Ghost Adventures "Mayhem in MiIlville"

Millville, Utah investigating one of the oldest homes there.  Zak feels uneasy abut this place and says he felt this way in Gary, Indiana investigating the Demon House.  The house, snow and what was going on resembled that same case.  Attacks taking place for 70 years.  He mentions the Mormons and polygamy but it still continues, even though they had to renounce it.  Cindy Lou, a descendant of the polygamist Jessop family believes a male spirit is wreaking havoc on her.  She wanted to know who he is, why he's here.  The house was built in 1906.  Her grandmother had experiences in this house.  She's never been in the attic, so didn't they investigate there.   Since she moved in, everything has increased darkly.  Her ex husband was involved in a DUI and he killed someone.  Since he left she says the activity affected her.  Her mother was also killed in a car accident.

Zak senses the fear around him and he feels uneasy during their next interview.  Steve, a tenant felt something evil in the basement.  He thinks James was possessed in the basement.  He only saw a black mass and just saw his eyes and mouth.  James didn't recall the incident.  Zak believes it is feeding on James's energy.  Billy and Aaron investigate.  Aaron takes Polaroids.  Heather is pushed by an unseen entity.  She hasn't been touched before.  She and James saw a dark figure in the living room.  Heather gets a headache again, as Billy feels the same slightly on his temples.  A voice saying "out" is heard.  James arrives and is affected immediately.  Zak warns them to watch out for him.   James uses an app to communicate.  He had thoughts about killing the people in the house.  Steve mentions the spirit box James has and it has mentioned their names.  They've been communicating using it.  Billy says when they communicate they open themselves up to entities.

Cindy mentions the child's and woman's shoes found in the grounds.  Also the closet door that was nailed shut by her grandmother.  Billy suggests there might be something in there.  This is shown by a Polaroid Aaron took, there's a large light manifesting from the door of the closet.  Also a long, snake-like anomaly by the room door.  Aaron looks through the window and it hasn't been entered for years.  Jay mentions the deadliest Native American massacre that took place here.  Zak gets the dark vibe.  Zak suffers from a respiratory tract disorder and sits in at nerve centre and investigates from outside.  James texts 20 times in an hour that they shouldn't go inside.  

Ovilus: "evil, cent, table" where Zak is sitting.  "Let God Like" when Zak asks if he likes Jesus.  Zak: " give us the name of something you want."  "Student James Southern" comes through on the Ovilus.   Aaron hears something moving outside and Zak using the thermal captures an unusual figure by the door.  A kind of evil pixie.  "Abort Unholy Chills" and Aaron says he felt chills.  Zak uses a new spirit box designed by Gary Galka.   Aaron and Billy feel cold and an anomaly jumps from him to Billy.  An anomaly goes from around Aaron to Billy again and he reacts.  As they receive a voice after Billy asks what its name is.  Sounds like "I don't know" but will have to listen with headphones.   Something touches Aaron's arm and he runs out.  Aaron is sent to the basement alone.  Aaron's name comes through the device in the basement.  Jay uses the XLS and he picks up a figure touching Billy wanting to stop Aaron coming out of the basement.  Zak says they'll do whatever they can to help this family.  

That house was creepy as it is, I generally don't like houses like that and where was the attic??  Also it was eerily similar to the Demon House and as luck, or bad luck would have it, Zak is stricken physically again, even before investigating.  Was this a way to keep him out as it knew he could manipulate Aaron more than Zak and have him under its power.  Perhaps in the same way James is affected.  As for that figure/entity on the thermal, it was something smallish and when they find something like that it always reminds me of Aaron's experience with that dark shadow figure in 6.10 Hales Bar Marina and Dam episode.  What about the shoes found, were they just discarded, did something happen on the land, or were they part of some ritual??  This one had a lot of unanswered questions.  

Ghost Adventures "Joshua Tree Inn"

Joshua Tree - why does that name sound so familiar?? and not cos of the Bible story.

The Joshua Tree Inn, California.  Where the staff do not tread and guests are loathed to stay.  Where have I heard that before, oh many episodes.  I wonder who'd want to stay here, those rooms were so dingy!  & heck not even any take out.  What happened to the GA RV now??  Gram Parsons was a country singer who wanted to be a rock star in the same vein as The Rolling Stones.  He and Keith Richards were close friends in their 'lifestyles' and music.  Gram died in room 8 due to an OD.  Deedee tells Zak of the two women having the same dream in room 8 about Gram entering their dreams.  Destiny tells Zak of room 12,2 and the other rooms and she won't go in room 12 alone, there's something in the closet.  The Trifield goes off even before Billy and Aaron went into the room.  The needle moves on cue when Billy asks it to.

Phil Kaufman, road manager and friend, stole Gram's body as he wanted to be free there.  So he was burnt at Cap Rock.  Everyone knew what he did and he was charged with grand theft.  Zak and Billy decided to stay here and Zak sees a dark figure in his room which he said resembled the "Hail Mary."  Though from his sketch it resembled more of  a body in a coffin!!  Jay and Aaron head back to the hotel and live it up to the chagrin of Zak and Billy!  Before Zak mentioned room 11 I mentioned room 11 at the Silver Queen Hotel where he made contact with Lynette, who killed herself in the bath tub.  Where he made fun of her the first time he was there.  Thus the tattoo of 11 on his arm.  He also mentions Hotel Leger and room 11.  They spot a dark figure walking behind Deedee as she talks of the man who had a "sexual encounter" with a spirit in his room, next door to Zak's room.  Okay Zak, we get it you have to sleep in the room where you saw the figure.  No need to keep going on about it.  Also not the first time he's spent a night in a haunted room either!! 

A comedy vignette follows of them in their rooms/hotel.  Zak hears a bang.  Billy also hears a bird against his window as he describes it.  Then some tapping.  All very Wuthering Heights.  If that room was cold and it was cold generally anyway, why no shirt, 'ey, 'ey?  He mentions their doors opening at the same time.  They bring in Loren Gray to investigate with them.  Okay so if you're pretty much 'famous' you can get into the show compared to the rest of us plebs!  They talk of music and Zak gets emotional and begins to cry.  Hey funny, I haven't heard any of his songs before, but when they played that song, my mind was singing the words to it even before hearing what would come up.  Hmm!!  

Zak uses the Polterpod and he hears "yeah" when he asks if Gram can hear him.  I hear "bys/buys the people" not "lots of."  He asks what room he died in and "room 8" comes back.  I don't hear "I said room 8;" but "listen to me."  The voice sounds a little like Zak!  They play his music again and the Trifield Meter needle moves everytime they talk about him and his music.  

Loren, Billy and Aaron investigate room 12.  She doesn't go into the kitchen.  A coffee pot falls in the kitchen, or is pushed, they put it down to poltergeist activity.  In the closet Loren hears a clicking sound, the hangers, but she wasn't standing near them.  Also an anomaly moves behind her near the hangers.  As well as Billy catching an unusual anomaly in the room.  Wanted to see what would happen if she stayed in room 12 by herself.  Her watch goes off and they finish investigating.  

Ghost Adventures "Disturbed in Wickenburg"

Flashback to the good old days of GA when Zak still had his mesmerizing voice.  Vulture Mine ten years ago in the investigation and came across the 30 year storm and flash flooding.  They returned since at a paranormal event, two people were affected and went to hospital  The mining has started again and the Native American believe a dark, ancient curse has been released.  1863 Henry Wickenburg founded the mine and the population exploded.  Stealing was commonplace and some miners came to take some gold off the walls causing them to cave in and they all died there.  So where was Billy?

Jay and Marie were the hosts of a paranormal conference last year.  Marie was in pain and felt a fist in her gut.  She was being possessed.  The doctors couldn't find anything wrong.  Another woman also felt like she was having a heart attack and Zak mentions the tree.  Victoria was at the tree taking the dog out and her dog wouldn't let her go near the tree.  He still did that now.  In the Assay building on the stairs she felt nauseous and even now her dog wouldn't let her go up either and she had to leave the building again.  Members of the Navajo Tribe speak of the land being sacred and burying the evil in the land which is now being disrupted.  There are monsters and "giants" no longer around as their darkness and evil was buried.  When their land was invaded and the Tribe killed, there weren't anymore humans to do the ceremony and the darkness was released.  

They carried out a ceremony and Zak catches a shadow figure in the corner behind them.  He describes it as holding a gun.  The deeper "no" sounded like "hello."  At the bunkhouse using a sacred mask, Zak's glasses are referred to and he tells them they're prism glasses and the spirits sense the crystal.  Also that he has powers to see the spirit world.  Zak has to leave.  During their investigation they used Jeff's equipment, a sort of more advanced version of the SLS: the XLS camera.   With this Zak picks up a massive, giant figure and then the camera malfunctions.  Aaron brings out the rock they collected last time and puts it on the table.  The small figure then becomes a giant again and Jay feels it go through him.  Then asks it to come to the table and it momentarily does so.

Then Zak feels something on his back and a red mark is on the side of his shoulder at the back.  The recorder says it was recording but the light wasn't on.  SO we mess around with the recorder for a while.  EVPs are captured on the recorder.  There were footsteps downstairs but also sounded like something being moved.  An anomaly is caught downstairs.  The voice that says "can you find anything quietly" feels like they were searching for something to steal and thus the footsteps downstairs.  Wish they just'd just let you listen to the EVPs for a second or two.  

Jay and Aaron use the Polterpod in the bordello and Jay feels a hand brush down his back.  Jay says he robbed a bank and he's got money.  Sounds like "Hope" on the Polterpod.  Something is thrown in the kitchen.  A bit of a hit and miss episode, the shadow figure captured was good as was the giant, but the rest seemed not as interesting as it could have been.

Ghost Adventures "Curse of Ranch Island"

 Seven miles south of the Las Vegas Strip

Zak et al investigate a compound, where the people living together are going through hauntings.  When the current owner's friend committed suicide there last year, that's when they said that the activity increased.  Adam the owner, says he doesn't want to acknowledge the activity here as he doesn't want to chance fate.  That way he won't be affected by it.  There are ten people living there.  Adam says he doesn't have any experiences.  His friend hanged himself around 4am and he doesn't know why he killed himself in this place.  Investigated where he hanged himself,  Marieya takes them to a room where she was staying and she woke to find someone standing over her.  She felt drained and knew she had to conserve her energy.  She takes the digital recorder and a voice is recorded on there.  Sounds like: "this is me, I'm watching..."  It's very rough, aggressive sounding.  The "me" could be a name.  However this doesn't mean it's the man who hanged himself.  She knows of one other spirit here.  That room was dingy and small, reminded me of the Cecil Hotel rooms. 

Abby had an encounter with a man who she thinks could have been the original owner, John.  In the original home, where Adam lives, Kamila shows her old room, which doesn't have windows and she put a security camera up before she went to Europe.  The photo showed a light coming out of the mirror.  The same night, their friend hanged himself hours later.  She also thinks she has seen the entity a "grey leg" going into the  wall of the main house.  She believes this house is haunted and believes Adam is being affected by the energy.  Aaron and Billy's Polaroids show a blue light, similar to the one in Kamila's photo but blue.  Zak left the house cos of his experiences there.  Britni, a psychic medium, tells them she felt their friend on the stairs leading to the roof where they can see the entire ranch.  She also had a Tarot card reading, The Hanged Man, which she also said was a warning for Zak.  The card representing "being stuck" and the entity wants someone else to feel it, which Zak is doing.  

They also capture something blue on the stairs.  Using the Polterpod they get some voices.  "Got it."  "Medium."  "Hate."  "Careful."  Zak says he felt light headed and panicked and so left.   They use the Tesla Coil in a circle with wires and see if they can charge up the energy from his death.  Zak puts the recorder on the beam and feels a bolt of emotion hitting him and feels like he wants to cry.  An anomaly shoots away behind Billy.  Zak reenacted the suicide when he got up on the stool.  He recalls having the same feelings with the mummy's foot at Ripley's.  Cool air surrounds him.  A voice says "I'm coming" and they feel something rush on them and Jay feels something pushing down on him.  On the SLS Zak captures a figure which appears to be struggling and writhing in pain, right where the rope was.  Appeared to be the man hanging himself.  Zak says "go to the house" in a deep voice.  Billy captures a stick figure next to Aaron which then vanishes. 

Jay is left in another part of a building and they hear banging sounds.  Jay hears scratching when he asks if the name of the owner is known.  Doesn't sound like scratching, scratching.  At the house, Zak captures a figure on the camera taking full spectrum photos!!  One reason why he probably said to go to the house.  After any attempts at debunking,  they find it could have been the same figure Kamila must've seen.  

In the pic circled looks like there's a creepy face there, or two.  Looking back at that figure doesn't it remind you of Zak from the back without his hat.  Don't know why I thought of that, just everything was affecting him and no one else, physically and emotionally and the Tarot card too was a warning for him.  

Also I said that they should turn the lights off, when debunking since that's how he caught the figure. Which he does!!  Zak goes up the stairs where they caught the mist and he steps back saying he heard a screeching sound and pictured a witch with grey, straggly hair.  Wonder if this had anything to do with the scratching sound Jay heard. 

Ghost Adventures "House of Brujeria"

Las Vegas again, where they investigated an entity inside a woman's house who is determined to kill her.  Putting off another investigation in California to do so.  They preferred to stay nameless and were beside themselves with fear and panic.   Zak goes into the house with a Crucifix in his hand and what could be a potentially demonic investigation.  The mother reacts as the daughter cries and Zak reacts negatively.  She speaks and cries as something is in the room.  Aaron's heart rate increases.  Zak religiously provokes.  Something is telling the mother to kill herself and she doesn't want her daughter to know.  The mother has asthma and as she was leaving to get help, she heard a voice saying to tell her husband she was going out.  She found him dead.  She knows the entity was behind her husband's death.

Her daughter knows something negative is affecting her mother.  They have rent their rooms out with addicts and a murderer there, as well as a woman who had a shrine to her dead son who killed himself.  As well as storing his ashes there.  Their relatives practise brujeria. She thinks a spell has been placed on her mother and they have been in their house.  The daughter's son saw two black masses by the window and piano.  Brujeria is "a manifestation of evil."  Casting spells to bring about bad luck and death.  It pays to watch scripted shows since this was the focus of  Constantine - the TV series episodes.  But even aside from that, I have heard of it before.  

Billy and Aaron did an investigation overnight and Billy heard a voice.  Sounding like a groan and the directional mike was pointed at the piano.  As well as hearing a loud knock in the kitchen. Where the dolls are stored but they film a glowing light in the glass of the case.  The noise sounds like a cat.  Zak speaks with Bri about brujeria.  She tells them to place seven glasses of ammonia in cold water in every room and left for three days and the jars can be disposed off at a crossroads.  So did they actually do this.  Bri also said they should, the mother should, put the St Benedict medal and holy water.  Zak tells them of his attachment and how the prayer helped him.  He wants the mother to read the prayer whilst looking at the sky but still within the house.  So what happened with that too, not being overtly nosy, more curious to see of it worked or not.

Zak sees a green light in the centre of the bed.  I don't hear "closet" through the Polterpod, sounds more like "pulses"??  When asked his wife's name, replies "listen."  Also says there are fifteen spirits here.  Sounds like fifty?? Portal in house: "think so."  "That kid" brought the dark spirits to the house. The portal is located "at home."  The voice says he's feeling "distressed" not "stressed."  Zak hears a dog which isn't picked up on camera.  They feel cold air around them as they head into the basement.  A light anomaly is seen when the cold air is present.  The SLS picks up an entity behind the basement door which is freaky as the basement door closes by itself.  It is actually pushed shut and then opens. 

Jay hears what he thinks is a child crying but it sounded like that cat sound again from earlier.  Zak says "blood on my hands" and doesn't know why he said it.   He also hears whispering no one else does.  He sees what looks like a face when taking extended exposure photos.  

Highlighted in green there seems to be an actual human face here, but then if you look closely, there appear to be lots more faces, but the green one is far more distinct.  Could it be the dead son?  The photo shows a face, it looks so real.  As well as some sort of two-headed beast in yellow. 

When the door closes by itself doesn't there appear to be a dark shadow inside the room behind the room.  Or is it the door's shadow?? A light anomaly also appears by the door before it closes.  Something is heard inside the room.  Also the x camera moves in the upstairs bedroom. 

This appeared to be a puzzling episode in not much was sumerized regarding the glass jars and what happened and the name-less-ness didn't help much either. Also needs a follow up just to know how things are now, not a full episode maybe just a little side note.

Lost The Art of Staying Lost Book Two by Sakshi Narula Review

"Feelings of bleak euphoria, building on a high with so much emotion conveyed in every word.  Then falling  down to earth with a realistic thud."  - My words.

Lost The Art of Staying Lost Book Two transcends all the words and expressions you have ever read in other poetry. Conveyed with so much depth and feeling there's a real sense of loss, futile love that burned with golden embers.  Then fizzled out with a break up.  Parting, suddenly, going away.  Not so much as losing someone to death, or bereavement.  Although it could well be, but more betrayal. Betrayed by love, a lover.  Building up hope,of fulfillment and promise. A risky beginning, lasting for eternity only to have it shattered into a thousand shards.  

Uns demonstrates being love sick, the body behaving and mimicking the symptoms of bodily ailments which feel akin to having all your emotions and heart ripped. Replaced with emptiness.  Watching the world from the inside out whilst others are oblivious.  Seen also in Chenab "Nerves, skin, heart tongue and bones that ached for more so bad that I had forgotten I exist.  My jaws have been in pain..."

Love comes in all shapes, love of parents, love of children, loss too.  As well as a soul mate. That one true, pure love who will have the same feelings and love for you.  Then suddenly it's gone. Was it ever real.  

Healing poem made me think of loss, the loss of losing a father, mine.  Perhaps that wasn't the intention, being about a lover; but to me it spoke of heartfelt grief when life is cheated by unexpected death.  In many ways akin to the passing of love and all the enrichment it brings to our lives.  Providing a semblance, a brief segment of closure.

Octopus asks if those we have lost feel the same pain, or are we just a distant memory, a passing phase of the moon.  Do lovers just move on, carefree?  Questions not asked by me.  Since most of us don't want to waste our time on someone we can't have.  

Sakshi Narula writes from the heart, that much is true and has the marvellous and creative ability to paint pictures with her words.  You feel you are there in the moment of each impossible heartbeat and you can't do anything to rescue yourself  the inevitable.  

Interspersed with excellent artwork by that spatters the page akin to the ink from an octopus; with the vividness of a bleeding heart and mind.  A talented poet with a natural artistry to convey anguish with every sentence. Personal experiences and growing up in India give a sense of belonging.  As shown by To Bury A Love Story. 

Take a breath for more roller coaster rides. Interspersed with written notes providing a break from the deepness of each poem and a reprieve of being a solid, continuous chunk, with drawings, mirroring hope and darkness. In ink, ink blobs maybe to decipher our own darkness and limits to overcome.

I was mesmerized and absorbed in such beautiful and eloquent sentiments that I read in one sitting.  I'm sure everytime I re-read it will spark and invoke more reactions.  I enjoyed how the poems interweave into one another with vivid pictures of being so lost, heartbroken and having everything ripped, affecting the mind, body and soul equally.  The personification of love's misfortune is immensely lifelike.

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Doctor Who Revolution of the Daleks

The Daleks return and each time they do , they have their metallic butts kicked across the galaxy and beyond, but how gullible were they to answer a call thinking it's their own kind.  We find a Dalek remnant is stolen when transported by GCHQ and of course it had to be an inside job, as we know.  But stopping for coffee breaks, I mean get yourself a big flask.  MP Patterson (future PM) (Harriet Walter) gets Jack Robertson (Chris Noth) to make it into a high powered metal security machine, aka tin can is what I thought of.  But anyway it's all cos Britain needs security!!  Job security, security from everything really, even shoddy, bungling MPS and PM!  So year later she's elected PM (parody of the Tories right there, would-be Margaret Thatcher ha.)  As Robertson is 3D printing out Daleks to police the streets.  Which apparently was accepted by the Brits and none of these freedom loving sods kicked up a storm about freedoms being overtaken by AI, or having such eyesores on their streets.  But yeah accept it and move on!  Should've had giant, metal spiders instead, that'd really get the masses showing their arachnophobia.  Wait been there, though not metallic! 

Remember during the first lockdown, how there was a video tweet on Twitter where a lone Dalek patrolled the street, wonder who saw that and thought this would be a good idea, part premise for a Doctor Who ep.  Best moment had to be PM being exterminated, short lived prime ministership!! Ha.  If only art mimicked real life, or rather vice versa, wouldn't life be grand.

Scientist Leo (Nathan Stewart-Jarrett) reveals to Robertson how he was working on something else after he found a smidgen of organic matter and he cloned it.  Cue Dalek conscious and Robertson thinks it's ugly, funny that he didn't think the spiders were revolting!  Anyhoo he wants it incinerated and Leo's loathe not do it but opens the cage instead of just throwing the entire thing into the fire.  Dalek takes him over and he is taken away to Osaka, Japan where the Dalek had the intelligence to set up a factory mass producing Daleks, all funded by Robertson, funny this got past him and his accounts department!!  

Yaz (Mandip Gill) is firmly of the belief that the Doctor (Jodi Whittaker) is out there somewhere and she's left clues for them to find her.  Ryan (Tosin Cole) and Graham (Bradley Walsh) can't believe she's been doing all this and sleeping in the TARDIS too.  Thinking they should find a way of taking it and finding her.  As we see the Doctor imprisoned on the the Rock, ha, the prison planet rock.  In the same old groundhog day routine where she sees a Weeping Angel caged, Bonnie and Clyde and the P'ting too.  As she tells him he can't eat the cage cos she's tried, not surprised with the dry, yuk stuff she was being fed.  Funny the Weeping Angel being there, what crime did it commit, cos weren't they all evil anyway.  This one was imprisoned.  Miss those Angels! 

Eventually Capt Jack (John Barrowman) comes along to rescue her, as her routine is disrupted by his new face.  He has a device which will form a bubble (if only we could really use these) which will break through the walls, where he takes her away with his Vortex bracelet.  She's been there 19 years, but Earth time is 10 months.  As she thanks him and it took him committing several crimes to end up in the prison.  She returns to the TARDIS and is eager to see her fam again, who are following leads on Robertson and they think they can get into his office if only they had some of the Doctor's psychic paper.  As Yaz hears the TARDIS in Graham's living room.  She would!  She'll stick with the Doctor through thick and thin as she pushes her back instead of hugging her.  Which Jack notices.

They tell her about Robertson and the Dalek so she has to act to save humanity again.  Arriving at Robertson's office she tells him about the Daleks and how evil they are.  He doesn't know what she's talking about since the Daleks are AI and are robotic.  She takes Robertson back to the TARDIS as they hunt for the Dalek and gets them to Japan.  Where Jack takes Yaz who volunteers to go with him.  As they arrive he tells her he noticed her reaction to the Doctor and also he tells her how he's immortal, the Doctor having something to do with that.  Arriving by TARDIS gives the Doctor time to have a last yarn with Ryan and how she loves beanies too; reminding him of the yellow one he was wearing when they met and she knew he was someone worth getting to know.  Ryan telling her he's not the same person anymore.  As the Doctor isn't either, since she thought she was from Gallifray and how everything she thought she knew wasn't really her life.  

Jack and Yaz find the Daleks and Yaz wants to take a sample of the fluid the Daleks are suspended in.  As they are attacked by two crawling out of their case.  As the Doctor arrives, they find the fluid to be human, the workers from the plant.  Heading back to the TARDIS the Doctor has an idea to signal the Dalek fleet disguised as another Dalek message from the new ones and they arrive in San Francisco, where she watches them and the AI Daleks confront them.  The originals won't accept them as they're not pure as they detect humans.  However the AI argues they can become pure.  Destroying them, Robertson wants to be on their side betraying their humanity and blabbing that the Doctor sent the signal.  As they take him away to their leader, Graham, Ryan and Jack transport onto the Mother ship to plant explosives.  Also having to rescue Robertson.  The Doctor appears to them and they enter the TARDIS under the pretence of ridding the Doctor once and for all, but she's tricked them and the second TARDIS is crushed and sent to a place far, far away.  Robertson tells the Doctor he didn't betray her but was a decoy to help her.  

Ryan decides he wants to stay on earth and hep the planet.  Graham also wants to stay with him and she gives them psychic paper to help.  Yaz would want to stay with her and the Doctor thinks she should go back an hour before and then land so they can all be together.  She should've been here and not missed them for 10 months.  Ryan practices bike riding again as they see grandmother/wife, Grace (Sharon D Clarke).  Falling off his bike again, they hear about a factory in Korea when the workers refuse to attend after witnessing unusual events.

Also Rose was mentioned by Jack, some sort of foreshadowing as he tells her she's in a parallel world.  Jack also mentions the Cybermen and the Doctor said she did give them the Cyberium but she handled them.  The Doctor Who foes having their own theme tune.  The Daleks had a menacing one and the Cybermen had one I used to say sounded a bit Carry On Screaming when they used to show the monsters, Oddbod and Oddbod Jnr.  Ha.   

Robertson talking about knowing what's required for policing, spoken by Det Mikey Logan, Law and Order.  Again there's mention his being a hero on Newsnight and his run for President which he doesn't talk about.  SO after betraying the Doctor he comes through with flying colours in his own selfish interests.  Two Jacks in the same ep, one truly heroic and the other own looking for his own heroic, selfish glory.  Though Chris Noth was better this time round than the spider ep.  As he was more abhorrently representative of politicians currently on both sides of the Pond!  Sorry to see the pair go but Graham had some of the best lines in the series.  Still waiting for an explanation of the Doctor's past! 

Ghost Adventures "The Comedy Store"

The Comedy Store investigated as the location where comedians have been haunted.  *William Wilkerson opened Ciro's, a club with help from Bugsy Siegel in 1940.  Becoming the Comedy Store in 1972.  Jay Mohr tells of how he felt a presence in the main hall.  He realized no one was laughing and were 'frozen' and he told the ghost to "get lost."  It still affects him.  He tells Zak about Sam Kinison and saw him being wafted off stage.  In the Belly Room he says he saw a ghost there.  Others tell of hauntings, Mickey Cohen, an enforcer working for Bugsy and a newcomer was slammed against the ceiling on stage.  A figure was seen again.  Jay prayers when he went to the Belly Room.  They feel cold spots and Zak uses a Trifield meter and hear metal clanging.  The Trifield is placed near the microphone and it spikes.  

Jeff Scott, the piano player speaks of a dark figure in the form of smoke he saw in the alley and they feel more cold air surrounding them.  Also seen by someone else.  A Mafia hitman named Gus was also killed there.  As well as the abortion in the basement carried out by Ellen on Sharon who died and Ellen was killed.  Zak feels something around him in the basement and he clenches.  Later Aaron's Polaroid saw a white mist next to Zak at that same time.  Beg, Baby, Daddy when he asks Who am I to you?  The Trifield spikes a lot.  Jeff Ross roasts Zak.  Personally I wasn't amused at any of the jokes!  Jeff says he feels the comedians.  The light on the stage lights up when Jeff talks of Brody Stevens, who committed suicide.  

Jeff joins in the basement and he has the same reaction Zak did in the same spot.  An anomaly comes up from the basement where he had the same feeling.  He thinks it could be Gus.The Polterpod leads to a figure on the SLS and a voice comes through, saying "Zak."  As well as another figure on the SLS by the back door.  "Jimmy ordered??? Ellen" ordered could actually be murdered or had her killed, will need to listen a few more times.  Also there was a Ciro's in London (1915) and one in Paris, before the one in California, where apparently a bartender was named Jimmy, but obviously he probably wasn't the same person as the name on the EVP.  

Upstairs an anomaly comes past the Trifield and Zak gets one above his head and Billy feels a static charge at the same time over his head.  Zak stumbles over saying high electro magnetic fields and the meter spikes off the charts rapidly.  In the secret window an anomaly moves from his back and another one comes out.  As a black mass appears over him, saw that!  APF Processor is used to capture spirit voices.  On the Paranormal Puck, Billy says "Brody" and the Puck Sensor on stage lights up everytime Aaron says his name.  Aaron then asks if he knows what is happening in the world and a voice replies "I understand."  What did Zak scream, "sit down??"  The Puck says "memories" when Billy asks how many spirits are there.  Could that be referring to residual presences in reference to the laugh captured on the recorder.  Aaron tells unfunny jokes and a laugh is heard, sounded like a few laughs, just like residual laughs.  A voice appears to say "what's up guys."  A dark shadow is captured. 

*Wilkerson started The Hollywood Reporter in 1933

Supernatural 15.20 "Carry On" - A Commentary

Having watched the finale episode of Supernatural Season 15.20 I found I had much to say on it, but in the end decided there isn't much I will say after all.  Firstly since I know many won't agree with what I really have to say and that's fine, but that's not the major reason why which I won't go into since it will turn out being long and protracted.  

SO this was Dean's swansong, the first one to die and not going out in the sense of fighting a battle but during a fight which left him impaled on a nail.  Okay there's a term for that protruding thing but anyway to me, it wasn't what I was expecting or how any one of us would've imagined the ending would be.  There was no Butch and Sundance ending as Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) used to talk about on many occasions as did we too.  No guns blazing, fighting the good fight, though saving those children was a fight for the good.  Sam having to say goodbye so quickly, Dean too and not enough time to say necessary, but enough to get out the important goodbyes.  In some ways it was understandable Dean would be taken first as from 1.22 when he was the one who ended up in hospital after the truck crashed into the Impala.  Leaving Dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) to strike a bargain with Yellow Eyes, giving up his own life to save Dean.  

This time round there wasn't going to be any returning, no way Sam was going to bring him back.  This time was for keeps.  This showed from Dean's entire being, his reason for hunting and he was losing momentum fast and he was tired.  This again was apparent when he just wanted Jack (Alexander Calvert) to end Chuck (Rob Benedict) then and there in 15.18.  In doing so, they could have their lives back, free will, live as they wanted.  Yet it was such a short life, well lived without being puppets in a story.  Dean adopting that dog took me back to 9.5 Dean Dog Afternoon, where he carried out the spell allowing hit to communicate with dogs.

Then came Sam dying in season 2 and being brought back, Dean selling his soul, Cas (Misha Collins) rescuing him from purgatory, it was an endless cycle, vicious circle, but it was their destiny and somewhere someone will say it was still Chuck playing with their lives, causing all this chaos over and over.  Billie (Lisa Berry) telling Dean he was always the one, then adding the destructive part to it in 15.18 Despair.  This for summed up the entire battle for Dean and his hunting and in some respects was some crazy foreshadowing:

• Billie: "It's you, Dean. It's always been you.  Death-defying, rule-breaking.  You are everything I lived to set right.  To put down.  To tame.  You are human disorder incarnate."
• Castiel: "I've got you."  [Always had since season 4.)
• Billie: "Come on, Dean.  You can't escape me.  Don't you think it's finally time?  Time for the sweet release of Death?"  

Then there was Dean wanting to give up when he found that perfect life from What Is And What Should Never Be.  That was it for him, having Mom (Samantha Smith) around.  Again only being manipulated by the Djinn and ultimately by Chuck (as usual.)

This ending left a bad taste, it felt rushed, contrived.  There was no Zimmer frame for either one of them.  Contrary to what we fans imagined their lives would turn out to be as they grew grey together.  Still hunting into their '60's, '70's and beyond, heck we thought those Winchester dudes were invincible.  Turns out they were fallible after all and human too.  A harkback to the episode A Hero's Journey where they lost their mojo and were just as clumsy as you and me and no longer heroes.  "Getting old isn't a bachelor party" as Dean says to Bobby in 5.7 The Curious Case of Dean Winchester.  Where we do see Dean age, not gracefully but as handing out lives back to Bobby (Jim Beaver) during a poker game.  (Yes Supernatural was obsessed with poker, or pool as we also saw in 15.11 The Gamblers where they gambled with winning back their luck. A great episode going back to the lore that the show was renown for.

Some good points: they had a final hunt together, got to bring out Dad's journal again and should've known the end was near when Dean said, "this is my destiny" the pie festival! And not those "vamp mimes!"  Hey we never even got to see that leather jacket again!

Sam was the one who grew old, who had his life back as it should've been too if Dean hadn't returned for him as he said in 1.1 Pilot.  Granted he didn't get the uni/college education he was after, but he got married, presumably to Eileen, had a son and the family business continued leaving behind the Winchester legacy in his own son, named for Dean.  Just as Dad did the same entrusting it with Sam and Dean.  Sam telling Ruby in 4.12 how he didn't want to end up hunting all his life, but ended up doing just that.  Finally joining Dean in heaven, Jack's reboot of heaven as it should have been, according to Bobby.  Even if all Dean was seen to do was drive around carefree in his beloved Baby; playing Carry On My Wayward Son, endlessly!  We got to hear that at least.

I admit it wasn't going to be a finale that everyone would enjoy, as my friends said, after 15 years you were either going to hate it or love it, or maybe a mix of both, which is how I eventually ended up feeling.  No one wasn't going to be 100% catered for in getting the end we wanted.  Bittersweet ain't so bad.  They gave it their all and will be missed! Who's crying, I'm not crying.  You're crying! Just blubbing plenty now and then, or then and now! 

Farewell awesome dudes...

Ghost Adventures "Painted Lady Brothel"

The Swastika saloon, Albuquerque, New Mexico, is where they investigated, as it was once called.  As with the Nazi abuse of the word, the same thing happened at the saloon with the murders, rapes etc.  Jesse spoke of how he was attacked in his home and turned the saloon brothel ares into apartments for himself and to rent out.  He was warned before the place and was told about the history, by a relative of the family that built the saloon.  He was going to turn one room the bedroom so he turned it into an office.  As well as the story of the murder when the man found his lover with another man.  Zak takes some readings and there's a spike.  Jesse was attacked when he was sleeping and felt he was going to be possessed.  As well as being attacked in the nether regions.  Zak walks into the coat rack and shocks himself.  

His neighbour, a psychic felt a presence and they heard Bill.  His dog was tormented and Murray was attacked on his neck as she saw.  He thinks it was Bill and Murray is no longer around.  His dog door was at the office room and he was trapped in the door.  Why did he leave him alone in the house when he was attacked before and was warned about him.  Samantha's great grandfather ran the saloon.  She is also a medium.  Zak heard a growl before when standing near the room of the office and she feels his presence there.  Aaron finds out about a man who was a stabber and killed many people.  His name was Miguel Sadillo.  Aaron filmed Jesse when he wasn't well and he felt the same presence there.  Zak gets "Murray" on the EVP and think that Miguel killed Murray.  Samantha feels like Jesse is in danger and he's being possessed and agrees it's demonic. 

Triple Axis EMF meter and Zak uses it in room 3 where they say is a portal.  A light anomaly goes past Zak where the high EMF spikes were recorded by the bedroom door. Who opened the bathroom door more whilst they were filming by the bedroom.  An anomaly goes inside of Billy in the same spot.  The room is freezing.  Zak sends Jay to room 3 for the entire night.   There's a blue misty type feature in one of the Polaroids taken in front of the bathroom door.  Could that be the transparent, jellyfish like anomaly Zak saw??  The thermal cam shows a cold spot on the pillow in the bedroom.  A stick figure appears near the bed and by Billy's arm.  Zak then gets a figure on his hand.  A painted lady doing a lapdance or something else.  Jay uses the binaural microphone and a sound is heard.  I thought it sounded like a voice. "nah, nah nah" almost.  Something falls in room 4 with no one in there.  

Aaron and Billy use the Polterpod in the office and a female voice comes through, "bored." "Boyd"  "Board"  "Bord"...ello??  It doesn't say "yeah."  How did that even sound like yeah.  Jay says some words as he is sensing pain and sorrow.  "I don't even care" is what they sound like.  

Paranormal Puck 2 comes through with "kill."  Zak asks what's buried here? "Bible."

"Who is in danger?"  

"Self."

"Yourself."  Probably referring to Zak.  

They don't know how Jesse will stay here but will offer him help in some way to cleanse and remove the entities.  That place was ominous to begin with, so dark and foreboding.  I don't know how or why anyone would or could live there.  Even the inside was creepy.

Ghost Adventures "El Rancho Hotel"

Gallup, New Mexico where Zak does his impression of a galloping horse! Yeah - no! Investigating the El Rancho Hotel, New Mexico which he calls The Shining Hotel of New Mexico.  Suicides, and a newly discovered murder which was unknown to the owner and staff.  As well as investigating the Bunkhouse.  The hotel was built in 1936 for Hollywood film productions and used for the crew and stars.  More dark energy is complained of and the Bunkhouse appears to be the source of this.  One of the staff speaks of seeing a shadow figure and catches something on the photo that she took, which leaves her traumatized.  The hotel employees also resided there, eeww what a creepy place to live in.  A pentagram with 666 was found in the bunkhouse and this was covered by someone with a cross over it.  Phil doesn't want to ask questions and walks off, as Zak calls this a first.  

Zak sends Billy to the underground tunnels in the basement which run all the way underneath El Rancho, used for prohibition etc.   Suicides were in rooms 108 and 214.  The end of the tunnel can't be seen and Billy gets a disembodied voice when he investigates it.  As for the murder one bellhop shot another one 8 times in the chest, bit graphic 'ey.  Room 221 is where Von saw inside the room.  Zak tells Aaron to bring out his phone and take notes and how they used to write things down on paper before in eps.  As well as marking X's on the floor with tape and writing the level of EMF spikes received on the Trifield.  With the static sensor being used too.  One spike is 100 however is later debunked as they find an electrical sub-panel. In 211 Von heard children inside.  As they place a ball outside the room.

Zak notices a head peaking out by the room where they placed the ball so they think it could be a child.  It looks much creepier than being a child.  Also anytime I see a dark shadow like that it reminds me of the little shadow figures that followed Aaron around, especially the one at Hales Bar Marina and Dam ep.  Zak captures a voice on the recorder in the room.  I can hear a "yeah" before the "I'm back..."  See that voice matches the creepy head.  He uses the bi-noral microphone to hear sounds, amplified.   In the bunkhouse at 24.25-27 is there a shadow that walks past before Billy asks Zak if he saw the white light with his eyes, but the light isn't seen on the camera.  It does look like you can see it.  The white light seems to go round the back of the cupboard or whatever that is standing there on the right.  There appears to be something there right at the end?? 

The red arrow shows where something appears to walk and ends up like a white light where the blue is. 

Aaron's sent to the devil worshipping room and Zak tells it to attack him, footsteps or banging is then heard from behind them.  Aaron uses the Polterpod near and on the pentagram.  The voices sounds like "good luck."  I hear "we fear" not "remember" when Aaron asks what was done there.  Billy gets a stabbing feeling in his arm, where I suddenly felt itchy!  Aaron then feels something went through him. Jay's locked inside to investigate alone.  Whilst Zak and Billy go to the banquet room. 

"Wanna scare you...we're not scared" is what I hear when Aaron catches the voice on the spirit box in room 305 Sidney Greenstreet room.  Aaron asks "who are you" and gets response I Him.  Zak catches a stick figure with the SLS on a ball and seems to kick it.  The disembodied voice in the tunnel sounds like "get out" sort of nasally.

Ghost Adventures "The Ghost Train of Ely"

This first episode of the new season of GA was a first as part of it investigated a haunted steam train, well a two carriage investigation, as they then ventured out on a ride on it. With masks on faces and social distancing showing Covid precautions which will be watched by generations to come. Zak spoke with Mark at the Historic Nevada Northern Railway in Ely. The transportation building he was being watched and saw a face in the second floor window looking at him. Of how the engine room building is haunted and also relayed the 18 deaths taken place there. Including train maulings, a suicide and a man being compressed between two train couplings, that was tragic and gruesome at the same time since he was still alive and had time to see his family, before the company or whoever decided the trains had to leave and he was left bleeding out to die. get that probably nothing could've been done, but this kinda reeked of schedules and business as usual over what could've been a last chance for a little more time with the family. 

 Aaron was excited about the trains and as they investigated the buildings, they were told about noises from tools and generally workers being heard and seen when the place has been empty. Zak being scared by the kitty there and even captured it on infra red camera once. Hearing a noise, Aaron feeling like he touched a spider's web but on review they found there was a light anomaly by his feet. So they found this one but didn't see the one I pointed out by Aaron's feet when they investigated Franklin castle. Huh, ha! As well as getting a capture of another light anomaly when Zak sees a light and what was that zooming past below the light anomaly?? at around 6.15-17 seconds just below the camera. It couldn't have been a person since it was filmed by Jay on his camera, filming Zak who was using his phone and wasn't anywhere near there. It's like something misty zooming past, or was it a glitch of some sort. In the pic the anomaly is green and the mist is marked in yellow with the arrow showing the direction, although it's not really visible in the photo. At 6.25 you can see it under the 'Replay' it's very visible. 

 Con told them of a little boy who haunts coach 5 who doesn't go into the single men section of the train. Built in 1882 as the train was separated by seats for family and children and single men. The train takes them to the ghost town of Laine City and on the way they investigate the train compartment.

Aaron gets the words Wagon Come Trip on the Ovilus. Using the Mel Meter in the 1926 compartment the blue light lights up and Aaron gets 'soul' come through. As well as getting a figure on the SLS on the top of the seat. Could it have been the boy as he ways his arms around in a playful manner, or so it appears. Chainman Mine was were there were Chinese labourers were left entombed and weren't brought out. That's how expendable foreign lives were. And they got away with it. Stephen King wrote his book Desperation based on a visit here. Aaron gets "come back" on the spirit box; I hear "go" not "come." And "Wagon, England" too. Billy has to investigate near the building since Zak refuses especially when he finds out there are rattlers there. The 7 that comes through in response to how many people are there could also be 11. 

 Zak's joke that goes over Aaron's head about what type of train eats toffee, chew, chew as in choo choo. He focuses a thermal cam facing towards the East Ely railroad depot. Aaron and Billy hear noises on the train and the lights on the light up, as well as something being thrown in car 5. And feeling the train move. An eerie sound outside is heard sounded like moaning through a metal tube or pipe amplified and capture a light anomaly. Something bangs on the train. 

 Jay and Zak use the new ITC device and get a weird growling noise. When asks if he died in an accident, "Ace" comes through, was that for the name question. The ITC device is knocked over on command. Was that a "yes" that comes through?? Outside the thermal camera captures an unexplained figure out of the train and it was meant to be secured. Could it be akin to the soldier captured at Gettsyburg also near some train yard.

NYCC Metaverse Batman: Death In the Family Panel

Bruce Greenwood loves voicing Batman again and over the years and it was fun for him. Though he can’t say the same for the audience. Aww always and his voice was great having the right depth to bring out his character.  But you know at least he got to play his voice in an animation considering Bruce shares his name with Bruce Wayne.  So from one Bruce to another.  Let's hope he gets another vehicle to showcase more of his talent.  Musical Batman I'm thinking 'ey?? 

Brandon Vietti saying the Blue Ray will take everyone back to Jason's backstory.   He wanted today’s fans to experience the interaction that was done with the early comic and decide on the choices they make. Can’t do the same on the digital release though. 

Zehra Fazal loves the character of Talia al Ghul. The character brings motivation in the interaction.

Bruce was excited to check out all the routes they can do down which can’t do in TV shows or film where the director chooses what will happen.  Thus they can draw their own conclusions and add their own makeshift narration on how they want the story to turn out, without just getting what the creators would have taken the story route.  Joined also by Vincent Martella who voices Jason.

Tala and Bruce Wayne are both similar especially of their family values, family and team building.

Brandon sees Batman as a father figure and the way Bruce brought him out in that way. Even from Under the Red Hood. Batman has always been broken” and his longing for family brought out his vulnerability but in a different way to before.

"The impossible is just the unthinkable lying in wait” one of Zehra’s fave lines and how it was played by Bruce.

You can also see footage from Under the Red Hood here too.

Bruce on John diMaggio's character of the Joker how he was "a monster and so amazing.  Aesthetically his face is really lived in."  

"Working with beloved characters see different sides of a character they love and being a part of this story" is what Brandon hopes.

Bruce wants everyone to "enjoy the ride and the choice they make.  To have ownership of what happens and have a knot in stomach and what they say about me in their first choice." Bruce: "I hope they appreciate that danger." 

Zehra " the road to hell and life doesn’t always operate that well."

At least we can interact and fully enjoy the outcome of the story and let's see what choices we do end up making and for what reasons, will this also reflect ourselves and our own thought processes and character whist choosing those roads.  Or will we just chose a route for the sake of it without being emotional.

Would've loved to have been able to have interacted with the cast particularly Bruce or even taken a few questions from the audience.  In that sense the panel was limited and they didn't have any opportunities for meet 'n' greet packages or autographs and video messages.  This was sorely missed and a shame!  Still great watching Bruce who always has so much to say on his characters and everyone else's too!

Strike Lethal White Part 4

The finale felt rather rushed and obviously Strike (Tom Burke) would save the day and Robin (Holliday Grainger). It did feel drawn out in places and I really didn't care much for the explanations of why Chiswell was killed or even who did it.  That was apparent since we met Raf (Adam Long) and how he was the hated son.  'Put upon' and all that.  Got my suspect!  It was apparent that if Freddie was such a bastard that Raff would be one too even though he was illegitimate.  Motive schmotive money after all and the realization that Kinvara (Sophie Winkleman) would've been murdered too in the future by Raff just for the painting.  Which Robin takes a snap of in the attic of the house when they pay a visit to Kinvara at the house, she's alone and she comes out gun in hand.  Also that dumb story about having a dog loose.  No hound here!  More like a convenient excuse to have them out of the house.  It was kind of silly for Raff to move about in the room when they already know about the creaky floorboards.  But heck no.  And Robin's excuse of wanting to use the loo.  Where surprise surprise she finds photos hanging there.  I mean family snaps in the loo.  These wealthy types and their decor ha! 

She spots Raff with a pony and in horse riding attire and spots how much of a girl he looks like with longish hair too.  Thus it was him who Billy (Joseph Quinn) saw being strangled by Freddie but it was the pony that was buried cos Freddie and his pals shot it.  What a family 'ey.  As well as Kinvara's alibi bopping about all over the place on CCTV at Paddington, how obvious was she.  As well as the beggar and her giving him the key to Ebury Street.  So he could carry out the dastardly deed.  But neither one of them knowing the horse painting was a Stubbs and Robin getting Sarah (Sophie Colquhoun) to value it asking about whether she got her earring back.  The one she left in Robin's bedroom.

Robin admitting to Strike finally that she left Matt after Jimmy (Nick Blood) calls her and tells her he'll get her back.  Leading to another panic attack and she comes clean about everything.  Strike comforting her with the talk of her being a better detective than him and having no training whatsoever.  Well it's all about instinct and following clues and leads.  Also she did get to be privy to more info than him.  Strike telling her the business will pay for her therapy. Wow generous boss!  Must've raked it in with this case and sure Izzy (Christina Cole) would've paid plenty.  Just as Izzy pays for Billy's treatment/therapy at the end saying that's what the family owed him.

So Knight and Chiswell were into building torture devices and the bloody EU changed their rules.  That was probably one thrown in for topical Brexit.  That's what they made their money from, gallows.  Definitely built their gallows high! So it had nothing to do with trafficking.

Showing Geraint (Robert Pugh) photos of his daughter and what they did to her.  They had to give us an explanation of what happened and how he felt and as a father couldn't do anything to save her, but that Freddie's friends will get theirs now from the photos.  Strike having a pissy moment with Charlotte (Natasha O'Keeffee) as she's at the gallery and feigns being unwell so that he'll walk her to the restaurant and wanting him back.  He was right royally f**ked about her when he couldn't give a damn about her selfishness.  She was all about the money and jewellery and what he couldn't give her.  He didn't care about their baby or what happened to it.  He's not a baby person.  Oh watch out Robin. Guess we'll find out she's too messed up to have one either.  See all this seemed so contrived and unnecessary to me.  Did we really wanna know about her and their past since it was already mentioned before.  Except for when she asks him f he's never loved anyone like her since.  He replies "thank f*8k" he hasn't.  Meaning the way he 'loved' her he wouldn't go there again with anyone else cos she just wasn't worth the hassle! 

So Strike is pissed when he gets back to the office with a bottle of booze and Robin has a drink too with the looks passing between them.  Blooming heck that and kissing her too even if by accident.  No guesses for what crossed their minds then.  As well as Strike touching his lips afterwards.  He looked more like he was trying to wipe the lipstick ha! 

When Robin gets a text she believes is from Matt, she tells Strike she's got to go see him cos he'll threaten to tell the press about them being an item.  As if that was reason enough.  Strike then realizing that it's not from Matt but Raff on his narrow boat.  The ending, damn it, Raff saying if she tells him he's caught then he'll give himself up.  When she tells him about the CCTV and his face was seen as the beggar.  He's got nothing to lose so he wants to shoot her.  Strike having removed the bullets beforehand at the house, enters to save her.  She doesn't want a lecture on not giving suspects personal info as she did when she met Raff for drinks and ranted about Matt.

The agency lives on and Strike and Robin will meet up for curry and beer later!  As said rounded up rather quickly and no mention of bloody Jimmy and Flick and that tax driver didn't turn out to be a menace after all, darn it! 

Strike Lethal White Part 3

                                                          
The action came in thick and fast in this one, or maybe the dialogue rather than action.  So much in one ep, makes you wonder why they were so lax in the first two eps.  Strike (Tom Burke) arrives at Chiswell's and asks how Robin (Holliday Grainger) got in.  Telling her to search the library where Chiswell's DB was found whilst he calls the police.  Apparently Chiswell died not from the overdose of crushed sleeping pills in his drink, but being suffocated.  Main suspect being Kinvara (Sophie Winkleman) as she also left a note telling him she was leaving.  Obviously he wouldn't kill himself over this.  So Izzy (Christina Cole) asks for their help for the same reasons, but he wouldn't kill himself at all.  So where was his suicide note and why would he use plastic on himself.  In this day and age of too much plastic in use, sorry!  Izzy believes it was Kinvara who is now back at their home.  So they drive down to the house, they meet the rest of the family.  With Raff (Adam Long) calling Robin by her name now.

There's a sister, Fizzy (NB this was not The Tweenies with Fizz, ha - oh wait someone must've been obsessed with champers/wine as the blanc de blanc refers to a chardonnay as Strike later tells Robin) Izzy, Fizzy (Natalie Walter) really no originality!  Ha.  And a brother in law, Torquil (Nicholas Burns).  No love lost between each other in this family then as they all hate each other and also Kinvara.  Maybe not so much hate as loathe.  They all swear they were home or have alibis.  Kinvara taking a train from Paddington which is confirmed by the police, as are their alibis too.  Though Kinvara could have an accomplice and the family providing alibis for each other doesn't mean anything.  Strike finds out there's only one key and she has hers, the other person with a key was the Polish maid but Kinvara doesn't know her name, only that she had c's and z's in the name.  Oh wow not big on the hired help then was she.  Why didn't they ask for a description at least, colour etc even if it wouldn't have been PC in this day and age.

Apparently the bones Robin dug up belonged to a pony as Izzy tells them, that Freddie shot for target practice.  Raff is out of the will which he puts down to Kinvara and she wants everyone out since this is her home still.  Raff calling Robin 'Venetia' when she leaves.  They find Billy is out of danger but they can't see him as Jimmy (Nick Blood) has said next of kin only, he being the only relative.  Strike wants Billy protected as he's a witness in a murder case.  He also recalls Flick (Saffron Coomber) knows Polish and could've been the maid.  Cue Robin going undercover again in a magic potion shop; in disguise with a wig and heavy make up.  You wouldn't recognize her except for her pout!  Flick invites her to a party and Jimmy shows up so Robin hides her phone in the storeroom and records them.

At the party she manages to search the bathroom and find a note hidden in the sanitary product, right so there's no room to hide anything in.  Ha.  She takes a pic whilst Jimmy has a mate check her out as she calls herself Becca Cunliffe.  Being Matt's name. When they found out who she really is she's already left and called for backup.  But she didn't run fast enough.  As Jimmy et al give chase, he runs into a policecar.  They visit the hotel where Robin went for her anniversary and lo and behold, beyond dumb coincidence she's able to be at a place where Kinvara also frequented.  She was having an affair and they suspect with Jimmy so she probably poisoned the orange juice as Chiswell was a creature of habit and then got Jimmy to finish him off.

Also finding out that the message on the text with the initials CBB belong to a Christopher something or another (tell I was bored by the pieces fitting together so conveniently already) and that Aamir Malik (Danny Ashok) was sent by Winn to find info on Christopher's computer.  He doesn't want Della (Anna Cannings) to get into trouble and admits he didn't find anything but got a black eye.  Strike's convo with Della reveals she's divorcing Winn.

On top of this we have Lorelei (Natalie Gumede) telling Strike to show some respect and not be a coward by breaking up in person with her.  Robin jabs her foot on a stud earring belonging to Sarah and lo and behold - again - she finds it in the shagpile (aptly named) in the bedroom, with that thick rug makes you wonder how far up that earring was sticking, ha.  She confronts Matt who says he was breaking up with her, he's been lying and he wants her.  Yawn!  She leaves and enters a taxi with a sinister taxi driver.  Hell Sherlock season 1!!  A Study In Pink!  Cue Robin being abducted or something, of course.  Man this book didn't have to be so long!!  Robin finally growing some balls as she tells Flick earlier on and leaving Matt.  Though hopefully them being single now won't mean they run into each other's arms!  She admits to Matt if she hadn't been raped she wouldn't have been with him.  He was just there at the right time.  So using each other.  Though Matt as his last name suggests is such a Cuntliffe!  She should've found someone else for comfort.