Once Upon A Time 1.21 "An Apple Red As Blood" Review

Henry (Jared S Gilmore) crashes the car to stop Emma (Jennifer Morrison) from leaving StoryBrook.  Regina (Lara Parrilla) has dinner with Henry and Emma arrives.  She finds herself alone and the town, or most of the characters we know, Like Red (Meghan Ory) Granny (Beverley Eliott) Charming (Josh Dallas) Snow (Ginnifer Goodwin) and the Dwarves all have her tied to her tree.  Emma picks an apple which is "rotten to the core" and takes her head.  It's all a dream of course.  Regina's last words, "I just wanted to win for once."  It had to be a dream cos she can't be defeated, at any rate it would mean no more show.  She checks Henry's room and sees the light on under the covers but he's not there.

Henry tells her she can't win.  Mary Margaret tells Emma she left without saying goodbye.  The Queen takes Charming from King George (Alan Dale) in return for wealth so he'd hardly be one to refuse.  The guillotine blade, which was his intended punishment turns to water.  Charming: "losing my life for love, that's a sacrifice I'm happy to make."  Which will come back to haunt him and Snow.  Regina's going to "destroy his one true love...using him to put an end to Snow White."

Regina stares out the window at her rotten apples as she runs to Gold (Robert Carlyle).  She sees it as a sign the curse is weakening.  He thinks giving up Henry is a price for the curse to remain.  If Emma is killed the curse is broken.  He can't undo the curse and magic is in short supply.  Regina still insists on the curse being broken.  Regina just loves that word "destroy" she's used it so often now.  He's planning a trip and suggests she do the same.  Thus the globe on his counter.  The people, he says, "will be looking for blood once woken up" to her.  He was planning a trip, but he can't leave either.  Think he was planning a trip back home, but that won't happen either.  Besides he still hasn't found his son and Regina doesn't know why he got her to do the curse.

Regina leaves a White Rabbit card, intended for Jefferson/Mad Hatter (Sebastian Stan) on Paige's bike since she knows he watches her.  Mary Margaret is kind of shocked Emma abducted Henry and asks what's wrong with her?  She's reverting into how she was when she first arrived here.  Selfish, not needing anyone and she's gone back into saying the same thing.  Is it any wonder everything's in chaos.  She must do what's best for Henry.

Snow White and the Dwarves raid George's castle but Charming isn't there.  She sees him in Regina's mirror.  Regina has an apple for Snow.  Regina tells Jefferson if he had it in him, he would have killed her 28 years ago. He puts the Rabbit card in the drink she offers him and she wants him to use his hat to get back home and she has some magic for one last journey.  She gave him the mansion so why would he want to return to his hovel.  She promises to wake Grace up, but he wants her to make Grace forget and write a new story.  Give them a fresh start here.  We all know what Regian and her promisies are like, so why is he listening to her again especially after what happened in Wonderland.

Henry visits August (Eion Bailey) since he was going to make Emma believe but she didn't see his leg, only what she didn't want to see, does that make sense?  Oh you know, only believe what she wants and not in magic or the curse.  His arm is wooden now and Henry realizes he is Pinocchio so the curse is real.  He hasn't been a good boy so he's changing back.  She needs to break the curse to see.  August wants to be with his father, Marco.  He calls Henry 'kid' too just like Emma.

Archie (Raphael Sbarge) tells Emma she has no case for getting Henry back.  Regina would hurt anyone except him. The war between her and Regina needs to end.  Regina wants a Parley with Snow (heading into Pirates of the Caribbean territory here, ha) and meets her in the place where it all started.  Regina uses the last piece of magic in the hat (which means she can't use magic to save Henry next ep.)  It's her engagement ring, with Daniel.  Jefferson tells her it's enough to reach in and pull out an object that can help her.  She must guide the hat.

Snow must eat the apple to save Charming.  Her mother took Daniel's heart.  Snow eats the apple as her 'sacrifice for love.'  Of course as I said, Jefferson won't be getting Grace back, not until Emma is dead.  That'll be a long wait then.  The savour has to "eat her forbidden fruit."  As for the apple, Emma didn't even recall what Henry told her about the apple, not even to humour him.

She goes to Regina, she'd really make a deal with the devil instead.  She'll leave if she can still visit Henry, yeah that'll happen.  Hey Emma was already eyeing that big turnover even before Regina gave it to her.  And wasn't she meant to give notice to quit being sheriff.

Snow sacrificed herself for them.  Regina tells Gold she has a solution to her problem and no one's going anywhere.  Gold didn't look happy about that and also he can't leave he hasn't found Bae yet or Belle.  She doesn't want the curse broken.  Gold: "made magic from magic - all magic comes at a price."  Thus Henry eating the apple turnover.  Regina didn't even think of that and thinks she's won.  Emma tries to tell Henry this is reality not a story.  He believed in her but she can't do the same.  SO Henry makes his own sacrifice for love and for her to believe.  Something tells me it won't be enough.

So everyone was making sacrifices this ep.  Emma in leaving and not seeing Henry everyday, which just smacks of selfishness to me.  She did revert back to how she was and after setting the chain in motion and moving time forward, etc, she now decides she wants to run back to Boston.  Charming was willing to sacrifice himself for love, Snow did and Charming was still a prisoner.  Regina sacrificed Daniel, the only thing she had left of him, though don't think many will be feeling sorry for her.  Jefferson sacrificed his integrity once more for the sake of Grace but he didn't even get her back.  As for him not thinking that Regina used the last piece of remaining magic back, if her plan had worked and the curse was broken, then she'd have all her magic back.  SO she may have helped him with Grace.  However Regina wants to remain here, well she was smug about it when she told Gold this at the end.

As Gold created the curse that's why he wanted to know what Snow and Charming's child would be called and he knew it would be a girl.  Guess he needed all that for the curse since he knew she would have to be the one to break it.  As for Emma and the turnover, come on, Regina even gave her a hint when she commented she hopes she likes apples.  Still no reaction from her.  Seems like everything we went through this last twenty episodes has all come undone, so was it really worth it?  All in readiness for the season finale and for season 2.

Of course Henry isn't dead, since Snow ate the same apple and everyone thought she was dead too, she opted for the sleeping curse instead.  Can Henry have the apple lodged in his throat too like Snow in the fairytale.  So will a kiss from Emma save him?  Will it be enough to make her believe or want to believe about the curse.  Mary Margaret acted like Emma's mother in that early scene and took charge of it, a change from when we first met her as being so timid and lacking confidence.  She also reminded Emma about her saying she was family.

Don't think Regina will develop any sort of a conscience anytime soon, it's a sign of weakness for her.  Everything's about her and what she wants: to win most of all. She even puts winning above Henry.  She's even sacrificed Daniel's ring, her one true love, to get the apple back and her revenge on Emma in order to break the curse.

Apparently in the Pilot Regina was meant to have "poisoned an apple" cos she saw Snow as more fairer than her, as in the fairytale which is what Snow said.  SO is this what Snow believed she sought revenge on her for all this time and did she only just realize it was for Daniel when when she shows her his grave.  As for saying her mother "took his heart" that's double standards and hypocritical since that's exactly what she does.  She couldn't have the Sheriff so she sacrificed him too earlier on, so no one would have him and that was meant to have been for love too.

Just hope we get a few answers in the finale.

Stargate Atlantis 5.14 "The Prodigal Review"

Woolsey (Robert Picardo) asks why Ronon (Jason Momoa) hasn't filed a mission report yet as he hasn't given him one.  Ronon tries to make excuses such as not knowing it is mandatory for all team members.   Woolsey gives him a voice recorder but he's not good at talking.  That's an understatement, he always makes his voice and opinions heard.

Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) and Rodney (David Hewlett) race cars and Teyla (Rachel Luttrel) is shocked when she turns a corner with the baby.  Rodney comments on how his mother let him cry himself to sleep, again another similar comment to the one where he dropped the baby and then said he was dropped as a baby too.  No sarcastic comments from Sheppard this time though, but there was that look.

Power is out all over Atlantis except for the control room.  Zelenka (David Nykl) tries to reboot the system from the main power room.  However Michael (Connor Trinneer) takes over Atlantis, surprise, surprise.  Not really, he had to be about somewhere.  Sheppard and Rodney have to use the stairs and Rodney is clearly unfit.  Sheppard finds the stairwell door to the gateroom is locked.  Rodney thinks there should be power in the lab.  Loren (Kavan Smith) finds all the doors are sealed.  From the surveillance cameras Sheppard notices the jumper in the gateroom.  Hey when Stargate Atlantis first aired, my affectionate name for the puddle jumpers was 'piddle' jumpers! Ha.  He also sees Teyla in Woolsey's office.  Ronon thinks they should evacuate the gateroom.

Michael intends to destroy Atlantis and take Torren who holds the key to an increase in his strength and his rule over the galaxy.  He's as strong as ever.  Loren thought Michael was dead.  Well of course he wasn't dead when they encountered him on his Hive ship when Torren was born, since their jumper went missing.  He's like a cockroach as Rodney describes him.  Sheppard wants to blast the door and take back the room.

Ronon escapes from the room where all the captives are being held with Amelia's (Sharon Taylor) help  Michael's techs are having problems with the self destruct device.  Rodney picks up an energy reading and Loren already walks into it.  Some sort of a forcefield  using modified Wraith stun technology.

Zelenka says the jumper has an external power source.  Teyla showed Michael compassion once so she can come with him.  Michael is what he is out of necessity.  He was their experiment.

Sheppard thinks he can blow up the jumper by firing a drone but it doesn't have any power.  Sheppard thinks he can take the jumper from under the water, then fire the drone and take out Michael's jumper.  The jumper was damaged in the flood two years ago and Rodney didn't repair it so he has to do it now.

Amelia does kick boxing and Ronon heads for the armoury.  Ronon hears about the self destruct on Atlantis being used and has a change of plans.  Teyla takes the communicator and Ronon fights Michael, giving Teyla a chance to run but she doesn't go until he tells her to, which was a bit slow on her part.  Ronon is thrown from the balcony and is out for the count.

Woolsey is also knocked out by the forcefield. Teyla hides in a duct.  There aren't any weapons on the jumper.  Michael arms the self destruct  Sheppard wants to crash the jumper into the tower like he's done before.   Sheppard asks how many suicide missions he's flown and Rodney's lost count.  Rodney suggests lowering the gate shield, abandoning the jumper and using the DHD to a random planet, when he drops the shield, Rodney can fly the jumper.

Teyla tells Michael to turn off the self destruct and she'll accompany him.  Michael's got Torren's DNA so he can clone him.  He killed Ronon.  The shield is dropped and the gate is dialled, the jumper is destroyed disarming the self destruct in the process.  Sheppard chases Michael and they fight, leaving Michael hanging off the side of the building.  Teyla loosens Michael's grip and he falls.  How did she know where they were?  He's not really dead though, in my opinion and if Atlantis had been back for more seasons, so would Michael.

Woolsey asks for Ronon's report which he records now: Michael invaded, stopped him.  Sheppard and Rodney have another car race.  Sheppard says Torren can watch him win. Rodney getting vexed over Zelenka explaining the forcefield as a stun bubble.  Michael having Torren at his grasp and Teyla too, which was the real purpose of his 'visit' to Atlantis, but hangs around to exact his revenge.  Would've thought it would have been his intention to leave immediately.  Did he really think he could beat the Atlantis team on their home turf.  Beggars belief.

Michael wants Teyla to feel his need to do this, to understand, as she once showed compassion towards him. How he was a Vic; their Vic and they are responsible ultimately for who he is and has become.  This doesn't bode well for him when she kills him.  Yet Teyla is always the voice of reason in the show.  Here she changes all that as she lets him die at her hands.  Rightly or wrongly, was it really for her to decide to do that, even if Michael is beyond help.

Another thing, I didn't like her showing up to do the dirty deed when it was Sheppard's fight.  He would've won eventually, or was Sheppard not deemed man enough to do this.  That only a mother saving her child had the right.  It was easy when Michael was hanging over the edge; but not so easy throughout the rest of the episode especially as he was after Torren.  She couldn't even leave Woolsey's office until Ronon told her to run!

Rodney created the ARG crystal in Lifeline and Michael used the same principles for the forcefield/bubble.  Michael got info on Atlantis from the jumper he stole in the season 5 opener Search and Rescue.  See Teyla had to be rescued even then.  Oh Trip Tucker didn't know you had such delusions of grandeur, ha.  Does anyone miss Enterprise like me?!

The Closer 7.10 "Fresh Pursuit" Review

A judge decides the outcome of Brenda's (Kyra Sedgwick) case and feels there are some trial-able issues of material fact.  Gavin (Mark Pelligrino) states that counsel, i.e. Goldman (Curtis Armstrong) doesn't know who killed Turrell.  Everyone's phones go off in court and a deputy sheriff has been shot and killed.  Brenda must leave too and it's said that 'police officers must put public safety ahead of personal interest.'

Sanchez (Raymond Cruz) reconstructs the shooting.  Gabriel (Corey Reynolds) finds the Vic's partner arrested the suspect Kyle (Aaron Perilo) is a car thief.  Deputy Mike Burton (Gino Anthony Pesi) placed him under arrest.  Taylor (Robert Gossett) arrives saying it's their case now.  Pope (JK Simmons) wants Kyle interviewed by them.

Brenda interviews Kyle alone and you just know something will go wrong.  If the rest of the team were given duties by her, Tao (Michaal Paul Chan) was still around and could have sat in on the interview with her, at any rate a uniformed officer could have kept an eye on the suspect when she went out.  Thought that was the usual procedure.  She asks Kyle if he's a cop killer or if he just got in with the wrong crowd.  Also explaining he's equally responsible for the killing and hopes he makes the right choice.

Tao IDs the suspect's prints which match David whose photo is on Kyle's phone.  He calls her out of interrogation and finds prints matched three non-criminals.  Kyle pulls out a gun which makes you wonder how he smuggled that in.  Even if he was searched by Burton, wasn't he meant to have been searched again when he entered the building.  Buzz (Phillip P Keene) also conveniently leaves the camera unattended, why all the mistakes this episode?  Buzz comes up behind Brenda and saves her by stopping her from re-entering the room.

Kyle shoots himself adding, "this was meant for Dave."  Brenda says it was her responsibility to ensure he was properly searched.  Provenza (GW Bailey) calls to say he's found the Honda.  Tao can't leave until he's interviewed by FID.  Brenda thanks Buzz for saving he rife, "now let's see if you can act."  Well he acted just fine in the previous episode when he filmed the suspect.

Taylor doesn't believe she did anything wrong, "cop killer shot himself, one down, one to go."  Pope commends Buzz for his action.  Raydor (Mary McDonnell) asks if she's okay as she nearly died.  Brenda tells her she was alone and Buzz responds he was the one who knocked on the door to pull her out.  Raydor can resume investigating the incident and has 72 hours within which she has to file a report.  Brenda wants Burton, who was meant to have been taken into custody.

Provenza thinks new rules will come into play now to search suspects and Gabriel's fine with that.  Tao finds David's prints in the car.  Provenza says they should search his house and they don't need a warrant as it's a fresh pursuit.  Burton is missing and appears to be looking for David.  Brenda specifically asked Taylor to keep an eye on him and he's found at David's house, with David a DB.  Provenza thinks he could have shot him with his own gun.

Goldman already knows about the incident with Brenda and Gavin should have been told too since Brenda refuses to believe there's a leak in the Division.  Gavin thinks he should drop all his clients and represent only her for life.  Brenda questions Fritz (Jon Tenney) about the joint task force between the sheriff's office and the FBI and their 'special problems'.  They are working on high tech car thieves.  Burton applied to join and was turned down along with his partner.

Burton wanted the theft to be investigated all the way leading to the man at the top. Raydor notices Burton admitting responsibility for not searching Kyle properly.  Middle men came for the Maserati.  Burton and partner followed them and were made.  Brenda states David left his own car behind and he knew he'd return for it.  Burton claims he was already dead.  Brenda exclaims he crossed the line and that's what the rule book is for.  Raydor wonders if she knows what she's saying and suggests Fritz should playback this interview for her.  The parking lot hasn't been burned.

Gabriel promises Fritz that Brenda will go to the courtroom and listen to the verdict.  Sanchez notices the fit woman as the car thieves return for the stolen Aston Martin.  Flynn (Tony Denison) finds the cars are being sent to Argentina.  Gabriel deduces the refrigerated shipping containers means they can ship cars with computers.  Brenda notices the name of the restaurant, 'Recoleta' which is a place in Argentina.  Brenda asks Fritz to give the suspects their calls as this will lead to the man at the top.  Obviously it had to be the bald guy, Rios (Gonzalo Menendez) since there were no other suspects and they both call him.  He escapes with the money and a gun and Brenda sneaks up on him from behind minus her heels.

Judge Gerald Blake finds the crimes committed by Turrell had to have been tried in court but due to a lack of evidence grants the defence motion and dismisses the case.  Gavin didn't tell her about this as she would have told the leak.  They toast Gavin.  Think his services will be required again.  Brenda thanks Raydor for standing by her.  Pope wants her to talk to someone without losing her temper.  Had to be that weasel Goldman who is just out to make a name for himself in bringing down a Deputy Chief.  He doesn't care about justice.  Pope wants her to get more info out of him.

He's filed a new Federal case.  Lawsuits involving the son of the Russian crime boss who died the night he was revealed as an informant and was released from her custody.  Stimple hanged himself in custody.  A policeman was murdered in jail.  Brenda shakes as he carries on.  Accusing her of civil rights violations and all are going to pay, including the LAPD and the city.  Brenda thinks he has a personal vendetta.  He tells her she's never met him and he's going to "put an end to all your works."  That's his intention.

Does this mean the work of the leak extends beyond just reporting what's happening in Major Crimes and extends all the way to info being leaked to criminals too.  So as one door closes for Brenda concerning Turrell, another one opens relating to the deaths of other criminals.  How can she be responsible for those?  Whatever happened was out of her hands but clearly this is just for her to make her exit at the end of the season as probably all this will get too much for her.  Which explains the title of this episode, not only uttered by Provenza, but also the whole other can of worms being opened up by Goldman.  Oh someone take care  him and put him out of his misery and us too! Ha.

Brenda: "right over the line that we never, ever supposed to cross.  The Justice System works pretty well until someone starts thinking that they're smarter than the Sheriff's office, the FBI and the entire LAPD.  Do you see what happens when you throw away the rule book...people die."

The Russian mob boss referred to, as far as I can recall, was in 1.3 The Big Picture where Stana Katic made an appearance as a prostitute pre-Castle days.  The episode with Stimple was 3.4 Ruby, where the team investigated the rape and murder of a black girl, which Gabriel found to be particularly reprehensible.  He beat a confession out of him and put his career on the line.  Stimple hanged himself, saving Gabriel from a trial, but Gabriel admitted his actions and was suspended without pay.

Gino Anthony Pisi was Klaus's witch in the Vampire Diaries. As well as being in Cold Case, NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, The Mentalist etc.

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Without A Trace 3.9 "Trials" Review

A judge sums up in a murder trial and then adjourns for the day.  One juror goes missing.

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Defence counsel comments something must be happening for the juror to disappear on the first day of deliberation.  Viv (Marianne Jean-Baptiste)says the best way to ensure a mistrial is if one of the jurors disappears.  Jack (Anthony LaPaglia) adds especially if there aren’t any alternates.  Peter Ducek,  (Josef Sommer) 72.  Jarrod Billingsley’s sister was killed by the defendant and he tells Jack and Viv they have to find the juror.

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Ducek is worth over $10 million so they may get a ransom demand.  He’s lived in the Us for over 40 years.  Martin (Eric Close) looks at his notes from the trial.  Sam (Poppy Montgomery) says he wasn’t meant to take his notes out of the jury room which means he disappeared from home.  Martin notices the notes end and then he doesn’t make anymore notes until 2 days later.

The defence tells the judge he already wanted to be recused from the jury anyway and asks for a mistrial.  He wanted to be removed because of the stress of the trial as he has a  heart condition and a note from his cardiologist.  A new trial would be expensive and affect the victim’s family.  The judge asked Ducek before he disappeared if he’s afraid of the defendant threatening the jurors and witness.  He decided to stay on.  Jack asks permission from the judge to question the jury non-prejudicially.  He gives them access to court transcripts.

Viv looks at photos of the parties involved in the trial: of the defendant and the victim.  Janelle was an Honours student.  Danny (Enrique Murciano) puts up photos of Brook’s gang and Viv shows him the crime scene photo of Janelle.

His son Roy (Jack Coleman) tells Martin and Sam his mother died 2 years ago and his daughter Noelle (Haley King) was doing a project on her grandfather.  He told her her grandmother was a mermaid but wouldn’t tell her the real story of his past.  He came to the US when he was 19 and  he was abrupt with her.  The next day he talked to the judge about leaving the jury.  Martin wonders if he possibly committed suicide but his son refutes that claim.

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His cardiologist  says he kept to himself.  She was having an affair with him.  He told her he couldn’t be impartial anymore.  Billingsley (Corey Hardrict) spoke to him at the courthouse.  She recognizes him from the court photos.  Billingsley tells Viv he asked him to stay on because there were no more alternatives.  Jack says he must tell the judge he spoke with him.

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Danny thinks he may have decided to stay because Billingsly asked him to.  Sam thinks there might be something going on in his life.  Viv asks the judge for more time to investigate and he gives her until tomorrow morning.  Dr Rebel (Linda Gehringer) says Ducek made a call to his lawyer.  Who says he wanted to leave a painting to a woman in his will and also $5 million.  His son doesn’t know.

Roy saw the painting at his father’s house and he told him it wasn’t his.  He then called an art dealer who looked it up on  the database on stolen artwork.  It belonged to a wealthy Jewish family in World War II Germany.  It was stolen by the SS.  His father may be a Nazi war criminal.

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Klaus Reinhardt (Damien Midkiff) was a lieutenant in the SS aka Klaus the Betrayer.  Interpol file says he entered the US in 1950.  Ducek immigrated in 1952.  Sam looked up the painting.  It’s called La Plassage Danguilles.  The curator of the museum knew the family Klagsbruns.  Jack tells them to look them up in New York.

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Dr Rebel tells Martin Ducek never talked about himself.  Two nights before there was a plumber at the apartment; he was looking at a photo of Decek when he was younger.  He stayed 10 minutes.

The photo is no longer in the apartment.  The art dealers phone records show he made a call to Ezra Hafetz (John Kapelos). He’s part of a vigilante group called ‘Zionists for Truth’.  He says he tracked Ducek and wanted to return him to the authorities.  Someone confronted Ducek 2 days ago and gave him a photo.  Ducek tore it up and threw it away.  The photo was of the Hitler Youth, Ducek was part of this.

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Search reveals there was a Klagsburg in New York now Greta Cohen (Darleen Kardon).  She’s 70 and lives in Brooklyn.  Ducek came to see her yesterday and gave her the painting.  They grew up together and he was there when the SS took her family away.  Ducek told Reinhardt about her family.

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Greta survived.  He told her he betrayed her family and wanted forgiveness which she refused.  He had the painting for 60 years.  He identified Reinhardt who is still alive.  The plumber also called.  An age enhancement is done o the photo and Viv recognizes Reinhardt as the witness in the trial: Albert Mayhew. (Madison Mason). Sam says Ducek stopped writing in the notebook because he recognized him.

Jack and Martin find Ducek in Mayhew’s apartment with a gun.  Mayhew/Reinhardt is gone.  He wanted to shoot him.  Ducek was a child.  Reinhardt told him he’s old now and to let it rest.  He wouldn’t turn himself in.  He’d be dead before he even got to a US court.  A phone check reveals Ducek called Ezra and gave Reinhardt to him to take to Israel.  Ducek is an accessory to kidnapping.

Danny finds a Gulf jet left Peterborough Airport 40 minutes ago.  They’ll be over the Atlantic by now and in international waters.  Viv tells Billingsley there’ll be a new trial without Mayhew’s testimony.  Small comfort.

Martin: “This reminds me of my grandfather’s house…dad’s dad – died when I was 12.”
Sam: “Were you close?”
Martin: “Men in the family aren’t particularly into the close thing.”

Viv showed Danny Janelle’s photo as if he really needed another gruesome image in his mind.

Sam: “Does your husband know about you and Mr Ducek?”  She’s the expert on recognizing cheating spouses now.

Sam: “Maybe there was something else going on in his life and he wanted to get off to deal with it.”
Danny: “You need a hand?”  When Sam doesn’t show him the paper, was she going to work the case by herself.

Jack: “if it were my father I wouldn’t be holding out on the people who could find him.”  How’s this for a possible future storyline, Jack’s father going missing.

Viv: “Justice can be slow sometimes.”  Yes and it can take up to 60 years sometimes, if at all, but it’s not really justice.  Parallels can be drawn between each character's concept of justice in this episode.

Funny Mayhew/Reinhardt killed all those people and now wanted to testify in a murder trial as a witness for a black girl, against a black defendant, beggars belief.  Perhaps he ‘justified’ this by saying that times have changed and that was all in the past.  But the past catches up.  Also Ducek waited all this time to make amends when a chance meeting at court in a murder trial to turn in Reinhardt.  He knew this case was important to the victim’s family so he could’ve waited until the trial was over and the verdict was delivered.  Reinhardt wasn’t going anywhere!  Ducek wanted justice but not for the victim and her family, so much for wanting to clear his conscience.

The plane was only a Gulfstream jet so wouldn’t it need to refuel somewhere in the UK or part of Europe so surely there’d be some jurisdiction in an abduction case.  There's Interpol.  Another case without  satisfactory conclusion even Danny ended up throwing his pad in anger/frustration.  Love those scenes!

This wasn’t the first time such an episode was made, Nazi war criminals were also in an episode of  Law & Order as well as Magnum PI to name but a few.

Who does that sketch belong to pinned on Danny’s desk?
Music  Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata but we all know that.

CSI: Miami 10.4 "Look Who's Taunting" Review

Jennifer (Emma Bell) searches for her missing sister, Angela (Kenzie Dalton) on the streets of Miami and receives a call from her abductor. Interspersed in all this are flashes of a man torturing his Vic.  The caller gives her a name, Anton LeDoux.  Oh come on even the kidnapper's voice was a giveaway to his identity.  Jennifer heads to the police and Horatio (David Caruso) in particular.  Walter (Omar Miller) looks up Anton and finds he died in 1948.  When his grave is checked in the cemetery, they find a DB there.  It's not Angela, but Nikki (Jennifer Christina).  Her eyeballs have been removed and replaced with glass ones.

ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) says she was tortured severely but her injuries are 48 hours old.  Thus there's a chance Angela may still be alive.  Delko (Adam Rodriguez) finds a footprint nearby and takes a cast of it.

Jennifer tells them Nikki and Angela were both prostitutes working out of Liberty City.  Whilst in autopsy, Ryan (Jonathan Togo) notices Nikki doesn't have any prints.  Her fingers are puffy.  ME Tom recalls there's a certain cancer medication that can cause this, capecitabine.  So Nikki was  a cancer patient at the free clinic and her doctor was Esteban Navarro (Kuno Becker).  He also knows Angela as he treated her too for violent injuries.  Why wasn't Esteban suspected sooner: he knows them both, is a doctor, so he's adept in knowing what medication to use, how to revive etc and how to keep his captives.

Calleigh (Emily Procter) is upset at how so many women are treated in such a despicable way for $50.  Delko uses a friend in Vice to lead him to the street and taking a car from Impound, he drives to Liberty City.  Funny how he happened to pick up the very girl who knows both Angela and Nikki.  He reveals his badge to her.  She says, "what's in a name" when he asks her.  She eventually writes down the names of their 'clients.'

Horatio and Natalia (Eva La Rue) head to question Frank Massey (Todd Stashwick) who has complaints against domestic violence.  He's another smug SOB and says his wife won't testify against him.  He refuses to give them his footprint.  Horatio has Tripp (Rex Linn) follow him.  Frank picks up the same woman Delko spoke to and drives off in his van.  Tripp loses them and when he's eventually stopped, he's behaving violently towards her, which she just shrugs off as the nature of the job.  Again she's just put his name down on the list and yet she drives off with him.

Ryan also finds with Travers' (Christopher Redman) help that the glass eyes have hide paste on them, which is associated with taxidermy.  The cemetery has a hunting ground behind it and here they find Dennis Kemp (Brad Greenquist) and glass eyes.  He didn't kill Nikki but he found her and wanted her spirit to remain intact, he put the glass eyes into her.  He didn't call it in but he recalls seeing a man with a van and a woman with tape over her mouth.  So if he had dialled it in, maybe they would have found Nikki sooner and Angela also.

Natalia returns to collect Nikki's file from Esteban and she notices his shoes.  He says they help him run.  Thought for a moment she wouldn't be able to compose herself - oh and once more we find Natalia being almost in trouble, well judging from her past record it could have turned out that way.  Let's hope she doesn't find herself in any pitfalls this last season.

When questioned by Tripp and Horatio, he tries to be clever and evasive and replies if he uses the word 'lawyer' it would mean he doesn't have to answer any questions.  His footprint is a match but it's not enough.  ME Tom recalls certain doctors use instruments to tie their sutures and this was used on Angela's knee injury, which means Esteban was the one who performed this suture on her.  ME Tom warns it's not a signature but Natalia thinks it's enough to get them a warrant. However it turns out his assistant tied the suture.  Epinephrine was used to revive Nikki from the brink of death so he could torture her again and Calleigh says anyone can get their hands on this.  Again it didn't click that this is freely available at the clinic.

When Horatio and Natalia arrive at Esteban's house they are prevented from executing the warrant by Inspector O'Shay (Ed Begley Jr).  Oh they had to have him turn up again to cause yet more problems.

Walter traces the steps Esteban took whilst out running on his pedometer, he's training for his third marathon.  His heart rate decreased and stopped in one area.  Horatio spots an ambulance here and thinks Dennis probably saw an ambulance at the cemetery. A search of a nearby building leads to Angela who is still alive.

Diego Navarro, (Carlos Bernard) daddy, turns up and threatens Horatio after he's unable to bribe him.  Funny Horatio vents and loses his temper with suspects but he will never be bought. Thus another father/son nemesis  for Horatio and the CSIs.  So obvious Esteban would escape justice, for now.  Horatio calls Angela's phone and Esteban in his arrogance threatens to kidnap both Angela and Jennifer next time.

Diego is meant to be one powerful man in Miami with connections to the mayor (remind you of CSI).  Arent' they all.  So were the Cruz brothers who wrecked havoc on Miami in season 2 Blood Brothers and got their comeuppance with Horatio on their trail.  O'Shay describes Diego as holding "the purse strings on Miami."  Does that include him too. So everyone has to cower in his wake.  Lots of posturing and threats on the part of Diego threatening to get Horatio first and Horatio tells him he'll get his son, "one way or another."  (I feel a Blondie song coming on...)  makes you wonder what he means by that loaded statement; especially seeing the team's action last season and Horatio's treatment of suspects.  But hey this is the final season, so Horatio's got nothing to lose.  Not that CSI:Miami's fate had been sealed yet.

Delko attempting to to help the woman by getting her into a department programme was a bit insulting and patronizing, thinking he could just tell her what to do.  She reveals her name is Elizabeth (Olivia Taylor Dudley) and for a second there, it looked as if she may be Esteban's next Vic.

O'Shay was in the episodes A Grizzly Murder and Bloodline as a supervisor with corruption piled high against him and was involved in money laundering from casinos, but they couldn't put him away.  He now returns to be yet another thorn in Horatio's side.  Let's hope he gets put away with the Navarro scum.  If it's not the Russian mob, it's Memmo, or Julia's husband who become Horatio's enemies.

As for using the name Dr Navarro, this screams of The Closer 6.5 episode Heart Attack, where Dr Luis Navarro (Bruno Campos) was a doctor at a free clinic who also specialized in 'murder'.  That of criminals who deserved to meet their end, in his eyes, as their organs were then used for transplants.  He was playing god, no he saw himself a god and though his actions were condemned and rightly so. He was killing criminals.  This Navarro was ridding women he thought were no better and deserved this end in his sadistic rage.

The Mentalist: How Much Darker?

It's August and right about this time I stray into The Mentalist territory and give my two cents worth, or maybe a few more pennies worth, gearing up for the season 5 opener.  Luckily we don't have to wait as long  as next year for this show here.

Once again the season 4 finale of The Mentalist ended with yet another killing, only this time Patrick Jane (Simon Baker) wasn't behind the killing, or pulling of any triggers, no he was involved  but as a bystander and as innocent as you think he may or may not have been.  Luthor Wainwright (Michael Rady) was the hapless or helpless Vic this time round, or perhaps he wasn't a Vic at all but another one of Red John's disciples, minions, acolyte,s whatever you want to call him.  That Patty had the argument with him and 'milked' it for everything he had before being kicked out of the CBI seems as though he knew Wainwright may have been involved.  Though he could have been abducted just for the sake of it.

However the main reveal, other than Patrick not suffering any crisis of conscience, breakdown and throwing in the red towel as far as Red John was concerned and it being a rouse all along, didn't come as that big of a shock.  He would never let someone like Red John get to him or indeed rule his mind or actions.  Though Patty has us rooting for him either way, that's how strong a character he is and also Simon's portrayal of him.

His lamenting and agony over his family's anniversary, sharing a drink alone without them and through all this he kept his head to try and coax Red John out into the open, not that that will happen anytime soon.  He did manage to snare the next best thing, Lorelei (Emmanuelle Chiriqui) after spending a night of 'rough and tumble' (did I really just write that?! ha) with her, wonder if he enjoyed that or was it all part of the con?  Can't believe Red John didn't see that coming, may be he did; so the question remains of whether she will help Patrick, or if Red John will get to her first and have her eliminated, as he has always done so in the past.  Except it was Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti) who put paid to O'Laughlin.  What a shame.

Lots of red herrings abound in this show; about as many as the number of FBI agents floating around.  Darcy being so convinced Patrick is connected to Red John in a big way, well he is but not really in the sense she imagines.  I was kind of hoping she would be dealt with swiftly by Red John and that he hasn't just leaves us with more 'suspects' in the Red John pool, is she one of the good guys or someone more evil?

As for Patrick Jane becoming more darker, he always had a dry wit, a wry sense of humour and made no bones about speaking his mind, whether to suspects or to Vics.  Most of them he treated alike, especially if he needed to break the case fast or put  a point across.  He also had his dark moments, setting up Panzer to be killed by Red John and then pleading ignorance in Blinking Red Light.  Getting off in court in season 4.  But says creator Bruno Heller to Entertainment Weekly, that we're about to see him grow even more darker.  "The show is not going to turn into a much darker show, but that character will show more of those colours.  We're getting closer to the meat of what the show is about."  At least this will mean his character will not be stagnant and develop.  It could get boring seeing the same Patty for five years running.  (Patty was always my affectionate name for Patrick.)

He also expects the show to go at least another two seasons; which is great news for hard core fans. As long as the episodes don't become repetitive or slide in terms of story or plots.  He also stated many fans/viewers will be perturbed at Red John's real identity when finally exposed.  Well, as long as it's not Patrick Jane himself.  That'd be too obvious although I did and do have a particular penchant for it to be Patrick.  Maybe it's one of the CBI team.

Since the episode with Rosalind (Alicia Witt) 4.13 Red is the New Black, we saw who appeared to be Red John sitting cross legged, listening to her play piano, cup of tea in hand, a carbon copy or mirror image of Patrick Jane.  No wait, Patrick's got a twin.  I jest, that'd be too unoriginal.  I'm still sticking with Kristina Frye (Leslie Hope) though that's old news by now.  Wait, I've learned with this show, nothing can be considered old news. She will always come close to being Red John for me for so many reasons: her appearance on TV goading Red John, getting 'kidnapped, or 'disappearing' in the season 2 finale Red Sky At Morning.  Turning up unharmed in The Blood On His hands.  When from past experience, everyone Red John has an encounter with never remains alive. At least not for very long.  Her use or Red John's use of the voice distorter when Patrick was abducted himself in the season 2 finale, didn't change her phrases, syntax, pronunciation, etc, as I've said so many times in my other articles.

Heller: "the trick is going to be  - and this is coming - bringing the audience along and making them second guess themselves and ask, 'is that him?  Red John ultimately is just a man and whenever you see the great criminals reduced to the flesh - it's sort of disappointing.  I have two seasons or so to make it come true...you might already have seen him."  Should have used 'him' loosely there?

Cup of tea anyone?

CSI 12.21 "Dune and Gloom" Review

The CSIs investigate the burnt out wreck of a vehicle in a race.  Vartaan (Alex Carter) comments there's a trophy for them for getting to the CS so quickly.  He also adds he'd call this case a mystery since when the race began there were two people in it.  The driver is still inside, a DB and the co-driver is nowhere to be seen.  Nick (George Eads) "80 mile an hour missing person's case.  On your marks, get set, go."  Nick also says, "live fast, die young."  David (David Berman) explains his wife wants him to buy a safe car and he doesn't want that to be his child's first impression of his father.  Nick thinks he'll still see his father as the coolest man on the planet, until Uncle Nick comes along in his GT500.

Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) tells Sara (Jorga Fox) she'd rather watch The Notebook, which Sara finds hard to believe.  Hey in Malice in Wonderland, Ecklie made a comment about Sara watching the ads and she didn't like that either.  Sara finds the helmet and fibre glass from the wreck, someone drove over it.  They both reconstruct the crash.

DB (Ted Danson) finds out the drivers' names were White and they were part of A Pharoah's Motorists.  Doug and Alex's rig is missing and it was parked next to the Veck Oil one, just incase you needed a clue.  I was going to say Veck oil rig, ha.

Finn (Elisabeth Shue) says the 'man in black had a secret' after Morgan says the whole thing sounds like a country music song.  The names were aliases and they work on the DB's clothes.  A logo is revealed.  Cathy Veck (Paula Marshall) CEO of the company and the sponsor claims not to have seen anything whilst racing and doesn't have a co-driver.

Doc Robbins (Robert David Hall) states he suffered a blood and cerebral injury as spinal fluid came out of his ear.  He suffered a basal skull fracture.  He also has growths on his eyelids and brain as he suffered from a disease  which meant he had no fear.  He read somewhere that obstruction of the medulla results in lack of fear.

Finn has a conversation with Carlos Moreno and tells him she wouldn't let him sleep in his place and then thinks it was embarrassing when Morgan overhears her.  Morgan is glad she's having a personal life and Finn thought she was dating, Greg (Eric Szmanda) or Nick or Hodges.  To which Morgan gives the loudest denial to.  Me thinks she doth protest too much.  The logo is revealed as belonging to the 530th and the DB was in the military, Jack Breslin (Ryan Ahern).

Greg is studying for his Criminalistic Certification and hated Maths.  He thinks Sara is looking at the case wrong and thinks it was too big for an explosion for the size and direction of the impact on the fuel tank.  It was a larger explosion.  Sara says it was like explosives exploding.  The CS sketches show the distribution of debris spreading out.  Sara: "don't patronize me mathehlete."  The point of detonation was a hundred feet back.  Sara says they should "test your big bang theory."  Dynamite and gas was used.

Morgan and Greg analyze the crash site and she uses a metal detector.  Morgan feels like her grandfather and finds the top of a beer can.  Greg says he'll buy her a beer unless she and Hodges have plans.  Her father and Mrs Hodges are getting on.  Greg finds the detonator, the RF receiver and it was remotely set off.  A metal fragment also reveals a VIN number.  Sara talks with Weber, (H Richard Greene) his wife is dead and he met the boys when his truck had an oil leak and they bought him a new one.  One of them said there's "a lot of bad in the world and they're trying to make something good."

Hodges (Wallace Langham) wears new musk, Rosa Mysteriosa (what just for Morgan, ha) and she says it's too strong.  The treads were unique and the tyres were from two racing teams.  Cathy was behind them and didn't stop.  She has enemies.  DB tells her people also hate him and she gets e-mails everyday.  Ecklie (Marc Vann) comments how he got e-mails from his third wife.  DB thinks domestic terrorists could be involved.  Henry (Jon Wellner) looked at the voicemails from Jack's phone and background noise reveals Athrock the Conqueror' which Finn wanted to watch.  She saw Lord of the Rings forty times.  One motel had this rented out

Vartaan finds cash was paid and the room was paid for by Malcolm and Clive.  A man climbs through the window, Vartaan: "this is a new one."  Sara asks if they're planing another attack.  He notices the camera in the room which DB tells him is for all of their protection.  He likes Db's glasses.  Greg finds photos on Clive's  (Dustin Seavey) laptop of the court, City Hall and Cathy.  They think they entered the race to blow her up.  DB doesn't think Clive was involved as no bomb residue was found and no nitrates in the motel.  Clive was afraid.  Morgan says he was paranoid and is being treated with Malcolm and Jack was an out patient.

The Dr Amy Berkman (Zabryna Guevara) mentions them being The Three Musketeers and Malcolm is schizophrenic.  They all loved racing and got together for a race.  DB reconstructs the anagrams of A Pharoahs Motorists to read, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, and they forgot there was also a fourth Musketeer in D'Artagnan.  DB says he was obsessed with racing and Clive isn't a killer.  His cousin was paranoid when he tells Sara about his 'crazy, wandering family.'  He didn't have a happy ending.  Sara recalls her mother but not her story.  Henry texts her so she's saved by the bleep.  Henry found an e-mail from Malcolm and finds it was routed through the desert.

Nick and Vartaan find bodies in the Veck trailer and also Malcolm, who dies.  Cathy is with him, it has to be Weber of course.  Nick found an empty box of dynamite and 20 sticks.  Morgan says there were no other Musketeers but there were as Finn tells her, though she doesn't want to sound like DB and everyone knows about D'Artagnan.

They're profiling Clive.  This was their chance to show money doesn't rule, but trust, loyalty and truth does.  The bomber had access to the truck and it was Weber's idea to enter the race.  There's "a lot of bad in the world."  Sara's heard that before as it's what Weber told her.  Ferndale Mining Co uses dynamite and is a part of Veck Oil.  Weber used to work for Ferndale and he blames Veck for his wife and his bankruptcy.  Sara says he missed his target and intends to make a bigger statement.

DB takes Clive who manages to talk him round and Cathy's not worth it.  He loved Jack and Malcolm.  DB recalls how Clive saw enemies in every shadow and he met two friends and they fit together.  Sara says someone was lurking in the shadows and it all went up in flames.

So Olivia Hodges and Ecklie are dating which didn't come as a surprise and is mentioned by Morgan here in anticipation of the season finale.  Yet another personal family story from DB which sees him showing how tumultuous life has been with his 'crazy family' as he calls them, which can be equalled by Sara and her own sad family history when she mentions her mother, but not any details.  Think DB was expecting something more from her.

As far as the romance stakes go, it appears Morgan so has the hots for Hodges, I put it this way.  Well her quick outburst when Finn mentions who she's seeing when Hodges' name comes up proves otherwise.  Finn mentions Nick and Greg, but why does it have to be someone from work that Morgan or anyone else may be with.  They do have lives outside of work.  Also Morgan's face pulling, er, facial expression to Hodges' new musk suggests her advice for him to ditch the musk is for her own own benefit.  As for the other 'romace' between Finn and Carlos suggests lots of steamy/sweaty scenes judging from Finn's conversation on the phone, which devoted Enrique Murciano fans would be jealous about!!

Veck reminded me of Lauren Holly's character in CSI:Miami episode from season 2's Grand Prix who was also the team sponsor and a suspect too.  As for Sara's "cite your source" comment to Greg, that was going back to season 1's Unfriendly Skies episode, one of my all time fave CSI episodes!  Grissom: "high altitude enhances the entire sexual experience.  It increases the euphoria."
Sara: "well, it's good.  I don't know if it's good - cite your source."  Grissom has also used this phrase about source citing too.

CSI: Miami - 9.12: "Wheels Up" Review

CSI:Miami ventures into the world of rollerderby, with Walter showing his knowledge of yet another sport. Horatio exhibits more of his anger, venting on yet another suspect.

Women fight in a roller derby and one goes off the track and doesn't return.   She's sick in the locker room and her DB is later found.   ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) identifies haematoma and a rib fracture on her DB.  "Significant wound means a significant hit."  Horatio (David Caruso) asks for COD which he believes to be bleeding out internally, taking 150 pounds of pressure to break a rib.   Intent was present which makes her death murder.   Horatio asks what sort of weapon was used and Delko (Adam Rodriguez) thinks someone would have noticed a weapon.   Not really since anything can be used.    Horatio: "...it's called blunt-force trauma."  Well that wasn't much of a one liner.

Ryan (Jonathan Togo) tells Walter (Omar Miller) he hasn't been skating since Junior High.   Walter calls "Roller derby real."  Walter demonstrating yet more knowledge of such pursuits, well someone has to.   Ryan asks how 'bad ass' the women can be, which he soon learns when he sees them brawling and is punched in the face by one when they try to stop them.   Before that he comments he doesn't know if the sight is one of the most scary or sexiest things he's seen.   Also mentioning the Raquel Welch movie, Kansas City Bomber (1972) or most people will recall the Charlie's Angels roller derby episode, 1.12 Angels on Wheels.

Ryan questions Miami Spice who tells him Deb (Zoe Bell) took a cheap shot at her and she ended up in the 'Sin Bin'.   She slaps her butt when she leaves and Ryan doesn't think that's very professional and then adds, "not bad."  Natalia (Eva LaRue) checks out the locker room.   Commenting that Beatdown Deb and the Vic, Wrath of Connie (Clare Grant) were close.  Delko finds her helmet on the floor and the smell of vomit oozing from the toilet.   He didn't take a sample for analysis but instead says ME Tom can check out the remaining contents of her stomach.  Connie spat out her mouthguard onto the floor too.

Dave (Wes Ramsey) checks out the video footage of the game and they find Spice, aka Olivia, (Hayley Marie Norman) was in the Bin when she said, so that's her alibi confirmed.   Walter tells Dave he told him the women were hard core.   Deb left the track and didn't return.   She tells Calleigh (Emily Procter) she went off the track and didn't come back.   She was hurt and had to walk it off.  She was best friends with Connie and she got waylaid signing autographs.   It wasn't as if she knew Connie was being attacked.

ME Tom finds Connie bled out internally, caused by a broken rib.   Saying it's "probably a way of life or way of death" for her.   The way he was ladling out the contents from her DB shows he's really into his work, again.  Yet he still has a caring side.    She ingested Ipecac.   As you'll recall this is the method of choice for CSI shows when someone needs to be made ill.   This was found on her mouthguard which didn't fit her, so it wasn't hers.   Natalia discovers the mouthguard was a DIY version and needed the person's own mouth to shape it but she's only been able to obtain the Connie's DNA profile.   Until she gets another hit.   Travers (Christopher Redman) returns for one scene, but good continuity from the previous episode would have been maintained if she'd asked him how he got on with his girlfriend on his day off, casually, in passing.  

The DNA matches Vince, (Matthew Currie Holmes) he swapped it and Tripp (Rex Linn) tells him "you moulded it yourself, idiot."  He gets some of the best lines in this, along with ME Tom and Walter.   Horatio says they can match it to him and he'll be under an assault charge.   He claims he wanted to make her sick cos his team would only win if Connie didn't play.  Tripp comments he's the sportsfan around, but what Ben did was just stupid.

Connie's roommate, Lucy (Johanna Braddy) is brought in for questioning and she, in CSI:Miami fashion was way too helpful, thus confirming her as my suspect.   Thus showing that the try hard in this show are guilty.    When Calleigh was filmed from the back, to sit down to talk to Lucy, that didn't look like Emily at all, especially since she was majorly thin for someone who was pregnant.   She tells her about 'Tara and Feathered' (Lindsay Pulsipher) and their fight.   Tara's in physiotherapy.   When Horatio and Natalia turn up to question her, they find her in a wheelchair.     She fractured her vertebrae when she hit the rail, but doesn't blame Connie.   Vince arrives up and Tara turns out to be his sister.   Natalia takes him by the arm and drags him out, that was unnecessary.   She then gets angry cos he lied and her sister being inured by Connie is motive enough for Natalia.   There she goes assuming again.  Where's her evidence?    Tara didn't blame Connie and Vince knew of this.

Horatio asks her what Connie could have been struck with and she identifies an elbow pad from the photo.   Ryan and Walter collect pads and the woman who punched Ryan says sorry.  Natalia, now with new lab tech in tow, so what was the point of the other one, tests out which pad caused the injury to Connie.   Forcing the elbow pads into the dummy, called Rick, after Rick Stetler (David Lee Smith) no doubt!    Delko had to walk in and show off, he's got more arm mass and and breaks the rib, then assumes the killer had to be a man.   The tech corrects him on that, it could have been a really strong woman, but both were wrong in this instance.   Seeing as the pads were weighted.

ME TOM discovers the source of the internal bleeding from the thoracic aorta, torn by a dislodged part of her rib.   He finds a fractured rib chard does not fit the rib and the bone has signs of older fractures.   Natalia associates the injuries as intimate and a result of domestic abuse.   Funny ME Tom texted Natalia, seeing as she has experience in that area herself, but he doesn't know that.   At least we don't know he does.   Lucy blames Connie's biker boyfriend, Jake (Todd Lowe).   She recalled his name easily enough and then feigned fear.   She doesn't want to go to court and then she exhibits dodgy eye movements too, lots of looking sideways.   The derby made Connie feel in control.   They rode out to Miami shores.

Tripp gives chase in the car and guess what, Horatio and Delko head him off at the pass, as per usual.  Oh give us something new, not predictable.   Out pops Delko's gun and his venting.   Their apartment is searched and Horatio calls Jake a coward for beating up on women.   The punching bag belonged to Lucy and Connie, see she just gave herself away when she told them about Jake.   The indentations match the elbow pads.   Jake says he'll be out on bail soon.     Horatio replying, "that's all I'm gonna need,2 to get rough and ready again.

Lucy tried out for the team but didn't make it.   Steel weights were placed in her pads and test positive fro blood.   It was Lucy's idea to join the derby and Connie no longer had any time for her, or gave her any tips.   So Lucy got her when she was down.   Natalia posits "Friends forgive."  A bit late for Lucy to apologize now.   Natalia, Ryan, Walter, ME Tom and Dave watch the women at the derby whilst Horatio engages in a "beating down" of his own on Jake.  

Can't believe CSI:Miami is so out of its depth now and Horatio is so out of control, can't also believe (I've used this phrase twice) that he actually keeps getting away with it.   See without Rick around, no one's been found to keep them in check and here's where the show would have become interesting, as it once was, when Rick and Horatio would go head-to-head.   At least Rick only stole from the evidence locker, I'm not in any way condoning what he did in stealing, but Horatio et al, just are persistently rough and a law unto themselves.   It's getting so repetitious having to write that every week.   How is he honouring the badge that he wears by beating suspects, that's what courts are there for.   Hey with what's happening surprised no one, not even Rick cried 'evidence plant'.   Wouldn't it be good if he got out on a technicality and returned.   Cos this show needs a fast pick-me up, okay forget technicality, but was released on the basis of being set up.

Why have none of these suspects complained?  The show is completely unbelievable, even more so than before.   Are there any viewers/fans who actually cheer when Horatio gets his gloves out as his character wasn't like that before,  Yes he killed Marisol's murderer and beat up on the paedophile, but they could be seen as aberrations.   Nowadays it's a free for all and shouldn't he be spending his energies on finding Meemo and other criminals out there, instead of engaging in such despicable behaviour for a cop.   Have absolutely no idea what producers/writers are hoping to achieve here and quite frankly, I don't really care either.    Tripp is  a cop and we don't see him engaging in such behaviour, so what makes Horatio and his team above the law.

Roller derby was already covered by CSI:NY in its season 2 episode Jamalot, where they suspected murder of one of the players by a jealous teammate, or bitter team rivalries between the Manhattan Minx and Brooklyn Clobbers;  but turned out to be the boss of the team.

 Oh spoke too soon, Memmo turns up next episode.

The Closer 7.9 "Star Turn" Review

News reports indicate the disappearance of Ben Michaels in an urban park, as Tao (Michael Paul Chan) says it's a nightmare.  Bob Michaels wanted to make a star of his daughter, Missy (Skyler Day).  Pope (JK Simmons) explains due to budget cuts only Major Case can take on the case as the rangers don't work weekends.  Taylor (Robert Gosset) says it's too early to speculate on the DB they recovered.  Tao thinks he either fell or was pushed.  Provenza (GW Bailey) says he "fell flat."  Fritz (Jon Tenney) is also there and as Bob fell in a city canyon they have to recover the DB and other evidence.  Bob's wife, Beth (Debra Farentino) identifies his shirt and her father, Durant (Ken Howard) has already bought along his medical/dental records.

Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick) has a settlement conference to get to.  Morales (Jonathan Del Arco) finds some redness on Bob's face but it's not from sunburn.  A large amount of pepper spray is released from Bob's face and affects those standing by.  It was reactivated when Morales used water.  Provenza wants to know how he wandered around for five days without sunscreen. Brenda finds the footprints show he went over the cliff backwards and was pushed, all other prints have been brushed away.

Pope tells Raydor (Mary McDonnell) there was no officer involved violence when he explains the pepper spray incident to her.  Goldman (Curtis Armstrong) has an offer which has been approved by the city.  Well they would approve it, anything not to pay is fine by them.  Gavin (Mark Pellegrino) doesn't want Brenda to get too excited when she hears it.  Pope tells Goldman about the pepper spray too, "pepper spray, sorry we can't offer you any."  The family of Turrell have agreed to the settlement being reduced from $20 million to $500,000 and will drop the claim of wrongful death and he has lowered his fees too.  It's about righting a wrong and Turrell's mother wants a house away from where he was killed.  The offer includes no blame will be apportioned to anyone.  Yes, but they've forgotten even if she agrees to the civil case being settled Brenda will still hold herself out to a criminal action.  As in effect she will be admitting she did leave him out there, knowing he would be killed.  She formed the criminal intent necessary.

Gavin tells Goldman they won't be settling today.  Brenda says no one cared about Turrell, at least not until he died. Gabriel (Corey Reynolds) interrupts again to say that the Michaels' are crashing their press conference.  See it's Gabriel once again who interrupts them in Pope's office.  Bruno, (Rick Gonzalez) Missy's manager claims he doesn't want Ben's memory dishonoured.

Durant also tells Brenda that Bob wanted to be famous too and did the King and I in the park.  He wanted Missy to become a movie star and wanted his old job back in Fort Wayne, but he didn't get it.  Beth thinks they're all amateurs.  Bruno wrote the songs.  Brenda wants to talk to Missy and Beth, they'll be like interviews and if they don't she can tell the press they refused to communicate and they will jump to their own conclusions.  Brenda: "You feel me."  At least she's down with the lingo, ha, especially as far as Bruno is concerned.  They have to sign a statement saying it was an accident otherwise she will rule it a suicide.  Bruno in exchange wants footage of Bob being lifted out of the canyon by helicopter for the next video.

Brenda says they're the only ones who know how long Bob was really dead.  Flynn (Tony Denison) tells her Bob ate blue candy and pizza before he died so he was never lost.  She wants the financials on the family.  Referring to the song title, "daddy say yes."  Brenda adds, "I seriously doubt daddy said yes to dying."  Not another episode about becoming famous and making money like they had earlier on in the season.

Fritz thinks the song is catchy.  Bruno gets 80% of the proceeds.  Fritz asks her if she wants to sign the agreement, which states she had a "lack of professional concern for the plaintiff's son."  Which if read as it should be means she's admitting to her liability.  Brenda thinks sometimes life doesn't have to be so complicated.  She can end the civil lawsuit for everyone.  She wants things back to normal and she will have to live with this.  She signs.

Tao prepares a certificate of accidental death for them to sign.  Gabriel found the pepper spray which was ordered by Bruno from the Internet.  Bruno has five complaints filed against him from the father's of other daughters who didn't like his behaviour with them.  However, he's sleazy and wants to make money too, but he wasn't the one who killed him, as he doesn't have a motive, although this makes it appear he does.

Taylor tells the Michaels a Miranda is required and they can't release the DB without it.  He also mentions the pathology line which Missy knows the meaning of.  Flynn: "Someone's been watching CSI."  It shows what her father did before his death.  To my knowledge of watching every singe ep of CSI, this term hasn't been used on there!  Bruno was protecting her as Missy was mugged in LA.  Brenda looks in her bag and doesn't find the spray which she claims to have lost

Raydor comments if she acted rationally then all her problems would disappear just like Brenda.  She needs to review all the legal agreements and won't approve Brenda's settlement as she feels there's something missing from the agreement and doesn't trust Goldman.  Liked when Raydor said she doesn't trust Pope either cos all he wants is a settlement and save everyone the least bit of hassle, especially the city and himself.  Gavin reassures her he can win and that Goldman is desperate who says he only cares for his client.

Bruno had Missy's bag in the office and she missed her audition.  Brenda questions why she had two cars.  There was a motel charge for Gummi bears in blue.  'Hotel mini-bars get you everytime' Sanchez (Raymond Cruz) comments.

Gavin asks if Brenda's decided she can act as her own lawyer.  Buzz (Phillip P Keene) sets up a camera and Gavin thinks Missy's video is the worst one he's ever watched, fifty times.  Provenza is shocked at the cost of Gummi Bears.

Beth is surprised by the credit card bill.  She rented a car before the audition.  Durant already told Brenda Bob didn't have a job to return to.  Gabriel tells Beth he didn't disappear for real and it was just a publicity stunt.  Buzz films her statement which will be needed to get Missy off the hook.  Brenda adds the news will run her story for weeks.  So deep down Beth was also a stickler for fame.  Buzz: "Why do you think they call me Buzz."  He can generate publicity.  Tao and the others eating the liquorice strings!  A habit picked up from Brenda, I wonder?

Beth tells them Bob was terrified people wouldn't believe his story.  Gabriel says there's no evidence of Bob being on the mountain with anyone.  She covered over the footprints.  Bob pushed her and she pushed back causing him to fall.  Brenda adds she missed out the part about the pepper spray.  Gavin asks if Brenda saying it was windy means they'll find the spray on her clothes is true?  Pope replies, he represents her, "it's not true."  Brenda then tells her people will see her in court.

Gavin explains her actions were simple and throws away Brenda's agreement.  She will take responsibility in the murder of Turrell as Goldman doesn't mention he won't refile the same charges again.  they were concentrating only on the settlement, not what was in it.  Gavin watches the Michaels on TV.  Missy tells the press she loved her daddy.  Gavin: "oh my God,"  or should I have written OMG.  Her song will now be called, "daddy you're the best."

After all that Missy still got her record and will get her fame too, at what price?  Her parents   Not that she was too overly concerned about them no longer being around.  So was it worth it in the end?

Liked how Brenda's saga still continues and of course we want a trial, that's the whole reason for bringing in Gavin and paying him too out of Fritz's money, we can't have this case being settled!  Which is just what Brenda wanted, thinking it would just go away if she signed.  That weasel Goldman thinking he was clever in getting her to sign.  Especially since he has that mole and after Gavin telling everyone whatever they say will get back to the mole anyway and to Goldman.  Of course we know Gavin will win, he has to, unless we're heading for a complete turn of events and twists in true Closer style.

Without A Trace 3.8 "Doppelganger II" Review

5 MONTHS LATER
Molly (Jane Fleiss)a homeless woman goes missing from the Canal Street Homeless shelter.  She’s watched by Rick (Tony Goldwyn) before she disappears.

4 Days missing
Martin (Eric Close) questions Peter (John Cothran Jr) a supervisor at the shelter and spots Rick there.  He’s now the assistant director and says everyone thinks Greg (Tony Goldwyn) is innocent.  Rick asks him if Martin’s lost his job and is looking for shelter.  Jack (Anthony LaPaglia) talks to Rick.  He was here the night Molly disappeared.  It was Thanksgiving.  He’s living at Greg’s apartment.  Jack tells him they’ll get the right man this time.  Ned (Ted Louiso)caught Molly with a syringe in her jacket pocket.  She denied it was hers.

Jack says they’ll find Molly strangled.  Olczyk (Bill Smitrovich) won’t let him have a warrant as Greg confessed to killing 8 women. Greg’s changed his plea to not guilty after he was visited by Rick yesterday.  Sam (Poppy Montgomery) stresses Greg didn’t murder anyone.  Rick told him to fight as he was held 9 hours without a lawyer and the FBI doctored the coroner’s report.  Julie wasn’t raped.  Greg loved Tricia (Lisa Marie Zaura).  Rick said no one would know what happened and tells him to plea not guilty and he’ll be out in a few days.  He needs him.  Jack tells Greg that Rick killed those women.

Ned’s car is found with Molly’s body in the boot.  The car’s been there 2 days.  The dead body is about 3-4 days old.  The car’s 3 blocks away from Ned’s apartment near a church.  Jack tells Viv (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) Rick wanted them to find it.  Jack tells the police to hold off searching Ned’s apartment until he gets there.

Danny (Enrique Murciano) finds photos of the dead women in a box in Ned’s apartment.  Jack tells him to photograph them and then put everything back where it was.  He says if the US Attorney sees those photos then Greg will be released.  Jack will take the heat.  Ned turns up and Jack arrests him.

Ned’s car was stolen.  He still has the keys.  He thought Molly took it.  He was shooting up when Julie was killed.  Viv isn’t too happy about them stalling to gather evidence.  Martin thinks Ned’s the fall guy.  Jack knows Rick had duplicates of Ned’s keys made.

Rick turns around at work to see Jack standing there.  Jack tells him of the syringe they found in Molly’s pocket.  Rick carries some in his sample case so Molly must have stolen it.  He was careless and he takes his case to the shelter.  Jack can’t find evidence to associate Ned with the other murders.  Rick keeps a photo of Greg on his desk.

Greg tells Sam about a dream he had where he saw Tricia fighting to stay alive.  He felt he was there and wanted to help but couldn’t.  There were mice over her body.  He had this dream on Thanksgiving; the night Molly was killed.  He used to have dreams when Rick used to take trips.  Sam says they’re both connected so he has these dreams.  She puts Greg on suicide watch.

Jack watches the tape of Rick visiting Greg.  Olczyk receives a call from the 16th precinct.  They received an anonymous tip and found the photos.  Jack admits he was there and didn’t process the evidence.  Someone made those keys.  Jack takes responsibility and tells him only he withheld evidence.  Greg is being released.

Rick collects Greg from prison.  Sam says Greg doesn’t want to face it.  Jack looks at Rick’s divorce papers from 1996.  He didn’t have sex with his wife.   He says all this started with Tricia so they must return to the beginning.

Danny and Viv surveil the twins.  Danny tells her he heard what she said to Olczyk.  She wants to catch the psycho too.  Greg says his fish died.  Rick tells him he’s the only one that matters and hugs him.  Rick suggests they take a trip and relax.

CONNECTICUT
Tricia’s mother tells them Greg was popular especially with all the girls; he was funny, athletic.  When Tricia was killed Greg smelled of alcohol so did Tricia.  No one thought Greg did it.  Rick followed him around everywhere.  He was awkward and lost when Greg wasn’t around.

14/5/73.  The sheriff taped Greg's interrogation.  He never saw Tricia that day.  Rick said he saw them together after school.  He wants to talk with Rick.  Sam comments they weren’t the only ones with the idea to talk to Rick and Greg apart.  Rick says they don’t have anything on Greg, all he has to say is he never saw her.  Greg calls him ‘Mouse.’  Rick snaps not to call him that again.  Mice were in Greg's dream.

Jack invites Rick to sit and pats the space on the sofa next to him.  He tells him he was shy and not the dominant one.  He took control of Greg when he said they can’t trust anyone.  He took everyone away, Julie, Tricia.  Rick took the photo of Julie after he killed her and Sam shows it to Greg.  Jack’s decided Rick killed Tricia first and got a taste for killing.  He tells him he doesn’t like women and likes his brother more.  He saw his face and hated himself but he hated Greg even more.  He was called ‘Mouse’ because he was ascared little boy.  So he hated the name.  Rick kept trophies like jewellery.  Their lawyer wants them released.

Olczyk asks Sam if she was aware of Jack defying orders.  She was and replies if that was true they probably would jump off a building if Jack gave the order.  She asks for a search warrant.  Danny and Martin search Rick’s workplace.  Martin finds photos in Rick’s case.

Sam and Jack go to Greg's apartment.  ‘Greg’ claims Rick beat him up and left.  He told Rick he knew everything about him.  Sam was right about him all along.  Greg tells Rick he saw everything.  Rick tells him he loves him and Greg punches him near his left eye.  Jack sees a blood trail leading to the elevator and calls him ‘Mouse.’  He turns around because it’s Rick.

Sam tells Jack he’ll be fine and won’t get fired.  He should buy everyone a drink.

Martin: “I like that it’s really funny.”  When Rick asks him if he needs a place to stay.

Rick: “…screwd it up last time and left the killer on the streets.  It’s happened again.”  Yes he’s talking about himself again.

Rick: “Anything I can do?”
Jack: “You can confess…we’re gonna get the right guy this time”  and you know he will too.

Again Danny’s there when Molly’s found in the boot.  He seems to be around when the DBs are usually found, that is if he doesn’t find them himself.  Danny and Viv walk in front of the Flatiron Building.

Viv: “now we’re burying evidence.”
Danny: “if we process this and Greg gets out of jail.”
Viv: “Greg’s innocent.”
Danny: “I know that, but we need to keep him in jail so Sam can work on him.  The minute that Greg gets out Rick will never let us talk to him.”
Viv: “I don’t feel comfortable with it.”
Danny: “you have to relax.  We need to stall for a day or two while we build our case.”
Viv: “well stalling for a day or two is also known as evidence tampering and obstruction of justice.”  Remember in previous episodes it’s usually Danny and Viv who used to quote sections of the law and Federal rules, eg in season 2 episodes.

So much for Martin eating a lot in episodes, this time Danny does the eating.
Martin looked so obvious sitting outside Greg's apartment with a paper.  It’s not as though Rick doesn’t know him.

Jack: “what predicated switch?”

Sam: “probably, sir, yes.”  They pretty much would do anything Jack says as they have done here.  Martin would be pleased with Jack taking risks just as he mentioned in the season 3 opener.

Strange how Sam didn’t realize it was Rick who opened the door and not Greg.  But you could tell since Greg only got one punch in in the flashback whereas Rick pounded him.  Also they may be identical but she questioned Greg for long enough.  Obviously his mistake was turning around when he heard that name again.

Do you get the impression Rick would’ve conveniently made Greg disappear when he suggested they take a trip.  Rick managed to stop killing for 5 months.  Also identical twins don’t have identical fingerprints so surely there was some forensic evidence somewhere they could’ve used to tie the murders to Rick before now.

CSI:NY Episode News Season 9

A photo of hotness and gorgeousness!! No the ice won't be cooling either...

Pam veasey, executive producer of CSI:NY states season 9 of the show is meant to have "humor, surprises, gimmicks and personal stories...every character will have an episode where we follow them home on their day off."  So it's meant to focus on more of the characters' personal lives.  Something that was promised about the show from way back in season 1.

As I wrote in my book, New York Minutiae: An Unofficial and Unauthorized Guide to CSI:NY, "this series aims to be more character driven and orientated than the other two - concentrating not only on character but also characterization..."  That's great to hear since we don't get much on some of the 'ancillary' characters which make up the show as a whole, like Adam (AJ Buckley) who is amongst one of my fave characters.  He's so funny and can be so emotional at times too when he needs to be.

We haven't had much on Flack (Eddie Cahill) either so I've got my fingers and everything else crossed we get something really interesting on Flack, being a huge Flack/Eddie fan.  As long as it doesn't stray into any romantic category, cos that  won't really delve into everything there is to know about Flack.  We've already seen him romantic with Angell and he does ogle the women he sees/meets/interviews!!  We don't know what he likes to do, aside from loving sports and being a huge foody fan.  Maybe it may concentrate on the latter.  He could turn out to be a great chef celebre or something.  Though that might be straying into Christine's (Megan Dodds) territory.  Still you never know.

You can just imagine Adam being into his computer/video games but maybe there's more to him than just tech.  Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Lindsay (Anna Belknap) may get boring as regular readers of my blog and other articles elsewhere know, I don't like Lindsay at all.  So I don't find any storyline which features her entertaining in the least.  Danny was better off without her, more fun and way cool.  Carmine put so much into the role of Danny especially when he was single.  I'm also a Carmine addict too!  You may have guessed.

In episode 4, their daughter Lucy, is set to make another appearance, said Veasey, "Danny and Lindsay are out in the city with Lucy and Lindsay finds herself in a little bit of danger."  She turns out to be a 'reluctant witness.'  She also gets injured, though not mortally (ha.)  Darn, hey you have not been subjected to my wicked sense of humour yet!

Apparently the third episode has location shooting in San Francisco.  "The hook is bridge to bridge;" as Veasey reveals.  "Brooklyn to Golden Gate.  There's a murder situation where we start in NY and we travel to San Francisco."  Some may confuse this, or relate it to the CSI Trilogy episodes, where the crime began in Miami, travelled to New York and was solved in Vegas.  So it's not something new, let's hope it will be different.

The season 9 opener will feature an ice hockey match between NYPD and FDNY.  Which is what the photos posted on Twitter by AJ Buckley were all about and there were some fans thinking Carmine, Eddie and AJ were actually playing hockey in real life and not just for the show.  I know how good Eddie is at ice hockey as he played one of his real life heroes, Jim Craig, the 1980 US Olympic hockey goalkeeper in the Disney film, Miracle (2004).

But what a super fun way to start the season.

CSI: NY 8.14 "Flash Pop" Review

Mac (Gary Sinise) receives a message on his phone whilst in the office.  It's a photo and he looks through the old case files and finds a similar photo of a woman sprawled out in the snow.  The DB has a missing shoe and the CS is similar to this photo.  Flash to 1957 in classic film noir style and old style forensics.  A photo of the DB is taken, who is wearing bright red lipstick.  Her shoe and wallet were found down the street.  1818 Myrtle Street.  The Vic was Lana (Kathryn Collins) and this one is found in the same place with red lipstick.

Mac calls Jo (Sela Ward)  who has the same photo of the NY crime lab tech.  Jo posits this one is also posed like the original.  Adam (AJ Buckley) tries to track down who took the photo.  Flack (Eddie Cahill) finds her shoe, everything mirrors the original DB.  Mac notices the three wounds to the abdomen and recognizes Jessica (Natalie Floyd) from the eyes, one green, one blue.  Flack says there must be a reason why they want them to know they're dead.  Mac: "this time we're gonna find the killer."

Hawkes (Hill Harper) says a wine glass was used to stab her.  Jessica's TOD was two hours.  Lindsay (Anna Belknap) met her parents at the lab.  Yeah she's the only one around who always has done everything.  Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) doesn't find any blood drops and there are two sets of prints around the DB. No evidence of a struggle or that the killer was here.  Hawkes: "mother nature's an accomplice."  Lindsay mentions how snow powder in Montana is easier to shovel and there could be evidence under the snow, all cos Danny and Hawkes live in a city where they don't get snow!  Such was her smug attitude and how they couldn't think of that!  Well, Mac and Stella did in 1.13 Tanglewood.

Hawkes finds a piece of wood-like trace from the DB.  Sid (Robert Joy) conducts the autopsy and there's a flash to the 1957 coroner too.  Jo thinks a champagne flute was used as its' the same shape and length and it's like a paper spike.  Hate those paper spikes, they're so dangerous and Ziva has one too in NCIS on her desk.  Jessica had heterochromia iridum and she was stabbed three times, bleeding out.  Jo wonders why the murder weapon was changed.  Her wrists were held tightly and there's a Fi Gamma Alpha impression from a ring.

Flack interviews her friends, other lab techs.  Harlan (Aaron Hill) liked Jessica and worked in ballistics.  Kim (Spencer Grammer) says he nicknamed her Lana so he becomes their obvious suspect.  She was putting on an act, see her erratic eye movements. Harlan is missing.  Flack asks Hawkes about him, as well as Jo, Lindsay and Mac, but not Danny and not Adam either.  Jo thinks he was kind.  Flack: "no one can reach him."  
Mac: "doesn't make him guilty."

Mac brings food for the techs and Christine (Megan Dodds) invites him to her parents wedding anniversary and gives him an out.  The techs remember Jessica, including Adam.  Jo gets all emotional and tells Mac she values their friendship.  Mac says Adam's eyes said it all.  Jessica passed her criminal exam and there were two spots open  in the lab.  That was the motive which I guessed.

The original murder weapon is missing and sheets were signed from property by Harlan.  Adam can't trace the phone photo and Danny and Hawkes were the only ones there who took any photos.  Thus the killer took the photo sent to Mac.  Mac thinks it's one of the techs and they shouldn't handle any of the evidence and they need to start over on everything.  Adam takes all this personally since he knows them and calls it "guilt by job description."  Adam doesn't believe any of them did it which is being rather naive.  Yes he works with them but sometimes you can't tell who is really trustworthy and all the rest of it.  Mac loses the plot cos he's not his fave Lindsay.  There's an unspoken rule of trust which is inexcusable.  Jo says this is personal for him.  Adam spent time with the techs and started out with them.  Jessica was his friend.

Adam analyzes the wood-like trace Hawkes found as being part of a stick insect, that was obvious when Adam said there's an eye and it isn't from NY.

At least Danny got to prove Lindsay wrong, yay!  re the footprints.  The property was vacant and was shown to renters.  The footprints are eliminated to two which are heeled.  But he eliminated the women.  Danny: "boom, I'm good right."  Flack finds Harlan and the evidence fits if hes being framed;  he didn't get the file out and his signature can be checked by QD.  He wanted Jessica to get off the bar with Kim and they all passed their criminal exam.  There's that motive again.  Flack and Danny go all quiet when he tells them he didn't get the chance to tell Jessica how he felt.  Especially Flack cos he didn't get the chance to do the same to Angell.

Kim didn't tell Flack any of this cos she says she didn't want to get anyone into trouble.  She was the obvious suspect and says she went home.  Lying again.  Adam checked the cases using EDNA and the insects were being updated onto the system.  All of the techs were involved except Jessica.  Mac gives another speech on the integrity of the lab not being compromised.  It's always the same question and it's always something he's concerned about since that fiasco with Aiden before she was killed.

Mac meets the original detective from the 1957 case, Paul Burton (Lee Majors).  He's here to help Mac and retired ten years ago with solving it.  Why the flashback when Burton (Corey Blair) doesn't look like that.  The colour of the lipstick was DNA: Do not analyze and it wasn't revealed.  So only the killer would know it was red as the CS photos were also in black and white, but that's a colour that was common in the fifties.  The secretary pool was where Lana worked and wore Stormy Red.

Jo says Mac wants evidence not a confession.  Danny finds the footprints don't go up to the door.  Lana wore high heels and Lindsay mentions the heels.  Mac says Kim was jealous about the job.  Jo is disgusted with Kim.  Her grandmother worked in the secretary pool and inspired her to go into law enforcement.  Trace on Jessica and the original murder weapon is found in Kim's apartment.  She claims to be smarter than her and didn't want to go through with it but the glass fell to the floor in the bar and this was a message.  Flash to Lana and the killer being a woman. For a moment there, it looked like it was Burton  the way he came into the office.  Maybe he was just having a flashback moment.  Mac: "taking Jessica's life may have been easy but living with it - that's gonna be hell, I promise you."

Jo wants to solve Lana's case.  She tells Mac to change his suit and lose the tie.  She's trying to help him with his lovelife.  Mac changes and Christine's family expects more from her re men.  Mac says they should give them something to talk about and kisses her on her cheek and she moves in for the kill.  Then apologizes.

The show delves into yet another cold case (there was one from Stella's past in which Danny Pino from Cold Case guest starred, in Cold Reveal.) This time the CSIs are goaded into opening it, which didn't really show Kim to being smarter - if she was, she wouldn't have tried to frame Harlan, not to mention keeping the original murder weapon. She had all this time to dispose of it. Adam's first episode back after two week's missing (no one sent out a search party) and he had a chance to be personally involved; with yet another berating from Mac. 

As for Lindsay's comment and not so original idea about the snow, Mac and Stella did something similar in 1.13 Tanglewood. That was like saying Danny and Hawkes don't live in a city with snow and only Montana has snow. At least this episode had some mystery and the cold case still went unsolved. Either to feature again because the killer still wasn't found and was probably someone closer to home. Here the victim was a lab tech, but who would have a motive to kill Lana? The method of her murder suggests crime of passion. 

Anyway thought it was creepy the way Burton sat at the desk and had a flash. Maybe his arrival meant he wanted to ingratiate himself into the investigation for reasons other than being helpful. Flack had pause for thought when Harlan says he didn't have a chance to tell her how he felt. Again another reminder of his losing Angell. As for Kim, she didn't have any gloves on so why no prints on the shoe or wallet for starters. Those items weren't processed. Oh and I liked the title too, Flash Pop a reference to the past or to the flash/pop of the old fashioned camera when the bulb pops out after a photo has been taken.

Wonder if this is solved next season, or will it just remain one of those that got away!

Aaron Hill was in CSI episode Unleashed and in CSI:Miami episode Raging Cannibal.