Once Upon A Time 5.21 "Last Rites" Review

                                                 
Storybrooke Present Day finds Zelena (Rebecca Mader) and Hades (Greg Germann) back in Storybrooke standing on the toll bridge (or Troll Bridge) with the baby and he wants to go into town as she suggests, but they will just come after him cos Snow (Gennifer Goodwin) et al don't know he's changed, cos he hasn't as we know.  She leaves the baby with him and heads to town herself telling him to meet at the Mayor's office.  But as mayor isn't that somewhere Snow may be.  As Arthur (Liam Garrigan) arrives on the bridge after making his escape.  Merida (Amy Manson) was meant to be watching him but she left a dwarf on the job and he got away.  Hades kills Arthur after he finds out who he is and heads to the underworld.  Arthur was meant to be king of a broken country but he doesn't know where he is until Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) tells him.  As does the blind witch (Emma Caulfield).  Hook needs to warn Emma (Jennifer Morrison) about Hades but he doesn't know how to do that until he recalls the pages Hades tore from the book.  He asks Cruella (Victoria Smurfit) who's admiring the two pieces of meat in the sandwich (ie Hook and Arthur) and tells Hook she destroyed the phone cos she wasn't having people moving on if she can't.

They head to Hades' throne room and search for them.  Hook needs to help Emma and Arthur says a woman had to be involved, roping him in after telling him he was meant to move on but he's still here cos he has unfinished business.  Also he tells Arthur if he does one good deed then he'll be able to move on too, cos he's got two choices either to a better place, or to the one below.  Hook calls it his 'holy grail'.  He asks where Arthur would hide something as a king and he searches his throne uncovering a hidden panel with the torn pages.  Begging the question did he really need to keep those especially since he went to great lengths to get them back, so why not just burn them?! Particularly as they held the secret to his downfall.

Hook reads the pages and finds out about the Olympian crystal but he now needs to find a way to show Emma the pages and for this he needs the story book.  Which is at the place where Emma rescued Hook from, the gateway to hell, via the River of Souls and they manage to get a boat as well, thought they were hard to come by.  A lost soul tries to drag Arthur in   and Hook rescues him whilst he then heads for the book and another lost souls grabs it.  Arthur stops it with the torch as Hook did and the book almost falls in, with Hook grabbing it just in time.  As he offers Arthur a hook up!  Ha.  Well that didn't come out right, a hand up with his hook.
There's light and Hook says it's for him but Arthur wants to stay and help mend this broken kingdom. Hook is met by Zeus (David Hoflin).

Snow wishes her family was back and on cue they arrive without Hook and Emma is despondent. They find Arthur's body on the bridge and if Zelena was there she'd have known it was Hades who killed him cos she left him there, holding the baby, ha!  Rumples (Robert Carlyle) heads to Belle's father but he refuses to wake her up with true love's kiss, well he just doesn't love her that's why.  Saying he forced Belle into loving him and well that's rich considering they let Rumples have her, practically as a slave.

Robin (Sean Maguire) needs to see his baby but they find there's a protection spell around the office building and they try to find away to distract Hades.  Emma asks for Gold's help and he refuses, big surprise!  She was the cause of all this so he's not exactly helping.  Though he does tell Hades he needs a chunk of his Mount Olympus Crystal and wants to make a deal, which he also declines.  At the library they're all stuck in books and David (Josh Dallas) tells Emma to help too.  Robin needs to see his baby and Regina (Lana Parilla) tells him there's a way in under the tunnels so they head there, but without Emma cos she'll just mess things up, Regina tells her she's too emotional.  As she sits in the library, she finds the story book and looks at the picture of her and Hook at the ball.  Then puts it away.  The book opens and turns to the page that she needs, the picture with the crystal.  So Henry (Jared Gilmore) as the author once again did nothing.

Regina and Robin need a distraction and Emma gives it to them, as she tries to undo the protection spell and they overhear Zelena saying they should just leave and head elsewhere.  But he wants to stay and rule again.  Zelena heads out to take care of Emma and Robin gets the baby, but instead of taking her out, let's have a reunion there cos we've got all the time in the world, or at least in Storybrooke.  Hades tries to destroy Regina with the crystal and when that happens there's no turning back.  She won't go to a better place or to the underworld, but will be vapourized forever.  Robin jumps in the way to save her and is zapped!  Zelena comes in and sees Robin dead as Hades tries to convince her that they're the ones responsible.  She asks him if he tried to keep them down there and finally uses the crystal on Hades.  Yeah no one lies to her and uses her too.  So how come he doesn't get left behind as dust too, though he's a god so suppose that's what happens.

Emma says goodbye to Hook and we all know he's coming back, that's his reward which Zeus gives him for helping him with Hades.  As they all mourn the loss of Robin.  She doesn't know what she's going to do now and he returns to that place of course.  Cue plenty of snogging.  Guess Regina's not getting her happy ending as usual, whereas Emma gets hers, as usual.  Though someone will have to take care of Ronald now and also help with his baby whom Zelena names Robin, knew that was coming!  Rumples finds a chunk of the crystal cos this is his kingdom and Hades should've taken the deal.  Regina always gets the short straw, especially since she and Robin were meant to be soul mates since Tinkerbell showed her in season 3, but left it too late.  Even if he didn't really do much, as she tells Zelena true love involves sacrifice.

Mysteries of Laura 2.11 "The Mystery of the Unwanted Houseguest Review"

As Laura (Debra Messing) is being held hostage, the ep begins with Jonathan (Jerry O'Connell) making a bomb and Laura getting the boys ready for school, asking them to get the paper for her, as Jonathan watches outside and no one saw someone suspicious in a hoodie lurking either.  Did you notice after the newspaper was picked up, and Jonathan has her in her room, there's a shot of the outside of the house and the blue bag with the paper is still lying outside.  So Laura doesn't look at the paper and goes upstairs to change and shower.  As Jake (Josh Lucas) shows the paper to everyone at work with news of Jonathan going missing and the explosion.  They surmize that they need to look at the photos from the explosion and see if they can also get Renaldo's (Marc Webster) take on it.  He says that there should've been some trace of his body found and as Meredith (Janina Gavankar) adds he didn't just vapourize!

Laura yells Alicia (Alysia Joy Powell) to take the boys cos she's got a fever and she doesn't want to give it to them and also that she thinks it's food poisoning and she had a bad reaction to clams, which obviously was her clue that something's wrong, only it took Jake a while to call Alicia and find out what she said to her and what's wrong with Laura.  Especially after she ignores his texts and calls to her and proves something wrong cos she does the same to Max (Max Jenkins) even when he annoyingly hangs up once and rings again and she hates that.

Anyway Jonathan thinks Laura framed him and wants to know why cos there are corrupt cops out there, she's not one of them though and wants to make him coffee cos he's fallen off the wagon.  He throws the knives into the bin and you know what I said she could just as easily have thrown hot coffee onto his face!  When later she hits him with the coffee pot, well close enough!  ha.  She watches the video with him cos she says there must be another suspect and they think it could be Brenda (Stockard Channing) cos she had so much to gain with the company.  Jake also texts her that they're looking into her.  Brenda tells Jake she may be a bully but she's not a killer.

Meredith and Billy (Laz Alonso) check out the building and Meredith is given Jonathan's computer by Billy for her to work her magic on.  As well as his assistant, Ellen (Bo Stansell) being around, who was my next suspect cos she couldn't have just casually ignored him going in or out.  As well as she being the only other person who was shown and they spoke to in their investigation.  They find a vent pried open which could've been used to get through and also the chemicals in the bomb were also in the cleaning cupboard and he would've had access to them.

Laura finally convinces him that someone else must be involved and on the video Michael (Richard Hughes) apologizes for being a bad father after explaining that he didn't leave him anything.  He should've been a better father and Jonathan wants to know why he couldn't tell him that in person. On top of that, he also tells Laura how he crashed into an entire family when he was drunk and his father got Brenda to sweep it under the carpet.  But he's given up and tries to shoot himself but Laura won't let him.  Jake tells Billy something's wrong but he wont let him use protocol cos of shoots outs and anything else can happen and they go to the house together.  Luckily that blue bag was no longer lying around outside!  ha.  They use a snake cam and Jake enters through the window, as Alicia arrives with medicine.  Jake sees them in her room and Laura asks for the gun and Jake comes in, putting down his own gun and telling Laura to leave.  He won't go without her.  He grabs his gun and Laura grabs the bomb placing it in the washing machine.

Jonathan wants to talk with Laura but Meredith won't let him as he gets agitated, mentioning how the Vineyard police were paid off.  Laura recalls the mug on Ellen's desk with the fudge was from Martha's Vineyard and she has Max (Max Jenkins) check out accidents.  They find one where a family was killed but a seven year old daughter survived, who was Ellen and she changed her name. Laura calls her telling her they haven't found the murder weapon and she needs to see the computers, so they agree to meet next day.  But Ellen goes back to plant the gun in the night.  How stupid was that considering they would've looked for it everywhere already wouldn't they.  She hoped he would see the mug and recall what he did and even who she was and ask about it but Jonathan didn't remember anything.  So she shot Michael and framed him.

Laura tells Jonathan to get help and he won't get off this time but she'll put in a good word with the judge for him.  Then he'll have plenty of time to do something to make his father proud. Santiani (Callie Thorne) tells Jake he can have a free pass this time and asks if he'd have approved the actions of Billy and Meredith if they'd have done that on his watch.  He apologizes and she accepts.  But Billy did do that and help Jake and she didn't reprimand him.

Two mentions of Jake's eyes, one last ep when Meredith calls them his "baby blues!"  Ahh and now when Brenda says they sent him here with his blue eyes to loosen her lips!  ha.  Then she says she plays for whichever team has the cutest players, after she makes a pass at him, oh yeah he's still got it. Then later at the bar Meredith tells Laura she's glad she's okay and Laura hasn't thought of Tony all day, as she watches Jake with Billy.  It's like you don't know how good you've got it when it's right under your nose.  I like those sorts of scenes, they're so touching when you watch someone from afar and they don't notice you're doing that!  Also it's so doubly romantic when it's someone like Josh!!

But that Laura's having second thoughts is a good sign, since he'd do just about anything for her and here he proved that.  Not only by risking his life with the bomb and going after Jonathan and the gun, but also by ignoring protocol and wanting to rescue her himself and making sure she's okay.  It's not about playing hero and getting recognition for it but genuinely out of love for her and putting his life on the line to save hers and also for the boys.

Okay calling it here with Stockard Channing, cos murder is, "the worst thing I could do!"  Ha.

Mysteries of Laura 2.10 "The Mystery of the Downward Spiral" Review

                                               
A homeless man finds a DB outside on the street and once again Jake (Josh Lucas) is already on the scene.  Renaldo (Marc Webster) says he's been shot and Jake asks Laura (Debra Messing) to breakfast, not to actually have breakfast but to talk.  He's sorry he lied, he's stable but there's other complicated stuff going on too.  She says she's over it and has moved on, the least she could've done is tell him why she's moved on, although he already knows with whom.  As the DB is taken away she smells jasmine  and they wonder why a man would be wearing jasmine.  Until she notices the building across the road is Belle Reve: perfume manufacturer and looks him up to be CEO of the company, Michael Dunham (Richard Hughes).  Checking out the place they talk with his son, Jonathan (Jerry O'Connell) who tells them he was working late.  There were only a few of them around anyway and he' should've got the security camera fixed cos he can't tell them who came and went.  That was convenient.  Though initially he was my suspect by the time I go tot he end of the ep, I changed my mind and decided it wasn't Jonathan and he's being framed.

Especially since we later find out that he doesn't inherit anything as his father left everything to a foundation and the board will run the company, as his lawyer, Brenda (Stockard Channing) tells him. She is in-house counsel for Belle Reve so she only has two clients.  She thought it was a good idea for her to be there when Jonathan is questioned.  Yeah conveniently;y (sorry for overuse of word) since there's no better way to ingratiate herself into the conversation/investigation and since we later find out the board voted her in to run the company.

Anyway Jonathan's assistant at the front desk, Ellen (Bo Stansell) says she would've recalled anyone leaving and confirms his alibi.  She was there too and Laura notices the fudge one her desk and helps herself to a few pieces.  Even if it is 7am.  These Vics tend to get killed during the early hours or at least are found then.  In the photos there's a graffiti tag across the building which Jake says spells 'ARK' and online Max (Max Jenkins) finds they're animal activists which is a good thing but then they could be violent as Santiani (Callie Thorne) says.  Meredith (Janina Gavankar) tries to find another tag from them which could lead to a possible location and she and Billy (Laz Alonso) check out a warehouse building.  Inside they find animals and another man passed out, as well as coming under attack by masked activists.  The man tells them he was smuggling animals into the country and he wouldn't kill anyone though.  Funny Laura had on a chimp T-shirt at this point, wonder what was behind that then.

Marcus (Reuben Barsky) does tell them about 'the Nose' and how he would sniff out perfume. Usually hanging out at Coney Island, they received a tip off Belle Reve was using animal scent but that didn't pan out so they didn't do anything.  Laura recalls the name George Tilleu (Willie Garson) which doesn't sound French to her and Meredith and Max countdown to when it'll hit her. She recalls he was 'The Nose' and  (hey I used to say that years ago to my niece, 'the nose knows.!!) Oh don't even wanna mention Laura's pun of "the nose is running."  His name is George and he kept it in remembrance to what he used to do.  Meredith senses something's up and Laura tells her she's with Tony and told the children he's her boyfriend, but she hasn't told Jake yet.  Yeah always the last to know!!

They go to Coney Island and Jake doesn't understand her fascination with this place and she replies he doesn't know how to have fun, which he says he does, his other definition of fun of course.  The man, Bosco (Dan Grimaldi) tells them there's no Nose here and he's running a burlesque place.  Jake feigns to get a location on him and they follow him inside where they find George.  He's hiding out cos he was beaten up and his nose was damaged, now he can't smell anything.  But he did get his nose insured and he did the false tip-off cos he was in pain and on painkillers.  Also that Brenda sent those thugs after him.  Brenda tells her she won't talk and Laura shows her pictures of the thug she sent after the Nose and she says she was watching out for the company cos Jonathan will run it into the ground, even if he is a reformed addict.  That Michael was seeing someone.  Laura figuring out it was Alya (Clara Wong) cos she only had two clients, so it wasn't hard to work this out and she was a gold digger too who was sleeping around for money.

Jonathan's fiance, Ayla went abroad and says her luggage got lost on the flight back and she was seduced bu Michael.  She thought she could help out Jonathan and he doesn't know.  Laura understands how she feels of course, cos she went through the cheating scenario, talk about rubbing it in our faces in a subtle in yer face way still.  Jonathan comes in and overhears them talk about a secret.  Laura speaks with John and finds he didn't know and she believes he's innocent but doesn't have the evidence to prove it.  He has a violent fit in front of her by breaking his father's chair and after all his studying and going to rehab he seduces Ayla.

Meredith and Billy talk to Jake about commitment and Billy's all for it and thinks he should talk to Laura and Santiani (Callie Thorne) says if they can't narrow down a suspect she'll give them one. Meredith nudges Billy not to say anything.  She tells him about Tony and Jake doesn't know, later Billy tells Jake he shouldn't have gotten involved and that he should talk to Laura and tells him about Tony and her decision.  Max finds a lost luggage receipt which Jonathan signed for so he knew where Ayla was and the receipt says St Lucia where his father was checking out the franjipany harvest which he told them about earlier.  They get a warrant and Jake thinks he should've followed up on this before.  They see Ellen listening to music on headphones, so he could've snuck out anytime without her knowing and Laura sneezes again cos of the lavender and apparently Jake finds the air isn't circulating and the vent is slightly open.  Inside they find a bloodied lab coat.

Renaldo matches the blood, DNA and GSR to the coat and Jake says they have the trifecta for the arrest of Jonathan.  However he's disappeared and as they wait for him to arrive at work and see if he shows up, Jake says they have time to talk.  She's moved on and she waited a year to tell the children, but to her, Jake hasn't changed at all.  He says he's the last to know, hey I said that too and she should've been honest with him.  Could really feel for him in that scene, especially when he says in his mind it was always her and the two of them, as she tells him she didn't.  She didn't even look at him in his eyes, but takes a long time to tell him Jonathan's here and as he rushes in after him, almost like she was in a mad panic to get away from Jake, the place blows up.  Laura's fine as Jake says she always is.  Meredith finds a note and also drugs in his car, they suspect he had a relapse and probably killed himself.

Santiani senses the tension between them and says Laura is a strong woman cos she couldn't work with her ex for so long, well her ex beat her up, Jake didn't.  At home Alicia (Alysia Joy Powell) finds the door open and Laura finds Jonathan in her room with a gun.

 Santiani also says she can get her a new partner or transfer Jake if it's too hard for her.  Yeah pick on him to get transferred why don't you after taking over his job too, why didn't she offer Laura the transfer, doesn't want to spoil her run of cases being closed that's why.  Laura saying she'll think about it, well  s said if she feels so strongly about it maybe she should get the transfer for herself. Not like she won't still be seeing him around, he is after all the boys' father!!

The Vampire Diaries 7.21 "Requiem For A Dream" Review

                                                      
Bonnie (Kat Graham) goes around killing Enzo (Michael Malarkey) and Caroline (Candice King) when she wakes, but turns out it's just a dream as Damon (Ian Somerhalder) walks through the door, everyone is alive and well.  He tells them about Rayna and the shaman disappeared before he could get answers.  Also telling Enzo he doesn't know if the spell worked or not. He thinks maybe it's better if Bonnie doesn't wake up so she can't go through with the killing, or that perhaps she's fighting it by not waking up.  They think if they can get inside her head that they can help her fight and get Bonnie's good side out.  Caroline tells Alaric (Matt Davis) to go back for the girls so they'll have him there when they wake up cos Bonnie should see a friend when she wakes.  Of course he reluctantly agrees cos he knows he will probably be leaving her behind with Stefan (Paul Wesley) around.

However he calls Damon saying he doesn't know what he's going to do and how to help Bonnie but that he went through his own hell when he was marked and lost years of his life, well three years. What he should've said was that he lost his love and his life with Caroline.  Matt (Zach Roerig) gets a report that lights are on in the Salvatore house and he tells the deputy Penny's death was an accident.

Caroline wants to enter Bonnie's head but she'd rather Stefan not be around and still has issues about him abandoning her.  As she enters her head, Bonnie's in class where Alaric teaches about vampires whether they're real or a myth and says they are real, as everyone practically starts having a bloodfest in the lecture theatre.  Bonnie runs to her room to see Caroline there, who reminds her she's her friend and she should focus on the good parts of their life.  Bonnie marks her and when Caroline gets out of her dream/head, the mark is real.  Now she's one her list of hunts and so much for Caroline reassuring everyone she was her friend before she was a vampire.

Enzo thinks he should try and we see Bonnie as a cheerleader stake two vampires that used to bully her.  Way to go Buffy, well you must've thought that when you saw that scene.  Enzo tells her he wants her to recall the good times they had and how she hated him but learned to love him through their music, as he hands her the guitar.  Yeah after Caroline was marked, way to go with the wooden guitar!  She would rather die than be after her friends and they should just let her sleep and die she tells him.  As she breaks the guitar and marks him too, well she's two for two now.  Enzo tells Matt he should let them help Bonnie first before he throws them out of the house and reminds him of Penny. He lost her but Bonnie's not gone yet and he agrees to let them stay, though not in so many words.

Stefan vervains Caroline and takes her away and she isn't happy when she wakes, but she realizes why he did it and how he had to leave here and her and wasn't exactly living it up around the world, when he'd rather be with her.  She leaves with Stefan and says goodbye to the girls and to Alaric and doesn't want to come home to them cos she'll just put them in danger.  He tells her he loves her and she can't reply, but will call him when she can.  Stefan says she's got to make up her mind about them cos they can't keep doing this and about where she wants to go, as if Maine and Nova Scotia are far enough.

Stefan also giving Damon an idea that if Bonnie's good side can't be reasoned with, then he should appeal to her bad side and enters her head.  She finds herself at Elena's house and sees her shadow through the window, finding Damon lurking on the porch.  Wonder how many times he's lurked there when he used to have that pinning for her, unrequited love I should say.  He tells Bonnie she's not here and gives her the letter to read but she tears it up.  He then says he recalls what he wrote and tells her, but she's in no mood to hear it, as he reminds her if she kills him then Elena won't forgive her, but she won't be around for Elena to deal with, he pulls out his heart and runs away.  She gets up and will get Damon too.  Calling him she knows he's in the woods and knows all his thoughts too, as she carves stakes out of wooden spoons, hmm, new craft could catch on!  Ha.  Matt tells Bonnie he can help her and she reminds him how she doesn't want to kill her friends and he should help her, but she wants Damon not only cos he killed his sister, but for everything else.  Cos it's all about Damon!

Bonnie finds him and he tries to do everything he can to make her turn good including ending up at he stump where they had her memorial and reminding her how she died and came back.  That he regrets saving her in Amsterdam and would've had Elena back and she replies Elena wouldn't have forgiven him for that.  How she's been a witch, a gateway to the afterlife and that if she kills him she needs to forgive him first for everything he's done.  As Matt shoots her with tranquilizers, which will only last eight hours. Unfortunately Bonnie escapes cos they were silly leaving her just handcuffed and not tied down, or rather chained, at least Alaric had the right idea!  Er, they could've locked her up in their dungeon you know.  Haven't seen that for ages!

Enzo returns and tells Damon there may be a way to help her cos he tracked down the shaman who told them about the Everlasting.  But that's in the Armoury and Bonnie put a spell on the building to keep that thing in, which has killed and driven everyone crazy.  Damon doesn't care, he's still going to open it, unleashing more evil for next season.

This ep was good as it marked a return to the earlier eps, where there's no need for any guests or newbie characters to be added cos we did just fine with the cast as is.  Lots of heart wrenching moments and I think the best that we've seen Damon this season (except for when he selfishly decided to desiccate himself) when after everything he still yearns for forgiveness from Bonnie and still that forgiveness doesn't come.  He genuinely believed she would kill him.  Thought he would've laid a trap for her, like a hole to fall into like Rayna.  Though the dream part at the beginning was a bit repetitious of Damon when he was in the phoenix stone and dreamt he had killed everyone watching over him.  But as I said if she did die it would've let him see Elena sooner instead of later, but that wasn't going to happen.  Instead he gives her an idea to kill him anyway.  Matt too was also trusting of her when everyone told him she's not really the old Bonnie they knew.  Look at Rayna's determination to kill and Bonnie was only in the early stages of wanting to hunt vampires, who strangely enough had to be her friends first.

Funny part where Damon made the comment about Matt being a good shot and he thinks better than Sheriff Forbes, thinking they could get in good together now cos he had a good rapport with her. Trying to say thanks in his own way.  Matt saying he did for Bonnie as we already know, not that she was grateful.

Mysteries Of Laura 2.9 "The Mystery of the Triple Threat" Review

                                          
A man climbs to the top of a church as another one tells him to hold on he's coming.  He takes a picture of the stained glass window, he spots a DB down below.  Jake (Josh Lucas) is already at the scene as Laura (Debra Messing) arrives after a morning juggling (okay assuming it's morning cos Alicia (Alysia Joy Powell) hasn't arrived yet) the leak in the kitchen as well as the children losing their hamster.  Tony (Neal Bledsoe) arrives and says he needs to talk with her but she tells Alicia not to leave her alone with him when she does arrive.  Assuming she didn't want to be alone with him to make a decision about them, or that he was gonna give her the brush off.  Also it wasn't that hard to tell that Tony was going to say he's moving or has a job offer or both, so not terrible exciting, as she tells him to come by the precinct tomorrow for his sixty seconds chat when Jake calls.  You could say she was gone in sixty seconds and out the door!  ha.

At the church Jake reminisces about walking down the aisle and Laura recalls her dress had an iron mark on it, what she wasn't even perfect for her perfect day!  The men who found him saying they were on a treasure hunt, The New Gotham Treasure hunt to be precise and show them their photos of the places they'd been.  They were playing through the Dark Web and the prize is in bitcoins (ugh not bitcoins again, possibly in eevry show that I've watched lately!) New York loves its treasure/scavenger hunts as also seen in CSI:NY ep Get Me Out of Here! always ending in a murder or two.  Laura takes their phone and Jake tries to locate the clues by starting at the beginning after deciding that Laura will go back to the precinct.

Meredith (Janina Gavankar) tries to figure out photos from the files and sticks the photos on the board.  Also Santiani (Callie Thorne) believes they can't do anything with it but comes back in to play around with the photos too. Of course leave it to Laura to figure it out (sometimes you wish someone else would get that privilege, cos there's more than one detective on the force, even if she is the title character!)  She's been doing puzzles with the children and hums the theme to Sesame Street rearranging the photos and turns them around to reveal they're all letters, spelling out 'Silver Cu' and the third letter is a 'P' leading to Silvercup Studios.  When Meredith and Billy (Laz Alonso) arrive they see a man at the top of the sign but when they reach the top he slides down on his rope, but is caught by the police.

Elliot (Christopher Neiman) has a flashdrive containing the winning bitcoin prize and says he's been training for the event a whole year so he wouldn't kill anyone, admitting he saw the DB already there but continued with the game, which he calls competition.  He then shows them the footage from his GoPro camera and he also took the man's camera.  Billy realizes he put a lock on his camera to stop it being stolen.  They trace it back to his apartment where Jake and Laura find his wife, Maya (Steffanie Leigh) and also her husband, Chris (James Padric).  They were all married and they call it a 'throuple.' Thought of Jake, Laura and Tony here, hey anything would work for Jake, no seriously it's not really them and Tony is just a third wheel!  Laura still trying to get her head around it.  As she later tells Billy and Meredith it's possible to love more than one person at the same time.  With Billy adding he could do it and Meredith would find it awkward sharing her 'stuff.'  Anyone's guess what   she meant by stuff but it did have a double entendre feel to it, eeww not the right word!

Anyway, Maya tells them he was an event planner and he planned parties.  The last one he was working on was for some famous socialite and she shows them a page of designs.  Laura realizing that's why the camera had all those photos in it of black material.  They have an alibi.  However he did have an assistant he worked with and when Jake goes to question Ingrid (Jessica Keenan Wynn) she has the same face masks from the design.  She tells him that after she found out about his throuple marriage, she didn't want his services and so she went behind his back and took on the contract.  Adding that he had this uniqueness about him, he was able to ask questions and then get an idea from that.  She asks if Jake's married and if he kissed her on the first date, which he says is none of her business and then answers her anyway.  He noticed her eyes, of course Laura would be listening and she says it was her boobs, oh don't think so.  He liked the glowiness and the twinkle. She also adds that someone graffited his car and tagged it with 'deviant pig.'  Max (Max Jenkins) finds surveillance footage which shows a suspect in black, of course that was a woman, it wasn't exactly a male body shape.

Allison (Brynn O'Malley) was his former girlfriend and they hooked up again after he was kind of tiring of the idea of the marriage and losing the job.  This was at his own apartment and Laura also tries to get some DNA evidence off her.  She plays violin for a production of Aida and cries when she recalls him.  Laura hands her a hanky which Allison keeps after blowing her nose.  But gets an address for the first apartment he had.  Meredith and Billy check it out, leading to Meredith being attacked and the attacker jumping 15 feet down.  He doesn't follow and she finds the flashdrive was placed in her pocket and the only one who knew that was Elliot, so he had an accomplice.  But he insists he called his lawyer and doesn't have a partner.  Also no one would risk that height cos there's another hunt in Amsterdam next week and he would've rolled his ankle.  However the attacker did leave his DNA behind on the window and was looking for something at the apartment.

Nice touch the way Jake recalled where Laura put her cardigan, in the fridge, hid their passports in     the waffle iron, a bit dangerous and her Summer shoes in the oven, and not forgetting the candy in
the crock pot.  Jake finds a bag in the oven which contains his design book, a page has been ripped out but that wasn't his last job.  He had another one with sketches of a church, and emeralds, as she recalls Allison's eyes were green and that she had moved on from him.  They find out she was planning to marry the conductor, Niles (David Christopher Wells).  Laura tells him they have his DNA on the shirt and he tries to make a run for it.  Jake giving chase, well not much of a chase but we didn't get one thus far and we always get a chase, as well as telling him he rolled his ankle and won't get far.  Jake has to rescue him after he almost falls down.

At the bar, Jake's buying drinks and Laura answers his phone.  As Meredith tells Billy he should've chased the suspect and not hung around for her.  He said he was following procedure and would've done the same for anyone.  She doesn't want him to do that cos if Santiani found out then she'd transfer one of them and she couldn't stand not working with him everyday.  But she'd still get to see him and anyway he shouldn't have to take anything back, cos it seems he's the one doing all the compromising for her in their relationship, including not wanting people to know, when he tells her they already do.  Think they're going to have some problems there, just as Jake and Laura and they're nowhere near to being married or even fully committed.  Also Meredith was the one who blurted out Billy and her were going  back to her place and not to her Pilates class!

So the phonecall is the doctor who tells Laura about Jake's condition and that it's affecting his brain. Firstly she's his ex so didn't strictly speaking have a right to have that info revealed to her and secondly Dr whats-their-face is in violation of doctor/patient privilege cos Jake is still his patient and the only one he should've spoken to.  Doctors don't go around leaving messages with next of kin willy nilly!  Yeah sue him!!  So she's got a nerve telling Jake the only issue she had with him and getting back together was trust cos there's other issues too.  Not least of which is how she always has to be right.  But she doesn't want to hear his reasons and it's a no brainer (sorry!) he's got brain problems, she knows he forget what he said to her last season and also giving her the wrong cup and the one with sugar in it.  Okay so he most likely forgot he doesn't have sugar in his tea, but the cups were identical so it was a mistake anyone could've made.

She rushes off to Tony and seals the deal with a kiss and wants to be 'in' as he's executive chef of some Las Vegas joint.  Which means he's going to give up his dream job for her and then there'll be problems later on, can see them coming.  OH no that scene when she walked out on Jake like that was so heart breaking wasn't it, almost got teary eyed.  Gotta say she had a nerve leaving in a huff especially with what he's going through medically.  Even after he recalled they had those cheeso things at their wedding and he wouldn't change a thing about it.  So it seems his problems are more short term than long term memory.

Longmire 4.6 "The Calling Back" Review

                                           
A Cheyenne girl is spotted by a hunter who shoots at her thinking she's a deer.  They report it and Zachary (Barry Sloane) takes their statement, Ferg (Adam Bartley) doesn't appear to really take them seriously.  May (Irene Bedard) asks Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) for Cady's (Cassidy Freeman) details cos Gab (Julia Jones) has been attacked but she refuses to come in or make a statement.  They take her to Walt (Robert Taylor) and he asks her questions.  She doesn't talk much but May says she was at a party on the Res and so he doesn't have jurisdiction.  However the hunters saw her away from there so he sends out Ferg and Zachary to investigate the area with the hunters to pinpoint their exact location.  May tells Walt she took her to the Res clinic and that's hopeful cos then they might have evidence.  Gabe also describes her attacker as having a beard.

At the clinic she was looked at by a casual and not a doctor or a nurse so he wasn't quite sure what to do, he even forget the biggest procedure whereby the victim stands on a white cloth so that any evidence such as hair or other trace can be collected.  She also showered before she got there.  Cady is despondent but says that they could get a Federal prosecutor involved if they had enough evidence. Walt asks Cady if Vic (Katee Sackhoff) can move in with her for a few days cos all the hotels are full with visitors to the casino. After he had to evict her.  Vic thought she got the place after she and Sean were divorced.  Cady asks why she can't move in with him.  He replies she can't.  Yeah that's right Cady shove him at her!  Which many of us still don't want to see.

Ferg finds the blue, flowery material on the fence that came from Gab's dress and it's the same one the hunter saw.  Wasn't it a little dark to see what she was wearing in such detail.  Walt and Mathias (Zahn McClarnon) investigate the party site and Walt finds a casino chip.  Mathias wonders why they didn't go to him.  Also Walt suggest they deputize each other so they'll have jurisdiction in each other's, er, jurisdiction, but he says they'll have two weeks to investigate cos then he'll be out of a job.  At the casino, Malachi (Graham Greene) tells them Nighthorse let them investigate and he's a softie. The surveillance footage shows Gab at the craps table with some men from the oil rig.  Malachi agreed to help if Mathias dropped the charges against one of his men and gives them some print outs.

Walt arrives at Gab's house and her mother, Linda Langton (Stefany Mathias) is angry at May and Henry for making her see him.  Well she was a sorry excuse for a mother, what was the point of having a baby if that's how you're going to treat her, like an object.  Walt shows Gab the photo and she IDs two men.  Who are arrested.  Their boss,Walker Browning (Callum Keith Rennie) comes in   and tells Walt that they just let off steam and he knows how it is.  Hmm was thinking a bit of a harkback to when Rob used to work on an oil rig but I strongly doubt he'd be that loose a cannon and let his hair down in such a way!  If they're guilty then he tells Walt to throw the book at them, oh joke, hey, considering Walt and his love for books.

Cady is determined to see this through and urges Federal Prosecutor Bradley (Christine Dunford) to reconsider the case and take it on even if there isn't much to go since they've arrested the men.  She'd have to get a personal statement from Gab and it's not like she'll be willing to do that.  A girl,Mandy (Tamara Duarte) turns up at Gab's saying she was looking for her and she didn't turn up at their meeting place.

Cady relents and lets Vic move in with her, also she tells Walt he should talk with Gab about the prosecutor cos he's good with her and he treats her like he treats Cady.  She opened up to him.  Her mother tells him to leave and after she comes in with a ransom note and now wants Walt's help, but she's heading to work, so much for her daughter.  Mandy's also in the picture with another man and tells Walt she spent the whole night and part of the day with him at a unit he rents.  Making Walt release the two men he arrested and gets Ferg and Zachary to follow them.  Zachary loses his temper and videos the men.  Ferg tells Walt he doesn't think he's right for the job and he tells Ferg that as senior deputy he should've stopped him, he doesn't want to file a complaint.  On the video Zachary spots the man in the photo with Mandy and also the name of a storage unit, where Walt finds Gab, tied and beaten up.

Her mother tells Walt she doesn't want to press charges and there'll be no justice for her.  Suddenly sporting a new phone and rent being paid on her house cos she was bribed to drop the charges. Which she thinks is more important, coming up with nonsense about how they've always been treated like this.  I called it nonsense cos unless someone's willing to take the first step and make a change or a difference then there won't be any justice and they'll always be treated that way.  Since no charges will be brought men will just be free to do the same all over the country on an Res and Vic has to drink, passing the bottle round to Walt and Cady.  Gab's mother being relieved her daughter was lucky enough to be raped by a White man!

Gab takes part in the sweat where she's told to get back what she's lost.  May is angry, she can't do this and tells Henry she's going to leave a note for Hector, putting him in the middle of it and a dilemma!  Since 'Hector Lives' he'll have to get some form of justice against the men and how exactly he'll manage that will be problematic.  It was apparent where this storyline was heading, rape is initself a difficult and emotive subject to approach let alone prosecute and find justice for the Vic, least which if the victim doesn't want to do anything then the situation will only continue.

Mysteries of Laura 2.8 "The Mystery of the Ghost in the Machine" Review

                                           
A man is found dead in a Ferrari and Laura (Debra Messing) notices the seat wasn't in the right position for him to be driving it.  They find that the actual owner of the car is at a club and was picked up by a woman, Max (Max Jenkins) describing him as a Seth Rogan lookalike.  Jake (Josh Lucas) can't believe he got picked up by a woman to begin with.  Laura follows her to the ladies as she's about to send a text.  Hey did that in the last ep, what is it with these people using texts suddenly to warn of the police.  She tells Laura she was paid to get his keys and she meets the man at an apartment downtown to get her payment.  Billy (Laz Alonso) and Meredith (Janina Gavankar) check it out and find that' it's sparse and hardly lived in with no personal belongings at all.  Billy thinks he knows what's going on and finds a police badge in the sink pipe.  Well if that was meant to be an undercover op, there was so much that was wrong there!

Laura and Jake speak with John's mother, Mrs Campbell (Regina Taylor) and his sister, Rachel (Nia Nichole Smith) who is distraught over his death and it was her birthday.  He sent her a video message from his car and Laura works out where he was shot.  The coffee place where they take their children and Billy and Meredith check out a nearby garage, which was used as a 'cooling spot' until it was clear to move the cars.  They wait for a car to drive up and arrest the driver, didn't Meredith see him with the gun, thought that's why she paused and took a look.  He had files from John's cases which his handler, Lt Monahan (Sean Cullen) said wasn't possible since they were all on a computer which couldn't be hacked.  He also tells Billy, John aka 'Ricky' was working on the case where cars are stolen.

They need to access the computer and Santiani (Callie Thorne)says Laura should go with Jake cos she's their worst detective, meaning she can play bad cop.  They question him and he says that there's only three people who have access to the computer which is in his office.  They need to analyze it. Meredith finds someone hacked into it and focused on John's case.  Billy says he's on that too but no one would be interested in his files cos they're all old cases.  Then find they're being hacked right now, as Santianai gets a whole lot of files being printed out.

Laura finds they're all personal and Santiani gets hold of the e-mails Meredith sent Billy.  Laura unplugs her printer and Santiani tells everyone to shutdown.  Jake was in the middle of accessing an e-mail from his doctor which he worries will get out.  Meredith says the hacker is specifically targetting the second precinct and not the entire NYPD.  Max (Max Jenkins) finds a safe place for them to operate from, i.e. the bar and Laura's taken to writing down messages.  Billy and Meredith find a place which has good viewing access to the NYPD and a woman tells them of a man who hogged a table for four and wanted to use the computer plug.  He bought lots of mocha latte doublepump chai.

 Also Billy and Meredith follow a lead to an apartment which isn't him but an old man who ordered pizza online and got chatting with the site's online chat.  They find where the chat link is based and Meredith didn't think about the Internet camera on the computer as the hacker watches them.  When they reach the building, Billy's shot at.  It's someone he arrested when he was undercover and Devin (Gregory Bastian) tells him he got his file sent to him.  They find a file where Rachel was cyberbullied and he sent her photos of his privates after she tells their mother she wants to tell Jake what happened cos they can catch his killer.  Laura recognizes his 'junk' ie he has a banner belonging to Hudson University.  The man also spoke about Star Trek and science stuff.  Laura steals a Hudson University course book from the shop and Jake finds a class which refers to English is in Mars thinking that his mentioning Ziggy means he was into David Bowie and the Spiders from Mars.

Laura saying, 'ground control to Major Jake.'  She finds the man and more accurately notices his drink.  He killed John cos he beat up on him for bullying Rachel.  He didn't like her singing so he could say what he likes.  Laura reassures his mother he will get what he deserves.  Santiani wants a word with Billy and Meredith, obviously she's going to reprimand them about their relationship, but Laura intervenes when she recalls the piece of info she and Jake found out in ep 1 about how she dissed everyone when she thought she was going to get a promotion.  That Laura wanted Jake to use on her to get rid of her and get his job back, but he didn't use it and got a demotion instead.  She tells her she hasn't shared that with anyone and wouldn't either.  Santiani relents cos Laura likes her just a tiny bit more in the time she's known her.

She and Jake have their date which consisted of pizza and wine at home and she stole Santiani's printer.  She thinks there's lots of info on it and secrets they can read, but decided against it.  Telling him that's what lead to him not forsaking all others til death do they part.  She pulls the wire saying "no more secrets."  Which Jake is relieved about cos he has a secret, the e-mail he was reading has found something on his frontal lobe which needs to be further analyzed, only he doesn't tell her, so yeah another secret he's keeping.  Even if it's only cos he doesn't want to worry her at this point.  Especially since it'll affect his chances of winning her back and getting forgiveness which let's face it, he wouldn't and doesn't want out of pity, but cos she genuinely does forgive him.

Mysteries of Laura 2.7 "The Mystery of the Maternal Instinct" Review

                                              
A woman calls for help after she finds a pregnant woman dead in an alley and is having her car towed away.  Jake (Josh Lucas) and Laura (Debra Messing) continue with their usual banter of how she's still not forgiving him and she's got a pain in her neck which he says he can massage for her.  Laura adding that's what got him into trouble and being led astray in the first place.  The woman, Susan (Marisa Ryan) tells them she saw a white man in the alley and Laura stops her car from being towed for which she's offered a free massage.  Jake has written down the details in the notebook that Laura just gave him so that he doesn't forget things.  Also mentioning how good her memory is.  Lucky I don't need notebooks to recall things, never forget a thing!  Laura also hinting that she can sort out Susan's parking tickets too.  The thing about the notebook she gave Jake can also be implied it's cos he forgot what he said to her in hospital, but then he was in pain and pumped with drugs so that's easy to understand.

Renaldo (Marc Webster) calls for EMTs cos the baby is still alive and is rushed to hospital, Jake reminding him they still need the forensics from the woman.  The baby is in ICU and the mother had a pre-existing condition which needed medical attention, however her placenta ruptured.  She died after her head hit the pavement.  She was also found on Hooker's Row where Meredith (Janina Gavankar) tries to get information from and one of the girls tells her she looks good but she doesn't know the woman.  Her pimp, Vladi (Andrew Hovelson) turns up and gets rough with her so Billy (Laz Alonso) has to intervene, when Meredith was just getting started on him.  He tells Billy that he didn't touch her and points to her tattoo behind her ear.  She's from Nigeria and you don't mess with the Nigerian smugglers from Benin City.

Laura had Max (Max Jenkins) look into any pregnant women who had entered the country on a tourist visa and he narrowed the list down to two women, the pregnant one was DJ and she was registered at a hotel.  The concierge recalls she would book a room but wait to be picked up by a white van.  As a man comes into the hotel and sends a text on his phone.  Laura grabs it and reads the text where he warns someone about the police being here.  He gets paid for picking up the women by a man named Carlo and that's all he knows.  Billy and Meredith follow the GPS on the phone and the white van to another location, when they raid it, they find other men and also a woman in her underwear.  She says DJ was new and how they smuggled uncut stones into the country so they couldn't be traced.

DJ had been locked up and escaped through a tiny window which caused her placenta to rupture. They ask Carlo (Blake DeLong) for her suitcase and he says he didn't kill her.  Inside they find a teddy bear and Jake puts smoothing aside for the baby from his mother.  Laura finds a notebook and deciphering the entry leads them to an apartment building.  They find out about Ambaby and in the penthouse find other pregnant mothers who were brought into the country cos they wanted their babies born here and would have dual nationality.  I don't know why Santiani (Callie Thorn) found this difficult to grasp.  There was no proper medical care and only a nursing student (Alexandra Turshen) who got paid here and they had a Dr Nick (Andrew Rothenberg) on call if they needed help. He's tracked down to a clinic where he's treating criminals.

Nick gives them info on a young man with blond hair and how he has an alibi for when DJ was killed.  He should've been on call but he lost his medical licence to his gambling habit and was on a winning streak when he got the text.  He didn't leave.  No wonder he lost his licence, he should get the book thrown at him, what happened to his Hippocratic Oath, oh poker was far more important. They can't find who the man is, but then Laura recalls the estate agent in the flyer the apartment doorman (John Hattington Bland) had given her, in which she placed her gum.  Jake poses as a rich man looking for an apartment, well at least we go to see him in a suit and tie again this season! Scott's (Eric Sheffer Stevens) arrested and says he wanted to help DJ and in return she gave him a sapphire.  He sent an email to a nurse on call that night, her domain is massage.com, which Jake recalls belongs to Susan.

She says she wanted to help her but she panicked and dragged her to dump her, she hit her head on the kerb.  After they find Susan's DNA on DJ's ankle.  See another 'witness' trying to be too helpful and thus giving herself away in the process, especially when she saw the street cleaner and pretended to be a witness.  Her DNA wasn't in the system cos she hadn't been arrested.   DJ's relatives were found so they can keep her baby.  Did you notice the look on Laura's face at the beginning when DJ was taken away in the ambulance, she seemed to recall losing their own daughter, which we heard about in season 1, that's why both she and Jake wear their bracelets still.  Also Jake putting away the toy for the baby so the baby would have something the mother got.

Jake stays for dinner and he really needed to do that cos of this case.  Also he shows her the doctor's note written on a letterhead concurring with his first doctor's opinion and he asks for a date for Saturday night, a date in the night, which Laura agrees too albeit rather hesitantly.  Jake also commenting one her hair earlier in the ep cos it was straight and she says she got into a struggle with her hairdryer, but he mentions she's actually seeing Tony.