CSI 15.5 "Girls Gone Wilder" Review

                                                   
Once again the women of CSI are the forefront of the ep. this time they attend a CSI conference at a hotel.  With Finn (Elisabeth Shue) having arranged dinner for them at an exclusive restaurant with dancing.  Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) can't wait for the massage and Finn orders champagne before 9am, so she asks for orange juice with it when Sara (Jorga Fox) points that out.  Finn's also meeting someone she knew from the past, Mark (Michael Landes) and she walks off with him.  She's okay this time round she says as she's known him for years. They also talk of how Morgan hasn't met anyone, but Finn's fine with the whole, 'not too serious' part of meeting men.  Whereas Sara says it's nice to meet someone and get close to them, obviously reminiscing about her marriage to Grissom, even if it was shortlived.

Greg (Eric Szmanda) bemoans not being able to attend the conference and DB (Ted Danson) tells him they're boring where nothing much happens.  They're working on a case where a DB's remains were found in a barrel of acid, which DB terms "gloop."  He's identified as a security guard from the same hotel where the conference is taking place.  As the girls relax by the pool, a sniper watches them with a rifle trained at people by the pool.

Sara meets Dr Jane Snyder (Gillian Vigman) well bumps into and Sara doesn't like her and is even more unhappy when Morgan tells her she's arranged for them to attend her seminar.  Jane being one of those former CSIs who's now all about the fame and fortune.  Snide by name and nature!  Ha. When they attend the seminar, Jane makes a big entrance with strobing lights and men who are strippers.  As soon as she gets to the stage, the same gunman enters and starts shooting up the place with everyone diving for cover.  Morgan's friend, next to her dies, as Morgan tries frantically to save her and Sara has to tell her to let go cos she's gone.  As well as noticing the gunman had long hair and was carrying an assault rifle.   Sara tries to call Finn to warn her, but she's too busy with Mark and doesn't answer the phone.  As they're flirting, the lift door opens and the gunman shoots inside with Mark trying to close the doors, he's shot.  Soon the power goes out in the lift, as the gunman makes his way shooting up the hotel.  Finn tries to help him with his wound to help stop the bleeding.  She learnt first aid and wad wished she had finished her medical training, but she met a CSI and became interested in fingerprinting, becoming a CSI instead.

SWAT arrives and clears the conference room, as well as searching through the hotel.  They come across a man who kneels over a DB saying he's not the shooter, but was helping him.  DB tells SWAT to let him go since the shooter had long hair.  That was very amateurish of him, cos yeah although Sara's got a good eye being a trained observer he didn't really know what was happening, so it was better tot hold whoever they could.  He's still got the Gig Harbour Killer on his brain, cos obviously he wasn't thinking about the task at hand.  Though he wasn't mentioned this ep.

Greg wants to help but DB tells him to help with their case, so they can see if he's linked to the shooter, that way they can see who he is too.  The security guard's keypass was stolen from him and his wife reported him missing three days ago.  The security guard's missing van is found and Greg collects a used tissue from the van, as well as using superglue to print the entire van inside.  He gives the tissue to Hodges (Wallace Langham) to run for DNA since it could be the killer's and his wife said her husband was the only one who used the van.  Greg also finds a hooded man on the CCTV from the garage where the guard parked his van and notices that he didn't walk past it, but broke in and waited for him.  Doc (Robert David Hall) removes the bullet from the guard's remains and it matches the rifle.  Saying those are so high powered and can shoot 700 rounds per minute, that they're for war zones and they should only be used there.  DB says that he killed the guard and at the warehouse, he poured muriatic acid over him to decompose the body.  That means the two cases are linked.  Notice DB used the older name for hydrochloric acid.

Hodges and Morgan use Mark's new software which allows them to specifically retrieve footage from a specified timeline on the photo and Hodges manages to stop the photo on one of Morgan showing panic.  Then zooming in they see the shooter's face.  DB has a warrant for the shooter's phone to be tracked, who is identified as Jeff Lasky (Tor Brown) and it gives them his location.  Obviously he wasn't going to come with them and is shot.  Sara is told of this and she recalls his name.  His wife and daughter were raped and murdered and the killer was set free on a technicality.  She heads straight for Jane spitting blood, telling her this is all her fault and she was the intended target.  She denies any responsibility and says she was doing her job and rooting out the CSI who didn't do his job.  Sara responds by saying it was a typo and the killer got out on a simple technicality.  Sara then receives a text telling her of the DB on the 18th floor.  She goes to it process it and another shooter hides there with a gun.

Greg tries to find a connection between Lasky and the Vics, since he wasn't randomly picking off targets, but focusing on certain people.  As DB earlier told Ecklie (Marc Vann) that the shooter didn't go to every conference room but stopped at their one and also why shoot at Fin then, other than the fact he could've been identified, but there were others around who could've done the same.  Greg searches to see if the people were all from the same lab and he finds that they were CSIs who were assigned to doublecheck the evidence of another CSI named Cliff Ballard (Hugh Scott) from the Baltimore lab whose convictions were called into question.  Greg goes through and finds the dead people were CSIs and then comes across Sara's photo too.  DB also notices one of the men was the dead man Ballard was kneeling over when SWAT let him go.  Sara's phone rings and she gets a call saying she got a text but he sneaks up behind her.  She tells him it wasn't personal and tries to talk him down, but he puts a gun to her, until she hears a gunshot, SWAT to her rescue.

Mark dies as Finn tells him about U2 and having been to Ireland and the power is restored, with the paramedics arriving in time to save him.  She wants him to buy her dinner cos she saved his life. Then wants to 'hang' with him, like a date.  He replies that could get serious and she's willing to give it a go.

Finally CSI comes up with an ep where there's actually some excitement from the tediousness of the past few episodes they've shown so far.  Once again the girls get into turmoil and this time it's not of Finn's making, though why she didn't pick the phone up is beyond me when she was in the lift.  But then again, that's Finn, she's always thinking of herself and more importantly what she's going to be doing with flavour of the month this time (or week even, ha!)  It was clearly gruelling for Morgan as she finds she has to go through the whole being in danger thing again and it was good to see Hodges be there for her again and to sympathize with her, especially when he tells her how worried he was.

Good scene where DB and Greg were trying to determine how the shooters were related, finding they weren't, but they just happened to pick this conference cos all law enforcement would be there and that both had a beef with them. What's that then, happenstance?

Also with Ecklie thanking DB for pulling Morgan out of there.  Which he was right t do cos it didn't look like Morgan could handle being there. Touching moment with her and Sara at the end when she's trying to clean the blood from her fingernails and Sara hands her some hydrogen peroxide to do so, Morgan remarking how they always wear gloves and arrive at the CS afterwards, not be there during the potential CS.

Sara suggests they go for dancing and tequila at the restaurant since their bookings are still valid, with Morgan deciding she could use the tequila.  Finally giving in and having to hug Sara.  Again showing how good friends they've become over the years and their support for one another.  A bit of a morbid moment when Hodges tells DB how he's got his entire funeral planned out, finally being buried next to his mother in their marble mausoleum.  DB hasn't thought of it, but he's thinking being cremated and scattered on a farm where he can do some good!
No Nick or Henry again this week.

The Mentalist 7.2 "The Greybar Hotel" Review

                                                 
A couple steal a car from the valet outside a building and the woman, Marie (Brit Morgan) drives it away, police give chase and she's caught.  Her boyfriend, Cole (Val Lauren) gets home and finds she's been arrested.  Marie doesn't give him up and Abbot (Rockmond Dunbar) threatens her and is charging her with being a co-conspirator if she doesn't tell them where he is.  Cho (Tim Kang) and Abbot agree to go to Plan B.  Lisbon (Robin Tunney) will go undercover in the prison to find out Cole's whereabouts from her.  Patrick (Simon Baker) gives Lisbon a few pointers: to tell only one big lie and then the other ones will follow from it.  Also that she's ticklish, which she denies and he tells her to wear flip flops in the shower, so she doesn't slip and will look less attractive too.

Patrick ponders the map and says that Marie was driving in a  zig zag pattern to put them off the trail, when she actually should've been heading in a different direction, meaning she should've been heading towards the industrial area of Houston with abandoned warehouses, where stolen cars could easily have been kept.  Abbot reassures Patrick they'll get Lisbon back okay.

Lisbon tells Marie she wants the upper bunk cos she gets claustrophobic and she asks her if she wants to challenge her for it.  Lisbon gives up and takes the bottom.  Also helping Marie stay out of trouble when another prisoner picks a fight with her when it comes to using the phone.  She didn't want Lisbon's help.  Lisbon tells Patrick she hasn't gotten anything out of her when he comes to see her and he says they need to get Cole to come to them cos he's still here, as his accomplice tells them.

Lisbon tells her about Patty being her boyfriend, how they knew each other for years but only got together now cos she wouldn't let herself believe that she loved him.  Marie says the same thing about Cole.  Marie sees Patrick with Lisbon when he comes to visit her, hatching up this plan of escape, he says they should instigate the plan, but she'll need someone on the other side to get them away. She wants to leave Texas and get to Florida, that's where Patrick is.  Lisbon tells her that the DA is charging her and she's going away cos it's her third strike, after Abbot tells her they're sending her to a max security prison, where she's kept in the cell for 23 hours.  She doesn't want that and tells Lisbon as she breaks into things, so she can break out.  Lisbon replies it's harder than it looks.

Wylie (Joe Adler) tells Vega (Josie Loren) to put Patty's tea cup back and to wash it, she drinks from it and he tells her to do the same again.  She and Wylie listen to phonecalls and  he tells her he used to date a prisoner called Big Val.  Marie calls Cole and tells him of the escape, but not in so many words.  Patrick co-ordinates the escape, Lisbon needs to take a bucket with a hole and use it to prop open a door, then remove the plug so the water leaks out.  The water will eventually cause the bucket to get lighter and will move causing the door to shut.  They then get into the guard's room, take the tool to break open the employee lockers and walk out with the canteen staff.  Which was easy, those guards can't check IDs, lazy.  Hendricks waits for them and the they stop at a gas station for food.  Cole walks in and decides to take Tom Kiesche) Lisbon with them, then shoots the shop assistant out of fun.  As Lisbon tries to write a note for him.  Cole tells them they're taking a helicopter out of there.

Abbot and Cho having lost Lisbon when they change cars in a parking garage, so the helicopter can't follow her either.  Patrick decides to go and search for her himself and arrives at the station, where he sees her bootprint Lisbon left in the man's blood, pointing to the right direction and also finds her unfinished note.  He takes bottles with him to leave as a trail on the road and arrives just as Lisbon is rumbled.  He sets up a mirror in the trees, pretending they're surrounded by FBI snipers.  Cole doesn't fall for it and shoots the mirror.  Just as she's about to shoot, the FBI arrive.  The CIA want info from Cole cos he's in league with international smugglers, including terrorists which he agrees to but the only deal Cho gives him is not facing the death penalty for shooting the assistant for nothing.  He even doesn't care about Marie when he tells her she won't be charged for the killing.

This episode reminded me of an NCIS episode 2.10 Chained, when Tony (Michael Weatherly) went undercover and then had to break out with the other prisoners, having to be found by the team.  Still it made a change from the normal eps when it's Patty's turn now to be worried about Lisbon.  Patrick noticing Abbot changed his cologne as he's having dinner with his wife, who's going for a DC promotion.  As well as pinpointing the location of the warehouse and saying, he's not going to do everything for them!! Classic Patrick at his best.  But the best moment of this ep was Patrick actually putting himself in danger to save Lisbon, whereas in the past he ensured he wasn't in the firing line, ever!  Leaving them to do the dangerous stuff.

Vega wanting to work with Cho to get some pointers, cos he's not 'crazy,' which he'll think over.  She seems like a loose end they didn't need, just to give Wylie and Cho some interaction.  Britt Morgan was in True Blood and also in an ep of Ghost Adventures, The Glen Tavern Inn from 2013.

Revenge 4.7 "Ambush" Review

                                          
Victoria is shown lying on the ground.

20 hours earlier

Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) is in bed with David (James Tupper) as Emily (Emily VanCamp) breaks into the beach house and retrieves a knife and the key.  She needs to find out where he's been all these years and what he's been hiding. She wants Nolan (Gabriel Mann) to find out where the key belongs. Margaux (Karinne Vanasse) thinks that Nolan being humiliated like that was an added bonus.  Daniel (Josh Bowman) warns Margaux to steer clear of Louise (Elena Satine) as they're playing tennis again. He tells her she's unstable and really he also doesn't want her finding out he slept with Louise.

Jack (Nick Wechsler) tells Emily about the prison guard who beat up David and how they found the symbol in his garage.  Emily needs to tell him what's happening.  Ben (Brian Hallisay) walks in and tells Jack not to make personal calls, why is it that when they're on the phone they have to say the name of the person they're speaking to.  I don't do that!  David talks to Jack and wanted to apologize and how he gave her a good life and he's grateful for it.  Jack says he should apologize to Nolan cos he was there for her and was her best friend, they were really close.  He should've gone to Jack first. That's why she asked him to officiate their wedding and he wants to know who else Amanda was close to.

Daniel asks Victoria why she didn't tell him about Emily and who she really was cos Charlotte did. He doesn't want to be caught in the middle of their feud and when David finds out Victoria betrayed him.  She replies Emily will drag Daniel down cos when the truth comes out that's what she'll do.   Emily tells David as he turn sup on her doorstep about Amanda and how Victoria threw her a baby shower and she fell from the balcony, but they don't know what happened.  Emily tells Nolan she doesn't know who he is and how he lied to her face and didn't even recognize her.  She recalls him but he doesn't even recall one memory of her.

Victoria says she helped Amanda given her hard life and he replies he was rash in making Nolan take the blame.  Why didn't Victoria help her cos she had money, but she blames Conrad and his associates and how they were watching her.  She didn't want to endanger Amanda and the fall was an accident.  Her friends from work will say the same.  So naturally Victoria rushes over to a friend of hers and takes jewellery out of a stone statue of a horse of hers. Also saying she brought the lion's share. I wanted that chair.  Of course she bribes Amanda's friend, Crystal (Hannah Leder) when she lies to David about what happened at the baby shower, saying it was an accident and she should've been able to control herself in those heels cos of their work.

Louise locks Margaux into the steam room, when she gets a 'visit' from her mother, Penelope (Carolyn Hennessy).  Of course her mother isn't really there.  Look it's Sharon Osbourne.  Showing Louse is clearly screwy!  Margaux manages to get out of there by breaking the glass.  Well if that steam room scene ain't a ploy straight from Charlie's Angels, the original series.  She accuses the owner, Charles Dawson (Charles Shaughnessy) of running a shoddy place.  Nolan says he wasn't in   the mood for humiliation on live TV as she says she's not in the mood either and she didn't know David would do that, no, but she lapped it up.  "Looks like karma found you first and you know what say, karma's a bitch!"  The only way anyone can lock the door is using a tiny pin.  Which puts her onto Louise's radar.

Loved the scene where Daniel put a clanger in the works when Emily's got seven minutes to get into the bank vault, when Nolan disrupts the camera feed and hacks into the bank, otherwise the back up system ovverides it.  However Daniel decides to confront her in the lift and they talk about how he got someone to track her down, cos Emily tells him he's not good enough to do it on his own.  He disables the lift and he'll tell everyone her secret, which Charlotte told him, who is also his little sister and that makes everything weird.  He's not into 'crushing' her this day, not his style anymore.  He doesn't want to be caught in the crossfire when everything comes out.  He's trying to keep apart from his family's sins and she should be aware of what that means.  The power goes off in the lift and Emily tries to get out of the top.

Jack comments they'll do each other's hair next and have a sleepover when Ben asks how things are going with Emily.  They find the DB days after Emily and Charlotte left him there and also clippings about Conrad's killing and the knife that was used to kill Conrad.  So did Emily plant that there or was it already there.  There were many ways why she could've infiltrated his family Daniel tells her but she went through him.  The biggest lie was her name, her being pregnant and then other lies within that.  The wine auction and he asks what her ulterior motive was there.  He asks if any of it was real, but she can't think of anything.  The proposal, wasn't real.  He undid his own life himself. There was a time when they could have had a real relationship but he aligned himself with Conrad. Something real  is when she used his shoulder for leverage to get out of there.  Margaux tells him about Louise.

It's amazing David couldn't see through the lies Crystal told him, especially since he's been telling so many of his own and she told her everything about Victoria this and Victoria that, for someone who's adept in telling lies himself.  Daniel confronts Louise about the steam room and he wants her to stay away from her.  She thinks he's jealous.  She's too busy putting Victoria's head over her mother's picture!  Nolan turns up and he tells him she saw him on the news and he should come onto her yacht, but not with the storm he tells her.  She's got a jet and can fly to the Bahamas with him, he adds, "so do I!"  Loved that line.  Before leaving she adds he's got something that they haven't, he can do anything he wants.

Jack calls Emily again and tells her about the DB they found at the apartment.  Emily finds photos of Amanda on the flashdrive from the safety deposit box showing that David had been watching Amanda for a long time. Nolan buys the yacht club cos he was more at peace here than anywhere else.  Emily can't stand it anymore and confronts David, telling him he should've been there for her. If he came for her she would've known.  "You could've come for me but you didn't."  He's just a coward.
Victoria and those earrings he gave her, which she was saving for him and the good times.

The scene with Emily and Daniel was really rather good and funny too, as it was reminiscent of past episodes when they were together and for a second when you though that Emily really did have some feelings for Daniel, until he destroyed them.  But he seemed to enjoy their banter too in the lift and if they get back together, a really big if, it wouldn't really be a bad thing at all now would it!  ha.  But seriously, he's not going to be with Margaux especially when she finds out he slept with Louise and lied to her.  That's the leverage Louise has over him and why he's not willing to sever ties with her. Margaux throwing the drink on him!  Margaux calling him, "incroyable" en Francais!  (Meaning, incredible!  Ha Well that could've gone to his head and he could've taken that the wrong way!)  So you see Emily and Daniel should happen.  Cos don't really want to see her with Ben or anyone like him.  He looks a bit shifty at times, no seriously always getting into everyone's face and business, job hazards aside!

Emily finally tells David who she is and it takes the tattoo one her wrist for him to believe her but then Victoria messes it all up by getting electrocuted by the powerline.  Was it really the powerline or was it Louise, my money's on her cos there was just more than coincidence that that particular line just had to fall on her car and notice the flower on the bonnet, and where was she going anyway? Making a run for it?

Mr Selfridge Series 3 Episode 4 Review

                                            
Kitty (Amy Beth Hayes) is taken to the hospital after her attack and she asks for Frank (Samuel West) well won't Frank be in for it when she finds out he got those men drunk and at Victor's (Trystane Gravelle) club too.  She has bruises and cuts to her face which the doctor says will heal and they haven't given her a mirror to look at.  Kitty storms off to get those men to pay but Frank stops her, for now, probably hoping she changes her mind and doesn't go through with it, thus saving himself.  She talks to police Inspector Johnson (Simon Chandler) telling him what happened and giving them descriptions of Charlie and Silas.  Frank takes her hand to console her but lets go when she mentions she was attacked by military men who hang around outside the store selling cigarettes, then lets go of her hand.  She hates to think what would've happened if Harry (Jeremy Piven) hadn't come along.

The police say witnesses saw some drunken men by Victor's club and pay him a visit, but he says he does things by the book and wouldn't serve drinks before 6pm.  Of course Elsa (Naomi Ryan) finally tells him that Frank was here with those men and got them drinks.  Neglecting to mention she served him and got paid for her troubles.  Perkuss (Rocky Marshall) feigns meeting Victor for the first time now.  He later threatens Victor when he tells him he's doing things by the book now and he won't be paying him anymore "blood money."  Since he's had enough of it by now. Purkiss is adamant it's not over until he finishes it.  Appropriate name, Purkiss, he's getting the 'perks' from his job!  ha.

Agnes (Aisling Loftus) still worries about Henri (Gregory Fitoussi) and he still hasn't come home. Henri stands at the bridge and wants to end it all, but manages to find Harry and talk witt him.  He fells guilty and responsible for his men dying and how he couldn't even get them water, but also that he survived, only eight of them survived, so he's suffering from survivor's guilt too.  Harry replies he should talk to Agnes about ii cos she's there for him and needs to know, but he can't cos he heard her talking to Miss Mardle (Amanda Abbington) about him and she's afraid of him.  After what he did at the store window he's ashamed and doesn't know what he might do to her.

At the store they talk about the man who took hold of Doris's (Lauren Crace) hand and how they need security men to mingle with the crowds and look out for anything suspicious.  With the shop girls going a bit over the top when talking about Kitty's attack and how all the servicemen are not right in their heads, in front of Agnes.  Grove (Tom Goodman-Hill) doesn't know about the incident with Doris and later Doris storms in demanding Miss Mardle should keep out of her marriage.  Miss Mardle mentions the business about the man with Doris to grove and he says it was a misunderstanding.  He mistook her for someone else!  Of course that's not right at all, is Doris really having an affair, or is it just some acquaintance or family member, but then she wouldn't have been so vocal over telling Miss Mardle to keep out of her marriage if it wasn't something more secretive.

Grove and Crabb (Ron Cook) bet on the men being rumbled as security before the afternoon and Crabb wins the bet since the men act suspiciously, first with Crabb's wife, Mildred, as she tries on hats and then when he watches one of the customers in the fashion department where Connie (Sacha Parkinson) calls him out on being a pervert.  Well she could've been more discreet about it, though that's not a strong point of hers.  Crabb suggests maybe they should women instead and the loading bay women would be strong enough to handle unruly customers and will take it up with.

Harry thanks Nancy (Kelly Adams) for helping out with Kitty when tells him she nursed during the war.  He's enamoured with her and they go for dinner of mutton stew.  The next day Harry makes  a pass at her when they discuss architects and she says he shouldn't settle for the first woman who comes along.  He thinks she's brave and courageous and all the things that Rose was (my thoughts, as he didn't actually compare her to Rose.)

Violette (Hannah Tointon) turns up at the club and dances with Victor and then they kiss passionately, after Victor first rejects her advances, like not kissing her when she closes her eyes and he tells her he could kiss her.  George (Calum Callaghan) catches them together.  As does Gordon (Greg Austin) later on when he asks Miss Calthorpe (Amy Morgan) out for dinner.  She doesn't want to join them but he sees her with Victor, as well as Miss Calthorpe saying she didn't know his sister would be here.  Loxley (Aidan McArdle) turns down Serge's (Leon Ockenden) aerodrome and plane project telling him he was just using him to make Harry bid higher for the plot, well, Serge finally works it out.  He comes home drunk with Rosalie (Kara Tointon) waiting up for him and wants nothing to do with her.

Lois (Kika Markham) asks how long the Princess's (Zoe Wanamaker) flat will take to be completed and she doesn't know how long builders take, Lois also adding that Harry continues to pay her hotel bill.  Though Lois hasn't done anything about that yet and why doesn't Harry know or done anything about it too, if it's coming out of his finances.  The Princess finds out Serge's been gambling too and needs £80 but neither of them have it.  She was going to ask him for money.  He won't beg from his wife, but the Princess isn't above begging.  Hinting at his troubles to Rosalie and how his pride won't let him get the money.  Serge tears up his plans for his plane but the Princess stops him from doing so saying they have the blood of such and such a Count in them, yes but no money!

Agnes finds Henri in the park and he tells her what happened to him, he sees his men more clearly than he sees her and as if they were real but she won't give up on him. She tells Harry she's resigning cos she needs to get him better and be with him but they can't do that in London.  Harry doesn't want her to leave, but she thanks him for everything he did for her, especially after she sold him those pair of gloves, back in Series 1.  She worked up to this, but she says it was cos of him.  Harry thinks of her as his daughter and will be losing his best friend.  Agnes and Henri leave for his home, as he speaks of the house with the white shutters and endless desolate beaches.  He wants to take her there and recognizes the sacrifice she will make for him by leaving.  Which can't be said of Serge.  As Rosalie pays his gambling debt and runs into Loxley telling her Serge should be ashamed of his wife paying off his debt, meaning he can't really love her.  Knowing Serge's just a playboy.  Rosalie adding only a loving wife would do so.  And telling him to stay away from him and her family.  Well that's one in the eye for Loxley when she made that loving wife remark, cos Lady Mae didn't want anything to do with him.  Yeah, can just imagine her paying off his debt!  Ha.  On second thoughts, don't.

Frank and Victor come clean to the inspector about the two men, only after Victor tells Frank there's been talk of what happened and he's not sure if they are the same men.  Kitty is angry at Frank for not being honest with her and he says he panicked, whilst also overhearing him say that he could go to prison for buying them the drinks, as well as Victor losing his club.  The inspector doesn't know what he's going to do about them, but they have to find the men first.  Which they do with Kitty's help who identifies them.  Kitty wants to be alone.

Harry can deny his feelings no more and he races to Nancy to confess his attraction to her and how she turns down men making a pass at her and that's why she's alone.  They kiss and well, that's Harry over Rose then, he didn't waste any time in doing that.  Also it seems that Rose's studio was given to Serge after all for his study.  Seems like everyone's getting in on the love business now! Ha.  Except Kitty and with Violette it seems she's only lusting after Victor, as the first man who's come along and paid her any attention and also to defy Harry and act out.  Well, so much for Nancy only being billed as being in three eps.

CSI 15.4 "The Book Of Shadows" Review

                                                
A boy, Mason (Nathan Gamble) films himself and some of his school 'friends' and one of them, a girl, Hannah (Bella Thorne) who lives next door to him, is really mean to him.  With another boy, Turk (Taylor John Smith) asking if he'll help him with some work.  Also a man comes out of the back after an explosion, on fire, being referred to as the burning man.  The janitor, Ed (Skipp Sudduth) tries to douse the flames but it's too late.  David (David Berman) tells Greg (Eric Szmanda) that the man was a chemistry teacher but he was too far gone to be saved. Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) has already checked out the lab, suited in a 'bunny' suit as Greg calls it and it's okay to go in, so eh doesn't have to wear one, but he refuses to carry her case for her.  Mason and his mother, Rebecca Brewer (Myndy Crist) who is a teacher there, are brought in for questioning since he sent the teacher a text, saying that he'd "better do the right thing or there'll be consequences."  He says he didn't want to harm him, but just threatened him cos he wanted his grade changed to an 'A' and wanted to do well for his mother.  Obviously this ep left little to the imagination, cos although Mason's mother, vehemently objected to Mason being innocent, she infact was my main suspect.  Of course my motive wasn't clear at this point, but it did have something to do with Mason, only this time it wasn't his grade and he also says he had been sick.

Doc (Robert David Hall) carries out the exam on the DB, Chet Messner (Mark Chadwick) and tells Finn (Elisabeth Shue) who's back from Seattle, but we don't get any mention of what she found there, or didn't find there.  He found Chet was formerly part of a gang, similar to a Neo Nazi biker gang. He also finds evidence of cyanide poisoning, which explains Hodges' (Wallace Langham) message to Finn, about the nose knowing all before the nose knows, or along those lines. But hey it's pretty similar to what I used to say about the 'nose knows!'  A while back! Ha.  Doc explains Hodges' nose is able to detect cyanide just by smelling it.

Moran and Greg check out the lab and Greg thinks his prep for an experiment probably went wrong, but Morgan's deciphering her own theory.  She thinks he was doing the Gummy Bears experiment where phosphorus is burned and a bear added to the tube cos the sugar makes an explosion like a Roman candle effect, but it isn't supposed to blow up.  He was working on a controlled experiment so it shouldn't have happened.

Nick (George Eads) finds DB (Ted Danson) still looking over the pics of the Gig Harbour Killer and tells him he thinks Chet was probably making meth cos he had a shipment of red phosphorous delivered to his home.  Officer Mitchell (Larry Mitchell) clears the house and Nick and Crawford (Alimi Ballard) check out the barn which is sprawled with pentagrams and other paraphernalia, which Nick thinks is used for devil worshipping.  Crawford doesn't think so and he finds a spell was carried out using a cauldron at a ceremonial alter, similar to another case.  Nick later returns there with DB to check for evidence and there's a hair inside the cauldron.  They take samples from the candle of a print, and blood, as well as some of the phosphorous.  Nick again remarking on the star.  DB tells him it's nothing to do with devil worship, but more to do with Wiccans, as he finds a Book of Shadows. Chet was a witch.  DB mentioning his parents knew a Wiccan which is why he knows so much about it.

Hodges wears a robe and tells them he's worked out that the spell was a banishment spell and he's a bit of a Wiccan himself, or at least he dated a girl who was one, but wasn't too big on bathing! Saying that Chet was the target so they're looking for a new witch, taken over from him.  There are four other witches part of the coven, only two of them have alibis.  The others are Brewer and Meadows Marissa Jaret Winokur).  As well as the janitor.  He tells them this way of life saved him cos he was addicted to cards after he arrived here and it cleaned him out.  He doesn't tell them who else is in the coven, as doesn't Brewer.  Who is the newest member of the group.

Morgan mentions that the first rule of "being in the coven club is don't mention who's in the coven." Greg has been analyzing Chet's records and finds that he's been giving out steroids, or rather selling them.  He's used a silly system of keeping tabs on the names, such as QB for Quarterback, referring to Turk.  Nick and Crawford head to talk to him at the pool, but Crawford's found him floating in there.  David says he had blunt force trauma to the back of his head, he was hit from behind and someone threw him into the pool.

Morgan tells DB she's found the murder weapon, paper.  It was laced with cyanide solvent and was on the Chemistry test.  She analyzed all of the papers and found this one.  It was in Chet's desk drawer cos she also found a message telling Turk to get it there.  But she found the message in the soundcloud and it wasn't deleted.  She's finding out who sent it and she gets a hit on Hannah.  She denies taking the paper and killing any of them.  But Morgan confronts her with the evidence that she's taking steroids too and she does the butterfly at swimming, thus her name is BFly.  She says she didn't kill Turk but she wished he was dead cos he attacked her.  She was at a woman's shelter getting counselling.  Morgan checks this out and tells her not to despair or give up since there are good people out there.  Referring obviously to Mason, no doubt.

Doc finds a puncture on Turk's arm where the killer withdrew blood from him since the vein didn't fill up with blood again.  Nick tells DB he's suspicious about the 'hocus pocus' stuff and he's found a fingerprint from Turk's car, leading to Meadows.  Also DB asks her about sleeping with a student, they found DNA in the car on the windows and the condom had her prints.  She was sleeping with him, he was 18 anyway, cos her husband is having an affair too.  She's part of the coven but she didn't kill him, though she wishes she knew who did.  She thinks maybe the janitor took Turk's blood.

Back in the janitor's closet, Morgan remarks how his mode of transport, i.e. his broom is still here so he couldn't have gone far.  She notices gravitational blood drops on the floor and this leads to the closet where they find an alter.  He turns up with a knife and is arrested, after trying to curse them. Finn says that the blood at the alter belonged to Turk.  Hodges is carrying out a ceremony of his own and he tells them, he found a cherry opal.  This means the spell wasn't a banishment but a healing spell.  He also found another blood sample and this one had medication in it which is used for chemotherapy, someone suffering from a blood cancer.  The sample belongs to Mason and his mother did the spell to save her son from dying.  He's been given six months.  But she also had to ensure that when the blood was taken from the sacrifice he was also killed.   DB tells Mason he won't be sent to an orphanage and Hannah tells him she can live with them, she was horrible to him and apologizes.

CSI delving into the world of wiccans and witches didn't go down too well with those who are themselves wiccans.  Especially since it didn't accurately portray them or what they do.  It was a predictable ep none the less and one that seemed very deja vu anyway, at least the motive was.  She really believed she could save his son, had given up on everything but at the end of it all, she left him to be alone when he needed her the most.  Trust Hodges to be up on this and even get into garb, as he says this is Vegas after all and anything goes.

Sara and Henry were missing from the ep.

The Mentalist 7.1 "Nothing But Blue Skies" Review

                                               
A bikey is shot as he approaches a man and tells him that he knows him, before being finished off for good.  Patrick (Simon Baker) brings Lisbon (Robin Tunney) coffee and she's been on leave. Spending time together the lovebirds, no doubt! She's been clearing stuff from her house and Patrick says he'll store it for her in the garage.  She thinks she'll have to get him a key to her place.  He notices a vintage toy car in one of the boxes, which her grandfather gave her for graduation.  She doesn't want anyone to know they're together at least for a while and she's called by Abbot (Rockmond Dunbar) to investigate that case.  She doesn't know where Patrick is she tells him.  He then calls Patrick. An agent Ken Spackman (Tim Griffin) from the FBI also is at the office as he's investigating the murder of Geist who was an undercover FBI agent working to find out the whereabouts of some stolen guns. They're going to have to work with  ATF too.  Patrick makes a r mark about Spackman being the killer even, cos he looks the type which doesn't go down too well.

Abbot also tells them of a new trainee agent from Quantico Michelle Vega (Josie Loren) and she's going to be Fisher's replacement, who transferred to Seattle cos her mother's unwell.  Wylie (Jason Adler) gives Lisbon a card that Fisher left for her which wishes her luck and thanks for helping her out.  As they investigate where Geist was undercover at the bowling alley, Patrick is irritated by Spackman and the security guard tells Cho (Tim Kang) he doesn't recognize his authority as a Federal agent as the Federal government is illegal.  Cho tells him he knows.  He saw Geist leave and that was all.  The boot cleaner is nervous as Spackman questions him and Tish (Karina Logue) the bartender tells them she didn't see Geist after he left.  Patrick interrupts Spackman and tells him that the man's nervous cos he's hiding prescription drugs.  Then says there's an easy way of finding out if they knew Geist was with the FBI.  But not before he has another spat with Lisbon over how they were meant to be top a team getting results, Patrick saying there was no need to talk to her like that, several times over.  He then makes faces mimicking Spackman.

Patrick then mentions microexpressions, we all know what those are from Lie To Me and tells them they'll react differently when they find out he was FBI, only Tish reacts to this and runs away.  They give chase and lose her.  Back at the office Spackman has words with Abbot about how they handled the case and about Patrick when Vega walks in.  Patrick calls her as being in the military but she denies it, he wants to know why she's lying to him already.  Patrick checks out Geist's apartment and Abbot tells him Pike (Pedro Pascal) is in the building, so if they are an 'item' which Abbot knows they are, he just wanted to warn him.

At Geist's apartment Patrick notices he sleeps on a mattress on the floor and has a night light.  He calls Vega and finds out she was at West Point but left cos her father was ill and died.  She didn't want to return to that.  He asks her for Geist's Psych Eval from Quantico.   Tish has been spotted and Vega wants to go with Cho to observe.  They confront Tish but she does a runner again and Vega stops her.  Tish and he rlaywer deny she knows naythign baout guns or Grists's killing.  Patrick comes up with a plan and they take Tish back to the bowling alley, after he's read Geist's file, which shows he was witness to a kidnapping when he was younger, a boy named Jason Kellogg was kidnapped when he was staying at his house.  He heard the kidnapper say something to one of the kidnappers but he couldn't do anything to help.  The ransom was paid but he was killed.

With the help of Patty's hammer which he says will come in handy as they will nail two cases, excusing the pun.  At the bowling alley he uses Tish's hands to guide him to where the guns are located and he finds them under the seat.  Cho takes her out and Patrick mentions the other killing, that of Geist.  One of them killed him cos he was the kidnapper from that case.  Cho fires shots as if Tish did it and they all need to hide in back.  The owner, Mason (Bryan Rassmussen) goes for the gun from the trophy case, the gun that he killed Geist with and was the original gun from the kidnapping, so why was he keeping it then.  He killed the other kidnapper so he could keep the money but he doesn't admit to doing that.

They still need to find the guns, since they only planted them at the bowling alley and Patrick tells Tish she'll help him do that when he uses the map and his hands over it, when he gets to a part of the map where the guns could be, she looks down at the map.  She agrees to a deal and gives up the names and locations of those involved.  Patrick talks with Pike as he's leaving a note for Lisbon and asks him if he's got any future plans for her.  He hasn't thought that far ahead cos Pike was going to offer her a home, family if she wanted it.  Lisbon turns up and they talk about how she's doing. Lisbon asks Patrick what he said to him and he tells her, also saying he thinks they're both happy with here they are for now.  He's got her a surprise, he's hired  a bigger version of the vintage car and they go for a drive.

I have to say this was off to a slow start with the final season and this ep wasn't as good as the ones before.  So don't let the title fool you, especially since Lisbon turns up at the CS and is greeted by Cho who asks her if she's going to Washington and getting married and she says she's not.  Then Patrick turns up and who was he trying to fool, cos Abbot didn't fall for them not being together, but don't see why Cho missed it or did he.   Patrick also leaves Lisbon an Origami crane in her pocket, or was it a swan? Ha. There's something about Simon's hair which doesn't suit him when it's short.  Will it grow back in time for the season finale?  ha.  Don't get me wrong, it's more short, back and sides don't look good on him. Also since it was the last season, he could've at least gone back to his old clothes, I mean that shirt and those socks, Lisbon's declared her feelings for him, he doesn't need them anymore!

Revenge 4.6 "Damage" Review

                                              
Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) tells David (James Tupper) he shouldn't go ahead with the interview and thinks he could say things about her which she doesn't want anyone to know.  Charlotte (Christa B Allen) wakes up next to Vince (Les Shontz) and finds that he's got a gun and is preparing to kidnap her (what again! ha).  She tries to reason with him but he manages to get her into the chair, saying she's trying to make herself out to be a person saying personal things about her.  She manages to hit him with the chair, fight him off and eventually he stumbles back and hits his head on the step in the room.  Yeah, we were meant to believe that Charlotte all of a sudden became Wonder Woman and found all that strength to fight him off.  She recalls him calling her "bait."  Obviously that must've been bait for David since she finds clippings and photos in the locked drawer.  Charlotte calls Emily (Emily VanCamp) and she has to clean up her mess.  She said she thought of calling the police but found the clippings and so she had to protect David.

Emily looks at the file and notices a photo of David where Vince had been stalking him.  She tells Charlotte she's hit rock bottom and that could've been her lying there dead. Whilst cleaning up the scene and making it seem like he overdosed.   Charlotte thinks Emily's killed people cos of her past, but she puts the record straight telling her she's never killed anyone.  It then clicks that Aiden died of a drug overdose and that Emily must've killed him.  Yes, of course cos that's what you do to people you love.  Emily revealing that Victoria killed him, not her.

Charlotte tells Victoria she's checking into rehab but Victoria says she'll recommend some places, which she doesn't want.  Also telling her she knows about Aiden and how she killed him cos of Pascal, but that Emily was only trying to do the right thing for David, she didn't kill Pascal.  Victoria can't stop her as she loses another child.  Here we go again in circles.  Charlotte also tells Daniel (Josh Bowman) what she's doing and tells him there's one more thing he has to say as he tells her she's the one who's always told him the truth.  Take it this wasn't about Emily then, but something else.

Victoria reads about Daniel and Louise (Elena Satine) in Page Six and how she bedded him, when Louise meets her, she says she did it for her cos she knew Daniel's her son and how she helped her in the hospital but Victoria says she was only there for a day, so she couldn't really have been like a mother to her.  Louise coming up with "life has moments" or something along those lines which Victoria doesn't understand the meaning of.  She meets Margaux (Karinne Vanasse) to talk about the interview with David giving her a list of questions and she tells Victoria how David's asked for Nolan (Gabriel Mann) to be present.  Obviously David is going to get back at Nolan, as I said last episode. Which is exactly what he does.

Emily calls Nolan to tell him about he photo and how the date doesn't match with David saying he was being held hostage, but Nolan doesn't think she should be investigating him and he won't help her break into files.  Which is a pity, cos she was saving him from the humiliation and hurt that David was about to inflict on him.  As he accuses Nolan of stealing Amanda's money and getting rich on it. Nolan doesn't know what to say and leaves, with Victoria revelling in the shame of it all, as was Margaux, can't wait til they both get theirs.

David pays Nolan a visit again and Nolan doesn't know how to explain things without telling him that Amanda is alive.  He punches Nolan and Nolan says he is as bad as his father.  Emily returns and sees David leaving, Nolan telling her that he's the result of her not coming clean with David.  She shows him the photo and also other photos she took when she breaks into the silo where David was allegedly being held prisoner.  She finds everything was rusted, except for the leg of the bed which was standing in water.  Also those chalk marks on the wall, marking the number of days he was there didn't get erased either.   Telling Nolan about Vince and how he was following David for days cos he must've been unhappy over the handling of Flight of 197 and obviously still holds David responsible.

Margaux has a tennis match where Louise shows up and so does Daniel, who was looking at office space, Daniel telling Louise she knows all about Margaux cos he told her.  Victoria tells Daniel to stay away from Louise cos she was in the psychiatric facility Victoria checked into when she was at a low.  Yes Victoria it was you who checked yourself in, the lies never end with her.  She didn't want Daniel to know cos she didn't want him to see her life in shambles.  She later tells David that she'll always be there for him and how she knows the loss of children.

Funny when Emily has her flashback when she watches David go swimming at the beach, when she was a little girl, he has beard, whereas all the flashbacks they used to show with him in the earlier seasons were never with a beard!  Victoria's got her red Special K dress back, or at least one of them, ha.

Jack (Nick Wechsler) and Ben (Brian Hallisay) found out that a policeman has died and Ben recalls him from the Grayson FBI file.  He thinks he might have had something to do with Conrad's death and asks Jack's former partner, Kokame (Eltony Williams) about him, who blabs that last time Ben was accusing Jack of being the killer.  Jack may have thought about it for what he did to Amanda and Declan, but he didn't do it.  He doesn't want him continuing with the case cos it'll reflect back on him. After the wake, Ben looks in the garage and Jack catches him there, when he sees the infinity symbol carved onto the cot there, Jack tells him Ben wants to help.  Someone was seen leaving the garage and the policeman also came into a lot of money.

Emily and Nolan go over David's interview with the FBI and the photos of his back, she knows he's lying and that's another reason why she can't tell him she's still alive.  David and that entire story of being held hostage was fishy from the start and clearly Emily doesn't get her brains from him, leaving silly pieces of evidence behind when he should've been on the ball if he was planning this for a long time.  No wonder he's so easily manipulated by Victoria and how he fell for Conrad and her setting him up to take the fall.  I mean just like accusing Nolan of taking the money, if he liked him as a son, why would he even think Nolan could have done something like that.

Mr Selfridge Series 3 Episode 3 Review

                                                    
Harry (Jeremy Piven) opens the Beauty Event at the store with balloons being released from the rooftop garden, which have beauty vouchers attached to them.  Kitty (Amy Beth Hayes) is in charge of the entire event and department and organizes beauty classes to show off the new products like cream rouge, how to enhance eyebrows and eyelashes, as well as the new range of lipstick, which most of the ladies at the event had anyway, not to mention pencil thin eyebrows too.  The women workers at the store are laid off and given a month's pay, but that's no good for some of them since there aren't any jobs and that goes doubly so for the women.

Crabb (Ron Cook) is worried about Harry and how Harry's not said anything about the shareholder meeting, but Grove insists that he did the right thing in speaking up.  Grove asks Miss Mardle (Amanda Abbington) if it's okay for Doris (Lauren Crace) to come in and pick out a dress for her birthday, though I don't know why he has to ask her, as they say, it's a free store and anyone can come in, or almost anyone.

The soldiers back from the war still hang around the corner, near the store, selling a cigarettes and think that they'd be better off begging like the men who returned without limbs.  Of course they're just there to make trouble, as first Connie (Sacha Parkinson) is attacked verbally by them, who have nothing to say but derogatory remarks against women, telling them should be at home having babies and lying on their backs, that line was used a bit too much!

It was all happening in this week's ep, with Harry bidding on the land after getting a personal loan from the bank, with an unusually high rate of interest at 15%.  But it was no surprise that no sooner had Harry said he was limiting his bid to £15,000, that who should rock up, but none other than Loxley (Aidan McCardle) and just to bid against him with no real intention of wanting the land. He of course knew from Serge (Leon Ockenden) that Harry would be bidding and that's why he revelled in bumping up the price, leaving Harry to pay double for the land.  Though at one point he should've just let Loxley have it, instead of going to £30,000, but he was determined for the project to go ahead but also cos Rose would've wanted it.   He tells Loxley to stay away from him, but he's not having any of that and he'll pursue Harry until the end for revenge.

Harry arrives home at dinnertime ad has words with Serge and loses his temper at him, as he rightly should, when asking him if he told Loxley about the land he was going to buy and he should stay away from him, which he already told him to do, but Serge has tickets on himself as they say in Australia and tells Harry that Loxley is planning to invest in his passenger plane.  Harry tells him Loxley has no interest in Serge and is using him to get back at him and his family.  Serge says he doesn't really care cos Harry should've helped him out, which Harry abhors since he's married to Rosalie (Kara Tointon) and living under his roof and rightly so.  Family loyalty is what comes first and especially since they're nothing but a bunch of freeloaders as I already said.  With the Princess (Zoe Wanamaker) trying to be so prim and proper wanting to speak with Serge, as if she's not as bad as him and Rosalie running off in tears.  Violette  (Hannah Tointon) tells Gordon (Greg Austin) dinnertimes should always be like this as they're more fun.

Fraser (Malcolm Rennie) the butler tells Mrs Lois Selfridge (Kika Markham) that the Princess doesn't live at the flat and there are no renovations being done.  She left the flat without paying her bills and this leads Lois to go the Information Bureau at the store and ask Miss Blekinsop (Deborah Cornelius) for everything she can find on the Princess and her creditors, still keeping the news from Harry about the hotel bill she's raking up.

Agnes (Aisling Loftus) is worried about Henri (Gregory Fitoussi) as he doesn't come home and the next day she finds him working at the store, he's trying to capture the magic of the good old days and see if he can still do it.  He doesn't want her help and he doesn't want to tell her about what happened to him in the war.  She leaves him to it and the next day she finds that he's finished the window for the beauty event and finds him asleep at home.  She asks Victor (Trystan Gravelle) if he's said anything to him about what happened over there and he hasn't, but Victor tells her about Verdun and how a soldier said it was bad over there.  They were being bombed, gased, killed and starved since a supply line was cut off.  She can't imagine what it was like and tells Victor she doesn't know who else she can ask.  Then asks what happened to him, but he doesn't reply and says he's got a business to run.

Kitty brings in the powders for the event which arrived, late but Henri isn't around to display them, so she does it herself, by hanging them off the branches of the trees in the display.  Henri sees her and loses the plot, telling her it's his work and she's changing everything.  She tells him she doesn't know him anymore, that she lies beside him, he has nightmares and holds onto her, but in the morning he doesn't talk to her and rejects her.  He doesn't want to tell her anything and the crowds gathered outside for this spectacle.  Crabb sees what's happening and Henri knocks over some of the tables and storms off when Harry arrives.  Harry goes after him and Henri imagines seeing his soldiers and being back in the trenches.  He can't do anything for them and he won't let Harry help him either as he walks off.  Harry could have gone after him.  Later Grove mentions how they can't let Henri take leave since sometimes it's the worse thing for them, so Harry thinks he needs to find a place for Henri where he can work with him and keep an eye on him.

Frank (Samuel West) wants Connie out of the house cos he can't work and concentrate on his book and Connie says she could keep house for them, but Kitty wants her to find work.  She even asks Harry if she could get a job, mentioning how Gordon works here now and the store is all about family.  Gordon being a chip off the old block.  Harry telling her she's the only one who could get away with that remark.  Harry relenting saying that Miss Mardle could do with the help in the fashion department.  Harry introduces Nancy (Kelly Adams) to the family and the Princess is too interested in taking Rosalie to he beauty event, whilst Violette says she doesn't do anything except shopping. She later turns up at the club and Victor asks if her Frenchman isn't with her. He's not hers and they both remark how neither one knows anything about the other.

Frank brings the two troublemaker soldiers to the bar so he can interview them for his book and he plys them with alcohol after paying Elsa (Naomi Ryan) to let him in.  Well he'll be in for shock when he finds out what they do to Kitty who is attacked on her way home after being asked for money and being called a 'bitch.'  She tells them she's been working fourteen hours and all they can do is be vile towards her, that a woman's just good for one thing, lying on her back and Silas (Mike Noble) attacks her.  Luckily Harry is there to save her whilst on his way to the theatre.  Agnes thinks it's Henri who's returned home, but it's George (Calum Callaghan) who tells her she can't look for him at 3am.  She has to wait for him to come home and to get better, since there's nothing else she can do for him.  The next night she tells Miss Mardle how she doesn't know him anymore and she doesn't know what to do, as Henri returns home and hears her talking.

Well it's downhill all the way for Henri as he reaches his lowest point and can see no way out of it.  The same can be said for Harry, but he's not really despairing yet as he's seen Nancy in anew light whilst wanting her to be manager of the project.  As well as drowning out her words when she's talking, seems he only has eyes for her now, or is it cos she reminds him of Rose in her charitable endeavours?  Funny part was Violette and Nancy talking about Gloria Swanson and how regal she looks, but the Princess saying she looks like a horse!  Was about to say the same thing about the Princess then, and what they both thought of her!  Ha.  Lots of lift scenes galore in this.

So what's going on between Grove and Doris, looks like there could be trouble in paradise there, what after having five children, as he seemed tense when he asked if it was okay for Doris to come in, and when Doris leaves the store a man comes in harassing her, she tells him to go and tells Miss Mardle it's nothing.  Could he be someone Doris met when Grove was away fighting in the war?