The Vampire Diaries 6.8 "Fade Into You" Review

                                            
Caroline (Candace Accola)  organizes a 'Friendsgiving' as Damon (Ian Somerhalder) Alaric (Matt Davis) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) head to Portland to find the Gemini Coven.  Stefan says there's nothing here which he saw for himself a few months ago and on the phone Alaric tells Elena (Nina Dobrev) that Bonnie (Kat Graham) is still alive.  Which Caroline overhears and says that's something to be thankful for.  Stefan warns him not to give too much away since he found nothing last time, so he doesn't want to get their hopes up.  Stefan again says there's nothing here and kicks Miss Cuddles, Bonnie's teddy bear where it lands on the porch as an invisible house is revealed.

Flashback to 1994 where Kai (Chris Wood) is on a murder spree having killed four of hi siblings after the remaining two, hide under the bed with Jo (Jodi Lyn O'Keefe).  Kai brings Bonnie to Portland too and says he wants to have a Thanksgiving dinner with her, also wanting to show her his house.  There's no psycho parents here, so she can come in.  Caroline's invited Tyler (Michael Trevino) Jo, Liv (Penelope Mitchell) and Luke (Chris Brochu) as well and Elena probably invited Liam (Marco James).  He apologizes cos he checked Lady Whitmore's records and found there was nothing strange there.  He should've double checked before he went off at her.  Elena realizes Jo switched records.  Luke brings out a video of himself and Liv when they were children and Jo says that's her voice, she made that video eighteen years ago.  Of course they had to be related which was apparent from the flashback when they're hiding under the bed.  Kai is Jo's twin.  Liv storms off as she doesn't want Caroline making fun of her family.  Luke explains that there can only be one leader of the Coven, so when they reach 22, they merge and one of the twins dies, and the other gets their power and becomes leader.

They realize that like Jo, Bonnie put her magic away and put it inside Miss Cuddles.  Damon can't enter the house, but Alaric can and goes in.  Outside an old man greets them, he's Kai's father, Joshua (Christopher Cousins) and Jo's and the twins.  He transports Damon away into the house by himself and wants info from him.  Damon wants the gadget, called the Ascendant but he won't give it him cos Kai will return and consume Jo, taking her power and killing her.  He puts Jo's locket with a photo inside a cauldron and does a spell.  Jo realizes her father's trying to kill her, but why.  I mean if Kai's not here then why is he killing her.  It defeats the entire purpose of having Kai stuck in 1994, if their father was going to end her life now.  Liam tries to save Jo but it doesn't work, not until Elena gives her own blood to her.  Telling Liam she's a vampire.  That she can't do this cos it's too complicated and she'll see him on Monday and they'll just be friends.

Kai cooks dinner and agrees that if she shares dinner with him, he'll let her go and even give her the car keys.  Bonnie actually trusted him.  He tells them how Jo agreed to merge with him on the eclipse, but instead they used a spell which sent him here.  As in the flashback, Jo makes the twins invisible and tells them to run.  She hides her magic in a knife and buries it in the tree stump, which she tells Aalric about on the phone, so they can save Damon.  Realizing that Jo has the Ascendant all along, it was a wasted trip.  Alaric won't let them have it cos they'll bring back Kai in the process of bringing back Bonnie.  Of course Damon compels him into getting it when they get back.

Caroline's saved Stefan leftovers and he says he pushed her away after Damon but he was wrong to do that.  As Caroline walks off when he's not finished speaking.  Elena tells Damon she doesn't know if she wants to try again with him but she could ask her friend for her advice and wants him to help her get Bonnie back.  Which naturally he'll do cos he wants Elena so badly.  Tyler tells Liv he'll help her and make sure the coven doesn't get to her.  Also that magic doesn't work in Mystic Falls so they'll have a hard time finding her.  Did I miss something here, are the male member of the coven, the male twins, meant to be more stronger than the female, or is it the first born who are meant to be merged and weaker?  Will have to watch again.

Elena wanting Bonnie back so she can give her advice one her lovelife was selfish, what happened to bringing her back cos she's her friend and it's the right thing to do.  Really, why, didn't she like Caroline's advice last ep.  It's ridiculous how Bonnie keeps listening to Kai and his excuses and lies. She didn't realize he would run out on her after he found the knife and got the magic back.  Of course he'd stab her and run.  But seriously what was she thinking, you don't need the Bennett witches for everything.  What sort of a coven needs siblings to be merged and the other one to be killed to be claimed leader, preposterous!  Just prolonging this storyline here.  Damon's throwaway line of having to undress at airport security and finding it funny Stefan wasn't invited to dinner by Caroline!

Revenge 4.10 "Atonement" Review

                                                
This one was definitely a Daniel (Josh Bowman) episode if ever there was one, but also it was apparent what was going to happen.  Though I did read quite a while ago that Daniel was going to be killed, it was more for season 3.  Anyway he tells Margaux (Karine Vanasse) he wants to be there for the baby, even if she doesn't want to take him back.  He doesn't want to be like Conrad (Henry Czeryn) and she doesn't think he can change and be different.  She doesn't trust him and doesn't want him in their lives.  She later looks through a photo of Conrad with Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) and David (no surprises for having him in the pic with them) and Victoria approves the proof.  She asks what's wrong with Margaux and she asks Victoria if Conrad was always like he was at the end. Victoria says he was neither good or bad but he wasn't so cruel.  Margaux telling her she's pregnant but all she can recall of her own father was how he was never there for her.  Victoria reassures her Daniel isn't like that and he loves her.  Margaux asks what if she doesn't love him, but Victoria replies that her tears show she still does.

Nolan (Gabriel Mann) and Louise (Elena Satine) plan a party like one the Hampton's have never seen before at his newly acquired yacht club and she seems to accept his apology for what Margaux wanted from him, but he didn't have any choice.  Anyway she's still going ahead with the story. Daniel plays golf and in so doing has flashbacks to his father playing on the beach and telling him who he should stand up for Andrew over what he did to some woman and stand by him.  Andrew is a fraternity bother which means more than some woman and his father is powerful.  Conrad instilling in Daniel at an early age of how he should behave and not stand up to his peers when they do wrong, or be true to himself and do the right thing.

Emily (Emily VanCamp) believes that Kate (Courtney Ford)is corrupt and is working for Marcus Black, as Emily walks into her hotel room and takes her prints from the furniture and the glass.  On the way out she bumps into Ben (Brian Hallisay) who's on his way to drop off some papers for Kate and he tells her about Jack (Nick Wechsler) and Kate.  She's surprised and angry at the same time as she couldn't wait to get out of there and she tells Jack what she suspects about her.  Of course Jack isn't ready to believe her but Emily wanted to tell him so he watches his back. Adding also that Kate will find some way to stay and won't head back.

Victoria thinks that David (James Tupper) should pay Malcolm Black the money David took from him and he'd leave him alone.  Emily's got enough money to do this.  But so has David, I mean what about all the dosh he's got stored away in that safe still. Why has Victoria forgotten about the safe? She's not one to misplace money or forget about it.  He doesn't want to do that and will take care of the problem himself, but of course Victoria can't help interfering.  Kate pays her a visit and shows her the photo she has of Emily.  She says that all she wants is rid of Black, for him to take the money and leave her and David alone to get on with their lives.  She doesn't care who she throws out to the wolves and scavengers and here it's Emily.  The daughter of the very man she betrayed and claimed to love.  She tells Kate to work out why she sent her Emily's photo.

Of course it didn't take Kate long to realize that she's Amanda and she confronts her with this at the party.  Nolan tells Emily he hasn't found anything on Black, there's not even a photo of him.  Emily needs to get Kate's sat phone which Nolan saw on the footage of the cameras in her room and she shouldn't have a second phone which isn't really FBI issue.  Nolan throws his drink onto Kate by accident (on purpose) and Emily brings her water to clean it, whilst taking her phone from her bag.  It would've been silly if she hadn't noticed that heavy thing was no longer weighing her bag down.  As Nolan downloads the info from the phone, Jack tells Emily if Kate's corrupt he wants to know and if she isn't, then he expects an apology.  Jack needs to distract Kate as Emily puts her phone back, but Kate already knows she took the phone.  Emily tells her they'll meet at her house.  Nolan and Louise share a dance and he finds out she's running away.  She can't face going through all that again, especially with the secrets that her brother has.  Oh and David told Emily not to get involved whatever happens cos he's got a plan.

Victoria sees Daniel in the bar where he says he wants to make a new start and he wants to do the right thing. She should do he same instead of lying to David.  He also tells her he's sorry for everything that he did, including trying to shoot his ex-wife and that she was right.  Emily was trying to get them to change but they didn't want to.  Of course that's something that Victoria wouldn't want to hear.  Did you notice Victoria's bangle, when she had her arm on the bar it was on her right arm and it was sticking up.  When Daniel leaves it's in her left arm and further up, where it stayed in the next scenes too.

David meets his former cellmate who comments on his getting parole and David being resurrected. He makes sure David knows what he's doing as he gives him some deadly nightshade.  Which can cause a heart attack and will be undetectable.  But we didn't guess he was going to use it on Victoria, who didn't take the wine!! OH!! Instead she saw this as the moment to come clean and admit that she took his computer and gave it to Conrad so  he could frame him.  She was afraid for Daniel, but when they decided they'd take their children and run, she found out his wife was alive.  He lied to her when she wanted him to tell her the truth.  No, Victoria is always putting herself first also I wouldn't really believe that explanation of hers.

Kate shows up and Emily takes her gun, but gives it back to her.  She doesn't trust her or believes her about Black having her mother.  She just wanted her out of the way of 'innocent civillians', well that backfired on her.  Kate was going to kill Emily after she got the money, also revealing that her mother is married to Black, her father.  Well that was obvious.  So she turns the gun on her but Emily shows her the magazine she took from it.  Emily telling her that her cover's blown on her security cameras.  So she couldn't feel the gun was lighter now, stupid woman!  She throws the gun at Emily and they fight.  Don't know why idiot Kate was running up the stairs when she could've been out the front door.  Then they go over the balcony, as was apparent.

Daniel reads the letter he gave his father when he was going to turn himself in at the courthouse and he stops him from doing that, calling it his 'suicide note' and talking about Momas, the God of writers and poets and how he was turned out of Mount Olympus.  As Daniel gets back into the car with him. He reads the note and then leaves as Margaux calls him and tells him she wants them to be a family and wants him back.  Nolan brags about his party being a success and Jack hears the computer get a hit with Kate's prints, identifying her as Katherine Black.  He runs out and tells Nolan to call Emily and warn her not to meet her.  Too late.  Daniel walks towards the house and Kate manages to load the gun.  He comes to Emily's rescue stepping in front of her and taking the bullets for her.  Jack arrives, too late but manages to shoot Katherine.  Daniel dies in Emily's arms as she tells him she did love him and Margaux pretties herself up for Daniel, well she'll have a long wait!  Yeah Margaux, it was your fault for turning him away.  I'd say it was Daniel's final selfless act for the woman he once loved!

With everything that Victoria's done, including killing Aiden when Emily had nothing to do with Pascal's death, can't feel sorry for her for losing Daniel, especially since she's throwing Emily to the dogs at every minute she can and so I didn't blame Louise for trying to kill her.  Wonder if Louise's gotten over that yet.  But it was sad to see Daniel go and in his last moments he did become a hero since he saved Emily.  Also showing that she did have an influence on him and that he did love her at one point too.  Beware the knives Emily and watch your back cos Victoria and Margaux will be gunning for you!  Emily telling him how she did love him and it wasn't about him.  Which she says he knows.  Ah, and not a dry eye around.  For all his faults, at least he was trying to change, he saw the light and he did want to be a better father than Conrad ever was.  So it was a shame that he was robbed of this.  Though some of us were also robbed of seeing him and Emily back together.

But that fight scene, funny and silly all in one.  Especially since it was kind of poetic, not sure if justice is the right word, considering that was the same banister where Amanda was pushed from when she was with Victoria.  Now it was Amanda again, as Emily who went over now.  But Kate landing on top of her.  Glad she met her doom by Jack's gun.

Did it seem strange that Conrad mentioned the Greek God of writers, Momas and their whole conversation about him being kicked out of Olympus.  How he was the god of criticism and was exiled.  Trying to show Daniel was doing the same when he wanted to turn himself in at the courthouse.  But for all of Daniel's shortcomings, I have to say I'd have preferred if Margaux was gone instead.  She's such a weak character.  Going on about Daniel and his father, when hers was no better.  She couldn't decide what she wanted.  Jack was a little taken aback in the sense of not wanting to see that Kate was trouble.  Sorry Jack you won't be getting that apology anytime soon, er, I just said sorry there!  Ha.  At least Emily and Victoria will never be friends after this and that after all, is the premise of the show.  Not least cos she killed Aiden.  But the number of times Emily told Daniel to stay out of it and he didn't, including telling him to run now, damn it man you were going to be a father!

However he went out on a high realizing he wasn't his father and didn't have to be, more importantly, he didn't want to be.  SO saving Emily lead him to a hero's death, in the same way that Conrad didn't want him to be Momas.  But he didn't realize Daniel never would have been that weak if it wasn't for his father.  Daniel didn't want to be associated with that sort of a Grayson, like his father.  Anyway, the Graysons are getting thin on the ground now.  As long as we don't have to suffer Charlotte again! Who is really a Clarke. She should have been the Grayson thrown under the bus!! A for Jack, well he just stood there doing nothing, but shaking his head!

Mr Selfridge Series 3 Episode 7 Review

The episode opens with everyone gathered at Doris's wake which has been organized by Miss Mardle (Amanda Abbington) at her own home.  Harry (Jeremy Piven) also arrives and he was unexpected, he had to be here obviously, but Billy (Craig Fletcher) was also unexpected, who turns up with flowers. Miss Mardle sends him away telling him where Doris is buried, facing west, towards the morning sun.  Whilst Grove (Tom Goodman-Hill) watches them from the dining room.  Well, he just had to be sitting by the window.  Harry spends time with Nancy (Kelly Adams) again and he is in tears as he recalls how this has brought it all back for him after he lost Rose, knowing how hard is it for Grove.  He takes Nancy out and to the Selfridge store, where he lavishes her with perfume, a dress and lots of champagne.  She thinks it's all too much, but she takes it all, naturally.  felt like saying greedy sod here for some reason!  ha.

He also tells her he's not the majority shareholder in the store anymore since he had to sell his 5% shares to finance the Selfridge Estate.  She thinks it's all too much and he shouldn't have done that, damn right he shouldn't have, cos we all know who got those shares.  As it happens, Crabb (Ron Cook) has organized the shareholder meeting, just as Rosalie (Kara Tointon) gets back from Paris and Harry lets them have tea on him at The Emporium.  Of course, the Princess (Zoe Wanamaker) wouldn't object to that.  Just as all is going well at the meeting and Harry has convinced the board and shareholders that are doing as well as can be expected, guess who arrives, yes that nasty little man, Loxley (Aidan Mccardle).  Well, sorry excuse for a man!  Ha.

He says he's got 5% of the shares which gives him a right to be here and again he yabbers on about how Harry is treating the store like his own personal 'bank' and using the name for the furtherance of his own name.  When Harry replies he sold the shares of the Estate, he even adds that's him just trying to do it for his own purposes.  Well, Loxley, it wasn't that long since he did the same when he said he wants to do charitable work to gain back his reputation.   Gordon (Greg Austin) tries to defend him and Loxley admonishes him for his loyalty coming from the 'heir to the throne.'   As does Nancy try to defend him.  Harry promises the shareholders that within the next three months they will see a 10% increase in their share price, which is no mean feat and Crab wonders how they will achieve that.  Harry reassures him they'll do it. Crabb also adding that his children are "ambassadors for the store."

Harry sends Nancy away in a taxi and Loxley shows up saying he doesn't have 5% but he has 7% which gives him a seat on the board.  He acquired the extra 2% when Serge (Leon Ockenden) sold Rosalie's shares.  Harry asking how he knew his personal, family business, it had to be Serge of course, when they were friends.  Which makes Harry livid.  When he returns home, Harry confronts him and Serge says he needed the capital for his business venture in Paris.  His wife's shares are his. Harry is angered by his betrayal and for not thinking about what he was doing and he wants him out. Serge tries to rip up his aviation plans once again, but Rosalie stops him.  He's always stopped whenever he does that.  She's pregnant and she will talk to Harry about him staying here.  She tells him if Serge goes, then so will she.  He didn't maliciously betray him and tells him the news of his grandchild.  If he goes, then so will she.

They celebrate as Harry lets Serge stay, which was music to the Princess's ears.  She can't wait for champagne, as they break the news and Serge promises he will do everything he can to make it up to him.  Harry shakes his hand and replies, "you're damn right you will." Nancy is upset, a little that Harry has been making all these sacrifices, but she's talked round again into continuing by the mention of America and a fresh start.  So why couldn't Harry get his majority shareholding back by buying back the children's shares, or at least one of the children's shares.  It would be after all, still keeping it in the family.

Victor (Trystan Gravelle) takes Violette (Hannah Tointon) for a drive to the White Cliffs of Dover in his newly acquired car, cos he appears to be raking it in.  She asks him how he would furnish the houses and he replies with a kitchen table and a comfortable bed.  That's what the married soldiers all dreamed about, a table for their children to sit around and a bed to cosy up with their wives.  She thinks it's spartan and he asks if she could live like that.  Knew her answer would be depending on the right person.  Can't see her living that sort of a life though.  He's got problems at the club though as Regan (Sean Campion) pays him a visit asking how things will be done and George (Calum Callaghan) tells him they'll bring the gamblers round to the back where he shows him the roulette table.  Regan also has some of his cohorts come round and Victor realizes they're doing drugs there. He's not too happy about it, but he's not really willing to make waves, cos the club's doing well.

George calls him out on it cos they've seen what can happen to people when they take drugs, like the soldiers did.  Anyway he thinks it's bad news and wants to call Regan to tell him it's not on.  Victor tells him he'll do it but he doesn't of curse.  George saying he had a job for life at the store but he came here cos Victor needed him.  Though Victor can't see past that, he tells George to listen to himself, cos he 'needed him.'  That George is always playing it straight, he has to understand the world isn't the same anymore and people want to take risks after the war, cos life is short.  George gives him his keys and leaves.  Later Elsa (Naomi Ryan) finds one of the men passed out from the drugs and wants to call a doctor, but Elsa advises against it cos he bought the drugs from one of Regan's men.  He eventually gets him to regain consciousness and throws him out. Violette is disturbed by it all and Victor ends it with her.  Saying Harry was right, he's not good enough for her.  She returns home miserable listening to the others celebrating still.  Yes Victor, no wonder Agnes left him.

Everyone can see Miss Mardle isn't herself as she ignores the store assistants and Kitty (Amy Beth Hayes) too when she invites her to dinner. Crabb notices too and asks what's wrong.  She tells him everything about Doris and Billy and he tells her she needs to tell Grove.  Which she does, but of course he doesn't take things well.  Especially when he hears that it was her idea and interference which led to Doris's accident.  She thought it best that Doris should meet Billy so he could meet Earnest, his son.  She's not completely to blame, it was Doris who ran out into the road without thinking or looking.  He tells her to leave and to take Earnest with her.  He's upset, he had to comfort their daughter and stay with her all night, having told them the news about their mother.  He thought Miss Mardle was a friend, but he blames her for everything.  He wasn't going to take such news well even if Doris had told him in person, cos that's the sort of man that he is. Though it's ironic he was having an affair with Miss Mardle whilst still married and looking after his wife. It's always the way, double standards, one rule for men and a completely different set for women.  So really what's changed?

With three more episodes to go, it appears everything will culminate in a showdown in the finale cos at the moment we're just being set up with more storylines and plots.

CSI 15.7 "Road to Recovery" Review

                                                  
The ep opens with a woman drinking, dancing, kissing randoms and using drugs, before she's found. Nick (George Eads) and Greg (Eric Szmanda) are called to the CS where the same woman's DB found in a pool, thought that pool looked familiar, they've been to a similar pool CS in S11 Pool Shark.  Nick uses Greg's mini ALS and finds that the DB had been to different clubs as she has stamps one her wrists.  People heard noises but no one saw anything, as is always the case.  Also mentioning that she partied like there was no tomorrow and Nick replying for her it didn't.

Her name is Daycia (Marielle Jaffe) (what kind of a name is Daycia) and she was married to a rich husband from Utah, Martin Fox (Chris Browning).  Infact David (David Berman) thinks she was a working girl, but Finn (Elisabeth Shue) identifies her clothes and shoes as being expensive.  DB )Ted Danson) talks with Martin who tells them she was in rehhab and she used all their money on partying and expensive stuff. Wouldn't think Vegas would be the first place anyone went to for rehab purposes.  Too much going on here!! The rehab place is expensive at $8,000 and in a beautiful setting, as Finn tells Nick, she'd never leave here.  It's run by Adam (Mark Blucas) who thinks that Daycia has gotten herself into trouble again, but it's much worse.  Plenty of suspects here, didn't they go through the list there though, just incase we didn't suspect the right person.  It was obvious that none of the ones they suspected were the killer.  Cos of course the killer was easy to spot.  Twyla (Merrin Dungey) takes the therapy group and Len (Greg Grunberg) is almost done with his therapy and would be able to leave soon.

Nick and Finn check out the room where she stayed and we're shown bottles of her bath oil and lavender, which Finn had no clue about, until Doc (Robert David Hall) finds foreign traces in her lungs.  Doc asking Greg if he knows whether there was chlorine in the pool where she was found or saline, cos there was no trace of either in her lungs.  Hodges (Wallace Langham) also finding that the Ph levels were similar but there was no chlorine in the water, meaning she was killed in tap water. Leading Finn to return to the room and find the bottle of bath oil etc.  Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) looks for evidence in the bins outside and is met by Zach (Brandon Quinn).  He's a womanizer really, cos women are "his kryptonite" as he tells Morgan.  He saw Daycia leaving with a cowboy, last time he went out with her.  Henry (Jon Wellner) is unable to identify the trace under her nails to any DNA match. but found he could only match four loci.  Morgan finds the towels in the bin outside the clinic and also candle wax.

She pieces together the wax which leads to the same four loci on the towels, belonging to Adam.  He is arrested and when he's taken away Martin walks up and shoots him.  Again that was apparent he would do that, so much for standing around and watching him.  Adam tells Finn he didn't kill her but disposed of her DB by the pool.  They had an overdose a few months ago and the place was under scrutiny.  He didn't want her found there.  He went looking for her and ended up bringing her home in a taxi and put her to bed.  He later went to check and found her in the bath.  He thought she must've had a relapse and didn't want her found here.  Which was logical and even I said that.  But Finn didn't and still assumed he was the killer.

The taxi is found but the driver doesn't recall the man.  As DB says he was only interested in the woman.  Nick processes the taxi and takes dozens of prints from it.  Morgan manages to put together the candle wax and finds an imprint which she says came from a ring.  Nick thinks the 20/12 could be a score from a game and Morgan searches Zach on the Net, coming up with the same score for a uni game.  Zach can't recall what happened, but she came to his room and he couldn't resist.  They went back to her room and got it on, which explains the scratches on him and the trace under her nails.  He woke in his room but didn't know where Daycia was.

Doc tells Greg he found she had burst alveoli in her lungs, as if water had been pushed into her lungs at great force after she died and they burst.  It would take someone with premed training and Hodges finds trace which could have come from bird or fish poop.  Morgan recalls the fish tank and Greg and Morgan find tubing for the tank and other equipment used to clean it.  The pump is broken but it can't be used, however it has Twyla's prints all over everything cos she used to clean it.  Except for the tubing which is wiped clean.  Greg thinks maybe the killer used the tubing and sucked through it.  DNA is found matching Len.

He says she came to his room and had left a bottle of his brand of bourbon. He had two days left and would've been able to leave, but she kept taunting him.  He confronted her and she wouldn't stop drinking and he finally wanted her to shut up so he suffocated her.  Well, he won't be seeing his children now except in prison visits.  So what was stopping him from not going back to his own room and locking himself in, or going for a walk to get away from her.  Ironically, he tells DB afterwards he didn't even feel like a drink.  Same thing with Daycia's husband and shooting Adam, he was so sure that he'd done it, was it really worth it all.  Which time and again is the question that these eps set up.  I couldn't see anything different in this ep that hasn't already been done before.

Finn tells Twyla she doesn't know how she does this and she says if they don't do it who will.  They have two more patients coming in, when Finn starts prejudging that it's all about the money, but not for Twyla it's not.  Finn and her smug attitude.  I have to ask why Len used the fishtank water, since he had EMT training and would know how to intubate, why not just use the bathtub water.  It was there after all as he tells DB he saw the full tub.  Also why put the tubing back, which really was the whole basis on which he was caught!

See Sara done a runner and wasn't in this ep, not surprising, it was kind of the worst one I've seen in a long time and in this season too.  So the casting had to include Greg Grunberg and Merrin Dungey who were both in Alias.  That muts've been some on-set reunion!  Or not.  ha.  Also Mark Blucas was Reilly in Buffy.

The Vampire Diaries 6.7 "Do You Remember Your First Time?" Review

                                                     
Back from its Christmas break (ha) on an ep it shouldn't have been left on, sees Damon (Ian Somerhalder) still pining for Elena (Nina Dobrev) even though she can't remember and won't be getting her memories back.  Which is a good thing really, cos love it or hate it, they shouldn't have gotten together to begin with.  He wants to try and get her to remember but she has given up; telling Caroline (Candace Accola) who thinks it's a good thing that she doesn't recall, especially someone who killed her brother.  She's happier now and she's living her life doing what she wants.  Look another fundraiser now at the university and (Jo (Jody Lyn O'Keefe) is the guest of honour.  Which is also attended by Elena with Liam (Marco James).  Caroline also advising that he has nice eyes too, when all Elena could recall of Damon was that he had pretty eyes.  Anyway Damon doesn't give up and compels Liam to get Elena Chardonnay, which she hates.  They dance and she says she wants to remember after getting some air and she wants to see if they can make it work.

She wants him to take her to the place where they declared their love.  He tells her about the meteorite shower, where it rained instead and she said it would clear up and they waited.  Which just happens to be near to the town border it seems.  But she can't recall anything even if they were 'in the moment' so to speak.  She ask him what happened but he doesn't answer.  As she runs to the border she gets flashes of memory of her and Damon, but nothing returns.  He tells her she'll hurt herself if she keeps trying it.  That it turned muddy and cold and they went home.  Watch this ep for Damon's speech alone when they're at the fundraiser, quite a heartbreaker, coming from him.  Damon calls it quits cos she's happy and she deserves it.

Enzo (Michael Mularkey) has Trip (Colin Ferguson) but thought they'd torture him some and get some answers from him.  Telling him there are others like him, doing what he does.  Matt (Zach Roerig) thinks they can let him go and compel him to forget after the vervain wears off.  Caroline gets called by her mother (Marguerite MacIntyre) who's been held hostage by his men for an exchange.  Caroline doesn't want to be friends with Stefan (Paul Wesley) anymore, as we know, but he's with her when her mother calls.  They take Trip for the exchange, but not before Enzo tells Stefan how Caroline has "a thing for him."  That's why there were in Savannah.  Caroline says she did but she doesn't anymore and doesn't want to talk about it ever again.  They agree to it, but in fact, they don't agree, it's what she wanted.

They make the exchange, but as soon as he crosses the line, Trip dies.  Apparently Enzo turned him which explains why he had all that blood on his hands and couldn't answer his phone sooner, cos the touchscreen wouldn't work.  Didn't know whether to laugh at that or not, cos they actually trusted him with Enzo, he's not exactly going to be Mr Hearts and Flowers all of a sudden.  More like, also puts his foot in everything, as well as blabbing.  At the hospital Caroline said she did have a thing for Stefan, cos she thought he was her friend, she trusted him, but he doesn't feel the same way. Stefan doesn't know how he feels cos he was in a different headspace at the time.

Bonnie (Kat Graham) gets away from Kai (Chris wood) and manages to get some painkillers, as well as putting together the gadget to get home.  Unfortunately for her, Kai is always one step behind her, or in front of her.  Cos he wants to leave here too and lies about having changed, that Bonnie changed him into being the better person.  He regrets killing his family and could have taken a better approach to sorting his problems.  As soon as Jo said family and the conversation between Alaric (Matt Davis) and Damon where she says she's 'put' her magic away, knew that Kai was her brother.   Even more so after Alaric sees her scar where her psycho brother tired to cut her.  Also when Luke (Chris Brochu) mentions to Liv (Penelope Mitchell) how they'll have to go once the coven summons them.

Having set Tyler (Michael Trevino) to work helping Liv serve at the fundraiser, but it doesn't mean they're even for her having to kill someone to stop him from turning.  Liam finds out that lady Whitmore no longer has a shoulder injury which cleared up and he's going to get to the bottom of it.  Especially after Damon, who was meant to be her dead boyfriend turns up.  As Damon in wallowing mode as usual, finds Bonnie's teddybear at the cemetery, knowing she's alive.  Cos she put her magic into him and transported him here instead of herself and Kai.  Also Bonnie saying she 'put her magic' away just as Jo said she's done the same earlier.

Suppose this ep will also be remembered cos it had the best songs, especially in the Elena and Damon scenes and Stefan and Caroline ones.  As well as Damon's best speech, a little similar to the one he gave in 4.22 The Walking Dead, or am I not remembering this right like Elena?  ha.  Well I have a lot on my mind!

The Mentalist 7.4 "Black Market" Review

                                           
Lisbon (Robin Tunney) tries on an expensive ring in a jeweller's and she asks Cho (Tim Kang) if they should go ahead and buy it.  Of course we were meant to think that it was Patrick (Simon Baker) who was buying the ring for her, for their impending nuptials, ha, not such a spoiler cos we all know they were going to go there, this being the final season.  Cho pulls out his credit card.  Patrick waits in the car since he can't go in there and yes a plot ploy, this time round he has a nasty cold.  So he wasn't able to do much, which was a shame.  No wonder they must've decided to bring in the storyline with Abbot (Rockmond Dunbar) and his wife Lena (Christine Adams).  She's going to be selected for the high powered job in Washington.  Anyhow, getting back, Lisbon hands the ring to a woman who appraises it.  The diamond is part of the stolen jewels.  They head back to the jewellery store and inside Lisbon IDs herself with a badge.  She tells the jeweller that two guards were shot in the heist and shows him their pictures.  He claims he was out of the country and bought the diamond from a reputable source.

Patrick tells Lisbon that the jeweller, Joubert (William Abadie) and his assistant, Wren (Devon Barnes) are in a relationship and he won't leave his wife for her.  Lisbon asks if he's hiding assets cos he's getting a divorce but he insists he won't leave his wife.  Patrick saying if he cheated on his wife, then she'll be next.  Vega (Josie Loren) asks Cho about the arrest and he's not really talking with her cos he has trust issues.  As I said, it's Cho, trust is an important issue for him.  She also says that she came clean to Abbot about lying when he didn't give permission for her to accompany Cho in the last ep Orange Blossom Ice Cream.   She wants to know how she can make it up.  Patrick makes some hot lemon and honey for his throat as Lisbon and Abbot both say that he looks pale.  Lisbon also asks if he's heard about the promotion for his wife yet.

Wylie (Joe Adler) says the receipts confirm Joubert bought the diamond at the jewellery show. Abbot tells Cho to take Vega to the show, but he'd rather take Lisbon.  He finally gives in and tells her to come.  Cho asks if she's interrogated a suspect and he tells her to follow his lead and not to lie to anyone.  Oh Cho rub it in, ha.  Kirk (Will Green) Rene Rivera) asks if they're looking for Rosales (Rene Rivera) and the security man, Bell (Leonard Roberts) shows up.  He is concerned someone is using the black market to sell off the stolen jewels.  Rosales sells to Joubert every year and Vega starts speaking in Spanish to him.  Bell takes them outside where they find Kirk's DB, he's lying on    the stairs.

Abbot tells Wylie to check out the security footage and he tells Patrick he should go home.  Patrick looks at what's happening there live.  Lisbon talks with Kirk's ex who mentions him having a scheme every month and so she broke it off.  He got into the jewellery business as he needed money for his children and hung out with a bad crowd.  Mentioning Walker Pond (Jeff Branson) who Cho speaks with.  He says Kirk was good, but always in a rush, he wanted to teach him the tricks of the trade but he was too impatient.  He saw Kirk with Greta (Claudia Christian) who's an appraiser.  Greta says she keeps the sellers honest and he daughter is also there, Bibby (Amelia Rose Blaire) chewing gum. Which really isn't a look that should be seen at such a show.  That was a clue for later.  Patrick watches them on the footage and tells Cho his fly is undone! Oh Patty, the oldest fly ploy going!  ha.

He feels faint and Abbot tells him to go home again.  Yeah to the Airstream.  Kirk left his booth after he spoke to Cho and they look for Pond, but he's not there.  He packed up and left in a hurry.  Wylie gets a hit off Pond's card and is heading to an airport in Galveston.  Abbot tells Wylie to send Cho as he's meeting his wife.  He and Lena meet Bob (Larry Clarke) about her confirmation and that the other side doesn't want to take her on cos of something that happened with Abbot, called Rio Bravo Station.  But she doesn't know what happened there.  Abbot was a newbie back then.  It had to do with taking down drug cartels, which Bob says can be dirty, especially with many law enforcement officials involved who can turn bad.

At the airport, they find Pond who thinks they're working for Losa as shots are fired.  Cho gives chase and Vega apprehends Pond.  Pond tells Lisbon Kirk is dead cos of him, he borrowed his hoodie and he borrowed money from Losa's boss.  Kirk went out the fire exit cos it's a secret area for smokers. She also tells him that Losa wasn't there as they tacked him.  Patty's not psychic, ha, but he tells Lisbon to look at the smoking aspect of the case.  He's too ill to do it, but she should come down and bring him soup, tomato or bean.  He wants her to stand in for him and bring out the killer, should I say smoke out the killer, ha.  He'll practice with her, but she's nervous.

Bob tells Abbot that his wife can get the promotion if they appear to have trouble in their marriage and separate.  She won't have to lie about it.  Abbot tells Lena he can't go with her, he's too invested here and they can make their marriage work long distance.  He can't tell her about Rio Bravo station so she can say she doesn't know what happened.

Lisbon pretends to be psychic at the show and puts on a show of her own.  Was a bit disappointing without Patty there, but I guess they had to give Lisbon a go at doing what he does.  He talks her through it and Wylie identifies a woman there called Mary Kate Barrows (Dinora Walcott) and that she's lost her dog, Roger, who says he's doing okay.  Patrick's sofa is moved to a position in front of the screens.  Lisbon pretends to hear Kirk's voice and says that she'll speak though him.  Saying one of them was his friend but that's what they did to him.  Listening to Patrick she tells them that the killer chews gun and he hopes there's nicotine gum in prison, referring to Bibby.  She also says she wants her mother to see the shame one her face.  Lisbon adding if the killer confesses she'll get a deal from the FBI.  Bibby loses her temper, again and says she's smart.  She met Kirk at a bar and they both needed money.

She would steal the gems and replace them with the ones not registered and sell them on the black market.  She lost her temper at him and couldn't stop hitting him.  She asks how he knew about the gum and Cho tells her that her mother wouldn't let her chew bubble gun in that place.  Vega brings in Bell and puts him in interrogation.  She thinks the trust building exercise will work for them if he catches her and she catches  him, but he's not into it.  Yeah can really picture Cho doing that!  Ha. He finally relents and ask if she wants to got to the firing range.

Patty ponders what would happen if they gave it all up and just left right now.  Lisbon doesn't want to cos this is who she is.  He says he was just thinking out loud and she leaves him to get some rest, as she too sneezes.  Er, Patty spread the dreaded lurgy! ha.  Will never forget that from school.  As I said a little on the dull side cos Patty wasn't his normal self, but Lisbon did her best.  The Abbot storyline along with Vega was just filler.  Nothing exciting there.  Except the Abbot one will probably turn up again later to tie up loose ends.

Revenge 4.9 "Intel" Review

                                                
As Emily (Emily VanCamp) kicks ass, ha, like she's never done before, beating up the man for Intel (hence the title) we see her really get into it, and about to brand him with the hot poker.  Saved by      the bell, as they say, it's Ben (Brian Hallisay) who's come to be honest and ask her on a date.  She's not dating now and besides, he ruined a perfectly good torture scene, so no points to him for spoiling the fun.  The man eventually tells her that he and the other man were hired, but he doesn't know who by.  The other man's name is Peter Dunn and he dealt with the details.  Well, that was shortlived, no pun.  As Alvarez (Nestor Serrano) tells David (James Tupper) and Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) that they arrested Dunn, but the other man got away.  Just wanted to laugh then considering he was being held by Emily.  At the station, between Jack (Nick Wechsler) making goo goo eyes at Agent Taylor (Courtney Ford) and being interrupted beforehand by a call, they find Dunn hanged in the interrogation room.  Cue suspects, anyone who had access to that room.  This leads Emily to think it was Alvarez.

So she changes her mind about Ben and asks him out for a beer.  She questions him and he plays darts, saying that whoever gets the higher score gets to ask the question.  Of course it would be Emily.  By the end of the night, she finds out Alvarez was Ben's mentor and he was seeing someone who just used him to get out of a spot.  She left him.  He reaches to touch Emily's face but she grabs his wrist.  He realizes this wasn't a date, but a fact finding mission.

Nolan (Gabriel Mann) tries to get in touch with Emily, but she's not picking up.  As Louise (Elena Satine) opens up to him about her family and being put away in a mental institution for the first time. Also mentioning her father.  Nolan relays this info to Margaux (Karrine Vanasse) who still needs him to hack into her criminal record.  Nolan's being too trusting again, especially since Louis overhears him leaving a message for Ems and then tells her he's protective of family and friends.  Louise later finds out that he betrayed her when she tells him the Le Marchel people were digging up dirt on her father and he was the only one she told.  Nolan is angry with Margaux and says he no longer wants to help cos he doesn't want to see Louise end up like he did with David.

Probably another reason Nolan doesn't want to help is that David apologizes to him realizing he did look after Amanda.  Also Nolan tells him David owes him a new phone and his Twitter followers. He reassures him Emily won't be pursuing this and David knows it's dangerous for her.  That's why she hasn't revealed who she really is.  Victoria thinks David is keeping secrets from her and tells him she does love him.  That she has the date 1 September 1993 imprinted on her memory.  It was the day they were meant to take Daniel (Josh Bowman) and Amanda and run away together.  She saw him everytime she looked into Charlotte's eyes.  Well that must've been a chore!  Ha.

Daniel brings Margaux breakfast but she doesn't want it and tells him to leave again.  As well as Victoria telling him how she's lost everyone now.  Patrick, him and Charlotte, but she's not going to lose David.  Daniel replying that it won't work cos everything she's told him is based on lies.  Emily goes back to see Ben and says she owes him a date.  He says she's good at everything, including basketball and she asks about Alvarez, telling him she suspects him of killing Dunn, he replies that was a high level security interrogation room and the only one who has access was Alvarez, but he was with him, he passed him on the way from the beach house when he came to see Emily.  So that leaves the FBI.  Knew little Miss Agent was dirty.

David tells Nolan about a dangerous man named Marcus Black in Canada, even more dangerous than Conrad.  He got him to launder money and now he needs to find him.  Nolan finds the location of the man Emily was holding cos she freed him and made him drink a tracker in the water he gave him. David finds the safe where he concealed $5 million that Victoria stole from Conrad for their life together and he hid the safe but Victoria knew the combination.  Obviously he knew it was the date they were meant to leave together.  He places a flashdrive inside there.  Then gives the envelope to Nolan incase he doesn't return.  However, he's able to give it to the assailant instead at the airport.

Meanwhile Victoria calls her PI and gives him a photo of Emily revealing who Amanda is.  The same photo that's delivered to Taylor.  Ahh, Jack you fell for another floozy and a corrupt one at that! She gets Emily's photo.  Liked the scene with Emily and Daniel again as he tells her this is the one time they've been the most honest with each other.  But she told him to go away.  He says she looks good so she must be on a date with someone who wears his heart on his sleeve, so she can tear it from him. Emily also adding that he's never fought for what he wanted in his life, as he tells her his woes about Margaux.  He loves her and finally he turns up there drunk cos of what Emily said and she rejects him again.  This time telling him she's pregnant.  She also gives the go ahead for the Louise story to be printed even if she hasn't got any facts in support.  

Victoria lying when she tells Daniel, she almost died and has had enough of the revenge, that she is willing to live with Emily and David as a family.  Who's she kidding, especially as she endangers Emily now.  Alvarez also telling her how the two men were after David and he found Vince dead, the man who kidnapped David and was behind his attempted hit and run.  As well as Nolan getting involved with Louise who is unhinged and no one realizes she tried to kill Victoria.  Think the show is covering old ground with Emily getting back into revenge mode and all for David again.  This time it's not about Conrad but Victoria and Marcus.  Still waiting for someone to find out about Victoria's attack, but it appears the writer's don't remember that.

Mr Selfridge Series 3 Episode 6 Review

                                                  
The scene opens to Gordon (Greg Austin) introducing himself to the imaginary staff members, who aren't actually there yet in his new found role as Deputy Store Manager.  As well as having to deal with the uproar when things go missing from the counters, which all seem to be a shade of brown, as Gordon calls them.  Miss Mardle (Amanda Abbington) taking issue with burnt sienna being just brown.  He knows what's happening and Miss Calthorpe (Amy Morgan) refuses to be called a thief by Kitty (Amy Beth Hayes).  Gordon heads to the design room where he finds the new Head of Design he's hired, Pierre Longchamps (Edward Akrout) who has great plans for the display.  Gordon asks he be more careful in future before he just takes things.

Nancy (Kelly Adams) and ?? go ahead with their plans of embezzling money from Harry (Jeremy Piven) and he takes a massive step in selling off 5% of his own store's shares to meet the financing for the housing project, which Crabb (Ron Cook) is shocked at and in some way feels responsible for the outcome since he objected to the board approving finance.  Harry says it's not his fault , he was only doing what he thought was right.  This also means he won't be the majority shareholder anymore.  Thus signalling the slow decline in his life.  There'll be no Selfridge holding large shares in the store, so anything goes, so to speak.  As long as it's not Loxley (Aidan McCardle) who snaps them up.  Harry's willing to take that risk for the housing yes, but you've also got to ask if in some way he's also doing it for Nancy and not just to keep the project alive, but also his heart.  Nancy meanwhile still conspires and as soon as they get the money, they're off to America.  She wants to get out of London and make a fresh start, yeah, on someone else's money, at harry's expense.

Harry is angry with Violette (Hannah Tointon) and he is called by Purkiss (Rocky Marshall) telling him that they won't be pursuing any charges against her.  He forbids her from going out of the house. Also Serge (Leon Ockenden) announces he's leaving for Paris for a business meeting with a potential investor and things still aren't good in his marriage to Rosalie (Kara Tointon).  Lois (Kika Markham) insists the Princess (Zoe Wanamaker) speak with him and she tells him he has to be good to Rosalie cos they're keeping a roof over their heads.  He doesn't know how to treat her and make her happy, the Princess advising that he should treat her as if she was someone he'd just met, like all the other girls.  Adding she and her father didn't teach him how to talk to one another.  Americans love to talk and his father would've sooner shot himself than to speak with the Princess.  Well do you blame him? Ha.

Victor (Trystan Gravell) gives in to Purkiss and agrees to the old arrangement, but he demands triple the bribe now, which Victor can't afford.  Out surfaces a new worm from under a rock, by the name of Regan.  He doesn't want his club but he has an arrangement of how he can keep Purkiss's boss happy, if Victor agrees to setting up a gambling den at the back of the club.  To which eh doesn't really have any other choice. Harry comes to see Victor in the hopes of finding out who Violette was with, until he realizes it was him.  Victor later refuses to accept her call.

Harry suggests that Violette should help him with the housing cos it's what her mother would've wanted and Nancy tells her she can fund raise for furniture for the houses.  She could organize a party and the people that she knows and who invite her to theirs can come now.  The Princess gives her a list of eligible bachelors but she doesn't want to get married.  Telling the Princess she can write her own invitations if she wants to invite them.  Lois says they can muck in, causing the Princess to develop a sudden headache.  Hard work is such a killer!  Ha.

Harry invites Nancy to dinner and to meet the family so Violette won't be horrid to him if there's a guest and even then she's heard arguing with Rosalie.  When she comes in she's rude to Nancy and the Princess remarks how Nancy is Harry's lover.  Nancy tells Harry she'll grow out of it cos her first love will be like her father.  Harry dispelling the myth that he was anywhere near like Victor.  He could've fooled us the way he pined after Ellen Love in Series 1.  Harry asks how much Nancy needs to start the ball rolling on the project and she replies £7,000.  She's happy to leave with that money, but the architect says they should stick it out and get even more when the government money starts coming in. She reluctantly agrees, but mainly since she appears to be developing some sort of feelings for Harry. On the night of the party, Violette sneaks out and sees Victor who can't keep his hands off her. Ignoring what Harry told her about gentlemen not wanting to marry loose women.  She's not interested in a gentlemen though.  Can say that again, cos you Victor, are no gentlemen.

Grove (Tom Goodman-Hill) is happy with the idea that Gordon will make a clumsy faux pas as Longchamp talks him into ordering French undies for the store, which he displays in the store window.  Of course, Grove knowing what the French, 'les dessous affriolants' meaning is in English. So he lets him go ahead, especially since everyone of the staff were impressed with the revolving display he showed them.  Grove still bitter about losing out on the position.  Miss Mardle telling him that he's a Selfridge, he was bound to get the job and inherit the store anyway.

Doris (Lauren Crace) is worried about Billy (Craig Fletcher) and Grove meeting, especially since he walks right past him on his way to work.  Miss Mardle thinks Doris should give him what he wants. Which is to see his baby.  Kitty walks home alone and right into Charlie (Thomas Christian) and Silas (Mike Noble).  Charlie has been released on bail, paid by none other than Loxley.  She runs into George (Calum Callaghan) who takes her home.  Loxley has also hired a solicitor for Charlie and when Frank (Samuel West) shows him a clipping showing Charlie has already attacked another woman.  He doesn't believe it and doesn't care.  Frank tells him his feud with Harry shouldn't involve hsi wife, but he doesn't care if she's in the middle and gets through the mud, he just wants to clear his name.  Kitty asks George to accompany her to the shelter where he shows Silas the clipping and tells him not to lie for Charlie.  He arrives and challenges George to give him the clipping, which he doesn't.  He  eventually backs down and George tells Silas to do the right thing.  Charlie was a disgrace to the uniform and it's not the war that changed him.

Miss Calthorpe asks a bored Miss Blenkinsop (Deborah Cornelius) what the French means in English and she's taken aback.  The display is already causing a scene and in the papers it says how Harry's gone too far, however the display is a success as the store is bustling.  Harry tells Gordon not to do it again.  Frank tells Kitty the good news of Charlie pleading guilty after Silas comes forward.  Serge asks Rosalie to accompany him to Paris.  Miss Mardle and Doris meet Billy in the park so he can see his son.  He can't have her, but he's got a girl and she tells him to see her.  When he leaves, she runs after him to give him the photo and she is run over by a truck.  Well that was unexpected!  So that's another of the original cast gone then.  

Things go from bad to worse for most of the cast this episode, as not only does Harry lose Violette's trust again, but Rosalie's off to Paris with a cad of a husband and the Princess is too occupied with her own money woes.  Not to mention Nancy forging ahead with her plans.  Same can be said for Victor as he takes on more trouble with the gambling at the club and Doris leaving behind her family in such a cruel way.  See when Harry came out of the lift it was serious business with the dessous affriolants! Ha.

CSI 15.6 "The Twin Paradox" Review

                                            
Things are hotting up with the investigation into the Gig Harbour Killer, another flashback to 2009 and how Finn (Elisabeth Shue) saved DB (Ted Danson) when she shot Jared (Mark-Paul Gosselaar) at the marina.  She is with IA now and her gun is taken.  She tells the IA detective Karen Park (Tina Haung) it was a good shoot since he was going to shoot Lab Director Russell.  They were also there cos the judge gave them a warrant over the phone.

Back to the present and the killer surfaces again this ep as the CSIs receive another 911 call for help. Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) tells DB that he needs to hear the ongoing call and tells him that the Vic
is being attacked right now, so he wants them to hear it.  Greg (Eric Szmanda) triangulates the exact location using the GPS from the phone.  Sara (Jorga Fox) and Nick (George Eads) arrive at the scene to find it's a recording being played and once again, the CS has been processed and marked, using the same stringing method.  With Nick saying, "he's back."  Which is what I said about him, cos he's back this ep, not being in the last one.  The blood is dried and Nick says it's also flaky.  Sara most noticeably saying the Vic, another blonde who is a student, but also most likely working in the sex trade.

Once again there is blood at the scene and this time Nick finds the cameras use film and it's all been exposed, so he's graduated onto taking CS photos now.  Nick sees there's no blood on the walls and using ALS they can read a message which says, "People Lie, Follow the Evidence."  That had echoes of Gil Grissom.  Also there's a recorder which Sara tells him to play where he talks of what he did, as well as now he's into psychological profiling.  Which back at the lab, Sara tells DB has the emphasis on 'psycho.'  They listen to the recording made with the psychiatrist hired by Paul and Jared  acts like he is crazy.  As he tells her he doesn't know who he is and gets angry.  Sara isn't convinced that Jared is the killer and thinks it is most likely Paul.  Also when she analyzed the recording further, she found there were two sets of separate footsteps, one walks away and one walks towards the recorder. Obviously he has an accomplice and that was already seen the last ep we saw with the killer.

In Seattle, Daniel (Mark Valley) tells Finn he has a lead on Jared's mother, that an old detective friend gave him.  They talk to the woman and are surprised to find that she's black.  She's his adoptive mother and not birth mother, but she had to put her name on the birth certificate when she adopted him.  They couldn't find out who the birth mother was and she was given the baby.  She thinks she's to blame for how Jared was raised and tells them she got him from the convent, which used to take in teen mothers.  They head to St Agnes where the nun, Sister Alice (Colleen Flynn) tells them there was a fire and the records were burnt down, but she didn't know Jared was a twin.  One of the nuns tried to piece together records from memory and she takes them to a grave marked C-13.  It is dug up and inside is a doll and not a DB.  Finn removes the head and finds half a photo inside who must be their mother, as well as a lock of her hair.  DNA analysis reveals that the hair belongs to their mother and they head back to Vegas.  This means Paul knew he had a brother at least a year before, but said he didn't.

Keri Torres (Floriana Lima) is found by police in a brutalized state and she was lashed out towards them.  She's taken to the hospital and Morgan receives the call, just as Henry (Jon Wellner) identifies the DNA as belonging to Keri.  Morgan processes her and she wakes up and screams.  Morgan asks her how she escaped and she said she thought she was surrounded by water since the light was blue, but it was glass, so she used the broken shard to cut herself free and ran towards the nearest light. She doesn't recognize Brad Turner as the man she met in the cafe and Morgan shows her another photo, which she doesn't react to.  Greg meanwhile develops the film and finds the killer took some extra shots.  One looks like a letter 'H' to him, but he manipulates it in a machine and it is revealed as being part of a structure.  Hodges (Wallace Langham) tells them he analyzed the glass and found that the glass contained the usual silicon dioxide, but also tin dioxide, as well as blue hues, used in Japanese art.  He knows cos his mother is a collector.  Greg says Hodges' a genius cos he recognizes the building as being the Mizu.  It was a poorly built hotel and was abandoned, part of the alphabet.

Greg and Finn go over there and you'd have thought they'd have taken some police with them, but apparently only the two of them check out the building.  They have discovered his lair and Finn hears a noise.  A woman is hiding inside a closet and she tells them there are other girls in a room.  Finn looks for them and the woman lunges at Greg and attacks him from behind.  She takes his gun and is afraid.  His radio goes off cos it landed on its side and he has to radio back, or they'll shoot her.  Finn walks in and once again she gets off some shots.  As we find ourselves in the same routine again of her being questioned by IA.  Daniel watches along with DB and says that they've all been there.  Oh that was a clue.

DB talks with Paul and he's with an escort who DB says is young for him and he replies he'd say so cos he's got a daughter.  Once again referring to Mya, as Finn did too when she was questioned back in 2009.  DB tells her to take the taxi home and hang up if he calls cos he's a murderer.  He tells Paul they know who his mother is and that they also found Keri.  He feigns relief and says he'll like to talk to her.  Also saying he didn't answer their questions cos he wasn't asked the right one and he didn't like Finn either, she shot his brother.  Strange Keri has been found and after her ordeal she doesn't have any security outside her room.

Doc (Robert David Hall) conducts an autopsy on the woman shot by Finn and tells David (David Berman) that she had a transgender operation.  Her DNA matches that from the one they found on the Vics in the desert and Finn thinks that Paul manipulated the man into helping him.  That all of this was a set up.  Well it was, for Finn.  Adding that they can't trust the evidence.  DB saying if they can't do that, then they have nothing.  Daniel visits Keri at the hospital, but she gets hysterical when she sees him and Finn sees him leave.  DB meets with Avery Ryan (Patricia Arquette) again and she's looked at the evidence and done a profile on Paul and Jared but she doesn't tell DB anything he doesn't already know.  She tells him that he must rely on an intern, but that means he's not that committed to the killings and since Paul's a serial killer, he has to keep going.  The only way to find him is to find the partner.  Which also means DB has to use Mya and if he doesn't then he'll have to take himself out of the equation.

Cue partner as we see him standing in the car reflection: Daniel.  That wasn't any surprise since Paul practically hinted at there being a corrupt police officer in the Seattle PD.  He gets into the car with Paul.  Also the fact that Keri reacted in the way she did when she saw him, cos if they were really close still, then she would've wanted to see him. But why did he show up there anyway cos obviously she'd remember something eventually as Finn said she would.

Sara talks with Greg and he's sad he couldn't save the woman and should've done things differently. There's nothing he can do about it and he'll realize that in time, but also she says she wishes she could tell him it gets better.  Obviously after what she's been through as well, she needs that too.  Ahh, no hug for Greg like she gave Morgan last ep.  Their scenes are always good and it's touching how she and Greg can still talk with each other, especially with Greg almost in tears.  Nick seemed to vanish after his few scenes, of finding out that the cameras were set up in a constellation this time round and showed that of Virgo.  Which was in relation to the girls working in the sex trade and weren't really virginal after all.

Of course the focus was always going to be on DB's daughter and he doesn't want to get her involved, things were tense between them last time we saw them as well.  Still at least it was good to see Mark Valley playing a bad guy for once, but it will be interesting to know how he got mixed up with Paul.  Most likely he has something on him.  Of course they'll probably have Finn suspect something, then again maybe she won't.  Like I said, she always attracts the bad guy element.