly) is on  his computer, as usual, sometimes you think he spends more time on there than McGee (Sean Murray) does.   Tony reminds her this Amendment  includes his freedom of speech.   Ziva; "Clearly they did not have Tony in mind when writing that."  Well they didn't have a lot of people in mind when writing.   Tony is on the website and is 'Nexted'.   (Something similar in CSI:NY season 7.2 episode was also done.)  Ziva comments Tony keeps getting 'nexted'.   Tony says it only takes 10 seconds.   One girl online says he's old, 'like 40'.   Which he is, (but over 40 in real life, ha.  Yeah it's like we're not all going to get to 40.)    Tony puts on a Graucho Marx mask, well many people won't even know who that is, Tony, talk about showing your age! Ha.

Tony: "Hi boss, not what it looks like.   Just out of curiosity, what does it look like?"  Gibbs (Mark Harmon) has no answer for that.  Gibbs: "Grab your gear and a little self-respect DiNozzo!"  Marine Corporal Ray Collins was found in the scrapyard.   Ducky (David McCallum) "Discarded like trash in an old junkyard."   Feet are missing too.  He was court martialled.   Tony comments on the Ducati motorbike and McGee says he can't afford them.   Abby (Pauley Perrette) says Vance (Rocky Carroll) wants to see her and if her "Gibbsometer" is working, then Gibbs should walk in right now.   Abby is flustered.   The DB had tissue under his fingernails but there's no DNA match.   Gibbs thinks the killer isn't in the military, "rules out Director Vance."

Abby is worried about seeing Vance means a bad omen, "it does not bode well for my future."  Gibbs says he has her back, "always have, always will."  So I ask, who's got Gibbs' back here, Abby?  Abby was also right about her omen.   Abby: "What the biohazardous material is this?"  When Gibbs gives her the mini Caf Pow.  We didn't  see Gibbs coming in it the Caf Pow, where did he hide that?  Though it was small enough.   Ducky mentions a Persian proverb about having no shoes, then met someone who had no feet.   Palmer (Brian Dietzen) does a Fred Flintstone impression.   Ducky: "Yabba Dabba Do."   COD: he bled to death, he wasn't conscious when his feet were cut.   They were sawn off and Ducky notices a welt on the side of his neck with '666.'  (Going back to Abby's omen.)

Vance is sending Abby to Mexico with McGee to accompany her cos he never goes anywhere, aside from LA and Mexico isn't really a good place for him.   Alejandro (Marco Sanchez) wants her to speak at a Law Enforcement Symposium.   Abby: "As long as it's not McGee, he's been acting all squirrely, when Alejandro tried to undress me with his eyes." Tony and Ziva go to the address found from the GPS on the Vic's watch, a truck and find it full of feet.   Tony's 'charming' was funny.

Benito Juarez, Mexico:   This house features a lot, ranging from JAG to Charlie's Angel's.   McGee comments that Monte Zuma got his revenge on him last time he was in Mexico.   Abby says he should stick to bottled water.   McGee gets a text from Tony telling him they're on the hunt for a serial killer, when McGee isn't there, not what he wants to hear.   Alejandro has cold cases for Abby to look through and conveniently, used loosely, one comes up in relation to Gibbs.   Alejandro calls McGee Agent Magoo, hey that's Tony's name for him., well one of his names.   The cold case is all about drugs and the escalating drug wars.

Tony: "I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say serial killer."  "Can I give you a hand," these are terrible jokes.   Ducky finds they were all unconscious when dismembered.   Ziva says sulphuric acid is strong enough to destroy bone.   They have the killer's trophies so probably will kill again.   Tony calls Palmer the 'autopsy Gremlin' again.   The killer is targetting bikers judging from the tattoos.   McGee now eats the local yogurt which Abby tells him is unpasteurized.   McGee asking if that's bad, er, he's a geek, he should know.   Geek used in the nicest way possible.  

Abby always wanted to be a teacher.   One woman, Natalia ( Stephaane Escajeda) asks her, after they stare at Abby's sense of dress, "who told you the Day of the Dead was in May?"  Natalia, Abby replies, is ovulating.   Tony and Ziva hit the biker bar.   This one's mainly full of women and Tony doesn't get any  response.   The barkeep, Velver Road (Claudia Black) (suspiciously my suspect) tells them to leave.   Cos she was trying to be helpful in the CSI:Miami way, i.e.  when they're too helpful, they're guilty and have plenty to hide.   Besides she was actually the only suspect.   She says the Corporal was sleeping with everyone.

Abby takes the class out on a field trip and is met by a woman from the drug cartel.   She, Paloma Reynosa (Jacqueline Obradors) talks about Pedro Hernandez, who was shot and killed 20 years ago.   The fracture pattern on his skull shows the bullet was travelling at high velocity so the police report was wrong.   McGee says a long range weapon was used.   of course we all know who uses those, or used to use those.   As said, all roads lead to Gibbs here.   She gives Abby the bullet which she wore as a necklace.   McGee offers to be held in their place.   This is Reynosa Cartel family business.   Abby tells her he wasn't shot point blank.   Paloma says he was killed by a sniper on the ridge and the sniper left behind a message in the form of the bullet.   She likes Abby's shoes.

Ducky and Palmer talk about toe cheese, oh please.  Ducky regrets not having a window.   Er, but they've been in the truck for several days though.     The feet have been salted which retards bacterial growth but not insect activity.   The first one was cut about 2 months ago.   All the Vics were already dead and were poisoned.   Gibbs knows serial killers do not change their MO.   Abby has a bad feeling about the cold case.   McGee has a bad feeling about the bed.   They remind us they shared a coffin together.   Abby mentions Ziva taking the couch in Paris (episode 7.11 Jet Lag).   McGee tells her Tony said he took the couch in Paris and they look at each other.   They've told them different stories, to get our goat and to begin yet more rumours about Tony and Ziva.   McGee brushes his teeth and uses the tap water.   Abby's developing her own gut, like Gibbs.   McGee's put on a few pounds.   He was joking.

Tony tries on a gas mask in front of the computer webcam, he can't get past 10 seconds before being 'nexted.'  Telling Ziva he's earned his pay.   Ziva threatens to tell Gibbs.   Gibbs: "Gibbs is gonna find out anyway."  Tony says Ray is the serial killer.   Ziva has a photo of an illegal right turn from the truck and he started killing when he returned here.   Abby finds a clipping with the news of Gibbs' family being killed.  Pedro's DB has been exhumed and sent to Ducky.   Lapua is a fave bullet of snipers, as we know going back all the way to season 1 and the season 2 finale when Kate (Sasha Alexander) was killed by Ari.  

Vance approved Abby going to Mexico but the request came from Alejandro.   Probably cos Allison (Mallision) was behind it.   Well her or Paloma.   At least Allison is meant to be our chief instigator cos she was here for Bell, then she was insistent that Alejandro should meet with Abby.   Tony: "Ola McTaco" and asks if he brought anything back for him.   How about some unpasteurized yogurt.   Tony tells McGee about the killer's antics on purpose cos he knows McGee isn't well.

Ducky mentions Pedro Hernandez and Gibbs drowns out Palmer's voice.   Flash to Gibbs shooting Pedro.  Ducky concludes Ray committed the murders but he doesn't know what his motivation was.   Gibbs signs for the bullet for Abby and acts remarkably suspicious in the process.  Also the looks that pass between Abby and Gibbs.   The poison used on the men was snake venom neurotoxin, from the sand viper found in Afghanistan.   The killer was targetting drug dealers.   Drug cartels cut off the feet of drug dealers.   Tony is glad McGee is back cos it's nice to talk to someone for more than 10 seconds, but Ziva was still around.   McGee was getting his revenge on Tony for making him fall in love with a non-existent woman when Tony faked his profile on the Net.   So he set his browser to stay for 10 seconds before he's 'next ed'.   Yes but I think Tony would have been next ed irrespective of this.

Velvet killed Ray.   The '666' impression on his neck was from her ring.   So his DNA must still be on her ring.   They have her DNA from his fingernails.   She's immune from the poison and he tried to kill her, she claims it was an accident.   She made him look like a Vic and was hired by the Reynosa drug cartel.   Abby's in Gibbs' basement this time and there's no boat, he's not building anymore.   He knows why she's here.  She matched the bullet from Pedro's head to Gibbs' sniper rifle and he killed him in cold blood.  "Gibbs doesn't do things like that - now I don't know."  Abby didn't find this out by accident and he quotes Rule 40: "if someone's out to get you, they are."  Abby wants vilification from him.   Gibbs can't reply that she's wrong.   Abby wants him to tell her how she's a daughter to him and he loves her.   She needs to know he'll love her no matter what.

Well there had to be a closure to this story sometime since it was on going from season 3 finale, with the flashbacks.   Seems it took Allison to bring it to the furore and for Gibbs and Abby's friendship to be tested and maybe altered.   Will the others find out.  It's obvious Alejandro is also involved, insisting on Abby coming to Mexico and handing her that particular cold case.

Tony finally gets a Gibbs slap, haven't seen that in a while.   Also Tony's line to Ziva: "You wouldn't understand - being irritating is second nature to you." That can be said of Tony too, ha.

CSI 12.16 "Unplugged" Review

A nanny, Shelby (Laura Fraser) and the boy, Harper (Aiden Lovekamp) go missing from the house.  Brass (Paul Guilfoyle) tells DB (Ted Danson) and Finn (Elisabeth Shue) that Riordan, (Jeffrey Pierce) the father, claims he was sleeping when Shelby put him to bed.  He's dressed in a tux.  Brass: "I dress a little less formally."  In Harper's bedroom there's blood everywhere which is tacky and Finn finds a bloodprint on the headboard too, which she sends to Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) before there's a powercut.

DB notices Saturn is missing and metal particles are also found which Finn thinks could be transfer from the kidnapper.  Hodges (Wallace Langham) tells Henry (Jon Wellner) to hold the lift but he doesn't and forces Hodges to stop the door closing with his case.  Henry didn't want to hold the door.  They need to find Harper within three hours.  DB: "if the lights don't come back on we'll find the kid in the dark."  Morgan calls and tells him all the 'iss's' are down."  So they can't run the print against any database.  DB tells her to "use your head, use your hands" and to go back to basics.  Hodges tells DB that Morgan will dial faster for help if she knows he's in the lift.  Oh come on that means they have something going on together which no one knows about yet, which is more obvious at the end of the episode.

Finn finds white residue and blood patter on the ceiling.  Which DB explains means the kidnapper was already in the house.  That narrows down the suspects.  There's a void on the floor where the rug was taken, presumably someone was carried out in it.  They assume the blood could be Harper's but DB says they don't know whose blood it is.  Finn: "go old school."  Greg (Eric Szmanda) needs to use ABO typing to find the blood type.  Sara (Jorga Fox) found no sign of  a break in. When Sara mentions the number of candles in the house, it was apparent there was some sort of a seance going on there.  Nick (George Eads) spots blood drops on the table and floor leading towards the door.

Riordon says Shelby was his nanny since he was born and his wife died five years ago.  He was going to go out but fell asleep.  He doesn't know Harper's blood type, which is what DB and Sara were talking about a few episodes ago and how he and Catherine used to keep their children's hair or bandages in the fridge in DB's case it was bandages, just incase.  He recalls there may be Harper's bandage in the trash.  Greg tells Morgan to be creative when it comes to analyzing the residue.  He finds Harper's blood type is O.

Finn suspects Riordan.  DB: " I have a feeling this case is not gonna follow the rules."  Well not many cases do otherwise they wouldn't make for interesting TV.  Sara and Nick find the missing Saturn and the rug outside with Shelby inside.  Also a note is attacked to her with the knife, reading, "We have Harper."  Doc Robbins (Robert David Hall) can't see to conduct an autopsy but she was stabbed with a double edged blade, like the type that was recovered.  David (David Berman) makes his own version of a bright light using luminol and permanganate.  Doc concludes it could be a straightforward case of kill the nanny, take the boy.  Sara thinks there was an accomplice.

Greg and Morgan bump into each other and he suggests she use crystal test for the remaining 10% of her analysis since she can't find what narcotic the residue is from and an old fashioned microscope.  She finds it was ketamine which was kept in Riordan's medicine cabinet.  Greg also finds Shelby was AB and the blood type on the handle was O, belonging to Riordan.  Brass contacted the San Francisco police department and he neglected to tell them his wife, Natalie (Lauriane Gillieron) drowned in their pool.  Riordan admits he had a seance and used his blood.  So that's a clue as to who took the knife and also to the kidnapper.  His mother-in-law, Patricia (Bess Armstrong) was there and the medium, Karen (Rachel Roberts).  Anyway Karen could have said whatever she wanted.  He misses his wife.  He's a father and not a murderer.

Nick finds prints with tented arches on the note and Sara finds the same on the headboard and no match to Riordan.  Nick: "computers have really spoiled me."  Finn still suspects Riordon.  As said before it's not their job to suspect until all the evidence is in.  The kidnapper calls and asks for Natalie's jewellery as ransom.  Patricia believes Karen when Natalie told her Riordan didn't kill her.  Karen claims to have left with Patricia and tells Brass Natalie told her that Riordan betrayed her and he was holding onto her for selfish reasons.  His grief is all about him.  It was a giveaway when Karen calls him, "my husband."  Again she could have said whatever she wanted.

Henry posits they're CSIs, "of sorts" so they should analyze the metal particle for themselves whilst still stuck in the lift.  Nick notices there aren't any rear windows on the van and the kidnapper escaped out the back.  Shots are heard and they find the kidnapper wearing a red cap shot outside.  The jewellery is still there.  The prints match Trevor (Anderson Davis) as he has tented arches.  Sara finds Natalie's wedding ring is missing from the jewellery.  Greg also finds Harper's blood type is O and Shelby's is AB so she can't be his mother.  He already worked that out, it took him this long to tell DB.  Thus Shelby was a surrogate and there was no affair.  Natalie died accidentally and drowned in the pool whilst drunk after she threw his ring in there and later went to get it out.

Nick finds a wire transfer of money was sent to Trevor and the was signed by Natalie.  Power returns and Sara tells DB the metal particle was magnesium used in mag wheels, from a building across from the wire transfer place.  A part of town with abandoned buildings.  Nick finds Karen used fake ID to send the money.  At her place they find Harper.  Karen became obsessed with Natalie and became her.  DB finds Karen downed in the pool, like Natalie, only she was wearing the wedding ring and Natalie wasn't when she drowned.

Hodges claims it's good to have the "iss's back.  Just like Morgan did so there must be something more here between them.  As Morgan replies "it's good to have everything back."  Greg says they may "go ancient" again so she should keep the microscope, which she does. DB tells Finn he's good at hiding losing faith better than her.

This episode not only reminded me of the CSI episode Gentle, Gentle, about the kidnapped baby, where the baby was found dead.  But also of CSI:NY  2.11 Trapped, the panic room episode when Danny got stuck in the panic room and had to analyze the evidence the old fashioned way and had to improvize.  Stella found a bloodtrail leading from the room.  A knife was also the murder weapon and prints confirmed the suspect - but his prints were on the knife as he made himself a sandwich.  Here Riordan has the blood/seance alibi.  Another suspect's wedding ring is found in jello (jelly) again the use of a wedding ring as motive which was stolen by Karen here.  Danny discovers the ear of the DB's brother as 'proof of life' which is also what DB tells Riordan to ask for.  There were accomplices also in this episode.

Though CSI didn't need to do much.  That ABO blood typing was laborious though and there was potential to get it wrong too, as many would say, just like Nick, thank goodness for computers.  CSI has had many kidnapping episodes, including Gum Drops. A particular fave of mine.

Supernatural - 1.16: "Shadow" Review

Sam and Dean finally meet up with Dad and encounter Meg again, who has more up her conniving supernatural sleeve for the boys. dad leaves again cos it's too dangerous to be together. Dean wants Sam around with him all the time.

Chicago, Illinois.   A woman hears  a noise in an alley and is later attacked at home.   Shadows can be seen on the walls.

One week later.   Sam (Jared Padalecki) reads the paper as a manhunt continues for the killer.   Dean (Jensen Ackles) comments how, "Dad made it fine without all these costumes."  He feels like a high school drama dork.   They dress in overalls.   He recalls Sam in the play he did at school, Our Town, he was cute.   There were no signs of a break in at the woman's home and the alarm is still on.   Everything is in perfect condition, but Meredith (Melanie Papalia) was in pieces, could be the result of a wild animal.  Dean uses his EMF and he spoke with Amy, "the charming, perky officer of the law."  Meredith's heart was missing.   Sam doesn't think it's a werewolf as the cycles aren't right, but it could be a spirit of some sort.

Dean sees  a symbol, like a Z' shape.   Dean chats up the bartender (Nimet Kanji) and gets her number on a napkin.   Sam: "Do you mind doing a bit of thinking with your upstairs brain, Dean."  Lots of this upstairs/downstairs stuff going on.   The symbol isn't in any books or journals.   Someone named Ben, was found mutilated in his home but there's no connection.   For Dean the only successful piece of Intel he got was the bartender's number.   Sam spots Meg (Nicki Lynn Aycox).   I have this strange urge to call her 'Peg leg' everytime I hear her name.   She's in from California, only reason she was headed there in 1.11 Scarecrow, was cos Sam was.   So it's more than a coincidence that she's found him now.   Meg says she's from Andover, Massachusetts and Dean coughs, cos Sam, hasn't introduced them.   She tells Dean to cover his mouth.   Oh, Meg, one of those women you wouldn't mind bitch slipping.   Sorry thinking out loud!

She has a rant at Dean, telling him to stop dragging Sam around everywhere.   Yeah like Sam can't speak or decide for himself.  Meg: "If it were me, I'd kill him...show him a hell of a time."  Dean asks who she was and Sam can only reply, 'weird.'  Dean: "You bitchin' about me to some chick," and gets angry.   Cos this 'chick' ain't worth the hassle.   Sam thinks something strange is happening here, which Dean thinks is about him, ha.   Dean: "tell me about it, she wasn't even that into me."
Sam: "No, our kind of strange."  Dean thinks random consequences happen, but not to them.   Sam can't quite put his finger on her.   Dean, with his one track mind, "I bet you'd like to...maybe you're thinking a little too much with your upstairs brain."   They need to find out if she's real.

Sam watches Meg and Dean calls him, as he's lurking outside her apartment.   Dean: "You've got a funny way of showing your affection."   Dean suggests he should invite her to a poetry reading.   The symbol turns out to be Zoroastrian, 2,000 years before Christ.   It's a sidral for a Deva which means "a demon of darkness." (Or you could say diva, ha.)  A Zoroastrian demon is animalistic, like a demonic pitbull.   Sam wonders how Dean worked all this out.   Dean: "you don't have the corner on paper chasing around here."  Sam asks the last book Dean read, and he admits he called Caleb.   The Devas bite the hand that feeds them and haven't been seen for millennia and no one knows what they look like.   Dean tells him to give her a stripogram.   Sam: "bite me."
Dean: "bite her, don't leave teeth marks though." Meg changes in front of the window.   Look Sam's not interested in you, right!  A woman coughs at Sam and calls him a pervert, like Dean did.

Sam follows her to an empty building, where he notices a black alter and cup.   She speaks in Latin.  Telling 'It' not to come as they're in town.   Sam sees a symbol on the alter in blood.   Dean: "Sam's got a thing for the bad girl."   Sam says she was talking into the cup like witches scrie into crystal balls.   Someone else is giving her orders.

Dean got a favour from Amy and the first first Vic was from Lawrence, Kansas and so was Meredith.   Meg is connected to the demon.   Dean leaves a message for Dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan.)  Sam thinks they've found the demon and if so, it'll be over tonight and he'll sleep for a month.   But it couldn't be that simple, cos we have miles to go with this show.   Sam could go back to school, which Dean thinks is great for Sam.   Dean: "it's never gonna be over, there's gonna be others, there's always gonna be something to hunt.   I don't want you to leave the second this thing is over, Sam."  Dean asks why he got Sam from Stamford in the first place and takes him everywhere.   Sam thinks it's cos Dad was in trouble.   Dean wants the three of them to be a family again.   Sam: "Dean, we are a family.   I'd do anything for you, but things will never be the way they were before." Sam doesn't want to go back to that life, "I'm not gonna live this life forever...when this is all over, you're gonna have to let me go my own way." This is when Dean realizes, for Sam, it's all about living his life and not hunting.   That Sam will never want to be a hunter again.

They hide in the building and Meg summons the Devas.   She knows they're there.   They're attacked by Devas and are tied up.  Dean: "Sam, your girlfriend's a bitch!"  The Vics being from Lawrence didn't mean anything.   The trap is for Dad.   Dean: "Oh sweetheart, you're dumber than you look!"    He's not in town.   Meg says they're his one weakness and he will be killed by the Devas.   She saw Sam watching her.   Dean: "get a room you two."  Dean tries to untie himself and she hears him.   Sam's got his own knife and he turns over the alter.   The Devas attack Meg and throw her out the window.   Dean: "Sam, next time you wanna get laid, find a girl who's not so buckets of crazy."

Dean sees a shadow at the window, it's Dad.   (He did look like the demon from behind.)  He saw her go out the window.  Demons have tried to stop him before.   They can't be with Dad yet, he doesn't want them hurt.   He hugs Sam and is thrown back by Devas.   Meg is okay and has a medallion with the symbol on it.   Sam uses flares to light them up and escape.   Dean realizes Dad can't be with them cos they'll use them to kill him.   Dean: "Dad's vulnerable when he's with us - he's stronger without us around."  Dad tells them the fight is starting now and they will be a part of it.   Sam must let him go.   Meg watches them drive away.

Can't believe they didn't realize that if Meg has some sort of a connection to the demon, then she won't be killed that easily.   Plenty of laughs as is the norm with the show and Dean wanting Sam to meet a girl, but not this one Dean.   At least he's been out getting numbers.   Also Sam wants to get out once this is over, but it's not, so he has to stick around, never mind.   Meg says they're vulnerable when together, which we'll see later in the season and in other seasons too, but it's not just when they're with Dad, it's also when they're with each other, since they'll do just about anything for each other.   As Sam says here and we'll see later on.   It's the brotherly love they share.

CSI: Miami - 9.4: "Manhunt" Review

Horatio continues in his pursuit of Meemo as he leaves a trail of carnage in his wake. All tying in with his daughter and how no one helped her when she was placed in foster care; with flashbacks to Marisol.

The hunt is on for Meemo (Robert Lasardo) hence the title, as he goes on a killing spree.   Tripp (Rex Linn) tells Walter (Omar Miller) all air units etc are out in the search.  Horatio (David Caruso) catches one escapee on the bus, except for Meemo.   Flashbacks to Marisol getting killed.  Horatio says they'll get him, "if it's the last thing we do."  Well it wasn't.   Meemo boards a yacht, kills the husband and steals the jewellery.   In another episode where Horatio no longer has the final word before the opening credits.

Ryan (Jonathan Togo) finds prison shoe treads on the yacht.   The dead man's wife rips off her necklace when Calleigh (Emily Procter) questions her and tells her she can't blame herself.   Ryan has no idea how he's getting away.  Natalia (Eva Larue) finds Meemo's girlfriend, Ivonne (Melonie Diaz) works at a drycleaners.   She denies being in contact with him or seeing him.   She wants to get her daughter Elsa (Faith Dyer) back so she can't see him.   There's nothing on her phone but the earrings matching the necklace are found.   It was apparent she was lying.   Delko (Adam Rodriguez) loses his cool a lot lately, since he returned to the show.   She was going to sell the jewels and put them into savings for Elsa.

Meemo goes to the hospital and shoots two workers there when they give him the wrong answer on when they started work there.   He let's a third one off, not only cos the policeman fired at him, but cos she's new there.   CSI:Miami in an unusual departure from its violent episodes doesn't show such graphic scenes of people getting shot like that, and did this time in an unprecedented scene of violence directed particularly against women.   The social worker, Aaron and Kenneth aren't shown being shot but the women were.   He leaves his clothes behind under the truck covered in fresh spatter, as well as stealing a 9mm handgun and the dispatch radio to listen in to the police.   Then hides in a garbage truck.

Horatio is contacted by a civillian on the radio.   Aaron (Khary Payton) tells him he needs to be arrested for not doing his job.   He doesn't want to die.   On the contrary, Aaron was doing his job and wanted Elsa removed from the foster home, so Meemo killed an innocent man, not that he hasn't already done that.   Meemo shoots him regardless.   He's got unfinished business, as does Horatio.   It's been 5 years since Marisol was killed, as he reminds Horatio and us, oh what for, we don't need to be reminded now after all this time.   Was CSI:Miami really clutching at straws for storylines in its ninth season.  Marisol hasn't been mentioned for so long until now.   Horatio: "I'm gonna kill you for that."  That's one threat he wasn't able to keep thus far in the episode.   He usually keeps all of his promises.

Ivonne tells Delko Elsa isn't in her life but he tells her she let Meemo back into hers.   He wanted to see her but he couldn't  and she opened her big mouth, so it was all her fault those killings took place.   She told him Elsa was in foster care.   Elsa was taken to hospital when she was injured and she told Meemo about the accident.   Horatio agrees she shouldn't have done that.   Walter asks Kenneth (William Ragsdale) if he was familiar with Aaron's case and he claims not to know anything.  Elsa was taken to hospital with secondary burns.   Walter gets the address of foster mother, Joanne (Annie Corley) who was only shot in the leg by Meemo, why leave her alive.   The hospital couldn't take her in rightaway which is why he shot the two intake workers.   As Walter draws the conclusion that's why Meemo asked when they started work there.

Look it's Ryan with Horatio this time and not Delko.   Elsa didn't come home from school.   She was missing two days and she didn't report her, that would've been enough to get her shot by him but he let's her off.   Ryan can't believe she didn't report her, "are you kiddin' me?" Hey that's Flack's (Eddie Cahill) line.   Horatio says they'll find her.   So why's Meemo persistently calling Horatio when he can find her himself, just to taunt him and why's Horatio reassuring him that they will find her, in order to save some lives, but not like that will help.  

Ryan, Walter and Delko process Joanne's house and Walter finds a small torn piece of paper in the garden and Delko finds the same under Elsa's pillow.   Ryan finds someone broke into the house.   The paper was from a drycleaning leaflet, again leading to Ivonne and this was getting rather boring.   She was there to be near Elsa and left her a glass teddy.   Delko hopes it's a promise they can keep and find Elsa.   Calleigh hiding behind the desk and Delko just standing around when they were meant to be investigating, but there's not a shred of paper or anything else before them on the desk.

Calleigh says one person should know where she is.   Hey Delko still standing around, when Ryan comes to inform them about Joanne.   Aaron recommended Joanne be removed as her foster mother.   Kenneth knew everything about the case and has Elsa.   Meemo hears about Kenneth's sighting, which was stupid broadcasting it over the radio when he has one with him.   Then Horatio and Delko are surprised when he turns up where they've stopped Kenneth.   Delko demands Meemo doesn't talk to him about family and threatens to shoot him on several occasions, but doesn't.   Meemo takes Kenneth hostage and shoots him.   Horatio has flashbacks to Marisol, as Meemo escapes once more.

Another routine episode, but I have no idea how anyone can find needless and senseless carnage thrilling, even if it is CSI:Miami.   There wasn't anything exciting about it and it's a wonder CSI:Miami actually was renewed for a tenth season.   I used to like CSI:Miami  once upon a time, especially in its heyday, but then it got all about drug lords and gangs and Russian mobsters pretty quickly.   It was my fave CSI show at one point (now replaced by CSI:NY - wonder why.)  With a newer, fresher approach last season, CSI:Miami has now returned to its familiar action-orientated stance.   I wouldn't have minded so much if it had newer villains, but returning to the older characters doesn't make it interesting.   Lots of posturing over Marisol.   No one lined up gunning for Horatio, though only one escapee was actually shown being arrested and that was by Horatio too.   He didn't appear to be menacing or gunning for Horatio, he was getting away.   So much for LaBrock's warning previous episode that they'd be out for a "red-headed detective."   Not even Meemo gunned for Horatio.

A hardened criminal and killer like Meemo was placed in a private prison, instead of maximum security was ridiculous.   He may have been searching for his daughter, but his first act out of prison is to shoot an innocent man for the fun of it and to steal from him.   There's no sympathy that can be garnered for such a vile human being, even when he finds out about  Elsa he still goes on a shooting rampage and yet through it all he has the audacity to demand Horatio gets her back.   Plenty of people lose their children, but his action was extreme.

Without A Trace 3.4 "Upstairs Downstairs" Review

A family are at dinner with their baby and have plans of going to Paris, Roma and Milan.  Terri (Susan Floyd) the mother of the baby is drunk and her father tells her she’ll turn the baby into an alcoholic as she’s breast feeding.  Lawrence, (Chad Lowe) the father tells June (Esperanza Catubig) that the nanny has stolen one of her dresses and jewellery.  So she’s upset with her and he’s letting her go.  June and baby Nicki go missing.

9 Hours Missing
June’s mother doesn’t know where she is.  Danny (Enrique Murciano)  and Sam (Poppy Montgomery) search her house.  Jack (Anthony La Paglia) questions Lawrence and Terri.


10 Hours Missing
Terri is on medication as she’s depressive post partem.  He doesn’t know if Terri is an alcoholic.  They’ve been married 9 years.  She could be an alcoholic but he’s not having an affair with June.  They’ve been trying for a baby for 3 years.
Martin (Eric Close) finds the house alarm was set at 1:20am and went off at 4:12am.  She left her mobile behind.  Martin thinks June and Nickki may have been kidnapped. Terri let her try on her rings.  June reminded Terri of herself at that age.  June couldn’t imagine that Terri has everything and she let her borrowthe necklace.  Then she accuses June of betrayal.  Jack says if June took Nicki then the motive is important.
Sam finds an Armani dress and jewellery in June’s room.  Her mother says terri gave her the dress.  Danny asks how she could afford the plasma TV?  Her mother says they should be looking for her daughter not treating her like a criminal.  Jack finds a dummy in the cot.

11 Hours Missing
No one saw June at the train station.
The housekeeper has worked there for 32 years and raised Terri herself after her mother died when she was 9.  June idolized Terri.  She caught June eating caviar with Anthony de Bellis (Anthony Joseph De Santis) the gardener.  He’s worked here for 20 years and his father passed the business onto him.  June was out of line with the guest at the dinner party, he accuses her of having “greedy eyes.”

A ransom demand is made from a mobile phone at W 42nd St Manhatten:  The call is made through a voice distorter.  Computer analysis is done on the tape.  Sam finds it hard to belive that June isn’t involved.  Viv (Marianne Jean Baptiste) says the low tech voice distorter was bought at the leectronic district.

Jack tells the family that if June is innocent then he has an obligation to involve her family, if she’s guilty then their reaction could tell them something.  Jack says they have 2 options; either pay the kidnappers the ransom and then follow them or use decoy money, arrest them and force them to talk.  He recommends the latter.  June’s mother wants the ransom paid and then see.  June’s sister comments they’re worried about the money.

13 Hours Missing
June called him at 3:45am and told him she’d been fired and was saying goodbye.  They’d been sleeping together a few weeks, it wasn’t serious.
Sam says her sister works on W36th St and was out of the office at the time.  Her sister says June called her this morning from a bus and sounded afraid.  She took Nicki because Terri was abusing her and wanted to protect her from them.  

14 Hours Missing
Lawrence doesn’t believe it.  Terri wouldn’t hurt their baby.  Jack tells Terri about the call and abusing Nicki.  Jack tells her June betrayed Terri so maybe it had something to do with the gardener: Terri’s either sleeping with him or June is.  Terri wanted June fired because she saw them together.  Anthony told June Terri was beautiful and happy.  June says Terri doesn’t love Lawrence.  Terri loved Anthony since they were 15 and it was the only time she was happy.  Her father stopped her form seeing Anthony.  Laurence didn’t know so she made up the stealing story.
The housekeeper tried to straighten Terri out by telling her father that Anthony shouldn’t be around because Terri loves him.  Terri won’t make it without Nicki.

Jack calls his daughters, he’ll see them next weeked with their favourite bagels.  Hannah won’t talk to him.  They showed June’s photo to bus drivers.  The call came in at 10 from a 314 area code, that of St Louis.  She must have borrowed a phone from another passenger.

Jack gets a call.  Nicki is dead.  She was buried in a shallow grave.  Danny says it was dug in a hurry.  COD was suffocation there were no signs of abuse.

Martin questions Anthony and tells him Nicki was buried in the woods outside the family home.  He’s not protecting Terri and he didn’t make plans with June to Kill Nicki.  A man lent June the phone at Pennsylvania, the next stop is Pittsburgh.  Here June is found on the bus.

Viv thinks perhaps someone paid her to kill Nicki.  Jack thinks it could be a black market deal gone wrong.  He asks Viv to question her.  June was read her rights.  She was afraid of the police as they’d blame Nicki’s death on her.  She ddin’t kill Nicki and wants to talk with Laurence.

Jack talks with him.  Jack tells him Terri was abusing Nicki and June saw it so he sent her away because she knew too much.  Terri killed Nicki.  Lawrence says there was no abuse but an accident.  Terri was feeding her and suffocated her by falling asleep on her.  June came in and saw what happened.  Lawrence gave her the money and forced her to leave or he’d call the police and tell them June did it.  They’d believe him.  He couldn’t tell Terri because she’d kill herself.  He put Terri to bed and buried Nicki.  He thought June would go away.  Jack tells him he believed he could hire an expensive lawyer and get away with it.  Lawrence wants to tell Terri himself.  He’s going to arrest them both.

Jack goes to his office and cries after he thinks of his daughters.  Viv asks June why she ran and didn’t just stay and tell the truth.  She’s not rich or powerful and everyone thought it was her all along.   Viv explains it's because she ran.

 A family orientated episode which hits close to home for everyone, especially Jack.  He’s more involved this time around because of his daughters and sends Viv in to question June.  Also because of season 3 episode 3 when he took out his anger on the abused man.

Another episode where Danny very much “finds” the dead baby and again it gets too much for him. As he walks away when Jack opens up the bag, he can’t bare to watch.

In this episode Sam believes June is guilty and took the baby but she thinks differently of the missing mother in episodes 6 and 7; so her attitude isn’t consistent or synonymous with all victims, except may be the ones who remind her of her own situation, at least it appears that way.  What prompts her to suspect June is guilty anyway?

Terri’s father says he’ll turn the baby into an alcholic but what about a drug addict by popping all those pills. Terri says June can borrow the necklace “when you have a hot date,” she already knew about her and Anthony.

Martin: “wouldn’t be surprised if we get a ransom call soon.”  Which they do.
Kidnappers using the old ploy of voice distorters as did the one in the season 1 episode.  But the voice isn’t distorted much as it still sounds like a woman.

Jack: “Is it possible June witnessed something to prompt your wife into you firing her?”  Jack is right about this.  June did witness something only Terri didn’t know.
Danny: “…wrapped in her baby blanket with a lot of care.”  Who would wrap up a baby so carefully, only someone close to her.

Jack: “I think you should take a crack at her.”
Viv: “Why?”
Jack: “I don’t think my approach would be particularly useful right now.”

June has posters on her bedroom wall of Britney Spears, Ashton Kutcher, Lindsay Lohan and Orlando Bloom.
For afficiandos of both this show and CSI, this episode was straight out of CSI season 1 epsiode Gentle, Gentle  where they found the missing baby buried at the golf course behind the family house, after their other son had smothered him.

This episode was a foray into the dysfunctional family life of people who have too much money and can buy silence.
Danny likes to keep his sensitive side hidden – when he couldn’t sit around Jack looking at the baby.  Now sporting a bangle on his wrist. Like Sara in CSI Danny also gets cases which have an impact on him: either anger or sadness or both.  So who does he talk to about all this when it gets too much for him?

Viv asking why Jack wanted her to talk to June when the case was too close to home for him.  When he cries at the end, not that we get to see his face: private grief.  In the clip with his baby daughter, he probably never used to wear black back then, as he also never wore black in the pilot episode.

The ending was obvious, Terri suffocated the baby.  Clue: when she was feeding the baby under the blanket in the flashback she practically smothered her.

CSI: NY - 7.3: "Damned If You Do" Review

Mac arrests a suspect on the basis of his mother's ID for his father's murder and her own attempted murder. However his mother later tells Mac it wasn't her son who was the killer. The CSIs must examine all the evidence to piece together.

Whilst his parents have been brutally attacked, Billy Travers (Taylor Handley) lives it up at a party.   Appropriate choice of music with Phil Collins' In the Air Tonight, but that was going back a few years.   Mac (Gary Sinise) arrives at the CS and elicits from the mother the identity of their attacker.   She uses finger motions to indicate her son from the family photo.   Flack (Eddie Cahill) arrests Billy.  Hawkes (Hill Harper) asks Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Lindsay (Anna Belknap) if they would have had the foresight to ask her the same questions as Mac did in order to obtain an ID.   No they wouldn't have and also because it's not conclusive.   Even if she may not survived, her ID would still not have been enough to convict her son, but it would have carried some weight.   They analyze the CS and collect trace evidence and samples.

Jo (Sela Ward) questions Billy, who can't believe his mother would have accused him.   He denies everything.   She's been a detective for a long time and "this is as bad as it gets."   Everyone's so sure he's guilty and the evidence isn't even in.   Flack questions Billy's girlfriend, Jules (Crystal Reed).   Asking her to go over her story again, she'll only "say something different if she's lying."   She is sure Billy's innocent.   Prompting Flack to reply: "I'm gonna let you into a little secret, everyone has it in them to do something like this, everyone."

To me, Flack seemed to be speaking from personal experience, like he was referring to how he pulled the trigger on Angell's (Emmanuelle Vaugier) killer in the season 5 finale (Pay Up), out of revenge.   He also tells her it's usually 6 months into dating that he can say for certain whether anyone has 'homicidal tendencies'.   Good to know!  (What about after 6 months?) To which Jules quips: "You're kind of a bitch you now that."  No retort from Flack , only a smile.   Flack didn't use any "severe threats" when interviewing Jules either.

Jo has to establish Billy's alibi and he tells her he was alone in his room before the party, to which she comments, "because you're not man enough to admit what you did" she'll have to resort to Math and she hates Math.   Er, you need Math in order to take up any discipline involving science.   Danny failed algebra and Jo hates Math.   Jo was calm with Billy and didn't throw her weight around (that's probably my oft-used phrase).   No, she's cool, calm and collected and doesn't let any of her tactics slip.   She was left to conduct the interview alone this week.

Jo questions Sid (Robert Joy) on the nature of blunt force trauma and he's taken aback by her and Jo asks if he didn't expect her to be female.   We know Sid has an eye for the ladies, look at the photo of his ex later in the episode.   Also because nobody introduced her, again.  There are puncture wounds on the father's DB, TOD (Time of Death) is narrowed down to between 9-10pm and the weapon is probably a hammer, crowbar or tyre iron.

Flack informs them about a prisoner in Rikers, Owen Hicks (Alex Solowitz)  whose cellmate, Manny Ravarra (Marcos de la Cruz) confessed to the crime.   Manny was an escapee and was picked up last night.   Danny and Flack question Manny, not one of their usual interrogations.   Danny tells him they have an eyewitness who says it wasn't Manny.   He just replies "sometimes crackheads tell the truth" and he's got nothing to lose since he's already serving life.   Danny's "not buying it" and rightly so, since he states the attack was personally motivated.   He suggests they look in the sewer.   Flack and Danny were calm when they questioned Manny at Rikers.   No threats or manipulative diatribes of any kind, that was different for them too.

Lindsay and Hawkes find the shoe prints were from the officers and EMTs and none of the blood matches Billy.   Lindsay comments he either didn't do this or he was really careful.   That's strange, how can someone who brutally attacked in that way be really careful, since even if none of the blood matches, there has to be other evidence.   No one can be that careful.   Mac doubts his decision to question Grace Travers (Stacey Edwards) "maybe I pushed too hard in the moment."  Gotten used to seeing Stacey Edwards in mother roles now.   She played Debbie Montenassi in CSI:NY  season 1 episode, Tanglewood.   Where her son was a gang member, killed by one of his own gang.

Flack and Danny check out the sewer, actually Danny does it.   Well he is the CSI.   Flack thinks Manny's probably laughing at how "two moke detectives are knee-deep in crap"  Danny tells him it's "one moke detective."
Flack: "I don't do sewers."  Since when,  he was in  a sewer with Danny last season, chasing the Compass Killer!  Danny finds a crowbar.   Hawkes sees Danny is going to date the rust from the crowbar but it doesn't match the rust from the door, so Manny wasn't there.   Grace tells Mac Billy wouldn't do this and tells him to leave.

Sid tests his neurone reactions to seeing familiar faces in a photo and when he has an emotional connection to the woman in the photo, the results go off the scale.   That was a reaction to alimony.   He concludes Grace's memory could have been affected and the movements in her hand could just have been ceasures.

Danny tells Jo, Manny and Billy were at the same police precinct at the same time, so he could have overheard the policeman talking, calling upon his girlfriend to dump the crowbar in the sewer.   Giving Jo an idea using the polygraph.   For which she needs Adam's (AJ Buckley) help as a polygraph expert.   Wonder how Jo convinced Adam to take part in the polygraph ploy, anything more about his file, ha.   Using big words Adam forces Owen to come clean.   Even timing it down to the nearest second when Owen will crack.   Manny wanted to see his girlfriend more, so if he confessed he'd be at trial for a year at least.   As he confessed, there wouldn't be a trial, only a sentencing hearing!

 Jo reads the DD5 on Grace's misidentification and places it back on Mac's desk.   Of course, Mac being Mac, had to see her.   Jo admits she "sees history repeating itself."  But this isn't Mac's history, she was under oath to reveal any wrongdoing she may have witnessed in the FBI.   She knew Frank for 12 years and "trust became just another word."  She doesn't regret what she did and wouldn't hesitate to do it again.   Mac: "my team does not sacrifice integrity for a desired result."

So we find out what that reference Adam made about Jo's whistleblowing was in reference to.   Mac reassuring her she won't have the same problem here.   Again alluding to the integrity of his lab and his workers.   Think back to the dressing down he gave Aiden (Vanessa Ferlito) in season 2, when she falsified evidence against the rapist she was after and Mac referred to the integrity of his team/lab and how she jeopardized it.

Lindsay (always interrupts them in the office) links the shard of glass found in the bed, to 'Glasphemy' where people go to take out their aggression.; and to a worker, Paul Benson (Brian Guest).   He grew up in the Vic's (victim's) house.   What is it about Danny and Flack that gives them away as cops.   I sense a chase coming on, that's almost expected everytime they're in a scene together and second one for this season.   But not like past chase scenes when they had to run quite a bit to collar the suspect.

The dirt on Paul's shoes matches the soil from the house.   Danny likens him as the guy "you loved to hate in every John Hughes film."    Flack and Danny talk about how he had everything going, which was a good scene, seeing as they had to apprehend him.  They don't normally share like that, we usually go straight to an interrogation.   They had nothing but Paul's girlfriend's statement about him raping her and his parents testified against him.   Jo reassures his parents they did the right thing.   Mac tells Paul he was old enough to accept responsibility for his actions and not to hide behind his parents, whom he betrayed.

Mac visits Grace in hospital and to say sorry to Billy, "sometimes we lose sight of how hard it is to be called a suspect."  That's true.   Mac's anger is better suited when it's directed at the suspects and criminals that deserve it, not his own team.   Then his character really comes into his own, since that's where you see all the years of hard work and dedication to the job and you know it isn't really a job to him anymore.   It's almost a calling.   Mac having the last word, that he could've made something of his life when he got out, but instead he destroyed an entire family and

The opening was good - how Billy was having a good time at the party whilst his parents had been attacked.   They painted him as being so cool and carefree at the same time.   Also the parallels, in some respects between the two families: both had sons, one set of parents turned in their bad son and Billy's mother was convinced her son was good.   Mac tells her she's lucky at the end, can't help but think he wasn't only commenting on Billy and having a good, caring son, but also her being lucky to survive.

As for the title of the episode, "damned if you do" the family who testified against their son, and "damned if you don't" the family who had nothing to do with Paul, but were unfortunate enough to be in his line of fire.   As for making snap judgements, and decisions over the guilt of Billy, that's something CSIs aren't meant to do.   They need to "follow the evidence" as we've heard often enough.   Letting the evidence lead them to the suspect.   That's why it was a bit of a shock seeing Mac rely solely on Grace's ID to pursue Billy.   Sid spelled out what I also said, that a good defence lawyer would discredit the case.   Since when can you solely rely on statements made by someone who has just suffered such a traumatic attack and hasn't even received proper medical care yet.   It should've occurred to Mac that she was reaching out for her son in the photo for comfort/safety after what she endured.  An episode clearly showing, you can't decide until you've got all the facts.

CSI:Miami episode, MIA/NYC-Nonstop (the crossover/introductory CSI:NY) had a similar storyline, where a man ordered a family killed, only the wrong family was killed as he was dyslexic.   Wrong family, wrong address.  The dead couple's son was framed as a suspect for their murder.   Here Paul killed the wrong family, and wrong address.

This case was loosely based on the real life case of Chris Porco who was accused of killing his father with an axe and attempted murder of his mother, who survived.  The case on him being a leading suspect was centred on him as the investigating detective at the CS asked his mother to ID his killer and he asked if it was her son, to which she nodded.  He was found guilty on both counts.
CSI episode Blood Sports where a coach was attacked and went about his normal routine before he collapsed and died, was also based on this case.