CSI 15.11 "Angle of Attack" Review

                                               
Greg (Eric Szmanda) and David (David Berman) are already at the CS when Nick (George Eads) arrives and they think it was a hit and run, but Nick tells them the angles are all wrong, and the car's direction isn't right to send him in that direction.  The glass on the ground is thick so came from a window, David's found plenty of glass on the Vic.  Nick thinks they may have a jumper.  Greg says there's nowhere to jump from on the block.  David finds his ID shows Silver Spring office tower 30th floor, they all look towards it.  Nick: "well you've gotta admit that's one hell of a jump."  I said he sprung along way! Nick, Greg and David were at the CS in the opening last ep too.  Kind of deja vu.

Greg and DB (Ted Danson) check out the building and DB remarks a tornado went through there. Greg notices the glass is the same.  Two blown out windows like an entrance and exit wound. Something came though one window and went out the other.  Greg says you can hit it with a baseball bat and nothing would happen to the glass and it could be a rocket propelled grenade which could've been on a timer.  DB says the pattern is radial.  The propeller sent him out onto the street.  Greg says what goes up comes down and must be out there.  DB wants the window put back together, needle in a haystick or an impossible puzzle.  Greg and Finn (Elisabeth Shue) put the glass back together on the window.  When they've done it Greg comments it's bigger than any RPG he's ever seen and Finn measures the hole to about 24-30 inches long.

Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) talks with Sara, (Jorga Fox) cos that was her little on air scene this ep and thinks the Vic Bradley Weeks' firm had links to the Colombian cartel.  Hodges (Wallace Langham) analyzes the scorch mark evidence and tries to find what it is, as Henry (Jon Wellner) walks in.  Hodges refers to it as a UFO, not in the usual sense of the word, though he is happy that they're not alone in the universe.  He found jet aviation fuel in the scorch marks and charcoal in the residue which he and Henry both say is carbon.  Hodges might be able to determine if the jet was going fast or slow and finds it was going slow and also whether it was throttling up or down.

Nick determines a general area where the object could've landed and he and Finn find a damaged taxi with the object inside it and the remains of a human body.  The taxi driver (Robert Romanus) says he was home all night and no one was meant to be in it.  Finn finds the helmet and the boot which Nick says still has part of a foot in it.  He and DB watch the video of a man flying in what's known as a wind suit or squirrel suit and which can fly at 200mph.  He sees how Morgan and Hodges are going at putting the suit back together and Morgan mentions her ex used to have a sky diving suit which made him look like a clown, infact a lot of his clothes made him look like a clown.  Nick comments that's why he's her ex.  This suit was more sophisticated and she also found a black box.  Henry tells them he matched the DNA to a military database after getting no hits in CODIS and it belonged to Robert Holland (Cuyle Carvin) he's in the airforce and stationed at Nellis.

DB questions his CO, Major Mills (Matt Letscher) and his wife, Amanda (Tamara Feldman).  Mills says the suit came from TRP a DOD contractor and that Robert wasn't on duty last night.  He was quick to pass the buck to TRP, so he was my immediate suspect and how he kept touching Amanda. Not to mention he also wanted it to seem like Robert was flying when not on the job.  Later Amanda tells DB that she doesn't believe he'd do that and that the airforce will try and take his pension away from her.  DB promises to do what he can.

Greg finds there were two parachutes in the suit but none of them had been used.  He also found a parachute that would've been set off automatically.  Nick places the chute inside the chamber, expecting a pop when the shoot was meant to open at that particular descent level.  Nothing happens and Greg notices the wiring on the chute has been altered, when he rewires the circuit, the chute pops as it should've done.   Nick and Crawford (Alimi Ballard) speak with his boss at TRP,  Claudia Mason (Virginia Williams) who seemed to be flirting with Nick, especially when she asked him what his name was.  She mentions Project Icarus and Nick mentions that's a strange name for a project considering what happened to Icarus in the Greek myth.

At the lab they're introduced to Ferris (Arjun Gupta) who is working on the suit.  He designed his own tools and they take him to the station for questioning, Nick taking a look at that tool too.  He tells Ferris the tool is similar to the one used to alter his chute and Ferris begins to get a headache, asking for something for it.  Ferris tells them he knew about Robert logging extra hours for money after hours, it was an incentive Claudia paid them.  He holds his head and neck and then starts talking about some girl they met before falling to the ground in violent convulsions.  He bleeds out.

Doc (Robert David Hall) calls it a cerebral edema and he could've had HACE: High Altitude Cerebral Edema and he found Robert also had this too.  Finn mentions Nick talking about the hypobaric chamber and thinks Ferris could've also been in this.  Nick has a warrant to search the lab as Claudia is concerned about meeting deadlines and he needs a military judge's warrant.  He tells her he doesn't need JAG permission to search.  She doesn't have the key for the black box, the airforce does.  DB tries to get the key from Mills telling him his wife is concerned and it's the right thing to do, which he agrees to do.  See once again the suspect trying to be too helpful like they used to do in CSI:Miami eps.

Hodges goes through the box and finds that Robert was already dead as his vital signs all indicated zero.  Greg recalls the Sherlock Holmes quote (nice reference again to Sherlock as Greg was in that CSI ep 5.11 Who Shot Sherlock  when he was finishing his proficiency test- some good continuity there) "eliminate all factors, the one that remains must be the truth."  He looks at the altimeter reading which shows he didn't jump from a plane.  He calculates the flight path showing he jumped from Delmar Towers, so he was base jumping.  Where Claudia also had a room.  They figure out they were having an affair and he must've died on her so she put him into the suit and disposed of the DB from the top of the building.

Morgan and Greg check out the room and Greg finds blood on the side of the bed.  He then uses luminol to spray the floor, finding a large blood pool as well as a blood trail leading to cast off on a wall.  The blood pool shows Robert was beaten.  Morgan finds the murder weapon with blood and a hair on it.  Crawford shows them security camera footage from the night which shows Amanda and him fighting.  Claudia denies knowing that Robert used the room and she's lawyered up.  She noticed he'd been acting differently and she thought he was having an affair.  He told her he was doing a base jump.  She's not lying now.  Hodges tells Nick that Robert had furosmide in him and it's a diuretic, used by models and body builders.  In large doses it can be lethal and the sodium inside of him made it worse as he was also in the hypobaric chamber.

Henry process the sheets on the bed and the murder weapon and finds a DNA match, not to Claudia but to Mills.  See, he was so helpful and out of character for military people, who are never helpful. Mills admits they were having an affair but to him it was more.  Robert decided to leave him and he lost it.  He killed Ferris cos he was Robert's best friend and he would'be known about them.  As Crawford shows him the bottle of furosmide they found in his apartment.  He did it not once but twice cos he didn't have a choice.  Finn replies there's always a choice.
DB talks with Amanda who finds there's nothing but an empty house to go to.  She asks if he keeps secrets from his wife and he replies he used to but not anymore.  She tells him she's lucky.  But aren't they having problems together.  We haven't seen his wife in a long time.

A bit of a routine ep but at least we had some interesting scenes with Greg and Nick.  CSI likes to indulge in eps where they have to figure out where the body came from.  They've done quite a few of those.  Like Scuba Doobie Do, 3.10 High and Low where Nick, Warrick and Grissom found a man was thrown from a six storey building was already dead before hitting the ground, that was too similar to this ep.  To name but a few eps.

I always wanted to get my joke in somewhere and now I can, about the Flying Dutchman, aka die Fliegende Hollander in German, thus Robert's last name was Holland and so he could be seen as 'the Flying Dutchman' very appropriate here, don't you think!  Or just one of my bad jokes.

You may remember Matt Letscher from Scandal as Billy, still playing a bad guy here as well!

The Mentalist 7.8 "The Whites of His Eyes" Review

                                               
A man meets with an estate agent/realtor who calls him Mr Lydon and shakes his hand, then wipes it on his coat.  He turns around and shoots him in the empty building.  Then cuts a hole and uses that to put his gun through the window and shoot two FBI agents and another man.  Lisbon (Robin Tunney) and Patrick (Simon Baker) play Foosball and she wins him, telling him she's not competitive, she just likes to win.  Patrick pays the bill and tells the waitress not to play her cos she's brought up three brothers.  He then sees the news about the shootings and Lisbon wants some chicken wings, before being called.  The assassin shreds photos of the target, Hu and then takes the photo of a woman and places it in a file.  She's his next target.

Abbot (Rockmond Dunbar) tells them about the shootings and Agent Spackman (Tim Griffin) is back.  Kelvin Bittaker's (Matthew Alan) family is behind the hit.  Patrick notices the icing on the dead agent's coat and says he ate Beignet's. It would have been the assassin since the agent was immaculately dressed.  Patrick and Spackman still don't like each other.  He also says that the killer is regional and tells Spackman that not many people know what Beignets are.  Yummy Beignets had them in New Orleans, they just don't taste the same when you make them yourself.  Spackman says there's another witness, Lily (Alexa Vega) in the trial of Jamie, a college student who was beaten up in an alley by Kelvin.  He wants her to testify but she's not convinced and he wants Patrick to use his charm and flattery to make her change her mind.  Patrick's surprised Spackman used those words on him and well, can't help smiling at the compliment, he's a little bit of both.

Back at the FBI office, Patrick talks with Lily and her husband Matt (Jeff Ward) and he wants her to remember her baby son at home, who also needs her.  Patrick says he's not here to convince her to testify, it's up to her.  She describes the scene when Jamie was beaten up over and over in the alley and she was watching in her SUV and Hu was in front of his shop.  He beat him up with no remorse and then saw the two of them, Lily drove away.  Wouldn't it have been better if they called the police then, instead of watching him get beaten up. Patrick then mentions her son, Henry with a good, strong name and what sort of legacy he'll have, one where their parents were brave and helped others, or reasonably cautious.  Lily agrees to do it, but Matt doesn't like it.  Patrick tells Spackman that he wants her protected, he doesn't want his word, just that she'll be safe.

Abbot meets Kelvin in prison and tells him to sit down.  He also tells him about the killings and Kelvin is surprised and happy at the same time, cos it means he won't be going inside.  Abbot tells Cho (Tim Kang) it's unlikely Kelvin ordered the hits, but he has a brother Ethan (Devon Graye) who also has a record and another brother, Caleb (Tyler Case).  Cho hasn't found any messages mentioning the hit and how they communicated with Lydon.  Abbot wants Cho and Patrick to pay a visit to the Bittaker's garage and  Cho tells their mother, Belinda (Mary Kay Place) about the hit, the dead agents and Lily.  As Ethan walks around with his IV pole.  She acts as if she doesn't know what they're talking about and Patrick says she's a terrible liar.  They're living hand to mouth she says, but they point out their Ferrari's there and Patrick sees Caleb playing the video game.  He tells Belinda not to take anti-depressants cos she's not happy even when taking them.  Patrick and his trusty tea cup, asks Wylie (Joe Adler) how they could have sent messages with each other as Wylie has the screen open to the computer game that Caleb is playing, he's Cal da King.  It's most likely the killer and the Bittaker's communicated through the game.  He asks Wylie to find the names of three people who were bottom of the score list.

Abbot finds they have a suspect by the name of Lydon (Brendan Wayne) based on the ballistics and Spackman comments he's regional and his name is Lydon.  There's no photos of him.  Wylie says he's found three people, one's in Nova Scotia, one in the UK and one in Louisiana.  Obviously it's the one in Louisiana as Patrick tells him, since it's the Beignet connection there!  Ha.  He, Spackman and Lisbon drive down to a cabin in Louisiana and Spackman tells Patrick to stay as he and Lisbon will check it out.  He tells Spackman he will but he's not his dog.  Patrick notices someone inside as Lydon opens the door to Lisbon and him.  Spackman goes round back and finds the dead woman's body and Lydon shoots him before shooting at Lisbon and Patrick, who dives to save her.  Patrick helps Spackman.  Notice it was Spackman who came with them, usually it would've been Cho.  He's stable and will pull through. Patrick notices the bullet hole in Lisbon's jacket.

Patrick is told he saved Spackman's life and Lisbon tells Abbot about Lily's photo on the computer. Abbot tells them to get a sketch artist to draw his description and Patrick asks Wylie to come up with various computer simulations showing how he'd likely disguise himself.  Abbot tells Cho that it reeks of arrogance and he replies it always does.  They both want to get the Bittaker's and he takes Cho with him to see Belinda and if she calls his bluff.  Ethan has dialysis once a day and has 38 months left on his parole, She still acts as if she knows nothing and Cho arrests Ethan for meeting with a prisoner in violation of his parole.  He replies it's his brother.  Abbot tells her they can look after him but who knows after that when he's back inside.  She tells Abbot he's an officer and so can't do anything underhand as he's ethical.  Abbot takes Ethan anyway, saying they don't really know him to Cho.

Wiley's slide show of disguises is forwarded to agencies and to the hotel where Lily is staying.
Vega (Josie Loren) tells Wiley her favourite game is Battlefield and she can beat him.  Wiley challenges her to it .  Abbot says they have to be a step ahead of Lydon and he's shown timing himself when he throws a smoke bomb behind a door.  He then shaves his head, takes botex injections and disguises himself, but doesn't look like any of the faces in the slide show.  Patrick has a plan.  They go to the hotel and they check out all the possible exits, lifts, stairs, where Lydon can appear from and they get pretend shot.  Lisbon says she's been shot at least six times and Patrick corrects her by saying seven, but he's sure his plan will work.   Lisbon stays over at Patrick's Airstream and he can't sleep.  Patty in his pyjamas!! ha.  She tells him everything's going to be okay but he's not so sure.  She tells him to come back to bed and she used to sing her brothers a lullaby until they fell asleep.  She sings Living on a Prayer and gets Patrick to join in. That was a nice scene, first we see them playing Foosball together and now they've been spending time with each other at night too.  Though that was already apparent!

Lily is made ready to got the the court, as the smoke alarm goes off.  The hotel is evacuated and Abbot sends Patrick back to the van with Wiley.  Matt tells them if something happens and he didn't do everything he could've done he'll regret it.  Patrick goes for a quick check but notices the smoke alarm and the smoke, so it's happening now.  Getting back to the van, he looks out for Lydon since he'll be dressed as an emergency team member.  Lydon shows up wearing an EMT uniform and carrying a bag.  He gets to the floor and Patrick tells them he sees someone on the 6th floor, which Lisbon takes.  She follows him, but finds it's not him.  Yeah it's convenient that person had to have an injury.  Lydon hears them talking about the 7th floor and Lydon pretends he's been shot.  The FBI "extra" agent checks him out and he's beaten.  They wait for the lift, as Lydon comes out of the cupboard and tries to shoot her, then sees it's not her, it's Vega.  Of course it would be ,they would've substituted her by the lift with her husband in an FBI jacket.

Cho shoots Lydon and Patrick asks if everyone's alright and then asks for Lisbon.  She says she's back with the team.  Cho sits with Belinda and she tells them she's not going to roll over on his son. She'd rather get the needle.  Abbot tells her he's happy with the outcome and Lily' testified.  Kelvin's going to prison.  Cho tells her he doesn't have any children, but Jamie's mother loved her son too and the people they killed also had parents.  Wiley gets to challenge Vega to their game.  Lisbon is upset and angry with Patrick and tells him he knows why.  He made her break away from the team on purpose and she says he can't do that.  She's an agent and it's her job.  He replies he was protecting her and he 'd do it again, which she calls a problem.

So that's what Patty sat up all night planning, how he could not only save Lily, but also Lisbon too in the process.  She's right, he shouldn't have done that cos they were all in the same boat and he can't be picking who to save or not to save.  He never used to before and it's not really the point that they're together now.  Though his heart's in the right place.   Lisbon not knowing how they'll work together if she cant do her job.  Patrick thinking they'll work it out will really send a rift between them.  But he was rattled by the fact Lisbon was almost shot.  They'll work it out, who can stay angry at Patty!!

The Vampire Diaries 6.11 "Woke Up With A Monster" Review

                                             
Kai (Chris Wood) holds Elena (Nina Dobrev) hostage at the Mystic Grill and he got bored so he cooked for himself after years of experimenting and having all that time to himself.  He also tells her of how he practised magic on the cook and he ended up making him vomit, then broke his spine and he exploded with blood everywhere.  He tells Elena he's going to practise on her now and well, it's kinda fun seeing Elena being put through the ringer, cos it's always about her.  Here we go on another rescue attempt.  He ties her up in the school cos he says he needed to bring her here and tries another spell on her, this time trying to turn her blood into acid like before.  She manages to get away and he melted her ring, but she can't save it by pouring water onto it.  Instead she burns her hand in the sun and sets Kai on fire with the Bunsen.  Also managing to call Damon (Ian Somerhalder) for help.

Damon having lent his house out for Jo )Jodi Lyn O'Keefe) to practise magic and get stronger with Liv's (Penelope Mitchell) help.  Liv needs a shirt and Stefan (Paul Wesley) directs her to Damon's room, where she notices he has great taste in shirts.  Stefan doesn't like waking up to a crowd of people at home, even finding Jeremy (Steven R McQueen) in a towel in the kitchen and hey no one's left him any coffee.  Liv thinks if she can help Jo get stronger then she and Luke (Chris Brochu) won't have to merge; cos secretly she knows that he's stronger than her.  See that's what I said, it seems the Gemini coven men are stronger than their female twins.

Caroline (Candace Accola) decides she needs another opinion and to find away of making their vampire blood work for her mother's (Marguerite MacIntyre) cure.  Damon spends the night at the hospital and tells her that many women would kill to spend a night with him, yeah and in real life too, ha!  Anyhoo, someone had to get that line in.  Caroline takes her home and finds an expert in her field at Duke which perks up Stefan's ears as he decides he'll tag along and her mother thinks so too.  You see that's where Sarah Salvatore Nelson (Tristin Mays) is and no sooner is she mentioned that she's brought into the picture.  Wouldn't it have been better to not go there and see her, especially since he knows Enzo's (Michael Malarkey) on the prowl and lo and behold he turns up, wanting to know Stefan's secret.  He followed Stefan here.

He finally tells Enzo in the hopes he'll leave him and Sarah alone, but of course that was too much to ask.  Saying that Damon killed her mother and she was taken to hospital and Sarah was born by C-section.  So he's kept the secret from Damon so he doesn't obsess over it.  He doesn't care of Enzo tells him cos he'll either be glad Stefan saved her or not.  Caroline compels the doctor (Karen Abercrombie) to tell her the truth about her mother's condition and she tells her there's no hope.  Also telling her about another patient she's got for which nothing's worked either.  Caroline gets it into her head to play vampire doctor, as she feeds him her blood in the hopes that he'll get better.  Of course he does, but that'll be too good to last.  She always gets some notion into her head and doesn't follow it through properly.  Wasn't she supposed to stick around and see whether her blood really worked or not, that is after all, the whole purpose of an experiment.  It's not a quick fix.

Enzo returns to the photography exhibition where Sarah's photos are on display and tells the woman in charge all about killing and then makes her forget, also wanting the photos.  Matt (Zach Roerig) finds the cook and has called the sheriff.  He's angry that magic hasn't been returned for only a few moments and yet the killing's started all over again.  The sheriff almost passes out.  Damon needs help and thinks Liv can do a cloaking spell so that he can rescue Elena, but she's taken away by Luke. He plans to take her back to their father, but she doesn't want to go, telling him to pack up the books if he wants them and admitting he's stronger than her and she doesn't want to merge with him.

Damon gets Jo to help instead and as they're inside the school, Kai is seen walking along the corridor too, but they're actually cloaked.  Yeah Kai, you'd really put the empty can in the bin wouldn't you. Elena wants to know why he kills people and if he's ever really been close to anyone.  He replies he was to his brother Joe once, probably that didn't last long.  Damon unties her hands, but the spell doesn't last long, leaving Jo bleeding and weak and them uncloaked.  She leaves and Damon tries to hold off Kai but he makes Elena disappear again and then Damon stakes him, but it's actually his clone, who is really Elena.  He thinks he's winning and the next second he's got an arrow through him courtesy of Jeremy and Alaric injects him.  Elena pretends Damon hasn't removed all the splinters from her heart, yeah hilarious Elena.

Luke decides he doesn't want to be like his father and he's told him they're not coming back, saying he can think for himself, just when Tyler (Michael Trevino) tells Liv they should run away.  They're keeping Kai drugged up until Jo can get stronger and Alaric believes she can emerge (ha, my word) the winner.  Just be easier to have killed him and have done with it, cos he's getting too irksome for my liking.  Caroline returns home and tells her mother the good news about the patient who was eating and walking around out of bed.  Just as she tells her she's not ready for her to go just yet, cos she hasn't graduated college and they haven't fought over flowers for her wedding, she convinces her mother to take her blood.  The patient has convulsions, throws up blood and then dies.  As she drinks Caroline's blood.

That's where we get a break from the show, erm, it's only been back a few backs!  This ep was directed by Paul Wesley, who doesn't feature much, but he does come in the ep a lot more than many others do when they direct.  Through all this laughing and joking and Elena wanting to try for that dinner with Damon again, seems she's forgotten about Bonnie and trying to get her back.  As said, it's all about Elena and though Caroline has her mother to think about, it seems everyone's forgotten her. Isn't it obvious vampire blood won't heal her, so again, why not turn her into a vampire?  Maybe it's cos they asked this question in Buffy also didn't they.  Even Enzo plotting revenge was another repetitive storyline.  Who is he really plotting against, is it his intense dislike of Stefan, or deep down is it cos he still hasn't forgiven Damon for leaving him behind all those years.  Cos he wouldn't have gotten over it all this time and he knows that by hurting Stefan and the people he cares about will reflect back on Damon and also hurt him too.  That's what I think anyway.

Revenge 4.13 "Abduction" Review

                                         
Emily (Emily VanCamp) and Victoria (Madeleine Stowe) both wake up to discover they've been abducted and caged by Malcolm Black (Tommy Flanagan).  He's holding them cos he wants his daughter back.  Black wakes Emily up with a slap cos he has to contact David (James Tupper) and Jack (Nick Wechsler) comes to the house to tell David that Black's been released, as he finds David packing.  He thinks he can slip away with Emily before Black can come after them but he's too late. Jack says he came to the house cos he thought his phone would've been traced.  Which is why Emily was caught.  He also tells him that the flashdrive is gone so he doesn't have anymore leverage and that's what David told Jack would happen.  David heads to the manor but finds Emily missing.  He then tries to find a way of showing Black that his daughter is still alive.

Jack asks Ben (Brian Hallisay) for help cos he tells her that he doesn't have anyone else and Ben tells him he knows everything about Emily but doesn't want to help people who lied to him. Jack pleads for help since Alvarez is missing and may be is being held by him.  That's the only reason Ben decides to help.  Jack brings him back to the manor and he thinks maybe Nolan (Gabriel Mann) can help, but David doesn't want to endanger anyone else.  He has a video from Black showing Emily and Victoria.  He's trying to put together Kate's voice using the messages on her phone and Jack has one too which they can use.  Ben thinks they can find Emily's car and see if it's turned up in the abandoned vehicles database.  This leads them to the lighthouse and her car.  There's a security camera there and Jack realizes there may be another way of helping David than what he plans to do. Which is making Black believe she's still alive and arranges a meeting.  Black's not interested in an exchange he just wants her back.

As Louise (Elena Satine) drinks at the club, she thinks she sees her mother, Penelope (Carolyn Hennesey) again as she turns up for real.  She meets Nolan and tells them she's staying here for a while.  Later she tells Louise about the judge appointing her conservator of her inheritance and she gave her enough money,  Louise tells her about drugging her, but if she talks and tells anyone about the pills, then Penelope threatens to cut off her money.  She realizes that her mother has always loved Lyman and not her.  All she wants is for her son to be elected.

Victoria wishes that Emily had finished her off at the lighthouse and Emily doesn't like being there with her either.  She tries to find away out of the cage and finds Black's men come in every half an hour.  She thinks if they can move the crates then they can ram the cage, but Victoria's not interested in helping her.  Margaux (Karine Vanasse) finds a paper with Daniel's death on the front page which gives her ideas of revenge.  She calls in a man her father knew to help her and wants to go after Emily.  Don't think she can manage that feat!

When Black returns Victoria tells them there's another way of getting Kate back and that he should go after Jack.  In return for this she wants her freedom, which he will give her, but only after she's returned.  Emily tries to stop her but ii doesn't work.  Emily seizes her chance and fights one of his men, but Black hits her from behind, telling him to get Jack for the info on Kate and then to kill him. Well that was only cos Emily told Victoria that Jack was helping David when they made that phonecall.  Victoria and Emily are tied up and Emily tells her how David was trying to kill her and call it a suicide.  He doesn't love her and they shouldn't be together.  That's why she sent her the text to meet her at the lighthouse.

Black brings Victoria to their meeting spot instead of Emily and he uses the thermometer to take a reading of the body in the van, which shows up cold.  He knows he's being doublecrossed and he shoots David in the knee.  He wants Black to end it, but he wants David to suffer first, asking them both back to Emily.   It dawns on Victoria that David doesn't care about her, took her long enough. Jack goes back to see Ben and finds him tied up, having to fight the man sent to kill him.  Ben says he jumped him thinking he was Jack.  As Ben handcuffs him, Jack notices the wheel on his back.  It's a sign from Emily, when they were young, they used to play find the treasure.  Ben smells the mark and finds it's coal.  Emily must've drawn it on him and then realizes there was no car footage on the camera at the lighthouse cos they went away by boat, somewhere coal is still used.  The trash incinerator, well that was easy.

Black is about to kill Emily cos she killed his daughter but Victoria stops him, saying she killed her cos she killed her son and she enjoyed doing it.  She tells him to stab her, but he grabs her buy the neck instead.  Emily gets a chance to grab the knife and cut her ties.  She fights him, as Ben and Jack arrive.  David gets his chance to grab the gun and shoot Black as he drags Emily towards the incinerator.  He falls in himself when he's shot.  David thanks Victoria for saving Emily and she says she did it so he can spend time with her and she can mourn Daniel.  But that they should go their own ways and she knows about the lighthouse.  However she and Emily plotted to work together which kind of made everything sour didn't it.  Especially since we could've got some great scenes between them, like the good old days.  Emily was going there when she said it was Victoria's fault they're here, cos she gave Kate her photo.

Victoria tells Margaux to let that revenge go cos she's not good enough, okay I said she's not good enough to take on Emily.  All she wants is to be with her and her grandson.  But Margaux can't give it up insisting Emily was responsible for her father's death too, er, that was Conrad, and it's a wonder Victoria didn't set her right on that too.  Victoria tells her "revenge is a dangerous thing."  How will exposing Emily in her magazine be revenge.  Shouldn't she be blaming Victoria instead of Emily, since Daniel wanted to save Emily, his choice and how is this serving Daniel's memory?  Agh Margaux, give it up already!  It's become her revenge plot now!

Emily thanks Ben for rescuing her and she already knows that he knows who she is, Jack told her.
Oh no Nolan marrying that Harlot Louise! ha.  Especially after her mother tells her she killed her father, that's why she was taking pills.  Which is what I said.  Nolan will be in for a surprise again, cos he can't help picking up strays.  But with them cooking together, they were domesticated already!

For Black being so formidable a foe, having the FBI in his pocket and who knows who else, he was taken care of in the space of two eps! ha.

Mr Selfridge Series 3 Episode 10 Review

It's crunch time as Crabb (Ron Cook) anxiously tallies up the profits and Harry (Jeremy Piven) waits impatiently for the verdict.  The board members arrive, led by Loxley (Aidan McCardle) of course and Grove (Tom Goodman-Hill) tells Kitty (Amy Beth Hayes) to stall them, but we have no idea what Kitty said to stall them.  As Grove races up the stairs.  The final figures are in as Crabb tells Harry they've made a profit of 6.4% which isn't 10% but they're on their way as Harry tells Loxley. Of course it's not what he wanted and stresses Harry promised to give them 10% and he hasn't delivered.  Harry tells them Loxley's leading them on a wild goosechase since it's all personal for him and he's nothing but a profiteer.  Loxley counteracting by telling them he's now got a charity for servicemen.  Harry adding those very men attacked Kitty and Loxley makes out that it was her fault she was attacked, by working too late and "slathering" in make-up.  Harry tells him he means that she asked for it.  Then comes the real crux of Loxley's damning argument and Harry gets to show the board that for Loxley, it is personal.  As he mentions Lady Mae and how she's his friend.  Loxley saying she's a whore and Harry remarking her husband doesn't think so.  As well as Barratt (John Arthur) reminding Loxley that they're in a place of business.

Crabb has projected forecasts for the year end profits and the figures show they will be turning over a profit and the sales will continue.  Harry reminding them also that their final figures aren't in until October and September is their biggest month with the launch of the Autumn collection.  They take a vote to out Harry in a no confidence vote and Miss Plunkett (Sadie Shimmin) tallies up the votes  7-2 in favour of keeping Harry. Yeah only cos there's another series and we have to watch his slow demise some more still, since in real life Harry was ousted in a vote of no confidence.  Loxley is disgusted and leaves with Harry adding if no one else is satisfied, then they can also leave, as Lowe (Richard Braine) leaves with him.  They're going to sell their sahres.  Guess Loxley didn't get hso own way as he stormed that Harry will knwo what it feels like ot lose something he loves.  Well eh will, but not the store, not just yet.

Loxley and Lowe later meet with a man who has a client willing to buy their shares and get a 15% stake in the company, the Selfridge family will still have the majority.  But Loxley once again adding that they're loyalty to him is crumbling.  In a way it is cos Gordon (Greg Austin) tries to tell Harry about his courting Miss Calthorpe (Amy Morgan) but Harry has other things on his mind.  Like the meeting about the Estate.  He tells Frank (Samuel West) he wants Nancy (Kelly Adams) to be there and Frank wants him to dig the first part of the land.  He also asks Nancy for info about her to write a biography on her.  So how much of that was she going to make up.  Harry gets a call that all £15,000 is in the bank.  Later she tries to tell Harry about herself but can only say that she's selfish and doesn't know why he'd even want her.

Princess Marie (Zoe Wanamaker) continues her investigation of Gerrard/Gus (Jolyon Coy) as she tells Serge (Leon Ockenden) what she found.  That his office was boarded up and he tells her not to make waves since they're now on good terms with the Selfridge's in a long time.  She later checks up on Gus at the Institute of Architects.  Harry tells Frank about his engagement to Nancy and he tells Kitty, who of course tells everyone else.  That was premature, but it must be really hard on him especially with what was to come, with his staff knowing how he fell for a con artist.  They all congratulate him and shower him with rose petals.  Nancy still goes through with the plan and tells Gus he'll be going to America and she desperately wants to marry him; as the Princess tries to tell Harry what she found out.  The family also hears of his engagement as Rosalie (Kara Tointon) guesses he wants to marry Nancy.  Which makes it even worse for Gordon, seeing as he can't tell him about Miss Calthorpe.  Lois (Kika Markham) tells the Princess that she should follow her gut instincts about Nancy if she knows anything.

At the site, Gus is asked where the well should go since the land is water logged and Nancy has to come to his rescue.  He doesn't believe he can pull this off and boy was he right.  The Princess finally tells Harry about Gus and shows him his work, that he's too young to have done all that over the years. Leading Harry to have his suspicions about him.  When Gus comes in for their meeting he asks about what he built for a certain Lord and he tells him about the lake and how it was also water logged.  He says it was a palm house, but Harry tells him it was aballroom.  He's arrested and Nancy was so flustered.  Wonder if she thought whether Gus would give her up.  Harry can't abide cheats,

George (Calum Callaghan) warns everyone to be on the alert for a group of shoplifters and they strike when Victor (Trystan Gravelle) and Elsa (Naomi Ryan) are there to buy some things for the visiting Prince of Romania who will be playing at his club and he's lost plenty of money.  They think this'll help get Regan (Sean Campion) off their backs as Elsa gets to invite the Prince to play baccarat.  Also Connie (Sacha Parkinson) notices the woman stealing a fox fur collar and the women detectives give chase, with George getting hit on the stairs.  Victor tells him he can come to the club tonight, his treat and to bring Connie with him.  But she doesn't want to go, it's not her thing.  She's more into dancing and she hopes George can dance.

Gordon finally tells Harry about Miss Calthorpe but Harry stops him in his tracks, he's the Deputy Manager and so can't be seen going out with an employee.  People will talk and it's not the done thing.  He was very set in his ways wasn't he, especially when it came to his children.  A case of 'do as I say, not as I do'.  But Gordon makes up his mind and tells Miss Calthorpe that he's going to leave the store.  Wonder if he'll actually end up doing that since Harry's going to be a mess.   Harry finds out that Gus has a sister and they've been conning people around the country.  It's unlikely his sister is here with him and so Harry might be in the clear.  The police describing her as good looking

Nancy takes the chance to pounce and withdraws the money from the bank as she makes her getaway.  So much for sticking by Gus, she doesn't want to end up in jail.  Harry works out that Nancy may be too good to be true and could be his sister, since she introduced them and goes to her place, but her clothes are gone, except she leaves behind the bottle of perfume he gave her.  He then drives to the site and finds nothing's been done there.  He finally gives up hope and ends up back at the store where she waits for him.  Telling him she didn't take the money and she would've done but she loves him and still wants to be his wife.  Harry scoffs at this and once again says she's nothing more than a liar and a cheat.  How could he possibly marry her.  No one can compare to Rose.  She tells him women are his weakness and he was lucky that it was her this time.  That's not much to be grateful about cos if the Princess hadn't snooped then she'd still have gone on deceiving him and living the lie.  She tells him it wasn't meant to be him but Lord Meadows and he asks if he was meant to fall for her too.

Violette (Hannah Tointon) tells Rosalie about Victor and how she loves him and how close they've been, implying she's been intimate with him too.  She declares her love for him, but he tells her she's not for him.  They're from different worlds and she hasn't worked a day in her life with her pretty hands.  She thinks it's cos he thinks she's spoilt and she was given things, things she didn't want, but she wants him.  He rejects her again, seems she can't take no for an answer but finally leaves.  Harry gets drunk and Violette tells him they're two of a kind.  She can't be happy and he tells her to go after Victor if he wants him.  He's changed his tune with her but not where Gordon was concerned.  She could have someone like Victor, but he couldn't have a decent girl like poor Miss Calthorpe.  Well it was hypocritical, especially after he told Agnes what she was like all those times and how he had high praises for her.

Violette tells Harry she's going to Paris to marry Jacques, cos she can learn to like him and they're the same people.  Harry doesn't want her to leave but she does.  That's Harry twice in tears over women! Really showing his vulnerable side as he heads to Victor's club and begins his old ways again of gambling and women.  Meeting the Dolly sisters who ask who he is.  Well there's another mark for them to take advantage of then and Harry is in a position to be taken advantage of right now.  He doesn't really care about anything as he hands over his chequebook.  That music in the gambling scene, thought it was James Bond for a minute!  Ha.  A scene to look out for.

Oh and quickly, Miss Mardle (Amanda Abbington) gives her notice and Crabb wakes him up to himself by telling Grove she's leaving cos of him.  She's been the heart of the store and an integral part of head of department.  He goes to see her at home and finds the house for sale. She reluctantly lets him in but he wants to part as friends.  He admits he took his grief for Doris out on her and his anger.  But she refuses to forgive him.  So he waits on the chair all night until she does.  She finally gives in and he says if she forgives him then he'll be able to be a better person.  She's his soul mate as he kisses her arms and her neck.  She gives in.  Well they were meant to be together since series 1 and he would've realized that if he hadn't gone after Doris.

So ends series 3 as we wait til next year for series 4.  Lots to come in terms of storylines, but by far the most interesting will be Harry's demise and how he'll be taken advantage of until his fortune dwindles.  We've come round full circle in a way since Harry's gone back to his old habits and ways, which is where he saw him back then, gambling, cigars and women, like Ellen Love.  But by far the line of the ep belonged to Harry when he told Nancy to, "crawl back under your stone!"

CSI 15.10 "Dead Rails" Review

                                             
A man crawls out of the ground, gasping for air, he struggles to make it to the road where a passing car is shown, he tries to hail it, but it ploughs straight into him.  Greg (Eric Szmanda) and David (David Berman) are at the scene, when Nick (George Eads) shows up and makes a remark about him dying with his boots off.   David says he was already injured before being run over, as there's a cut in his neck.  Nick notices gravitational blood drops showing he came from the desert and they follow the gravitational blood drops, which just happened to be in blocks of three.  Greg notices his shallow grave and also that they thought the Vic was dead and buried him, then got hit by a car, to die again. Nick: "Poor guy, he died twice."  The woman driver, Mary Hammond (Alexandra Holden) tells Crawford (Amili Ballard) he came out of nowhere as she was driving and she was hungry, so reached down for some chips and hit him.  Was she fiddling with a key card in the beginning when he was questioning her, or was it just some card?  Also saying she gave him CPR which didn't work.

Greg finds some green fibres at the site and Nick finds a piece of red skin which looks like regal coral snake skin, only that snake is found in Central America, or Panama.  Doc (Robert David Hall) examines the DB and tells DB (Ted Danson) that he had neck injuries consistent with being stabbed by glass, as glass shards were found in the wound and those resembling being beaten by brass knuckles.  Finn (Elisabeth Shue) IDs him as Jimmy Turelli (Christopher Atkins) who was out of prison for two weeks and has long wrap sheet.  He worked with Sam Braun, which suggests a mob hit, being left in the desert after being beaten.

Morgan (Elisabeth Harnois) tells Hodges (Wallace Langham) she found traces of baby powder on his cheek and also the metal is indicative of brass knuckles.  Hodges finds the green fibres are English wool used for making expensive suits.  The glass is from fine stemware and when Hodges mentions champagne, she realizes the wool is from a pool table.  As she sets up a pool table with champagne glasses and takes a trick shot around hem.  Turelli was probably playing pool and doing a trick shot. After the victory shot, the players take the cue stick and break the champagne which she pretends to do so but DB stops her.  There's a pool tournament at the Palermo.

Morgan and Greg speak with Elise Massey (Sharon Osbourne) who tells them about Natalie the Hornet and Turelli paid her entrance fee.  She uses a pool bridge which has the same design as Turelli's injuries. Morgan tells Natalie (Melanie Liburd) about the bridge, but she sells them over the Internet anyway.  She last saw Turelli at the pool place he worked as a bartender, the Vegas Rails. Morgan takes Sara (Jorga Fox) to the pool place and when the lights are switched on, there's a bit of a mess there.  There's blood spatter on the pool table and Morgan finds the bloody bridge under the table, which is the murder weapon, along with another piece of red snakeskin.  There's also a broken champagne stem on the floor which Sara finds.  Morgan thinks the cue ball rolled through the blood leaving behind the trail, but there's no ball there, thinking the killer probably took it, cos players usually use their own balls and sometimes cheat with them.

Finn finds out a company called Derosa owns the Vegas Rails but they can't find the name of the owner.  Sara and Morgan also found a photo of a man holding a poolstick covered in snakeskin for the grip and his name is Calvin Tate (Bernard Curry).  He has offences ranging from identity theft to counting cards and he paid for drinks for Turelli on the night.  Greg and Crawford go to Calvin's and the door is answered by his wife, Zoe (Laura Wiggins).  He's rough with her and demands more beer. Crawford notices bruising on her arm.  He tells them Turelli was talking to Elise who had taken over the place.  Also telling them if they're not going to arrest him, then they should get him another beer.

Finn tells DB of the notebook Sara and Morgan found which contains a secret code to access a site which shows her girls.  She was running prostitution through it.  She tells them Turelli was her friend and he knew what she was doing.  Also telling Greg she has connections and her solicitor will have her out of jail due to her connections in no time, after Greg told her that even if it's Vegas, prostitution is still illegal.  Her alibi is hosting the pool tournament at the Algiers the entire night.

Morgan practices shooting the ball into the pocket but she doesn't end up getting the same spatter pattern, telling Hodges she used to shoot pool after school, instead of going surfing, for beer money. Finn tells them the keycard was from Turelli's condo and Henry found the hair from the condo which Finn processed, matches Zoe.  Who tells them she didn't sleep with him but stayed there after fighting with Calvin.  That they were both playing The Honour Hustle, where Calvin would pretend to lose at pool and then put Zoe up in return for the bet and he'd win.  Turelli wanted to get her out of this and Calvin left upset.  She heard Turelli leave later that night.  Crawford and Greg find Cavinl dead and his place has been searched.  They presume they didn't find what they were looking for, so wonder where he'd keep something.  Greg says his hat cos he always had it on and they find a flashdrive with photos on it of Zoe.  She was blackmailing men and Calvin found out so wanted in.  Blaming Calvin for the murder.

Of course it wasn't him since he was too obvious, but the suspect was always right before out eyes from the outset, at least I said it was her.  Morgan tells DB she was using the wrong trick shot since the ball grew less in diameter as it rolled across the table and found it came from a ball of ice.  So the ice shrunk as it rolled and melted under the lights in the cue pocket.  Thus the leather would've retained the saliva of the drinker cos Turelli didn't drink, as Doc told them.  She tells Hodges that the killer is Mary, the driver who hit him.  Derosa company is hers and she was working with Zoe. Crawford tells her that Zoe told them everything and Mary insists she didn't kill anyone.  Crawford telling her they found the gun at her business and so she set up a meeting with Calvin.  Turelli wanted Zoe to get out of this and was going to call the police.  Mary attacked him and killed him with the champagne glass, then buried his body.  That's why she was still out there when she ran him over again.

DB mentions Crawford lying to the suspect and he says that's the "best kind of hustle."  Morgan challenges Hodges to a game and says that the loser will have to clean the GCMS machine for a week.  Hodges thinks she'll win and she even offers to play left handed.  Hodges breaks and Morgan realizes he's not such a novice after all.

Another routine ep where it's like you've seen it all before.  I don't know why it felt like the ep was scraping the barrel, guess it said it all when they had to resort to getting Sharon Osbourne in there.  I mean wasn't the So Money Supermarket ad enough!  I don't like it when they get so many suspects in there and they all kind of pass the buck onto someone else.  As for Cavinl, ha, Bernard Curry left Home and Away in a storyline where he went on the run from the police with his girlfriend to the US, guess he was living it up in Vegas all this time!  Ha. Seems like Morgan got hustled by Hodges, who always has something sneaky up his sleeve.  Nick disappeared after one scene, maybe it was those trousers of his!  Ha. Sara made it to two scenes and Henry (Jon Wellner) disappeared altogether.

The Mentalist 7.7 "Little Yellow House" Review

                                                         
The ep opens with Patrick (Simon Baker) coaching Vega (Josie Loren) on how to do a balancing exercise with a stick, one that I'm sure a lot of us have tried over the years, I know I have.  But with Vega it was really boring to watch and as Lisbon (Robin Tunney) walks in, she mentions smores. She likes smores and Patrick mentions chocolate covered ones, but Vega drops the stick when Cho (Tim Kang) mentions smores in the microwave are great.  US Attorney Julie Sandoval (Romi Dias) looks for Lisbon and tells her she's looking for her brother Jimmy (Robert Belushi) who's a material witness in a murder case, that of Nathan Barnes (David C Scott) the son of a judge.  Jimmy left his house without talking to them and she needs to find him or issue a warrant for his arrest.  Yeah just walk in and tell the entire office Lisbon's personal business.

Lisbon calls her other brother Stan (Derek Phillips) but he doesn't know where he is, so Abbot (Rockmond Dunbar) tells her she can go down there to look for him.  Asking her how many brothers she's got, three, with her being the eldest.  Abbot says he's got five and it can be tough.  Patrick says he'll come with her if she wants him too and she says she'd like it if he did come.  Lisbon thinks he could be at their parent's house but she hasn't been here since they died.  Patrick's envious cos he never lived in a house.  As we know, he was living with the Carnie and his father when little.  She finds the spare key still outside and that Stan was doing some renovations to the house.  She calls Stan and Patrick finds an old clipping of hers, as well as a photo, asking her which one is her bedroom.  He looks around upstairs and not before long he's attacked by a man in a black jacket, as he turns around and says he loves Lisbon's doodles on the wall, but it's not her.  Patrick trying to scream, 'no' was funny sounding.  As I thought to myself that newly painted green wall would look good with a red, smiley face on it!  What?  Ha.  It would.

Lisbon runs up and he escapes through the window.  She introduces Patrick to Stan at his house and his wife, as Stan mentions her high school prom date, Woody, who ended up getting a puffy face cos of allergies to his pierced lip.  He hasn't seen Jimmy but he called a few days ago.  Wiley (Jason Adler) tells her he found out about the murder Vic and he was found beaten to death behind a hotel in Dallas.  He had Jimmy's card in his pocket and worked for battered women.  Also Patty gives him a detailed description of the man who attacked him, warts,n'all.  Including smelling like aqua velva. She thinks they should check out the bars and bumps into TJ (Ryan Churchill) who she used to babysit.  Patrick takes his phone and finds Jimmy called him a few hours ago.  He only knows he went fishing.  Patrick returns his phone, telling him he should call his mother back.  At the lake, Lisbon finds Jimmy and tells him he's in trouble.  She only checks up on him when she thinks he's in trouble and asks if Patrick is her boyfriend.  Patrick talks to him alone and tells him he knows the man wasn't after him, but obviously he was after Stan.  He says if he comes back to Houston, he won't have to testify cos they'll find the real killer.  To which he agrees.

Lisbon records his statement wanting to know where he was on the night, he says he was gambling and reminds her she taught him how to play.  He saw him with Charles McInnes (Tom Gallop) a law clerk, Vicki (Janelle Giumarra) Ben (Michael Cory Davis) and a man named  Holiday (Jeremy Ratchford).  Cho saying he's with the mob.  Patrick says they need to get in on the game and Nathan owed Holiday money.  Who Patrick rules out as a suspect cos you can't collect from a dead man. Abbot says they have 72 hours to find the killer or they'll have to hand Jimmy over.  Sandoval wants the collar on the case.  Wiley tells Patrick the man in the house is Delphino but isn't connected to Jimmy, which can only leave Stan, as I said.  Cho and Patrick hang out at the bar and Patrick drunkenly bets on the football game and loses his money to Cho.  Holiday asks if he knows anything about the game and Patrick notices he's into women, so they're using the wrong bait.

Vega talks to Charlie who introduces his fiance, Heidi (Anna Rose Hopkins)  who worked some domestic abuse cases with Nathan.  He mentions Holiday and who else was at the game.  Adding that Judge Barnes made a ruling against Ben a few months ago.  On the night in question, Charlie lost the game and Vicki was chasing after Nathan.  Lisbon enters the bar wearing a little number and sits at the bar.  Holiday buys her a drink and Patrick walks in as her rich boyfriend.  He just plays for the thrill of the game and throwing his money away.  He lost $20,000 like that, Lisbon tells him.  Holiday invites him to a poker game and Jimmy invites the other players as well.

They'll need cameras inside the hotel room, so Vega and Wiley pose as a couple wanting to check out the room and then get into a fight, so the clerk leaves them alone.  They set up the cameras.  Wiley knows she said something about ripping his head off in Spanish and she realizes he's been studying. She also makes sure the toilet won't work.  Karen (Milissa Skoro) calls Lisbon telling her that Stan was beaten up and said it happened at work.  But she realizes that Patrick knew the man was after Stan all along and didn't tell her.  He replies cos it wasn't his business.  Jimmy tells her Stan's in debt to a loan shark.  She had to watch out for them and it was tough having to be the one in charge, which he's fine with, but then she left.  

Lisbon tags along to watch and Patrick tells Jimmy to just play poker and let him handle everything. Ben tells them the toilet's busted and not to go in there!  Holiday thinks they should change rooms, but Patrick says he's here for the poker, not the toilet, so Holiday tells them there's one down the hall. Vega notices that Patrick's cheating and they work out the player's tells, Ben rocks sideways, Vicki scratches her nose, Holiday scratches his head and Charlie scratches his eyebrow.  As the game gets underway, Lisbon acts like a psychic and tells them something dark happened here.  Patrick saying she likes to think she's one.  Holiday tells her someone was killed nearby and she says someone in the room did it.  Adding that whoever has as an ace is the killer.  Well, no surprises there then that they all have an ace and so think she's not very good at all.  At that point they see Charlie scratch his eyebrow and so he's the killer.  Of course got that ages ago, especially since he was the only one who personally knew Nathan.

He wins cos Patrick lets him and then uses the toilet, where Cho tells him he knows he's the killer and he can take him in now or Holiday will be after him.  Patrick tells the others there's a camera in the room and that Charlie had people watching them and helping him out.  Cho shows Charlie the footage from the room and it has Holiday mouthing son of a bitch.  Charlie returns to the game, but Holiday invites him in and decides Cho should take him with him.  He tells Cho he saw Nathan was wearing his shirt cos of the insignia on the sleeves.  So he suspected Heidi was having an affair with him.   He cornered him in the alley and beat him up.  Cho tells him he spoke with Heidi and found that he spilled coffee on his shirt, so she lent him one of his.  Ain't that always the way, so he killed him for nothing, instead of confronting her about it.  I mean all he had to do was say he's got a shirt missing.  Then again that whole coffee story could've been made up.

Lisbon returns home for the christening of her nephew and Stan thanks her cos she's going to help him out.  They decided they like Patrick, he's a good man and she should hold onto him.  Lisbon tells Patrick that he might be surprised as what she has to say, that she loves him, even if she hasn't said it, cos healways knows what she's thinking.  He tells her he is surprised.  Ahh, Lisbon always acts so shy when she tells him personal lovey dovey things like that!  But Patty's smile was so perfect!! Ahh! SO gonna miss this show!!

 I like the fact they are keeping their relationship and the mushy stuff low key and aren't going overboard with it every minute, like they can do in some shows and I'm superficially referring to Castle here.  Lisbon and Patty don't need to be telling each other how they feel every second and that's exactly in keeping with their characters.  They weren't ones to talk about their personal lives and they still aren't.

• • Lisbon: I don't think I've said this. I mean, I know I haven't said this, but I don't really know if I need to because you always know what I'm thinking.
    Jane: Well, not everything.
    Lisbon: Would you surprised if I said I love you?
    Jane: I'd be... I'd be lying if I didn't say I would be moved by that.
    Lisbon: I love you. I said it.
    Jane: I'm surprised.   So sweet!!!

We have met Tommy before, the other brother she mentions in 4.6 Where in the World is Carmine O'Brien?  Where he showed up as a bounty hunter and got in the way.  Obviously we know Lisbon's good at cards cos of the card games she play back at the CBI with Bertram and the others.  As well as playing with Patrick for gummy bear candies in Red Tooth and Claw, but she's not as good as Patrick.  That poker part must have been written in for her since Robin Tunney took part in the 2006 World Series of poker and is a poker player.  Robin was also born in Chicago too, as is Lisbon. Lisbon had some new outfits in this ep, specifically her work clothes.