The Closer 7.13 "Relative Matters" Review

FBI agents surveill Shaw (Jake Busey) who meets a man and promptly beats him up.  One suggests they should save him and calls 911 saying they need his ID.  Brenda's (Kyra Sedgwick) parents arrive for an impromptu visit.  Taylor (Robert Gossett) mentions Agent Morris (DB Sweeney) called it in.   There was a fist fight as Tao (Michael Paul Chan) notices the blood trail and the GSW in his head.  Gabriel (Corey Reynolds) tells of the timeline.  The Vic was Paul Burke and Provenza (GW Bailey) doesn't want to give the FBI his name until they find out the suspect's name in return.  Flynn (Tony Denison) adds they'll never give it to them.

Clay (Barry Corbin) is distraught none of the family can make it for Christmas.  Provenza calls Fritz (Jon Tenney).  She can hear Kendall (Ransford Doherty) on the other end saying they need to move the DB and knows they're at a CS. Brenda tries to call the other team members but they all hang up.  Fritz takes the name of the Vic first and says he'll be in touch.  Clay gets emotional and hugs Fritz, he's proud of him.  Fritz suggests Brenda ask her parents why her mother is so quiet and what their secret is.  He doesn't want to talk about paying for her case but mentions he did pay. Clay tells Brenda he has cancer.

Sanchez (Raymond Cruz) thanks Morris for filming the murder, but it's not on tape.  Fritz informs them Shaw is involved in trafficking of stolen property.  They run a catering company and case the homes in LA.  But another catering company works the homes.  Flynn wants the video of Shaw for the rest of the evening.  Burke wanted a divorce.  Pope (JK Simmons) says the burglaries took place in LA City and as he's the Chief of Police, he sets the priorities. Brenda cries and doesn't want to work right now.

Her parents arrive at the Division and hand out presents to all.  Gabriel gets a snowglobe with a snowman policeman inside and Sanchez gets maracas!. Shaw comes in with the rest of Burke's family, Burke's wife, Laura (Pamela J Gray) is Shaw's sister.  Hey Brenda wearing trousers, she hasn't worn those in a while.  Maybe she decided she wanted to wear the pants in the home and at work, ha.

Brenda says since they lost Shaw last night he could have shot Burke after all.  No, he's too obvious a suspect.  Buzz (Phillip P Keene) places a camera in the Poinsettia and films the questioning.  Laura says she was at home with their son, Ian (Andy Fischer-Price) and Emily (Suzanne Cryer) Shaw's wife was watching TV with him, It's A Wonderful Life, yeah right.  Flynn tells Morris, "tip of following someone, wherever they go, you go."  Shaw says Burke was sleeping with Claudia, his ex and texted him.  Fritz wants Brenda to stop the questioning and repeatedly underlines it in the pad.  Laura doesn't believe he was having an affair.  Fritz: "thank you so much," a little how Brenda says it, but not much.

Brenda asks Morales (Jonathan Del Arco) about thyroid surgery.  He tells her thyroid is Greek for 'shield.' It regulates their emotions and mood swings, which is what Clay will have to look forward to.   It's a process of "regulation of your inner diva."  His emotions will be all over the place.  Burke has a mark on his scalp - a tattoo of the murder weapon, a small 41calibre Derringer.  (Always associated that as a weapon of choice for a woman, thus a clue!)

Claudia (Nicole Lemehin) is bought in with $1.8 million and was on her way to Brazil.  Brenda can't believe Fritz would use Clay's condition as an excuse for her not conducting the interview with Claudia, which she calls, "shameful." Provenza thinks it should have worked.  Claudia denies she was seeing Burke and was on a film set.  He was keeping the money at her apartment and asks if they will search it since she has stolen property there.  Fritz walks in with Morris telling her Brenda's deals usually involve prison and theirs involve witness protection.  Brenda adds she probably would send her to prison, cos her motto; take no prisoners.  Er you know what I mean!  Morris tells Gabriel he doesn't recall saying thank you to them for finding Claudia.

Flynn finds the gun which was stolen from one of the houses.  Fritz can't tell Brenda where Claudia is and Clay loses his temper.  Willie Rae (Francis Sternhagen) has been dealing with him on her own and Brenda offers to come down.  She can visit after the surgery.  Gabriel tells the family about the gun and where it was seen being dumped in a ploy to lure the guilty party there.  That was obvious so why did they have Taylor commenting they've already found the gun!  The suspect was also obvious.  Laura leaves.  Probably to make us believe if it was her then she'd get there already, but it's Emily of course.

She watched Burke getting beaten and then confronted him after.  He was going to take all the money and didn't care about Laura.  She wasn't going to let her family suffer.  She took the gun and kept it cos she liked it, see the weapon of a woman.

Flynn tells Brenda his sister suffered the same and he had to be there to help her.  Clay apologizes and Brenda tells him the rest of the family are coming for Christmas.  He wants them to hit him over the head if he loses it again, which he does and so Fritz hits him over the head with a cushion, like he said.

Don't much like these family orientated episodes I have to say and you could say not much happened here, aside from dropping the bombshell about her father being ill and she may be needed elsewhere.  This involved her family and the case involved another family and thus the title.  Like those little tiffs between Brenda and Fritz which make the show more enjoyable in my opinion, cos usually it's about work and then enters the personal territory, like they're in competition with each other, especially when it comes to the job and solving cases.  But hey isn't Fritz meant to be the FBI liaison anyway or is that forgotten now?  It's also friction from working together too closely.

Brenda's brothers are named, Jimmy who lives in New York and is gay, Bobby and Clay Jr.
Willie Rae: "crime doesn't stop for dinner in this house."
Clay: "...it pays for dinner..."  A Christmas episode where family turns out to be the most important thing, shown by Brenda and Fritz getting behind her parents and by Emily killing Burke to protect hers.

Desperate Housewives - 7.19: "The Lies Ill-Concealed" Review

Susan begins to have erotic dreams about none other than, Paul! Gaby and Bree behave as if they're having an illicit affair. Gaby chooses Bree over Carlos.

Mary Alice (Brenda Strong) "Susan Delfino's (Teri Hatcher) doctor had ordered her to abstain from sex for 6 weeks.  But what the doctor couldn't prevent Susan from doing is dreaming about it.  The only thing missing from these dreams was her husband."  Mike (James Denton) asks if Susan's okay.   Susan had a dream.  Mike tells her she was moaning, she had sex in her dream.  Mary Alice: "Susan was having dreams about sex and they were becoming a nightmare." Cos she's dreaming about Paul (Mark Moses).   That'd make your skin crawl! Ha.

Mary Alice: "The residents of Wisteria Lane are nothing if not loyal.   they love their country, root for their home town...but the fiercest loyalty on Wisteria Lane is the one between friends."  Carlos (Richardo Antonio Chavira) forbids Gaby (Eva Longoria) from going to coffee with Bree (Marcia Cross.) Gaby shockingly or sarcastically asks, he forbids her.   Bree and Gaby converse on the phone, whilst being face to face and Bree misses everything they did together as much as Gaby.   Didn't appear to me that in all the time they've known each other Gaby and Bree were particularly close.

Tom (Doug Savant) has been invited to a leadership conference.   So naturally Lynette (Felicity Huffman) would want to dominate the proceedings.   Susan picks up MJ (Mason Vale Cotton) from Karen McClusky's (Kathryn Joosten)  who tells Susan Mike was practically staring at her cleavage.   She notices her old house has been neglected by Paul.   Susan attempts to avoid Paul who looks like a wreck.   Bob (Tuc Watkins) and Lee (Kevin Rahm) speak about the conference.   They've been here before.   Lee is looking forward to the Japanese flower arranging.   Meg (Shannon Cochran) comments that some women are only here cos they married men who worked up the corporate career ladder.

Gaby comes over to Lynette's whilst Bree is baby sitting and Bree did notice Gaby's new coat.   For a moment there it looked like Gaby would take it off for her and be naked underneath; that's how these two were behaving.   All this sneaking around, conducting an affair behind Carlo's back.   Felicia (Harriet Sansom Harris) gave Karen her sister's brooch, thanking her for keeping Felicia's secret and not spilling to anyone.   Her secret about cutting off her fingers and framing Paul for the murder.  She's desperate to get Karen on side.   Karen recalls Felicia with blood on her.

Lynette's at the conference to meet new people, not get stuck with the activities arranged for spouses.   She attempts to get the others to mutiny so she can attend the seminar with her fave business speaker, Chris Cavenaugh.   Gaby: "Sneaking around makes everything taste better."  Bree tells her about her secret trieste with Karl ( Richard Burgi) whilst still married to Orson (Kyle MacLachlan).   Thought the others would have already known about this cos it's old news now.   Gaby and Bree arrange to meet at the spa.   Mike doesn't trust Paul and Susan has another dream with Paul, this time in the shower.   Oh please!  It's not like she's got Paul's kidney but Beth's (Emily Bergl).   Meaning Susan is connected to him through Beth and we know how she felt about Paul.

Felicia tells Karen about her daughter, Beth and blames Paul for Beth's fate.  She's lying of course, but she ropes Karen in like Felicia wanted.  Susan talks to her doctor about her dreams, who advises Susan to talk to Paul.  She does but tells him she was clothed.   Lynette steals Meg's ID and attends the seminar where she has to introduce the speaker, completely humiliating Tom in the process.   She never thinks about others or the consequences of her actions.  Renee (Vanessa Williams) asks Lynette if she found anyone for her at the conference.  "Ugly + money = handsome." Tom actually says, "Crazy + wife = laughing stock."  Lynette couldn't support Tom now like he used to support her when she was working.  Renee tells her that in Tom's world, Lynette is the wife, so she can be a wife or a 'first wife'.

Carlos notices the upside down cake and thinks it's Bree's.   It is, but Gaby lies saying she made it.   So of course he'll want her to make one too.   She attempts to seduce Carlos.   But he insists he wants the cake made in front of him.   Bree gives her instructions over the phone but it still turns out to be a disaster.   Luckily Bree makes one for her.   Susan makes soup for Paul and Mike sees her through the window, which makes him angry.   She's not going home until she knows Paul's okay.  

Bree and Gaby swap cakes in the nick of time.   Gaby commenting this is about trust.   "If only trust were so easy to make."  Carlos is gullible, if Gaby's never made a cake before, then it won't exactly turn out to be perfect now.   Gaby pretends she's attending a modelling friend's funeral, but Carlos takes her suitcase and finds a red hair on Gaby's new coat.   Oh the illicit affair has been discovered.  Ha.   She could have said it was anyone's hair and it could belong to anyone.   Bree's not the only one with red hair.   Carlos wants Gaby to choose him over Bree.   She's always putting the women first over him.

Mary Alice: "Yes - the residents of Wisteria Lane, are nothing if not loyal...but there are times when that loyalty is put to the test...a desire to protect  a long buried secret and sometimes just as one test of loyalty ends, another begins."  Gaby takes girls in tow and wants to stay with Bree.   Carlos knows about them.   Well this episode was all about secrets and lies.   Gaby deceiving Carlos, Lynette humiliating Tom; Susan choosing Paul over Mike; Felicia duping Karen.   Yes the women know how to play the game of always putting themselves first and getting whatever they want, but more importantly of getting their own way.   Now I'm beginning to sound like Mary Alice.

Merlin 4.5 "His Father's Son" Review

Mercenaries chase after knights and Merlin (Colin Morgan) is trapped.  It was a trap Merlin, "That's the idea."  Arthur (Bradley James) needed the pendant, the Royal Crest of Caerleon and took a risk to be here.  Agravaine (Nathanial Parker) believes this isn't a coincidence since Uther's death and the enemies of Camelot are testing him as a king.  He must send a message, that he can do anything and everything without mercy.  He must force him to accept the Treaty on their terms.  He asks if he surrenders.  He refuses and Arthur has to kill him.  Arthur thinks there must be another way and allows Agravaine to dictate what he should do.  Surely Arthur has been around Uther long enough to know what he should do for himself and also there is always another way.

Arthur must follow Uther's example and that he's worthy of Uther's name.  A lot of mention of Uther now and there was hardly any last ep.  He must draw up the Treaty and Merlin comments this isn't like Arthur.  He's told to stick with what he knows.  Arthur must kill him as he refuses to sign.  Agravaine tells him Uther would have been proud.  Arthur doesn't know what he would have done without "your support and counsel."  Well quite frankly, quite a lot.  Merlin tells Arthur compassion is also a sign of strength.  Arthur will talk to Merlin if he's bored.  Arthur can't afford any luxuries and the burden of the kingdom is his.

Caerleon's DB is brought to Queen Annis (Lindsay Duncan) who promises Arthur will pay.  Agravaine mentions Gwen (Angel Coulby) to Arthur, that she's a lowly servant.  She shouldn't mean anything to Arthur cos as king he needs to do what's expected of him.  He can't be seen with the daughter of a blacksmith, Uther would say the same actually.  Arthur: "...not a matter of state, a matter of the heart."  Agravaine replies he must rule with his head like a strong king (yeah as he lets Morgana walk all over him!)  What did Agravaine want Gwen for himself.

Sir Leon (Rupert Young) tells of the army crossing their border and must be intercepted before they reach Camelot.  Morgana (Katie McGrath) comes to see the Queen in the name of Gorlowes.  She's here to help them with revenge for what Arthur did.

Arthur rejects Gwen as things have changed for him and he must rule and as king, it's "no longer relevant what I may or may not want for myself."  Gwen replies it isn't "appropriate."  But he isn't Uther.  Arthur makes his own decisions and this is how it must be.  But it wasn't his own decision, it was Agravaine's proposal.  Gwen doesn't think he should let anyone tell him what he should do and he should "be the king you want to be."

Gaius (Richard Wilson) tells her Arthur's not alone, but he doesn't know that.  SO who carries all that furniture, tents etc for Arthur for the battlefield since no one was seen to leave Camelot with anything.  Elyan says the knights would all die for him and fight in Arthur's name.  Merlin says they mean every word and Arthur wonders if he deserves it.  Merlin supposes if there was any other way out he'd take it.  Arthur had a choice to let Caerleon live or die and he made the wrong decision.  Merlin believes he made the best decision for Camelot and Arthur: "now my men must pay for it with their lives."  Well, not if Merlin has anything to do with it.

Merlin follows Arthur as he sees the Queen and apologizes.  There's nothing he can do to change what happened and he votes for the right of single combat.  There has been enough bloodshed and lives will be saved.  If she wins she will have half of Camelot and if he wins she must withdraw her army.  There's no contrast here really.  Merlin is caught and Arthur calls him "a simple minded fool."  He was being kind.  Merlin was looking out for him.  Arthur will  fight.  He had one choice, a "just and honourable  one."

Morgana can't fathom Arthur would risk his own life over his men and the Queen knows she wants his throne.  Morgana has the power to make certain Arthur will lose.  And the Queen lets her use it.  Morgana enchants Arthur's sword with Agravaine's help.  Arthur gives Merlin his ring for Gwen.  The Queen's champion had to be huge of course.  Camelot's army was minuscule in comparison to hers.  No one saw Morgana either.  Anyway her magic isn't any match for Merlin's.  Arthur's sword will become heavy.  Not if Merlin can help it.

They fight and Arthur spares him.  The Queen adheres to their agreement.  Arthur doesn't want victory but peace.  A new day for the beginning of their kingdom.  Something about Arthur "gives me high hope for us all."  She tells Morgana there won't be a next time for her as Morgana is "consumed by bitterness."  She wanted revenge but it's not right.  Morgana won't rest until she has Camelot and it bows before her.  "You're more like Uther than you realize."  Arthur should have listened to Merlin even if he is the worst servant in the kingdom, so why doesn't he get another.  Arthur believes  a good king should be true to himself "and be seen with those whom he cares for."  He took along time arriving at that decision.  Was it the fight he won or the fact he can't live without Gwen.

Merlin was out of character this episode, he doesn't do much, er use much magic to help Arthur, seems he uses it as a last resort and only after ages.  Especially since he's in tears earlier on - did he doubt himself or Arthur and his abilities.  That Arthur would actually be killed when he's meant to be there to prevent that from happening.  He seemed to take ages to help Arthur during the fight too.

Arthur dealing with Gwen  - rejecting her - was already done in Queen of Hearts and The Once and Future Queen and didn't need to be rehashed here.  Seems writers don't know what they're doing by regressing backwards and forwards with stories and plots.  It was season 4 and not much has been done in terms of stories and character development and what was covered is forgotten to suit the particular plot of the episode in question.

Arthur has already proven himself many times in battle, even if he wasn't king then.  Arthur it appears, is king in name only.  Gwen so eagerly accepting Arthur back and his feeble attempts at an apology as if he's done no wrong.  Well treated her like dirt for one, just like Uther.  He just followed in his footsteps, hence the title, and showed he can do what he likes as he's the king and get away with treating people in that way.  Once upon a time he never would have treated anyone like that.

Wonder if Elyan knew of Arthur's despicable treatment of Gwen.  Bloomin' sexist too, it's okay to have a blacksmith's son as a knight but it's fine to mess around with a common woman's feelings.

Then there was Gwaine  and his not being able to deal with his father being killed by Caerleon, missed opportunity for revenge there.

Arthur wears the blue cloak from The Once and Future Queen.  Robert Maillet who played Derian is a professional Canadian wrestler, all 6' 10" of him.

CSI:Miami 10.7 "Sinner Takes All" Review

A poker game ensues and a group of poker players are engaged in their game.  They all looked a bit shifty and stereotypical players, you know the usual woman out of her depth, movie producer, rapper and actor.  Could tell there was some cheating in play, even if the actor with the glasses wasn't involved, he was placed so it would seem he was cheating.

A masked raider flies in through the window with a gun and bullets rage.  The security outside the door, the way he just casually opened and closed the door again when he saw what was happening, surprised he didn't get shot.  Did he not call for help?  The woman tries to reach into her bag but fails.  After he exits through the window with the takings, everyone gets up except for the movie producer.  It's assumed the chandelier fell on his head, but this wasn't COD.

Walter (Omar Miller)notices the glass is in his wound so he was shot first.  ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) finds the bullet left through his neck and is an exit wound.  The entrance wound can't be found and Calleigh (Emily Procter) notices he has blood on the side of his DB.  The entrance wound is through his hip and Calleigh can't find the bullet in the room, come on she's meant to be a gun expert and couldn't figure out where the bullet was lodged.  The DB was Benjamin Paxton (Kip Gilman).  Outside, Tripp (Rex Linn)  tries to keep back the crowd and has words with a so-called photographer (he looked suspicious) he shouts out Isiah Stiles (Aldis Hodge) when he sees him.  Isiah's arm is bleeding and he pulls the bullet out of his arm even before ME Tom has a chance to examine him.

Upstairs Horatio (David Caruso) searches the others and the woman's bag reveals a gun  Evelyn Bowers (Drea De Matteo) was hoping the robber would turn up as she wanted to avenge her son's assault.  Kevin is a gambler and was struck by the gun at another game as he tried to stop him from stealing the money.  He suffers from memory problems as a result.  She took out a second mortgage and paid off Joey Ranzone (Terry Maratos) to let her sit in on the game.

Ryan (Jonathan Togo) examines the shattered glass from the CS, it was tempered glass so it shouldn't have shattered. The glass was weakened as there are marks on it, indicating it was tampered with.  Thus the thief had an accomplice who helped him inside the room.  Diamond can cut glass and so can ceramic.  They think of Jason Huntsman, (Ben Hollingsworth) the actor and his glasses were ceramic.  His glasses don't match.  Though he was guilty of being obnoxious.

Calleigh and Ryan head back to string the bullets trajectory and one string leads to the air vent, here Ryan finds some sort of markings inside.  The ventilation grate is also dented so the gun was pointed through it.  The playing cards are analyzed which shows they've been marked.  There's no match to the glasses since special lenses would be needed to read the cards.  Walter finds Evelyn's driving licence photo shows her with brown eyes, not blue.  She's made to remove her contacts. Evelyn becomes another helpless and hapless Vic for Horatio to help and especially since her son turns up to post bail for her. Horatio drives him home and sees how he struggles to remember and uses sticky notes.  The house is devoid of furniture.

The red mark found in the vent isn't blood but ink and the two triangle shapes could be a tattoo.  Calleigh seeks Delko's (Adam Rodriguez) help and he finds the tattoo belongs to the Haileah King's gang.  Trip tells Delko the man he's looking for is Carl Raines, (Neto DePaula Pimenta) he's involved in high end crimes.  Delko and Natalia (Eva La Rue) seek him out and see him leave yet they never think about how the suspect will try to evade capture, as he shoots at a policeman.  Delko opens fire and shoots him down, his dying words are that he was hired to kill Paxton. A search of his truck reveals Delko finding a memory stick between the seat.  This stick contains raw instrumentals of Isiah's new album.  Carl was Isiah's bodyguard and tried to blackmail him, but Isiah released the album on the Net the next day.

Joey turns up for more money from Kevin as Horatio arrives to make him return the money and he also gets Joey to talk.  Isiah wanted Paxton at the game and tried to pay him with one of his diamond rings.  Joey only deals in cash.  Horatio wants him to give back everything he took from Kevin, or he'll have to deal with Horatio.  More threats on Horatio's part, that was missing thus far this season.  Isiah is questioned again and Natalia checks out his rings.  One of the diamond ones still has some traces of glass.  He was the inside man.

Isiah admits he wanted to get even with Paxton as he turned him down for a movie role, after he sunk his money into making the soundtrack.  "Reputation is everything" in this business.  Isaiah didn't know about Carl but he set up the robber to rake the fall for Paxton.  This being the man with the camera at the beginning, Alonzo (Jack Guzman). It was unbelievable he still kept all the items he used for the robbery in his car.  See another case of the criminal remaining at the CS in order to blend in as an innocent bystander.

Kevin finds all the money at home and Horatio watches outside.  When Evelyn sees Alonzo she can only slap him and hopes he pays for what he did.  Look another new lab tech, Samantha (Taylor Cole) from the nightshift and is pretty pally with Walter,where he's known as "Teddy Bear."  Don't let the other CSIs hear that, he'll never live that down.  A shame Walter resorted to using Horatio's tactics in threatening Isiah if he doesn't give up Alonzo.  "Horatio mode" does not suit and Walter is much better at his job than that.

This episode of CSI:Miami was like you've seen it all before.  Not just in the guest stars, with Drea De Matteo from The Sopranos and Desperate Housewives, who wasn't that remarkable; playing a mother who once again Horatio must instinctively help.  Also Taylor Cole, Sam's (Jared Padalecki) first love, after losing Jess in Supernatural, in season 1's Provenance.  Yet another Supernatural guest Aldis Hodge who stabbed and killed Sammy in the season 2 eps All Hell Breaks Loose!  As well as being in Leverage.  He must have fit right in at the poker table.

This  ep also reminded me of an earlier CSI:Miami episode dating back to season 4.7 Felony Flight, where Delko finds a CD in the CD player in a car (again!) made by Brian (David Anders) which is dismissed as being awful.  When his music is rejected, he hired a man to scare the producer and that's all he was meant to do.

Finn (Elisabeth Shue) in CSI 12.17 Trends With Benefits also mentions the suspect coming back to the CS and standing in the crowd and so she takes photos of the crowd gathered there. CSI:NY 7.5 Out of the Sky, involved a robbery at an apartment and thieves open fire.  An inside man was also involved.

Desperate Housewives 7.18 "Moments in the Woods" Review

Susan bets their savings in a poker game and keeps winning. Carlos takes Andrew to the cabin and tells Bree they're no longer friends and forbids Gaby from having more to do with Bree after he learns about his mother.

Mary Alice (Brenda Strong) "When Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross) decided to stop drinking, her recipe for success was the twelve steps of Alcoholics Anonymous.   She admitted she was powerless over alcohol...she made a list of all the people she had harmed; so when her son, Andrew, had decided to stop drinking...to follow those steps as successfully as she had."  Andrew (Shawn Pyfrom)  has been 30 days sober and has a keychain to show this.  Number 8 on the steps is the list of people they have harmed and on top of that list is Carlos (Richardo Antonio Chavira).  Bree says it's hard but he should give it a go, she thinks Andrew is referring to her, but she's number 7 on the list.   Mary Alice: "Bree was diligent about following the 12 steps, but even she could recognize a step too far."

Mary Alice: "We teach our children to apologize when they make a mistake, we tell them that it's wrong to blame others or pretend it never happened, or try to cover it up...there are times when apologizing is the biggest mistake of all."  Bree worries Carlos will injure others when he finds out the truth about his mother.   When Rex (Steven Culp) died Carlos comforted Andrew.   Paul (Mark Moses) is shocked to find his house is taken over by Felicia (Harriet Sansom Harris) wonder if he was more shocked by her being there, out of prison, or by her taking the house.   He put it in Beth's (Emily Bergl) name.  Beth made a will, so Felicia owns it.   Paul gasps they have "a manipulative psycho for a neighbour" on the street, just like he was/is.  Felicia has stolen Beth's ashes.

Susan (Teri Hatcher) visits Dick (Gregory Itzin) in hospital who promises to take her gambling when he gets out.   Doesn't look like he'll be doing much getting out.   Tom (Doug Savant) arrives home late and gives Lynette (Felicity Huffman) $100,00 to spend on herself.  "Go crazy, it's on me."  He can't celebrate as he's busy.   As I said it's all about money with this family.   Makes you think they wouldn't have any meaningful moments or storylines if work and/or money wasn't part of it.   Susan wins a poker game and realizes she's on a winning streak.   As we know Susan, she won't stop now.  Gaby (Eva Longoria) comments she'll need a face transplant if she takes anymore of her money.   Susan doesn't need to look at her cards, she knows she's won.  Bree suggests Susan should buy a lottery ticket and eat it.  Renee (Vanessa Williams) calls Lynette pathetic for buying kitchen appliances with the money and takes her shopping for clothes.The shop assistant is stroppy and Renee threatens her with dismissal after buying the store just to fire her.

Carlos takes Andrew hunting.   Since when did Carlos go hunting should be the question on everyone's mind.  Gaby believes sobriety ruins lives, as does drinking, Gaby.   Carlos could kill him and since Andrew's gay, could be charged with a hate crime.   Felicia apologizes to Paul.  At least she puts on an act of being sincere.   If she cut off her fingers and framed Paul for her sister's murder, there's no telling what she'll do as revenge for her own daughter's death.   Paul should have known better.   People like that don't change, he didn't.  She wants to scatter Beth's ashes and wants him there as Beth loved him.   Seems everyone's running to the woods with ulterior motives in mind.

Dick dies and leaves Susan a poker chip.  She should "never walk away from a winning streak." Carlos didn't know about his mother, but Bree spills the beans in her attempt to help Andrew, failing abysmally yet again.  They're trapped in the cabin as the road's blocked by a fallen tree.   Tom needs to go away on business after Lynette planned a celebration.   Renee advises her that since Tom's a bigshot now, she'll spend less time with him, these are the perks she wants and there's a price to pay for them.  Andrew has been sober a month and Carlos says he should drink in his mother's memory.   They're no longer friends.   All Bree did was look out for herself.   He also finds out Gaby knew the truth, yet he doesn't get as angry at her than he does at Bree.   His own wife kept secrets from him, where's the trust there?  Also he didn't get angry at Tom leaving the company either after Carlos gave him the job there in the first place.   He didn't expect any loyalty from Tom in return.

Tom loves his new job as people take notice of him.   Lynette takes lobster over to Tom, in her new dress, but he's got to leave now.   Felicia asks Paul if Beth suffered, she's actually talking about her sister.  He drove Mary Alice to suicide.   Felicia admits that she at least loved her sister and tried to destroy him for her death.  Beth paid the ultimate price for their hate.  Felicia already said that about Beth, why repeat it again.   Paul is ready for closure.   Susan wins over $12,000 and keeps on winning.   Then cries, why does she win when others lose, she got a kidney and others died.   Susan wonders what will happen when her luck runs out.

Paul doesn't trust Felicia and brought a gun with him, yet more guns maybe he should have taken care of Felicia here too.  Anyway Felicia took it and asks how to trust someone if they don't trust you? She could shoot Paul and still go free, she doesn't want him dead, but just wants it over.   Yeah meaning over in a way other than shooting him.   She'll want to see him suffer slowly and prolong the agony, that's in her nature.   Paul scatters the ashes.  Felicia keeps Beth's ashes in the urn and relishes revenge on Paul.   Again I don't know why he fell for her sob story.  Carlos is at his mother's crypt.   Gaby didn't like his mother but that was since she wasn't a mother yet and didn't know what it was like, that you don't let go.   Andrew let Bree defend him too many times and he needs to do this himself and make it right.

Mary Alice: "Whenever we make mistakes, we need to apologize and then we need to move on; accept changes in our lives or choose to trust an old enemy or learn to stop fighting our children's battles.   But sometimes the pain we've caused is so great, there is no moving on."  Carlos tells Bree to go to hell, she's an adult and she's no longer his and Gaby's friend.   How could Paul have been so gullible, he hasn't really changed so what made him think that anyone as deceitful as Felicia, who got to use her own daughter to seek revenge on her enemy, could be forgiving.   She says Beth came in the middle of their fight, but she's the one who put her there to begin with.  So she's got no one to blame but herself.

Carlos going all silent on Bree, is just what Andrew said to her, that she's just interfering in his life and other peoples' lives too.   Then that's the nature of this show.   Some win, some lose and others just don't know when to stop interfering; or quitting whilst they're ahead.

CSI: NY 7.14 "Smooth Criminal" Review

The CSIs try to apprehend a suave assassin who has killed three people and kidnapped a fourth victim. Leading to an underlying medical scam and a ruthless doctor.

A man talks with a woman at a bar and they speak about music.   Does she prefer classical or R'n'B.   Does she believe in fate or freewill.   He comments classical music is an "inevitable build to an end."  Which is what this entire conversation will lead to.   R'n'B takes you where you want to go.   He excuses himself to shoot three men.   Flack (Eddie Cahill) says this was the grand opening of the bar and each man was shot twice.   Once in the chest and once in the head, execution style.   No silencer was used.   No one saw the shooter and was described as an Afro-American man of average height and build.   Mac (Gary Sinise) says there's one more detail: "cold-blooded professional killer."  Flack says two walked out, the shooter and a woman.   The two Vics were George Parker (Chad Randall) and Julian Grace (Erik Stabenau) .   Jo (Sela Ward) comments it's like the punchline to a bad joke: "professional killer and ex-con walks into a bar..."  Flack finishes: "Guess who walks out."

Jo finds a martini glass and a lo-ball glass as well as the remains of a gun in the pizza oven.   Flack: "I've never seen anybody order gun on a pizza."  The two Vics were waiting for someone.   Flack asks why the female wasn't shot.   Mac says he's not finished with her yet.   The killer ( Shaffer Smith aka Ne-Yo) (described as Handsome man in credits) handcuffs his captive to the chair.   He talks to someone on the phone and she asks who it was.   The killer makes another call and says the price is increased for her.   Jo finds text messages from the Vic's phones show they were invited to the bar.   One of the Vics, Ken, the bartender, (Jeffrey Barnett)  was leaving to study.   Sid (Robert Joy) finds they were shot by 9mm bullets and he found three hairs on Parker's throat, which aren't his.   Sid comments it's ironic that Grace was suffering from liver cancer and only had months to live.   Parker had a history of violence.

Lindsay (Anna Belknap) analyzes the gun and gets no hits on IBIS.   The stria don't match the gun.   The oven was hot so it softened the gun and altered the stria.   Mac says the heat also destroyed the DNA and the prints.   Adam (AJ Buckley) found DNA on the martini glass, but no hits on the lo-ball.   There were traces of acrylic smudges, so he used nail polish on his fingertips to hide his prints.   He 's still analyzing the ash from the oven.   Hawkes (Hill Harper) says the hairs hit on a William Dowd (Brandon Scott), he did time with Parker and he has his address from his parole officer.

Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) and Flack check out Dowd's apartment.   Flack knocks on his door, the same time someone knocks on the killer's door and we are meant to assume that they're actually knocking on the killer's door.   At least there weren't any shots fired through the door this time round and no comments alluding to it either.   The building Super knocks on the killer's door and the woman sends him away saying they're busy as she didn't want to see him shot.   The killer tells her he wouldn't have killed him as there's no money in it.   There wasn't any money in shooting the bartender either and he did it cos he could ID him.   He tells her if she doesn't help them more will die.   Well they died irrespective of her help.

Flack and Danny question Dowd and Flack says, "I think you like being behind bars."  They found his DNA on Parker's throat since he hugged him.   He was glad to see him and he's paid his debt to society.   Hawkes says Dowd's story checks out as witnesses saw him hug Dowd.   Jo gets a hit on the ID of the abducted woman, she used her credit card to pay for the martini.  Camille (Lesley-Anne Brandt) rings a bell with Hawkes.   He grew up with her.   They check out her apartment and find it's been trashed.   Hawkes brings down a box with pills from the attic.  Surprisingly, he knew just where to look did he.   She left him a voicemail on his phone a week ago.   Jo asks if she was an old flame.   He didn't have the courage to ask her out, they're old friends.   Whenever they give Hawkes a storyline it always concerns someone, or a friend, from his past.

Hawkes checked Camille's DNA from her toothbrush and it matched the martini glass.   She worked as a nurse at a clinic.   Jo says she was fired 3 weeks ago for stealing meds.   Mac thinks she was selling.   Hawkes refuses to believe she's guilty and she has no criminal record.   He posits she called him for help.   Flack and Danny check out the clinic and speak with her former employer, Dr Theola Kumi (Adrienne Barbeau).  Some of her patients complained about their symptoms, which were getting worse.   The pills were fake.   There was no proof she was stealing pills until a second patient complained about the same symptoms.   Flack asks if she filed a report with the NYPD.   That was the clue.   The Dr didn't otherwise the clinic would have been shut down because of their ethics.   Well she was my suspect, firstly since there weren't any other suspects and also she didn't file a report.   Anyone else would have because they'd be thinking of their patients.

 If Camille was guilty what would prevent her from doing the same thing again elsewhere.   Dr Kumi was just looking out for herself to carry on with her scam.   She gives them the list of patients and Camille's work phone.   Flack is disgusted patients were given fake meds.  "Pun intended - that's pretty sick"  Danny says making fake meds isn't easy so she had to be working with someone.   Flack thinks it could be the killer.

The killer gives Camille food and a new dress to wear.   Someone told him the NYPD checked her apartment.   Camille wants him to answer her questions.   She asks if he believes in fate or free will.   Well he answered that at the end.   He vows to find Janice Scott.   She agrees to tell him where she is.   Lindsay finds magnesium stearate in the pills.   Adam works on the trace from the CS, the wire, and he worked on the ash in the oven and discovered, "mostly ash."  As well as galvanized steel.   Jo says Sterling, reminds her of an old friend of hers.  Jason Sterling, who collected decorative pins.   There were low levels of uranium in the Vic's bloodstream.   Adam asks what a mushroom cloud was doing in their blood.   Jo "Boom." Using Danny's phrase.   Adam asks how someone gets uranium in their blood.

Danny compared Camille's work phone with her personal phone bill and a Janice Scott stands out.   Janice's apartment has been trashed and she hasn't been seen for two days.   One of her businesses also includes a nightclub.   (A CSI:NY episode wouldn't be complete without an obligatory nightclub.)  Hawkes asks Mac's permission to stay on the case. Cue Flack and Hawkes (this time) to check it out.   Flack walks right past the killer.   Who just happened to turn around and look back at him.   Flack loses him in the crowd.   One chase where Flack didn't get his man.  Cos that would've been too easy and no interrogations in this episode either, except for the one with Mac and Jo at the end.   Janice is dead.   Hawkes doesn't find signs of a struggle as Janice was already dead.   She was suffering from a brain tumour and was also on fake meds.  So if Camille had all those fake pills in her apartment and she knew  Dr Kumi was running a scam, why did she let Janice stay on them.

The killer tells Camille, that the people he kills choose death, when they choose how they live.   Camille maintains Janice was innocent and not a criminal.   So if Camille was really guilty she wouldn't have said that.   Jo and Lindsay analyze the pills.   Haven't seen Jo in the lab in a long time.   Sid found uranium in Janice's blood.   Mac believes the answer lies in the uranium.   Adam has a trilby and the steel fragment from the oven, belonged to the hat.   It was 22" in circumference, the average size of a man's head.   Jo surmises he changed his appearance after the shootings and threw the hat in the oven.   Adam didn't find a  name for him, but he pays cash and was referred to the shop by a Theola Kumi.   Jo looked good in the trilby.

Dr Kumi wants Camille dead.   She has a back-up if he can't kill her.   Mac says there never were any real meds and Hawkes thinks Camille stole the meds as proof.   Lindsay found an old factory in Queens which used uranium.   Mac and Jo encounter a shoot out when they go to the factory and Jo arrests Kumi whilst she's destroying evidence.   As if that'll get her off the hook.     Jo tells her the machines at the factory had traces of magnesium stearate and Mac says she's going away.   Danny checks out the phone history and finds calls were made to the killer.   Adam tells him to triangulate.   Pings on a location.   Danny: "Boom."  He hasn't said that in a while either.

The killer gets ready to kill Camille.   He calls Dr Kumi and Adam picks up (like episode 2) and hears shots fired.   He killed Kumi's plan b, i.e.  her back up.   Saving Camille and letting her go.   That was his choice when she asked about free will or fate.  Her fate was to be killed by him, but he chose to exercise free will and let her go.     Jo sees him go into an alley, where Mac arrests him.   Jo's done plenty of people watching in her job and asks Mac if he's done the same as a detective.   She wonders what Hawkes is saying to Camille and talks about her body language.   Jo: "Evaluate the evidence."  Mac thinks they could be rekindling their friendship, or as Jo believes, talking about "hot, steamy sex."  That, Mac tells her, is none of their business.

 Meant to be a bit of a smooth episode, with a suave, sophisticated killer, well versed in just about everything, yet he chose killing as his path.   His fate or his free will?  Ne-Yo puts in a fine performance as a nameless killer, who develops a conscience at the end and lets one of his intended kills live; or did he develop a soft spot for her.

As for Hawkes, well he always ends up dealing with people from his past.   In 3.7 Murder Sings the Blues, he meets a girl at a party and is reprimanded by Mac for not revealing his connection to her earlier.   Here he asks his consent to help in the case and to question Janice, just so he wouldn't have to apologize this time round.   He learned his lesson from before.  In 5.4 Sex, Lies and Silicone, Hawkes meets up with his college friend, who asks him to remove files from the investigation when they turn up as they involved his father, who paid for Hawkes' last year at med school through a scholarship.  In 5.12 Help, his ex Kara, was a victim of rape and he was removed from the case.   In, 6.6 It Happened To Me, he didn't tell Mac he treated the Vic earlier on in the episode much sooner.

Just to get in my rant at the way CBS is treating CSI:NY, not making a decision as to its future.  As of yet there's no decision on whether they will be renewing the show for a season 8.   Which is terrible, it's not a case of last on, first off.   The show has proved itself with fans, viewers and after 7 seasons, deserves better treatment than this.   What was the point of bringing in Jo, if they weren't going to last it out.   Any show which undergoes a change to its scheduled air day is going to have some teething problems and it gets some faltering ratings, doesn't mean it should not come back for another year.   If that's the case, then CSI and CSI:Miami are in the same boat too, as far as falling ratings go.   At the end of season 5, there was the obligatory excuse of funding and money and so Angell (Emmanuelle Vaugier) was fired.   CBS needs to  listen to the fans and CSI: NY's dedicated viewership.  As you may notice this ep was written a good while back!  Then again we had to go through the same when the show was on the bubble re season 9 renewal!

Doctor Who 7.1 "Asylum of the Daleks" Review

A woman narrates: "first there were the Daleks and then there was a man who fought them and then in time he died.  There are a few who believe of course this man survives and that one day he will return."  Cue the Doctor's (Matt Smith) shoes.  Not many can send him messages.  Her daughter is a prisoner at the Dalek prison camp and hopes he can help.  "I wish they'd stop," he replies, stop sending messages for help.

He thinks the meeting place on Skaro to be strange, as the original planet of the Daleks; cos it can only be a trap.  She escaped from the Dalek camp but of course no one escapes cos they're exterminated.  He feels her hand, she's cold and she transforms into a Dalek and knocks him out.  "The Doctor is acquired."

Amy (Karen Gillan) is at a photoshoot and is told her husband is here.  She doesn't have a husband.  Rory (Arthur Darvill) sits in her dressing room with papers for her to sign.  This can't the the end of Amy and Rory, not in that sense.  She's working.  Rory: "thought you were just pouting at the camera."  A bulb flashes on the mirror and Amy too is knocked out.  "Amelia Pond is acquired."  Thus leaving Rory who's taken from the bus.  "Rory Williams is acquired."

They wake up to Dalek ships outside in space.  The Doctor is brought in by a Dalek and Rory asks how much trouble they can be in now.  Doctor: "how much trouble?  Out of 10 - 11." They're surrounded by Daleks as they're in "the Parliament of the Daleks."  He says they have to "make them remember you."  They ask for his help and not as he thinks he's about to be exterminated.  "You will save us...save the Daleks," echoes around them.

Another woman narrates: "day 633 the terror continues - made another souffle."  They came at night and Carmen is playing.  She's the new companion of course!    Daleks are outside and it's apparent she was also a Dalek too.  Amy says he's frowning now and thinking something's wrong with Amy and Rory and "who's gonna fix it."  That can be read in two ways as in he who is WHO will fix it, as always!  He fixes his bow tie.

The Dalek woman, Darla (Anamaria Marinca) or puppet as the Doctor will refer to them, only has her memories activated when needed for a cover.  The PM states it is "offensive for us to extinguish such divine hatred."  Doctor is disgusted as usual, "you think hatred is beautiful."  That's why they "weren't able to kill you."  A hole opens like a portal and they will be transported to the planet.  Rory asks what colour they are as they weren't any "good questions left."  Well some may be interested in the colour considering they had those new pastille coloured ones in season 5!  Ha.

Carmen is heard playing again and the Daleks call it a signal from the planet.  It's the Doctor playing the triangle.  He asks if they tried talking to them.  Yeah Daleks are big on talking.  She calls herself Oswin Oswald (Jenna-Louise Coleman) and she crashed here and has been here a year.  She's looking through their eyes and that thing is a Dalek eye so it's obvious she's a Dalek.  He asks her where she gets the milk to make souffles?

The asylum forcefield is impenetrable and must be turned off from the inside and he realizes the Daleks are too afraid to go but not that he's the Predator they're referring to.  Hey here the Doctor says the Daleks are afraid, that being a human emotion and later on he will tell Amy scared is good for the same reason.   The bracelets will protect them from the nanocloud.  The Doctor requires his companions, thus Amy and Rory are here.  Amy's not scared, again for future reference.  Amy: "Geronimo."

Harvey (David Gyasi) finds Amy and she finds the Doctor but Rory lands inside, of course.  Oswin scopes the Doctor using Dalek technology.  As the Doctor says that's a Dalek eye.  She says Dalek technology is easy to hack into and he doesn't believe it is.  Rory thinks the Dalek is asking for an egg, but it's actually "exterminate."  Harvey crashed here two days ago but the crew have been dead longer.  He's a Dalek as are the DBs.  The Doctor comments the nanocloud processes all matter into a Dalek puppet, living or dead.  They are chased by the dead ones too.  Hiding out in a compartment, Oswin finds them and comments on the Doctor's chin.  "Can put someone's eye out."

She then asks "is there a word for total screaming genius that sounds modest and a tad bit sexy."  Doctor: "Doctor, they call me the Doctor."  Oswin: "I see what you did there."  As do we!  Hey they can have a chin wag later, sorry!  The hatch has already been used.  He asks Amy what happened with Rory and "what can I do?"  Amy calls him the raggedy man again and says it's what happens, it's life.  The DB Dalek puppets outside have her bracelet.  She'll become a Dalek now.

Oswin helps Rory.  "The nose and the chin, you two could fence."  Amy is being rewritten and it's begun as they had the same conversation four times.  Oswin tells Rory he can remove his shirt now and he asks why, no reason.  The Doctor tells Amy to watch the Daleks and leaves her there whilst Oswin sends him a map.  She sees people and opens the door.  Have to say, liked the Dalek going round and round in circles, like the ballet dancer.

He asks what the Dalek can do, it's just a "tricycle with a roof."  The Dalek initiates the self destruct and is pushed into the others by the Doctor who blows them up.  He carries Amy out and Rory asks who killed the Daleks.  Doctor: "who do you think."  That was the little early teaser which led us astray into thinking Amy was dead, but not that soon.

Amy wakes and slaps Rory.  Oswin says she's shielded and the Doctor is preoccupied with her having no milk for the souffle, "is no one else wondering about that?"  No they're not but he is and it's always the little things that niggle at him, cos he's going to get to the bottom of it.  The Doctor is a man with a plan.  Rory: "all ears."
Amy: "there's a nose joke going too you can always pick off."  No comment.  What with ears, noses and chins...  The Doctor finds the teleport which they can use to propel off the planet but he must get Oswin.  Doctor: "Who am I?"  She hasn't met him yet.  The Doctor tells Amy they're "subtracting glove - don't let them."  Amy gave Rory up as she couldn't have children after Demon's Run (but they have River at least.)  Rory wants to put his bracelet on her out of love and cos it''ll take longer for him to get converted as he loves her more than she does him.  He waited 2,000 years outside the box and she tells him not to bring that up, it's not the same.  Slapping him again.  She has the Doctor's bracelet, he's a Time Lord and doesn't need it.

The Doctor comes across Daleks who were survivors of the war against him.  They wake and Oswin deletes Predator from their memories.  They're like a hive, a "path web" and she made them forget him.  Oswin: "tell me I'm cool Chin Boy."   He comes across her finally, as a Dalek (like I said.)  Oh the look of despair on his face.  She "dreamed it for yourself because the truth was too terrible."  She was human once.  She was the one who climbed out of the pod.  She's a genius and the Daleks need genius so they gave her the full conversion.  She stops herself eliminating him.  Fought them many times and disables the forcefield.

Rory and Amy kiss and the Doctor has to teleport them himself, into the TARDIS.  The other Daleks don't recognize him either.  He's the "Oncoming Storm, the Predator.  All they can say is "Doctor Who?"  Over and over.  Oswin wiped their memories too.  Doctor: "You're never gonna stop asking...Dr Who?"

So was this the way to ensure the Daleks will no longer feature in future episodes as they no longer remember him.  So what about Oswin, will she no longer remember him either, though she cunningly or sly looks at the camera when she says he will remember her.

So he does sort the two of them out and get Amy and Rory back together, no longer has the Daleks for enemies and leaves us wondering how Oswin will become his companion.  Not to mention the conundrum of who is "Doctor Who..."  Just thinking out loud, but as the Doctor keeps saying in the past how time can be re-written, don't suppose he'll go back and save Oswin from crashing, thus she will be human, kind of.  Nah that'd be too obvious and easy.

Darla says the Doctor fought in the Time War and then he died.  Nanogenes were in The Empty Child and The Doctor Dances.  In 6.13 The Wedding of River song, the question that must never be answered was "Doctor Who."  Though it doesn't matter how many times it's asked.  The Oncoming Storm, or rather the Doctor being referred to as such was in Remembrance of the Daleks - a novel.

Oswin mentions the wars the Doctor fought with the Daleks, these include: Aridius from The Chase.  Kembal in Mission of the Unknown; Vulcan in Power of the Daleks, Exxilon in The Dalek's Master Plan and spiridon in Planet of the Daleks.

This is the first story about the Daleks which was written by Steven Moffat who wanted to not feature them in the show anymore as people were no longer afraid of them.  Amy and Rory's divorce was alluded to in Part 5 Pond life, a five part mini-series broadcast on the BBC Red Button.

This episode had all the Daleks the Doctor has ever come across, about 25 types, including one which was borrowed from Russel T Davies.  The Dalek's models ranged from 1963-2010.

Had to be lots of references to the Doctor and his looks as in the past, since this is the first time Oswin has met him, but he has been referred to as 'sexy' and gorgeous on many an occasion!

The QVC London Fashion Show A/W 2012

Here's two videos from the QVC Fashion show, warning the sounds not so great so don't put the volume too high!

Misha Collins 'Random Acts Racing'

Misha Collins spoke to the Huffngton Post about his role in season 8 of Supernatural, as well as the upcoming sponsorship by MacDonald Motorsports for his Random Acts Charity at the NASCAR NRA American Warrior 300 race in Atlanta on Saturday September 1. The race will be shown live on ESPN2 at 6:30 p.m. ET.

Misha was ecstatic as this prospect and commented that Random Acts has "never been nearly this studly."  The car's driver will be Jason Bowles and the car is called "Random Acts No 81 Dodge."

As for his Supernatural scenes, he said Castiel is "full of remorse and regret and self loathing...he is beaten and battered and stuck in Purgatory."  Dean (Jensen Ackles) suffered the fate of being tortured in hell and forced to inflict the same onto others, they don't call them tortured souls for nothing you know.  Also Sam (Jared Padalecki) being through the same in the cage, it's now Castiel's turn to be put through the wringer.  Hey some may see that as poetic justice for all the hurtful betrayal and selfish antics he engaged in during season 6.

As for Dean's relationship with Benny (Ty Olsson) Misha said Cas is " a bit jealous of it, as a matter of fact."  Hey does that mean all those jibes made by Crowley (Mark A Sheppard) about Cas and Dean, but especially Cas, having feelings for one another had some truth to it, ha.

Misha said on his Twitter page @mishacollins "Tomorrow @ noon EST I'll be live tweeting (as opposed to my usual prerecorded tweeting) with @JasonBowles--driver of the random acts NASCAR."

Stargate Atlantis 5.15 "Remnants" Review

Teyla (Rachel Luttrell) thinks Woolsey (Robert Picardo) is lonely.  Ronon (Jason Momoa) says he hears him crying which Rodney (David Hewlett) falls for.  He just thinks he's busy.  Woolsey wants to eat alone as he has to prepare a report for the IOA.  Sheppard (Joe Flanigan) flew some scientists to the mainland.  Ronon says he volunteered to stay overnight with them cos one of them is a woman.

Dr Parrish (Jonathon Young) finds a plant.  Sheppard: "God Lorne warned me about this."  Sheppard asks her to join him in the jumper. He is attacked and tied up.

Vanessa (Anna Galvin) asks if she can help Woolsey.  He also has a fruit cup on the tray.  Woolsey tells her, "you can call me Dick." (!) He's attracted to her.  The jumper is wrecked.  Zelenka (David Nykl) came back early, Rodney's bored with him.  He runs a scan on the ocean floor as they haven't explored their planet much.  Rodney thinks it's pointless.

Shen Xiaoyi (Tamlyn Tomita) is sent to evaluate Woolsey and tours Atlantis.  Amelia (Sharon Taylor) is asked about kickboxing and he gets Chuck's (Chuck Campbell) name wrong.  Zelenka hopes something will be named after him for a change if he finds anything.

Shen's here to appoint the chair of the earth's new environmental initiative.  Something is discovered below sea level.  Sheppard encounters the Genii and Kolya (Robert Davi).  Woolsey wants to remain at Atlantis.  His decisions have been compromised and she feels it's time for a change.  Sheppard knows he killed him which was confirmed by Beckett.  He wants to get to Atlantis and send a bomb through the gate but Kolya needs Sheppard's  IDC for that and punches Sheppard.

Vanessa asks if Woolsey wants to see a movie and Woolsey says it hasn't been a good day.  He was only appointed since he was easy to control.  He needs to fight for his place here.  The IOA can't make a decision on his fate cos she has and Shen is getting his job in return.

Sheppard can tolerate plenty cos he was married once.  Kolya says his past failures guide him.  He can't protect Atlantis anymore.  Zelenka thinks Rodney should think of something cos he's brilliant.  He rarely says that as he's a difficult man to compliment, as well as being arrogant and stubborn.  That's what Daniel (Michael Shanks) said.

Sheppard's hand is cut off.  That couldn't have happened cos they just wouldn't do that to him.  Kolya asks what he's running away from?  The device discovered on the ocean floor is emitting some sort of radiation across the data.  Zelekna figures out it's an alien password so it's a computer.  Rodney calls it a prompt.  Woolsey talks to Vanessa and Shen watches him at Woolsey's private area.  He invites Vanessa to dinner.

The device contains records of an extinct civilization.  Rodney: "designed to seed planets with organisms,"  they need to ensure it reaches its target location.  Rodney says they can either take the data or send it away.  Sheppard runs away and Amelia can't locate Vanessa anywhere on Atlantis and she didn't see any woman.  Sheppard puts up a one armed fight.  Jennifer (Jewel Staite) goes over Woolsey's test results.  He's normal. Only Woolsey can see Vanessa.

Rodney is always deep in thought as it keeps him sharp.  He's seen the frequency from the device before.  Vanessa is a physical manifestation and Shen confronts Woolsey about talking to himself.  Woolsey doesn't want the data retrieved as they're robbing them of the chance to rebuild itself.  Shen tells him he can follow procedure and keep his job.

Sheppard goes over the edge of the cliff. Rodney recalls the device induces hallucinations and they should get rid of it.  Kolya tells Sheppard to use his other hand - which is still there.  Years ago their civilization   faced extinction.  Vanessa tells Woolsey the same.  The device malfunctioned and was guided to the nearest planet.  When Rodney pulled the jumper out of the ocean, last ep, the device was activated.  Distracted Sheppard chose this hallucination.  He tortures himself everyday and was manifesting his own darkest fears.  Luthor tells Shen the council doesn't want to replace Woolsey with someone else.  He's staying as the new permanent commander.  Shen says she's no one's puppet. There wasn't a dial out for days and has been no update from earth.

Sheppard can also see Vanessa and Rodney wants to see her too in her true form.  He calls her 'neat.'  Sheppard would've said weird.  Woolsey joins them for dinner and was convinced the manifestations were real.  Sheppard says it was a coincidence the device was found when the AI appeared.  Zelenka isn't here and he wouldn't really have called Rodney a genius, no, cos Rodney doesn't need anyone to tell him that when he already believes it!

Woolsey ended up being an integral leader of Atlantis and made choice decisions regarding Atlantis.  So it comes as no shock the IOA want him removed.  At least he fights to stay and realizes they only wanted him to do the job in the first place as he was considered a puppet.  In 5.13 Inquisition, he had to fight to defend Sheppard and Atlantis, here he has to defend himself and show he's a worthy foe and not just someone who will tow the company line.

Vanessa proves to be a hallucination  at first but is actually real and is there to save her civilization and encourage/convince Woolsey to do the same.  Also Sheppard's scenes seemed far from a hallucination.  He got treated so badly and had a rough time especially with losing his arm like that.  That was really engrossing as well as being gross and cruel; not just for him but for us viewers and Sheppard fans too. Cos if he had really lost his arm, he'd be sent home.  That was strange in a way showing Sheppard carries so many dark thoughts with him, as if has the weight of the world and Atlantis only on his shoulders.

An episode of Stargate Atlantis delving into Star Trek territory, many such hallucinogenic eps in there, especially Enterprise.

As fro Zelenka calling Rodney a genius that'll never happen so knew there was something not right there.  Sheppard killed Kolya in season 3 Irresponsible.  The energy signal Rodney recognized and claims they encountered on MIB-129 was the ep Phantoms from season 2.  From the Wraith device.  Sheppard's line about Dr Parrish and Lorne warning him about the reaction to the plant discovery was from season 2's Runner, where Parrish reacted in the same way to the plant.

The Closer 7.12 "You Have the Right to Remain Jolly" Review

Santa Randy falls from a zipline whilst trying to come down the building.  Gabriel (Corey Reynolds) finds someone tampered with the equipment.  The 'zip experience.'  Provenza (GW Bailey) "according to the elves, I've been waiting to say that my entire life."  Lisa (Ivory Tiffin) was his wife and Carmen (Barbara Costa) was his girlfriend.  Buzz (Phillip P Keene) says "he's not the real Santa."  Buzz's sister Casey (Christine Woods) is in town.  Buzz has already told her about the others as she goes through each of the team.   Sanchez (Raymond Cruz) "threatens people."  Gabriel is the sharp dresser.  Flynn (Anthony Denison) is the cynical toned one and Provenza is grumpy.   Tao (Michael Paul Chan)  has his bag of tricks.  Casey is afraid of bears.

Santa Jack (Fred Willard) runs the village.  Brenda (Kyra Sedgwick) finds Randy and Lisa were having problems.  Outside the elves fight much to the pleasure of Provenza et al.  He doesn't want the fight to be broken up as someone might incriminate themselves.  More like it's a chick fight!  Drugs and cash are revealed in Randy's sack.  Fritz (Jon Tenney) tells Brenda she's meant to be at Gavin's (Mark Pelligrino) office to focus on the Federal lawsuit.  Brenda tells him, "you have the right to remain jolly."  Which is what this episode was meant to be but something was missing from this ep as it wasn't up to the show's much better storylines.  Fritz: "ho, ho, ho."

Gavin says Goldman used the leak in the division to get litigants for the lawsuit.  He goes through the names mentioned in last episode Nick Koslov stabbed teenage prostitutes and was an FBI informant.  Stimple the child molester.  Vasquez the Mexican Federale who was corrupt.  Kyle who killed himself in custody and Philip Stroth whom Brenda has been harassing  since two years.  He receives flowers on 5 May as Brenda says he raped and murdered Jessica.  Gavin is just presenting a milder version of Goldman's case.  He gives them a gift from the firm and tells them their punitive damages could be removed and by the way adds his retainer has gone.  Brenda wants to keep the tree ornament.

Jack, Donna and Randy all signed off on the zipline.  Gabriel can't stop ogling Casey, just like the others.  Randy and Lisa got a business loan to begin their own Christmas village.  Sanchez can't stop staring either.
Donna says she couldn't manage the people Jack hired and knew Randy was a drug dealer.  Flynn brings in Jack egg-nogged to his heart's content and doesn't Mirandize him.  He admits he paid Randy to take his place and take the jump.  Brenda asks if Buzz got the statement on film since it could  be useful, "depending on how much you believe in Santa Claus."

Pope (JK Simmons) walks in with Taylor (Robert Gossett) and asks why they're still here.  Provenza says they're working overtime.  Buzz tells Jack he's "meant to come down the chimney not smoke like one."  He's ruined all of his Christmas memories and he doesn't recognize Buzz either.
Gabriel finds Jack had an insurance policy which guaranteed him the previous year's earnings  if the village was shut down.

Sanchez: "she's hot sir, but she has opinions."  Casey seems to be the opposite of Buzz whereas he's more quieter, she's more talkative and doesn't keep her views to herself.  The 'jaded police officers' are all enamoured of Casey.  Brenda refers to them as "diabetics standing in front of a candy store."  Brenda knows all about candy.  Brenda tells Pope she needs more money and Pope tells her he'll fix it.  Gabriel says the brakes on the zipline were tampered with and he'll be paid $600,000 for shutting down.  Jack tells them about being there when his float caught fire; the health department shut him down after the brownie with botchulism and his mini van brakes gave out.  It could only have been Donna since she's the landlord so she stands to gain.  Brenda realizes someone killed the wrong Santa.

Fritz removes Stroth's stuff from the guest room and she shouldn't hold onto the past as it's also hurting them.  Is it worth rushing their whole future and they should "not freak out in advance," giving Brenda the clue she needs for the case.  Brenda adds that's not right.

She watches Buzz's film and sees Donna on film freaking out before the Santa leaps from the line.  A real estate company offered her money for the land.  Brenda tells her she'll not go for the death penalty if she confesses and she admits she'd try to kill Jack again if she could.

Pope tells Gavin that Brenda being a public servant isn't paid so much and he says he saved the city money in the lawsuit.  Pope tells him he will be seen on TV and this will generate a lot of publicity, as well as being the first resort of any law enforcement officer so Gavin should take on the case pro bono; which he hasn't done before.  He agrees as he likes Brenda.  Gavin also lets slip that Fritz paid for the lawsuit before.

Buzz finds Casey's letter to Santa Jack.  Jack sold the Christmas village to hire a lawyer for Donna and brings champagne.  Another mall will be built which Provenza says typifies Christmas.  Buzz is shocked he sold Christmas.  Casey appears on the weather forecast telling children about monitoring Santa's journey and is glad to go to a cut!

This was the 100th episode of The Closer which received mixed reactions.  I didn't like it as much as the other episodes, though it did contain plenty of Closer humour.  Setting up some storylines for future episodes such as the Federal lawsuit, Brenda finding out Fritz paid for the first retainer and just going over old ground from the last episode in reference to Brenda's past cases.  Not so much ho, ho, ho as ho hum.

Without A Trace 3.11 "4.0" Review

Schoolgirls wait for a bus and Tara’s (Michelle Horn) best friend says she never fails anything in her life.  The girls get on the bus but Tara says she has a dentist’s appointment and disappears.

15 Hours Missing
Her best friend says Tara seemed strange when the bus arrived.  Her mother said she didn’t have an appointment.  They’ve been friends since the 7th grade and she’s sure she didn’t run away.  She doesn’t have a boyfriend.  Jack (Anthony LaPaglia) comments they go to a good school and wants to meet her other friends.

15 Hours Missing
Tara’s mother, Stephanie (Gia Carides) gives Martin (Eric Close) her school directory.  She chose Harvard.  Her father’s dead and she doesn’t have time for a social life as she works 2 jobs.  Tara goes to school on a scholarship.  She’s on the swim team and she spends time alone studying.  Martin comments girls can be into all sorts of stuff.  Three months ago her mother found pills; Tara called them ‘Homework Drugs’ and everybody takes them.  She had her stomach pumped.

16 Hours Missing
Sam (Poppy Montgomery) gets security photos from a  bank near to where Tara went missing.  Danny (Enrique Murciano) finds her file of research papers and Tara has written papers on subjects ranging from philosophy and Hobbes, to Roman architecture and Australopithecus origins.  But she doesn’t have classes in any of these subjects so she’s writing papers for others and making money.  Sam comments she has a 4.0 average.  Danny says pills cost money.

Tara’s swim coach tells Viv (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) he was going to make her the team captain this year but she quit 4 months ago to focus on academic work.  She missed practice but liked to go to the pool because she could think more clearly there.

17 Hours Missing
Jack talks to a fellow student and friend who was suspended for plagerizing a paper.  Tara wrote it for her.  She used to be competitive but now helps others get ‘A’s.  She doesn’t see Tara anymore but she used to charge $10 a page.

Danny finds Tara was sending the papers to ‘NIX 32’ a Ryan Barry, (Brian T Skala) a freshman at Columbia 4 months ago.  He’s the man from the bank photo.

18 Hours Missing
Ryan’s clearing $50,000.  He says he’s not the kidnapper.  Tara owes him papers and the students wanted their money back.  She promised to do them.  She came to see him 4 months ago and wrote the papers only for the money.  She went to a deli on 96th & Amsterdam.

Jack talks to Kate on the phone.  Hannah has a boyfriend now, someone from her class.  Viv says Tara’s mobile phone was found in the bathroom at the deli with a text sent yesterday at 5.30pm.

Her best friend tells Jack she saw Tara last night and gave her a package.  10 minutes before she sent the message Tara called her from a payphone.  She told her she was going away with a a married man to his country house.  She borrowed a dress from her in the package.  Tara saw him at the bus stop but didn’t tell her his name.  Jack tells her she’s only 16 years old, what would she know.  Martin finds the name Luke Jamison (Nathan Anderson) in Tara’s notebook.
Luke Jamison  M.D
1109 Columbus Ave #315
Graduated: NYU Medical School 1995
Sam says that would make him 34.

21 Hours Missing
Luke’s a doctor at a free clinic, he can’t afford a country house.  She was his patient.  She found out she was pregnant 4 months ago.  It was too late for her to abort.  She’s over 8 months so she could go into premature labour.

22 Hours Missing
Jack tells Stephanie.  Martin says she was good at hiding it.  Her mother gave her a poncho last year which she hated but wore it everyday.  Martin thinks she may have taken the pills to miscarry.  Her mother says she would’ve helped her.  8 months ago she was in Andover for Springbreak for a 2 week leadership programme.  She told her mother about being with a boy because she wanted to have some fun.

One of her friend’s recalls the boy’s name was Gavin (Joey Gray) and he attends Keenan Prep.

KEENAN PREP
Gavin tells Danny and Sam he spoke to Tara last night.  She told him she’d taken care of the baby but said she needed his help to have the baby.  He refused.  She threatened to hurt the baby.

Tara called him from Lewis Clawson’s office on the Upper east side, that’s Nell’s (Brooke Nevin) father.  Jack and Martin find bloody towels and blood on the carpet and Nell hiding under the desk.  She tells them Tara was gone when she returned.  Jack tells her if the baby dies she could go to jail and she’s an accessory.  Nell figured out Tara was pregnant in the locker room.  They planned for her to go to Nell’s sister’s in California to have the baby in February, she’s a nurse.  Tara was saving money for the bus ticket.  Her mother would think she’s run away.  Tara would call her and tell her she’s had a breakdown.  She made up the part about the married man.  Tara came to her apartment for clothes and a blanket.  She gave her the key to he office and snuck out at 11.  The baby was born at 5am.  Nell had to cut the cord with the scissors.  Jack made her go to the bus stop and to school when Nell was coming back here.

Viv tells Danny to call the sanitation department to stop them from collecting the trash and ask when it’s picked up.  An ER nurse tells Sam and Viv she saw Tara on the steps but she wouldn’t come in.  When she came back with a blanket Tara was gone.  She must have taken the bus, Sam says downtown to the school.  Viv thinks she wasn’t ready to give up the baby yet.  Sam say she doesn’t have a plan right now.  Viv thinks she’s somewhere warm to decide what to do.

25 Hours Missing
Jack finds Tara at the pool.  She came here to think because it’s quiet.  He says the baby is beautiful.  He had to tell her mother and hold her baby to see if she’s okay.  Tara has a plan but her mother won’t like it.  She’s named her Rose after her grandmother.

Australopithecus means 'of humankind.'  4.0 average happens to be the title of this episode.  Even nice girls get into trouble so this was a warning of teenage pregnancy.  The fact that no matter how times change some things don’t.  Girls in my class at school were getting pregnant at 15, using similar tactics to hide it like they’d go from wearing tight clothes and skirts to baggy jumpers, weeks before exams.  Some even resorting to back street abortions.  Which were botched up.

Funny in her flashback she mentions she goes to the pool to think but nobody thought of looking at the pool after they found out she had the baby.  Also it’s the most obvious place.  Just like season 2 episode  when Martin’s aunt went back to her doctor’s house no one thought it was the most common place to look.  Also Tara had her stomach pumped yet her condition wasn't diagnozed, i.e. that she was pregnant.

Jack: “Already  it’s startin’.”
Viv: “wait 'til she’s 13.”
Jack: “You come in here to depress me.”  Think these are early signs of Hannah playing up, she already doesn’t want to talk to him anymore.  Maybe she’ll run away from home next.
Viv:” OMG…”
Jack: “What’s that?”
Viv: “Oh my God be home 6:30. Nell.”

Jack: “I admire loyalty and friendship but you don’t have that luxury right now.”

Martin: “No wonder she kept it a secret.”  More likely because it was a lie.

Jack wrongly tells them Avagadro’s Theorem: “That matter can be created and destroyed.”  All sorts of matter like a baby.  The student tells him it’s actually equal volumes of different gases contain the same number of molecules.”
Jack: “I knew that.”
Typical male attitude first they get the girl into trouble and then refuse to help.

Jack: “Wanna come out and lie to me some more.”
“Wanna be a good friend start by telling the truth.”

Jack: “Parents…parents no matter how old you get – you’re always their baby…they love you.”  An episode that is more close to home for Jack especially since Hannah will be that old soon and being the father of daughters he’ll have a lot of worrying to do.  Funny how Maria didn’t  ell him Hannah was seeing someone.  Tara names the baby after her grandmother just as Jack named Hannah after his grandmother.

Said Anthony in an interview, “[Gia] loves to remind me of it [this episode] because it was the highest rating episode we had last year.”  Gia being Anthony's wife.

 Song: Little Green Joni Mitchell

CSI:NY Season 9 Premiere Photos

CSI:NY season 9 returns Friday 28 September for lucky US viewers.  The first episode Reignited as revealed in photos shows the CSIs investigating the death of a fire chief.  Which guest stars Rob Morrow (Numb3rs).

Do my eyes deceive me or does that appear to be a new suit sported by Flack (Eddie Cahill).  Sure looks that way and about time he wore matching jacket and pants!  Hey I miss the old suits and ties he used to wear all those seasons ago.  So super smart and sexy!

Danny (Carmine Giovinazzo) stumbles across some evidence which could prove to be hiding some clues. This photo kind of remids me of 7.19 The Untouchable, where newspaper clippings, photos and Mardi Gras decorations led to the mysteries being solved.

Hurry up and get here 2013 so we can watch the new season too!

Supernatural Season 8: Deja Vu Perhaps?

Supernatural season 7 returned for UK viewers only just recently and hate how everyone's talking about season 8 already!  Jealous much?!  Yes quite a lot.  Season 8 is to air Wednesday 3 October at 9 on The CW.

Did a piece on Jared Padalecki and Sam last time round, so this time round it's Jensen Ackles/Dean's turn to a point.  Zap2it states how Dean will return from purgatory and how Benny will affect him, whereas Sam struggles with his relationship with a new chick.  So clearly they will be spending time apart once more and many fans hate that.  Well I'm one of them too.

In actual fact this reminds me of season 6 and how Sam was brought back from the Cage by Castiel (Misha Collins) and he was the one who had to deal with the fallout from being there with Lucifer and Michael both tearing strips off him and more importantly he returned without his soul.  Whereas Dean was the one who had the relationship with Lisa and Ben and all the baggage that entailed.

It was great while it lasted, as long as Sam wasn't around, but when he revealed himself to big bro, things changed and went from good to bad to worse in Dean's lovelife.  Season 8 seems to have reverted back to this, kind of, and Sam is now the one who is with woman, does that sound right?  Ha.  He will have to deal with that and everything it entails.  Whether she will be able to put up with Sam, accept who he is and what he does.

Dean will be in Sam's place, as he was in season 6, as he now returns from Purgatory.  How will he handle this?  It squarely puts both the brothers now having faced similar experiences.  Dean selling his soul to save Sam in the season 2 finale and ending up in hell, with everything he endured, his unwillingness to talk about how he suffered in hell and had to torture souls himself.  This was later transferred to Sam.  He went through the process of being soulless, being ruthless as a result of his actions in the season 5 finale and not wanting to share his feelings.  Again when Dean comes back, he doesn't want to tell Sam everything about purgatory.  Keeping secrets as he did about his time in hell.  Suppose you have to get some sort of a story that way.

Jensen described Dean's time in purgatory as "diet hell."  Yeah well he probably needed one with wolfing down those burgers! ha, Also the scenes of his time in purg will be shown in flashback.
Hopefully it will prove to be different than something we've already seen in the past especially with Jeremy Carver back on the show.  His stories were always enjoyable.

From Inside the Box Zap2it wrote the following about the second episode of season 8:  What's Up Tiger Mommy; here "the Winchesters are invited to a very fancy party.  The event is described as 'an auction of remarkable, unworldly objects d'art' and the bidding will get heated as an ancient monster grows increasingly determined to get what he wants."  An Object d'art of sorts, was seen in season 1's Provenance, well at least Sam's first love interest after Jess aside.  The next time we saw a party was in season 3.6 Red Sky At Morning where they were after the Hand of Glory.

Okay I'm off to continue writing my second Supernatural book...

CSI:Miami 10.6 "By The Book" Review

Calleigh (Emily Procter) and Delko (Adam Rodriguez) are called out on a stormy night, how cliched, to a mansion where they find the DB of a woman suspended upside down from a chandelier.  She's devoid of all blood and Delko notices the two bitemarks on her neck.  Calleigh: "I hate Hallowe'en."  Due to the absence of blood, Calleigh thinks she had to have been killed elsewhere, since it's easy to drain a body of human blood only when the heart isn't beating.  The human body contains 8 pints of blood (which was rattled off a few times and twice by Calleigh alone.)

Horatio (David Caruso) says they need to find the killer before he "kills again."  ME Tom (Christian Clemenson) notices a tingly sensation in his hands after removing the ferry pass from her pocket.  Walter (Omar Miller) says only guests who are on an exclusive list are invited.   Ryan (Jonathan Togo) takes his phone and IDs her as Andrea (Aria Pullman).  ME Tom isn't wearing any gloves, shouldn't he have been wearing some before touching the DB.  Ryan notices a dead mice smell and ME Tom says that's the smell of hemlock.  They've been trained to detect such smells.  Ryan forgets to thank ME Tom as usual when he finds her ferry pass.  ME Tom can always be relied upon to provide the laughs in an episode whenever it's usually needed.

Walter and Ryan find the plant outside in the garden and claim they need to speak with the gardener.  Lo and behold, said gardener appears with some logs.  Kenny (Michael Ray Escamilla) says he was chopping wood since they have to keep the mansion in working order cos they never know when Marilyn or other guests might arrive.  He leaves since they have no probable cause to hold him.  ME Tom becomes obsessive about washing his hands.

Delko and Calleigh find a letter at the mansion which is written in an unknown language.  Hey anyone can tell that letter was written in blood.  Slow on the uptake these two, how long have they been CSIs?  A search on the Internet reveals the writing was the creation of vampire author Marilyn Milner (Diane Farr).  (Suspiciously akin to Anne Rice or the Twilight saga if you're into that.)  The letter was signed by "your eternal disciple" and states he will drink the blood of  a virgin in her honour.  Going out on a limb here, were Tripp (Rex Linn) and Horatio assuming Andrea was a virgin, ha.  In the flash, when they show the letter being written, no gloves are worn so strange they don't find any prints on the letter.

Calleigh takes it to Natalia (Eva La Rue) for analysis since she can't take it to QD.  A DNA result matches to Wes (Chad Todhunter).  Cue Calleigh conveniently running after him (ugh - gasp- in flat shoes - yeah cos she really has those on in the mansion and psychically knew she'd be involved in a chase!).  Wes tackles her to the ground and bites her wrist, before Horatio pulls a gun on him.  He makes a run for it and climbs the tree.  Horatio shoots the branch and Wes threatens to sue.  Horatio tells him to "be my guest."

He found Andrea dead already and was going to drink her blood, but she didn't have any.  Marilyn took a flight but is missing.  Delko asks ME Tom to find the puncture wound on the DB and he thinks he should wash his hands again.  Delko then notices some trace in her hair.  Travers (Christopher Redman) identifies this as from a de-corked bottle.  He's also an expert in wines.

The chef Lawrence Kingman (Orlando Jones) is brought in for questioning and he's the anonymous 911 caller.  He checked her for a pulse when he found her and left the trace behind.  He also has a wine stain on his sleeve.  He was my suspect, cos he had access to the wine but how can a chef be so sloppy with his whites.  He'd be fired for that!  The editor, Joseph Crumbaugh (Jonathon Schaech) told him to leave.  He says he wasn't there but Horatio notices the photo of his boat.  He was with Andrea but left and was having an affair with her.

Walter and Natalia check out his boat, #1 Best Cellar (hey a clue, re wine.)  Here they find Kenny and Kingman.  They're ghostwriters and wrote the books for Marilyn, having just finished their third.  Natalia finds Andrea's laptop with an e-mail to Joseph blackmailing him, otherwise she'd reveal all.  He was going to pay her off but found her DB and left with the manuscript.  Tripp recovers this from the publisher and becomes engrossed in it in the lift and Walter has to take him out.  Walter, Calleigh and Natalia take it apart to analyze for clues.

The story is identical to real life events but there's no ending.  The DB in the book had a puncture mark between her toes where the blood was removed.  Ryan checks the satellite of the island and finds another structure there.  As he and Walter head to check it out, they find a Phantom Rolls Royce which turns out to be the original CS.  Joseph's phone is used to find Marilyn and she tells them the Epilogue will reveal the ending, but it's only available on the audio version.  This leads to a part about a goblet and drinking blood as wine.  Thus leading to the wine collection, only the bottles contain Andrea's blood.  One of them has Kingman's fingerprint.  He claims he was the real writer and she stole his work without giving him credit for it.  He gave her a chance to admit it but she wouldn't, so he drained her of her blood.  Horatio adds he left some behind.

That leaves the unsolved question of the hemlock and so it had to have gotten into her body through her skin.  Calleigh finds some in a perfume bottle from Milan and who has just come from there, Marilyn.  She knew of the blackmail and knew she would continue asking for more money.  The irony came at the end when both the killers pass each other by when arrested and Marilyn doesn't even know he wrote the books for her!  Some would call that poetic justice since he still didn't get his recognition after all that.  Marilyn also says she can write about books in prison and has ridden with police before as part of her research.  So?

Calleigh saying she hates Hallowe'en again.  Clearly this was CSI:Miami's Hallowe'en ep.  Calleigh letting herself get bitten and no one mentions it.  She kept that to herself.  Hey didn't she want to get checked out.  Ryan and his "never forget the smell of dead mice" cos he had a rat trap by the fridge when he was in college. Some more insight into his character though it came a little late in the proceedings as far as the show was concerned.  Walter calling ME Tom : "butter fingers" when he drops the board.  Yeah he can be that and do his job, ha.  Some great laughs even if the storyline wasn't up to par.

Diane Farr playing another killer of late, she was also one in last season's Mentalist.

Tripp becoming a fan of vampire books.  But why was Kingman so stupid enough to base the killings on a MSS (manuscript) that was yet to be published.  How could the so called 'crazed fan' he was hoping to pin the murder on, have known about the story?!  Only in CSI:Miami, where the criminals are dumb and or give themselves away!  Was the Crumbaugh name meant to be a Bart Simpson in-joke?  Aye crumba. Ha.

I still love the Sanguine Love ep of CSI:NY, written by Carmine Giovinazzo (Danny).  One of my fave vampire eps ever and so is Carmine.  Not a vampire of course! But excellent writer and actor.