Supernatural - 1.11: "Scarecrow" Review

Sam and Dean go there separate ways this time, after a row over Dad. Dean ends up wrestling a scarecrow pagan god and Sam meets a mysterious blond, to whom there's more than meets the eye. But the two aren't separated for long.

Burkitsville, Indiana  one year ago:  A lost couple are given directions in the town onto Orchard road.   The woman notices his tattoo, so we can watch out for it later too.   The couple breakdown and see lights in the woods.   She tells him if he had  a brain they wouldn't be lost, naturally the scatty scarecrow doesn't have a brain.  The scarecrow in the field moves and comes after them.

Dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) calls Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) and tells them he's fine but not where he is.   Sam says he's after the thing and Dad tells them "it's a demon."  He knows what happened to Jessica and is sorry, "I would have done anything to protect you." He warns them they're everywhere and they can't help.  Dad orders them not to follow him.   He gives them the names of missing/dead couples and Dean obeys his order, "Yes sir."

The couples went missing from different towns, each one ended up in Indiana, all on the second week of April.   This is the second week of April.   Dean's in awe of Dad putting together a file like he did based on obits.  "The man's a master."  Sam tells Dean to stop the car.   He's going to California.   Dad called them from Sacramento area code.   If Dad's closing in on the demon , he wants to be there to help.   Actually the demon was closing in on them.  Dean argues over the order and wanting to save peoples' lives.

Sam wants a week to get answers and revenge.   They argue, Dean doesn't know how Sam feels.   Sam: "How old were you when Mom died, 4.   Jess died 6 months ago - how the hell would you know how I feel."  Dean repeats what Dad said telling them, no ordering them to stay away cos it's dangerous.   Sam: "I don't understand the blind faith you have in the man.   I mean it's like you don't even question him."  Dean calls it being a good son.   Sam's selfish, he'll do "whatever you want, don't care what anybody else thinks."  Dean leaves Sam on the road.

Dean speaks with Scotty (Brent Stait) at the cafe and calls himself John Bonham, the Led Zeppelin drummer.   He hasn't seen the missing couple.   Sam meets a hitchhiker in the middle of nowhere.   It's understandable Dean leaving Sam there, but how did she get there.   She hitches a ride alone and tells Sam: "You could be some kind of freak." No, that's you."  Dean visits the general store and the couple, Harley (Tom Butler) and Stacey (P Lynn Johnson) deny knowing the missing couple.   The girl from the garage, Emily (Tanya Saulnier) tells him they were just married and left town.   Dean drives  and the EMF goes off now.   Since Dean conveniently leaves his bag on the backseat, whereas it's always in the boot (trunk.)  He walks in the orchard and comes across the scarecrow, "dude, you're fugly." He takes a closer look and notices a tattoo on his arm, just like the one the missing man had.

Dean drives to the garage.   Emily came here when she was 13, her aunt and uncle, the store couple, took her in.   Dean calls this a perfect town.   Everyone's losing families but they're blessed.   Sam is stuck in the bus station until tomorrow.   Meg (Nicki Lyn Aycox) meets up with Sam and is also going to California.   Sam's looking for something he lost a long time ago.   Like she doesn't know what, or rather who, that is.   Dean goes to the cafe and asks for some pie, just like the couple, being granted their every wish.   Dean was being friendly but doesn't get his coffee or pie.   Dean: "Sam, my brother could give you a puppy dog look"  and he'd convince everyone .   The Sheriff (David Orth) runs Dean out of town.

Mysterious stranger chick, Meg convinces Sam, or attempts to, that she's left her family too.   They told her everything to do.   Sam is taken in, easily and says it's the same with Dean.   Dean returns at night and finds the couple's car.   He saves them.   Sam calls Dean about the Scarecrow (Mike Carpenter)and he tells him he can "cope without you." He thinks the scarecrow is a Pagan god and has an annual cycle of killings, the Vics are always couples, like fertility rites.   The locals fattened them up.   Sam says their last meal was a sacrificial ritual.   A sacrifice to appease a ~Pagan god.   The scarecrow takes the sacrifice for another year.   Dean meets the professor, (William B Davis) "since I don't have my trusty psychic geek boy to do all the research."

Sam tells him to ask if he needs help.   He's not hinting.   They're both sorry.   Dean replies Sam needs to do his own thing and live his own life.  "You've always known what you want and you go after it.   You stand up to Dad, I ...  I admire that about you and I'm proud of you Sammy."  Sam will take care.   Meg asks if that was his brother, being nosy as usual.   The professor tells Dean about Pagan ideology.   A woods god, Vanir from Scandinavia lives in the orchard.   The energy springs from a sacred tree, if burnt then the god will die.   Dean's knocked out by the Sheriff, plenty of that going round in season 1.   The people need to protect their town.   Harley says this is murder, this is the seventh night of the cycle and Dean needs to die, but why Emily.

Sam can't get hold of Dean and is going after him.   Meg asks why he's going back to him.   Dean needs to find the tree.   An apple tree was brought over by the immigrants, the 'first tree' which is in the orchard.   They leave them tied up in the orchard.   Dean hopes their apple pie is worth it.   Sam finds them.   He stole a car.   The scarecrow's gone and he comes after her uncle and aunt instead.   When they find the tree and burn it, the whole town will die.   Emily doesn't care and lights the flame; then leaves for Boston.   What the town suffers is their punishment.  What about the professor, for Dean to be caught, he had to be in on it too and yet he also gets away.

Sam is stuck with him.   He still wants to find Dad, "but Jess and Mom they're both gone, Dad is God knows where.   You and me, we're all that's left so if we're gonna see this through, we're gonna do it together." He finally decides he can't do it without Dean and they shouldn't be alone.   Dean: "Hold me Sam, that was beautiful!"   Sam says he should be kissing his ass, Dean was dead meat and Dean tells him he had a plan.   Meg hitchhikes and slits the driver's throat, pouring his blood into a cup.   For making a call.  She chants.   She could've got Sam and taken them both, why was she stopped.   Yeah dream on! She calls him/it, "father."

Obviously this chick is a demon, working her way into Sam's life and thought she could have taken them both, yeah in another life.   Dad finally contacts them and tells them he's fine and admits he's looking for a demon.  It took him two episodes later to finally acknowledge them.   But sends them on a job instead.   The best episodes are where the two argue and this was no exception.   Sam admitting from the previous episode that Dean still follows orders and doesn't think for himself, let alone stand up for himself against Dad.   Dean just sees this as being a good son.   But decides Sam should live his own life.   Dean being in trouble draws Sam back to him, much to Meg's chagrin.

An episode honing in on their differences and what each one thinks of Dad, Sam loves him but he won't blindly follow orders as Dean does.   But then Dean's been around him longer when Sam went off to college.   As well as having to dealing with a Pagan god, a scarecrow no less this time round and still no pie for Dean! Well he and Emily didn't get their last meal, which Sam referred to as a sacrifical ritual and thus even if they were left for the Vanir, the sacrifice wouldn't work.   They weren't fattened calves being led to the slaughter as such.

It's clearly not 6 weeks since Jess died since it's the second week of April, 6 weeks would have been in May.  Several Wizard of Oz (1939) references too, such as the "if you had a brain." Emily, though Dorothy's aunt was called Aunty Em, she also had an uncle and aunt.   The trees weren't apple trees and there's no apple harvest in April either.   The town got off scott free as the people still had their lives and could just move away, not a just punishment for all those years of murder.

The Vampire Diaries - 2.18: "The Last Dance" Review

As a dance is planned and underway, Klaus puts his plan into action, as does Damon with his intention to use Bonnie and her powers to kill him once and for all.

Klaus calls Alaric (Matt Davis) "Safari Sam."   Katherine tells him where Elijah (Daniel Gillies) is but he doesn't want to resurrect him and she also tells him about Jenna too.   Katherine wants Klaus to kill her but he knows she's hiding something from him.  He compels her and she blabs about Bonnie (Kat Graham).   Klaus looked for over 500 years for Katherine and her death will last at least half as long if he has anything to do with it.   He compels her to stab herself with a knife over and over.   Klaus: "The fun is just beginning again."

Damon (Ian Somerhalder) believes Bonnie has enough power to to take on Klaus and he wonders if Klaus has killed Katherine, saying, "It's not like she didn't have it coming." Elena (Nina Dobrev) forgets to invite Stefan (Paul Wesley) and Damon back into their own house.   Damon will only be allowed in if he lets Elena call all the shots.   Elena refuses to be a prisoner in their house.  Bonnie has the ability to take on Klaus.   This was repeated so many times, it's a wonder she will be actually able to do that.

Alaric watches Elena, well he stares really.   Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) tries to prevent Bonnie from doing the spell cos it'll kill her.   Dana (Anna Enger) says a hot guy asked if Elena wants to go to the dance with him tonight and his name is Klaus.   Dana's been compelled.   Damon says they'll find Klaus at the dance and he "won't be sixteen and pimply."  Alaric can come in without being invited.   Damon will chaperon the dance with him.   Bonnie again tells them she can kill him, how many times was that now.  Bonnie uses her power on Damon.   She says it doesn't matter if Klaus is an original.   She had to blab that in front of Alaric/Klaus.   Maddox (Gino Anthony Pesi) finds Alaric's weapons stash and he says Klaus won't get near Bonnie as she'll sense him with her power.   Then tells him the power will kill Bonnie.  So she'll be made to use it.

Alaric's body will last longer as he's human and Maddox can incant a spell to protect him.   Elena has convinced herself Klaus isn't real.   Stefan reassures her they'll take care of him tonight.   Chad (Mark Buckland) is a patsy and Jeremy gives Bonnie his ring, but it won't work on her.   He can't let her get killed and admits he doesn't "have the best luck in the girlfriend department." Damon turns up when they get close to each other to spy on them.   Klaus dedicates a song to Elena and Damon suggests they let Klaus come to them and he  heads right for him - ha.   Damon's not impressed.   Damon and Elena dance.   The last decade dance the vampires won.   Damon: "I've got moves you've never seen."

Caroline (Candice Accola) comes dressed as Jackie Kennedy, which is ironic.   Considering everything Caroline has been through.   Damon dances with Bonnie and  and asks about her odds of surviving, which boil down to fifty-fifty.   But she's adamant she'd do it all for Elena.   Bonnie may start to think Damon may actually care about her.   That'll be a first really as he's most concerned about Elena and killing Klaus.   Jeremy tells Stefan about Bonnie and he confronts Damon.   Stefan also tells Elena and he's changed his mind about not keeping secrets.   Bonnie would do anything for Elena  since Elena would do the same for her.   Damon's a real party guy.

Jeremy still wondering around alone, gets beaten up by Chad.   Damon gets an arrow for his troubles and Alaric/Klaus goes after Elena.   The '60's isn't his decade, he'd prefer the '20's (see season 3's End of the Affair episode.)  Elena asks if he's on vervain.  They still don't get who Alaric really is.   Bonnie isn't getting anywhere and Damon doesn't want Klaus to win tonight.   Song 'Dreamlover' plays when Elena looks for Stefan.   Bonnie says Alaric would want him dead but he must suffer first.   Damon wants them to let her use her magic but she's not strong enough to defeat Klaus.   Bonnie dies.  

Damon doesn't want the sheriff knowing about this.   Damon's left with the job of clearing bodies again and then he gets slapped.   But needs to tell Elena...  Bonnie had to die, she wasn't prepared for that so she couldn't stop until Klaus knew she was dead, Klaus had to believe it.  Bonnie returns, she cast a spell, so Damon was able to keep his secrets.   She wasn't able to do kill Klaus but couldn't tell them.  Damon: "I don't mind being the bad guy" even if it means Elena hates him; but he'll be the one to keep her alive in the end.  Bonnie returns to the house.

Damon posits Elena's reaction had to be real.   Elena understands why he did it.   Bonnie won't die for her.   Damon knows they have to kill the real Klaus and she's the only one who can do it.   Damon will let Bonnie die time and again, "I will always choose you."  Elena bids goodnight to Damon and looks at his bed.   Elena raises Elijah.

Alaric did a great portrayal of being bad whilst still trying to be good and listening in on everything being plotted against Klaus.   Matt Davis must have been glad to get some screen time to branch out in this way and do some acting completely out of character for Alaric as Klaus.   Though what made this episode hilarious in places  was how Klaus had everyone duped by taking over Alaric's body.   No one knew what to expect of him or from him and what he he'd look like and there he was right under their noses.   Also the scene where he walks towards Damon at the dance.   Will Damon never tire of playing chaperon at the dances? Somehow he's not the obvious choice.   Another not so big spoiler was that nobody would ever die in this show.   As in Supernatural, no one stays dead for long and if they do it's cos they're no longer wanted.

Bonnie is too important a character to be dispatched in that way.   Let's face it, presently Mystic Falls has a shortage of witches, especially with Jonas and Luka being killed.   Er getting back to Bonnie and Damon, knew they had something planned especially when she said she'd so anything for Elena, in much the same way as Damon would.   Damon would come up with some hair-brained scheme/plan.   These plans may not work most of the time but here was one which did, in making Klaus believe Bonnie was dead and she was the only one who had the powers to kill him, thereby providing him with a false sense of security.  Damon getting slapped was an added bonus!  Ha.   No really, much as I adore the guy, sometimes he just deserves it.   Anyway - he wouldn't really turn Bonnie into a vampire, as will be contemplated later by Stefan for Elena.

Another scene at the end with Damon and Elena  that screams out hot blooded passion between the two.    Hopefully  it's put off for as long as possible.   Damon may be ready and willing to collect Elena as the spoils of his love for her over brother Stefan but Elena wouldn't drop Stefan like that. It'll be out of character for her.   Not unless something drastic happens - like a compulsion say.  Pretty unlikely.

Klaus's compulsion of Katherine to stab herself repeatedly, again someone who deserves a little taste of her own medicine at times, but Klaus is just cruel cos he can be and can get away with it.   Though he's in no mood to raise Elijah.   So it was done for him by Elena.   Perhaps she feels he's the only one who can be a match for Klaus if she can get him on side.   An original v a fellow original, somehow doesn't appear Elijah would be a match for Klaus.

As for keeping secrets this episode, when everyone was spilling the beans to everyone else.   Jeremy to Stefan about Bonnie's sacrifice and Stefan telling Elena.   Discovering Damon had a plan after all, which Bonnie goes along with so they had to have some success with it.   Another scene when Damon reveals to no surprise he would do anything for Elena, even if Bonnie dies in the process, he wouldn't beat himself up over it.   He will always choose Elena and not cos she's Stefan's girl either.   Ironic in some ways since Elena always chooses Stefan over Damon and so does Katherine.   Ahh Damon always the underdog no one actually wants.

Not much happening with Stefan as he seems to be taking the backstage lately, as Damon said he lets his emotions rule him.  That's just his humanity, bless him.   Have to say no chivalry lost on Damon though (to steal Alaric's word) as he'd use a woman (even if she is a witch) to save another woman cos he loves her.   Bonnie's fate was a bit like Buffy The Vampire Slayer's fate in the season 1 finale: her dying was her destiny. Here Bonnie could have died for real but ends up being just a plan.   Buffy was brought back too after she died (and not just on one occasion.)

Klaus for all his reputation turns out to be a bit of a wimp.   The sheriff plotting against Caroline with Matt (Zach Roerig) and how they both know about the vampires.   Highlight of this episode had to be Damon telling Alaric about Klaus and his far from flattering feelings towards him.

Desperate Housewives - 8.03: "Watch While I Revise the World" Review

Carlos and Susan continue to bond and Mike suspects there's more going on than just talk. Bree breaks up with Vance and Lynette messes up Lydia's relationship.

Mary Alice: "Susan Delfino and Carlos Solis had never been the best of friends...Susan thought Carlos paid too much attention to other people's opinions, Carlos thought she didn't have an opinion.   Susan (Teri Hatcher) was troubled by thoughts she couldn't share with her spouse and Carlos (Richardo Antonio Chavira) was in the same predicament...suddenly found they had a great deal to talk about."   Carlos sees ghost of Alejandro and Susan feels like she has a flashing 'guilty' neon sign on her forehead.  She got 15 hours community service.   Their talks feel so...Susan: "I know."  She hoped to run into him and so did he.   Carlos hasn't read To Kill A Mockingbird.   Mary Alice (Brenda Strong) "Susan and Carlos were starting to pay attention to one another, but what they didn't realize was someone else was paying attention too." I.e Mike (James Denton) sees them through the window.

Mary Alice: "Wisteria Lane may look flawless...residents are good at concealing imperfection...make an embarrassing mistake disappear...how to make a friend feel better after she's gone through a messy break up." Gaby (Eva Longoria) brings Bree (Marcia Cross) a smoothie only to find Vance (Jonathan Cake) is still around.   Bree thinks he wrote the letter and Gaby wonders what he could want.   She suggests Bree should start snooping in his things since they're all in danger.

Renee (Vanessa Williams) gets a massage from Fredric (Alec Musser) when Lee (Kevin Rahm) interrupts, needing help with Jenny (Isabella Acres).   He likens Fredric to the one in The sound of Music which doesn't get a reaction from him.  Lee asks for a favour for Jenny and needs Renee to go bra shopping with her.   Mike finds out about Susan's community service and she lies to him about the parking ticket.   The man called Mike 'Mr Solis' and she fobs him off by saying she was too embarrassed to call him, but she wasn't too embarrassed to call a neighbour.   Mike shouldn't be worried about their stroll either cos they both couldn't sleep.   Mike tells er she and Carlos never got own well together and she used to call him Ricky Ricardo.   She's helping Carlos with something private and Mike's having trouble dealing with her lying.

Lydia (Sarah Paulson) Lynette's sister and Rashi (Christopher Gartin) are engaged.   She gave up wine which is why Lynette (Felicity Huffman) isn't getting drunk.   Lynette tells her she can't marry him and Lydia invites her to a meditation seminar.   Carlos comes to see Susan at community service and tells her he's reading the book but she warns they shouldn't have any intimate lunches.   Renee increased the limit on the credit card for Lee and bought Jenny make-up, it's only strawberry lip gloss.   Lee protests he could be a girl.   Renee: "You've got the voice down."

Bree leaves Vance to whisk sauce in the kitchen so she can snoop and finds a photo of her hand on the duvet and an envelope with her name on it.   Gaby thinks he may have found a handprint at the CS, so why would he assume it's Bree's hand and how would that give him forensic evidence?   Gaby agrees to search his briefcase. She she can pick locks.  Adultery gave her "valuable life skills." Jenny thinks Renee would be a great mother.   Lee is angry as Renee's not Jenny's mother.   Why's Lynette eating ice cream with a fork?   Lynette thinks Lydia's here cos she's in a happy relationship and wants to show off, yeah cos unlike Lynette no one else has a licence on muddling up other people's lives.   Lynette doesn't believe Lydia can change.   Rashi sees Lydia being her old self and leaves.   There another relationship Lynette's messed up.

Rashi doesn't know if eh can marry her and Lydia thought she could stop being a loser.   Jenny runs away to Renee's house since it's good to have a mother.   Lee worries Jenny does need a mother but Renee reassures him she has everything she needs.   Lynette goes to the seminar to try and talk Rashi round.   Lynette turns Lydia into that person and Rashi thinks they're just like his own family.   His name's Herbert and he can't be around that energy.   Lynette's jealous.   Carlos discusses the book but he actually watched the movie.   Mike sees them painting the wall together and they hide in a van, where they have a moment.   Mike punches Carlos.

Vance takes the envelope with him to the restaurant and Gaby takes it from his pocket.   Bree finds it's a ring and he got the ring size from the photo.   Carlos and Susan tell Mike the truth.   Bree dumps Vance who claims Bree misled him and is like two people.   He thinks the letter she got is from another man and he doesn't care about her now.   She shouldn't come to him if she's ever in trouble and she's made a mistake.   Well that sounded like it was a threat.

Mary Alice: "Yes, the residents of Wisteria Lane are skilled at the art of concealment...know how to cover the end of a messy break up...spare the feelings of a loved one whose taste they may not share.   But for some, the art of concealment comes at too great a cost and so they find themselves forced to reveal the truth - even at the risk of facing an uncertain future." When Mike walked off like that, he was either shunning Susan or appeared hurt she didn't tell him sooner, cos don't think it was what Carlos had done as Mike's been in that position before.

Lynette still making judgements about other people even after her own marriage has fallen apart.   Aside from Bree breaking up with Vance, getting threatened by him and Carlos and Susan spilling, nothing much happened in this episode.   Vance really has a temper which he didn't show signs of or lose when he was divorcing his ex.   Then Bree dumps him and he really loses the plot.  But he can't be the one behind the letter since he just appears too arrogant to be a blackmailer.   Thus further driving the plot home that Bree is all alone now - aside from her friends, yet Mary Alice had her friends and look what she did.   Not as many laughs in this episode as past ones.

Been reading the list of possible suspects in fan forums for the show as to who sent the note.   No one's mentioned Rex Van de Kamp - he's meant to be dead but...I always had a feeling they were meant to being him back after they killed him off for some reason.   Oh another crazy idea I came up with was Mary Alice.   Ha.   If you think about it she and Bree were best friends, but she couldn't turn to anyone and no one knew what was wrong - that she was troubled before she 'killed' herself.   Well to stick my neck out, I say it should be Edie behind it.

Another Stephen Sondheim episode title, this time a line from the song, Beautiful, from the musical Sunday in the Park with George.  

CSI: Miami - 8.22: "Mommie Deadest" Review

Another case of domestic abuse in this episode, one where the roles are reversed and the mother is the one who hands out the abuse to her children. Delko continues his investigation of the crime lab.

Parent's anniversary is filmed by their son, Cody (Colin Ford) and his mother, Laura ( Fay Masterson) is angry at children breaking the lamp again.   She takes the video camera to film them and is beaten and left to die.   Horatio (David Caruso) posits it's safe to say it was "overkill."  ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) concludes that every blow was fatal and she was swung at from all angles, demonstrating rage from the killer.   Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) thinks she could have interrupted an intruder and Natalia (Eva La Rue) believes he could have killed her.   Isn't that what Jesse just said. Jesse notices a void on the ground, so something was there to stop the blood spatter.   Jesse notices Cody is sad, as sits drawing pictures.  (Which was the clue.)  He controls whatever he draws in his pictures.   Horatio tells him he's a good record for catching the bad guy and it's "highly likely" he'll get him.   Yes, especially when he's talking to him.   Than again Horatio makes promises which he always ends up keeping.

The video caught her husband, Chuck (Mark Moses) laughing with another woman.   Jesse refers to him as the first suspect.   He'd be suspected first anyway since he's the spouse.   Chuck found her and he asks how a grieving husband should react.   (Well he's played many a grieving husbands, twice in Desperate Housewives, alone.)  Jesse tells him if he was lucky enough to be with his wife on their twenty-third wedding anniversary, then he'd tell Chuck how to react.   However, Jesse does know how Chuck feels as he's also lost his wife, who was killed.  (Season 8.17 LA) Reminding us this is still a sensitive subject for him.  The woman in the video was Bridgette (Andrea Bogart) a neighbour and Cody's teacher.   Jesse tells her that her body language reveals more than she's telling when she was with Chuck.   The murder is personal.  

Delko (Adam Rodriguez) checks the bank records of the CSIs.   Walter (Omar Miller) has made numerous deposits, but he's innocent, obviously.   Seriously could he really suspect Walter.   He calls the bank for more info and Calleigh (Emily Procter) walks in; causing Delko to go on the defensive.   So apparently they're on again, after last episode.  Calleigh notices he's stressed.  Bridgette admits she likes to flirt.   Ryan (Jonathan Togo) tells her that Laura's dead now and Chuck couldn't resist her.   Calleigh thinks she more than just flirts.   Bridgette has a test she does when she's worried about parents at home.   She pretended to wipe something off Cody's shirt and realized he's being abused.   Calleigh finds there were reports of domestic violence but no charges were filed.

Dave (Wes Ramsey) notices someone was in the video with the mother, there's a ghost image, which wasn't erased when filmed over.   It's Thanksgiving dinner and the image is enhanced by him.   Her mother forced her daughter, Andrea (Olesya Rulin) to eat from the dog bowl.   Calleigh declares the mother was the monster in the house.   Delko talks with Rebecca Nevins (Christina Chang) and takes issue with what he has to do as part of his job; which doesn't prevent him putting forward Walter as a possible suspect.   Walter and Ryan examine the CS and Walter doesn't find the murder weapon.    Ryan thinks it might have been left in the car and asks Walter to take a look.   Walter suggests they should both take a look and finds blood spatter on the headlight and bumper.   The car made the void in the drive and was moved after the murder.   Chuck doesn't know about the blood on the car and moved it to make room for the ambulance.   Horatio asks why he didn't mention Laura's abusive behaviour before.

Horatio and Natalia question Andrea and her boyfriend, Logan (Nic Roebuck).   She fiddles with a lighter.   Fire calms her and Natalia notices the bruises on her wrists.   She sneaked out to see Logan and her mother handcuffed her to the bed.   Andrea called the police but they didn't do anything.   Horatio notices a glass chard on the floor and checks their shoes.   Logan admits he was there.   Rebecca questions Walter about the money in his account and Walter gets angry at Delko for dobbing him in.   He sarcastically thanks him for watching his back.  He was accused of stealing the diamonds.   We know how Walter hates being accused falsely.  Walter's friend was paying back a loan.  He wants Delko to stay away from him.

Jesse doesn't believe Chuck.   ME Tom finds the COD was blunt force trauma to the head, using a round, 3 diameter object, probably metal.   Calleigh recalls an aluminium bat and Logan plays baseball.   Tripp hopes Ryan doesn't find any evidence implicating Logan as he was only trying to save Andrea from "Mommie Dearest."

Ryan: "It's like the line between Vic and perpetrator keeps becoming blurred."  As they've noticed over past episodes and seasons.   Similar to Calleigh saying they have to investigate all crimes and treat all Vics as individuals even if they are bad or criminals.  Recently seen in the Spring Breakdown episode where Calleigh clearly was more on the side of Alexis who humiliated Courtney, since Alexis became a dead Vic herself.   Logan doesn't know how the bat got in his bag.   He snuck in and dropped the lamp.   Ryan explains Logan would do anything for Andrea.   Andrea confesses to killing her mother.   We don't often see Jesse behind a desk (and won't again).  She admits to hiding the bat in the bag and couldn't leave Cody alone with her when she left for college.  Andrea explains she slapped her and Andrea hit her once.   Horatio knows she's lying since Laura was hit nine times.

Rick Stetler (David Lee Smith) respects Delko who tells him Horatio asked him to look at all the evidence.   Rick adds he has the full support of IA.   One question I always wanted to ask is that if IA are watching the police officers, who checks IA in return? Delko tells him he just wants the glory and looks good on camera, which Rick agrees with.  Delko surmises more than diamonds are missing and none of the CSIs are behind it.  Calleigh watches them from afar so we don't know what else they talk about.   Delko meets with Sully (Brad Leland) and lets him know about the evidence stolen from one of his cases.   There was over a million dollars recovered in heroin, which would have been easy to remove from the evidence locker.   Delko adds the amount logged was less than that.  (See CSI:NY season 3.8 Consequences.)  Rebecca agrees to meet Delko at the marina later.

Natalia questions Cody and tells him when secrets are kept, it's "hard to decide what the truth really is."  It's almost like she suspected him before she found the evidence, as she looks at his drawings.   They're vigilante characters, his family.   She discovers they had a younger brother, Bradley, who died when he was 5.   Again something not mentioned by Chuck.   The COD was determined an accident.   Chuck was away when it happened.  Bradley swallowed lighter fluid.  Andrea admits he wouldn't drink it, their mother killed him.   She was punishing him for burning the carpet, and it was Andrea who really did it.  Natalia says they shouldn't blame themselves, parents should protect children.   Their father was afraid of her and took her side.   Chuck admits it wasn't an accident and she threatened to take the children away if he told.   Horatio says this makes murder a last resort.

Ryan says they're looking for the trace of a killer and believes this was justifiable homicide.   Natalia agrees, they "should examine the evidence and not pass judgement."  Ryan thinks it may not be blood on the bat and Natalia analyzes it to be ink.   Cody killed her.   He left his marker open on the sofa and he left red ink on the bat.   He hid in the garage and heard her shouting about the broken lamp.   He wanted to make her stop and he felt relieved after he killed her.   Andrea told him to keep it between them.   Chuck confesses it was really him and wants Horatio to let him be father for once.  Horatio wants them to talk to the prosecutor and tell their story, he hopes Cody doesn't go to prison.   He's a little young for prison isn't he and surely he won't be tried as an adult after the trauma he's experienced.

Delko arrives to meet Rebecca and a paper blows away in the wind, conveniently for him.   Her car blows up.   Knew that was coming and Calleigh was there too.

Laura handcuffing Andrea so she couldn't see Logan, was done later in CSI season 11 episode House of Hoarders, though here her mother wanted her to stop killing boys.   CSI:Miami likes to delve into domestic episodes, especially ones involving abuse of children and here the roles between father and mother are reversed, with Chuck being threatened with losing the children if he reacts.   So he cowers in Laura's presence.   But if he told the truth about Bradley, she would've got her comeuppance, saving Cody the pain and heartache of having to kill her because no one would do anything for them.   Strange seeing Mark Moses in a role where he isn't empowered and not a killer, as we're used to seeing him as bad guy Paul in Desperate Housewives.   Another reason why he would've been suspected as a killer (ha) other than the fact spouses are the first to be considered suspects in such killings.

Andrea still hasn't grown out of her habit of playing with her lighter, as this was the reason for Bradley being punished and killed the way he was.   She says the fire calms her, perhaps this is what she was doing when she burned the carpet.   It's no wonder Horatio goes to bat (no pun) for the family, especially Cody at the end, as this family has been subjected to so much abuse and terror at the hands of one parent; with the other choosing to be away and powerless to act, or just choosing not to.   Mommie Deadest a play on the title of the book, 'Mommie Dearest' penned by Joan Crawford's daughter, Christina Crawford, about the abusive treatment from her alcoholic mother.   (Made into a movie in 1981 with Faye Dunaway.  No wonder Bette Davis treated Joan Crawford in the way she deserved in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962).)

Good to see Natalia relating to the children, particularly Cody, seeing as she has been a Vic of abuse herself and knows they can never blame themselves for that sort of treatment.   Rick trying to take the glory from Delko's investigation (and so he should).  Have to wonder why Rick shows up now, as he did last time, even when Delko tells him he has Horatio's approval and Horatio said he'd let him in on the results.

Drugs going missing the subject of CSI:NY 3.8 Consequences episode.   Okay so it seems I'm forever mentioning this episode, never mind, it was one of my faves.

Elsewhere Delko continues his investigation of the CSIs and posits Walter as a suspect, yeah he hated so much doing it, that he couldn't tell Rebecca he was still working on it.   Well more likely than not Delko would've named Walter, or Jesse or even Ryan as possible suspects if push came to shove and gives in too readily and easily when Rebecca asks for names.   Then he's so nervous when Calleigh questions him, lest he be discovered.   He was even looking into her financial records, behind her back.  One reason why I never liked his character - he displays very little or no backbone where his friends/colleagues are concerned.  He tars everyone with the same brush of suspicion, even the woman he loves.   Now Horatio didn't teach him that.

Colin Ford played little Sammy Winchester in Supernatural.

Without a Trace 3.3 "Light Years" Review

A woman asks Teddy (David Eigenberg) what’s wrong and he replies he’s not safe there with them, they’ll sense the heat.  He looks out of his apartment window and disappears.

35 Hours Missing
Teddy Cota, 37 works in X-ray at St Andrews; disappeared 2 days ago.  Jack (Anthony Lapaglia) tells Sam (Poppy Montgomery) Teddy liked his apartment warm.  He has x-rays on the wall and a necklace of a star.  The star is the Constellation of  Pleiades. The 7 sisters.  It’s 4,000 light years away.
36 Hours Missing
Danny (Enrique Murciano) interviews Thompkeller (Navi Rawat). She’s a prostitute and he tells her she won’t be needing her lawyer’s number today.  She’s Teddy’s friend.  She heard a noise in the hall and Teddy let a man in.  Viv (Marianne Jean Baptiste) believes her.  Teddy has a girlfriend., Sonya.  Jack is served with divorce papers.
37 Hours Missing
Sonya knew they were looking for them.  Jack took his daughters to the zoo last weekend in Chicago.  Sonya says Teddy knew of her pregnancy.  They’d been together 4 years and he has a private side.  Sam asks about aliens.  He thought he’d been abducted and experimented on.  He spent time at the Clear Skies society, a support group.  
 A doctor tells Martin (Eric Close) all the x-rays are of Teddy’s head.  He has an object in his head which could be a tumour.  He needed more tests and wanted it removed.  If there was pressure on the brain then it could cause erratic behaviour.
Jack receives a warning from Maria’s lawyer.  He has 30 days to sign the papers.  Jack says he needed a process server for this.  She’s trying to intimidate him and he needs to sign.  She’s bringing third parties to testify against him: Danny, Viv, Sam and Martin and Dr Lisa Harris.  She’ll use his affair to make him out to be an unfit parent.  His lawyer tells him she’s been taking notes: when he came home late, missed dinner etc.
38 Hours Missing
Sam and Martin visit the group.  Duncan (TJ Thyne) tells them Teddy’ been here for the last 3 months.  He tells them about the Men in Black because he and Teddy were followed by them into an alley.
39 Hours Missing
The oldest x-ray was taken 15 years ago.  Martin says Teddy thinks the object in his head is an alien implant.  Martin’s done reading on the subject of conspiracies etc.  Martin thinks the Men in Black was a scam. 
Viv has tracked down his cousin, Leo Cota (Raphael Sbarge) she asks if she should check him out.
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Martin says he became an x-ray tech to keep track of his head.
EAST RUTHERFORD NEW JERSEY
Leo says Teddy read sci-fi comics and watched movies.  He made the stories up from that. Teddy thought someone at the hospital hurt a boy there because of Teddy.  Leo told him to report it.  Danny and Jack talk to Kevin Burke.  He thinks aliens hurt him.  Teddy helped him remember what happened to him.
43 Hours Missing
The Prostitute identifies Kevin’s (Nathan Norton) father as the man who fought with Teddy, Pat Burke (Joseph Hodge).  He threatened him and told him to stay away from Kevin.  Jack says he’s abusing his son.
 The accident occurred at Highway 22, Pennsylvania.  Teddy didn’t suffer any injuries.  In October 13 1978, Teddy was shot.  A bullet fragment was removed from his head and scar tissue was left.  Leo knew.  He shot his uncle to protect Teddy from him.
 45 Hours Missing
He used to abuse him and then started on Teddy.  Viv and Jack argue in the car.  She tells him he should be in Chicago with his children.  He replies his personal life is none of her business.  Then he shouldn’t bring it in to work with him..
Danny brings Teddy out of the old office but he runs back in.  Jack tells him he hasn’t been taken yet,  he loses his temper and tells Teddy he was raped by his uncle.  Danny is uncomfortable with Jack’s actions and tries to stop him from telling Teddy what happened to him.
 Sam watches Jack.  Viv’s okay.  Sam tells Martin she hasn’t seen his apartment yet so she’ll drop by later.


Jack: “Danny’s tracking her down on the job.”  Danny removes his jacket to question her which he doesn’t normally do. Viv and Jack didn’t argue half as much as they needed to just to clear the air and possibly give them a new start. Viv defending Sam – she knew what she was getting into with Jack or was he going back to Maria just as a token gesture after all?
Those looks Danny and Jack passed between each other showing Danny was thoroughly disgusted with Jack’s behaviour for going too far.  Sam asking Jack not to make fun of her, re Pleiades.  See season 2 episode about the kidnapped self-help motivator and she said she’d read his books and commenting on Danny watching the DVDs part was substituted for aliens in this episode.
 As Enrique was in an episode of Star Trek Enterprise  reference could’ve been made to this in passing.  But it would’ve been good to hear all their views on Martin and his knowledge of conspiracy theories and aliens for a fuller picture on their thoughts.
 Sam: “Hello Sci-Fi channel.”
Sam: “Promise you won’t mock.”
Jack: “Can’t make that promise but give it a shot.”  They then get together and mock Martin.  Sam appears to be into astronomy.
Jack :”I can’t believe she’d resort to this…she doesn’t operate this way.”  But Maria does and we saw it coming ages ago; the looks she gave when she saw him and Sam together in season 1. If looks could kill.
Sam: “The movie?”
Martin: “you mean the Government-alien conspiracy…pact between the grey aliens and a secret rebel faction of the government intent on destroying the human race.”
Sam: “Really.”
Martin: “Yes.”  Now the icing on the cake would’ve been if he mentioned Majestic 12.  Using his knowledge from the series Dark Skies to spoof himself.
Duncan: “You’re like the real Mulder and Scully.”
Martin: “yeah, that’s us.”  Yeah also in a fictional sort of way.
You’d be forgiven for thinking you’ve tuned into a conversation between Mulder and Scully circa 2004.  Martin sounding like Mulder there and Scully had an implant.  They must’ve resisted Jack from saying “trust no one.”


Dr Bedford mentions November 1975: 6 men see Travis Bolton get struck by  a bolt of green light from an object in Arizona skies.  November 1939: 3 men including a witness Linda Cortillo transported through her window in New York apartment.  The examples date back to the Incas, Greeks, Myans and are not all myths.  All Mulder territory here.  Spooky!.  I mentioned Linda Cortillo’s abduction in my Dark Skies piece I wrote years back.
Martin: “became an x-ray tech to keep track of that alien implant in his head.”
Sam: “You should be in law enforcement.”
Martin: “..the hours are terrible.”
Sam: “all benefits are pretty good.”  Yes the 2 of them.


 Jack: “Do no speak unless I tell you to speak…next time you wanna hit someone come and find me.”
 Jack: “Call off the whole martyr thing.”
Viv: “me a martyr.  You walk around with the weight of the world on your shoulders…You screwed Samantha and dumped her like garbage.  You go back to your wife and you don’t really make that work.  You recommend me for a job than you take that back…you need to take responsibility for the things you do Jack and grow up.” 
Jack however doesn’t take responsibility as he goes on to blurt out to Teddy what really happened to him.  Danny appears to be disgusted with him too as he wasn’t really tactful but took his anger out on him.
Martin: “Scully you done yet?”  Viv’s desk is still empty. Yet another car accident.  Note Danny lost his parents in a car accident also when he was 11. 

The Closer 7.2 "Repeat Offender" Review

At the funeral of Delk, who died of an aneurysm, Pope (JK Simmos) reveals to all about his being appointed Interim Chief - emphasis being on Interim.  Meaning Taylor (Robert Gosset) will not be appointed Assistant Chief, but will remain a Commander for the foreseeable future.  Also Taylor stands at Delk's coffin for a long time, ruing his aneurysm no doubt before the final appointments were made.  This leaves Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick) shocked along with everyone else.  Gabriel (Corey Reynolds) receives a call about a murder Vic being found in an affluent neighbourhood; that of housesitter, Ashley.

The owners, the Dixons were away on holiday, including their son Jesse (Spence Treat Clark) and what's more there was a suspect right there for them but no one caught on.  In that he could have been connected in some way, I mean, young boy, young DB.  No one cottoned on until they had wrecked the marriage of an innocent man;  professor Alex Banks (James D'Arcy).  Okay I use innocent loosely cos he wasn't guilty of murder but did cheat on his wife.  SO in one universe that'd mean he's paying for it now.

Sanchez (Raymond Cruz) finds there was no forced entry and so the robbery looks staged.  Also only a few items were stolen and most of the valuables remained intact.  Emily Dixon (Mary Page Keller) covered up Ashely's DB as she was dressed in her undies, making it even more viable that she may have been raped and that was the motive behind the killing.  She fell or was thrown from the landing upstairs.  Kendall (Ransford Doherty) says the coroner will have to check for rape and she was lying here like this for 5 days.

Brenda thinks Pope will take care of the audit and make it go away, but of course it's not that easy.  He tells Raydor (Mary McDonnell) to continue since he doesn't want the LAPD subjected to the lawsuit.  Also he had his own agenda he's working to: he wants to keep his job and be made Chief.  He tells Brenda that too.  In that way Major Crimes will continue.  Me thinks it's also cos Brenda was in the running for the Chief's position and the more dirt there is levied against her, the more he'll be in line for the job.  So I agree with Fritz (Jon Tenney) when he tells her Pope is only looking out for himself and doesn't have her back.  He sic-ed Raydor onto Brenda to cover himself and for Brenda to take the fall in the Shootin' Newton murders lawsuit.

So naturally Brenda is shocked for a second time with the audit and Pope wanting Raydor to interview her team.  Thus Brenda sends them on a grid search, with Taylor heading it up to look for the stolen property and to keep them away from Raydor's questioning.  So how long will this continue, she can't keep them away forever.  Provenza (GW Bailey) also suspects there's more going here but Brenda doesn't spill and replies she doesn't know what's going on anymore.

Brenda ad Flynn (Tony Denison) turned up at Banks' wife, Sarah's (Amy Sloan) house who kind of puts him in it when she tells them Alex had an affair with one of his students.  He being a journalism professor, which he later denies to Brenda.  Thus making him look like a suspect since he lied.  She harps on about Alex making her drink extra wine so she'd pass out and he could sleep with Ashley on the night of their anniversary.  Sorry but his wife was such a weak character at one point it looked like she'd killed Ashley.  hey why am I apologizing, she was weak.

Turns out Ashley was their babysitter which is how Alex became a suspect.  When brought in for questioning, Alex admits he drove Ashley home but wasn't having an affair.  Provenza suggests Gabriel searches the dumpsters and replies, "I don't do dumpsters" when Gabriel wants him to help.  He also couldn't bare to listen to Taylor and his moaning any longer.  Provenza decked out in chair, notices a bag similar to the Dixon's luggage.  Inside are items from the robbery, including a laptop, which wasn't reported stolen.  Tao (Michael Paul Chan) works late and finds the laptop was reported stolen from an earlier robbery in the same area.  The owner IDs it as his and his son has just graduated high school, just like Jesse.  See my suspect!

Sarah turns up wanting to speak to Alex and she lands him in it once again, well especially if he had been guilty.  Brenda has Buzz (Phillip P Keene) wire the break room and they watch and listen during their intense conversation, leading to their marriage bust up; he asks Sarah to tell the police he was at home with her since that's what he told them.  He admits he drove around Chloe's house: his former fling.  Don't they know anything said at a police station isn't subject to privilege and they can listen in and use it against them.  Clearly not.  Sarah says they both need a lawyer.

Jesse admits the robberies began as a dare to rob each other's homes but he was no longer a part of this.  He didn't know the others would rob his house otherwise he would have told them of Ashley.  He loved her.  Jesse is a loose end for them and they conclude he'll be their next target.  Gabriel and Brenda convince him to name them.  Come on, did he really think he was doing them a favour by keeping quiet.  Brenda informs him he's a co-conspirator during the commission of the crimes and thus he's also responsible for felony murder.

Pity Brenda didn't get the hint when Raydor told her she'll stay here until she's "ordered" to leave and she didn't want to continue with the audit anyway.  Brenda sends out the team again to arrest the boys and she returns Alex his things.  He remarks on the irony of Ashley being alive if he was having an affair.  Brenda tries to convince him he did the right thing by owning up.  Subtly hinting she's not done the right thing in the Newton case and can't own up.  His marriage is over and he looks at a photo of his family.  Loving James in this.  Initially he plays a cad but can't help but sympathsize with him at the end of the show cos he kept his word to not cheat on his wife.  Oh and he got to keep his Brit accent too, which was written in when wifey said he married her for a Green Card.  James looking like he'd been put through the ringer in this ep.

The team was also seen in their dress Blues and Brenda tells Pope he's fat in his, which is what he wanted to hear.  Yeah he got that way sitting behind that desk of his, ha.

Alex: "...real irony here is if I had actually have been having an affair with Ashley...she might still be alive."
Brenda: "that's the best justification for adultery I've heard in a long time."
Will we get an end to the audit pretty soon and seems Raydor has a soft spot after all, as she's been groomed to take over the spin off  from The Closer, Major Crimes, but I will miss this show.

Supernatural - 1.10: "Asylum" Review

Sam and Dean investigate the goings-on at an abandoned asylum, where Sam is attacked by the spirit of a doctor who worked there. Several patients were treated badly and now they're out for revenge.

Roosevelt Asylum, Rockford, Illinois:  some teens break into an asylum and the police are called out.   One of them talks about the legend which states the place is haunted by the ghosts of patients...  "If you spend the night, the spirits will drive you insane."   They split up, Walter Kelly's (Peter benson III) flashlight conks out.   Later at home, Kelly shoots his wife and himself.

Sam (Jared Padalecki) thinks Dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is in California, he calls Caleb but he's not heard from him.   There's nothing in the journal, at least nothing that Dean (Jensen Ackles) can make out, "I love the guy, but I swear he writes like freakin' Yoda."  Well Yoda never wrote a thing.   Sam thinks they should call the police and file a missing persons report.   Dean thinks he'd freak and Sam doesn't care.   He should have been in Kansas but wasn't.   Sam: "he could be dead for all we know."  But we know he's not. Dean doesn't want Sam saying that.   Just like Sam didn't want Dean talking about Mom the way he did in the Pilot episode.  Clearly Dean's Dad's son and Sam's more Mom's son.   There's a message on Dean's phone from "Unavailable: Subject Msg:42-89."  The text message gives them co ordinates.

Sam comments Dad can barely use a toaster, but this confirms he's alive.   But anyone could have sent the message though.   Checking the local paper they find a Walter Kelly killed himself after responding to a call at an asylum.   Dad marked the asylum in the journal.   Sam thinks this is just a job and maybe Dad's not there.   Dean puts his foot down as big brother, it's good enough for him since Dad told them to go and that's what they're going to do.   Dean talks to the other policeman Tom Pickett) as Nigel Tufnell, he's from the Chicago Tribune and on a story.   He refuses to talk to him, so Sam throws Dean out to get on his good side.   Sam was method acting.

They break into the asylum.   In Dad's journal he wrote about three teens breaking into the South wing of the asylum in 1972.  One survived, his friend went crazy.   (When Dean opens up the journal, the wendigo pis is gone, but it was there before.)  Dean thinks something was being kept out or kept in.   Dean: "Let me know if you see any dead people Hayley Joel...ghosts are attracted to that whole ESP thing." Sam doesn't think it's ESP, he has 'strange vibes and weird dreams'.   Dean uses his EMF.   Dean: "Whatever, don't ask, don't tell."  Sam says spirits appear at certain times of the day and Dean adds "the freaks come out at night."  Like them, ha.  

Dean: "Sam who do you think is the hottest psychic, Trish Arquette, Jennifer Love Hewitt or you."  (Sam of course, cos the others are chicks and aren't real psychics, but just actors names he mentions!) Sam hits him.   Dean: "Kind of like my man Jack in Cuckoo's Nest." (1975)  Where they had a lobotomy and did twisted stuff to people.   Sam thinks it's more like Amityville or the Smurl Haunting.   Spirits drive them insane.   Then Dean mentions Jack again, "kind of like my man Jack in The Shining." (1980)

Sam wonders when they're going to talk about Dad not being here.   It doesn't matter what he wants since Dad could be in trouble.   Dean: "See that attitude right there, that's why I always got the extra cookie." That and the fact Deano is just plain greedy when it comes to food! Sam retorts they deserve answers since it's their family.   Dean has to harp on about being given an order.   Sam hates orders, "so what, we've always gotta follow Dad's orders."  For Dean they have to.  Sam thinks they need to find out more about the South wing and Dr Sanford Ellicott, Chief of Staff (Norman Armour) at the asylum.   Sam sees a shrink, Dr James Ellicott (James Purcell) he wants to talk about Sam who's on a road trip with his brother, they met lots of interesting people.   He's avoiding answering the question and Sam asks about the Roosevelt riot.   The asylum housed the criminally insane and psychotic, they attacked the staff and each other.

Dean comments the patients took over the asylum.   Some of the bodies weren't recovered, including Ellacott.  The bodies were put somewhere meaning angry spirits are about.   They return at night and two more teens break in.  Gavin (Nicholas D'Agosto) wanders off and a woman kisses him, but it's not his girlfriend, Kat (Brooke Nevin).   Dean uses the EMF and Sam films using his camera.   They need to find and burn the bodies.   A figure walks in front of them but they don't see it.   Sam sees a bloodied woman on the camera and Dean shoots salt at it.   She didn't attack them so what did she want.   They come across Kat hiding.  They split up and Dean says when it's said don't enter the place in a horror movie it means just that.  

Sam finds Gavin.   The woman whispered in his ear but he ran.   Dean's torch conks out and someone grabs Kat's arm, taking her into a locked room.   Sam tells her to face it and listen.   It whispers "137." A room number.   They find it and Kat asks if Dean is Sam's boss.  Sam: "No."  (yes.)  The doors of the asylum don't open so they're stuck here.  Something doesn't want them leaving.   Dean finds a patient's journal (Dean utters the all work and no play line again.)   Kat can handle a gun.  Dean didn't call Sam.  Who is attacked by Ellacott.   Dean finds Sam who was lured down there into the basement.   Spirits telling them about Ellicott, extreme rage therapy made them worse.   His logbook shows a hidden room where he worked on the patients.

Sam isn't himself and Dean can hear the wind through the wall.   Sam pulls a gun on Dean and he's tired of taking orders from him.   The salt gun won't kill him but hurt him and fires the gun at Dean.  Sam is normal, he's being honest for the first time.   Dean follows Dad's orders and does what he asks without questions.   Sam: "Are you that desperate for his approval.   That's the difference between you and me, I have a mind of my own.   I'm not pathetic like you."  Dean gives Sam the real gun to use on him which he takes.   Dean: "You hate me that much.   You think you can kill your own brother."  Sam fires but the gun's empty.   Dean knocks him down, like he'd give Sam a loaded gun.  Ellicott lurks in the frame again.   He attacks him, Ellicott will make Dean better.

He throws the lighter into the cupboard and the fire starts; yet Ellacott's body still lurks and doesn't vanish when it's set alight.   Dean asks if Sam's going to try and kill him, "cos that would be awkward."  Sam's sorry for saying those awful things - he remembers what he said and didn't mean any of it.   Sam tells him they need to talk about this but Dean isn't in a "sharing or caring mood."  Well that's Dean for you, he never talks about the deep and meaningful.   Sam answers Dad's phonecall.

Ahh, poor Sam wants to talk about what happened but Dean doesn't and that's cos Dean never wants to talk about anything serious, he just dismisses it or changes the subject.   When clearly Sam needs to get what he said off his chest.   Strangely enough these two only share when they're possessed by something, or not themselves, especially Dean, who did plenty of sharing as the shapeshifter in 1.6 Skin.   Now it was Sam's turn to tell him his thoughts of Dean and his orders, as well as Dad's orders.   Sam doesn't want to follow them.   Also Sam says he didn't mean what he said to Dean, but we know really deep down he does feel that way.   He said as much in 1.8 Bugs, particularly what he thought about Dad and now it was Dean's turn to bite the bullet.  In the sense that everything Dean does or did was just to please Dad cos he's not his own man.   That would irk anyone, let alone Dean.   So he hands him the gun but obviously he wouldn't load it, but Sam goes ahead and shoots it even if he wasn't himself.   There was no hesitation.

At the shrink's, Sam was doing an impression of Dean, not wanting to talk about himself and changing the subject, was it method acting, ha.

The Roosevelt asylum is a real asylum which has been abandoned as it's thought to be really haunted by violent spirits.   Dean calls himself Nigel Tufnell, the name of the lead singer of Spinal Tap.   Hayley Joel is the actor from the movie the Sixth Sense.  Referring to Dad writing as Yoda, from Star Wars (1977) he spoke English in a funny backwards manner.   Lots of references to Jack Nicholson for whom Dean has a penchant and it's not the last we'll hear of him again.   Last episode Dean mentioned the Shining in the context of Sam and his visions and here he mentions it in the context of what the movie was about.

CSI: NY - 1.21: "On the Job" Review

Danny is involved in a shootout with an undercover policeman. The CSIs must find all the evidence to show it was a good shoot. Danny and Mac have words.

Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Mac (Gary Sinise) process a CS and Mac believes the killer wanted money.   Jan Knight was DOA and the gun is found.   Danny notices high velocity blood spatter on the wall next to the window.   He hears a noise in the closet and is hit by an assailant.   He pursues (hot pursuit ha) and identifies himself, leading to a shoot-out in the subway.  Danny fires the last two shots and a cop is killed.   Mac takes Danny's gun.   Flack (Eddie Cahill) identifies him as Officer Rodney Minhas (Gilbert Rosales).   Stories of six witnesses are all consistent: a man came down the stairs ran to the middle platform and hid behind a pillar.   He saw Danny and fired twice.   Minhas came down the north stairs and starts shooting at the same man Danny was chasing.

One question I have to ask which no one did here, at least I can't recall if they did, but did no one ask why Minhas was there at the same time Danny happened to be chasing the perp? Seems more than coincidental.   Can't be he happened to be in the right place at the right time.

Danny insists the cop fired at him first.   Flack breaks it up, "I don't want anybody making their minds up about this until we know the facts." Mac asks what happened. He chased the perp in the subway: onto the platform and shoots at him, turns and runs and Danny fired twice.   He's not sure if he hit the perp with both rounds.   Danny: "I followed my training by the book, Mac."  Minhas didn't ID himself.   He was an imminent  threat and he took him out.   Mac warns IAB will want a statement so Danny mustn't say anything until they issue the preliminary report.

Aiden (Vanessa Ferlito) finds a message recorder from an injured civillian who was standing next to the perp.   IAB Chief Hillborne (Joe Morton) wants a statement from Danny.   He has 48 hours before he talks to them.   Only uniforms have privilege detectives have no right.   Danny is insistent he has nothing to hide.

In story 2 Stella (Melina Kanakaredes) investigates a DB found in toilets in Central park.   Sandra Lopez, 19.   Matrice (Noureen DeWulf) and Glenda (Kimberly Dooley) were nannies.   EMS says the Bureau of Child Welfare is locating parents.   Stella processes Daniella, the baby who will be released when parents arrive.   Hawkes (Hill Harper) finds blunt force trauma to her head and a single blow.   Granular matter in the wound checked under autopsy scope coming up with feldspar, quartz, mica on a granite shaped rock.   Evidence of burn trauma with singed hair in nose and throat.   Sexual assault kit is positive.   A print is found on the rock but there's no match to anyone.

Hawkes removes a round from Minhas's shoulder, which wasn't fatal.   The second one entered his ribs and bled to death.  There's no way to determine who fired the fatal shot.   On the recorder shots are heard from three sources, one voice is heard to say, "undercover, I'm on the job, don't shoot."  Then Danny's shots are heard. He fired after Minhas identified himself.   Who was going to hear his ID through all that noise and commotion.   He may as well have flashed his badge.

Bullets are recovered from the pillar.   The perp fired twice and hit a civillian.   Minhas has hit the wall near Danny and the round is recovered.   Danny fired twice, one in the shoulder and one round is missing.   Danny leaves hospital.   Aiden looks at the platform and Mac takes Danny off the case.   The audio tape story doesn't match the witnesses.  Mac: "Evidence is damaging to you."  Danny didn't hear anything.   Mac thinks the missing bullet is the one that killed Minhas.   Danny needs to call a lawyer and talk to someone and  Mac didn't mean IAB.   Flack says the bullet that skip-marked could have been fired by Danny or the perp.

The Myerson's butler tells Stella how Sandra was acting strangely.   They had a robbery a month ago where a nesting doll was stolen and then anonymously returned.   Bartender does some firebreathing at the bar named Steve Dark (Chris Tardio).   She came onto him and breathed fire but couldn't' do it.   His DNA doesn't match the rock.   Hawkes runs the DB through the system.  Sandra was a thief and Chad (Chad Lindberg) finds an address fro her.   A blue sapphire necklace was stolen and there were prints on the jewellery box.   They tried it on, jewellery went missing and Sandra was blamed.  

Aiden finds a bullet in the stair without any blood.   The round is matched to Danny's gun.   Mac concludes Danny killed Minhas.   His round wasn't found.   Danny talks to Flack and about time to.   He doesn't want to call a lawyer.   Flack: "Don't start taking things into your own hands, listen to me."  He and Aiden are returning to the apartment to look for answers.   Danny still believes it was a good shoot and he has to do something about it.  

Flack demands he should stay quiet and let Mac handle it.   Danny: "Mac's worried about the reputation of the unit."  He's always worried about the rep of the unit but in this case he was also worried about Danny though he didn't say as much.   Flack: "You're wrong, he's got your back."  Danny is too busy wanting to defined himself, er that's what lawyers are for.   Flack tells him to trust the system but he knows what the system is like.  Wonder what that was about, Danny's gripe with the system obviously relating to his past, but we're not told anything further.   Flack: "Don't hang yourself Danny."

Stella finds there's no match to the prints in the system but those of Glenda are found in AFIS for robbery at Matrice's employer's address.   She asks for a lawyer and Stella wants her prints.   She checks the nesting doll for prints and there's a match to the stone of Matrice's prints.   They steal from each other's houses and leave prints at each other's homes.   All wiped clean but one.  She took the doll and Glenda wiped it down.   Sandra put it back, she confronted Sandra.   They were all trying to make money for health insurance.   Stella tells Mac the baby is everything anyone could want.   She's the strongest person he knows.  Yet throughout all this she didn't ask how Danny. She was too busy worrying about her own case and feelings for the baby.

Three men were in the room and one bled badly.   Knight pulls a gun and the perp takes the bullet.   Aiden says the window was open and the bullet is outside in the tree.   Mac finds the through and through was positive for blood.  Bullet in the tree was fired by Knight's gun.   The blood spatter matches the bullet.   Minhas was the mystery man from the apartment.   He was shot here so Danny didn't kill him.   He took another entrance down the block.   There are tickets on the car and blood on the pavement.   Minhas was the driver and was in the apartment with the perp.   Flack runs the VIN.

Danny followed procedure and tells his story to Hillborne.  The preliminary account of his statement is inaccurate.   Minhas's behaviour was irrelevant.   IAB will review if he's fit to be a policeman.   Mac gave him an order not to talk.   He had findings clearing Danny of the shooting and any responsibility in Minhas's death.   Their info will be useless in his defence.   Michael Armstrong (Maurice Compte) is the registered owner of the car and a gun is found in the apartment with his prints.   Armstrong hid in the closet.   Minhas wasn't trying to help him he was trying to kill him.  

The DA refuses to prosecute Danny.   Mac tells him you don't win in this situation.  IAB isn't calling it a good shoot, just there isn't enough evidence to prosecute.   Mac: "There's two things I wanna say to you....one I thought I'd never tell you.   I was strongly discouraged against hiring you."  The decision was Mac's to hire him and he followed his gut.   Danny is adamant he can account for every second of the shooting.   Mac says he can't cos Mac can't account for it.  He's off the promotion grid.   Mac gets a call from Hillborne.   So who was bad mouthing Danny, not so that we knew.   There must have been some Tanglewood connection here with Danny's past but it wasn't explored nor was it mentioned again, so really there was no point mentioning it just for the sake of this episode.

At least Flack showed he was there for everyone, especially Danny, but he chose to ignore his advice. So much for talking to him.  He went 'rogue' and decided to do what he wanted even going against Mac's advice to keep quiet.   But it wouldn't have hurt Mac to have told him he's got his back.   But in a way he did, cos that's why he told him to go home.   How could Danny have given a statement  to IAB without all the facts being in and the evidence too?   It was just supposition without proof and his version of events.   Aiden and Flack were the only ones concerned for Danny. Stella was off gallivanting around, absorbed in her own case.   Nothing new there then.

Appropriate title for this episode stealing whilst 'on the job' and besides, Minhas was a dirty cop which was nicely covered up by IAB.   What happened to the policemen who were running behind Danny in the opening?  They took their time getting to the subway.  Stella only getting the names of the nannies and not their addresses.   Was she going to contact all of them through their employers when she didn't know who they were either?  

The character of Steve Dark in this episode is also the name Anthony Zuiker gave to the character in his Dark Origins digi-novel.

In CSI episode Play With Fire, Gil (William Petersen) defends Catherine (Marg Helgenberger)when her actions affected everyone and he's told by the Director that it's not Gil's job to protect his people but only the integrity of the lab.   Gil: "Without the people there is no lab." Here Mac does have his back but Danny doesn't believe he does.     CSI season 2 A Little Murder Catherine is attacked by a perp hiding at the CS still.

NCIS - 7.18: "Jurisdiction" Review

The investigation of a dead man leads the agents to encounter agents from the coastguard and one of whom they suspect could be Gibbs' female double, cos they're so alike and she's a redhead.

Marines finds a dead diver on the beach.   Tony (Michael Weatherly) checks his desk for the van keys and finds gum, lip balm and change.   Ziva (Cote de Pablo) finds some leftover candy from Valentine's day.   Tony can't resist asking who it's from, it matters since Ziva "didn't eat it, so that person must not mean very much to you."  Ziva replies it means nothing, which got Tony's goat, he's glad he wasn't her Valentine and so is she.   Tony found McGee's (Sean Murray) CDs in his desk, which means McGee should've looked harder for them.   McGee apologizes for not thinking to look in Tony's desk.   Whoever drove the van last, has the keys.   Tony got pizza cos he was hungry, that's nothing new, so doesn't he have his own car to drive now, or the agency car.

Ziva asks where the dumpster is, why's she asking that when she's been here long enough to know.   Gibbs (Mark Harmon) finds the keys on the lift floor and everyone scrambles for them.   Ducky (David McCallum) recalls strolling on Brighton Beach,  with his mother and friends and hates eating snails.   Don't we all.   Palmer (Brian Dietzen) prefers oysters, oh don't mention oysters when Tony's around, who naturally has to refer to them as nature's aphrodisiac.   Back to that again from season 4 and before.   Tony calls Palmer's girlfriend, 'Blondie'.   Her talents don't cease to amaze Palmer.

Ducky finds the DB didn't run out of air, the propeller took his forearm off after he was dead.   Tony: "This was no boating accident."   Richard Dreyfus's line from Jaws (1975) which Palmer also recalls.   TOD was 3-5 days ago.   McGee uses the PDA now and loves that bit.   Ducky finds a puncture wound through his wetsuit.   Lt Jensen (Brody Hutzler) wasn't alone, someone stabbed him and left him in the water to die.   Gibbs doesn't call it an accident.   Tony mentions, "clean, no nonsense, stoic."  When he sees the house.  Gibbs: "stoic."  Tony calls that an understatement.   House says a lot about a man.   Which explains why Tony has an apartment!  A woman sneaks up on Tony from behind, then Gibbs creeps up on her and another man comes up behind Gibbs.  All carrying guns and badges.   Tony comments it's a scene from Reservoir Dogs (1992) .   Only she's cuter than Harvey Keitel.

She IDs them from CGIS (Coastguard Investigative Service) and Tony laughs when he hears Coastguard.   She slaps Kyle (Eddie Shin).   Tony: "nice headslap."  McGee comments they have a wider enforcement jurisdiction.   Tony with yet more jokes, "Yes, Virginia there is a CGIS" and mentions  Corky in Life Goes On.   Tony asks if she reminds them of anyone?  McGee: "Like who?"  Oh come on it's obvious Gibbs of course!    She also drinks coffee.   Gibbs says Jensen is Navy so the case belongs to NCIS.   Recon flights saw the salvage boat adrift.   The Captain's dead and Jensen and the captain were seen at the marina on surveillance.   Gibbs likes to conduct his own investigations, so does she.   She asks if it's cos she's a woman, coastguard or got the drop on Gibbs.   Gibbs doesn't know her.

Ducky comments Davy Jones was after Jensen.  Palmer thinks he's quoting Jack Sparrow.   Already said twice before by Tony in the episodes 1.15 Enigma and 4.14 Blowback.   Ducky quotes Dickens' Bleak House.   Palmer likes Treasure Island personally and used to jump on the bed thinking he was Jim Hawkins, at 23. "The boy's story is the best he's ever told." Gibbs knows that was Charles Dickens.   COD was death by drowning.   Gibbs doesn't believe a master diver could drown but Ducky points out he was injured.   Abby's (Pauley Perrette) not herself today.   Usually she knows when Gibbs is coming, but she didn't know today.   He had rubber from the regulator in his teeth.   The hug didn't help her.   Gibbs tells her not to bang her head cos he needs what's in there.

Tony checks out Abigail Borin (Diane Neal) not in that way but you never know what's going through Tony's head.   It's another Abby.   She's a Sergeant, no spouse, no "little Borin's, it's uncanny: former marine turned surely investigative agent who flies by the seat of her gut."  Well she's not all Gibbs, as Gibbs did have a daughter and has been married 4 times.   Ziva asks how Tony knows all this.   McGee jumps in replying Tony was eavesdropping outside the conference room, their conference room, not the lift conference room.   Tony calls it recon, research, "McTattle.   The law of nature's being violated; matter and anti-matter colliding or something." McGee reads comics.   Ziva wonders if he's obsessed with her, cos she reminds him of Gibbs, or she's attractive.   Tony claims not to have noticed.   Tony not notice a woman's looks, never!  Hey but Tony called her cuter than Harvey Keitel before so how could he not have noticed.  Abigail creeps up from behind like Gibbs and asks 'what'.   Tony: "what have you got" she says, as does Gibbs.

Jensen had a storage facility.    Do they have a problem.   She was an only child from a small Ohio town.   Gibbs was from a small Pennsylvania town.Gibbs says they can connect Jensen to the boat, prints on the boat and blood matched him.   Abigail's outsourced and Molly (Hong Chau) gives them the info about the prints.   Gibbs asks what his people have got?  A large deposit was made into the captain's account.   Tony has a warrant for the storage unit.   Gibbs can't call her Abby!  His girlfriend, Missy (Shanna Moakler) "can't believe he's dead...you mean he's deceased too." McGee gives her a look.  He didn't have much money but told her he'd have some money when he returned.

At the storage unit, Tony finds treasure charts, Calafuego, Tony mentions pirate treasure.   Ziva says it looks like Davy Jones Locker.   Tony remarks Davy Jones used to sing with The Monkees.   Ziva asks real monkeys.   Tony: "I envy your brain sometimes."  Oh Tony is just there to try Ziva isn't he and most everyone else, with his comments just to confuse her even more.   Ah bless him.   As for envying her brain, Gibbs said much the same thing about Abby's brain, well that he needs her brain, not so much envies her.   They were looking for sunken treasure.

Abby heard he was having his own personal problems with ...both are Abby.     E-mails between Jensen and Mavrey, talked about Calafuego.   Abigail doesn't believe in coincidences, neither does Gibbs.   His wife, Andrea Mavrey ( Gabrielle Miller) says her husband is out of the country and has no way of reaching him.   She denies knowing Jensen.   Abigail wants to bring her in for questioning based on her gut.   Just like Gibbs relies on his gut.   Tony now mentions swashbuckling movies, took his time.   Erroll Flynn as Captain Blood, (1935) Douglas Fairbanks in the Black Pirate (1926).   Imagine Gibbs as a pirate, eyepatch, peg leg, parrot on shoulder.   Tony was lucky he didn't get a slap for that.   They would get $250 million if the boat was found.   Mavrey had money to fund Jensen.   Tony links it to the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).   Mavrey needed money.   Vance (Rocky Carroll) finds Dr Kalsa (Aaron Lustig) never left the country, logged onto his website to perform live surgery.   Tony says you can watch it online if you pay $19.99.

Abby sticks to the original formula.   The coins are fake, there is no treasure and Andrea said she didn't know Jensen.   Tony thinks the widow and the stud diver did it together.   Oh Tony took his time connecting the wife, would've thought she'd have been his first suspect.    Tony: "Ziva did you hear that."  Ziva: "yes I heard the wife did it, oh Tony you are a genius."  But as said he didn't say that earlier, not once did he suspect her at all.   Off he goes again this time with Body Heat (1981), where the wife hired a stud to kill the husband.   He's mentioned this movie twice before too in 3.12 Boxed In and 5.5 Leap of Faith.   He has a a Live Aid T-shirt signed by Bob Geldoff in his locker.  Gibbs: "Yo ho ho."  Tony says it's "time to walk the plank matey."

A private jet was hired to fly to Guam, Kyle gets the coastguard to intercept the plane.   Ducky's alone and depressed, Sophie left him, she wanted to change him and he's back to wearing bow ties again.   From the mould he found Jensen suffered three fractures of his incisors from a seizure.   He bit through the mouthpiece and that's why there was rubber in his mouth.   Ducky explains he was suffering from congenital retention of iron and so he couldn't be a diver.

Abby says they changed the Caf Pow formula which explained her behaviour.   She didn't find anything in the blood.   Abby: "There's something rotten in Denmark."  Paraphrasing Hamlet.   The plane was empty and was a decoy.   Tony mentions the wife's nice pad, he's used to big mansions isn't he, from childhood.   She gives them a sob story, it wasn't possible for him to kill anyone, no cos she did it.   Medical records show Navy doesn't have any records about a liver condition.   It wasn't Jensen but Mavrey who had seizures as a boy and a liver disorder.   Jensen is Mavrey.   He embezzled for the treasure hunt.     Abigail asks who Bogey is.   (Humphrey Bogart was in the Treasure of the Sierra Madre.)  When Tony mentions the Treasure of the Sierra Madre again.   Missy bought two tickets to Mexico and he never showed up.   Vance thinks cooperating with sister agencies produces great results and Gibbs agrees.

Ziva and Tony watch a movie together.   Tony says Ziva doesn't have any friends, but she does.   So why is she with him on a Friday night watching a movie with him.   Ziva says he's her friend.   Tony: "really."
Ziva: "No." Tony's date cancelled, so did hers.   The way these two just make things up don't they, just like when they told McGee the wrong story about who slept where in Paris.   Good episode especially now they've got a female version of Gibbs, even dresses almost the same with the long coat and everything.   Of course Tony had to notice the similarities straight away, he's so into that kind of stuff.

Notice Andrea Mavrey's house is Jenny Shepherd's (Lauren Holly) house.   The team also had doubles/doppelgangers in the season 2.12 episode Doppelgangers, only this time round, Abigail is more like Gibbs, albeit she's a woman.   Tony paraphrases, 'Yes, Virginia there is a Santa Claus' at the beginning.

CSI: Miami - 8.21: "Meltdown" Review

The CSIs investigate a bank robbery where a man is killed, leading to the proceeds of the robbery being stolen from the Miami-Dade evidence lock up. Delko is sent to investigate in secret with Horatio's approval.

A man buying a ring is killed when the jewellery store is raided.   One of the robbers take the ring from his hand, which is unusual.   They pass Horatio (David Caruso) on the bikes when he's in pursuit, but they didn't just disappear.   Tread marks on the road reveal they drove into a truck.   They did a u-turn and doubled back, Ryan (Jonathan Togo) suggests they rode onto something.   Calleigh (Emily Procter) can't find anything wrong with the SUV.   Jesse (Eddie Cibrian) says it was used to block the road and it's been stripped of the VIN number.   Jesse asks if Calleigh's okay after she sees Jake (Johnny Whitworth) in the crowd.    Jesse notices the VIN plate on the ground.   Calleigh wasn't looking for it.   No she was too busy wondering what Jake was doing there.   Well he could only have been undercover, yet he appeared to be a suspect the way he vanished.

Inside the store, Tripp (Rex Linn) wonders how they managed to open the display cases as the manager, Leonard (Tim Russ) has the only key.   They left behind the expensive pieces.   Tripp thinks it could be an inside job.  Natalia's (Eva La Rue) hearing aid attracts her to a device hidden in the plants.   ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) finds trace under the Vic's fingernails.   He's clearly upset at his life being taken like that and the ring being stolen too.  "Snatched from his dying hand."  Tripp identifies the device as a signal jammer, it blocked the feed to the wireless surveillance cameras.   A woman outside looks for her boyfriend, Ben (Christian Campbell) and ME Tom scraped his nails for trace, outside the store in public.

Walter (Omar Miller) identifies the trace under the Vic's nails as latex.   Tripp follows up on the VIN number which leads to an address and to a truck, stepping on the diamonds, which have been discarded outside on the ground.   Shots are fired and inside the building they find Jake has shot one of the robbers, Joe (Celestin Cornielle).   Jake was recruited for the heist and they found out he was a cop.   He claims self-defence.  Jake drove the truck and they threw the diamonds away as the serial numbers could be traced back to them.   Jake left the VIN number for the CSIs.   Horatio says the trail hasn't gone cold yet as they still have the diamonds to follow through on.

Ryan discovers the seal on the evidence box containing the diamonds is broken and one of the envelopes is missing.   Walter looks at the chain of custody.   They were logged in by Calleigh and checked out by Ryan, who says he put them back.  Orlansky, (Rashawn Underdue) the officer on duty, confirms Ryan did put them back.   Ryan: "Somebody stole the stolen diamonds."  Question being couldn't that somebody have waited for the investigation to be completed before they charged in.   The fingers would point to Ryan after he's been in so much strife since he got here.

 Rick Stetler (David Lee Smith) (never far behind) wants the cameras fixed as the signal was jammed by the device, which Walter turned off.   Walter is adamant he didn't do it.   Now it's his turn to be fingered as in the next episode too.  Rick wants to handle the investigation, but Horatio puts his foot down as he always does with Rick.   It's Horatio's lab, his investigation, but he'll share the results.

Ryan and Natalia process Joe's clothes and there's a mark under the blood stain.   Natalia finds a memory card which has photos of the store.   The robbers could have made a key using the photo.   The photos were taken from opposite the store.   It's a real estate office owned bu the Vic, Ben Rooney.   His girlfriend Kayla Pennington (Kathleen Robertson) says he was there to buyher an engagement ring.   They believe Ben was casing the store, but she's the more likely suspect to me - she knew him 3 weeks yet agreed to marry him, that was an obvious clue.   Besides now that he's dead she can also say anything.   Calleigh wonders what she's not saying.

Horatio says boric acid is used in metal casting, the diamonds were removed from their settings, so they wanted the gold.  Jesse mentions Spano (Kevin Weisman) who is a fence and Horatio asks him on info about the gold, which increases in investment.  They need to widen the net.   Horatio doesn't agree to a deal with him.   "Poof, take him." Horatio wants the FBI called.   Delko (Adam Rodriguez) arrives for the signal jammer, he's always been on their team.   Natalia says Delko is the one who's causing her hearing aid "freaking out when he walked in."  He's spying on them.   Natalia reminds him she was a mole in the lab for the FBI and he's wearing a wire.

 He's been working on the evidence for months.   That's news to us, as this was a way for his character to be brought back permanently, worse luck.   Small amounts were missing.   Horatio knows what he's doing and Delko volunteered for the gig as he could protect the team.   That's why he's here, he can go through the recordings from his wire first.  He's so caught up in the job that he didn't even tell Calleigh, so I ask would he really suspect her?

Delko questions Jake who accuses him of being jealous.   GSR  containing mercury was found on the signal jammer.   Jake isn't the only one who uses those bullets and asks if Delko's working for IA now.   Delko also accuses Jake of stealing the diamonds and Jake replies he nearly got killed for his efforts.   Delko thinks he's been undercover too long.   Jake gave them the signal jammer so the GSR would have been already on there.   HE also adds that until Delko goes undercover he can't tell him what it's like to be on the job.

Jesse accuses the gang of being 60 second men.   They took only the gold and escaped on the bikes.   Horatio analyzes the photos from the witnesses and  notices they were wearing facial prosthetics.   One of them is Ben's girlfriend, Kayla, she shot Ben, and all of the robbers were female.   Ben was the mark.   Jesse believes he was more than that since if he was just a mark then why didn't she melt the ring down with the rest of the gold.   She fell for him and went back to the store to see if he was alive.   Well he wouldn't still be alive after getting shot like that.   She claims she couldn't shoot him.   Jesse says Kayla isn't a murderer and gives up her partner, Whitney (Tina Casciani) .

 Horatio and Jesse locate her and Horatio finds the gold is being transported as part of the bikes themselves, which Jesse missed when he analyzed one of the bikes in the truck.   Horatio tells her if the shipment had already gone then she'd have left the truck behind.   He's no fool.   Horatio uses a gold pen to check for gold.   Jesse says the gold was hidden in plain sight to get through customs.

Calleigh tells Delko he doesn't need to worry about Jake as he was with her.   Delko being defensive, says it's not about them but about the lab.   Calleigh explains Jake was with her at the hospital to get him checked out, then adds she thought Delko wasn't jealous about their on-again/off again relationship, so guess they're on again.   Delko claims to be curious that's all.   Yeah, pull the other one.   Thus Jake couldn't have stolen the diamonds so much for Delko's accusations.   Walter's use of "poof" too, just like Horatio.

Ryan claims to be going home and they decide on drinks.   Walter's buying.   Natalia changes her mind about going as she has to be in court.   That was a quick turnaround, she was acting a bit suspiciously and now Ryan's going for drinks too.   Did she not want to go as she'd have to sit around with Delko and his 'lies' to the rest of them, but then she can't be that  self-righteous, as she did the same thing too.   Then when everyone found out, she wanted them to trust her.   Where was Jesse, he wasn't invited for drinks, so it was safe for her to go; and no he wasn't stealing stuff from evidence either.

Apparently evidence had been missing from lockers for a while and they've only just got Delko on the case, surely someone had to have been suspected.   Out of the 3 shows, CSI:Miami is where someone or another on the team is always suspected of doing something wrong, and where such bad things actually happen.

In CSI:NY episode 7.18 Identity Crisis, the woman who was a con artist dressed as a man to steal from her marks.   You can see where that idea came from.   In this episode, the robbers were women and wore prosthetics, in CSI:NY, she wore a mask.