US Television: Breakout Kings, Episode 1.4, "Out of the Mouths of Babes"

Breakout Kings
Season One, Episode Four, Out of the Mouths of Babes
Original Air Date:  March 27, 2011

When an accused pedophile escapes from prison the team is called in to find him and get him back behind bars before he can either hurt anymore children or contact anyone who put him in prison in the first place.  Lloyd has fascinated by the strange circumstances in Joe Ramsey's case file because they don't fit the typical profile of an abuser.  When the possibility that Ramsey might actually be innocent comes to light, will they be able to apprehend the real abuser before it is too late for Joe?

At Souza-Baranowski Correctional Center in Shirley, Massachusetts, a film crew for "Prison Life" is filming a story about art expression in the prison environment.  One of the prisoners, Joesph Ramsey, watches the woman hosting the story as she talks to the cameras.  Back in his cell, Joe removes the eraser from a pencil and begins working with it to transform it.  The next day, the film crew makes the decision to film a white prisoner who is rapping in the prison yard.  Joe steals a jacket and hat from the back of one of the directors chairs and grabs a headset while the crew isn't watching their equipment.  He puts on the jacket and grabs a box and begins walking through the prison yard pretending to be one of the film crew.  He's pretending to talk to his wife on the headset.  He manages to walk coolly through all the prison checkpoints and out of the prison.  He is stopped by the film crew vans by another crew member who asks if he's new.  He answers "yeah" and hands the man the box he is carrying and walks away later breaking into a run to escape.

At Maybelle Minimum Security Prison in Hudson, New York, Erica watches as other inmates are having visiting time with their families and children.  A guard comes in to tell her she's being pulled out but she refuses to leave saying she has visitation that day.  The guard tells her she's been waiting 40 minutes and no one has come and reaches to get her.  She slaps his hands away.  He tells her the work release van is outside waiting.  She has two choices:  go to the van or to the hole (solitary confinement).  Outside, Lloyd and Shea are waiting and Shea leans closer to Lloyd and asks him "Erica or Julianne?"  Shea chooses Julianne as it's the quiet ones who "get freaky deaky on ya".  Lloyd corrects Shea that Julie isn't quiet, she has a disorder and tells him not to talk about her like that leading Shea to think Lloyd is sweet on Julie.  Erica, in a sour mood comes out of the prison and the three get on their way.

In Brooklyn, New York, the team arrive at the office and Ray notes they are late.  Shea informs him Erica was the one who made them late leading Charlie to tell her if she can't be on time she can't do the job.  Julie gives Charlie a folder and tells him the agency put extra people on the Internet Child Protective Services in the event the target goes online.  Charlie informs the team they are going after Joseph Ramsey, a sex offender.  Lloyd questions how many victims Ramsey had and Julie tells the team he had five, all 8-year-old girls.  That information causes Erica to raise her head.  Lloyd describes Ramsey as "pathological" and Ray tells the team he's smart since he was able to walk right past the prison's front door and hours had passed before anyone knew he was gone.  Charlie puts up Ramsey's picture and tells the team he's left a series of damaged kids in his wake and, if they don't find him fast, he will do it again.

Charlie tells the team Ramsey was serving a 60-year sentence and Shea is surprised he was able to last just two years inside, considering his crimes.  Ray gives the team a little background on Ramsey.  He was married with two children when five victims came forth.  His wife divorced him after his arrest.  The local police department spoke with her but she has no idea where her ex-husband is.  Lloyd notes that Ramsey refused counseling which he points out was no surprise as a lot of pedophiles feel they aren't sick, simply misunderstood; a self-protective mechanism.  Shea questions why Lloyd knows so much about pedophiles and asks why Lloyd got 25 years and says he isn't working with any perverts.  Charlie and Ray call Shea down and Ray tells him private business stays private and if he feels he and Charlie would allow anyone like that on the team, he (Shea) is dumber than he looks.  Shea tells Lloyd he's going to find out what he did. 

Erica stands asking if everyone is done and if they can actually start earning some time off now.  When Charlie asks what Erica has learned, she brings up Ramsey's legal briefs.  He had filed quite a few from prison and went from a $200 an hour attorney to a public defender and finally a jailhouse lawyer.  He lost his final appeal a few weeks ago and Ray speculates that could have been what set Ramsey off.  The jailhouse lawyer was Wes Herman and Charlie feels they had to spend a lot of time together to prepare the briefs.  Julie informs them Wes Herman was paroled six months ago and for the same crimes as Ramsey.  Herman currently lives in the Bronx.  She starts to call his parole officer and Charlie orders her to tell the P.O. he wants Herman there in the office within the hour.Near a playground, Joe Ramsey is on his knees next to a fountain digging the coins that have been tossed into it out.  He watches the children, one dark-haired little girl in particular, until her mother grabs her by the arm so they can leave.

From the office, Erica makes a call to Danny, her daughter's father, wanting to speak to her daughter but he will not let her.  She tells him they were supposed to have a visit and she has the right to see her child.  She begs him to speak with her daughter and accuses Danny of refusing just to hurt her, after which, he hangs up.

Wes Herman is in the office and tells the team he knows what they think of him.  When Herman tells them he deserves their ridicule as he has a disease, Lloyd corrects him that he doesn't have a disease, he has a psycho-sexual disorder that manifests itself in deviant behavior so he's just disgusting.  Herman feels it was a mistake and gets up to go but Erica grabs him and forces him back into the chair telling him he's going to stay and answer all of their questions.  Charlie calls her down and takes her into his office.  When they leave, Ray asks Herman about Ramsey's appeals.  Herman tells them he wishes he hadn't because he (Herman) is trying to get better.  In his office, Charlie chastises Erica for her behavior with Herman and she defends it saying he's an animal who hurts kids.  He reminds her she promised she would keep her cool but she's not done that today.  She admits to him she had a visitation and her daughters father refuses to let her see her child.  Charlie tells her they all have personal issues and she needs to bury it deep down inside because there is a job to do.  Herman tells them Ramsey never admitted he had problems and he was full of hate and was focused on the first girl that turned him in, Tessa.  He is ashamed he ever helped Joe with his appeals.  Ray thanks him for coming in but refuses to shake his hand when Herman stands to leave.

At Franklin Elementary School in Lowell, Massachusetts, Joe is standing in the shadows watching the children play at recess.  He slowly walks toward one little girl who recognizes him and the two stare at one another.  The team arrive and speak with the assistant principal.  She tells them she hasn't been able to get in touch with Tessa's parents, but she can answer questions about Joe Ramsey.  Erica looks over and sees Ramsey on the playground and starts walking toward him.  Ramsey sees her and takes off running.  She starts running in pursuit.  When Ray sees what is going on, he takes off after Erica and Charlie, Lloyd and Shea get back in their vehicle but are stopped by an incoming bus.  Erica chases Ramsey into the woods where he manages to get away.Inside the school, Shea tells Ray that Charlie wants a satellite map of the woods behind the school.  The assistant principal tells them the woods are protected state lands comprising hundreds of acres of woods.  Charlie and the team are with Tessa.  Charlie receives a call from Marisol and doesn't answer it.  Instead, he sits down next to Tessa to ask her questions.  The assistant principal feels they should wait for Tessa's parents but Charlie informs her they don't have the time.  Charlie asks the girl about the state of Ramsey's clothing and if he was hurt.  Tessa's parents arrive and Charlie introduces himself to them then goes to stand next to Ray who shows him the map of the woods which the local police are scouring.  Lloyd sees Tessa scratching finger hard and notes to Shea that self-mutilation is a sign of self-hatred and that victims blame themselves and the condition will get much worse as she gets older.

In the woods, Erica continues searching for Ramsey and receives a call from Ray wanting to know where she is.  She doesn't know but assumes she's four or five miles away from the school.  He tells her when he calls, she answers.  As he's telling her she does what he and Charlie says, she sees footprints in the mud by the water.  She looks beyond and sees a house.  When she doesn't speak, Ray keeps saying her name.  She tells him to shut up as she knows where Ramsey is.  Ray goes to Charlie telling him they have a location that Ramsey is in a house on Lefforts Street.  Ray looks at a file and finds Ramsey's ex-wife's house is on that street.  Before they leave, Charlie makes a promise to Tessa that he will never let Ramsey come near her again.  Tessa's father stops Ray before he leaves and tells him that when they catch him, do the world a favor and kill him.

Charlie and Ray go to Ramsey's ex-wife's house and enter the residence.  Charlie finds her sitting quietly at the table.  She tells him her husband is gone.  She turned around and found him in the kitchen.  He stole her money and left and she doesn't know where he's headed.  Ray picks up a picture of her and her children in Bar Harbor.  She tells them Joe used to vacation there every summer when he was a kid and they took their children there.  She didn't want to believe the allegations against him at first but she could only deny things for so long.  She cut Joe out of their lives and the family photographs.  Their children go to a school two counties over as a precaution and she tells Charlie her parents live in Pittsburgh and they can go there until Joe is apprehended.

At the office, Charlie tells the team had Ramsey gotten Tessa off the playground he would have killed her.  Lloyd tells them Ramsey is an incredible case study and goes through points of each of Joe's victims despite objections from Shea and Charlie.  As he continues, Erica stands and tells him to shut up as they're little girls and walks away.  Charlie tells Lloyd to wrap it up.  Lloyd tells them that men like Ramsey usually do stay out of sight then dip their toe in the waters when they finally decide to come out of the darkness.  However, Ramsey dived head first into the water so he firmly believes Ramsey could move into more straightforward violence.  He feels Ramsey is more dangerous than they think as he's never seen an abuse pathology like his before.  He agrees the subject matter is horrible but they should look at it clinically rather than emotionally.

Charlie's wife, Marisol arrives wanting to speak with him.  They go downstairs and she wants to talk about a vacation they had planned while he was still working at a desk.  He doesn't think he can leave his job because of the immediate and unpredictable nature of it and he can't cash in on his vacation days so soon into his new position.  She's feels his behavior is predictable and tells him no one can work all the time without a break.  He receives a call, which he takes and tells his wife he has to go.

At the Law Offices of George Slotkin in Andover, Massachusetts, Slotkin is looking over paperwork when Joe Ramsey walks in.  He tells Slotkin he took all his money and he still went to prison and now it's time to pay up.  Later, the team arrives and Slotkin tells them Ramsey looked crazy so he went for a gun he kept in his top drawer.  Before he could do anything, Ramsey was all over him.  The gun went off and the bullet went through Ramsey's shoulder and ended up in the wall.  Ramsey grabbed the gun and hit Slotkin on the head.  When he came to, Ramsey and the gun were gone.  Lloyd questions why Slotkin is still alive since Joe had a gun and could have easily killed him once he was knocked out.  Ray enters and informs them Slotkins car was found a few miles away, abandoned with blood on the seat.

The team look over the car and Ray calls Julie to tell her they need security on the judge and prosecutor in Ramsey's trial as well as Ramsey's other victims.  Charlie's phone rings again and, again, he dismisses it leading Ray to tell him that is how it starts.  Charlie gets his laptop from his car and his phone rings again causing Ray to tell him he really should answer it.  Erica, who is looking around, sees a train.  She runs back to the team and tells them Ramsey stopped when he found something he wanted:  the Green Line into Boston.  Charlie begins cross-referencing all the stops on the Green Line with information from Joe's case file to see if anyone Ramsey felt was responsible for him going to jail is on that route.  He finds Carla Rodriguez, a social worker who testified for the prosecution, has an office five stops down on the Line.  Ray tries calling Rodriquez's office but he cannot reach her.

In Boston, Massachusetts, the team arrive at Rodriguez's office and Charlie knocks on the door and identifies them as Marshals.  From inside, they hear a woman scream "help, he's here, hurry".  Ray kicks the door in and they enter and find her in her office.  She tells them Ramsey went out the fire escape.  Charlie looks out and sees Ramsey fleeing and tells Ray to go around.  Ray calls down to tell the team Ramsey is on the move.  Erica wants to go in pursuit but Lloyd and Shea opt to stay at the car since Ramsey has a gun.  Charlie follows Ramsey's path while Ray searches from the ground.  As Lloyd is talking to his mother who has called, Ramsey runs directly into him knocking both of them to the ground.  Ramsey gets up and runs off and Lloyd picks up a piece of paper he dropped.  Charlie asks Lloyd who is getting up and has an injured knee if he's alright and Lloyd points him toward the subway.  Charlie takes off running again and enters the subway.  He searches the sea of people and the train but finds nothing.  Charlie gets on the train and Ramsey steps up behind him and puts the gun in his back ordering him not to move.  Ramsey tells him he doesn't hurt children, he loves kids.  He is getting off the train at the next stop but Charlie is to remain on the train.  If he moves, Ramsey will fire into the crowd.  When the train stops, Ramsey gets off and runs away.

At the office, they go over the paper Lloyd picked up, a receipt.  Charlie orders Julie to put a monitor on Ramsey's wife's credit cards as he had taken one of them.  Lloyd goes over the social workers file and when he begins to mention if he could figure out a way to present it Charlie stops him and takes the file.  He puts the file down on the desk next to Erica who starts looking at Tessa's drawings that are in it.  She gets up and leaves the room and Lloyd follows her.  She tells him it isn't right that parents who can't protect their children get to keep them and she can't even see hers.  He agrees and tells her that despite her rage issues, she has the protective instincts necessary to be a wonderful mother.  They argue and she tells him she's going to follow Charlie's advice and bottle everything up and focus on work.  Lloyd wouldn't recommend that course of action and she orders him to leave the room.  Lloyd confronts Charlie about telling Erica to bottle up her issues.  Ray arrives and Julie tells the team there is a hit on the credit cards they're tracking.  One was used at a convenience store in Portland, Maine.  Ray remembers the photo of Joe and his family in Bar Harbor.  Julie puts an alarm out to all the main precincts in the area and to the ferry that runs from Bar Harbor to Canada.  Ray orders Lloyd to remain behind since he's hurt.  Charlie swears Julie in so she can supervise Lloyd once he and Ray have left.

Lloyd and Julie go downstairs and have a drink and discuss the pictures Tessa drew.  He explains the meanings behind them.  Julie makes a comment about a bird in one of the pictures and Lloyd remembers seeing a bird on the belt buckle of Tessa's father at the school and remembers that he asked his daughter "did he say anything".  He brings it to Julie's attention and tells her Joe might have been trying to convince Tessa to tell the truth because only three people would know if Joe was truly innocent:  Joe, Tessa and her father.  She theorizes that Tessa was afraid to admit her father was the one abusing her so she chose someone else she knew and saw everyday at school, Joe Ramsey, to place the blame on because of her fear of her father.  He points out how the other victims and the entire case could have been false against Joe.  He gets up to leave and tells her he's going to Massachusetts and she will be driving him as mother never let him get his permit.  She tells them they can't leave but he counters that it is her chance to finally be a Marshal instead of someone who got tossed out of the academy for psychiatric afflictions.  She wants to call Charlie but Lloyd insists he'll just say no and he needs proof before taking the information Charlie and has to talk to Tessa first.  She runs through the list of all her phobias but Lloyd refuses to let that stand in the way.  He will talk her through it and help her but they must go.

Lloyd and Julie arrive at Tessa Samuel's home in Lowell, Massachusetts and her mother opens the door.  Lloyd identifies them as Special Agent Lloyd Lowery and his colleague Julianne Simms and tells her they have a few follow-up questions.  He asks her if she has any of Tessa's old report cards as they will need them for prosecution.  While she goes to find them, he tells Julie to talk to Tessa.  She reluctantly sits down next to Tessa and talks to her about her abuse.  She asks if there was something she wasn't able to tell anyone yet.  She opens up to Tessa about knowing how it feels to feel stress, pressure and feeling that no one else knows how she is feeling and to feel scared.  She tells Tessa she doesn't need to be scared.  Her phone rings and she looks at it to see a tip that someone matching Joe's description was filling up at a gas station just outside Bar Harbor.  Lloyd forwards the tip while Julie continues talking to Tessa.  She tells her things could be dangerous and if she has kept anything to herself she must say it now.  Knowing time is of the essence, Lloyd bends down and tells the little girl she needn't say anything but she can nod her head.  Tessa's mother arrives and stops them from talking to her daughter and orders them to leave.

Charlie, Ray, Shea and Erica arrive at the gas station and the two Marshals draw their guns and order Ramsey to roll down the window of his vehicle and put his hands outside where they can see them or they will fire.  When he doesn't respond, Charlie gives the order to fire on three.  He starts to count and at two, Joe tells them not to shoot.  He gets out of the van holding the gun and Charlie orders him to drop it.  He does and Charlie tells him to kick it under the car.  A call from Julie comes in and Ray orders Shea to put the call over the car speaker.  Lloyd tells them that Ramsey is innocent and he was going to people he thought could help him by re-opening the case.  Tessa's father is the man they want, not Joe.  Joe is a desperate man.  Joe begs them to believe what Lloyd is telling them.  Charlie asks Lloyd if he has proof.  He admits he doesn't but says he saw something in Tessa's eyes and he knows she's hiding something.  Charlie orders Shea to end the call then orders Joe to kick his weapon under his car again.

Erica notices there is someone in the van.  Charlie and Ray move in and Joe's wife gets out of the van telling them to stop that he's been through enough.  Upon seeing her, Erica agrees with Lloyd that she wouldn't be running with her husband if Joe were a threat.  Charlie cuffs Joe and puts him in the car.  At the office, he is sitting in the car with chains around his legs while Julie and Lloyd are in Charlie's office as he tells them their job is to chase and catch not question and judge.  Lloyd questions what if they're wrong and an accused pedophile is captured and re-incarcerated.  The notoriety alone will get him killed in one year.  After he orders them out of his office, Charlie calls to get his messages.  His wife has left one that she will go on their vacation with her friend Sarah from work.  She'd rather go with him but since that can't be she'll see him when she returns.  Erica walks in and overhears the message.  She drops off her cell phone and tells him she should go with his wife but he tells her the flight already left.

The elevator comes up and Tessa and her mother get off and enter the office.  Everyone stands and looks to them and Charlie leaves his office.  Tessa's mother tells the team that her daughter told her something.  Tessa timidly approaches Joe and apologizes to him causing him to begin crying.  Tessa's father walks out from behind the counter at his restaurant and sees Ray and two policemen standing there.  He asks if they caught him and Ray tells him "yeah, I just did".  He pushes him down onto a table and asks if he should still do the world a favor and kill the animal.  He pushes him toward the officers who take him away.

Charlie pulls the teams vehicle up in front of a house and stops the car.  He gets out and goes to the door.  When a man answers it, he identifies himself as a U.S. Marshal and tells him there's a woman with him who wants to see her kid.  Lloyd awakens Erica who is sleeping in the backseat next to him.  She gets out of the car as Charlie brings her daughter to her and runs to the little girl and picks her up.

Breakout Kings airs every Sunday night at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the Arts & Entertainment Network.
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CDN Television: Blood Ties, Season 2

Season Two, Episode 1:  D.O.A.
Original Air Date:  October 12, 2007
A former colleague of Vicki's from the force, Paul "Dirty" Deeds hires her to find out where his body is and how he became a ghost.  The problem is Vicki is the only one who can see Paul.  Things take a turn for the truly unusual when Paul shows up apparently alive and the investigation leads toward a corrupt police officer.  Paul's body is walking around and his ghost is still working with Vicki and the only clue they have is a fondness for raw meat.

Season Two, Episode 2:  Wild Blood
Original Air Date:  October 19, 2007
The animalistic murder of one of the mayors friends forces Mike to turn to Vicki for help when the woman he arrested as a suspect in the case exhibits supernatural characteristics.  Vicki and Henry turn up the possibility that she is a skinwalker meaning that the woman in custody was the cat-like animal that committed the murder.  The case changes when a jaguar is seen in town while the woman is in police custody.  Investigation of the victim shows he had a secret of his own which led to his murder.

Season Two, Episode 3:  5:55
Original Air Date:  October 26, 2007
At 5:55, Vicki awakens from a dream where she and Henry accompany a client to retrieve an expensive artifact, and a simple recovery case takes a supernatural turn that ends in death.  Once awake, things from her dream start happening.  Again, Vicki awakens after having gotten farther into her dream.  The day keeps replaying and Vicki must prevent those she loves from dying and stop a box, Pandora's Box, from being opened and unleashing a deadly force.

Season Two, Episode 4:  Bugged
Original Air Date:  November 2, 2007
Vicki is hired by the owner of Careen's favorite goth club to investigate the death of one of its patrons in an alley adjacent to the club.  Careen goes with Vicki on her walk into the dark side as her investigative partner.  Her life is in danger when she goes undercover to help the case.  Meanwhile, Henry has his own problems when someone leaves the body of a dead young woman literally at his doorstep.  Surprisingly, he turns to Mike for help with news there is another vampire in the city and things are just getting started.

Season Two, Episode 5:  The Devil You Know
Original Air Date:  November 9, 2007
More deaths at the hands of the vampire put Henry, Mike and Vicki even more on edge than they were before.  Henry knows Christina is in town.  She shows up at his condo wanting his help.  She informs him there is another vampire, Alexander, following her wanting to ruin her life.  The deal:  if he helps her, she must leave.  Is Christina being honest with Henry or is she playing him yet again?

Season Two, Episode 6:  Drawn and Quartered
Original Air Date:  November 16, 2007
While accompanying Vicki to place a bug in a suspects office, Henry asks Vicki to accompany him to an art show he has for the following evening.  She agrees, but before they can go on their first "date", Jude, the owner of the gallery goes missing.  Vicki takes the case of trying to find him.  Vicki and Coreen work the opening for information about Jude while Mike and Dave are called to investigate the murder of a man found posed in an empty parking lot:  Jude.  Autopsy shows he drowned--on paint that appeared to come from within his body.  Everything goes back to a painting in the gallery that changes before someone dies and a young painter who takes a liking to Coreen.

Season Two, Episode 7:  Wrapped
Original Air Date:  November 23, 2007
Two thieves get more than they expect when they try to steal Incan gold from the body of an Incan mummy.  One dies and the other is forced into servitude by the resurrected mummy.  Henry awakens to a nightmare of the Incan mummy flooding his apartment with light, killing him.  Since vampires do not dream, Henry is worried the end of his existence may be close at hand.  The mummy wants Henry's soul to give him ultimate strength and eternal life.  Will the choice Vicki makes to save Henry's life destroy their friendship?

Season Two, Episode 8:  The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
Original Air Date:  November 30, 2007
Vicki is summoned to prison by a confessed murder who now claims he didn't kill the victim he was accused of killing.  He tells her he's psychic and confessed because he was confused.  He saw the girl being killed as a vision.  A voice in his head has told him the real killer has chosen a new victim, although he cannot see who she is.  Looking over the case information causes Vicki to remember her time on the force as Mike's partner and to arguments between she and Mike.  Henry arrives at Vicki's office questioning if she or Careen have had any dreams, hallucinations or bad feelings or of Vicki's marks have flared up.  The tension between Vicki and both Henry and Mike is great but can they all put that aside to work together to find the truth about who is killing the women?

Season Two, Episode 9:  We'll Meet Again
Original Air Date:  January 3, 2008
Vicki is hired by a very young man who wants her to find his soul mate.  He tells her they have been reincarnated for centuries and he needs to find a way to contact his love this time around.  When they find her, she is already married.  She later confides in Vicki that she is pregnant with her husbands child and the two women talk about the two men in both of their lives.  When her client wants to "reset" he and his soul mate's lives, Vicki must stop them.  Meanwhile, meets with an old friend, Augustus, to plan a move.  Mike is in trouble with Crowley.  Vicki is saddened when she learns Henry is thinking of leaving town.

Season Two, Episode 10:  Deep Dark
Original Air Date:  January 10, 2008
Careen is possessed by Astaroth when she seeks the services of Madame Andrea searching for advice regarding Vicki's romantic problems.  When they find Careen, an even bigger problem arises:  Astaroth has taken her heart and the exorcism they have planned will certainly kill her.  Meanwhile, a young girl is abducted and Mike is on the task force to find her.  A call from Vicki regarding Careen interferes with his performance on the task force.  Will his involvement in Vicki's mission to save Careen end his career and, quite possibly, his life?  Has time finally come for Vicki to make a choice between Henry and Mike?

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CDN Television: Blood Ties, Season 1

Season One, Episode 1 & 2:  Blood Price
Original Air Date:  March 11, 2007
Ex-police detective and current private investigator Vicki Nelson witnesses an attack and murder.  She tries chasing down the suspect but he vanishes.  Her former partner (and close friend) Mike Celluci is the officer called in to investigate.  When the girlfriend of the murder victim hires Vicki to find out what happened to him, Vicki gets more than she bargained for.  A mysterious, handsome, charming and potentially dangerous man comes into her life:  Henry Fitzroy, a 480 year-old vampire.  Henry's knowledge of the supernatural gives Vicki an extra edge to help find who murdered her client's boyfriend.

Season One, Episode 3:  Bad JuJu
Original Air Date:  March 18, 2007
Minutes after Vicki is hired by a young woman from New Orleans to find her missing brother she and the girl are attacked by a voodoo-resurrected zombie that is after her client, Angelique.  Vicki is determined to protect Angelique no matter what the cost and no matter how much Henry warns her of the dangers.  Vicki is surprised to learn that her client isn't as innocent as she thought.

Season One, Episode 4:  Gifted
Original Air Date:  March 25, 2007
Vicki reads some of Henry's graphic novels to learn more about him.  Vicki is hired by a woman to find her missing son-in-law, Steve, as her daughter was recently murdered and Steve needs to care for their young daughter.  She's surprised to learn that Steve wants nothing to do with his daughter but even more surprised to find out why.  Mike learns Henry's secret.

Season One, Episode 5:  Deadly Departed
Original Air Date:  April 1, 2007
Mike is still angry Vicki never told him Henry was a vampire.  A series of murders, all with strange circumstances, lead Vicki and Henry to only one conclusion:  they were committed by a dead man.  They must find out how the murders are being committed and who is truly behind them before anyone else dies.  Wanting to know more about his past, Mike begins an investigation into Henry.

Season One, Episode 6:  Love Hurts
Original Air Date:  April 8, 2007
Vicki is hired by a man to find out whether his wife is having an affair or not.  The woman Vicki is hired to investigate turns up dead and she, Henry and Mike are drawn into a deadly, and supernatural, case of passion and jealousy.  Henry is unable to use his charms on the dead woman's three best friends.  When a second woman is killed, Vicki places herself in danger to stop the killer.

Season One, Episode 7:  Heart of Ice
Original Air Date:  April 15, 2007
The brutal murder of a homeless woman leads her friend, Annie, an old acquaintance of Vicki's from her time as a beat cop to come asking for help in solving her friends death and the deaths of three other homeless people.  Her investigation leads Vicki and Henry to a deadly and horrifying killer that even Henry may be no match for.  Meanwhile, Mike and Dave investigate the murder of a prostitute that has what looks like vampire bite marks on her neck.  A mysterious man is seen in the crowd of onlookers which interests Mike but he's looking at Henry as the killer.  When the mysterious man from the crime scene shows up at the police station, Mike ends up making a deal that could cost Henry his existence.

Season One, Episode 8:  Heart of Fire
Original Air Date:  April 22, 2007
Mike and Vicki must save Henry from the evil clutches of Javier Mendoza before he can kill him.  An old vampire friend of Henry's, Delphine, is also being held prisoner by Mendoza.  Vicki and Mike learn Mendoza was a grand inquisitor during the Spanish Inquisition specializing in encouraging confessions out of witches.  Mendoza's torture has caused Henry to go near-mad.  Can he remember how he felt about Vicki enough to keep from killing her and Mike?

Season One, Episode 9:  Stone Cold
Original Air Date:  April 29, 2007
Mike is still dealing with having been bitten by Henry.  Vicki is hired to find a missing young male model.  She and Henry suspect a beautiful club owner of knowing more than she's admitting.  The case becomes complicated when Mike falls under the club owner's spell.  Vicki must work quickly to save not only Mike but a number of other young missing men as well as Henry.

Season One, Episode 10:  Necrodrome
Original Air Date:  May 6, 2007
Vicki is hired by the owner of a mortuary when a body literally walks out of the mortuary and a mysterious man is caught on videotape entering just moments earlier.  The investigation leads her to the Necrodrome, an arena where two men, two dead men, battle until one "kills" the other.  Vicki and Henry have less than 24 hours before the next battle will be underway at the Necrodrome. 

Season One, Episode 11:  Post Partum
Original Air Date:  May 13, 2007
Vicki, with Mike posing as her husband, goes undercover at a strange fertility clinic when a husband hires her because of concern for his wife who is there for treatments.  She quickly learns there is something supernatural happening at the clinic.  If she doesn't figure out who, or what, is behind all the strange goings on she might not make it out of the clinic alive.  Henry and Careen learn something about the children born to the mothers of the clinic that is troubling.

Season One, Episode 12:  Norman
Original Air Date:  May 20, 2007
A few drops of blood landing on the floor of Norman Bridewell's old apartment brings Norman back into the realm of existence.  A woman goes to Vicki claiming to be a psychic with news that she saw her, her office and something in it that wanted to hurt her.  She tells her of 3 powerful objects (a stone chalice, ancient dagger and a book) that was being used to kill her.  One by one, Norman works to collect the three objects working his way to Vicki. 

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Official Show Site from myLifetime.com:  http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/blood-ties
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CDN Television: Blood Ties, Introduction

Shows like The Vampire Diaries and True Blood are getting a lot of attention right now because vampires are one of the hottest things in Hollywood at the moment.  Twilight cannot take the credit for that because since the very first vampire was put onto film in 1922, Hollywood has had a love affair with the supernatural creatures.  Their popularity has come and gone many times but they've always been around and will return again once they fade from this burst of attention.

There have been many shows on television that have dealt with vampires in some shape, way or form.  Shows such as Stephen King's 'Salem's Lot (originally made in 1979 and re-made in 2004), the UK's Being Human (re-made in Canada for US television in 2011) and Ultraviolet from the UK and Canada's Forever Knight all chose to depict vampires in either the traditional sense or in an updated, more scientific way.  There have even been children's shows based around the vampire legend.  Young Dracula aired for two series in the United Kingdom (and has recently been renewed for a third series) and dealt with issues many children face in a humorous and fantastical, but also realistic way.

Blood Ties was a short-lived Canadian drama of 22 hour-long episodes based on the Blood Books series by Tanya Huff.  Blood Ties was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and aired first in the United States on the Lifetime Network before airing later in Canada in Citytv and Space.  It ran from March 11, 2007 to January 10, 2008 with twelve episodes comprising season one and ten season two.  The show, set in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, starred Christina Cox, Dylan Neal, Kyle Schmid and Gina Holden. 

The series follows Vicki Nelson (Cox), a former Toronto police detective who left the job because of Retinitis Pigmentosa, a progressive vision problem that will eventually lead to blindness.  She opens a private investigation office so she can continue doing the work she loves.  She meets and develops a working relationship with a 480 year-old vampire, Henry Fitzroy (Schmid) who helps her deal with the supernatural aspects of the cases she takes.  Her old partner from the force, Mike Celluci (Neal) provides her with a link to her old life and tension in her new life because of his jealousy and dislike of her new partner, Henry.  Her secretary, Coreen Fennel (Holden), is a former client with an interest in the occult who provides insight and research assistance into some of the strange supernatural aspects of the cases.

The first episode starts off a tad slow but once you are introduced to all the characters and the action picks up and takes off, it really takes off.  I, personally, would say this show is a bit like Supernatural meets the Rockford Files.  You've got a great private investigator story working but it's not the normal kind of cases you'd expect a P.I. to work on.  Every single one of Vicki's cases have a supernatural aspect to them.  Everything from demons to Medusa to voodoo to mummies to Wendigo's.  Jim Rockford never encountered anything like that in a days work!

Vicki Nelson is super tough.  She takes nothing from no one and does things on her own terms despite objections from those close to her and her physical limitations.  She is reluctant to believe in vampires and the supernatural at first.  She becomes quite comfortable with everything very quickly once she sees those 'unbelievable' things with her own eyes (as well as she can see them, anyway) and experiences them firsthand.  Christina Cox does a brilliant job making this character very believable and she most certainly makes Nelson a strong female lead.  Something that is often much-needed on television.

Henry Fitzroy is an interesting vampire.  He doesn't kill but he's not the kind of vampire that has weened himself off human blood.  You won't see him raiding any blood banks or preying on Bambi and Thumper in the woods.  He feeds from willing subjects and never to the point of killing unless the subject wants to turn and he feels turning them would be appropriate.  (One of Vicki's cases involves an old love of Henry's that he turned.)  He's a charming, handsome, soft-spoken guy with a dry sense of humor who just happens to be the illegitimate son of Henry VIII (Fitzroy is Henry, Duke of Richmond) and works in the modern day as a graphic artist.  In his 480 years he's known every aspect of life from poverty to extreme privilege.  Henry has a severe dislike for magic because, having been around for almost five centuries, he knows the dangers and costs that go along with it.  Henry's vampirism is traditional (he sleeps during the day, must have blood to survive, cannot be out in daylight and has many supernatural vampiric powers) but there are also a few nontraditional aspects to him.  Crosses and holy water do not harm him, he doesn't sleep in a coffin filled with the soil of his birthplace and he isn't a savage killing machine that exists only to claim as many lives as possible and get as much blood as he can.

All of the characters are very likable in this series.  Even when Mike and Henry are at odds over their relationships with Vicki and fighting like two little boys, you still like them both.  Mike and Henry can actually work together for the greater good without letting their dislike for one another get in the way so their antagonism for one another isn't always being thrown in the viewers faces.  No one is whiny or lingers on the "this stuff can't be real!" lines for too long.  They might complain a bit, then see something that changes their mind and they move on.  The shows are sprinkled with just enough humor to lighten the mood where necessary but not to make the show an outright comedy.  The atmosphere is dark and mysterious which adds to the theme and look of the show and there aren't any silly aspects like sparkling vampires thrown in.

I think it is important to say you needn't be a vampire fan to enjoy Blood Ties.  Yes, one of the main characters is a vampire but the show isn't exclusively based around Henry and his lifestyle.  There's a wide variety of supernatural aspects to this short-lived series.  If you're someone who enjoys a good mystery that delves into the more unusual side of things, I'm positive you can find at least one episode of Blood Ties that is right up your alley.  It would have been wonderful had this series lasted longer than 22 episodes.  The writing was strong, the acting excellent and the stories engaging.  Had it aired a few years later when the vampire craze had fully taken hold it might still be on the air as it had, and still has, a loyal fan base.

There have been rumors that there is a sequel of sorts to Blood Ties being planned.  In April of 2010, it was announced that Fremantle Corporation and Kaleidoscope Entertainment were developing a new series titled Smoke & Mirrors based on Tanya Huff's Smoke series.  (Kaleidoscope made Blood Ties).  It's rumored that Fremantle and Kaleidoscope are shopping around for support of the series which will be about Henry Fitzroy and the supernatural adventures he experiences on a fictional TV series shoot.  As this is all still very new and nothing is set in stone, there is no news as to who might play Henry.  Personally, if this does come to fruition (and being a huge fan of Blood Ties I most certainly hope it does), I wouldn't mind seeing Kyle Schmid on the small screen again.  If the writing and acting quality, and the same dark atmosphere that made Blood Ties so great are all in place for Smoke & Mirrors, I can only imagine that will be one series I'll definitely have to check out!

The entire series of Blood Ties is available on DVD and Blu-Ray in either the complete first season and complete second season or as the entire series.
Complete Series, DVD
Complete Series, Blu-Ray
Complete Series One, DVD
Complete Series Two, DVD

For more information:
Official Show Site from myLifetime.com:  http://www.mylifetime.com/shows/blood-ties
The Internet Movie Database:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0808013/
TV Rage:  http://www.tvrage.com/Blood_Ties

AUS Television: City Homicide, No Greater Honour, Part Five "Last Man Standing"

City Homicide
No Greater Honour, Part Five, Last Man Standing
Original Air Date:  March 23, 2011

The murder of Dane Majors barrister and then the judge that presided over his trial bring the Homicide team to focus on him.  When both Alan Sullivan and Nick Buchanan are confirmed as missing, Homicide focus on Dane Majors.  With the possibility more people who were involved in the Majors case will become targets, Homicide must work fast to prevent anyone else from dying.  Can the team get to Nick before anything can happen to him and take a cold-blooded killer off the streets?  Meanwhile, Lombardi drops a bombshell on Bernice Waverley when he calls her to his office to discuss her budget proposal for Homicide.

Papers flutter to the floor from above and fall around the body of a slain barrister, Helen Jefferson.  Her robe is thrown from above and falls beside her body last.  As the other members of Homicide are tied up with the car bomb investigation, the murder of the barrister is being worked by Matt and Jennifer.  Matt explains that she fell from the same floor as the papers and her robe.  She has smeared blood on her face and Matt is guessing that was from being punched before being pushed over the railing.  She was murdered between 5:30 and 6:00 that morning.  The assailant checked out of the building using the barrister's swipe card which was then thrown in the bin outside.  Jennifer recognizes the name and, when she looks at a book lying amongst the papers around the barrister, finds that she was the barrister who defended Dane Majors.

Jarvis and Bernice arrive for the briefing wanting all details about the barrister's murder.  Matt and Jennifer bring the team up to speed.  Jefferson's husband, a surgeon, was performing emergency heart surgery from 3:00 to 7:00 that morning.  Theories run from an affair gone wrong to a current client unhappy with Jefferson's representation and Jarvis suggests Dane Majors could have been getting revenge on her.  Bernice questions Majors' motive and Jarvis points out that Majors ending up getting 20 years from her defense and Allie brings up the point that Jefferson profited off the case by writing books about it.  Jarvis suggests they chat with Majors, "to test the waters" and Bernice gives the okay.  Jarvis instructs Duncan and Rhys to speak with Majors while Stanley wants the rest of the team to follow up on other aspects of the case.  Jennifer takes Stanley aside to tell him Nick was due back at work that day but hasn't been answering his phone.  Stanley mentions that Ethical Standards has been trying to reach Nick since he's required to check in with them upon his return and they cannot reach him.  She asks to check on Nick and Stanley gives permission.

Jennifer arrives at Nick's house and knocks on the door but there is no answer.  There are three newspapers on from the front steps.  She gets his spare key from its hiding place outside and enters the house calling for him with no answer.  She tries calling his cell again and receives no answer then looks over the work he'd been doing on the Majors case and bombing.

Dane Majors is juicing carrots and pretends to not know who Helen Jefferson is and says he can't hear Rhys and Duncan until Duncan unplugs the machine.  He finally 'remembers' her but doesn't seem concerned in the least that she has been killed.  Narelle has gone to Port Douglas to a yoga retreat.  Dane begins juicing the carrots again and, again, Duncan unplugs the machine.  He asks if Dane read Jefferson's book about his trial and Dane responds that he doesn't read fiction.  He tells them he wanted to tell his side of the story and Jefferson wouldn't let him take the stand.  Duncan asks if that made him angry enough to get revenge.  Dane asks them how much they reckon he would have made in his career had he not gone to jail.  He reveals he is going to sue the State Government for everything they took from him now and in the future.  He maintains he wouldn't risk all that for some stupid act of revenge.

Jennifer is waiting for Stanley in his office and he asks if she tracked Nick down.  She tells him she went round to his house but there was no trace of Nick and no signs of a disturbance she could see.  She insists to Stanley that Nick wouldn't just not turn up.  Stanley brings up Lombardi wanting to push to have Nick charged but she's worried about how Nick feels about the deaths of Juliette and Bruce Dalton and his support of Graham Proctor all those years.  She mentions the text she received from Nick three nights ago and that she checked the safe he kept in his room.  His gun wasn't in that safe as it always was.  Allie knocks on the door telling Jennifer they have a call-out for a male victim with a single gunshot wound.  Jennifer and Stanley share a nervous look and Jennifer heads out.

In the morgue, Jennifer and Allie speak with the technician about the man with the gunshot wound.  He was found in a park beneath some bushes by dog walkers who originally thought he was a homeless guy sleeping it off.  When he was still there in the morning, the dog walker took a closer look.  There was a library card on the man with the name Martin Dangerfield on it.  Jennifer recognizes the name straight off.  Dangerfield was a retired Supreme Court justice and he presided over the Dane Majors trial.

In briefing, Martin Dangerfield is added to the known information about Helen Jefferson and Tim Padgett.  Jennifer points out that Dane Majors is the only link to all the victims.  All of them agree it's very possible Dane Majors is going for revenge and Stanley brings up that others connected to the trial could be in danger.  Jennifer notes that Nick could very well be on Dane's hit list if he has one.  Matt asks when the last time was that anyone spoke with Nick and Jennifer tells him she spoke with Nick three nights ago.  Matt wants to bring Majors in and put pressure on him but Stanley tells him Dane is out of bounds.  Jennifer protests vehemently but Stanley tells her the decision has been made and they can't go near Majors.  He orders Allie and Rhys to alert any potential targets.  Allie asks if that includes the Attorney-General and Stanley tells her to leave Lombardi to Bernice.  He orders Jennifer and Duncan to do a thorough search of Nick's place.

At Nick's place, Jennifer collects his notebooks and research materials.  Outside, uniformed officers canvass the street in front of the house.  Jennifer asks what the deal is with the line search and Duncan tells her a neighbour heard a commotion Thursday night and thought a car had knocked over his bin.  When he came out, there wasn't anything there.  One of the officers finds blood on the pavement and alerts Jennifer and Duncan to it.  Nick's watch is found beneath some plants at the curb, the face shattered.

Bernice and Jarvis inform Lombardi he's potentially in danger from Dane Majors but he doesn't seem to take it seriously.  She stresses how serious the situation is but he assures them they have nothing to worry about as his security is extremely tight.  Lombardi feels he isn't a prime target as all he did was argue a case based on the evidence he was given by Homicide.  He changes the subject to ask Bernice about the budget revisions but Jarvis steers it back telling Lombardi he should be worried about being up to his neck in trouble over the Dane Majors mistrial.  Jarvis points out that if Majors goes back inside he will be discredited and all the dirt will wash away from Lombardi.  Lombardi makes it clear to Jarvis that his aide, Christian, takes down all minutes of every meeting he has.  Jarvis tells him to make sure to get it down that Dane Majors was set up once, he might be set up again.  Bernice interjects that she thinks they are done but Lombardi continues, asking Jarvis if he's implying he has something to do with everything.  Jarvis tells him he's just stating the facts.  Jarvis gives him the information that Nick has gone missing and Lombardi smirks asking if they have a detective they cannot locate and notes it is interesting.  He then states they haven't heard and tells them of Dangerfield having been killed and the shot that killed him was a police round and that he takes it their "rogue detective" will be added to the list of suspects.  Lombardi tells them that is why they need change as when a squad gets too comfortable, corruption can fester.

Back at police headquarters, Jarvis tells Bernice he was simply trying to rattle Lombardi and see what fell out.  She asks about that mornings theory that Dane Majors was the killer.  He tells her he's keeping an open mind as Lombardi is a legitimate suspect.  Bernice tells Stanley to let the team know Dangerfield was shot with a police round, giving Stanley a surprise.  Jarvis tells him that Lombardi apparently has a mole in the morgue.  Bernice wants to assure that all police ammunition and firearms are accounted for.  Stanley tells her there is one firearm confirmed missing and when she questions who signed it out he tells her Nick Buchanan.  Jarvis notes that the press will crucify Nick which, according to Bernice is all the more reason to find Nick.  When she walks away, Jarvis tells Stanley it is all the more reason to put surveillance on Dane Majors.  Stanley asks if that is an order and Jarvis replies it is "stamped, addressed and sealed with a kiss".

Rhys brings Bernice up to speed on him and Allie notifying the possible targets.  He feels Alan Sullivan is an obvious one but getting a conversation with him is proving hard.  She mentions Sullivan's second address in Cooper's Arms, Queen Street.  When he starts to leave, she asks him to have a seat.  She's been thinking about his career path and wondering how they can maximize his opportunities.  She asks if he's heard of Task Force Circa (fraud), which he has.  She tells him they are looking for new people and his skills are suitable for them.  He doesn't appear very interested but she tells him she strongly suggests he apply for the opportunity.  He doesn't want to leave as he feels he'd be letting the team down but he urges him that opportunities like the Task Force don't come around often.  When he mentions that Homicide is the pinnacle of the police department she brings up the fact that Homicide is taking a battering over the Dane Majors case.  He feels the Homicide that planted evidence in the Majors case is a different team.  She warns him to think strategically if he wants to have a long career and the Task Force would be an excellent path to promotion in any number of departments and he would make wonderful contacts and she feels he would regret letting the opportunity pass.  He gets a text from Allie that she found Sullivan at Cooper's Arms and gets up to leave.

Rhys and Allie speak with Alan Sullivan who doesn't feel he needs any protection.  Allie points out one attempt has been made on his life already and the killer is determined.  They believe he's high on the killer's list.  Sullivan blames Rhys for Tim's death.  Allie reminds him that his paper campaigned for Majors conviction ten years ago and that the killer has a long memory.  Sullivan questions her that she's confirming Majors is the killer.  He tells them that the killer might have a change of heart once they read the weekend edition.  They are doing a special feature:  Dane Majors, My Story.  The Tribune is on Majors' side now and, as he makes a point, unlike the police, the paper admits its mistakes.  Allie again tells him he's in danger but he insists he doesn't run away from a fight.

That night, as Alan Sullivan is leaving the Tribune, Dane Majors accosts Sullivan in the car park and tells him he needs his help as the cops are gunning for him.  He shows him photos on his phone of police surveillance and tells Sullivan the police are following him everywhere and are saying people.  Dane feels he's being set up just like last time.  Dane wants Sullivan to run the story now but Sullivan tells him he can't as the paper is already to bed and the run kicked off.  Dane insists that by Saturday he'll be locked up and charged and the Tribune won't be able to print a single word.  A blue car with two men in it enters the car park and Sullivan notes they aren't very discreet.  Dane takes a picture of the car.  Dane again begs Alan telling him the story must be in tomorrow's paper and promises if he does that, he might have something more for him.  Sullivan locks his car and tells Dane to come with him.

At Homicide, Jennifer is on the phone regarding Nick's disappearance.  Allie and Rhys haven't found Nick in hospitals and are moving on to medical centers.  Matt asks if they know the blood was really Nick's and Allie tells him the lab will get results back by tomorrow but they are covering their bases.  Matt tells Jennifer to go home but she doesn't want to.  She looks over Nick's research again and says they should call Deep Throat as Nick might have found out who he was and went to find him.  Rhys doesn't have Juliette's phone but he still has the number.  Matt agrees to give it a try even though Rhys doesn't feel like Deep Throat would answer an unknown number.  Rhys makes the call and they find the number has been disconnected.

The next morning, Jennifer is sitting on Nick's couch.  She steps out and picks up his paper and sees the headline "Police Stalk Innocent Cricket Star" with a picture of the blue car.  Bernice throws the same paper down on Jarvis' desk telling him she doesn't recall authorizing the stalking.  Bernice as been ordered to remove all surveillance.  Jarvis wants to bring Dane in but she tells him Majors is untouchable until they have solid evidence.

Alan Sullivan arrives at Dane's house and tells him they missed the country run but the special edition went out to all metro distributors and by that time tomorrow, Dane would be the talk of the town.  Dane leads Alan to his kitchen where everything is covered in plastic.  He tells Sullivan he is about to redecorate.  He offers Alan a drink and Alan asks Dane about the "second chapter to the story" that Dane rang him about that morning.  Dane tells Alan that Nick has gone missing and asks if he knows that Nick was run down by a car a couple of nights ago and the cops can't find him.  They speak for a moment about Dane's run in sports and Sullivan tells him he got lucky.  Dane notes that Sullivan got lucky as well.  Sullivan asks "When?" and Majors replies "When your car blew up."  Dane tells him he had to reassess his match plan and thanks Alan for printing his side of the story and getting the surveillance cops off him but it doesn't make up for ten years in prison and the Tribune smear campaign that put him there.  He opens a drawer telling Alan he found this on the cop who framed him just after he hit him with his car.  He pulls out Nick's gun and shoots Sullivan.

At headquarters, Jarvis and Stanley discuss Alan Sullivan and Dane Majors and Stanley tells Jarvis they can't go near Dane Majors.  Jarvis called Sullivan and his P.A. told him Sullivan is at Dane Majors' house at that moment to get another scoop.  Stanley hopes Jarvis isn't going round to Majors to arrest Dane and Jarvis tells him he's not, he's going round to arrest Alan Sullivan.

Jarvis arrives at Dane Majors who takes a deep breath then answers the door.  Jarvis tells Dane he's looking for Alan Sullivan and steps inside.  Majors tells him he was there but he's gone now and didn't say where he was going.  Jarvis walks into the kitchen which is now clean as a pin and free of any plastic.  Dane offers Jarvis a drink but Jarvis wants to look around.  Jarvis looks around the house but finds nothing unusual.  He looks out a back door to a pool and Dane tells him they'll need divers to drag that pool as it's deceptively deep.  He asks Jarvis if he was in Homicide when he was set up and puts his hand on Nick's gun which is in the back of his pants.  When Jarvis tells him that was before his time, Dane takes his hand off the gun.  Dane replies "lucky for you" and Jarvis turns around and tells him the same.

In briefing, Jarvis tells the team that Sullivan's P.A. said Sullivan was going to Dane Majors' home and no one has heard from him since and that he conducted a search of Majors' home and there was no sight of Alan or Nick.  Bernice questions what he did and Jarvis tells her the situation has changed and, as he tells her about Sullivan going to Majors home, Jennifer looks at a Pathology folder Bernice is carrying.  When Jarvis stops talking, Jennifer asks her about it and Bernice confirms the blood traces on the road are Nick's.  Bernice agrees that Dane Majors needs to be shut down regardless of the commissioner and she wants Homicide watching every move he makes.  Stanley orders two-man teams on two-hour shifts and puts Rhys and Jennifer up first.

As she and Rhys sit in the car outside Dane's house, Jennifer tells Rhys she feels it is useless for them to sit there as they don't even know he's in the house.  She gets out of the car and goes to the house with Rhys following her telling her she needs a warrant.  She tells him she's sure she saw someone in the upstairs window and she's going in.  She believes she saw Nick.  Rhys agrees he saw him as Jennifer rings the doorbell.  The door opens in Jennifer's hand and she and Rhys enter, guns drawn, identifying themselves as the police.

At headquarters, Stanley tells Bernice there's nothing to report on Nick and the Tribune are screaming for news on Alan Sullivan.  Allie tells Bernice and Stanley Dane Majors has dodged their surveillance.  Bernice is going to take Duncan and Matt with her to see Lombardi to warn him again about Dane Majors.  Bernice stresses to Lombardi about Sullivan and Nick both being missing and that he could be next and they don't know where Dane Majors is.  Lombardi still wants no part of it and asks Ethan to escort Bernice and the detectives out of the building.  Bernice refuses to leave until Lombardi accepts their protection.  He tells Bernice she has no concern for his safety, just getting Homicide back into good graces.  She admits she is concerned about Homicide but when Dane Majors comes for him, and he will, she doesn't want anyone saying she didn't try to protect him.

Matt and Duncan follow Lombardi's car to his home.  In their car, Matt wonders why he would make such a fuss about protection.  Duncan writes it up to arrogance but Matt notes if Lombardi admits he needs protection, he's admitting he's done something wrong.  Matt and Duncan get out of their car to enter Lombardi's home and he reluctantly hands Matt so he can check the premises the key's while Duncan stays with Lombardi.  Dane, sitting nearby, lowers the window of his vehicle, holds the gun out and when Duncan steps away, he fires.  One bullet strikes Lombardi's arm and a second misses.  Duncan and Matt jump into action.  Duncan screams "on the road, on the road" while he holds Lombardi down and Matt runs toward the vehicle but it speeds away.

Dane drives to an old cabin in the woods and removes items from the back of his vehicle.  The bloody body of Alan Sullivan is also in the back of the car.  He enters the cabin and sits what he carried in down in front of a picture of Tahnee.  He's talking, at first, seemingly to the picture.  He sits down and points a gun at Nick, who is tied and gagged on the floor.  He tells him he wanted him to know what he (Dane) was going through.  If he had a really bad day in prison, he'd imagine what it would be like to shoot Nick in the face.  Most of the time, he just dreamed of caving Nick's head in with a golf club.

At headquarters, Matt tells Duncan and Rhys the license number, which they got when a neighbour saw the car speeding away and took note of the number, matches Alan Sullivan's car but the driver matches Dane Majors.  Lombardi only received a flesh wound and will be fine.  Jennifer and Allie are looking over items from Dane Majors home.  They need anything that will give them any indication as to where he's gone.  Duncan begins checking out airlines and trains in the event he went to Queensland to his girlfriend.  Jennifer reads an article about Dane and Tahnee that mentions the family cabin.  She feels this is where he's gone.  The article doesn't say where the cabin is located but Allie finds paperwork that does.  Matt orders Jennifer and Rhys to check the cabin out while the rest of the team keeps looking.

At the cabin, Dane washes off in the sink and asks Nick if he's married or has a girlfriend.  He asks Nick how he'd feel if the woman was ripped away from him.  He takes a cricket bat from the box he carried into the cabin then puts on a shirt, his lucky shirt, from the box.  He sits Nick up against a post and removes the tape from over his mouth.  He sits shot glasses down on the table and pours each one full and tells Nick that since he's been three days without food, the booze will knock him right out.  Dane drinks from one glass and pours another into Nick's mouth, but Nick spits the liquid out.  He reminds Nick of the night they met and how he planted evidence to make sure he didn't get off the charges.  He wants to know Nick lives with himself for it.  Nick tells him "I'm sorry" but Dane lashes out angrily telling him he doesn't want an apology.  He kicks Nick in the side then forces him to drink from the bottle.  He tells Nick he wasn't a killer when he put him in prison but he is now.  He puts the gun under Nick's chin and tells him he (Nick) buried him alive and now he's going to do the same to him.

Jennifer and Rhys arrive at the cabin with guns drawn.  Rhys goes round the back with the plan that they'll flush Dane out the front.  Rhys enters the cabin but Dane isn't there.  He has finished digging a grave and is covering it up.  He's close enough to hear Jennifer and Rhys at the cabin while he's digging.  Dane shoots at the two telling them to come out.  Rhys tries to call the team while Jennifer fires on Dane telling him lower his weapon but he cannot get any reception.  She covers Rhys while he makes a run for their car.  Jennifer pursues Dane through the woods and when he reaches Sullivan's vehicle, she fires, shattering a window and again orders him to drop his weapon.  He dives behind a tree to check how many shots he has left and tells her she's lost.  He has four bullets left.  He tells her he just buried Nick.  She looks to the mounds of earth.  He reloads Nick's gun and stands and fires at her but misses.  He admits that Dalton's suicide beat him to killing him, but he has killed everyone else that locked him up, even Lombardi.  Jennifer tells him he's wrong and Lombardi was only winged.  She asks if he didn't kill Nick either since only one grave, Sullivan's was filled.  She wants to know where Nick is.  She begs him to know where Nick is.  He stands and walks toward her saying he's saving Nick till last.  He fires two shots at Jennifer then puts his hand toward the back of Sullivan's vehicle to fire his last shot but Jennifer shoots Dane in the chest.  Still standing, he raises his hand again to fire and she fires two more shots.  When he finally goes down, she runs to the vehicle and finds Nick, alive in the back.

At Homicide, Jennifer hangs up the phone and tells the team Alan Sullivan's funeral is the next day.  Rhys says the Tribune will have it as front page.  Allie mentions Narelle getting her story out and Duncan is sure no one will be asking Nick for his side.  Rhys notes it will all be about Lombardi, who is the last man standing.  Nick arrives back to work, his face bruised and battered from his ordeal.  Jennifer asks him if he's ready to go through his statement and the two go into the kitchen.  She hands him the papers but he pushes them aside and thanks her.  He tells her he's withdrawn his resignation.  She tells him she doesn't want to lose him then they go back to the statement.

Bernice arrives at Lombardi's office.  He doesn't want any small talk and jumps right to her budget cuts for Homicide.  He finds her recommendations quite creative and interesting reading but with a certain natural bias.  She tells him that her belief Homicide is one of the most skilled and cohesive squads in the state police is based on experience, not bias.  He agrees and admits that in the current crisis, Homicide has proved to be a most effective squad and agrees that under the proposed budget cuts Homicide could not function successfully which is why he will be dissolving Homicide altogether.  Divisional detectives will handle single homicides and task forces will handle more complex cases.  She asks about the current homicide detectives and he tells her that's up to her.  A few retirements, a few transfers, but, make no mistake, there will be no more homicide squad.

For more information:
City Homicide Official Site:  http://au.tv.yahoo.com/city-homicide/
Internet Movie Database:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024932/
TV Rage:  http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-17228

US Television: Hawaii Five-O, Episode 1.19 "Na Me'e Laua Na Paio (Heroes and Villains)"

Hawaii Five-O
Season One, Episode Nineteen, Na Me'e Laua Na Paio (Heroes and Villains)
Original Air Date:  March 21, 2011

When a man dressed in a superhero costume and cape falls seventeen stories to his death at a Honolulu hotel, Five-O is called in to solve the case.  While Chin Ho and Kono investigate the scene of the crime at the hotel, McGarrett and Danny enter the world of science fiction fans in search of information about the victim.  As the investigation progresses, the Five-O team are led to yet another murder that happened in 2008.  Meanwhile, Steve McGarrett is approached by a woman from the CIA who wants the files belonging to his father and him regarding the investigation of Steve's mothers murder.

At the Lonopuha Hotel in Honolulu, Joanna Reidell (Susan King) is sitting by the pool reading a magazine while her son, Dillan (Ethan Carter), swims in the pool just feet away.  She watches him dive into the water and congratulates him on a job well done then looks back to her magazine.  He goes beneath the water again to swim.  When she looks up from her magazine again, her son is nowhere to be seen.  She searches for him frantically.  After a few seconds, he runs up to her with news he found quarter at the bottom of the pool.  She scolds him for running away and tells him to never do it again.  As they are walking back to where she was sitting, a man, dressed in a superhero outfit and cape falls out of nowhere onto the awning and chairs.

At Five-O headquarters, Danny and McGarrett are arriving for work and making small talk on their way in.  Danny is carrying a brown paper bag and McGarrett stops him wanting to know what is in the bag.  Danny tells him its his lunch and the two bicker for a second about Danny feeling McGarrett wanting to know every last detail of his life before Danny takes a large container of salad out of the bag to show his friend.  Grace, who is taking a nutrition class, is concerned about Danno's health so he promised her he would eat better.  The two men continue into headquarters still talking about eating when Danny notices a woman in McGarrett's office.  A woman neither of them know.

McGarrett approaches the woman and asks if he can help her.  She turns around and introduces herself as Jenna Kaye (Larisa Oleynik) from the Central Intelligence Agency.  He gets a better look at her badge then questions what he can do for her.  She tells him she believes she has something that belongs to him and plays a recording.  On the tape, his father's voice can be heard saying he can't continue the investigation into the police department from the inside.  He asks how she got it and she simply replies "how'd you lose it?".  He tells her the tape was stolen by a local Yakuza boss, a man she already knows about.  She tells him to gather all of his case investigation files and all of his father's private files as the Agency has taken an interest into the investigation and she can say nothing more.  He tells her the Yakuza was targeting his father and responsible for his mother's murder.  To her, it's classified above McGarrett's pay grade.  He tells her to unclassify it and he won't even ask for a raise.  She asks if he wants her to have the director call the Governor to compel him to give her his files.  He asks if she's threatening him and she counters that she wants to know if he's going to make it hard on himself or if they will get along.  Danny opens the door to tell Steve they have something and he tells him he'll be right there.  After Danny leaves, McGarrett turns around for a second then turns back to Kaye and tells her she'll have his files by the end of the day.  He asks her to give him his father's recorder and she tells him he'll get that when she gets the files then leaves his office.

In Danny's car, he asks Steve why he didn't give Kaye his files then and there and wants to know what his play is.  Steve asks if Danny must know every detail of his life and Danny reminds him who he's dealing with in the CIA who wrote the book on interrogation procedures (which Danny is sure McGarrett has a copy of on his beside table as they speak).  McGarrett mentions that legally the CIA can only interrogate foreign nationals.  Danny tells his friend he's a devourer of dreams; he eats them like a little Pac Man in cargo pants.

McGarrett and Danny arrive at the Lonopuha Hotel where Dr. Max Bergman (Masi Oka) is examining the body of the man who fell to his death that morning.  Max chatters on about superheroes as McGarrett and Danno listen with looks on their faces that clearly demonstrate they have no clue who he's talking about.  Once Danny gets Max back to the case at hand, Max tells them the Spectacucon 2011 convention was in town that weekend and he assumed the victim was going to attend.  Max has no I.D. on the victim yet but, from his injuries, assumes he fell at least ten stories and the case definitely is a homicide.  The man has glass fragments in his face indicating he was most likely thrown out of a window or sliding glass door.  On his wrists is residue from duct tape indicating he was bound and he has defensive bruising suggesting a struggle with his attacker.  In a pocket of the man's suit, Danny finds a cell phone with a message from a woman named Psycho Kitty (Aimee Zannoni) stating "Be Careful, he's looking for you."

At the Hawaii Convention Center in Honolulu, Spectacucon 2011 is underway with hundreds of participants dressed as their favorite science fiction characters.  As Danny and McGarrett are riding up an escaltor, Steve is finishing a conversation with Kono while Danny watches the people with amusement.  Kono was able to get an I.D. off the victim's cell phone.  He was Alex Baker and was an insurance adjuster from Atlanta that arrived two days ago for Spectacucon.  Chin Ho and Kono are checking out Baker's hotel room as they speak.  They search the convention for Psycho Kitty and Steve points out that, thanks to all the strange costumes, it might take a while to find her.

When Chin and Kono arrive in Baker's hotel room, there are no signs of forced entry or a struggle in the room.  Kono looks over some of the articles in the room while Chin Ho opens the intact sliding glass balcony door and looks over the railing.  The trajectory aligns up as it is a straight drop off Baker's balcony to where he fell.  Chin feels the room isn't the crime scene as the doors aren't broken.  When Kono walks onto the balcony, broken glass crunches under her feet and Chin knows it had to come from the suite directly above them.  The above suite, 1703, is registered to Jonathan DeMille (James Ransone) from Port Allen, Louisiana.  They find a card still in the lock on the door.  Kono removes and replaces the card a couple of times but it doesn't work.  She tries the card the hotel manager gave her for 1703 and the lock opens.  They enter and find the room a mess and the sliding glass doors all but gone.  They have found their crime scene.

At the convention, Steve is showing the picture of Psycho Kitty they got from the phone to attendees but no luck.  A man dressed in a Star Trek DS9 uniform walks past and they stop him.  After a brief discussion of who the man is really dressed as Steve shows him the photo.  He knows who the woman is right off and directs them to where they can find her and gives them her real name, Gail Woodson.  She tells them she and Alex met on an online message board and started talking on the phone.  They had similiar interests and their relationship got really serious, really fast.  They never met face-to-face until that day.  Her ex-husband Trevor Wright (Nicholas Masciangelo) showed up, got angry and caused a big scene.  Trevor told her she couldn't see Alex anymore.  If she did, he would find him and kill him.  At Five-O headquarters, they go over Trevor Wright's jacket from Jacksonville, Florida.  He has an insane number of assault charges and has violated his probation by being in Hawaii.  Danny gets a call that Trevor's rental car was found parked at Kailua Beach.

As Wright is bending to unlock the car, McGarrett calls to him and identifies himself as Five-O.  Wright takes of running with Steve and Danny in pursuit.  Steve chases him along the beach as Danny rides up on a cycle next to them, causing Steve to run all the harder.  Wright runs into the water and Steve jumps and tackles him to the ground and cuffs him.  On the beach, McGarrett pushes Wright onto the sand and tells him he's under arrest for the murder of Alex Baker, someone Wright claims not to know.  Once Danny explains who Baker is, Wright seems surprised to learn he's dead.  He tells them he wanted to scare Baker and that once Baker left, his ex-wife had made it clear they would never be together again.  He was upset and left the convention and came to the beach to take a dolphin watching cruise.  In his shirt pocket is a ticket for Dolphin Excursions at eleven that morning.  Wright tells them at least a dozen people can put him on the cruise.

At the crime scene, Chin informs Kono the suspect has a rock-solid alibi.  She's learned the name the room was booked under, Jonathan DeMille, has been dead for nearly a year.  A credit card with his name a social was opened just a few months ago.  Chin finds a $30,000 watch in the room which proves the room was tossed for something specific and not a robbery.  Kono had the manager run the key card they found in 1703's lock and the card was from 1603, Alex Baker's room.  Baker signed for drinks at the hotel bar that morning.  When Max ran Baker's blood alcohol he found it was three times the legal limit.  The theory comes to light that a drunk Baker got off the elevator on the wrong floor and mistook 1703 for his room.  Whoever was ransacking 1703 pull Baker inside thinking he's the man they want.

At the Davis Residence in Diamond Head, Chin returns the expensive watch found in room 1703 to the woman who lives there, Anne Davis (Perrey Reeves).  The watch belongs to her husband, Richard Davis (D. B. Sweeney) who is out of town on business and should return home that night.  She tells him the watch was stolen from their home three days ago and a police report was filed.  While he's waiting for her to get a copy of the report, he glances around the house and notices the collection of sports memorabilia in the home.

McGarrett is approached by a man on a bridge.  The man calls him by name and hands him an envelope "as requested", tells him to enjoy the rest of his day and walks away.  Steve opens the envelope and reads over the contents:  a personnel file of Jenna Kaye.  It shows that she is "on leave", is an analyst and the subject of the investigation is Wo Fat (Mark Dacascos).

Steve goes to Jenna's hotel room and knocks on the door saying he's from housekeeping.  When she opens the door and sees him she shutshousekeeping.  When she opens the door and sees him she shuts it again as he tells her they need to talk. He kicks the door open and goes into the room.  He tells her she has two options:  the first is he walks out of there and the second is she tells him what is really going on because that is the only way she gets to know what he knows.  She tells him she's been tracking the Yakuza longer than he has and is listed in the footnotes of the State Department report outlining how they launder money as a source.  He tells her they got off on the wrong foot and he will call Director Hadley at the Agency and officially offer his services to her task force because that is the sort of freedom Five-O has.  He starts to make the call and she stops him.  She admits she isn't on official assignment.  He lets her know that he knows she's looking for Wo Fat and demands that if Wo Fat is working with the man who killed his mother she needs to let him know right now.  She tells him there's something she needs to show him but not there.

At Five-O headquarters, Kono shows Danny the credit card statements for Jonathan DeMille.  He's spent almost $20,000 in the last couple of weeks at a local strip club.  Armed with that information, they go to the club in search of DeMille.  The bartender knows "Johnny D" and tells them they aren't the only people looking for him.  A big guy that you can just tell is bad news has been looking for Johnny D as well.  When Kono tells the bartender about the murder at the hotel, he tells them there is no way he could have led the man to Johnny D's hotel room as you don't find Johnny D., he finds you.  Johnny was at the club Tuesday while Tiffany was working.  Outside, Kono pulls Tiffany Martin's phone records and text messages and runs a search for Johnny's name and finds several instances of contact between the two for a few weeks.  She continues her search but Johnny uses an untraceable pre-paid cell.  She tells Danny she can spoof Tiffany's cell and make it look like she sent Johnny D. a message.  Danny tells her to move over because it should be very filthy and since Kono is a young lady he should be the one to send it.  When it's clear his message won't do in the least, she pushes him aside and sends one of her own.  Within seconds, Johnny D. responds.

At Five-0 headquarters, Jenna gives Steve more information about Wo Fat who used to be a good guy before he realized criminal work paid better than government work.  There are twenty-three bodies tied to Wo Fat that she knows of.  She tracked Wo Fat to Hawaii a few months ago when he paid a visit in prison to the man who killed McGarrett's father, Victor Hess.  She gives him the information Hess works for Wo Fat, something McGarrett never knew as with the Yakuza.  None of them make a move without Wo Fat's approval.  She believes Wo Fat ordered the murder of McGarrett's father has Hess arrived in Hawaii before his brother had ever been captured by McGarrett's team.  He asks her why she broke away from the agency to hunt Wo Fat on her own rather than do it from within the Agency.  Three years ago, she was working the Central Agent desk at Langley when she discovered a series of illegal arms deals brokered out of China.  Her team traced them back to Wo Fat who wasn't on the Agencies radar yet.  She got too wrapped up in the hunt.  A team dispatched using her intel was killed in a set-up.  Her fiance was on the team.  She was removed from the team because of conflict of interest but she cannot let it go.  He asks what she'll do when she finds him and she replies "same thing you would do".  He tells her to wait and goes to his desk and gets the envelope from his desk drawer that contains the postcards and evidence stolen from his father's toolbox left on his doorstep a week ago.  As she looks over the cards his phone rings.  Danny tells him they have a lead on Johnny D.  He tells her to use his office so she can analyze what he has handed her and that they'll meet tomorrow to discuss what she's learned then goes to meet with Danny.

The team watches as Johnny D. arrives.  When he sees the lights on their cars, he tries to speed away even though his tires are shredded but he's easily caught.  They take him back to headquarters for interview.  When they show him Baker's picture, he asks a few questions about Baker then tells them he got word someone was following him and gives them a brief description and said he was laying low.  McGarrett asks him what he stole that was worth killing for.  He takes them to a house and opens the garage revealing it packed full of items he's stolen.  Steve and Danny search the garage and find plenty of expensive loot but Steve sees nothing an insurance claim wouldn't cover.  Steve picks up a snowglobe and hears something rattle in the base.  He opens it and hands what he finds (a memory card for a digital camera) to Danno then asks Johnny D. why he would steal the snowglobe, which has the Space Needle in it.  Johnny D. tells him he always wanted to go to Paris.  Danny asks where he stole the snow globe and he replies that he's hit so many places it's impossible to say.

At headquarters, Kono tells Steve the memory card is password protected with what looks like 64-bit encryption but she can crack it.  Chin presents them with a sketch of Johnny D's stalker based on his description and three employees reported seeing the man at the hotel around the time Baker was killed but he hasn't been able to match a name to the face.  When Kono has cracked the card, she brings up the contents, a video file.  It's dated July  2008 and shows Lindsey Roberts (Kristina Waiau), a murdered local girl with a mystery man.  Baker was killed and Johnny D. was followed because the mystery man wanted the evidence linking him to Lindsey's murder back.

At the Robert's Residence in Aiea, Steve and Danny speak with her parents Lisa (Cecilia Brown) and Phil (Don Nahaku).  Danny asks if she was involved with anyone and her father tells them she had no time for boyfriends between school and her internship.  They show her parents still photographs from the video they found on the card and they both immediately recognize the man:  Richard Davis, Lindsey's boss.  Max tells Chin and Kono that they weren't able to determine the murder weapon used to kill Lindsey but, during the autopsy, they recovered a wood fiber embedded in the skull.  Since the body was found in the woods, Max's superior ruled it was wood from there.  However, the question always nagged at Max and he did his own research using the wood fragment from Lindsey's skull, which he kept.  He saved for six months to pay for the testing on it.  The type of wood was old and wasn't from Hawaii and came from a baseball bat from the 1950's.

Chin and Kono arrive at the Davis home with a search warrant and arrest Richard Davis.  Chin goes directly to the baseball bat he saw earlier.  At headquarters, Chin and Steve question Davis about the bat and Lindsey.  He denies killing Lindsey and denies having an affair with her.  When shown a still from the card, he still denies killing her because he loved her.  He admits to the affair and that they were in his office but he never made any video of them together.  Danny opens the door and calls Chin and Steve out saying there's something they need to see.  Five calls from Davis' direct line to Lindsey's cell phone were found one week after she disappeared.  Kono did more digging and found prints belonging to Anne Davis on the memory card.  Anne pays her personal trainer $500 every month.  A few days ago, he got a $10,000 bonus.  When the photo of her trainer is brought up, along with his long record, Chin recognizes the face as it matches the sketch drawn up from Johnny D's description.  Five-O arrest him and bring Anne Davis in.  She watches the video of her husband and Lindsey but refuses to answer questions until her attorney arrives.  She sees McGarrett, Kono and Danny bring in her trainer.  McGarrett informs her he was much chattier than she was and he told them she gave him 10 grand to retreive some stolen goods, the snowglobe in particular.  She tells them she set up the hidden camera but never confronted Richard about the affair.  She emailed Lindsey from Richard's computer the night she learned of the affair and asked her to come over to her house as she wanted to talk.  Lindsey admitted she was in love with Richard and he was going to leave his wife so they could be together.  She didn't mean to kill Lindsey.  McGarrett gives the order to "Book 'em, Danno".

That night, as McGarrett is sitting in a restaurant, Wo Fat walks up to his table and sits down.  Steve pulls his gun on Wo Fat beneath the table but Wo Fat makes it clear he has an assurance of his own safety.  He describes the car Jenna Kaye is driving and says he's sure she'll make it to the restaurant without incident causing Steve to withdraw his weapon.  Wo Fat tells Steve he wants to know the man who is trying to know him.  McGarrett states that he believes Wo Fat is responsible for his parents' murders, which Wo Fat finds an "interesting theory".  Steve promises him if the theory pans out, he will find him and it will be on his terms.  Wo Fat gives him some advice not to dig too deeply into his (McGarrett's) families past as he might not like what he finds.  He puts money on the table to pay for the dinner then leaves.

Hawaii Five-O airs Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on CBS.
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Hawaii Five-O Official Site:  http://www.cbs.com/primetime/hawaii_five_0/
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US Television: Breakout Kings, Episode 1.3, "The Bag Man"

Breakout Kings
Season One, Episode Three, The Bag Man
Original Air Date:  March 20, 2011

Lloyd, Shea and Erica are called in when exceptionally dangerous prisoner Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell escapes from the Fox River State Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois.  Using the theory he has escaped to see a woman, the team follow him and the trail of bodies he leaves through Illinois, Indiana and Ohio fearing Bagwell is headed to Canada.  However, in Ohio they make a shocking discovery about Bagwell's purpose for escaping prison and where he is truly headed.  Will they catch Bagwell before he can hurt anyone else and will Lloyd get the opportunity he has long-desired:  to be able to have a face-to-face conversation with Bagwell and analyze him or will Bagwell make his escape for good?

At Fox River State Penitentiary in Joliet, Illinois, a prisoner is forced to brush the teeth of Theodore 'T-Bag' Bagwell (Robert Knepper).  When the one doing the brushing spills water on Bagwell while giving him water to rinse his mouth, the man is ordered to draw the curtain to the cell then get the "hurt stick".  Before he can retrieve the stick, a guard opens the curtain and informs Bagwell his transfer has been approved.  Bagwell pulls the inside of his pants pocket out, looks to his young cellmate and tells him "let's take a walk, boy".  The young man grabs the pocket and leaves the cell with Bagwell and the guard.  Bagwell is frisked by the guards then moved through the gates for his transport.  He turns back to the young man and tells him to keep a candle burning for him with a wink.

In the vehicle during transport Bagwell is chained and sitting across from a guard who is sickened by the fact Bagwell is being transferred to receive a new prosthetic hand when his own uncle who lost a leg during wartime cannot get a decent prosthetic from the VA.  Bagwell leans forward to show the guard that he needs a new hand because his is cracking.  He pulls the hand off to reveal a sharpened piece of plastic and plunges it into the guard eight times killing him.  He takes the guards gun and shoots the driver through the truck walls.  When the vehicle crashes, he jumps out, opens the drivers door.  While he's searching the driver, a passing motorist stops to ask if everyone is alright.  Bagwell takes the top of his prison overalls down to reveal his white shirt and tells the man the accident was his fault.  He turns and pulls the guards gun on the man telling him he has two dead bodies in the truck and would gladly kill him as well.  He orders the man to take his clothes off.  The man looks to his son in his car who Bagwell also sees and uses as leverage.  The man does as he's told and Bagwell, now wearing his clothing, puts the man and his son out on the road and steals his car making his escape.

Charlie and Ray are putting up photos and information about the teams latest case when Shea, Erica and Lloyd arrive.  Lloyd arrives complaining about what he felt was bad driving on the part of the man who transported them from prison.  Charlie jumps right into the case bringing them up to speed on Bagwell who has been out less than two hours.  Julie arrives carrying a heavy box which Shea and Lloyd compete to take off her hands (Lloyd wins).  Shea is mildly amused at Bagwell's nickname, "T-Bag" but Lloyd warns him not to laugh as Bagwell is an incredible mixture of psychopathic and sociopathic personality traits.  On the psychopathic side, Bagwell will plan his crimes and breakouts extremely well then, at the drop of a hat, turn sociopathic and kill someone and leave a ton of evidence behind.  Lloyd has read everything he can on Bagwell and has always wondered what it would be like to sit down face to face and analyse him.

Julie has received Bagwell's prison phone logs.  One of the two calls was to Cabe Green (William Christopher Ellis), a former inmate who now lives in Fort Wayne, Indiana.  She plays a recording of the call where Bagwell asks Green if he got him his birthday present.  When Green answers "almost", Bagwell tells him to let him know when it's wrapped and ready because he's excited.  Bagwell's birthday was five months before this call was made.  The second call was one week later to the prison pay phone bank.  Bagwell said hello and the other end hung up.  Shea theorizes of the code Bagwell was using.  The "birthday present" was the breakout planning.  The second call was a signal for the breakout.  When Shea and Ray have a small spat, Charlie interrupts them reminding them they don't have time to argue.  They have to protect people from Bagwell and get him back in prison before he can hurt anyone.  Charlie orders Ray and Shea to go to Fort Wayne to see Cabe Green while he, Erica and Lloyd go to Illinois where Bagwell broke out of prison.

In Fort Wayne, at Cable Green's home, Green timidly tells them he doesn't know anything and that he missed Bagwell's birthday and owed him a gift since they are friends and that since he's done nothing wrong they have no right to be there.  As they are leaving, Shea notes that Green called Bagwell by his first name which shows he's still following prison rules and is still under Bagwell's control and will never give up information on him.  In Illinois, Erica, Lloyd and Charlie look over the scene of the truck wreck.  Erica points out that Bagwell has nine shots left in his gun.  Charlie speaks with the man Bagwell stole the car from.  He gives Charlie the information that Bagwell has a cut on his head above his left eyebrow.  Charlie orders Lloyd to have Julie update the alarm to include that information.  Ray contacts Charlie to tell him he and Shea cannot figure out how Green helped Bagwell escape an Erica suggests Green might have helped after the escape instead.  Ray has Julie, who is conferenced into the call, run the toll information on Green's EZPass.  She learns that Green drove into Illinois the same day the hang up call was made to Bagwell at the prison.  The second call was made from Madison, Illinois, just minutes away from where Charlie, Lloyd and Erica are.

In Madison, Illinois, the three search the parking lot and surrounding area of the Astro Motel for the "present".  In a box, Erica finds "the present".  They find cologne, nail clippers, cardboard and pins from a new shirt and a container with Canadian dollars in it.  Charlie calls Julie to have her alert Canadian border crossings that Bagwell is cleaned up, dressed nice and is low on funds and still injured.  Bagwell is standing outside a hospital.  He is now dressed smartly in a suit and has cleaned his appearance a bit but does need medical attention for his head.

At the office, Charlie tells the team there isn't a single hit on Bagwell in Illinois.  Ray wants the team to assume Bagwell is headed east and could be going to Toledo, then Lake Erie and on to Canada.  Shea feels he's headed toward a woman and that he's looking a little too much to his nickname (something Lloyd doesn't understand and Shea must explain to him).  Bagwell's former girlfriend is under protective custody but Erica feels he could have a new sweetheart.

At a Franchise convention just outside Brushy Prairie, Indiana, Bagwell steals an identification badge off a table and surveys the crowd looking for just the right woman.  He settles on a young woman, Candace Plub (Rebecca Field).  He strikes up a conversation with her, showering her with compliments and quickly winning her trust.  He gets two glasses of champagne for them and turns around to place them on a table to "right them" because of his hand.  When she cannot see the glasses, he slips drugs into one of them, turns around and gives Candace the drugged glass.

Julie gives the team the information that an Illinois ambulance was found on the side of the road in Brushy Prairie, Indiana.  Both EMT's were dead and one had his hand cut off.  The team head out for Indiana and Charlie calls back to Julie for her to call Special Operation.  In Indiana, Bagwell is driving with Candace who is becoming increasingly sleepy from the drugs in her champagne.  She invites him to her room but he declines telling her there is only one woman he's interested in seeing.  He takes a ring from her finger, opens the passenger door and shoves her out of the car and keeps driving.

At the scene of the ditched ambulance, the team find that the narcotics are missing and there is no gas in the vehicle.  The EMT's personal effects show their money was stolen and one of the effects bags doesn't have a cell phone.  Ray calls Julie so she can run the cell phone records of Arthur Bradshaw, one of the EMT's.  While they are waiting to hear back from Julie, Erica delivers the news that Bagwell has seven remaining shots after killing the two EMT's.  Julie found that a call was made with Bradshaw's phone after the bodies were found and she texts the called number to Charlie.  When he calls the number, he reaches the answering machine of a woman named "Lorraine".  Julie suggests the woman Bagwell is going to meet could be someone other than Lorraine.  She has found the news of Candace Plum who was found along the road and was able to identify Bagwell and is currently at a hospital not far from where they are now.  Charlie orders Ray and Lloyd to go to the hospital to see Candace while he, Shea and Erica pay a visit to Lorraine.

In Waterloo, Indiana, Bagwell removes his coat, tie and shirt and knocks on a door.  When a man, Wayne Garrett, answers he tries to tell Bagwell he isn't interested in what he's selling.  Lorraine can be heard in the background.  Bagwell pulls a knife and slashes Wayne's head and enters the apartment.

In La Grange, Indiana, Ray and Lloyd speak with Candace at the hospital.  She tells them about the ring he took and that Bagwell told her there was a woman he wanted to see before pushing her out of the car.  Lloyd assures her that she's probably still alive because Bagwell did like her, as she thought he did.

Charlie, Erica and Shea arrive at Lorraine's apartment in Waterloo and see blood on the door.  Charlie draws his gun as Erica knocks.  He identifies himself as a Marshal and, when there is no answer, he kicks in the door.  They enter the apartment to find it trashed and the bodies of both Lorraine and Wayne.  He used two more shots and demonstrated his ability with knives.  They find that Bagwell had written something down while at the apartment.  Using powdered cleaner, they find the impression of "Tenpence Bryan" on a notebook.  Charlie calls Julie to run the nickname.  She gets a hit, not on the name but on Bagwell.  A man matching his description was seen racing through Bryan, Ohio, two towns from where they currently are in a car matching the type of vehicle owned by Lorraine.  He wants her to check all the streets in Bryan named "Pence".  She finds a 10 Pence Avenue in Bryan that is rented by Rodney Johnson.  Charlie orders the team to call the local police and wait for them at the apartment while he and Ray go to Ohio.

At Rodney Johnson's house in Medina, Ohio, Bagwell bursts into the house and begins beating on Johnson.  He pulls the phone from the wall and bashes him with it then tears a corner containing an address off a calendar on the wall.  He looks down to Rodney and tells him it's time he feels as much pain as he's caused.  Ray and Charlie arrive at the house but they've missed Bagwell.  Ray makes note of the calendar and takes another corner with the address knowing that that address is where Bagwell is headed.

At Conway Rock Quarry in Medina, Bagwell is dragging Rodney along a footpath.  Ray and Charlie arrive at the Quarry and order Bagwell to freeze.  He turns on the rock crusher and throws Rodney over the railing into it then pulls the gun and shoots toward Ray and Charlie.  Charlie pursues Bagwell while Ray goes to save Rodney.  He cannot turn off the crusher because it's busted.  Charlie and Bagwell trade shots at one another, both missing.  Ray calls to Charlie as he cannot save Rodney without his help.  Charlie fires at Bagwell once more then goes to help Ray giving Bagwell the opportunity to get away.  Even with Charlie's help, they cannot save Rodney and he falls into the crusher.

Rodney's employer at the Quarry tells Ray he'd only worked there for a couple of months and that he didn't recall hearing Rodney talk about any Theodore Bagwell.  He suggests Ray try Rodney's former employer, Willis County Nursing Home.  He did recall Rodney saying he hated that place.  Ray calls Julie to let her know that both Rodney and Wayne Garrett worked at the same nursing home.  Bagwell wasn't after Lorraine, he was after those two men and he wants her to run the home.  She finds nothing unusual or remarkable about the home or the employee and patient list.

Ray, Charlie and Lloyd go to the nursing home in Willis County, Ohio and speak with the director.  She tells them both Wayne and Rodney were fine workers but they quit because the job didn't fit them.  When Lloyd questions her as to why the men who didn't have high school educations and advanced skills would quit a job in a nursing home, the director states she will not be called a liar.  Lloyd points out how he knows she's lying and Ray warns her he will cuff her if she doesn't tell them the truth.  Only under threat of arrest when Ray breaks out the cuffs does she tell them the truth.  Wayne and Rodney were suspected of inappropriate physical contact with a mentally challenged geriactric patient and possibly stole some of her jewelery.  The men were fired and would have been charged had the woman not slipped into a comatose state.  Without her testimony, the case was closed.  She informs them that she took money from her own pocket to transfer the patient, Mrs. Bagwell to St. Victoria's, a small state hospital in New Jersey.

The team meets in the lobby of the nursing home where Shea and Erica are brought up to speed.  Lloyd tells them the ring Bagwell took from Candace was a replacement ring for the jewelery Rodney and Wayne had stolen from his mother.  Lloyd is certain that Bagwell is headed to New Jersey to see his mother and give her the replacement ring before she dies.

At St. Victoria's Hospital in Paramus, New Jersey, Bagwell arrives and grabs a boquet of flowers from outside the hospital gift shop on his way to his mother's room.  The team arrive and Charlie gives them their orders with a warning that Bagwell has one round left in his gun.  Bagwell tells the registration nurse (Rebecca Amare) he's there to see Audrey Bagwell but she informs him visiting hours are over and all patients are asleep.  He tells her he'll be quiet but she again tells him he'll have to come back.  He tells her there is no tomorrow for him or her and grabs her by the hair and that she will find his mother's room number or she'll wind up in the bed next to her.  She finds the room number for him, 209, as Charlie spots him and orders him, gun raised, to stop.  Bagwell takes off running with Charlie in pursuit.  Charlie orders a nurse at the hospital to put the place on lockdown and close off all exits and elevators and continues after Bagwell.

In a hall, Erica has a run-in with Bagwell.  He knocks her to the ground then takes time to kick her before running out a door.  She gets up and follows him but he blocks the door and raises his gun to her through the glass on the door.  Charlie calls to Bagwell from behind and he takes off running again.  Shea spots Bagwell and Lloyd uses the intercom system to alert Charlie and Ray that Bagwell is running down the East Wing.  Ray jumps Bagwell in the hall and takes him to the ground.  The men struggle in front of Audrey Bagwell's room.  He wants to look at his mother but Ray has a tight hold on him.

As Charlie is cuffing Bagwell, his mother moves her fingers, astonishing him.  With urging from Ray, Charlie allows Bagwell to visit his mother.  Ray retrieves the ring from Bagwell's pocket for him and Bagwell places the ring on his mother's finger and delicately kisses her head.  He tells her 'I got 'em, ma ma, I got 'em".  He kneals by her beside and tells her he won't be seeing her in heaven but to enjoy it for the both of them.  Charlie and Ray lead him from the room.

At the office, Ray and Shea have a semi-civil discussion about boxers.  Erica tells Charlie that if the cases continue to be dangerous like the Bagwell case was then the one-month-off thing needs to get jacked up.  Charlie informs her that's as good as it's going to get.  Transport for Lloyd, Shea and Erica will arrive in a half hour and Lloyd is still pacing outside the room where Bagwell is sitting instead of sitting down before him to analyze him as he's always wanted.  He finally enters the room and sits down.  Bagwell tells him he has the arrogance of a 'white coat'.  Bagwell is much more than Lloyd bargained for and the conversation is one-sided.  Lloyd listens quietly and when Bagwell asks him if his "menagerie of misery" is what makes him so special a case he informs him it isn't.  He tells him when they started the case, he thought he would get some great insight into why Bagwell was the way he is that could perhaps shed light on bigger truths or help other sick people one day.  He did find a truth the closer he got to Bagwell and his work.  A small truth:  some machines just come out of the factory broken and Bagwell is one of those broken machines.  Lloyd leaves the room and, when he's gone, Bagwell acknowledges to himself that Lloyd is right.

Breakout Kings airs every Sunday night at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the Arts & Entertainment Network.
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