Saturday, April 30, 2011
US Television: Blue Bloods, Episode 1.20 "All That Glitters"
Blue Bloods
Season One, Episode Twenty: All That Glitters
Original Air Date: April 29, 2011
When a tourist to New York City is killed during an apparent robbery outside a trendy lower-east-side restaurant, Danny and Jackie begin an investigation into the extremely high-profile case. The evidence leads them to a Haitian immigrant who, by all means, looks perfect for being the suspect. However, things become more complicated when the immigrant, an ex-policeman himself, gives them evidence that very well could mean the murder was more than a crime of opportunity.
A couple from Iowa, Lance and Margaret "Maggie" Olson (George Merrick & Tara Westwood), are dining at a trendy lower-east-side restaurant and discussing the fun day of sightseeing they had. The waitress, Maya (Elizabeth Fye), comes to the table to close out for the evening. Lance pays the bill and gives her a very generous tip while discussing his business back home. He grows corn that is turned into ethanol. He mentions having his after-dinner cigar and the waitress tells him to not have it in front of the restaurant because the smoke gets in and the customers hate it but to instead go down a little way to the left. He promises Maggie he will be back before she can finish eating.
Erin Reagan arrives late to dinner with her father. She is out of sorts because an old case has come back to haunt her. Ian Boyd was shot dead that day by a convenience store owner he was trying to rob after he shot a young woman in the store who tried to warn the owner that she had seen a gun on Boyd. She feels guilty that because she lost Boyd's last robbery case he was able to be back on the streets to rob and kill again.
Lance is enjoying his cigar and doesn't notice a man wearing a hood walk up a few steps away. The hooded man takes a gun from his pocket while, inside, Maggie is speaking with another diner (Julia Haubner) about the cuisine at the restaurant. Shots ring out as the ladies are talking and Maggie gets up and runs outside. The hooded man runs past her and she sees her husband on the ground and begs for people nearby to call 911.
Danny Reagan and Jackie Curatola arrive to investigate the shooting. Danny gets the details from a uniformed officer. After the shooting, the diners inside the restaurant went back to eating their meals. Lance was shot three times and all of his money and credit cards were taken. He's at St. Benjamin's Hospital in critical condition. The gun hasn't been found and in the canvass, some residents were sleeping and the ones who weren't didn't think it was that big of a deal. Danny orders a second canvass in the event someone didn't answer the door and to widen the search perimeter for the weapon.
At the Reagan house, Frank and his father discuss Erin's bad news. When Henry suggests some coffee Frank tells him if he wasn't awake he would be now as a message came in on his phone about Lance Olson's shooting.
Danny and Jackie go to see Maggie Olson at the hospital. They ask if she saw anything and she tells them about hearing the gunshots and running outside. She blames herself for dragging him to New York as she enjoyed the city so much when visiting with a friend. After a second question of seeing anything from Jackie she mentions seeing the man wearing the hood that could have been blue walk past her as she came out of the restaurant. Danny asks about Lance paying the bill with cash and asks if he usually carried large amounts of money. She admits that her husband likes to pay with cash as he said businesses appreciated it. Jackie asks who might have known he had a lot of cash on him. She says they got into town, stayed at the hotel all night as this was kind of a second honeymoon for them. She mentions the bell man, the cab driver and the waitress at the restaurant.
Jamie Regan and Sgt. Renzulli are at the scene where a 74 year-old homeless man was found dead. Renzulli estimates he's been dead at least a day based upon the condition of the body. Jamie stops Dr. Laura Trent (Jennifer Restivo) to ask about the death. She found insulin on the body which indicated early on complications from diabetes but she found neon-green fluid in the mouth which could have been anti-freeze. Tests at the lab will confirm if it is truly a homicide. When Trent leaves, Renzulli, who has been watching the conversation teases Jamie for hitting on her over a dead body.
Garrett Moore (Gregory Jbara) arrives in Frank's office to point out that tourism is important to New York and is based on a sort of safari model. The tourists want to get close to the lions and tigers but don't want one of them to eat them. Moore insists Frank will have to play to the house on the Olson shooting just enough to show he shares the outrage over the incident. Garret tells him he can stall until Monday without looking like they are stalling. Frank wants a timely, but independent from case progress, press conference. He wants no rush to judgment.
Danny has cleared the cab driver Maggie Olson named as his GPS had him in Yonkers at the time of the shooting. Jackie is looking into the waitress, Maya. She has no record but cannot be found. She will not answer her phone or door. Danny sees her as a possibility as she saw Olson's money and could have called an accomplice. There were four armed robberies in the neighborhood in the past year. Two are unsolved, one suspect is in Rykers and the fourth, Brian Stratton (Marc Bonan) walked because the victim didn't show up. Jackie, who is still looking at Maya's information, sees that Brian Stratton is her emergency contact. She finds that Stratton's number was called from the restaurant phone just before Maya clocked out.
They go to Maya's address and hear loud music coming from the apartment and the door open. They go inside and find her and Stratton apparently on ecstasy and dancing to the music. Jackie gets the call that Lance Olson died and they take the two in on questioning in a murder.
As Erin Reagan leads Maggie Olson from the hospital, the press converges on the two women. Erin pushes them back saying Mrs. Olson has suffered a terrible loss and will have the full resources of the city at her disposal and gives them her word that the person responsible will be brought to justice. Danny and Jackie watch the exchange on television then go in to question Maya and Brian. Danny asks Maya what the plan was. She tells him there was no plan. They just went and scored some E. Brian maintains that all he did was go to pick Maya up from work but Jackie maintains that all the expensive things in their apartment and all they spend on drugs has to come from somewhere. He insists they didn't rob anyone. Danny continues working on Maya and she asks if he'll go easy on the drugs and everything. He tells her he'll see what he can do but she needs to tell him the truth. She tells him that every once in a while they will get a bunch of customer credit card numbers and sell them for extra cash. The guy she works with waits before using them so they won't track back to her. He asks about the shooting and she insists they had nothing to do with it. Brian picked her up from work and they went to East River Park to score some drugs. He asks if she saw anyone outside the restaurant. She says she didn't but admits that a couple of blocks away they saw a black guy tearing down the street in a hoodie that could have been blue and almost ran over him on Brian's Vespa. With Jackie, Brian confirms the story. Danny asks Maya if she can remember the face enough to work with a sketch artist and she tells him waiting tables you get a good memory for faces.
At the press conference, Frank reveals that extra uniformed officers and anti-crime teams have been rotated into popular tourist areas in the lower-east-side and other areas famous for nightlife destinations. A reporter asks if it is acting too little, too late. Frank replies it is acting appropriately to a tragic incident and stresses he's seen no uptick in the statistics they use that indicates Olson's death was part of a trend or wave. Another reporter asks if Frank can honestly say the effect of the murder and profile of the city and tourism dollars they depend on can be minimized by his departments comforting statistics. Frank lays things out plainly. A well-to-do white male was murdered and it could be said, with a slant, that New York is a city of roaming predators and mean streets to sell newspapers and advertising minutes. From his standpoint, all crimes, no matter what they are, are all equally unacceptable and the police try every day to do all they can to prevent them from happening again.
Jackie is able to confirm Maya and Brian's alibi as she found the drug dealer in the park and he identified them from pictures she showed him. Danny received the artists sketch of the man Maya described and has gotten it into the hands of every officer on the lower-east-side. Danny gets a call that a bodega owner (David Brown) recognized the sketch. When they speak with the man, he gives them the name Pierre (Gbenga Akinnagbe), a Haitian man who drives a cab 12 hours a day then jogs the neighborhood afterward. He gives them the name of the cab company Pierre works for, Steady Cabs, and says Pierre told him he only gets paid $80 for his full 12-hour shift and tells them that while most of his customers are a pain, Pierre is one of the good ones.
They go to the address given to them by the cab company and Pierre's wife answers the door. When she turns to tell him the police want to speak with him he runs. Danny gives chase inside the apartment and Jackie heads outside as Pierre goes through the apartment window. They finally corner him in a gated parking lot and he maintains he did nothing wrong. As they pull into the precinct parking lot with Pierre, the reporters begin swarming over the car.
In interview, Danny points out that innocent people do not run from the police and notes that he was thrown off the Haitian police force for stealing, something Pierre vehemently denies. He tells them he was trapped in the earthquake for three days and prayed to live. A man told him he was sent by God to dig and dug day and night until he found him and he knew from that point on he must always be a good man. When he saw the others on the force stealing he told on them. They made up the lies to silence him. Danny asks if he saw or heard anything near the restaurant at the time of the shooting. There was a man who walked past him quickly and turned his head away as if he didn't want to be seen. His clothes didn't match. He wore a big hoodie on the top and nice trousers on the bottom and shiny leather shoes, something he found strange.
The press runs with the story of Pierre's arrest. Jackie learned from Pierre's wife that since she lost her job, her husband was more and more desperate for money. Danny feels that Pierre was a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. Jackie thinks everything points to his guilt but Danny insists it doesn't feel right. Erin arrives at their desks asking about the good suspect she's heard they have in custody. Danny informs her it is a matter of opinion, which, at the moment, is split. Erin wants them to go back to Maggie Olson to see if she can identify the suspect, something Danny is reluctant to do since she didn't get a good look at the man at the time of the shooting and Pierre's face has been all over the television. Erin insists that Maggie Olson should have the chance to try and identify the suspect, if she can. Danny reluctantly agrees.
Jamie pays a visit to Dr. Trent to ask a favor. He says he misplaced his notebook from the homeless man's death scene and wants to know if she can log him onto the system from her end so his boss won't know. She does and, instead of researching the homeless man's case, he does a search for Lydia Gonsalves so he can read her death report.
Garrett Moore and Frank Reagan are under fire from the mayor's office about Frank's comments at the press conference. The mayor wants a clarifying statement but Moore maintains every reporter at the conference understood what Frank was saying and there is nothing to clarify. It's made clear the mayor requested the clarification, end of story. Frank replies with a comment that the Commissioner regrets not making it clear that tourists needed to exercise reasonable caution in emerging neighborhoods where the underprivileged are being pushed out. Where a bodega that still accepts food stamps sits next to a restaurant that gets $50 a plate for macaroni and cheese. The mayor's representative gives up but she informs them the mayor will not and leaves. When she's gone, Moore tells Frank he's an idiot and his position won't be compromised by embracing the fact tourism is good for New York City.
Danny and Erin go to Maggie Olson's hotel room and are met at the door by Maggie's sister, Leslie (Tracy Swallows). She introduces them to her husband Mark (Greg Connolly) and Carl Perry (John Patrick Hayden), a friend of the family. When she goes to get Maggie, Danny asks the men if they are from Iowa also. Mark says they are and tells them they haven't had a murder in his town for five years and criticises the city for luring people there with fancy advertising and putting a fancy restaurant in a hell-hole while armed criminals roam the streets. Leslie returns with Maggie and Erin tells her they could use her help if she's up to it. She asks if anything has come back to her about the man she saw running from her husband. When Erin says they'd like to put her in front of a line-up to see if anything jogs her memory, Maggie asks about them having arrested someone. Erin asks if she saw anything about it on the news and Maggie says she hasn't as she can't bear to watch it. Erin turns to give Danny a promising look then asks Maggie if she could handle a line-up. Maggie says she will do anything to put Lance's killer behind bars. At the precinct, five men walk into a line-up and Danny instructs Maggie to look at all the men and tell him if she recognizes any of them. She identifies #5, Pierre, and Danny asks where she recognizes him from. She identifies him as the man she saw running away from Lance. When she leaves, Erin is pleased she was able to identify Pierre, but Danny doesn't feel the same. He thinks they just served him up on a silver platter but Erin is pushing ahead.
At the Reagan family dinner, Nicky mentions reading eye witness testimonies are responsible for a lot of wrongful convictions. Jamie and Henry point out that eye witnesses are the best bet in criminal cases and carry a lot of weight. Danny points out that is fine as long as the witnesses saw what they say they did. He finds it strange that Maggie didn't see a face then, after Pierre's face was plastered all over the television she suddenly remembered it. Danny's kids say they saw Pierre on television and he just looked liked a scary bad guy. He explains that you can't tell if someone is bad just by looking at them. Jamie tells Erin she's in the worst position there but Danny disagrees and says the Haitian guy is the one in the worst position. In the kitchen, Erin hastily does the dishes and puts them away as Danny enters and takes a cup from the cupboard. Frank calls them down for their huffy behavior and asks Danny what makes him think Pierre is innocent. Danny says he doesn't know for a fact Pierre is innocent but he thinks with all the pressure on the case he can use a devil's advocate on the inside as he gave them a good clue that only a good cop would know about. Frank asks if that leads them to another suspect. Danny admits it opens the door to the possibility that maybe it wasn't just another street crime. Erin maintains Pierre has motive and opportunity and Maggie has identified him and she can't understand why Danny wants to complicate things. Frank advises Danny to not let the fact Pierre is an ex-cop with a hard luck story to cloud his judgment and he says he isn't. When Erin tells him he is, Frank interjects that she can't undo what happened with Ian Boyd with the Olson case, or any case. After some thought, she asks if Danny is going to back off Pierre. He assures her if he is the guy he wants him as bad as she does. He also promises she will have solid evidence by the book if Pierre isn't the guy. She quietly tells him she will hold off on the indictment.
Jackie and Danny go back to speak with Maggie Olson to tie up a few loose ends. She asks if it will take long as she needs to meet with people to sign transfer papers to take Lance's body home. Jackie tells her they are looking at the case from every angle before wrapping it up. Danny informs her they've been looking at the shooting as a crime of opportunity but they wanted to at least consider the fact perhaps it wasn't random. He asks if Lance had any enemies and she says he didn't. Jackie tells her they revisited Lance's phone records, especially while he was in New York, but they decided to go back a few months and found a lot of calls to Carl Perry. She explains Carl and Lance did business together. Danny urges her to be honest with them as when they accessed Carl's phone records they found a lot of calls to her home at times when Lance's business records shows he wasn't home and her credit card records show three weekends at a Hotel Mandolin and she wasn't there with her husband and they have the hotel confirming she was actually with Carl. She admits Lance was away so much and Carl thought he was in love with her. The affair was wrong and stupid but she broke it off and swore to herself she'd make it up to Lance. The trip was about that. She thinks it's impossible Carl could have killed her husband but Danny points out jealousy is a strong motive.
At the precinct, Carl sees Maggie arrive and Jackie take her into another room. Danny paces by his desk until Jackie comes back with what she learned from Maggie. She and Carl met at a dinner for one of Lance's bio-fuel investors and there was a spark she just couldn't ignore. At the hotel, she learned Carl was a junkie for champagne and breakfast in bed and bacon, extra-crispy. Danny goes in to speak with Carl hoping they can use something to get at the truth. He thanks Carl for the list of Lance's business associates then asks him about the fact he's a pilot. He asks that, since he does preparation and planning as a pilot, if he would do a dry run if he wanted to kill someone. He gets up to leave but Danny pushes him back into the chair. Danny reveals he knows about the affair and drops that Maggie is saying a lot of things about him including what she told Jackie about their time at the hotel. He also says she talked about the dry run he did. Danny shows him a receipt belonging to Carl from the same restaurant where Lance was killed. Carl explains the dinner as a meeting with Ray Lawrence on a business trip to New York and advises Danny to ask him about it. He did and Ray told him Carl chose the restaurant. Danny also knows that Carl asked a waiter where someone would go if they wanted to smoke, as Lance did. Carl asks what him eating at the same restaurant as Lance and having a smoke there proves. Danny tells him it proves everything Margaret is saying: Carl wanted to be with her and he wanted Lance's money, too. Jackie enters the room and asks how it's going and Danny tells her it is up to Carl. Danny and Jackie talk about Maggie's convincing story and he tells Carl it would be a real shame if Maggie was able to pull it over on him, too. Carl insists they are trying to manipulate him. Danny gets up to leave saying Maggie gets her freedom and Lance's money while Carl gets 25 to life unless he has some info that contradicts her story.
Danny and Jackie go back in to speak with Maggie who wants to get back to the hotel. He tells her to sit down and tells her Carl confessed to shooting Lance. She becomes upset and asks why he would do it. Danny shows her a phone which she identifies as belonging to Carl. He plays a message where she called Carl and told him to fly her sister there and everyone would feel so sorry for her and then they'll be home free. She claims the message isn't what it sounds like. Jackie tells her Carl had an ace in the hole: he kept a few choice messages she had left for him. When Danny tells her he hates it when people do bad things and blame it on his city, she tells him she wants a lawyer.
Frank meets with Garrett at a bar and takes out a paper and begins to read. It is a press release for Garrett's resignation. All it needs is Frank's signature. Frank tells him that, all-in-all, it's much better than the last one and asks Garrett if he has a pen. Garrett takes one out of his pocket and hands it to Frank who draws a big "X" over the paper and slams the pen down then orders a drink on Garrett's bill. Danny goes to visit Erin at her office, not to gloat, but to tell her Nicky was with Linda and the boys and they have a corner table at Chops. He helps her on with her coat and the two leave for dinner.
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Season One, Episode Twenty: All That Glitters
Original Air Date: April 29, 2011
When a tourist to New York City is killed during an apparent robbery outside a trendy lower-east-side restaurant, Danny and Jackie begin an investigation into the extremely high-profile case. The evidence leads them to a Haitian immigrant who, by all means, looks perfect for being the suspect. However, things become more complicated when the immigrant, an ex-policeman himself, gives them evidence that very well could mean the murder was more than a crime of opportunity.
A couple from Iowa, Lance and Margaret "Maggie" Olson (George Merrick & Tara Westwood), are dining at a trendy lower-east-side restaurant and discussing the fun day of sightseeing they had. The waitress, Maya (Elizabeth Fye), comes to the table to close out for the evening. Lance pays the bill and gives her a very generous tip while discussing his business back home. He grows corn that is turned into ethanol. He mentions having his after-dinner cigar and the waitress tells him to not have it in front of the restaurant because the smoke gets in and the customers hate it but to instead go down a little way to the left. He promises Maggie he will be back before she can finish eating.
Erin Reagan arrives late to dinner with her father. She is out of sorts because an old case has come back to haunt her. Ian Boyd was shot dead that day by a convenience store owner he was trying to rob after he shot a young woman in the store who tried to warn the owner that she had seen a gun on Boyd. She feels guilty that because she lost Boyd's last robbery case he was able to be back on the streets to rob and kill again.
Lance is enjoying his cigar and doesn't notice a man wearing a hood walk up a few steps away. The hooded man takes a gun from his pocket while, inside, Maggie is speaking with another diner (Julia Haubner) about the cuisine at the restaurant. Shots ring out as the ladies are talking and Maggie gets up and runs outside. The hooded man runs past her and she sees her husband on the ground and begs for people nearby to call 911.
Danny Reagan and Jackie Curatola arrive to investigate the shooting. Danny gets the details from a uniformed officer. After the shooting, the diners inside the restaurant went back to eating their meals. Lance was shot three times and all of his money and credit cards were taken. He's at St. Benjamin's Hospital in critical condition. The gun hasn't been found and in the canvass, some residents were sleeping and the ones who weren't didn't think it was that big of a deal. Danny orders a second canvass in the event someone didn't answer the door and to widen the search perimeter for the weapon.
At the Reagan house, Frank and his father discuss Erin's bad news. When Henry suggests some coffee Frank tells him if he wasn't awake he would be now as a message came in on his phone about Lance Olson's shooting.
Danny and Jackie go to see Maggie Olson at the hospital. They ask if she saw anything and she tells them about hearing the gunshots and running outside. She blames herself for dragging him to New York as she enjoyed the city so much when visiting with a friend. After a second question of seeing anything from Jackie she mentions seeing the man wearing the hood that could have been blue walk past her as she came out of the restaurant. Danny asks about Lance paying the bill with cash and asks if he usually carried large amounts of money. She admits that her husband likes to pay with cash as he said businesses appreciated it. Jackie asks who might have known he had a lot of cash on him. She says they got into town, stayed at the hotel all night as this was kind of a second honeymoon for them. She mentions the bell man, the cab driver and the waitress at the restaurant.
Jamie Regan and Sgt. Renzulli are at the scene where a 74 year-old homeless man was found dead. Renzulli estimates he's been dead at least a day based upon the condition of the body. Jamie stops Dr. Laura Trent (Jennifer Restivo) to ask about the death. She found insulin on the body which indicated early on complications from diabetes but she found neon-green fluid in the mouth which could have been anti-freeze. Tests at the lab will confirm if it is truly a homicide. When Trent leaves, Renzulli, who has been watching the conversation teases Jamie for hitting on her over a dead body.
Garrett Moore (Gregory Jbara) arrives in Frank's office to point out that tourism is important to New York and is based on a sort of safari model. The tourists want to get close to the lions and tigers but don't want one of them to eat them. Moore insists Frank will have to play to the house on the Olson shooting just enough to show he shares the outrage over the incident. Garret tells him he can stall until Monday without looking like they are stalling. Frank wants a timely, but independent from case progress, press conference. He wants no rush to judgment.
Danny has cleared the cab driver Maggie Olson named as his GPS had him in Yonkers at the time of the shooting. Jackie is looking into the waitress, Maya. She has no record but cannot be found. She will not answer her phone or door. Danny sees her as a possibility as she saw Olson's money and could have called an accomplice. There were four armed robberies in the neighborhood in the past year. Two are unsolved, one suspect is in Rykers and the fourth, Brian Stratton (Marc Bonan) walked because the victim didn't show up. Jackie, who is still looking at Maya's information, sees that Brian Stratton is her emergency contact. She finds that Stratton's number was called from the restaurant phone just before Maya clocked out.
They go to Maya's address and hear loud music coming from the apartment and the door open. They go inside and find her and Stratton apparently on ecstasy and dancing to the music. Jackie gets the call that Lance Olson died and they take the two in on questioning in a murder.
As Erin Reagan leads Maggie Olson from the hospital, the press converges on the two women. Erin pushes them back saying Mrs. Olson has suffered a terrible loss and will have the full resources of the city at her disposal and gives them her word that the person responsible will be brought to justice. Danny and Jackie watch the exchange on television then go in to question Maya and Brian. Danny asks Maya what the plan was. She tells him there was no plan. They just went and scored some E. Brian maintains that all he did was go to pick Maya up from work but Jackie maintains that all the expensive things in their apartment and all they spend on drugs has to come from somewhere. He insists they didn't rob anyone. Danny continues working on Maya and she asks if he'll go easy on the drugs and everything. He tells her he'll see what he can do but she needs to tell him the truth. She tells him that every once in a while they will get a bunch of customer credit card numbers and sell them for extra cash. The guy she works with waits before using them so they won't track back to her. He asks about the shooting and she insists they had nothing to do with it. Brian picked her up from work and they went to East River Park to score some drugs. He asks if she saw anyone outside the restaurant. She says she didn't but admits that a couple of blocks away they saw a black guy tearing down the street in a hoodie that could have been blue and almost ran over him on Brian's Vespa. With Jackie, Brian confirms the story. Danny asks Maya if she can remember the face enough to work with a sketch artist and she tells him waiting tables you get a good memory for faces.
At the press conference, Frank reveals that extra uniformed officers and anti-crime teams have been rotated into popular tourist areas in the lower-east-side and other areas famous for nightlife destinations. A reporter asks if it is acting too little, too late. Frank replies it is acting appropriately to a tragic incident and stresses he's seen no uptick in the statistics they use that indicates Olson's death was part of a trend or wave. Another reporter asks if Frank can honestly say the effect of the murder and profile of the city and tourism dollars they depend on can be minimized by his departments comforting statistics. Frank lays things out plainly. A well-to-do white male was murdered and it could be said, with a slant, that New York is a city of roaming predators and mean streets to sell newspapers and advertising minutes. From his standpoint, all crimes, no matter what they are, are all equally unacceptable and the police try every day to do all they can to prevent them from happening again.
Jackie is able to confirm Maya and Brian's alibi as she found the drug dealer in the park and he identified them from pictures she showed him. Danny received the artists sketch of the man Maya described and has gotten it into the hands of every officer on the lower-east-side. Danny gets a call that a bodega owner (David Brown) recognized the sketch. When they speak with the man, he gives them the name Pierre (Gbenga Akinnagbe), a Haitian man who drives a cab 12 hours a day then jogs the neighborhood afterward. He gives them the name of the cab company Pierre works for, Steady Cabs, and says Pierre told him he only gets paid $80 for his full 12-hour shift and tells them that while most of his customers are a pain, Pierre is one of the good ones.
They go to the address given to them by the cab company and Pierre's wife answers the door. When she turns to tell him the police want to speak with him he runs. Danny gives chase inside the apartment and Jackie heads outside as Pierre goes through the apartment window. They finally corner him in a gated parking lot and he maintains he did nothing wrong. As they pull into the precinct parking lot with Pierre, the reporters begin swarming over the car.
In interview, Danny points out that innocent people do not run from the police and notes that he was thrown off the Haitian police force for stealing, something Pierre vehemently denies. He tells them he was trapped in the earthquake for three days and prayed to live. A man told him he was sent by God to dig and dug day and night until he found him and he knew from that point on he must always be a good man. When he saw the others on the force stealing he told on them. They made up the lies to silence him. Danny asks if he saw or heard anything near the restaurant at the time of the shooting. There was a man who walked past him quickly and turned his head away as if he didn't want to be seen. His clothes didn't match. He wore a big hoodie on the top and nice trousers on the bottom and shiny leather shoes, something he found strange.
The press runs with the story of Pierre's arrest. Jackie learned from Pierre's wife that since she lost her job, her husband was more and more desperate for money. Danny feels that Pierre was a guy in the wrong place at the wrong time. Jackie thinks everything points to his guilt but Danny insists it doesn't feel right. Erin arrives at their desks asking about the good suspect she's heard they have in custody. Danny informs her it is a matter of opinion, which, at the moment, is split. Erin wants them to go back to Maggie Olson to see if she can identify the suspect, something Danny is reluctant to do since she didn't get a good look at the man at the time of the shooting and Pierre's face has been all over the television. Erin insists that Maggie Olson should have the chance to try and identify the suspect, if she can. Danny reluctantly agrees.
Jamie pays a visit to Dr. Trent to ask a favor. He says he misplaced his notebook from the homeless man's death scene and wants to know if she can log him onto the system from her end so his boss won't know. She does and, instead of researching the homeless man's case, he does a search for Lydia Gonsalves so he can read her death report.
Garrett Moore and Frank Reagan are under fire from the mayor's office about Frank's comments at the press conference. The mayor wants a clarifying statement but Moore maintains every reporter at the conference understood what Frank was saying and there is nothing to clarify. It's made clear the mayor requested the clarification, end of story. Frank replies with a comment that the Commissioner regrets not making it clear that tourists needed to exercise reasonable caution in emerging neighborhoods where the underprivileged are being pushed out. Where a bodega that still accepts food stamps sits next to a restaurant that gets $50 a plate for macaroni and cheese. The mayor's representative gives up but she informs them the mayor will not and leaves. When she's gone, Moore tells Frank he's an idiot and his position won't be compromised by embracing the fact tourism is good for New York City.
Danny and Erin go to Maggie Olson's hotel room and are met at the door by Maggie's sister, Leslie (Tracy Swallows). She introduces them to her husband Mark (Greg Connolly) and Carl Perry (John Patrick Hayden), a friend of the family. When she goes to get Maggie, Danny asks the men if they are from Iowa also. Mark says they are and tells them they haven't had a murder in his town for five years and criticises the city for luring people there with fancy advertising and putting a fancy restaurant in a hell-hole while armed criminals roam the streets. Leslie returns with Maggie and Erin tells her they could use her help if she's up to it. She asks if anything has come back to her about the man she saw running from her husband. When Erin says they'd like to put her in front of a line-up to see if anything jogs her memory, Maggie asks about them having arrested someone. Erin asks if she saw anything about it on the news and Maggie says she hasn't as she can't bear to watch it. Erin turns to give Danny a promising look then asks Maggie if she could handle a line-up. Maggie says she will do anything to put Lance's killer behind bars. At the precinct, five men walk into a line-up and Danny instructs Maggie to look at all the men and tell him if she recognizes any of them. She identifies #5, Pierre, and Danny asks where she recognizes him from. She identifies him as the man she saw running away from Lance. When she leaves, Erin is pleased she was able to identify Pierre, but Danny doesn't feel the same. He thinks they just served him up on a silver platter but Erin is pushing ahead.
At the Reagan family dinner, Nicky mentions reading eye witness testimonies are responsible for a lot of wrongful convictions. Jamie and Henry point out that eye witnesses are the best bet in criminal cases and carry a lot of weight. Danny points out that is fine as long as the witnesses saw what they say they did. He finds it strange that Maggie didn't see a face then, after Pierre's face was plastered all over the television she suddenly remembered it. Danny's kids say they saw Pierre on television and he just looked liked a scary bad guy. He explains that you can't tell if someone is bad just by looking at them. Jamie tells Erin she's in the worst position there but Danny disagrees and says the Haitian guy is the one in the worst position. In the kitchen, Erin hastily does the dishes and puts them away as Danny enters and takes a cup from the cupboard. Frank calls them down for their huffy behavior and asks Danny what makes him think Pierre is innocent. Danny says he doesn't know for a fact Pierre is innocent but he thinks with all the pressure on the case he can use a devil's advocate on the inside as he gave them a good clue that only a good cop would know about. Frank asks if that leads them to another suspect. Danny admits it opens the door to the possibility that maybe it wasn't just another street crime. Erin maintains Pierre has motive and opportunity and Maggie has identified him and she can't understand why Danny wants to complicate things. Frank advises Danny to not let the fact Pierre is an ex-cop with a hard luck story to cloud his judgment and he says he isn't. When Erin tells him he is, Frank interjects that she can't undo what happened with Ian Boyd with the Olson case, or any case. After some thought, she asks if Danny is going to back off Pierre. He assures her if he is the guy he wants him as bad as she does. He also promises she will have solid evidence by the book if Pierre isn't the guy. She quietly tells him she will hold off on the indictment.
Jackie and Danny go back to speak with Maggie Olson to tie up a few loose ends. She asks if it will take long as she needs to meet with people to sign transfer papers to take Lance's body home. Jackie tells her they are looking at the case from every angle before wrapping it up. Danny informs her they've been looking at the shooting as a crime of opportunity but they wanted to at least consider the fact perhaps it wasn't random. He asks if Lance had any enemies and she says he didn't. Jackie tells her they revisited Lance's phone records, especially while he was in New York, but they decided to go back a few months and found a lot of calls to Carl Perry. She explains Carl and Lance did business together. Danny urges her to be honest with them as when they accessed Carl's phone records they found a lot of calls to her home at times when Lance's business records shows he wasn't home and her credit card records show three weekends at a Hotel Mandolin and she wasn't there with her husband and they have the hotel confirming she was actually with Carl. She admits Lance was away so much and Carl thought he was in love with her. The affair was wrong and stupid but she broke it off and swore to herself she'd make it up to Lance. The trip was about that. She thinks it's impossible Carl could have killed her husband but Danny points out jealousy is a strong motive.
At the precinct, Carl sees Maggie arrive and Jackie take her into another room. Danny paces by his desk until Jackie comes back with what she learned from Maggie. She and Carl met at a dinner for one of Lance's bio-fuel investors and there was a spark she just couldn't ignore. At the hotel, she learned Carl was a junkie for champagne and breakfast in bed and bacon, extra-crispy. Danny goes in to speak with Carl hoping they can use something to get at the truth. He thanks Carl for the list of Lance's business associates then asks him about the fact he's a pilot. He asks that, since he does preparation and planning as a pilot, if he would do a dry run if he wanted to kill someone. He gets up to leave but Danny pushes him back into the chair. Danny reveals he knows about the affair and drops that Maggie is saying a lot of things about him including what she told Jackie about their time at the hotel. He also says she talked about the dry run he did. Danny shows him a receipt belonging to Carl from the same restaurant where Lance was killed. Carl explains the dinner as a meeting with Ray Lawrence on a business trip to New York and advises Danny to ask him about it. He did and Ray told him Carl chose the restaurant. Danny also knows that Carl asked a waiter where someone would go if they wanted to smoke, as Lance did. Carl asks what him eating at the same restaurant as Lance and having a smoke there proves. Danny tells him it proves everything Margaret is saying: Carl wanted to be with her and he wanted Lance's money, too. Jackie enters the room and asks how it's going and Danny tells her it is up to Carl. Danny and Jackie talk about Maggie's convincing story and he tells Carl it would be a real shame if Maggie was able to pull it over on him, too. Carl insists they are trying to manipulate him. Danny gets up to leave saying Maggie gets her freedom and Lance's money while Carl gets 25 to life unless he has some info that contradicts her story.
Danny and Jackie go back in to speak with Maggie who wants to get back to the hotel. He tells her to sit down and tells her Carl confessed to shooting Lance. She becomes upset and asks why he would do it. Danny shows her a phone which she identifies as belonging to Carl. He plays a message where she called Carl and told him to fly her sister there and everyone would feel so sorry for her and then they'll be home free. She claims the message isn't what it sounds like. Jackie tells her Carl had an ace in the hole: he kept a few choice messages she had left for him. When Danny tells her he hates it when people do bad things and blame it on his city, she tells him she wants a lawyer.
Frank meets with Garrett at a bar and takes out a paper and begins to read. It is a press release for Garrett's resignation. All it needs is Frank's signature. Frank tells him that, all-in-all, it's much better than the last one and asks Garrett if he has a pen. Garrett takes one out of his pocket and hands it to Frank who draws a big "X" over the paper and slams the pen down then orders a drink on Garrett's bill. Danny goes to visit Erin at her office, not to gloat, but to tell her Nicky was with Linda and the boys and they have a corner table at Chops. He helps her on with her coat and the two leave for dinner.
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Friday, April 29, 2011
US Television: Vampire Diaries, Episode 2.20 "The Last Day"
Vampire Diaries
Season Two, Episode 2.20, The Last Day
Original Air Date: April 28, 2011
After receiving a phone call from his mother begging him to return, Tyler Lockwood comes home to Mystic Falls unaware of everything that has happened. Elijah reveals his plan to save Elena's life but Damon takes matters into his own hands as he doesn't think the plan will work. Stefan takes Elena on a romantic day out as it could very well be the last day of Elena's life. Damon tries to fix a mistake but pays a dear price for it. Klaus obtains his vampire, his werewolf and the doppleganger for his ritual.
Elijah, Stefan and Elena discuss the events that will be unfolding that night. Elijah confirms to Stefan the Sun & Moon Curse is fake but that Klaus has a very real curse placed upon him and what will happen if he succeeds in breaking that curse. Damon enters the conversation wanting to kill Klaus that day with Bonnie but Elena points out that is not an option as if Bonnie used that much power it would kill her. Elijah explains the ritual Klaus will be performing that night. A witch will channel the power of the full moon to release the spell that is contained within the moonstone. Klaus will then sacrifice both a werewolf and a vampire then, in the final part of the ritual, he will drink the blood of the doppleganger to the point of death. Elijah removes an aged bottle from a box and explains it is an elixir he acquired some 500 years ago for Katherine. It possesses mystical properties of resuscitation. In theory, Elena will drink the elixir and she will die but will then come back to life. Damon isn't pleased with this plan and feels it will not work. He asks about the Gilbert ring and Elijah explains it only works on humans. Since dopplegangers are a supernatural occurrence the odds is the ring will not work.
At the Lockwood house, Carol Lockwood is walking up the stairs as she is talking on the phone to leave a message for Tyler. She tells him she doesn't know where he is but she needs him as she has had an accident and is in the hospital. As she begs him to come home she reaches the top of the stairs where Maddox is standing. She hangs up and asks him why she said that and he tells her "because you had a terrible fall" and uses his powers to push her over the balcony of the stairs to the floor.
Stefan and Damon talk about the attitude Damon is exhibiting. Damon questions Stefan for believing Elijah but Stefan asks what he should do as Elena has made her decision and he's putting his faith in her. Inside, Elijah asks Elena why she is willing to do everything and she tells him it is because she's the key to breaking the curse. Klaus is there because of her and if she doesn't stop it he will hurt people. He warns her there is a possibility the elixir will not work and she understands that. They hear a commotion in the hall and find that Alaric has entered the house and Jenna is holding a crossbow on him demanding he leave. Everyone converges in the hall and Alaric tells them Klaus let him go. After proving it really is him, Alaric delivers a message from Klaus: the sacrifice happens that night.
Carol Lockwood awakens in the hospital to find Tyler standing by the window. He kisses her forehead and she is happy to see her son again. At the Grill, Caroline surprises Matt by sneaking up on him while he's turned to clear a table. The two make plans to spend his lunch break together. Caroline has errands to run and tells him she'll return. When she leaves, he goes to a table where Sheriff Forbes is sitting and tells her he can't do this anymore. He feels either is Caroline is putting on the best show of her life or she's still the same girl he always knew and loved. Liz assures him she isn't the same and tries to convince him the vampires are monsters and points out again that they even killed his sister and asks what other proof he needs. He turns the question back on her and asks why she hasn't done anything before now. She tells him she needs more information and, despite what she knows, she still looks at Caroline and sees her daughter. When he says Damon is the problem she tells Matt that she shouldn't have involved him and thanks him for his help but she will take things from there then leaves.
At the Salvatore house, Alaric tells everyone he remembers nothing. He blacked out and woke up three days later and Katherine was there. Stefan tells him she's under compulsion and that Damon got some vervain to her but she can't leave until Klaus allows her to. Elena asks where Damon is and Jenna tells her she saw him go upstairs. Elena leaves the group to go see Damon as Alaric asks what else he did while under Klaus' control. Upstairs, Elena finds Damon standing in front of the window in his bedroom. She wants him to understand why she is doing what she's doing. She assures him she will be fine as she will drink the elixir and Bonnie will kill Klaus and everything will be over. He is still unsure as to whether the plan will work or not. He isn't willing to take the risk that she may or may not come back to life after Klaus kills her. She takes his hand in hers and says she is. He softly tells her he can't lose her and she tells him he won't. When she turns to leave, he moves in front of her telling her there is another way. He bites his wrist and force feeds her some of his vampire blood. Stefan rushes into the room and throws Damon away from Elena asking his brother what he did. Damon replies he saved her life since she's so bent on dying he will know that she will come back this way. Stefan points out as a vampire and asks how Damon, of all people, could have taken the choice away from Elena. Stefan attacks his brother in anger and Damon comes back on him saying he should admit that he (Stefan) wishes he had the courage to do exactly what he just did himself. The two continue fighting until Damon raises a broken piece of wood which goes into Stefan's stomach. Elena orders Damon from the room and when Alaric and Jenna arrive, she tells them to get Damon out of the room. Damon leaves on his own accord as Alaric tells Jenna to go to the basement and get some blood bags for Stefan. Elena removes the stake and Stefan falls into her lap in agony apologizing to her.
Downstairs, Elijah puts away the elixir telling Damon they won't be needing it anymore as feeding Elena vampire blood rendered it useless. He tells Damon to tell Elena he will be back before nightfall and they will proceed as planned. As Elijah is leaving, Damon tells him they both know the elixir wouldn't have worked. Elijah steps back to Damon saying he talks a good game but doesn't actually know anything. Elena will never forgive him and never for a vampire is a very long time.
Upstairs, Stefan drinks from the blood bags Jenna has brought and his strength slowly returns. Alaric and Jenna go downstairs and he tells her that he knows everything is a lot to take. He tried to protect her but should have known she could handle it. She tells him she is glad he's alright and kisses him. Elena asks Stefan how Damon could do this to her. He says they've never talked about what all this means and she tells him it doesn't matter but he disagrees. He asks her to go somewhere with him. She reluctantly agrees only when he promises it isn't far and just for the day.
Jules meets Tyler in the hall outside his mother's room and takes him from the hospital saying they have to get out of there and lock themselves up before night. As they are leaving, they run into Caroline who is there to see about Carol Lockwood. Jules gives them a minute to talk. When he tells her he and Jules need to get on the road she comments he's leaving again. He left for a reason but she says the explanation must have gotten lost in the mail along with his goodbye. He turns to leave and when she goes after him is overtaken by something that forces her to her knees. Tyler turns to look at her and he, too, is overtaken. Maddox steps from behind a car and Greta comes up behind Caroline and injects her with vervain. Once both Caroline and Tyler are incapacitated, the two witches take them away.
A worried Matt calls Caroline saying they need to talk as it is important. As he is hanging up, he sees Damon enter the Grill. Damon goes to the bar and orders a drink. Alaric sits down next to him and Damon admits he screwed up. Klaus steps up next to the two men. He warns Damon not to do anything he would regret regarding his doppleganger. Damon asks if he could talk Klaus into a postponement of just one month by any chance. Klaus laughs the thought away and tells him he has his vampire, his werewolf. The ritual will happen that night as he has everything he needs. If Damon wants to live to see tomorrow, he will not screw it up. When Klaus leaves and Damon sits down Alaric asks "you're gonna screw it up, aren't you?". Damon asks his friend if he thought that taking the werewolf out of the equation Elena would get over the fact he tried to turn her. Alaric doesn't think it will matter as Damon will be dead. Damon points out that without the werewolf the ritual cannot proceed so he will have at least bought Elena another month and Alaric reminds him he'll still be dead. Damon asks him if he will help him or what. After a second, Alaric asks Damon what he wants him to do.
Stefan and Elena are walking through the woods and he won't tell her where they are going. He wants to talk about everything. As she tells him she doesn't know how she is feeling a majestic waterfall comes into view. As she is gazing upon it, Stefan says he thinks she does know how she feels and it is OK for her to tell him. She maintains she can't talk about it. He's fine with that as that day is about her and they've got a long way to the top of the mountain. She asks if he can do one of his super-power vampire jumpy things and he replies that since it's her last day as a human, why cheat now and holds out his hand to her. She takes his hand and the two begin their climb.
At Alaric's apartment, Katherine is going through the refrigerator for something to eat but finds the blood bags empty. She hears a noise and it is Alaric opening the door. He invites Damon into his apartment, something that doesn't make Katherine happy. Damon tells her he gave her the vervain now he's there to collect. He tells Alaric he can leave as only one of them needs the blame for this and that he should go back to the house to prevent Elena from handing herself over. Damon asks Katherine where Klaus is keeping his werewolf as a dead werewolf means no ritual. She warns him against interfering and he counters that she should like his plan as it will buy another month of her pathetic life. She informs him she isn't the vampire Klaus is planning to sacrifice as he as Caroline and Tyler and she is in the clear. Damon drops the news on her that Elena has vampire blood in her system and if she comes back as a vampire, Katherine will have to compete with her for Stefan's love forever. Katherine tells him Klaus has Caroline and Tyler in the tomb.
In the tomb, Caroline awakens to find Tyler already awake. Tyler asks if she's alright and she thinks she is and tries to free herself but cannot. He already tried to do the same. She tells him the witches vervained her and when he asks who they are, she says she thinks they are with Klaus. He asks who that is and she realizes that he knows nothing of what is happening and what is going to happen and tells him he never should have come back.
As they walk, Elena tells Stefan Bonnie will have to make her a daylight ring. She asks what the best part about being a vampire is and he tells her the feeling she can do anything, be anyone. Beautiful things are more beautiful, everything is heightened and you can live and love more intensely and powerfully. She asks the worst and he tells her she knows that. She comments aside from the blood. He stops and tells her anger becomes rage, when you're sad you are in despair, grief and loss can cripple you. He explains that is why so many of them turn their emotions off because it can become too overwhelming. He tells her for a while for him the good wasn't worth the bad. She asks how long it was before he learned to handle both and he tells her he is still trying every day. He asks what else she'd like to know but she wants to keep walking as they're just halfway to the top.
Klaus returns to Alaric's apartment as Katherine is pouring herself a cup of coffee. He knows something is wrong and asks what she's been doing. She simply tells him making coffee. He grabs her by the throat and compels her to tell him. Again, she tells him making coffee. He releases her and tells her to give him her bracelet. When she does, he orders her to stand by the window in the sunlight. She says she'll burn but he replies she doesn't have a choice. She does as he orders and, sure enough, she begins to burn. He calmly drinks coffee as he watches her burning and listens to her screaming. After a few seconds, he tells her that's enough and she moves out of the sunlight and he guessed he was wrong. He proceeds to tell her he needs her to do something for him.
Damon walks through the woods near the tomb and is met by Maddox who asks which one Damon is trying to save: the blond or the wolf and asks if he really thought Klaus would leave them unprotected. Damon attacks him and takes him to the ground but Maddox is able to use his powers to throw Damon off. Maddox gets to his feet and starts to kill Damon when a shot rings out from behind them. Damon looks up to see Matt standing behind Maddox holding a rifle as the witch falls to his knees. Damon breaks Maddox's neck and looks to Matt. He asks what he's doing there and Matt wants to know where Caroline is. When Damon doesn't give him an answer, Matt raises the rifle to him and asks again where she is. Damon raises his hands saying he's there to rescue Caroline then moves in fast to disarm Matt and knock him out with the butt of the rifle. As she's removing the bullets from the gun, he tells Matt he's lucky he's screwed up already one that day or he'd be dead. He drops the gun on Matt's body and picks up the bullets to see they are wooden tipped.
Caroline has explained to Tyler that the Sun & Moon Curse is fake but Klaus still needs to do the sacrifice. He asks if she thinks Klaus will kill them and she replies that she thinks so. He tells her Jules has been helping him come to terms with what he is while he's been gone and how to deal with it but that none of it matters anymore. She asks why he didn't say 'goodbye'. He asks if she wants to talk about it now and she says if they're going to die she might as well know the truth and asks why he left her. He tells her he knew she hated him and thought she deserved better than having someone like him in her life. She explains she was hurt because he turned his back on her when she needed him but she could never hate him. They hear the door to the tomb open and Damon walks in. He tells her Matt is outside with a rifle loaded with wooden bullets and she has explaining to do. Tyler asks if Matt knows and she truly believes he doesn't. Damon shushes her and releases her from the chains holding her. They start to leave but she will not go without Tyler. Damon asks Tyler how fast he can get away from there as it's getting dark soon. Tyler tells him if he can get to the Lockwood cellar and he can lock himself up. Caroline assures Damon she'll help. Damon bends next to Tyler and tells him "don't make me regret this" then frees him from his chains.
Stefan and Elena finally make it to the top of the mountain and look out upon the breathtaking view. Seeing she is still saddened, he tells her she can say it; the thing she's been wanting to say but was afraid of how it would make him feel. She doesn't want to say anything but he tells her it might make her feel better. He says he knows this isn't the first time she thought about drinking vampire blood to survive and admits even he's thought about it a hundred times. She asks if he thought about it before everything with Klaus. He admits he did and that if it were his choice, he'd want to be with her forever. She asks why he never brought it up to which he replies if he knew it were an option she would bring it up. It would be selfish for him to ask. She comments it didn't stop Damon. Stefan agrees he shouldn't have done that but he did so because he loves her. She feels since he did that to her, he doesn't really know what love is. She goes on to say she doesn't know if she does. She knows she loves Stefan but her future and their lives together were supposed to be things she dealt with as they came along. Tearfully, she tells him she doesn't want to be a vampire, she never did.
As Damon, Caroline and Tyler leave the tomb, Matt is awakening beneath the full moon. Caroline runs to him and helps him to his feet as Tyler falls to his knees and looks to the sky. He tells them it is starting. Damon orders Caroline to grab 'boy wonder' so they can go.
When Stefan and Elena return to the Salvatore house, Klaus is there to meet them. He asks Elena if she is ready to go. she starts to step from behind Stefan but he stops her. Klaus warns him against interfering saying there's no reason for him to die too. Elena tells Stefan it is fine. She will go and no one needs to get hurt. She kisses him, tells him she loves him. He returns the sentiment and they kiss once more. She asks him to close his eyes. When he does, she moves away from him to Klaus. When he opens his eyes, they are gone.
Stefan goes inside and finds Alaric. Stefan asks where Damon is. In the woods, Damon tells Tyler he better not wolf out on them when Stefan calls. He asks Damon what he is doing and he replies 'saving the day' and to tell Elena to stay put. Stefan tells him she's already gone as Klaus came and took her. Damon tells him he'll take care of it and the two hang up. Tyler collapses in pain as his transformation starts. He tells them he doesn't know if he can hold it off and warns them to leave. Caroline tells him everything will be ok but he yells at her to go. He lunges up from the ground and attacks Damon. The two struggle but Damon is able to throw Tyler off. Damon tells Caroline he's fine and orders her and Matt to get to the Lockwood cellar since if it held Tyler in it will keep him out. He gives Matt the wooden bullets telling him if it doesn't, use them as they will buy them a couple seconds. They run toward the cellar as Tyler continues his transformation and Damon flees the woods.
Klaus returns to Alaric's apartment asking where Maddox is as he should be back by now. Katherine doesn't know. He starts watching footage on his computer as she asks where Elena is. He tells her she is with Greta and that it's almost time. The door to the apartment blows open and Damon enters. He tells Klaus he must postpone the ritual because he rescued his vampire and werewolf and killed his witch. He tells Klaus he can kill him for it, he doesn't care, but it was all him. Klaus asks Katherine to give he and Damon a moment. When she's gone he tells Damon he's heard of him, the crazy impulsive vampire in love with his brother's girl. He knew one of the brothers would try to stop him but it was a guess on who. He shows Damon the footage he's been watching and explains he has a backup plan. Jules is now the werewolf he will be using for his ritual and that he has a backup vampire covered too.
Caroline and Matt make it into the Lockwood cellar and she locks them in as they hear growling. Matt raises the gun as they see Tyler come into view. Caroline talks to him to try and calm him but he lungs at the gate.
Katherine gives Damon, who is out cold on the floor, some blood that is left in one of the bags and he awakens. She tells him Klaus is gone to do the ritual. She apologizes saying she had to do it as Klaus would have known she was on vervain if she didn't. He asks what and she tells him she was forced to call her to lure her out as he needed another vampire. Damon asks who she called but she is reluctant to answer.
Elena and Greta are walking through the woods and Elena asks where they are going. She asks Greta if she's Luka's sister, that she heard about her and Luka and Jonas were looking for her. She tells Elena she wasn't lost. When Elena stumbles and says she cannot see anything Greta lights fires around them to illuminate the path. In front of them, Elena sees the body of a woman on the forest floor: Jenna. She doesn't feel a pulse and asks Greta why Klaus killed her as she did everything he asked. Jenna sits up with a start and Greta explains Jenna isn't dead, she's in transition.
At Alaric's apartment Damon struggles to his feet saying Klaus should have used him. Katherine says he couldn't and tells Damon Klaus said Damon was as good as dead. Damon asks what that means and Katherine pushes the sleeve of his shirt up and asks what a bubbling patch of skin on his arm is. Damon looks to her and tells her it is a werewolf bite.
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Season Two, Episode 2.20, The Last Day
Original Air Date: April 28, 2011
After receiving a phone call from his mother begging him to return, Tyler Lockwood comes home to Mystic Falls unaware of everything that has happened. Elijah reveals his plan to save Elena's life but Damon takes matters into his own hands as he doesn't think the plan will work. Stefan takes Elena on a romantic day out as it could very well be the last day of Elena's life. Damon tries to fix a mistake but pays a dear price for it. Klaus obtains his vampire, his werewolf and the doppleganger for his ritual.
Elijah, Stefan and Elena discuss the events that will be unfolding that night. Elijah confirms to Stefan the Sun & Moon Curse is fake but that Klaus has a very real curse placed upon him and what will happen if he succeeds in breaking that curse. Damon enters the conversation wanting to kill Klaus that day with Bonnie but Elena points out that is not an option as if Bonnie used that much power it would kill her. Elijah explains the ritual Klaus will be performing that night. A witch will channel the power of the full moon to release the spell that is contained within the moonstone. Klaus will then sacrifice both a werewolf and a vampire then, in the final part of the ritual, he will drink the blood of the doppleganger to the point of death. Elijah removes an aged bottle from a box and explains it is an elixir he acquired some 500 years ago for Katherine. It possesses mystical properties of resuscitation. In theory, Elena will drink the elixir and she will die but will then come back to life. Damon isn't pleased with this plan and feels it will not work. He asks about the Gilbert ring and Elijah explains it only works on humans. Since dopplegangers are a supernatural occurrence the odds is the ring will not work.
At the Lockwood house, Carol Lockwood is walking up the stairs as she is talking on the phone to leave a message for Tyler. She tells him she doesn't know where he is but she needs him as she has had an accident and is in the hospital. As she begs him to come home she reaches the top of the stairs where Maddox is standing. She hangs up and asks him why she said that and he tells her "because you had a terrible fall" and uses his powers to push her over the balcony of the stairs to the floor.
Stefan and Damon talk about the attitude Damon is exhibiting. Damon questions Stefan for believing Elijah but Stefan asks what he should do as Elena has made her decision and he's putting his faith in her. Inside, Elijah asks Elena why she is willing to do everything and she tells him it is because she's the key to breaking the curse. Klaus is there because of her and if she doesn't stop it he will hurt people. He warns her there is a possibility the elixir will not work and she understands that. They hear a commotion in the hall and find that Alaric has entered the house and Jenna is holding a crossbow on him demanding he leave. Everyone converges in the hall and Alaric tells them Klaus let him go. After proving it really is him, Alaric delivers a message from Klaus: the sacrifice happens that night.
Carol Lockwood awakens in the hospital to find Tyler standing by the window. He kisses her forehead and she is happy to see her son again. At the Grill, Caroline surprises Matt by sneaking up on him while he's turned to clear a table. The two make plans to spend his lunch break together. Caroline has errands to run and tells him she'll return. When she leaves, he goes to a table where Sheriff Forbes is sitting and tells her he can't do this anymore. He feels either is Caroline is putting on the best show of her life or she's still the same girl he always knew and loved. Liz assures him she isn't the same and tries to convince him the vampires are monsters and points out again that they even killed his sister and asks what other proof he needs. He turns the question back on her and asks why she hasn't done anything before now. She tells him she needs more information and, despite what she knows, she still looks at Caroline and sees her daughter. When he says Damon is the problem she tells Matt that she shouldn't have involved him and thanks him for his help but she will take things from there then leaves.
At the Salvatore house, Alaric tells everyone he remembers nothing. He blacked out and woke up three days later and Katherine was there. Stefan tells him she's under compulsion and that Damon got some vervain to her but she can't leave until Klaus allows her to. Elena asks where Damon is and Jenna tells her she saw him go upstairs. Elena leaves the group to go see Damon as Alaric asks what else he did while under Klaus' control. Upstairs, Elena finds Damon standing in front of the window in his bedroom. She wants him to understand why she is doing what she's doing. She assures him she will be fine as she will drink the elixir and Bonnie will kill Klaus and everything will be over. He is still unsure as to whether the plan will work or not. He isn't willing to take the risk that she may or may not come back to life after Klaus kills her. She takes his hand in hers and says she is. He softly tells her he can't lose her and she tells him he won't. When she turns to leave, he moves in front of her telling her there is another way. He bites his wrist and force feeds her some of his vampire blood. Stefan rushes into the room and throws Damon away from Elena asking his brother what he did. Damon replies he saved her life since she's so bent on dying he will know that she will come back this way. Stefan points out as a vampire and asks how Damon, of all people, could have taken the choice away from Elena. Stefan attacks his brother in anger and Damon comes back on him saying he should admit that he (Stefan) wishes he had the courage to do exactly what he just did himself. The two continue fighting until Damon raises a broken piece of wood which goes into Stefan's stomach. Elena orders Damon from the room and when Alaric and Jenna arrive, she tells them to get Damon out of the room. Damon leaves on his own accord as Alaric tells Jenna to go to the basement and get some blood bags for Stefan. Elena removes the stake and Stefan falls into her lap in agony apologizing to her.
Downstairs, Elijah puts away the elixir telling Damon they won't be needing it anymore as feeding Elena vampire blood rendered it useless. He tells Damon to tell Elena he will be back before nightfall and they will proceed as planned. As Elijah is leaving, Damon tells him they both know the elixir wouldn't have worked. Elijah steps back to Damon saying he talks a good game but doesn't actually know anything. Elena will never forgive him and never for a vampire is a very long time.
Upstairs, Stefan drinks from the blood bags Jenna has brought and his strength slowly returns. Alaric and Jenna go downstairs and he tells her that he knows everything is a lot to take. He tried to protect her but should have known she could handle it. She tells him she is glad he's alright and kisses him. Elena asks Stefan how Damon could do this to her. He says they've never talked about what all this means and she tells him it doesn't matter but he disagrees. He asks her to go somewhere with him. She reluctantly agrees only when he promises it isn't far and just for the day.
Jules meets Tyler in the hall outside his mother's room and takes him from the hospital saying they have to get out of there and lock themselves up before night. As they are leaving, they run into Caroline who is there to see about Carol Lockwood. Jules gives them a minute to talk. When he tells her he and Jules need to get on the road she comments he's leaving again. He left for a reason but she says the explanation must have gotten lost in the mail along with his goodbye. He turns to leave and when she goes after him is overtaken by something that forces her to her knees. Tyler turns to look at her and he, too, is overtaken. Maddox steps from behind a car and Greta comes up behind Caroline and injects her with vervain. Once both Caroline and Tyler are incapacitated, the two witches take them away.
A worried Matt calls Caroline saying they need to talk as it is important. As he is hanging up, he sees Damon enter the Grill. Damon goes to the bar and orders a drink. Alaric sits down next to him and Damon admits he screwed up. Klaus steps up next to the two men. He warns Damon not to do anything he would regret regarding his doppleganger. Damon asks if he could talk Klaus into a postponement of just one month by any chance. Klaus laughs the thought away and tells him he has his vampire, his werewolf. The ritual will happen that night as he has everything he needs. If Damon wants to live to see tomorrow, he will not screw it up. When Klaus leaves and Damon sits down Alaric asks "you're gonna screw it up, aren't you?". Damon asks his friend if he thought that taking the werewolf out of the equation Elena would get over the fact he tried to turn her. Alaric doesn't think it will matter as Damon will be dead. Damon points out that without the werewolf the ritual cannot proceed so he will have at least bought Elena another month and Alaric reminds him he'll still be dead. Damon asks him if he will help him or what. After a second, Alaric asks Damon what he wants him to do.
Stefan and Elena are walking through the woods and he won't tell her where they are going. He wants to talk about everything. As she tells him she doesn't know how she is feeling a majestic waterfall comes into view. As she is gazing upon it, Stefan says he thinks she does know how she feels and it is OK for her to tell him. She maintains she can't talk about it. He's fine with that as that day is about her and they've got a long way to the top of the mountain. She asks if he can do one of his super-power vampire jumpy things and he replies that since it's her last day as a human, why cheat now and holds out his hand to her. She takes his hand and the two begin their climb.
At Alaric's apartment, Katherine is going through the refrigerator for something to eat but finds the blood bags empty. She hears a noise and it is Alaric opening the door. He invites Damon into his apartment, something that doesn't make Katherine happy. Damon tells her he gave her the vervain now he's there to collect. He tells Alaric he can leave as only one of them needs the blame for this and that he should go back to the house to prevent Elena from handing herself over. Damon asks Katherine where Klaus is keeping his werewolf as a dead werewolf means no ritual. She warns him against interfering and he counters that she should like his plan as it will buy another month of her pathetic life. She informs him she isn't the vampire Klaus is planning to sacrifice as he as Caroline and Tyler and she is in the clear. Damon drops the news on her that Elena has vampire blood in her system and if she comes back as a vampire, Katherine will have to compete with her for Stefan's love forever. Katherine tells him Klaus has Caroline and Tyler in the tomb.
In the tomb, Caroline awakens to find Tyler already awake. Tyler asks if she's alright and she thinks she is and tries to free herself but cannot. He already tried to do the same. She tells him the witches vervained her and when he asks who they are, she says she thinks they are with Klaus. He asks who that is and she realizes that he knows nothing of what is happening and what is going to happen and tells him he never should have come back.
As they walk, Elena tells Stefan Bonnie will have to make her a daylight ring. She asks what the best part about being a vampire is and he tells her the feeling she can do anything, be anyone. Beautiful things are more beautiful, everything is heightened and you can live and love more intensely and powerfully. She asks the worst and he tells her she knows that. She comments aside from the blood. He stops and tells her anger becomes rage, when you're sad you are in despair, grief and loss can cripple you. He explains that is why so many of them turn their emotions off because it can become too overwhelming. He tells her for a while for him the good wasn't worth the bad. She asks how long it was before he learned to handle both and he tells her he is still trying every day. He asks what else she'd like to know but she wants to keep walking as they're just halfway to the top.
Klaus returns to Alaric's apartment as Katherine is pouring herself a cup of coffee. He knows something is wrong and asks what she's been doing. She simply tells him making coffee. He grabs her by the throat and compels her to tell him. Again, she tells him making coffee. He releases her and tells her to give him her bracelet. When she does, he orders her to stand by the window in the sunlight. She says she'll burn but he replies she doesn't have a choice. She does as he orders and, sure enough, she begins to burn. He calmly drinks coffee as he watches her burning and listens to her screaming. After a few seconds, he tells her that's enough and she moves out of the sunlight and he guessed he was wrong. He proceeds to tell her he needs her to do something for him.
Damon walks through the woods near the tomb and is met by Maddox who asks which one Damon is trying to save: the blond or the wolf and asks if he really thought Klaus would leave them unprotected. Damon attacks him and takes him to the ground but Maddox is able to use his powers to throw Damon off. Maddox gets to his feet and starts to kill Damon when a shot rings out from behind them. Damon looks up to see Matt standing behind Maddox holding a rifle as the witch falls to his knees. Damon breaks Maddox's neck and looks to Matt. He asks what he's doing there and Matt wants to know where Caroline is. When Damon doesn't give him an answer, Matt raises the rifle to him and asks again where she is. Damon raises his hands saying he's there to rescue Caroline then moves in fast to disarm Matt and knock him out with the butt of the rifle. As she's removing the bullets from the gun, he tells Matt he's lucky he's screwed up already one that day or he'd be dead. He drops the gun on Matt's body and picks up the bullets to see they are wooden tipped.
Caroline has explained to Tyler that the Sun & Moon Curse is fake but Klaus still needs to do the sacrifice. He asks if she thinks Klaus will kill them and she replies that she thinks so. He tells her Jules has been helping him come to terms with what he is while he's been gone and how to deal with it but that none of it matters anymore. She asks why he didn't say 'goodbye'. He asks if she wants to talk about it now and she says if they're going to die she might as well know the truth and asks why he left her. He tells her he knew she hated him and thought she deserved better than having someone like him in her life. She explains she was hurt because he turned his back on her when she needed him but she could never hate him. They hear the door to the tomb open and Damon walks in. He tells her Matt is outside with a rifle loaded with wooden bullets and she has explaining to do. Tyler asks if Matt knows and she truly believes he doesn't. Damon shushes her and releases her from the chains holding her. They start to leave but she will not go without Tyler. Damon asks Tyler how fast he can get away from there as it's getting dark soon. Tyler tells him if he can get to the Lockwood cellar and he can lock himself up. Caroline assures Damon she'll help. Damon bends next to Tyler and tells him "don't make me regret this" then frees him from his chains.
Stefan and Elena finally make it to the top of the mountain and look out upon the breathtaking view. Seeing she is still saddened, he tells her she can say it; the thing she's been wanting to say but was afraid of how it would make him feel. She doesn't want to say anything but he tells her it might make her feel better. He says he knows this isn't the first time she thought about drinking vampire blood to survive and admits even he's thought about it a hundred times. She asks if he thought about it before everything with Klaus. He admits he did and that if it were his choice, he'd want to be with her forever. She asks why he never brought it up to which he replies if he knew it were an option she would bring it up. It would be selfish for him to ask. She comments it didn't stop Damon. Stefan agrees he shouldn't have done that but he did so because he loves her. She feels since he did that to her, he doesn't really know what love is. She goes on to say she doesn't know if she does. She knows she loves Stefan but her future and their lives together were supposed to be things she dealt with as they came along. Tearfully, she tells him she doesn't want to be a vampire, she never did.
As Damon, Caroline and Tyler leave the tomb, Matt is awakening beneath the full moon. Caroline runs to him and helps him to his feet as Tyler falls to his knees and looks to the sky. He tells them it is starting. Damon orders Caroline to grab 'boy wonder' so they can go.
When Stefan and Elena return to the Salvatore house, Klaus is there to meet them. He asks Elena if she is ready to go. she starts to step from behind Stefan but he stops her. Klaus warns him against interfering saying there's no reason for him to die too. Elena tells Stefan it is fine. She will go and no one needs to get hurt. She kisses him, tells him she loves him. He returns the sentiment and they kiss once more. She asks him to close his eyes. When he does, she moves away from him to Klaus. When he opens his eyes, they are gone.
Stefan goes inside and finds Alaric. Stefan asks where Damon is. In the woods, Damon tells Tyler he better not wolf out on them when Stefan calls. He asks Damon what he is doing and he replies 'saving the day' and to tell Elena to stay put. Stefan tells him she's already gone as Klaus came and took her. Damon tells him he'll take care of it and the two hang up. Tyler collapses in pain as his transformation starts. He tells them he doesn't know if he can hold it off and warns them to leave. Caroline tells him everything will be ok but he yells at her to go. He lunges up from the ground and attacks Damon. The two struggle but Damon is able to throw Tyler off. Damon tells Caroline he's fine and orders her and Matt to get to the Lockwood cellar since if it held Tyler in it will keep him out. He gives Matt the wooden bullets telling him if it doesn't, use them as they will buy them a couple seconds. They run toward the cellar as Tyler continues his transformation and Damon flees the woods.
Klaus returns to Alaric's apartment asking where Maddox is as he should be back by now. Katherine doesn't know. He starts watching footage on his computer as she asks where Elena is. He tells her she is with Greta and that it's almost time. The door to the apartment blows open and Damon enters. He tells Klaus he must postpone the ritual because he rescued his vampire and werewolf and killed his witch. He tells Klaus he can kill him for it, he doesn't care, but it was all him. Klaus asks Katherine to give he and Damon a moment. When she's gone he tells Damon he's heard of him, the crazy impulsive vampire in love with his brother's girl. He knew one of the brothers would try to stop him but it was a guess on who. He shows Damon the footage he's been watching and explains he has a backup plan. Jules is now the werewolf he will be using for his ritual and that he has a backup vampire covered too.
Caroline and Matt make it into the Lockwood cellar and she locks them in as they hear growling. Matt raises the gun as they see Tyler come into view. Caroline talks to him to try and calm him but he lungs at the gate.
Katherine gives Damon, who is out cold on the floor, some blood that is left in one of the bags and he awakens. She tells him Klaus is gone to do the ritual. She apologizes saying she had to do it as Klaus would have known she was on vervain if she didn't. He asks what and she tells him she was forced to call her to lure her out as he needed another vampire. Damon asks who she called but she is reluctant to answer.
Elena and Greta are walking through the woods and Elena asks where they are going. She asks Greta if she's Luka's sister, that she heard about her and Luka and Jonas were looking for her. She tells Elena she wasn't lost. When Elena stumbles and says she cannot see anything Greta lights fires around them to illuminate the path. In front of them, Elena sees the body of a woman on the forest floor: Jenna. She doesn't feel a pulse and asks Greta why Klaus killed her as she did everything he asked. Jenna sits up with a start and Greta explains Jenna isn't dead, she's in transition.
At Alaric's apartment Damon struggles to his feet saying Klaus should have used him. Katherine says he couldn't and tells Damon Klaus said Damon was as good as dead. Damon asks what that means and Katherine pushes the sleeve of his shirt up and asks what a bubbling patch of skin on his arm is. Damon looks to her and tells her it is a werewolf bite.
For more information:
Official Site: http://www.cwtv.com/shows/the-vampire-diaries
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405406/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/The_Vampire_Diaries
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Music: Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams
I've loved Stevie Nicks for more than thirty years. Whether it was her music with Fleetwood Mac or her solo career, of her songs I find to be utter brilliance there are too many to name. I own every single album and know every song by heart. So, when word of a new Stevie Nicks record came down the path, it was excellent and exciting news.
For In Your Dreams, the legendary Stevie Nicks teams up with another music legend, Dave Stewart. Dave Stewart, formerly half of the massively successful band, Eurythmics, is also an accomplished, and extremely talented, producer and songwriter. Also making guest appearances with Stevie are Fleetwood Mac band mates Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham. Not only does Buckingham lend his guitar work to Soldier's Angel, he lends his vocal talents as well.
I cannot shower enough praise on Dave Stewart for what he has done with In Your Dreams as a producer. Being a long-time fan of Stevie's, I've gone through the good times and bad times with her. I've heard her voice at its best and its worst. For a long time, I was certain its best had slowly faded never to return. I couldn't have been farther from the mark. In Dave Stewart's capable hands, Stevie's vocals are spot on, clear and she's singing like she hasn't in years. I loved her Trouble in Shangri-La era vocals but I must say she's sounding even better now. Yes, there is a bit of nasally sound to her voice at times and, yes, the softness her voice had in her younger years is gone. Her voice has matured and Dave was able to capture everything about Stevie's vocal talents that makes her so remarkable.
But, alas, I cannot go on about the production value and vocals forever. I'm afraid, for me, that is where the praise stops.
Apart from recognizing the excellent vocal and production work, I have next to nothing good to say about In Your Dreams. I've listened to the album at least a dozen times now and each time I keep asking myself "what is there to really love here?".
There are 13 songs on the album and not a single one of them has that special something that I've come to rely on Stevie Nicks music to have. Songs like Rhiannon, Blue Denim, Sara, Gypsy, Edge of Seventeen, Stand Back, I Can't Wait and Planets of the Universe all have something about them that grab you from the first second you hear them and refuse to let go. They're unforgettable. Sadly, that isn't the case with the music on In Your Dreams. Nothing here is truly unforgettable. If anything, it's the exact opposite. I find myself wanting to forget this album ever existed.
Wild Sargasso Sea promises a lot but fails miserably to deliver. Oh, it wants to give you something big but it can't quite make it there despite how hard it tries. New Orleans rambles incoherently and almost feels like Stevie is trying too hard to squeeze everything she could think of about the great city of New Orleans into one set of lyrics. Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream) is basically a very old Stevie Nicks song (Lady From the Mountain) with a handful of new Twilight-inspired lyrics thrown in for good measure. I'll never forgive Stevie for ruining Lady From the Mountain for me in such a horrible way. The last minute or so of Annabel Lee could have been trimmed from the song and it would have made the track perfect. As for You May Be the One: You may have lyrics, but you may not have good lyrics. You may be a lackluster song, but you may not be as lackluster as Wide Sargasso Sea. Soldier's Angel = Desert Angel, Part II. Enough said. Much like Wide Sargasso Sea, Italian Summer struggles to build up to anything then, finally, the last note...amazing. I never would have believed Stevie could hold a note that long, strong and clear anymore. Thank you, Stevie, for that pleasant surprise. Cheaper Than Free, a duet with Dave Stewart, is a song I can see becoming popular on the wedding circuit as the syrupy, and sometimes awkward (what's better than high fashion!?) lyrics are perfect for it. For What It's Worth is Stevie Nicks Goes Country. I've always liked hearing Stevie harmonize with herself and she does that beautifully in this song. However, the lyrics and country styling come right in and rip that beauty away for me. I, personally, found Secret Love to be the strongest track on the album. However, even it has problems. I like the production value for the song but the "ooh-eee" really needs to go. Thirty-five years was more than enough time for Stevie to find another word that rhymed with "me" seeing as how every lyric on In Your Dreams must rhyme.
All in all, I found the lyrics sub-par for what I have come to expect from Stevie Nicks. In some places, I found them laughable and in others, I cringed. Missing were the profound, and sometimes pleasantly confusing, lyrics and phrases that made Stevie Nicks lyrics almost works of art. Most of the lyrics on this album seemed to be little more than the tortured poetry a sixth grade girl might scribble in her notebook out of boredom in history class. The country flavor wasn't to my taste at all and the vampire theme? No. Just, no. In Your Dreams is a jumbled mess of this and that and honestly feel a few of the songs could have been left on the studio floor as they brought nothing to the mix or did anything to solidify this album.
There is little doubt in my mind that In Your Dreams will be a great success for Stevie Nicks and I truly hope it is. I want it to be a success and I want her to have something good in her musical legacy after the disaster that was Fleetwood Mac's last release, Say You Will.
In my opinion, In Your Dreams could have been Stevie's finest solo project. It truly could have been the Stevie Nicks album of my dreams. Instead, it is painfully underwhelming and an extraordinary disappointment. Nothing on In Your Dreams really grabbed me. Nothing made me really love it. I never woke up with any of the songs running through my head. I never found myself humming any of the songs throughout the day. Nothing stood out as pure brilliance. For me, it is like those dreams I have that, when I wake up, I'm sure I dreamed but I can't quite remember anything because nothing remarkable happened. This is a record I won't remember in two weeks, maybe less. When I want to hear Stevie, I'll pull out Bella Donna, Rock a Little or even Enchanted for a massive dose of Stevie goodness as this album will end up going on the shelf to be forgotten. After ten years of no new material from Stevie Nicks, I wanted desperately to love In Your Dreams as much as I do all of Stevie's other work. Unfortunately, my dreams were shattered.
Stevie Nicks, In Your Dreams
01. Secret Love
02. For What It's Worth
03. In Your Dreams
04. Wide Sargasso Sea
05. New Orleans
06. Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)
08. Soldier's Angel
09. Everybody Loves You
10. Ghosts Are Gone
11. You May Be the One
12. Italian Summer
13. Cheaper Than Free
Release Dates:
United States & Canada: 3rd May, 2011
Australia: 6th May, 2001
Europe: 6th May, 2011
United Kingdom: 27th June, 2011
For more information:
Stevie Nicks Official Site: http://rockalittle.com/
Dave Stewart Official Site: http://davestewart.com/
Rolling Stone.com Article with Album Stream: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/in-your-dreams-20110427
amazon.com: In Your Dreams
For In Your Dreams, the legendary Stevie Nicks teams up with another music legend, Dave Stewart. Dave Stewart, formerly half of the massively successful band, Eurythmics, is also an accomplished, and extremely talented, producer and songwriter. Also making guest appearances with Stevie are Fleetwood Mac band mates Mick Fleetwood and Lindsey Buckingham. Not only does Buckingham lend his guitar work to Soldier's Angel, he lends his vocal talents as well.
I cannot shower enough praise on Dave Stewart for what he has done with In Your Dreams as a producer. Being a long-time fan of Stevie's, I've gone through the good times and bad times with her. I've heard her voice at its best and its worst. For a long time, I was certain its best had slowly faded never to return. I couldn't have been farther from the mark. In Dave Stewart's capable hands, Stevie's vocals are spot on, clear and she's singing like she hasn't in years. I loved her Trouble in Shangri-La era vocals but I must say she's sounding even better now. Yes, there is a bit of nasally sound to her voice at times and, yes, the softness her voice had in her younger years is gone. Her voice has matured and Dave was able to capture everything about Stevie's vocal talents that makes her so remarkable.
But, alas, I cannot go on about the production value and vocals forever. I'm afraid, for me, that is where the praise stops.
Apart from recognizing the excellent vocal and production work, I have next to nothing good to say about In Your Dreams. I've listened to the album at least a dozen times now and each time I keep asking myself "what is there to really love here?".
There are 13 songs on the album and not a single one of them has that special something that I've come to rely on Stevie Nicks music to have. Songs like Rhiannon, Blue Denim, Sara, Gypsy, Edge of Seventeen, Stand Back, I Can't Wait and Planets of the Universe all have something about them that grab you from the first second you hear them and refuse to let go. They're unforgettable. Sadly, that isn't the case with the music on In Your Dreams. Nothing here is truly unforgettable. If anything, it's the exact opposite. I find myself wanting to forget this album ever existed.
Wild Sargasso Sea promises a lot but fails miserably to deliver. Oh, it wants to give you something big but it can't quite make it there despite how hard it tries. New Orleans rambles incoherently and almost feels like Stevie is trying too hard to squeeze everything she could think of about the great city of New Orleans into one set of lyrics. Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream) is basically a very old Stevie Nicks song (Lady From the Mountain) with a handful of new Twilight-inspired lyrics thrown in for good measure. I'll never forgive Stevie for ruining Lady From the Mountain for me in such a horrible way. The last minute or so of Annabel Lee could have been trimmed from the song and it would have made the track perfect. As for You May Be the One: You may have lyrics, but you may not have good lyrics. You may be a lackluster song, but you may not be as lackluster as Wide Sargasso Sea. Soldier's Angel = Desert Angel, Part II. Enough said. Much like Wide Sargasso Sea, Italian Summer struggles to build up to anything then, finally, the last note...amazing. I never would have believed Stevie could hold a note that long, strong and clear anymore. Thank you, Stevie, for that pleasant surprise. Cheaper Than Free, a duet with Dave Stewart, is a song I can see becoming popular on the wedding circuit as the syrupy, and sometimes awkward (what's better than high fashion!?) lyrics are perfect for it. For What It's Worth is Stevie Nicks Goes Country. I've always liked hearing Stevie harmonize with herself and she does that beautifully in this song. However, the lyrics and country styling come right in and rip that beauty away for me. I, personally, found Secret Love to be the strongest track on the album. However, even it has problems. I like the production value for the song but the "ooh-eee" really needs to go. Thirty-five years was more than enough time for Stevie to find another word that rhymed with "me" seeing as how every lyric on In Your Dreams must rhyme.
All in all, I found the lyrics sub-par for what I have come to expect from Stevie Nicks. In some places, I found them laughable and in others, I cringed. Missing were the profound, and sometimes pleasantly confusing, lyrics and phrases that made Stevie Nicks lyrics almost works of art. Most of the lyrics on this album seemed to be little more than the tortured poetry a sixth grade girl might scribble in her notebook out of boredom in history class. The country flavor wasn't to my taste at all and the vampire theme? No. Just, no. In Your Dreams is a jumbled mess of this and that and honestly feel a few of the songs could have been left on the studio floor as they brought nothing to the mix or did anything to solidify this album.
There is little doubt in my mind that In Your Dreams will be a great success for Stevie Nicks and I truly hope it is. I want it to be a success and I want her to have something good in her musical legacy after the disaster that was Fleetwood Mac's last release, Say You Will.
In my opinion, In Your Dreams could have been Stevie's finest solo project. It truly could have been the Stevie Nicks album of my dreams. Instead, it is painfully underwhelming and an extraordinary disappointment. Nothing on In Your Dreams really grabbed me. Nothing made me really love it. I never woke up with any of the songs running through my head. I never found myself humming any of the songs throughout the day. Nothing stood out as pure brilliance. For me, it is like those dreams I have that, when I wake up, I'm sure I dreamed but I can't quite remember anything because nothing remarkable happened. This is a record I won't remember in two weeks, maybe less. When I want to hear Stevie, I'll pull out Bella Donna, Rock a Little or even Enchanted for a massive dose of Stevie goodness as this album will end up going on the shelf to be forgotten. After ten years of no new material from Stevie Nicks, I wanted desperately to love In Your Dreams as much as I do all of Stevie's other work. Unfortunately, my dreams were shattered.
Stevie Nicks, In Your Dreams
01. Secret Love
02. For What It's Worth
03. In Your Dreams
04. Wide Sargasso Sea
05. New Orleans
06. Moonlight (A Vampire's Dream)
08. Soldier's Angel
09. Everybody Loves You
10. Ghosts Are Gone
11. You May Be the One
12. Italian Summer
13. Cheaper Than Free
Release Dates:
United States & Canada: 3rd May, 2011
Australia: 6th May, 2001
Europe: 6th May, 2011
United Kingdom: 27th June, 2011
For more information:
Stevie Nicks Official Site: http://rockalittle.com/
Dave Stewart Official Site: http://davestewart.com/
Rolling Stone.com Article with Album Stream: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/in-your-dreams-20110427
amazon.com: In Your Dreams
UK Television: CBBC's Young Dracula Series 3 Officially Announced
Back in March, word came that the CBBC had given the green light for a third season of the popular series Young Dracula.
Now, it's official.
On 21st April, 2001, the BBC Press Office issued a press release detailing future children's television programming. Included in the release is a bit more information about the third series of Young Dracula.
From the release:
With filming scheduled to begin in May 2011 it shouldn't be too much longer before we see Young Dracula back on our screens!
You can read the entire text of the press release here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/04_april/21/cbbc.shtml
For more information on Young Dracula:
Young Dracula Official CBBC Web Site: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mhcn
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0876219/
TVRage: http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-10807
Now, it's official.
On 21st April, 2001, the BBC Press Office issued a press release detailing future children's television programming. Included in the release is a bit more information about the third series of Young Dracula.
From the release:
The diverse range of commissions, The 4 O'Clock Club, Young Dracula, Sadie J and Tracy Beaker Returns feature a tantalising mix of vampires, feisty teens, squabbling siblings and care home antics.
By popular demand Young Dracula is swooping back to CBBC. We pick up the story four years on and Vlad and the Count have fled from Stokely. Pursued by slayers and radical vampires alike, The Count and Vlad keep a low profile and "hide in plain sight" by buying a school. The Count is determined that Vlad fulfils his destiny to lead the vampire race, but this is threatened by The Count's own tendency to create mayhem and disaster on a daily basis and by the re-emergence of the anarchic Ingrid, who brings a trail of destruction in her wake.
An irreverent, gothic comedy, Young Dracula shines a mischievous light on family relationships and what it is to be a teenager trying to make his way in the world. The third 13x30 minute series will be filmed around Liverpool and promises some exciting new characters as well as the return of familiar favourites. The series is produced by Lis Steele and executive produced by Josephine Ward.
With filming scheduled to begin in May 2011 it shouldn't be too much longer before we see Young Dracula back on our screens!
You can read the entire text of the press release here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/pressreleases/stories/2011/04_april/21/cbbc.shtml
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US Television: Breakout Kings, Episode 1.8, "Steaks"
Breakout Kings
Season One, Episode Eight, Steaks
Original Air Date: April 24, 2011
The team is called in when two men escape prison in the coffin of a large inmate they killed. As they have taken a guard hostage, they must be found before they can do anything to him. When they find the guard dead and learn that the escapees have an agenda, the team must work fast. Ray gives the cons an incentive: whoever does the best work on the case can claim a free steak dinner being offered by a new restaurant.
At Cayuga Correction Facility in Auburn, New York it is breakfast time. The prisoners are shuffling through the line to get their scrambled eggs and one of the inmate serving the eggs, Carl McCann (Matthew John Armstrong), removes a bag of white powder from his shirt sleeve and pours in on a portion of the eggs and covers it with a spoon of more egg. When a heavyset inmate (Michel C. Foucault) arrives in front of him he gives him a single spoonful of egg. The inmate tells McCann to keep them coming and McCann gives him another large spoonful. The heavyset man sits down with his breakfast and begins to eat as McCann watches on from the food line. He soon begins feeling the effects of the powder. He grabs his chest then his head falls back in death. The prison doctor calls the time of death as 10:17 and tells an inmate orderly in the infirmary, Oliver Day (Jonathan Keltz) to call Potter's Field to tell them they need special accommodation for a large corpse. A white truck carrying the large pine box and four inmates to assist with burial enters Potter's Field followed by a car. Back at the prison, the doctor is examining the knee of another prisoner. He asks his nurse to get the man a cold compress but she cannot open the door to get it. At Potter's Field, the men get out of the truck to begin the burial while the guard watching them, Officer Dirk Ferris (Jesse Bond) taunts them the entire time. When the nurse cannot open a door she calls the doctor over for assistance. The doctor struggles with the door and once he finally manages to get it open, the body of the heavyset prisoner falls out onto him. At Potter's Field, when the box hits the ground, the lid bursts off and McCann and Oliver Day jump out of the box. They overtake Ferris and take his rifle. They take the keys to the car and put Ferris in it then drive out of the cemetery.
At the office in Brooklyn, New York, Julianne gives the team the folder of information on McCann and Day. Ray tells them after the escape, the prison took another look at the dead inmate and found he had been given a poison found in household cleaner. McCann was in for felony robbery. He would pose as a traveling salesman and gain entry into homes then rob the residents at gunpoint. Day was a relative lightweight. He stole a car on an alleged dare. The elderly man he yanked out of the car had a heart attack and died. He was in prison for 25 years on a felony murder charge. Julie gives them the family details of both escapees. McCann grew up in Tallahassee and was orphaned at 13 when his parents died in a car accident. He went into foster care and has no family left. Oliver Day's parents retired to Scottsdale, Arizona and Marshalls in the Arizona field office are paying them a visit to see if they know anything. He has a sister, Janice, who works at a design firm in New York. Charlie tells Ray and Shea to go speak with the sister then looks to Shea and asks if he's boring him. Shea is looking over a flier for a new restaurant and comments that there is a coupon for a free steak dinner attached to the flier, something that interests the cons. Shea says he will fight for it. Charlie takes the flier telling him he'll get nothing and like it. He tells the team about Dirk Ferris being held hostage by McCann and Day and there isn't any time to waste. Ray asks Charlie if he's ever read Zig Ziglar, motivation is like bathing, you gotta do it every day. Charlie hands Ray the flier and Ray tells the cons whichever one of them does the best on the caper gets the steak dinner instantly motivating every one of them to dive into the case.
Ray and Shea go into Manhattan, New York to speak with Day's sister, Janice. Ray introduces them and she tells them to make an appointment. He asks her if she's aware her brother broke out of prison and she tells him she is and tells them they can set up a time with her assistant, Jeffery and she might be free early next week. Ray asks what her problem is and she proceeds to tell him that she spoke to the prosecutors about her brother stealing a car at 18 didn't warrant 25 years and no one listened to her. She told the warden Oliver was having a hard time in prison and he didn't do anything about it. She has no love for anyone in law enforcement, including "you two idiots". She again tells them to make an appointment or she will call security and picks up her phone. Ray grabs the receiver and puts it down telling her he will cuff her for obstructing justice and march her out in front of all her colleagues. He tells her about the guard Oliver and McCann took hostage and she must work through her hurt feelings to help them. She doesn't know where Oliver is as he hasn't contacted her and tells them she hopes they never catch him. Shea asks about the hard time Oliver was having in prison. She tells him Oliver told her bigger prisoners were taking his stuff. Shea asks if this was the personal area of the body no one wants anyone messing around with. He mentions seeing Day's intake photo and how he looked at 18. He tells her he's seen what happens in prison and it isn't cool but if he does something to the guard before they can find him he'll have an even tougher time when he does go back in because the guards will know he messed with one of their own. She insists Oliver would never hurt another person, despite what has been done to him. Ray asks her if Oliver ever told her he was sexually assaulted. She could see the shame in his eyes and he wasn't the same person anymore.
A guard brings McCann's possessions to the office for the team to look through. Lloyd takes the boxes but Erica grabs one from him. Lloyd tells her when they need someone to run really, really fast he will defer to her. When they need someone to discern psychological traits through personal possessions, he's got it. She tells him these things are hard to come by and she likes hers rare. Charlie hangs up the phone and tells them Ray said Day was being assaulted in prison. He asks the guard if he was aware of that. The guard says Day came in young and tender and he didn't like his odds but what could they do about it. Lloyd theorizes that Day is probably suffering from some sort of complex post traumatic stress disorder so he's a wild card. Charlie asks the guard if McCann had a rep as a predator or a punk. The guard doesn't know as he was only in the prison for eight months and kept to himself. They weren't cell mates and were only on the same pier for McCann's first two months then McCann was transferred to a different cell block and would have had zero chance of crossing paths with one another. Julie receives an ATM hit on Dirk Ferris' bank card. It was used five minutes ago at a convenience store in Binghamton. Charlie orders her to have the store pull the security video and notify the local police department and have Ray and Shea meet them there. As he and Erica are leaving, the guard asks Charlie to bring Dirk home as he's a friend of his.
McCann returns to where he and Oliver are hiding out with the guard to find Oliver standing over the man holding the rifle and blood splattered on his shirt. He shot the guard and told McCann the man deserved it. McCann, angry, tells Oliver he won't let him blow things for them. He was only able to get $80 out of Ferris' account and the security guard around the corner gave him a strange look. They need to be smart unless they want to go back to prison. When he tries to grab Oliver's face in his hands, Oliver recoils then allows McCann to touch him. He says he doesn't want to go back. McCann tells Oliver he owes him because he had the plan for getting them out and there's $100,000 out there waiting for them and he'll never get it without him. Flying under the radar and not getting caught is something he brings to the table. He'll get the stash like he promised but Oliver needs to get it together. They leave the guards body behind.
The team arrives at the scene and Charlie notes that either they find McCann and Day or they will find more bodies. Ray adds the information that a security guard from across the street thought he heard a shot. He walked over, saw the preachers car pull up and then leave. He has nothing further. Erica notes they tortured Ferris as there are three shell casings when one would have done the job. Shea cites two sets of footprints that McCann and Day are still together which Lloyd sees as some kind of relationship. He theorizes it is probably something imbalanced such as McCann being the 'daddy' and Day following his orders. He feels Day is the one who killed the guard because he's capable of anything after what he went through in prison. Erica questions why Day is still running with McCann if he is the one abusing him. Lloyd explains that victims of abuse sometimes become dependent upon their captors and are reduced to an infantile state. Ray suggests that they thought they could help each other escape and orders them to stop with the theories and find the escapees. On Ferris' wrist Charlie finds a "D" burned into the skin; a "D" for "Day". Ray asks why he would leave his initial and Shea explains that is how you mark your "property" in prison; a tattoo or a brand.
In their hotel room, McCann gives Day pointers on how to be successful selling door to door while he's putting on his suit. First, you have to look good to make a good impression. Day wants to know why they can't just rob a liquor store. McCann tells him home invasion is a one-stop-shop. They can food, money and a car and clothes. Plus, Day can get on a computer so he can track down the Terry Miller they are looking for. The second thing he must know is he must be confident in his product. They are selling vacuums. When Day says no one wants to buy it McCann insists all they need is for someone to open the door. He asks Oliver what he's going to do with his half of the money. Oliver tells him he's going to Alaska and get a fishing boat. McCann tells him when he was a kid he played baseball on a traveling team. He has a postcard from Tallahassee that he carries with him as a reminder. His dad used to take him to tournaments. The first thing he's going to do is catch a ball game in Florida. Oliver asks about the third thing he must know as a salesman. McCann picks up the rifle, cocks it and tells him this is the third thing.
At the office, Lloyd, Shea and Julie are continuing to go through McCann's belongings. Julie found one odd thing. A novel titled "Columbus" by Derrick Haas. Both men checked the book out of the prison library multiple times. Lloyd takes the book and looks through it and finds that they were using it as a code. There are dots under certain letters. Charlie asks how long it will take to crack the code and Lloyd says it will depend upon how sophisticated the code is. Julie tells them the preachers car was found behind a hotel in Poughkeepsie, New York. Since Ray and Erica are close by he wants them to respond and he and Shea will meet them there. Lloyd is to remain behind and crack the code.
In Poughkeepsie, they find the preachers car still there as Day and McCann left on foot. Ray and Erica look through the trash and find the tie and a cologne insert from a magazine leading them to believe the men wanted to look presentable for someone. Ray remembers what McCann was in for and looks through the notebook of one of the responding police officers. He finds the information that the maids closet was broken into and a vacuum was stolen and asks the policeman where the closest subdivision is.
McCann rings the doorbell of a house and goes into his sales pitch when the resident answers. The man isn't interested by he continues the pitch anyway. The man insists he isn't interested by McCann continues. Finally, the man opens the door to tell McCann to leave and, when he does, McCann kicks the door in and Day comes in from around the corner with the rifle.
At the office, Lloyd is working hard on the code. He has the chalkboard covered with letters with dogs under them and photocopies of pages from the book taped to one side of the board. Cracking the code is harder than he anticipated as he feels either McCann or Day is really intelligent. Julie supplies it was Day as he was in all AP classes with a 4.2 GPA and an academic scholarship to half a dozen colleges. She continues of how sad it is to see photos of both men after a few years in prison. Lloyd tells her that is because prison is awful which is why he wants the steak dinner. It's why even though Ray and Charlie crap all over him, working on the team isn't that bad of a situation for him because every time he tastes real coffee, smells perfume or looks out the window and sees the water it is like a little tiny taste of freedom. She comments she should deprive herself of things sometimes so she will appreciate them more as an experiment. Lloyd remarks that he has 25 years. It isn't an experiment, it's his life. She apologizes telling him she forgets sometimes where he goes when he isn't there.
The team combs the subdivision but turn up empty handed. Finally, Erica joins Shea and Charlie to tell them a woman across the street said a man came to her house wearing a suit and holding a vacuum. She pretended to not be home and the man went up the cul-de-sac. Using process of elimination, they find the house where McCann and Day struck. Charlie knocks then notices shoe prints on the front door. He draws his gun and kicks in the door and goes inside. He sees the vacuum McCann was carrying and can hear a radio. He goes upstairs into the kitchen and finds the man who lived there has been killed.
Julie puts an alarm out on the man's car as the team goes over the house. Shea finds a case near the old man's bed. Inside, there were places for two handguns and six clips. When Charlie and Ray both give him a strange look, he puts the case down and opens his jacket to show them he didn't take the guns or clips. Erica adds that McCann and Day didn't find any substantial money but that one of them did to a computer search but cleared the history. Charlie has her call Julie to call in Electronic Surveillance to ping the computer remotely and clone everything inside it. Charlie finds a photo of the old man who lived in the house and comments he served in the Marines in Okinawa, something that further motivates him to catch McCann and Day.
McCann is driving the old man's car and is annoyed that it is almost out of gas. Day simply suggests they fill the car up but McCann notes the idea is to keep moving and especially not to beat old men to death because they talk back. Day, who is in the back seat, traces over an "S" that is burned into his arm. McCann pulls the car over and proceeds to chastise Day about his behavior. He refuses to let Day's mess spill over onto him as he has plans. He doesn't want to go back to where he has to walk around with his fists clenched and sleep with one eye open but he can't get anywhere without the money so Day better get it together and deliver what he promised. McCann starts the car moving again but within seconds it runs out of gas completely. Their only option is to walk to the next town about a mile away.
Lloyd is painfully close to cracking the code and mumbles to himself while Julianne is having her own problems with someone she's talking to on the phone. He finally cracks the code and screams "GOAL!". When she comments that's for a touchdown he screams "TOUCHDOWN!" and announces he cracked the code. He shows it to her and starts to explain but she wants him to cut to the chase and explain it in laymens terms. First, he congratulates her on her assertiveness and then tells her Day and McCann are making a reference to a house. He doesn't know which house but he will find out now that he's cracked the code. A hit comes in on the old man's car and calls Charlie with the location.
The team head to the small town of Webster Grove, New York and Charlie splits the team up ordering everyone to take a store and ask for information. Charlie goes into a drug store and identifies himself to the pharmacist who is oddly uncomfortable but denies seeing the men and tells Charlie he walked to work that day when Charlie suggests he check to see if his car is still parked outside. He tells Charlie they are closing and asks him to exit the store the way he came in. Charlie looks around and then glances into the security mirror and sees the men crouching in an aisle. Charlie tells the pharmacist he will leave him his number so he can call if he sees anything and writes the words "Stay Calm" on a notepad. Charlie pretends to leave the store, making sure to silence the bell over the door when he opens it and steps outside. When Ray leaves a business next door, Charlie nods toward the pharmacy. Ray motions Shea and Erica over telling them to cover the back. Shea asks with what but Erica immediately volunteers. Ray hands her the keys. When Charlie comes back in, the bell sounds leading McCann and Day to think he left. They order the pharmacist to open the register. Charlie slowly moves in on the men as they hurry the pharmacist to empty the register for them and Erica moves the car into place at the back of the store. As Charlie up an aisle, he passes a motion-sensing Christmas decoration which starts to play a song. McCann and Day start shooting. Charlie returns fire and Ray moves in to return fire as well. During the shootout, Charlie's heart starts to give him problems. He calls out "my heart" and falls to the floor. Ray can see Charlie struggling in the security mirror and calls to him. Day gets a shot off that hits Charlie in the leg. Ray stands to fire upon the men and Charlie struggles to his feet as Day and McCann run out the back of the store taking the pharmacist as a hostage. Erica has the door blocked but McCann orders her to move the car or he will kill the hostage. She has no choice but to comply. They leave the store and McCann orders Day into the car with the pharmacist then turns to Erica ordering her to remove the keys from her vehicle and throw them to him. He picks them up and gets into the car with Day as Ray moves through the back of the pharmacy with Charlie close behind him. McCann speeds away as Ray and Charlie come out of the store and Erica tells them they took the keys.
Lloyd continues working on the code and knows the men are after the money as it is in the code but he still doesn't know where the house is. Julie tells him the Marshall's 'geek squad' found a search on the old man's computer for a Terry Miller. She does her own search and finds there are 4,500 Terry Miller's in the United States.
At the scene, Charlie describes the pharmacists car to the police. When the officer leaves, Ray tells Charlie to relax, something which Charlie thinks he cannot do. He tells Ray the bullet just grazed him and his heart episodes are rare and he should mind his business. Ray comes back that they were in a fire fight and his partner was useless; it is his business. Charlie shushes him so no one can overhear and tells him to do his job or find himself another one. Ray hands Charlie a cane and tells him the EMT said to use the cane and go home but he assumes Charlie will follow only half that advice. The police officer returns to tell them the pharmacist and his car were found dumped behind a big box store. The pharmacist was tied up but he's fine. Ray knows they've switched cars but Charlie points out it will take hours to figure out which car out of all those in the parking lot could have been taken. Julie calls Ray to tell him about the Terry Miller search and that she found a recent home sale to a Terry Paul Miller fifteen miles from where they are now. Miller did time for drug possession. She tells them Lloyd cracked the code and has found constant reference to a house and Miller's house could be the house they are speaking of. McCann and Day drive up in front of a house and McCann asks Day if he's ready. Day smiles and says "yeah".
Charlie, Ray, Shea and Erica arrive at Terry Miller's house and can hear a big dog inside barking. Charlie knocks on the door and the dog continues to bark, something that unnerves Ray as "big ones bite". Charlie knocks again identifying them as U.S. Marshall's. Miller asks what they want and Charlie tells him to open the door and Ray adds to put the dog away. Miller asks what they want and Ray suggests his stalling could mean he's looking for a weapon. They hear the sound of a door closing and Charlie turns to Shea and Erica telling them someone split out the back. They split up and head to the back of the house while Ray kicks in the front door and he and Charlie go inside, guns drawn. They find Terry Miller standing in the living room with his hand in a jar. Charlie orders him to remove his hand but he doesn't. Again, he orders him to remove his hand, the dog barking all the while. Charlie again orders Miller to remove his hand from the jar. Outside, Erica is chasing the man who left Miller's house. Shea comes over the top and jumps down onto the man, taking him to the sidewalk. Ray tells Miller if he doesn't release whatever weapon he has in the jar he will shoot the dog on a count of three. He starts to count and reaches two when his phone rings. He answers it and Julie tells him she made a mistake. She gave them the wrong Terry Miller. The dog lays down and she tells them Lloyd finished the code and the house stands for Kellen Stackhouse (Andrew Jackson), Day's former prison in cellmate. Stackhouse had a rep as a sexual predator. The Terry Miller they want was Stackhouse's prison pen pal, who he is now engaged to. The two live 20 miles south of where they are now. She apologizes and Ray hangs up. He tells Miller, who still has his hand in the jar, the incident was a big mistake. Charlie asks him why he didn't remove his hand from the jar as he could have been killed. Miller pulls a bag of weed out of the jar and shows it to them telling them he was scared. Charlie holsters his gun and apologizes to Miller on behalf of the U.S. Marshall's and tells him he won't have any problems. Shea and Erica come in the back and Shea throws the man he apprehended down onto the floor as Charlie and Ray exchange a look.
Kellen Stackhouse returns home to find the backdoor of the house has been broken into. As he's looking at it, Day comes out of an adjoining room and hits him, knocking him to the floor. Stackhouse is tied to a chair and Day tells him to imagine how hurt he was to hear in the yard that he was getting married and his invitation must have gotten lost in the mail while he heats a "D" branding iron over the stove. When the iron is hot enough, he goes to Stackhouse who tries to talk Day out of hurting him. As Day is getting ready to brand Stackhouse, McCann comes into the room saying he can't find the money anywhere. He tells McCann to keep looking but the latter insists there isn't anywhere else to look as he's emptied everything. Stackhouse asks what he wants and says he can help find it. McCann asks where the money his rich girlfriend has is. He tells them they keep around a grand under the television in the bedroom and says they can take it. McCann tells him they want money not just a grand and they know his prison pen pal has a stash that he told Day about and demands to know where the $100,000 is. Stackhouse him his girlfriend is a lab technician and she inherited the house they are living in and they have no money there. McCann raises his gun on Day when he realizes that Day lied to him and that everything was about getting revenge on Stackhouse. Day tells McCann he had a plan, too and he is going to stick with it. McCann lowers his gun and leaves the room. Day holds the branding iron to Stackhouses stomach.
The team drive up outside the house and Charlie orders Ray to take the back and Erica and Shea to watch the sides in case someone tries to escape. Stackhouse is screaming in pain as Day removes the iron and picks up his gun. He warns Stackhouse not to pass out as they are just getting started. McCann comes back into the room with the $1,000 from under the television and tells Day he's taking the car and leaving. He goes outside and Charlie jumps him causing the money and the Tallahassee post card to fly from his hands. Charlie asks where Day is and if there are hostages in the house. Day comes outside holding a gun to Stackhouse's who is in front of him. Charlie orders Shea to put McCann in the car and for Erica to go with them and asks Ray if he has a bead, which he does. Day tells them if they shoot, he does and Charlie assures him no one is shooting anyone. Charlie tries talking Day out of shooting Stackhouse but Day tells them about Stackhouse trading him for smokes or food every single day for 5 1/2 years. He shouldn't be able to live after turning him into an animal. Charlie tells him no one can make him something he isn't but if the pulls the trigger it is on him. A car drives up and Stackhouse's girlfriend gets out to run to him. Charlie yells to Erica and Shea to get her out of there and the two hold her back. Day addresses Terry and tells her about Stackhouse preying upon him in prison and torturing him mentally and sexually, something she apparently didn't know. Ray moves in and is able to take the gun away from Day and Stackhouse can walk away while Ray cuffs Day.
Day is put into the back of a police cruiser with McCann as Charlie steps up and asks McCann if the Tallahassee post card belongs to him. He tells him 'no, that never belonged to me'. Stackhouse tries to tell Terry the things Day said weren't true but she only looks away from him.
The team returns to the office and Lloyd comments they are back in time for 'din din' leading Ray to ask why he's so sure he's getting it. He says he cracked the code that cracked the case so they will now be cracking lobster tails while he enjoys his surf and turf. Ray holds up the coupon and says Charlie should get it as he did his job even with a bum leg but he did promise it to a con. He gives the coupon to Erica because it was her that got behind the wheel in two seconds when he asked for backup at the pharmacy. She tears the coupon up in front of Lloyd and Shea as she is a vegetarian "who likes to win". Ray goes into Charlie's office to tell him he can take the cons back to Maybelle so he can go home and rest. Charlie throws his cane against the wall. He points out Day wanted to be 18 again before anything ever happened to him. The cons would like to have a meal at a restaurant like they used to. Even though he won't admit it, Ray wishes he had his family back. He stands and pins the Tallahassee post card to the cork board behind his desk and continues that he wishes his heart worked like it did back when he was a kid. McCann just wanted to go back to when his parents were alive and life was good. The truth is, there is no going back.
Breakout Kings airs every Sunday night at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the Arts & Entertainment Network.
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Season One, Episode Eight, Steaks
Original Air Date: April 24, 2011
The team is called in when two men escape prison in the coffin of a large inmate they killed. As they have taken a guard hostage, they must be found before they can do anything to him. When they find the guard dead and learn that the escapees have an agenda, the team must work fast. Ray gives the cons an incentive: whoever does the best work on the case can claim a free steak dinner being offered by a new restaurant.
At Cayuga Correction Facility in Auburn, New York it is breakfast time. The prisoners are shuffling through the line to get their scrambled eggs and one of the inmate serving the eggs, Carl McCann (Matthew John Armstrong), removes a bag of white powder from his shirt sleeve and pours in on a portion of the eggs and covers it with a spoon of more egg. When a heavyset inmate (Michel C. Foucault) arrives in front of him he gives him a single spoonful of egg. The inmate tells McCann to keep them coming and McCann gives him another large spoonful. The heavyset man sits down with his breakfast and begins to eat as McCann watches on from the food line. He soon begins feeling the effects of the powder. He grabs his chest then his head falls back in death. The prison doctor calls the time of death as 10:17 and tells an inmate orderly in the infirmary, Oliver Day (Jonathan Keltz) to call Potter's Field to tell them they need special accommodation for a large corpse. A white truck carrying the large pine box and four inmates to assist with burial enters Potter's Field followed by a car. Back at the prison, the doctor is examining the knee of another prisoner. He asks his nurse to get the man a cold compress but she cannot open the door to get it. At Potter's Field, the men get out of the truck to begin the burial while the guard watching them, Officer Dirk Ferris (Jesse Bond) taunts them the entire time. When the nurse cannot open a door she calls the doctor over for assistance. The doctor struggles with the door and once he finally manages to get it open, the body of the heavyset prisoner falls out onto him. At Potter's Field, when the box hits the ground, the lid bursts off and McCann and Oliver Day jump out of the box. They overtake Ferris and take his rifle. They take the keys to the car and put Ferris in it then drive out of the cemetery.
At the office in Brooklyn, New York, Julianne gives the team the folder of information on McCann and Day. Ray tells them after the escape, the prison took another look at the dead inmate and found he had been given a poison found in household cleaner. McCann was in for felony robbery. He would pose as a traveling salesman and gain entry into homes then rob the residents at gunpoint. Day was a relative lightweight. He stole a car on an alleged dare. The elderly man he yanked out of the car had a heart attack and died. He was in prison for 25 years on a felony murder charge. Julie gives them the family details of both escapees. McCann grew up in Tallahassee and was orphaned at 13 when his parents died in a car accident. He went into foster care and has no family left. Oliver Day's parents retired to Scottsdale, Arizona and Marshalls in the Arizona field office are paying them a visit to see if they know anything. He has a sister, Janice, who works at a design firm in New York. Charlie tells Ray and Shea to go speak with the sister then looks to Shea and asks if he's boring him. Shea is looking over a flier for a new restaurant and comments that there is a coupon for a free steak dinner attached to the flier, something that interests the cons. Shea says he will fight for it. Charlie takes the flier telling him he'll get nothing and like it. He tells the team about Dirk Ferris being held hostage by McCann and Day and there isn't any time to waste. Ray asks Charlie if he's ever read Zig Ziglar, motivation is like bathing, you gotta do it every day. Charlie hands Ray the flier and Ray tells the cons whichever one of them does the best on the caper gets the steak dinner instantly motivating every one of them to dive into the case.
Ray and Shea go into Manhattan, New York to speak with Day's sister, Janice. Ray introduces them and she tells them to make an appointment. He asks her if she's aware her brother broke out of prison and she tells him she is and tells them they can set up a time with her assistant, Jeffery and she might be free early next week. Ray asks what her problem is and she proceeds to tell him that she spoke to the prosecutors about her brother stealing a car at 18 didn't warrant 25 years and no one listened to her. She told the warden Oliver was having a hard time in prison and he didn't do anything about it. She has no love for anyone in law enforcement, including "you two idiots". She again tells them to make an appointment or she will call security and picks up her phone. Ray grabs the receiver and puts it down telling her he will cuff her for obstructing justice and march her out in front of all her colleagues. He tells her about the guard Oliver and McCann took hostage and she must work through her hurt feelings to help them. She doesn't know where Oliver is as he hasn't contacted her and tells them she hopes they never catch him. Shea asks about the hard time Oliver was having in prison. She tells him Oliver told her bigger prisoners were taking his stuff. Shea asks if this was the personal area of the body no one wants anyone messing around with. He mentions seeing Day's intake photo and how he looked at 18. He tells her he's seen what happens in prison and it isn't cool but if he does something to the guard before they can find him he'll have an even tougher time when he does go back in because the guards will know he messed with one of their own. She insists Oliver would never hurt another person, despite what has been done to him. Ray asks her if Oliver ever told her he was sexually assaulted. She could see the shame in his eyes and he wasn't the same person anymore.
A guard brings McCann's possessions to the office for the team to look through. Lloyd takes the boxes but Erica grabs one from him. Lloyd tells her when they need someone to run really, really fast he will defer to her. When they need someone to discern psychological traits through personal possessions, he's got it. She tells him these things are hard to come by and she likes hers rare. Charlie hangs up the phone and tells them Ray said Day was being assaulted in prison. He asks the guard if he was aware of that. The guard says Day came in young and tender and he didn't like his odds but what could they do about it. Lloyd theorizes that Day is probably suffering from some sort of complex post traumatic stress disorder so he's a wild card. Charlie asks the guard if McCann had a rep as a predator or a punk. The guard doesn't know as he was only in the prison for eight months and kept to himself. They weren't cell mates and were only on the same pier for McCann's first two months then McCann was transferred to a different cell block and would have had zero chance of crossing paths with one another. Julie receives an ATM hit on Dirk Ferris' bank card. It was used five minutes ago at a convenience store in Binghamton. Charlie orders her to have the store pull the security video and notify the local police department and have Ray and Shea meet them there. As he and Erica are leaving, the guard asks Charlie to bring Dirk home as he's a friend of his.
McCann returns to where he and Oliver are hiding out with the guard to find Oliver standing over the man holding the rifle and blood splattered on his shirt. He shot the guard and told McCann the man deserved it. McCann, angry, tells Oliver he won't let him blow things for them. He was only able to get $80 out of Ferris' account and the security guard around the corner gave him a strange look. They need to be smart unless they want to go back to prison. When he tries to grab Oliver's face in his hands, Oliver recoils then allows McCann to touch him. He says he doesn't want to go back. McCann tells Oliver he owes him because he had the plan for getting them out and there's $100,000 out there waiting for them and he'll never get it without him. Flying under the radar and not getting caught is something he brings to the table. He'll get the stash like he promised but Oliver needs to get it together. They leave the guards body behind.
The team arrives at the scene and Charlie notes that either they find McCann and Day or they will find more bodies. Ray adds the information that a security guard from across the street thought he heard a shot. He walked over, saw the preachers car pull up and then leave. He has nothing further. Erica notes they tortured Ferris as there are three shell casings when one would have done the job. Shea cites two sets of footprints that McCann and Day are still together which Lloyd sees as some kind of relationship. He theorizes it is probably something imbalanced such as McCann being the 'daddy' and Day following his orders. He feels Day is the one who killed the guard because he's capable of anything after what he went through in prison. Erica questions why Day is still running with McCann if he is the one abusing him. Lloyd explains that victims of abuse sometimes become dependent upon their captors and are reduced to an infantile state. Ray suggests that they thought they could help each other escape and orders them to stop with the theories and find the escapees. On Ferris' wrist Charlie finds a "D" burned into the skin; a "D" for "Day". Ray asks why he would leave his initial and Shea explains that is how you mark your "property" in prison; a tattoo or a brand.
In their hotel room, McCann gives Day pointers on how to be successful selling door to door while he's putting on his suit. First, you have to look good to make a good impression. Day wants to know why they can't just rob a liquor store. McCann tells him home invasion is a one-stop-shop. They can food, money and a car and clothes. Plus, Day can get on a computer so he can track down the Terry Miller they are looking for. The second thing he must know is he must be confident in his product. They are selling vacuums. When Day says no one wants to buy it McCann insists all they need is for someone to open the door. He asks Oliver what he's going to do with his half of the money. Oliver tells him he's going to Alaska and get a fishing boat. McCann tells him when he was a kid he played baseball on a traveling team. He has a postcard from Tallahassee that he carries with him as a reminder. His dad used to take him to tournaments. The first thing he's going to do is catch a ball game in Florida. Oliver asks about the third thing he must know as a salesman. McCann picks up the rifle, cocks it and tells him this is the third thing.
At the office, Lloyd, Shea and Julie are continuing to go through McCann's belongings. Julie found one odd thing. A novel titled "Columbus" by Derrick Haas. Both men checked the book out of the prison library multiple times. Lloyd takes the book and looks through it and finds that they were using it as a code. There are dots under certain letters. Charlie asks how long it will take to crack the code and Lloyd says it will depend upon how sophisticated the code is. Julie tells them the preachers car was found behind a hotel in Poughkeepsie, New York. Since Ray and Erica are close by he wants them to respond and he and Shea will meet them there. Lloyd is to remain behind and crack the code.
In Poughkeepsie, they find the preachers car still there as Day and McCann left on foot. Ray and Erica look through the trash and find the tie and a cologne insert from a magazine leading them to believe the men wanted to look presentable for someone. Ray remembers what McCann was in for and looks through the notebook of one of the responding police officers. He finds the information that the maids closet was broken into and a vacuum was stolen and asks the policeman where the closest subdivision is.
McCann rings the doorbell of a house and goes into his sales pitch when the resident answers. The man isn't interested by he continues the pitch anyway. The man insists he isn't interested by McCann continues. Finally, the man opens the door to tell McCann to leave and, when he does, McCann kicks the door in and Day comes in from around the corner with the rifle.
At the office, Lloyd is working hard on the code. He has the chalkboard covered with letters with dogs under them and photocopies of pages from the book taped to one side of the board. Cracking the code is harder than he anticipated as he feels either McCann or Day is really intelligent. Julie supplies it was Day as he was in all AP classes with a 4.2 GPA and an academic scholarship to half a dozen colleges. She continues of how sad it is to see photos of both men after a few years in prison. Lloyd tells her that is because prison is awful which is why he wants the steak dinner. It's why even though Ray and Charlie crap all over him, working on the team isn't that bad of a situation for him because every time he tastes real coffee, smells perfume or looks out the window and sees the water it is like a little tiny taste of freedom. She comments she should deprive herself of things sometimes so she will appreciate them more as an experiment. Lloyd remarks that he has 25 years. It isn't an experiment, it's his life. She apologizes telling him she forgets sometimes where he goes when he isn't there.
The team combs the subdivision but turn up empty handed. Finally, Erica joins Shea and Charlie to tell them a woman across the street said a man came to her house wearing a suit and holding a vacuum. She pretended to not be home and the man went up the cul-de-sac. Using process of elimination, they find the house where McCann and Day struck. Charlie knocks then notices shoe prints on the front door. He draws his gun and kicks in the door and goes inside. He sees the vacuum McCann was carrying and can hear a radio. He goes upstairs into the kitchen and finds the man who lived there has been killed.
Julie puts an alarm out on the man's car as the team goes over the house. Shea finds a case near the old man's bed. Inside, there were places for two handguns and six clips. When Charlie and Ray both give him a strange look, he puts the case down and opens his jacket to show them he didn't take the guns or clips. Erica adds that McCann and Day didn't find any substantial money but that one of them did to a computer search but cleared the history. Charlie has her call Julie to call in Electronic Surveillance to ping the computer remotely and clone everything inside it. Charlie finds a photo of the old man who lived in the house and comments he served in the Marines in Okinawa, something that further motivates him to catch McCann and Day.
McCann is driving the old man's car and is annoyed that it is almost out of gas. Day simply suggests they fill the car up but McCann notes the idea is to keep moving and especially not to beat old men to death because they talk back. Day, who is in the back seat, traces over an "S" that is burned into his arm. McCann pulls the car over and proceeds to chastise Day about his behavior. He refuses to let Day's mess spill over onto him as he has plans. He doesn't want to go back to where he has to walk around with his fists clenched and sleep with one eye open but he can't get anywhere without the money so Day better get it together and deliver what he promised. McCann starts the car moving again but within seconds it runs out of gas completely. Their only option is to walk to the next town about a mile away.
Lloyd is painfully close to cracking the code and mumbles to himself while Julianne is having her own problems with someone she's talking to on the phone. He finally cracks the code and screams "GOAL!". When she comments that's for a touchdown he screams "TOUCHDOWN!" and announces he cracked the code. He shows it to her and starts to explain but she wants him to cut to the chase and explain it in laymens terms. First, he congratulates her on her assertiveness and then tells her Day and McCann are making a reference to a house. He doesn't know which house but he will find out now that he's cracked the code. A hit comes in on the old man's car and calls Charlie with the location.
The team head to the small town of Webster Grove, New York and Charlie splits the team up ordering everyone to take a store and ask for information. Charlie goes into a drug store and identifies himself to the pharmacist who is oddly uncomfortable but denies seeing the men and tells Charlie he walked to work that day when Charlie suggests he check to see if his car is still parked outside. He tells Charlie they are closing and asks him to exit the store the way he came in. Charlie looks around and then glances into the security mirror and sees the men crouching in an aisle. Charlie tells the pharmacist he will leave him his number so he can call if he sees anything and writes the words "Stay Calm" on a notepad. Charlie pretends to leave the store, making sure to silence the bell over the door when he opens it and steps outside. When Ray leaves a business next door, Charlie nods toward the pharmacy. Ray motions Shea and Erica over telling them to cover the back. Shea asks with what but Erica immediately volunteers. Ray hands her the keys. When Charlie comes back in, the bell sounds leading McCann and Day to think he left. They order the pharmacist to open the register. Charlie slowly moves in on the men as they hurry the pharmacist to empty the register for them and Erica moves the car into place at the back of the store. As Charlie up an aisle, he passes a motion-sensing Christmas decoration which starts to play a song. McCann and Day start shooting. Charlie returns fire and Ray moves in to return fire as well. During the shootout, Charlie's heart starts to give him problems. He calls out "my heart" and falls to the floor. Ray can see Charlie struggling in the security mirror and calls to him. Day gets a shot off that hits Charlie in the leg. Ray stands to fire upon the men and Charlie struggles to his feet as Day and McCann run out the back of the store taking the pharmacist as a hostage. Erica has the door blocked but McCann orders her to move the car or he will kill the hostage. She has no choice but to comply. They leave the store and McCann orders Day into the car with the pharmacist then turns to Erica ordering her to remove the keys from her vehicle and throw them to him. He picks them up and gets into the car with Day as Ray moves through the back of the pharmacy with Charlie close behind him. McCann speeds away as Ray and Charlie come out of the store and Erica tells them they took the keys.
Lloyd continues working on the code and knows the men are after the money as it is in the code but he still doesn't know where the house is. Julie tells him the Marshall's 'geek squad' found a search on the old man's computer for a Terry Miller. She does her own search and finds there are 4,500 Terry Miller's in the United States.
At the scene, Charlie describes the pharmacists car to the police. When the officer leaves, Ray tells Charlie to relax, something which Charlie thinks he cannot do. He tells Ray the bullet just grazed him and his heart episodes are rare and he should mind his business. Ray comes back that they were in a fire fight and his partner was useless; it is his business. Charlie shushes him so no one can overhear and tells him to do his job or find himself another one. Ray hands Charlie a cane and tells him the EMT said to use the cane and go home but he assumes Charlie will follow only half that advice. The police officer returns to tell them the pharmacist and his car were found dumped behind a big box store. The pharmacist was tied up but he's fine. Ray knows they've switched cars but Charlie points out it will take hours to figure out which car out of all those in the parking lot could have been taken. Julie calls Ray to tell him about the Terry Miller search and that she found a recent home sale to a Terry Paul Miller fifteen miles from where they are now. Miller did time for drug possession. She tells them Lloyd cracked the code and has found constant reference to a house and Miller's house could be the house they are speaking of. McCann and Day drive up in front of a house and McCann asks Day if he's ready. Day smiles and says "yeah".
Charlie, Ray, Shea and Erica arrive at Terry Miller's house and can hear a big dog inside barking. Charlie knocks on the door and the dog continues to bark, something that unnerves Ray as "big ones bite". Charlie knocks again identifying them as U.S. Marshall's. Miller asks what they want and Charlie tells him to open the door and Ray adds to put the dog away. Miller asks what they want and Ray suggests his stalling could mean he's looking for a weapon. They hear the sound of a door closing and Charlie turns to Shea and Erica telling them someone split out the back. They split up and head to the back of the house while Ray kicks in the front door and he and Charlie go inside, guns drawn. They find Terry Miller standing in the living room with his hand in a jar. Charlie orders him to remove his hand but he doesn't. Again, he orders him to remove his hand, the dog barking all the while. Charlie again orders Miller to remove his hand from the jar. Outside, Erica is chasing the man who left Miller's house. Shea comes over the top and jumps down onto the man, taking him to the sidewalk. Ray tells Miller if he doesn't release whatever weapon he has in the jar he will shoot the dog on a count of three. He starts to count and reaches two when his phone rings. He answers it and Julie tells him she made a mistake. She gave them the wrong Terry Miller. The dog lays down and she tells them Lloyd finished the code and the house stands for Kellen Stackhouse (Andrew Jackson), Day's former prison in cellmate. Stackhouse had a rep as a sexual predator. The Terry Miller they want was Stackhouse's prison pen pal, who he is now engaged to. The two live 20 miles south of where they are now. She apologizes and Ray hangs up. He tells Miller, who still has his hand in the jar, the incident was a big mistake. Charlie asks him why he didn't remove his hand from the jar as he could have been killed. Miller pulls a bag of weed out of the jar and shows it to them telling them he was scared. Charlie holsters his gun and apologizes to Miller on behalf of the U.S. Marshall's and tells him he won't have any problems. Shea and Erica come in the back and Shea throws the man he apprehended down onto the floor as Charlie and Ray exchange a look.
Kellen Stackhouse returns home to find the backdoor of the house has been broken into. As he's looking at it, Day comes out of an adjoining room and hits him, knocking him to the floor. Stackhouse is tied to a chair and Day tells him to imagine how hurt he was to hear in the yard that he was getting married and his invitation must have gotten lost in the mail while he heats a "D" branding iron over the stove. When the iron is hot enough, he goes to Stackhouse who tries to talk Day out of hurting him. As Day is getting ready to brand Stackhouse, McCann comes into the room saying he can't find the money anywhere. He tells McCann to keep looking but the latter insists there isn't anywhere else to look as he's emptied everything. Stackhouse asks what he wants and says he can help find it. McCann asks where the money his rich girlfriend has is. He tells them they keep around a grand under the television in the bedroom and says they can take it. McCann tells him they want money not just a grand and they know his prison pen pal has a stash that he told Day about and demands to know where the $100,000 is. Stackhouse him his girlfriend is a lab technician and she inherited the house they are living in and they have no money there. McCann raises his gun on Day when he realizes that Day lied to him and that everything was about getting revenge on Stackhouse. Day tells McCann he had a plan, too and he is going to stick with it. McCann lowers his gun and leaves the room. Day holds the branding iron to Stackhouses stomach.
The team drive up outside the house and Charlie orders Ray to take the back and Erica and Shea to watch the sides in case someone tries to escape. Stackhouse is screaming in pain as Day removes the iron and picks up his gun. He warns Stackhouse not to pass out as they are just getting started. McCann comes back into the room with the $1,000 from under the television and tells Day he's taking the car and leaving. He goes outside and Charlie jumps him causing the money and the Tallahassee post card to fly from his hands. Charlie asks where Day is and if there are hostages in the house. Day comes outside holding a gun to Stackhouse's who is in front of him. Charlie orders Shea to put McCann in the car and for Erica to go with them and asks Ray if he has a bead, which he does. Day tells them if they shoot, he does and Charlie assures him no one is shooting anyone. Charlie tries talking Day out of shooting Stackhouse but Day tells them about Stackhouse trading him for smokes or food every single day for 5 1/2 years. He shouldn't be able to live after turning him into an animal. Charlie tells him no one can make him something he isn't but if the pulls the trigger it is on him. A car drives up and Stackhouse's girlfriend gets out to run to him. Charlie yells to Erica and Shea to get her out of there and the two hold her back. Day addresses Terry and tells her about Stackhouse preying upon him in prison and torturing him mentally and sexually, something she apparently didn't know. Ray moves in and is able to take the gun away from Day and Stackhouse can walk away while Ray cuffs Day.
Day is put into the back of a police cruiser with McCann as Charlie steps up and asks McCann if the Tallahassee post card belongs to him. He tells him 'no, that never belonged to me'. Stackhouse tries to tell Terry the things Day said weren't true but she only looks away from him.
The team returns to the office and Lloyd comments they are back in time for 'din din' leading Ray to ask why he's so sure he's getting it. He says he cracked the code that cracked the case so they will now be cracking lobster tails while he enjoys his surf and turf. Ray holds up the coupon and says Charlie should get it as he did his job even with a bum leg but he did promise it to a con. He gives the coupon to Erica because it was her that got behind the wheel in two seconds when he asked for backup at the pharmacy. She tears the coupon up in front of Lloyd and Shea as she is a vegetarian "who likes to win". Ray goes into Charlie's office to tell him he can take the cons back to Maybelle so he can go home and rest. Charlie throws his cane against the wall. He points out Day wanted to be 18 again before anything ever happened to him. The cons would like to have a meal at a restaurant like they used to. Even though he won't admit it, Ray wishes he had his family back. He stands and pins the Tallahassee post card to the cork board behind his desk and continues that he wishes his heart worked like it did back when he was a kid. McCann just wanted to go back to when his parents were alive and life was good. The truth is, there is no going back.
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
US Television: Vampire Diaries, Episode 2.19 "Klaus"
Vampire Diaries
Season Two, Episode 2.19, Klaus
Original Air Date: April 21, 2011
Elijah awakens in the basement of the Salvatore home. He and Elena leave the house so they can talk alone and he tells her a shocking truth about Klaus, himself and the Originals. Jenna comes to learn the truth about vampires. Tension begins growing and reaches a boiling point between Stefan and Damon. Elena and Elijah renew the terms of their deal.
Elijah awakens and sees Elena but thinks she is Katherine. He remembers first meeting her in England in 1492. He is introduced to Katherine by Trevor (Trent Ford) and is rendered speechless upon seeing her then tells her she reminds him of someone. Elena identifies herself to Elijah before he seemingly becomes unconscious again. He jerks back awake again and gets to his feet unable to breathe as he hadn't been invited into the house that is now under the sole ownership of Elena. Elena helps his stay on his feet as he tells her he can't be in the house. He stumbles out of the basement with Elena running behind him. She finds him crouching on the doorstep, catching his breath. He tries to re-enter the house and, when he can't, he asks what happened. She shushes him and whispers she will tell him and points upstairs to indicate Stefan and Damon are home and that they must speak elsewhere. She asks him if she can trust him and he returns the question to her. In a show of trust, she gives him the dagger used to kill him.
Stefan wakes up and searches the house calling for Elena. He finds Andie and asks if she's seen her, which she hasn't. As Damon kisses Andie, Stefan asks where Elena is and Damon tells her she's his girlfriend then asks Andie if she has time for a bite because he's so hungry. She asks if he can use a blood bag because she's late for work. Stefan calls Elena's cell and leaves a message for her to call him. Andie leaves for work as Stefan continues walking through the house. His attention is drawn towards the basement and he, followed closely by Damon, find that Elijah is now gone leading Damon to remark "no, she didn't."
Maddox promises Klaus he will return as quickly as he can. Katherine pours Klaus a cup of coffee and asks where Maddox is going and Klaus tells her he's going to retrieve him so he can get out of Alaric's body. She questions whether that is a good idea and he tells her the full moon is almost upon them, he's killed the witch, he has the moonstone and the doppleganger is waiting in the wings so he's ready to break the curse. She asks why he plans to do that there since there are so many people who are trying to stop him. He informs her he must do it there as it is the birthplace of the doppleganger, something she didn't realize was a requirement. He remarks she couldn't have known because as she betrayed him and fled England before he could give her the details thus leading him to find her birthplace and slaughter her family. He tells her they can just hope Elena isn't as stupid as she was. Katherine assures her Elena won't run and will die before she lets anyone she loves get hurt, something Klaus is counting on.
Elena stops the car so she can speak with Elijah who is drinking from a blood bag and is looking much improved. He asks where she got the dagger. She promises to tell him everything but insists they must work together and she needs his word. He tells her her ability to make demands is long past. She is making no demands, she's offering him her help and in return she wants his. He asks why he should consider it. She replies it's the same reason he hasn't killed her: he needs her help to kill Klaus and she needs him. Stefan calls and asks where she is. She tells him she's fine and with Elijah. When he asks her where and says he's on his way, she tells him she and Elijah need some time alone. Stefan insists Elijah can't be trusted and he will use her to get to Klaus. Elena tells Stefan that Elijah is a noble man who lives by a code of honor and she can trust him. He knows she would be stupid to try and kill him again and that by removing the dagger she has proven herself. He tells her she can't do it alone and she replies that it's her decision and asks him to respect it and to make sure Damon doesn't do anything stupid. She tells him she'll be in touch then hangs up. Elijah places his hand out for her phone and she turns it over to him. Damon asks Stefan if Elena hung up on him. When he says 'yes', he comments she's lost it. Stefan feels if anyone can get Elijah to help them kill Klaus it will be Elena. Damon insists Bonnie is the way. Stefan points out Bonnie will kill herself in the process and Elena wants another way. Damon wants to find Elena and stop her as he feels her way will get her killed. Stefan stands and tells him to back off and they should trust her even though he doesn't like the plan any more than Damon. Damon tells his brother that might be his plan, but his is better starts to walk away. Stefan grabs his arm and looks into Damon's eyes and firmly tells him "I said 'back off'".
Elena tells Elijah Klaus is there and has taken over Alaric's body, something Elijah comments is one of Klaus' favorite tricks. She asks what his other tricks are and what he will do next as he is the only one who knows Klaus. Elijah remembers back to 1492 on the night he met Katherine at the birthday party. She asks where the mysterious host she heard so much about is and Elijah says he's fashionably late as he likes to make an entrance. He sees Klaus coming down the stairs and points him out to her. She turns and watches as Klaus makes his way through the crowd of party goers. When their eyes meet, Klaus walks directly to her. Elijah introduces her to the Lord Niklaus (Joseph Morgan). She curtsies and Klaus kisses her hand and tells her Niklaus is the name his father gave him but asks her to please call him Klaus and smiles.
Elijah and Elena show up at Carol Lockwood's home. She asks what they are doing there and what happened to Elijah. He tells her he had a bit of an incident and is hoping she can help. She says she's on her way to a meeting but he steps forward and compels her and she invites them in saying 'anything you need'. He asks for a change of clothes and she tells him they could try one of her husbands suits as she hasn't boxed them up yet. When she leaves to get the suit, Elena asks how he knows she isn't on vervain. He replies that he's the one who got her off it right before she and her friends killed him--twice.
Jenna calls Stefan asking where Elena is and Jeremy as no one is answering their phones. He tells her Elena isn't there and asks if everything is alright. She asks what is going on as Elena left her a bunch of messages telling her to stay away from Alaric. He tells her Elena was hoping Jenna could stay on campus a little while longer. When she tells him she's in her kitchen and she's supposed to meet Alaric at the Grill for lunch, Stefan warns her to not meet Alaric at the Grill and that he is coming over now to explain everything. When he gets off the phone Damon tells him he'd love to lend her a hand but he knows Stefan wouldn't want him to do anything stupid. Stefan asks if he's seriously going to be like that and Damon replies that he and his girlfriend are calling all the shots, he's just 'backing off'. Stefan leaves as Andie returns and Damon tells her they should go. She asks where and he tells her they're splitting from the team; going rogue.
At the Lockwoods, Elijah, dressed in a new suit, assumes the Martin witches are no longer with them, something Elena confirms. He asks about Katherine and Elena tells him Klaus took her and they think she might be dead. He doubts that as Klaus' style dictates death would be too easy for her after what she did. Elena doesn't understand that while Elijah wants Klaus dead he still made Katherine pay for betraying him. Elijah tells her he has his own reasons for wanting to make Katherine pay. He tells her there was a time he would have done anything for Klaus. In 1492, Klaus asks Katherine where she's from. She replies she's new to town and Elijah supplies the information that she's from Bulgaria. Klaus turns to Elijah and asks "do you mind, brother, I'd like to have a moment alone with her". Elijah wishes his brother a happy birthday and watches as Klaus leads Katherine away. In modern day, Elijah confirms to a shocked Elena that Klaus is his brother.
At Alaric's apartment, Katherine is listening to music and enjoying a bottle of bourbon. She hears Damon and Andie talking as they walk up to Alaric's door. Andie knocks on the door and asks Alaric if he's home. Katherine tries to open the door but cannot. Damon turns the door knob and Andie pushes it open revealing Katherine, standing there looking at them. They enter the apartment as Andie comments in amazement that Katherine looks exactly like Elena. Damon tells Katherine they thought she might be dead to which she replies "unfortunately not".
Stefan arrives a the Gilbert home and expresses his thanks to Jenna for not going to the Grill. He tells her he can explain but before he can, Alaric walks into view.
Elena is surprised to learn there is an entire family of Originals. Elijah explains his father was a wealthy landowner in a small village in eastern Europe and his mother bore seven children. Their whole family was human and their origin as vampires is a long story but she should just know, they are the oldest vampires in the world. They are the Original family and, from them, all vampires were created. She points out that Klaus is his brother and he wants him dead. Elijah comments he needs some air and the two go outside for a walk.
Katherine asks what they are doing there and Andie says they are there to rescue her. Damon corrects her that they are there to see if she deserves to be rescued. He says he feels that Alaric/Klaus was blending too easily and that he had some coaching. He holds up a bottle of vervain. She tells him it won't undo anything but he says there's always a loophole. He asks if Klaus told her to stay in the apartment until it was OK to leave, something she can't answer. He asks if Klaus told her to do absolutely everything he said until the end of time. When she tells him 'no', he says that's her loophole. He tells her to drink the vervain and it will prevent any further compulsion. She walks toward him to get the vervain but is stopped at the door. She demands him to give it to her but before he will, he wants to know why she doublecrossed them with Isobel. She tells him she didn't think they stood a chance against Klaus and was looking out for herself. He throws her the bottle of vervain and warns to her be careful with it because if Klaus catches her with it she will never get out of the apartment. She takes a drink of the vervain and he tells her she owes him and he will collect. He calls to Andie and leaves.
Alaric makes small talk about the knife he is using to cut vegetables as Jenna and Stefan look on. She says she's still waiting for someone to tell her what's happening. Alaric asks Stefan if he'd like to do it or should he. Alaric asks her if she believes in vampires and tells her they do have a place in their history and, as a history teacher, finds them fascinating. She asks why they are talking about it. He replies that she's been angry with him for keeping secrets and this is one of his secrets. He's obsessed with vampires. She asks if he's joking. He tells her not at all and asks if Stefan is a fan of vampires. Stefan replies literature, Bram Stoker, it's dense but he appreciates it. Alaric comments that vampires are the oldest creatures of the night, except for werewolves, of course. Jenna incredulously repeats werewolves and walks away saying she knows he's joking. He continues that he's read about the Aztec curse and explains it to her and includes that the creatures wouldn't care who they had to kill to break the curse.
Elijah explains to Elena that nothing can kill an Original, including sun, fire or a werewolf bite. Just the wood from one tree can do it and it was a tree his family made sure burned, the white ash for the dagger. He tells her the witches won't allow anything truly immortal to walk the earth. Every creature must have a weakness to keep the balance. She asks why Klaus is obsessed with breaking the Sun & Moon curse since the sun cannot kill him. With a smile, he remarks the Curse of the Sun & Moon sounds so biblical. In the 1400's, he remembers handing a "Roman parchment" to Klaus. The latter looks it over and says he remembers etching it when he was quite drunk. Elijah says Klaus' finest work was the Aztec drawings. In the present, he admits to Elena the Aztec scrolls, African tribal etchings and any other culture or continent they felt like planting the story in. She asks why and he explains the easiest way to discover the existence of a doppleganger or to find a long-lost moonstone is to have every single member of two warring species on the lookout. The Curse of the Sun and the Moon is fake.
Alaric says he knows it sounds crazy but vampires are real. When he gets up to get Jenna more wine she tells him to get out. He starts to talk to her but she again tells him to get out. Stefan stands and tells him he heard Jenna. Alaric says he doesn't want to leave. She stands to leave and Alaric picks up a knife telling her she isn't going anywhere. Stefan rushes with lightening speed between the two and shoves Alaric against the way drawing surprise from Jenna. As he holds the knife to Alaric's throat he tells Jenna to leave now. Alaric tells Stefan he might not have a witch protecting him today but if he kills that body what is to stop him from using Jenna as his next one. Again, Stefan tells her to leave. She protests and he turns to her in anger and yells for her to go and she runs from the house in fear. He tells Stefan to kill him but to remind Elena how easy it will be for him to kill her if she tries to stop him from breaking the curse. Stefan hits him, knocking him to the floor then kicks him twice before rushing from the house.
Elijah admits to Elena that he and Klaus faked the Sun & Moon Curse dating back over 1,000 years. There is a curse and the real one is much worse. It is a curse placed on Klaus that he's been trying to break for the last 1,000 and Elena is his only hope. She asks what the curse is and he pulls her phone from his pocket saying it won't stop its incessant buzzing. He hands it to her and she answers it to find Stefan on the line. He tells her about Jenna and she says she'll be right there. When she hangs up she tells Elijah Klaus went after Jenna and she must go to her. He says that wasn't part of the days arrangement. She insists and gives him her word that she will be back. He tells her that means nothing to him until she lives up to it. She thanks him and leaves.
He remembers the past with Katherine. She is running playfully from him. When they stop, she tells him Klaus promised to spend the day with her but he never returned home from the night. He tells her Klaus lives by no ones rules but his own. She remarks he's a very charming man and hard for any woman to resists. She doesn't know why he courts her as he doesn't seem to care about her at all. He points out that many a union has been built on much less and she asks if it's wrong to want more. He asks if she has more with Trevor. She tells him Trevor believes he loves her but true love isn't real unless it's returned and asks if he agrees. He tells her he doesn't believe in love. She says that's too sad for her to accept as life is too cruel and if we cease to believe in love why would we want to live? He smiles then stands with a start as Klaus walks up, his shirt stained with blood. Katherine asks what happened and he tells her the wrong villager picked a fight at the tavern. He leads her away from Elijah.
At the Salvatore home, Elena arrives to find Jenna upset. Jenna leans away from Elena causing the latter to apologize saying she never meant for any of this to happen. She tells her about Elena's mother telling her (Jenna) bedtime stories about vampires when she was little. She didn't believe them. Elena confirms they are and that she should of told her but thought if she didn't know she would be safe. Things spiraled out of control and everything she did to keep her out of it blew up. Jenna asks who else knows and asks about Jeremy. Elena nods. She asks if John knew. Elena says they were just trying to protect her and will tell her everything. Jenna admits she's scared and Elena puts her arms around her aunt to comfort her apologizing again and again as Stefan listens from the hall.
Elena closes the door and goes into the hall with Stefan who asks if Jenna is going to be OK. She tells him her aunt is in shock and she tried to tell her all she could but was barely able to scratch the surface. Stefan apologizes to Elena and she tells him it isn't his fault, it's hers. She tells him she has to go back to Elijah but he tries to stop her. She tells him of her promise to return and she cannot break that promise. He reluctantly agrees and she promises she'll be alright. Damon gets in her way and asks where she's going. She tells him back to Elijah and he stops her. She tells him to get out of her way but he grabs her arms telling her if she tries to take a step out of the house. Andie warns him 'easy' but he tells her to stay out of it. Stefan demands Damon let Elena go but he doesn't want to. Stefan steps up and again demands his brother let Elena go. Damon looks to his brother and tells him that was twice that day he stood in his way and he shouldn't try it a third.
At Alaric's, Katherine is continuing to enjoy the bourbon and music. She dances around the apartment taking an occasional drink until she hears the keys in the lock and Alaric/Klaus returns. She is sitting on the couch when he comes in. He tells her to turn the music down and that the body has outlived its usefulness when she asks why he's grumpy. She asks if he wants a drink, which he doesn't. She again offers the drink. He takes the bottle and throws it against the wall and grabs her to compel her to sit down and shut up. She obediently sits. The door opens and Maddox returns followed by two men carrying Klaus' luggage. A young woman next enters the apartment and Klaus warmly greets her as Greta (Lisa Tucker). She asks if he's ready to get out of the body he's in, which he is. They both look to the door to watch two men wheeling in a large trunk.
Elena returns to the Lockwoods as she promised Elijah she would. He welcomes her back and she immediately asks him to tell her what Klaus' curse is. He tells her his family was quite close but Klaus and his father didn't get on too well. When they became vampires they discovered the truth that Klaus wasn't his father's son. His mother had been unfaithful and it was her darkest secret. Klaus came from a different bloodline. When his father found out, he hunted his mother's lover down and killed him and his entire family not realizing he ignited a war between species that rages even today. The war between the vampires and the werewolves. Elena asks if that makes Klaus a vampire or werewolf. Elijah tells her that he's both. A hybrid would be deadlier than any werewolf or vampire. Nature wouldn't stand for such an imbalance of power so the witches sought to insure Klaus' werewolf side would become dormant. Klaus wants to trigger the werewolf part of him. If he succeeds, he can father his own bloodline and build his own race, endangering not just vampires but everyone. Elena points out that Elijah helped him. He admits he did that because he loved his brother but that has changed now and Klaus must die. She says he has the dagger. He reminds her that when a werewolf is wounded by silver it heals. Since an Original can only be killed by white ash on a silver dagger it wouldn't work as the silver wouldn't kill the werewolf. He says there's one way to kill any supernatural species: at the hands of the servants of nature themselves. As Elena knows, witches, if they can channel that much power. He tells her the curse must be broken during a full moon while Klaus is in transition as that is when he will be his most vulnerable. A witch with enough power can kill Klaus. She asks what if she could tell him she knows a witch that can channel that much power. He replies there's one more thing she should know.
He remembers the past and Klaus telling him the full moon is tomorrow and after all these centuries it's finally time. He tells Klaus he's been to see the witches and they believe they might know of a way to spare the doppleganger. Klaus feels she's nothing more than a means to an end and it doesn't matter if she lives or not. Elijah questions if she should die for his gain to which Klaus replies she's human and her life means nothing. Elijah begs him to reconsider leading Klaus to ask his brother if he's so foolish as to care for Katherine. Elijah says he isn't and Klaus tells him love is a vampires greatest weakness and they are not weak. They don't feel and they don't care. Elijah reminds him they did once. Klaus replies it was too many lifetimes ago to matter and to tell the witches not to bother as the sacrifice will happen as planned. Elena asks him if he found a way to save the life of the doppleganger and he admits he did. Unfortunately, Katherine took matters into her own hands first and she knows how that played out. Elena asks him if he cared about her too. He replies it is a common mistake, he's told, and one he won't make again then walks away.
Andie gives Damon a drink telling him he doesn't need to be angry with Stefan as he's just worried about Elena. He tells her to go but she continues that she knows he's worried about her too. He again tells her to go as Stefan enters the room. Stefan asks if he's tired of his plaything already and Damon tells his brother she's just a distraction. Stefan remarks that she's a person. Damon says Stefan should be happy she's here as it keeps him from going for what he really wants. Stefan turns and thanks him for being in love with his girlfriend. Damon sits his drink down and stands. Stefan tells Damon he can be in love with Elena all he wants if it means he'll protect her but he (Stefan) has the one thing he (Damon) never will: her respect. Damon hits Stefan and the two brothers begin to fight. Elena and Elijah enter the room and she calls to them to stop.
When Elijah looks upon the brothers, he remembers the past. Klaus enters the room angrily asking Elijah what he's done, something he doesn't understand. Klaus tells him Katherine has fled and asks what he told her. Elijah maintains he told her nothing but Klaus doesn't believe him and shoves him against the wall yelling for him not to lie to him. Elijah gives Klaus his word that he will find her. Klaus calmly tells Elijah that if he does not, he gives him his word that he (Elijah) will be dead.
Damon questions that Elena has invited Elijah in. She tells them she and and Elijah have renewed the terms of their deal. He assures them they will come to no harm at his hands and he only asks one thing of them: an apology. The brothers seem confused at first. Stefan steps up and apologizes for the part he played in his death as he was protecting Elena and he will always protect Elena. Elijah tells him he understands and everyone turns to look at Damon who is reluctant to apologize. Elena tells him the sacrifice is going to happen, Bonnie will be able to kill Klaus without hurting herself and Elijah knows how to save her life as well. She found another way as she told him she would. Damon asks if it is true and Elijah says it is. Damon then asks if she is trusting Elijah and she says she is. Damon tells them all they can go to hell and leaves the room. Stefan turns to Elijah and tells him Damon is angry with him (Stefan) right now but he will come around. Elijah whispers "perhaps".
Damon goes into his room and finds Andie still there and says he thought he told her to leave. She tells him he didn't compel her and she wants to be there. He goes to her and holds onto her telling her he's upset and she knows what happens when he's upset. She has to leave. She refuses as he needs to know someone cares about him, she cares. He bites her neck then throws her to the floor crying. He kneels next to her and forces her to look at him. He compels her to get out of there before he kills her and begs her to go. She gathers her clothes and turns to him once more then leaves.
At Alaric's apartment, Maddox and Greta are chanting in an arc of candles as Alaric/Klaus stands nearby and Katherine watches on. The light of the candles flares up and Alaric's body surges. He looks to Katherine and says "Elena?" in confusion then falls to the floor. Maddox stands and walks to the large trunk and opens it allowing Klaus, in his real body, to walk out.
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Season Two, Episode 2.19, Klaus
Original Air Date: April 21, 2011
Elijah awakens in the basement of the Salvatore home. He and Elena leave the house so they can talk alone and he tells her a shocking truth about Klaus, himself and the Originals. Jenna comes to learn the truth about vampires. Tension begins growing and reaches a boiling point between Stefan and Damon. Elena and Elijah renew the terms of their deal.
Elijah awakens and sees Elena but thinks she is Katherine. He remembers first meeting her in England in 1492. He is introduced to Katherine by Trevor (Trent Ford) and is rendered speechless upon seeing her then tells her she reminds him of someone. Elena identifies herself to Elijah before he seemingly becomes unconscious again. He jerks back awake again and gets to his feet unable to breathe as he hadn't been invited into the house that is now under the sole ownership of Elena. Elena helps his stay on his feet as he tells her he can't be in the house. He stumbles out of the basement with Elena running behind him. She finds him crouching on the doorstep, catching his breath. He tries to re-enter the house and, when he can't, he asks what happened. She shushes him and whispers she will tell him and points upstairs to indicate Stefan and Damon are home and that they must speak elsewhere. She asks him if she can trust him and he returns the question to her. In a show of trust, she gives him the dagger used to kill him.
Stefan wakes up and searches the house calling for Elena. He finds Andie and asks if she's seen her, which she hasn't. As Damon kisses Andie, Stefan asks where Elena is and Damon tells her she's his girlfriend then asks Andie if she has time for a bite because he's so hungry. She asks if he can use a blood bag because she's late for work. Stefan calls Elena's cell and leaves a message for her to call him. Andie leaves for work as Stefan continues walking through the house. His attention is drawn towards the basement and he, followed closely by Damon, find that Elijah is now gone leading Damon to remark "no, she didn't."
Maddox promises Klaus he will return as quickly as he can. Katherine pours Klaus a cup of coffee and asks where Maddox is going and Klaus tells her he's going to retrieve him so he can get out of Alaric's body. She questions whether that is a good idea and he tells her the full moon is almost upon them, he's killed the witch, he has the moonstone and the doppleganger is waiting in the wings so he's ready to break the curse. She asks why he plans to do that there since there are so many people who are trying to stop him. He informs her he must do it there as it is the birthplace of the doppleganger, something she didn't realize was a requirement. He remarks she couldn't have known because as she betrayed him and fled England before he could give her the details thus leading him to find her birthplace and slaughter her family. He tells her they can just hope Elena isn't as stupid as she was. Katherine assures her Elena won't run and will die before she lets anyone she loves get hurt, something Klaus is counting on.
Elena stops the car so she can speak with Elijah who is drinking from a blood bag and is looking much improved. He asks where she got the dagger. She promises to tell him everything but insists they must work together and she needs his word. He tells her her ability to make demands is long past. She is making no demands, she's offering him her help and in return she wants his. He asks why he should consider it. She replies it's the same reason he hasn't killed her: he needs her help to kill Klaus and she needs him. Stefan calls and asks where she is. She tells him she's fine and with Elijah. When he asks her where and says he's on his way, she tells him she and Elijah need some time alone. Stefan insists Elijah can't be trusted and he will use her to get to Klaus. Elena tells Stefan that Elijah is a noble man who lives by a code of honor and she can trust him. He knows she would be stupid to try and kill him again and that by removing the dagger she has proven herself. He tells her she can't do it alone and she replies that it's her decision and asks him to respect it and to make sure Damon doesn't do anything stupid. She tells him she'll be in touch then hangs up. Elijah places his hand out for her phone and she turns it over to him. Damon asks Stefan if Elena hung up on him. When he says 'yes', he comments she's lost it. Stefan feels if anyone can get Elijah to help them kill Klaus it will be Elena. Damon insists Bonnie is the way. Stefan points out Bonnie will kill herself in the process and Elena wants another way. Damon wants to find Elena and stop her as he feels her way will get her killed. Stefan stands and tells him to back off and they should trust her even though he doesn't like the plan any more than Damon. Damon tells his brother that might be his plan, but his is better starts to walk away. Stefan grabs his arm and looks into Damon's eyes and firmly tells him "I said 'back off'".
Elena tells Elijah Klaus is there and has taken over Alaric's body, something Elijah comments is one of Klaus' favorite tricks. She asks what his other tricks are and what he will do next as he is the only one who knows Klaus. Elijah remembers back to 1492 on the night he met Katherine at the birthday party. She asks where the mysterious host she heard so much about is and Elijah says he's fashionably late as he likes to make an entrance. He sees Klaus coming down the stairs and points him out to her. She turns and watches as Klaus makes his way through the crowd of party goers. When their eyes meet, Klaus walks directly to her. Elijah introduces her to the Lord Niklaus (Joseph Morgan). She curtsies and Klaus kisses her hand and tells her Niklaus is the name his father gave him but asks her to please call him Klaus and smiles.
Elijah and Elena show up at Carol Lockwood's home. She asks what they are doing there and what happened to Elijah. He tells her he had a bit of an incident and is hoping she can help. She says she's on her way to a meeting but he steps forward and compels her and she invites them in saying 'anything you need'. He asks for a change of clothes and she tells him they could try one of her husbands suits as she hasn't boxed them up yet. When she leaves to get the suit, Elena asks how he knows she isn't on vervain. He replies that he's the one who got her off it right before she and her friends killed him--twice.
Jenna calls Stefan asking where Elena is and Jeremy as no one is answering their phones. He tells her Elena isn't there and asks if everything is alright. She asks what is going on as Elena left her a bunch of messages telling her to stay away from Alaric. He tells her Elena was hoping Jenna could stay on campus a little while longer. When she tells him she's in her kitchen and she's supposed to meet Alaric at the Grill for lunch, Stefan warns her to not meet Alaric at the Grill and that he is coming over now to explain everything. When he gets off the phone Damon tells him he'd love to lend her a hand but he knows Stefan wouldn't want him to do anything stupid. Stefan asks if he's seriously going to be like that and Damon replies that he and his girlfriend are calling all the shots, he's just 'backing off'. Stefan leaves as Andie returns and Damon tells her they should go. She asks where and he tells her they're splitting from the team; going rogue.
At the Lockwoods, Elijah, dressed in a new suit, assumes the Martin witches are no longer with them, something Elena confirms. He asks about Katherine and Elena tells him Klaus took her and they think she might be dead. He doubts that as Klaus' style dictates death would be too easy for her after what she did. Elena doesn't understand that while Elijah wants Klaus dead he still made Katherine pay for betraying him. Elijah tells her he has his own reasons for wanting to make Katherine pay. He tells her there was a time he would have done anything for Klaus. In 1492, Klaus asks Katherine where she's from. She replies she's new to town and Elijah supplies the information that she's from Bulgaria. Klaus turns to Elijah and asks "do you mind, brother, I'd like to have a moment alone with her". Elijah wishes his brother a happy birthday and watches as Klaus leads Katherine away. In modern day, Elijah confirms to a shocked Elena that Klaus is his brother.
At Alaric's apartment, Katherine is listening to music and enjoying a bottle of bourbon. She hears Damon and Andie talking as they walk up to Alaric's door. Andie knocks on the door and asks Alaric if he's home. Katherine tries to open the door but cannot. Damon turns the door knob and Andie pushes it open revealing Katherine, standing there looking at them. They enter the apartment as Andie comments in amazement that Katherine looks exactly like Elena. Damon tells Katherine they thought she might be dead to which she replies "unfortunately not".
Stefan arrives a the Gilbert home and expresses his thanks to Jenna for not going to the Grill. He tells her he can explain but before he can, Alaric walks into view.
Elena is surprised to learn there is an entire family of Originals. Elijah explains his father was a wealthy landowner in a small village in eastern Europe and his mother bore seven children. Their whole family was human and their origin as vampires is a long story but she should just know, they are the oldest vampires in the world. They are the Original family and, from them, all vampires were created. She points out that Klaus is his brother and he wants him dead. Elijah comments he needs some air and the two go outside for a walk.
Katherine asks what they are doing there and Andie says they are there to rescue her. Damon corrects her that they are there to see if she deserves to be rescued. He says he feels that Alaric/Klaus was blending too easily and that he had some coaching. He holds up a bottle of vervain. She tells him it won't undo anything but he says there's always a loophole. He asks if Klaus told her to stay in the apartment until it was OK to leave, something she can't answer. He asks if Klaus told her to do absolutely everything he said until the end of time. When she tells him 'no', he says that's her loophole. He tells her to drink the vervain and it will prevent any further compulsion. She walks toward him to get the vervain but is stopped at the door. She demands him to give it to her but before he will, he wants to know why she doublecrossed them with Isobel. She tells him she didn't think they stood a chance against Klaus and was looking out for herself. He throws her the bottle of vervain and warns to her be careful with it because if Klaus catches her with it she will never get out of the apartment. She takes a drink of the vervain and he tells her she owes him and he will collect. He calls to Andie and leaves.
Alaric makes small talk about the knife he is using to cut vegetables as Jenna and Stefan look on. She says she's still waiting for someone to tell her what's happening. Alaric asks Stefan if he'd like to do it or should he. Alaric asks her if she believes in vampires and tells her they do have a place in their history and, as a history teacher, finds them fascinating. She asks why they are talking about it. He replies that she's been angry with him for keeping secrets and this is one of his secrets. He's obsessed with vampires. She asks if he's joking. He tells her not at all and asks if Stefan is a fan of vampires. Stefan replies literature, Bram Stoker, it's dense but he appreciates it. Alaric comments that vampires are the oldest creatures of the night, except for werewolves, of course. Jenna incredulously repeats werewolves and walks away saying she knows he's joking. He continues that he's read about the Aztec curse and explains it to her and includes that the creatures wouldn't care who they had to kill to break the curse.
Elijah explains to Elena that nothing can kill an Original, including sun, fire or a werewolf bite. Just the wood from one tree can do it and it was a tree his family made sure burned, the white ash for the dagger. He tells her the witches won't allow anything truly immortal to walk the earth. Every creature must have a weakness to keep the balance. She asks why Klaus is obsessed with breaking the Sun & Moon curse since the sun cannot kill him. With a smile, he remarks the Curse of the Sun & Moon sounds so biblical. In the 1400's, he remembers handing a "Roman parchment" to Klaus. The latter looks it over and says he remembers etching it when he was quite drunk. Elijah says Klaus' finest work was the Aztec drawings. In the present, he admits to Elena the Aztec scrolls, African tribal etchings and any other culture or continent they felt like planting the story in. She asks why and he explains the easiest way to discover the existence of a doppleganger or to find a long-lost moonstone is to have every single member of two warring species on the lookout. The Curse of the Sun and the Moon is fake.
Alaric says he knows it sounds crazy but vampires are real. When he gets up to get Jenna more wine she tells him to get out. He starts to talk to her but she again tells him to get out. Stefan stands and tells him he heard Jenna. Alaric says he doesn't want to leave. She stands to leave and Alaric picks up a knife telling her she isn't going anywhere. Stefan rushes with lightening speed between the two and shoves Alaric against the way drawing surprise from Jenna. As he holds the knife to Alaric's throat he tells Jenna to leave now. Alaric tells Stefan he might not have a witch protecting him today but if he kills that body what is to stop him from using Jenna as his next one. Again, Stefan tells her to leave. She protests and he turns to her in anger and yells for her to go and she runs from the house in fear. He tells Stefan to kill him but to remind Elena how easy it will be for him to kill her if she tries to stop him from breaking the curse. Stefan hits him, knocking him to the floor then kicks him twice before rushing from the house.
Elijah admits to Elena that he and Klaus faked the Sun & Moon Curse dating back over 1,000 years. There is a curse and the real one is much worse. It is a curse placed on Klaus that he's been trying to break for the last 1,000 and Elena is his only hope. She asks what the curse is and he pulls her phone from his pocket saying it won't stop its incessant buzzing. He hands it to her and she answers it to find Stefan on the line. He tells her about Jenna and she says she'll be right there. When she hangs up she tells Elijah Klaus went after Jenna and she must go to her. He says that wasn't part of the days arrangement. She insists and gives him her word that she will be back. He tells her that means nothing to him until she lives up to it. She thanks him and leaves.
He remembers the past with Katherine. She is running playfully from him. When they stop, she tells him Klaus promised to spend the day with her but he never returned home from the night. He tells her Klaus lives by no ones rules but his own. She remarks he's a very charming man and hard for any woman to resists. She doesn't know why he courts her as he doesn't seem to care about her at all. He points out that many a union has been built on much less and she asks if it's wrong to want more. He asks if she has more with Trevor. She tells him Trevor believes he loves her but true love isn't real unless it's returned and asks if he agrees. He tells her he doesn't believe in love. She says that's too sad for her to accept as life is too cruel and if we cease to believe in love why would we want to live? He smiles then stands with a start as Klaus walks up, his shirt stained with blood. Katherine asks what happened and he tells her the wrong villager picked a fight at the tavern. He leads her away from Elijah.
At the Salvatore home, Elena arrives to find Jenna upset. Jenna leans away from Elena causing the latter to apologize saying she never meant for any of this to happen. She tells her about Elena's mother telling her (Jenna) bedtime stories about vampires when she was little. She didn't believe them. Elena confirms they are and that she should of told her but thought if she didn't know she would be safe. Things spiraled out of control and everything she did to keep her out of it blew up. Jenna asks who else knows and asks about Jeremy. Elena nods. She asks if John knew. Elena says they were just trying to protect her and will tell her everything. Jenna admits she's scared and Elena puts her arms around her aunt to comfort her apologizing again and again as Stefan listens from the hall.
Elena closes the door and goes into the hall with Stefan who asks if Jenna is going to be OK. She tells him her aunt is in shock and she tried to tell her all she could but was barely able to scratch the surface. Stefan apologizes to Elena and she tells him it isn't his fault, it's hers. She tells him she has to go back to Elijah but he tries to stop her. She tells him of her promise to return and she cannot break that promise. He reluctantly agrees and she promises she'll be alright. Damon gets in her way and asks where she's going. She tells him back to Elijah and he stops her. She tells him to get out of her way but he grabs her arms telling her if she tries to take a step out of the house. Andie warns him 'easy' but he tells her to stay out of it. Stefan demands Damon let Elena go but he doesn't want to. Stefan steps up and again demands his brother let Elena go. Damon looks to his brother and tells him that was twice that day he stood in his way and he shouldn't try it a third.
At Alaric's, Katherine is continuing to enjoy the bourbon and music. She dances around the apartment taking an occasional drink until she hears the keys in the lock and Alaric/Klaus returns. She is sitting on the couch when he comes in. He tells her to turn the music down and that the body has outlived its usefulness when she asks why he's grumpy. She asks if he wants a drink, which he doesn't. She again offers the drink. He takes the bottle and throws it against the wall and grabs her to compel her to sit down and shut up. She obediently sits. The door opens and Maddox returns followed by two men carrying Klaus' luggage. A young woman next enters the apartment and Klaus warmly greets her as Greta (Lisa Tucker). She asks if he's ready to get out of the body he's in, which he is. They both look to the door to watch two men wheeling in a large trunk.
Elena returns to the Lockwoods as she promised Elijah she would. He welcomes her back and she immediately asks him to tell her what Klaus' curse is. He tells her his family was quite close but Klaus and his father didn't get on too well. When they became vampires they discovered the truth that Klaus wasn't his father's son. His mother had been unfaithful and it was her darkest secret. Klaus came from a different bloodline. When his father found out, he hunted his mother's lover down and killed him and his entire family not realizing he ignited a war between species that rages even today. The war between the vampires and the werewolves. Elena asks if that makes Klaus a vampire or werewolf. Elijah tells her that he's both. A hybrid would be deadlier than any werewolf or vampire. Nature wouldn't stand for such an imbalance of power so the witches sought to insure Klaus' werewolf side would become dormant. Klaus wants to trigger the werewolf part of him. If he succeeds, he can father his own bloodline and build his own race, endangering not just vampires but everyone. Elena points out that Elijah helped him. He admits he did that because he loved his brother but that has changed now and Klaus must die. She says he has the dagger. He reminds her that when a werewolf is wounded by silver it heals. Since an Original can only be killed by white ash on a silver dagger it wouldn't work as the silver wouldn't kill the werewolf. He says there's one way to kill any supernatural species: at the hands of the servants of nature themselves. As Elena knows, witches, if they can channel that much power. He tells her the curse must be broken during a full moon while Klaus is in transition as that is when he will be his most vulnerable. A witch with enough power can kill Klaus. She asks what if she could tell him she knows a witch that can channel that much power. He replies there's one more thing she should know.
He remembers the past and Klaus telling him the full moon is tomorrow and after all these centuries it's finally time. He tells Klaus he's been to see the witches and they believe they might know of a way to spare the doppleganger. Klaus feels she's nothing more than a means to an end and it doesn't matter if she lives or not. Elijah questions if she should die for his gain to which Klaus replies she's human and her life means nothing. Elijah begs him to reconsider leading Klaus to ask his brother if he's so foolish as to care for Katherine. Elijah says he isn't and Klaus tells him love is a vampires greatest weakness and they are not weak. They don't feel and they don't care. Elijah reminds him they did once. Klaus replies it was too many lifetimes ago to matter and to tell the witches not to bother as the sacrifice will happen as planned. Elena asks him if he found a way to save the life of the doppleganger and he admits he did. Unfortunately, Katherine took matters into her own hands first and she knows how that played out. Elena asks him if he cared about her too. He replies it is a common mistake, he's told, and one he won't make again then walks away.
Andie gives Damon a drink telling him he doesn't need to be angry with Stefan as he's just worried about Elena. He tells her to go but she continues that she knows he's worried about her too. He again tells her to go as Stefan enters the room. Stefan asks if he's tired of his plaything already and Damon tells his brother she's just a distraction. Stefan remarks that she's a person. Damon says Stefan should be happy she's here as it keeps him from going for what he really wants. Stefan turns and thanks him for being in love with his girlfriend. Damon sits his drink down and stands. Stefan tells Damon he can be in love with Elena all he wants if it means he'll protect her but he (Stefan) has the one thing he (Damon) never will: her respect. Damon hits Stefan and the two brothers begin to fight. Elena and Elijah enter the room and she calls to them to stop.
When Elijah looks upon the brothers, he remembers the past. Klaus enters the room angrily asking Elijah what he's done, something he doesn't understand. Klaus tells him Katherine has fled and asks what he told her. Elijah maintains he told her nothing but Klaus doesn't believe him and shoves him against the wall yelling for him not to lie to him. Elijah gives Klaus his word that he will find her. Klaus calmly tells Elijah that if he does not, he gives him his word that he (Elijah) will be dead.
Damon questions that Elena has invited Elijah in. She tells them she and and Elijah have renewed the terms of their deal. He assures them they will come to no harm at his hands and he only asks one thing of them: an apology. The brothers seem confused at first. Stefan steps up and apologizes for the part he played in his death as he was protecting Elena and he will always protect Elena. Elijah tells him he understands and everyone turns to look at Damon who is reluctant to apologize. Elena tells him the sacrifice is going to happen, Bonnie will be able to kill Klaus without hurting herself and Elijah knows how to save her life as well. She found another way as she told him she would. Damon asks if it is true and Elijah says it is. Damon then asks if she is trusting Elijah and she says she is. Damon tells them all they can go to hell and leaves the room. Stefan turns to Elijah and tells him Damon is angry with him (Stefan) right now but he will come around. Elijah whispers "perhaps".
Damon goes into his room and finds Andie still there and says he thought he told her to leave. She tells him he didn't compel her and she wants to be there. He goes to her and holds onto her telling her he's upset and she knows what happens when he's upset. She has to leave. She refuses as he needs to know someone cares about him, she cares. He bites her neck then throws her to the floor crying. He kneels next to her and forces her to look at him. He compels her to get out of there before he kills her and begs her to go. She gathers her clothes and turns to him once more then leaves.
At Alaric's apartment, Maddox and Greta are chanting in an arc of candles as Alaric/Klaus stands nearby and Katherine watches on. The light of the candles flares up and Alaric's body surges. He looks to Katherine and says "Elena?" in confusion then falls to the floor. Maddox stands and walks to the large trunk and opens it allowing Klaus, in his real body, to walk out.
For more information:
Official Site: http://www.cwtv.com/shows/the-vampire-diaries
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1405406/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/The_Vampire_Diaries
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