Longmire 4.6 "The Calling Back" Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Once Upon A Time 5.20 "Firebird" Review

                                                 
As the others gather outside discussing how they can leave, Regina (Lana Parilla) tries to transfer half of Emma's (Jennifer Morrison) heart to Hook (Colin O'Donoghue) but it doesn't work.  Well that transplant was rejected.  Hades (Greg Germann) tells them it was cos David (Josh Dallas) was only dead a few moments, whereas Hook's body is decaying and his soul is no loner in it.  Thought that already, they'd come up with some excuse, especially since they have all that magic and yet still have obstacles in their ways.

Hades turns up with a note saying he needs their help as Gold (Robert Carlyle) has kidnapped Zelena (Rebecca Mader) along with Pan (Robbie A Kay).  Regina wants to help, but Hook says he can't be trusted and as always he was right.  Hades saying if they help he'll erase their names from the stones and Emma agrees to help him but only if he does this.  She didn't ask for a way to help Hook though and obviously Hades' Ambrosia story was full of holes.  When he spoke of Orpheus and Eurydice. He sends Emma and Hook down to the deepest depths where even he hasn't been.  As they accompany each other and Hades says the portal will only be open until sundown. The others decide to help people leave the underworld too, by Henry (Jared Gilmore) writing what their unfinished business is.
Robin's (Sean Maguire) been sent a message to come out of hiding and Regina says he should give Zelena the baby and they should head to the portal cos Regina trusts her, so he should do it for her.

However as they sit there handing out their unfinished business, Cruella (Victoria Smurfit) arrives and says that no one's going anywhere cos she's the new ruler and she has magic cos the blind witch (Emma Caulfield) has magic and together they're going to rule, cos David also dispensed with James who was her fun down here.  She seals them into the library and Regina's magic doesn't work.  Emma gets down below with Hook and she has to place her heart on the weighing scale as Hook tells her to and it doesn't move.  She has a reaction and Hook tells her to go for her heart as he's surrounded by fire, but instead she saves him from the flames.  Thus showing that she does really love him as the scale moves and doors open.  However their search is fruitless as they don't find any ambrosia.  Hook tells her she must return with her family and leave him here.  Oh pointless her coming here then and bringing everyone else too.   Lots of snogging and holding hands and as Hook said before, why does she manage to say lovey dovey things when they're in danger or trouble.  She mentions her armour and how she's been wearing it for so long, but she doesn't need it with Hook.

Interspersed with this we get Emma back being in Maine, 2009 and pursued by a bounty hunter, Cleo Fox (Rya Kihlstedt) when she looks for anyone in a clipping she has.  Cleo tells her she knows and handcuffs her whilst she takes a shower.  Of course Emma knows how to pick locks and she finds the computer which has a tracker site open and doesn't leave.  They head to the courtroom where the miniscule-ly thin file only contains a clipping of a boy finding her as a baby, which she already had and two other pieces of paper.  Later she breaks in and Cleo follows her but doesn't find anything cos the police arrive.  breaks a window to escape and wants Emma to come with her.  She later finds herself bleeding in the alley with a piece of glass stuck in her and Emma tell her she can get help. See Emma got her killed cos she had to pursue things and couldn't leave them alone.  Suppose this was a parallel story for her situation with Hook, as he said to her he should've died in Camelot and this time she's got to leave him here.  He'll probably move on to bigger and better lines!! Ha.

What's the betting he doesn't cos does he really have any unfinished business now, aside from his father, whom we don't get to see in the underworld.  Also Cruella's still around and Henry left the book with peoples' unfinished business tn the library, maybe Hook'll find this or help the others.

Emma finds her daughter and tells her she found her birth mother, then buys a leather jacket cos she called it armour that she can put on to protect herself.  As Emma leaves with the others she says she won't stop helping anyone else.  Gold takes Robin's heart for Pan so he can get out of here and then doublecrosses papa by saying he put his heart back when he wasn't around cos he knew his shadow was there.  Saying goodbye to papa forever as he put some water from the river of Lost Souls into it too.  See did Pan really think he could actually get him to help.

Gold putting Belle in Pandora's box: never to be opened or untold evils will be unleashed, didn't know whether to laugh or not.  Did he really think that her father will bring her back with a kiss, well I know I already said that but just couldn't help it!  He even got Hades to tear up the baby contract but it was funny seeing Pan try to take Zelena's heart and Emma stopping him.  Zelena kissed Hades and kick started his heart!  Big mistake!

Also how everyone for years told Regina she should forgive people and when she finally does forgive her own sister she's berated for it and also when she told her to find the man she loves.  Only man is still as selfish as ever and only wanted to get his sorry ass out of the underworld.  Let's hope Hook finds his ambrosia somehow cos we really don't want him to not be around!  A lot of people will stop watching.  Could even go so far as to say that this episode was all about Emma's jacket in many ways and no it didn't help her that much if at all.  She's still making the same mistakes and also garbling words at the same time!

Regina: "You'd think the ex-pirate with a rum habit would cut my sister some slack."
Hook: "You'd think the Evil Queen would be even smarter than to send the wicked witch to romance the most devious man alive."  Well he was right, even if Zelena had showed a glimmer of a change in character, there's no guarantee Hades would or could ever change and this was proven even before we got to ep's end on two occasions.  Or three if you count getting Zelena's baby too and heading for Storybrooke without waiting for the others.  Stealthy (Geoff Gustafson) was in the underworld too and Henry told him how Grumpy still talks about him.

Mysteries of Laura 2.6 "Mystery of the Dead Heat" Review

                                          
A man's DB was found inside a sauna, Matthew Burke who was the owner.  He tried to claw out of the locked door.  His bunch of big keys are found in his short's pocket and Laura (Debra Messing) wonders why men have to carry such large keys around unlike women who have handbags.  His wife Cecilia (Sherri Saum) walks in and she's despondent at seeing him there.  She has MS and after Matthew found out he dropped his job as an attorney and became a physical trainer to help her.  She also has a van which has been converted so she can drive herself around and the camera purposely pans in on her orange medic alert bracelet, as a clue.  But he insisted on driving her and he didn't do that on the night he was killed.

Looking through complains from unhappy clients, they find a husband and wife who own a crappy cycle store as Laura calls it.  The husband, Connor (Isaac Caldiero) is doing a practice run on some makeshift obstacle course and it's made from scaffolding and orange netting.  He says he's planning on going on American Ninja.  Julie (Jesmille Darbouze) tells them about a man who was watching her named Archie (Robert Hallak) and she complained to Matthew about it, who said he'd take care of it.  Way to get suspicion off themselves, cos if they weren't involved, they wouldn't be shown. Archie has unpaid parking tickets which Max (Max Jenkins) finds and they narrow down his parking tickets to a specific area.  Jake (Josh Lucas) and Meredith (Janina Gavankar) check out and Jake thinks he's probably having a Continental breakfast at the cafe. But he's not inside.  However Jake spots his car after a truck pulls away and Archie attacks him with a wrench.

Archie tells Laura he didn't know they were police cos he was almost carjacked and says he'd been using Matthew's computer to write his resume/CV after he wanted to help him out.  Santiani (Callie Thorne) didn't think he was innocent and it didn't explain why he had Matthew's gym bag.  Meredith asks him for Matthew's computer password which she uses to log on and finds his CV.  Laura tells Santiani that hers and Meredith's gut says it's not Archie.  Meredith also finds a file with photos of a man and woman together and Laura notices the orange bracelet.  See clue!  Ha.  Cecilia says he was her sex surrogate since things weren't going well after her MS and he would work out the positions with her and Matthew knew.  She recalled Matthew didn't lock the van with the latch that day and he always did that, he kept his keys in his backpack mostly.  So someone who didn't know about the latch took the keys and didn't lock the van back.

The van was wiped clean and most likely Matthew had just been in the wrong place at the wrong time.  Also they find orange fibres on the key chain, which Laura recalled were at the training course for Julie's husband.  Cecilia also worked at the city and had access to municipal plans, which Jake finds burned out copies off at the shop.  Yeah leave behind evidence without destroying it properly, they could have just as easily taken the plans with them, duh! Laura asks Cecilia which plans were more likely to have been stolen and she narrows it down to five.  One of which is a bank.  Didn't the corner piece Jake found have any info on it.  Also Meredith and Billy (Laz Alonso) find a list of numbers, which Jake works out are sunset times.  5.59 being the time for that day.

They arrive at the bank and the lights go out after an explosion since Isaac used to work at a construction site, but there's no robbery.  Santiani watches the news where Chief D'Angelo (Malachy Cleary) gives a press conference on how the second precinct foiled a bank robbery.  However Laura says it's not the bank and from the photos taken of the buildings on the other plans, she finds one of the buildings has scaffolding and netting near a police evidence building.  If they get into the vault then they can wreck thousands of convictions and criminals could go free cos of evidence tampering. She and Jake enter the building and Jake has a momentary problem with his heart.  As Laura earlier wanted him to see a specialist and then she'd think about a date with him.

Jake hears a noise and seconds later the wall explodes, as he shields Laura to the ground.  They enter and they have a shootout but Julie escapes, only to be caught by Billy and Meredith on the roof. Thought Jake might'vea  gotten chance to have his go at climbing but obviously that wouldn't have been too healthy for him right now.  The Chief has a go at Santiani for the press conference he gave, but Laura defends her by saying she planned it that way so the public wouldn't be aware of the real target.  He's impressed by Laura.  Oh watch out, she's next in line for Captain!  Ha.

Billy's mother, Silvia (Geisha Otero) comes in to see Meredith and is impressed by her cos she's been pestering him to meet his girlfriend. Though they don't actually meet in person.  Jake tells him the whole office knows about the two of them and he sussed it out cos he's a detective, but advises against introducing her to his mother yet cos Meredith might get too pressurized.  Like he did with Laura's father.  Meredith would like to meet his mother one day but for now they go back to her apartment and make a taxi driver she knows jealous.  Jake agrees to see the doctor and Laura says after she sees the doctor's note, they'll talk about a date, but she's seeing Tony on Saturday.

Thought Jake would've already got a second opinion even if he is trying to keep the department from his health issue, cos there's doctor/patient privilege and who's to say he didn't, though it's understandable Laura would want him to cos she doesn't really want to lose him and especially for the children too.  But is does seem that momentary pain he got may have more serious repercussions for him and he may just need to get "benched" to use Santiani's phrase from ep 4 and get a desk job. No chases in this ep and usually there's at least one in every ep, hmm, must be taking a new approach.
Laura's seeing Tony but it can't hurt to go on adate with Jake, I mean not like she's gonna jump right in and take him back, even if they do see each other at work everyday.   Yeah but of course you know I'm biased in Jake's favour, still what he did can't be easily forgiven and why Laura needs time to get over that, not sure she ever will, but she needs to be sure.  Especially considering he still doesn't recall what he said to her about loving her.

Longmire 4.5 "Help Wanted" Review

                                         
Walt (Robert Taylor) is testing applicants for the post of deputy to replace Branch and Ruby (Louanne Stephens) informs him of  a shooting of Greg Collette (Brendan Fehr) at his home.  Walt rides with him in the ambulance and he tells him how the robbers were masked and wanted money but when they asked for Brandy's wedding ring he refused and was shot.  He describes the ring as a green agate and silver and she found the rock when they were camping.  Also informing him that she killed herself two months ago, she was suffering from PTSD after returning home from fighting in Iraq and wasn't provided with the help she needed.

Vic (Katee Sackhoff) radios in about a shooting at a warehouse where a security guard, Lee McKinnon (John Bobek) was shot and they find the stolen items were pharmaceuticals.  He described them as wearing ski masks but one of them stopped and stitched up his leg.  Several clues to this too as it was apparent it could've been an inside job and the thieves could've just been after the drugs and that's all.  Walt checks out the applicants at the firing range and one of them, Zachary Heflin (Barry Sloane) didn't shoot at the target cos it wasn't close enough to him, Walt telling him it's a dangerous criminal with a gun and he fires perfect shots.  He leaves Cady (Cassidy Freeman) to deal with them as he's asked for her help with background checks.

He has Ferg (Adam Bartley) check out forensics at both scenes and whether there are any similarities or differences.  Ferg finds that the bullets were from the same gun, that of the security guard, Lee, at both scenes.  Then questions the potential applicants on their theories of how that could be possible if the shooting of Greg took place first and the security guard second and the delay between the 911 call by Lee.  Travis (Derek Phillips) who also wants in on the deputy's position thinks it's an inside job and he returns after Walt rejected his application cos of his misdemeanours, but generally again it's cos he doesn't measure up to his expectations.

Due to the type of drugs stolen Walt thinks it could be the same people, Trey and Theo who are on probation now for selling drugs and checks out their place cos they're on probation and so they don't need a warrant. Vic finds a gun inside which he says belongs to his Nana.  Also they don't know how to make meth.  Walt talks with the doctor, Donna Sue (Ally Walker) at the clinic who dealt with Brandy and she couldn't help her.  She didn't know she killed herself but knew it would happen cos she couldn't get the help and the drugs she needed.  She agitatedly knocks over the drugs from the cabinet which includes those that were stolen.
Walt asks if Greg recognizes any of the boys in the mugshots and then wonders if he recognizes Lee's voice.  His friend Mark Van Zandt (Rick Ravanello) is there as well, that's when I deduced (thank you Sherlock!  ha) that he and Gerg were in on it along with Lee cos he seemed agitated when he saw Van Zandt.  Ferg also points out something's happening between them.

Cady checks the references and one of them Henry (Lou Diamond Phillips) knows and he also has a tear in his shirt.  Theo and Trey bring in a photo to show Walt of Dwight Brisco (Nick Gomez). Henry buys drugs from him and he says he's a veteran but he didn't steal the drugs.  He walked into church and took them from there to sell, cos he hasn't been able to find work.  At the church Walt finds the drugs in the piano cos one of the notes doesn't play and they find Donna Sue conducting a support group.  Also a woman, Rebecca (Amanda Brooks) speaks about her husband getting better now.  Speaking to Donna Sue she tells them she didn't do it and as they confiscate the drugs, she says they need them cos people won't help.

Walt knows they'll steal more drugs and they haven't hurt anyone yet but who knows next time.  Ferg surveils Lee's house and he's noticed a truck drive around three times with Colorado plates.  He's also noticed the car.  Ferg leaves  Zachary behind to surveil further and not Monte (Stephen Louis Grush) cos he made remarks about Walt and what he's like, but also cos he looks like a policeman.  Zachary  says Van Zandt spoke with Lee at his house.  Walt plans a sting and as they hijack a truck carrying drugs, Walt arrests Van Zandt and it had to be none other than Greg under the ski mask.  He didn't want anyone else to go through what Brandy went through, but there's a third accomplice.  Obviously it was cos Rebecca was very vocal about her husband and getting better.  She holds Walt at gunpoint and makes him get down on his knees, about to shoot him.  Walt mentions Of Mice and Men and George shooting Lenny cos he didn't want him to be lynched.  It was an act of love and she can show her husband that's what this is too so he'll get the help he needs.  She throws the gun down.

Walt hires Zachary as deputy cos he's read the book, but also cos he answers his question about if he'd shot Lennie too.  Removing Branch's name from the list of the sheriff's office outside.  Vic calls Eammon but a woman answers and buys Travis a beer who says he was much better than Branch. They both played football but he played for the team so he went onto play football.  He's angry he can't get a job either with Walt and not just cos of his misdeameanours.  Even Vic must have some he says.
That was a fairly straightforward investigation and it pays to read!  I like the way ones with a little more twists in them.

Mysteries of Laura 2.5 "Mystery of the Watery Grave" Review

                                             
A 911 operator receives a call from a woman who is run off the road in her car by bikers.  She's the wife of The New York Ledger owner, Terrence Van Doren (Jeffrey Pierce) who needs them to find out who killed his wife, Isabel (Betty Gilpin).  At the accident scene Renaldo (Marc Webster) finds the body is missing, probably washed away in the river and signs of head trauma with some scalp remains on the windscreen.  Inside Laura (Debra Messing) spots  a plastic bag and some empty coffee cups.  After speaking with Terrence who tells them he recently published an article about motorcycle flashmobs and thinking it could be murder.  Meredith (Janina Gavankar) knows where the bikers will be and Jake (Josh Lucas) wants to get out his Harley and go riding, but Laura doesn't cos he's still recovering and besides, Meredith adds she'd look better on a bike than him.  Ooh missed our chance to see Jake in leathers!

Billy (Laz Alonso) follows her and she gets in the bikers good books and challenges them to a race but a motorist gets involved and has his window smashed, leading her to reveal her true ID.  He insists he didn't have anything to do with Isabel cos they filed a lawsuit against Terence and were most likely to win, attacking her would've led to that not happening.  He also has an alibi cos he was with his wife.  Jake asks Terrence for the hate mail he's been getting and he tells his assistant, Beth (Anastasia Barzee) to help.  Also telling him Claire died in a kayaking accident.  Yeah they were all accidents how unlucky could Terrence have been with his wives!  His former brother in law, brother of his first wife, Claire was sending him the mail and is most likely the suspect.  Laura speaks with him and he says he used to beat Claire and didn't let the family see her whenever they wanted to.

Knew Isabel staged her own death cos it was that obvious, but more so since she would've got the same treatment as Claire and that Terrence also would've killed Claire.  Remember always suspect the spouse!  Meredith listens to the 911 call and says the sound effects were just that and there were no bikes following her.  Thus she staged her death.  Laura also assumes the bag she saw in the car would've had ice in there which would've melted in the water and would've been placed on the accelerator to speed the car and enter the water.  Laura and Jake speak with the taxi ferry operator who doesn't recall seeing Isabel or Terrence.  Santiani (Callie Thorne) disagrees she's still alive unless they can get evidence confirming the white van a woman wearing a baseball cap got into is actually Isabel.  Who took a ferry to an IKEA store and got into the van and is seen on their surveillance.  Jake commenting on how shoppers wanted to get to IKEA so early!

Terrence pays a visit to Santiani who believes her detectives are not doing their jobs and as he knows the police commissioner will have the case reassigned.  She gives Laura her full backing to find Isabel cos Terrence is a jerk, to put it mildly.  They find that Isabel didn't have any friends, after Laura speaks with her assistant who was meant to help her blend into Greenwich society.  He tells Laura she didn't have much to do and didn't want to volunteer, also she preferred jeans to nice clothes, which Laura agrees with.  But she did donate money to a place downtown, the Styvesant women's shelter.  Where Max (Max Jenkins) finds the woman in charge hired a van using her credit card to rent the white truck.  Meredith is able to narrow down motels near an airport, as the truck had GPS she can hack into.

Laura goes alone since she's a woman so Isabel would talk to her more easily and she pulls a gun on her.  She tells her about Terrence and how he would've killed her cos he used to beat her up and shows her the bruises where he recently kicked her.  Also saying she'd end up like Claire.  She won't come in but Laura promises to get him for murdering Claire.  Jake wants her to come in cos they can protect her, but that'd be ruining the ace up their sleeve, since he's got the police commissioner and everyone else eating out of his hand.  Max tells them the only police interview they conducted for Claire's death was with Beth and Jake says he can talk to her, "it's man/woman thing."

She tells Jake she didn't see Claire that day and her finances show that Terrence bought her an expensive apartment which must've been a payment for helping him out.  Terrence's lawyer shows up and prevents her talking further and Jake puts his foot in it by libelling him.  He goes to the press who turn up at Laura's doorstep and Laura adds it's messy now.  Hey why didn't they share dinner with
the boys since they were actually all at the house together.  Max also raving about the decor in Terence's house and showing them magazine photos.  She notices he hasn't changed the decor at all since then, so they could get a warrant to search his house.  However they'd need Isabel for that so Santiani thinks if they searched anyway, then he couldn't refuse them or he'd look guilty.  Jake wants a date with Laura and he asks what's happening with the forgiveness project, but she says she's with Tony.

She notices that there seems to be a painting there that's different and Max confirms there should be a tryptych there, maybe it had blood spatter.  Meredith, Billy and Renaldo found a grave on the property which contained a DB there.  Laura and Max pay a visit to the museum where he donated the third of the painting and Max gets her in cos the Carnegies are huge donators.  He tells them Terrence donated it but it's been cleaned before it was hung.  That's why he did it cos any DNA would've been cleaned along with it and was donated at the time Claire died.

Laura recalls how Isabel's assistant said he loved his mother and visited her grave every week, but the museum man says he hated her.  Thus the body is most likely there.  Got that when the assistant said Terrence went to see his mother every week!  She can get into the family crypt with Isabel's consent cos she's family and Renaldo finds a skull with head trauma.  They have enough to arrest Terrence, however Laura fools him with an ulna bone which she put together from a museum kit Renaldo gave the boys.  Terrence smugly says they need a warrant for the crypt, but Isabel turns up saying they had her permission.  He'll do down for Claire's murder.

Santiani tells Laura her ex beat her once and she left him and that's why she wanted to get Terrence as well.  That's why she gave her leeway on the case.  Laura still hasn't forgiven Jake but he hasn't given up and wants a date with her, with the "may the best man win" comment too. Well we know who the best man is, sorry but Tony is boring!! Lots of clues early on again that Isabel staged her own death and where Claire's DB would be found and also when the caretaker said he'd come in every week with a briefcase, off course that'd be to sneak in parts of the body.

Once Upon A Time 5.19 "Sisters" Review

                                               
As Hades (Greg Germann) drives Zelena (Rebecca Mader) around in his truck, to the tune of "I'm the one that set the world on fire" or rather, made the show so boring ha!  He tells her if she wants the real Storybrooke he'll get it for her cos she doesn't deserve this second rate one in the underworld and he's changed the names on the gravestones so that none of these do-gooders can leave.  They'll go back and take it over, of course she's forgetting or not realizing he's only using her.  How can she be wicked and at the same time be blinded by his true intentions.  I mean how can he leave this place anyway.  As Regina (Lana Parilla) tells her it's a mistake and he can't expect to think he can leave by true love's kiss after all the time he's been here.  She shows her the mirror which she used to spy on their so-called date including finding out his plan of leaving them all stranded here.  Though Hades forgets their secret weapon, Snow is back in Storybrooke already and will band everyone together to fight Hades, if he gets there.  Also that David (Josh Dallas) sent her back cos she's a better leader, could he have foreseen this trouble coming.  It's a little doubtful he'll even make it their considering what happens at the end of this ep, with Zelena getting kidnapped.

Cos David was right, he wouldn't have been any good back there and he wouldn't have gotten his meeting with James either.  Who tells him Cruella (Victoria Smurfit) lied, he doesn't bear grudges about their mother choosing David over him, rather he took his princley title from him, which is the real reason he's here with his unfinished business, which will remain so.  He kidnapped David and locked him up in the sheriff's station, not too bright then was he.  As he returns to Emma's (Jennifer Morrison) apartment, she doesn't sense he's not quite her father, like mother, like daughter can I say, considering Snow didn't realize it wasn't David who kissed her, so much for true love's kiss.  Emma didn't even notice the stubble on him either!  Considering they all share that apartment.  He gets the day wrong in the photo of David and Snow forgetting it was their anniversary, still Emma didn't realize with their love for each other, David wouldn't ever forget their anniversary!

Regina finds talking to Zelena didn't do any good since she doesn't believe Regina would care about her now after all this time and she thinks they need someone else's help.  This being Cora (Barbara Hershey) who we see is slaving away down the mines, so to speak, as the miller's daughter that she is. She finds a hook in the sacks and uses it to get her magic back by removing her bracelet, obviously recognizing Hook's (Colin O'Donoghue) hook, he hasn't had much to do of late, he was only in two scenes!

David and Emma take supplies to Robin (Sean Macguire) still hiding out when I'm sure he could've returned with Snow and Cruella drives up as James takes the baby, cos Hades wants it and will get into Zelena's good books with it, but also they can use it as leverage against Hades.  See, a surefire giveaway that he doesn't really love her cos he wouldn't have to use a baby to blackmail her. Emma gets a bracelet slapped on her to stop her using magic.  Thinking Hades will probably turn around and surprise everyone by declaring he really does love her and will need their help with Zelena.

Cora says the only way they can get Zelena to get over Hades is if she forgets and takes some water from a stream running from the river of Lethe.  The same one she used on Regina to make her forget about Zelena.  So now suddenly cos the plot requires it, we find Regina and Zelena knew they were sisters all along cos Cora needed  Zelena to save Regina after she opened a box containing her wand and fell ill after she used its magic to bring her doll to life.  Bringing back Zelena from her abusive father who didn't want her to use magic as we know.  So after they both got close and after Cora, foolishly didn't remove the box from that same drawer and Zelena was able to open it, Regina realized they must be related.  Cora admitting they are sisters but taking Zelena away and making them both forget their obvious love for each other.

Cora says she's sorry to Zelena but Zelena reads her like a book and knows Regina is there, not drinking the water she calls poison.  As Regina and Zelena are about to throw fireballs at each other, for real and not play dress-ups, Cora puts an end to it.  She says she loves them both and her unfinished business is Zelena, not Regina.  She joins hands with them and miraculously makes them recall the love for each other.  Zelena now knowing she was loved.  So they end up at that cliff edge again and she says her goodbyes to Regina cos she didn't have a chance to in Storybrooke and her hellos to Zelena cos they didn't even get a chance to say hello.  Zelena is upset cos she didn't get chance to know her.  Cora is engulfed by flames which turn into that same old staircase out of there, the same one Regina's father climbed, most likely and she is redeemed and sent to a better place.

Zelena seems to be on her side until Gold (Robert Carlyle) catches up to her and wants his revenge for what she did to Belle, it's not her fault she didn't want to be with him, she tells him, as she watches Hades inside the diner, cos sis Regina let hr be with the man she loves.  Playing that same old song.  Maybe it is for Zelena to remain wicked and remain a villain and not a hero, not everyone can become a hero can they, that'd be too much like Regina. Gold introduced her to his dad, Peter Pan (Robbie A Kay) and he managed to say that with a straight face again, as Pan whisked her away, guessing it's not to Neverland!! ha.

David and Hook arrive at the dock in time to save the others as he and James fight, as Cruella runs away when James is pushed into the river of Lost Souls, so no unfinished business for him.  He told him he shouldn't have locked him up there cos he knows how to get out.
Suppose the highlight was Cora calling Hook "my faiyr godmother."  Most of this felt like it was tacked on just to get Cora gone and Regina and Zelena to find each other as sisters.  The baby kidnap and David meeting James was hopeless and silly really, cos it was finished in the space of one ep, like Hook becoming the Dark One was dealt with in two eps.  Funny Cruella just seems to get away over and over to fight another day, so it's not so easy to take care of her then!