Music: Pause by Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo

Music posts aren't something I do often but some songs are so amazing you must say something about them.  Every once in a while a television series comes along that has a theme song you can't get out of your head or stop listening to.  And I'm not talking about Gilligan's Island, here.  I'm talking about shows that use actual songs for the theme such as Republic of Doyle (Oh Yeah by Great Big Sea), The Good Guys (Slink:  A Hymn by Locksley), Hung (I'll Be Your Man by the Black Keys) and the Australian one-season drama Cops L.A.C. (Howlin' For You by the Black Keys).

The new British drama, The Shadow Line is another of those shows.  It uses Pause by Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo.  An amazing way to start an amazing show.

In Pause, the vocals are delicate yet powerful.  Emily Barker's harmonies are stunning.  Her voice is soft yet carries with it an intensity that pulls you into the music.  There aren't many lyrics to this short song but there doesn't need to be as so much is said in just a few lines.  Pause isn't drowning in studio tricks and gimmickry.  It's simple, straightforward...and perfect.

As with most shows that use actual songs as their theme music, the mix of Pause that opens The Shadow Line is a bit different than what you'll hear on Almanac.  It doesn't matter which version you hear, however, the beauty, sadness, vulnerability and depth is there.

Emily Barker is a singer/songwriter originally from Bridgetown, Western Australia.  Ms. Barker and her band, The Red Clay Halo released their third album, Almanac in February 2011 drawing immediate support from BBC Radio.  The band self-finances all of their albums releasing them on Barker's imprint, Everyone Sang.  Fans in the UK can see Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo live on ten dates beginning 11th June, 2011 and running through 19th August, 2011.  (Information about the dates are available by clicking "Gigs" at the top of the Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo bandcamp.com page.)

I haven't been able to stop listening to Pause since first hearing it.  If it hadn't been for The Shadow Line I probably never would have been introduced to Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo.  And that would have been a real crime.

If you would like to hear Pause in its entirety, the song can be streamed from Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo bandcamp.com page.  You can also purchase the song or the entire Almanac album from their page (something I highly recommend!).

Recommendation of the Month: The Shadow Line

I love British television and I love a good drama.  When you put the two together you, more often than not, have the perfect series.  The Shadow Line is no exception to that.The series was created, written and directed by Hugo Blick and stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Christopher Eccleston, Rafe Spall and Stephen Rea.  It follows the investigation into the murder of Harvey Wratten over the course of a seven episode run.

The Shadow Line is anything but just another run-of-the-mill cop drama.  When Harvey Wratten is murdered just hours after receiving a Royal pardon along with his nephew, Jay, the investigation begins.  However, it isn't just the police wanting to know who murdered Harvey.  His nephew, Jay Wratten (Rafe Spall) wants to know as well and conducts his own investigation in his own way.  This also isn't a buddy cop drama in the least.  DI Gabriel (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and DS Lia Honey (Kierston Wareing) don't spend thier evenings laughing and chatting at the pub.  There is real tension between them at times.  They work together for the good of the case but she isn't afraid to question him and has seen at least one of DI Gabriel's secrets with her own eyes.  DI Gabriel was involved in a shooting where he was shot in the head and his partner was killed.  He has amnesia related to the shooting but not everyone believes his claim of remembering nothing is legitimate.  Even DI Gabriel knows everything isn't as it appears when he finds a briefcase full of money in his closet.

On the other side of the coin we have the criminal element from which the late Harvey Wratten came.  His nephew, Jay doesn't just want to know who is responsible for his uncle's death, he is driven to know.  Rafe Spall's portrayal of Jay Wratten is powerful and compelling.  He easily goes from grieving nephew to maniacal "interrogator" demanding answers.  No one, or nothing, including cats are safe from his desire to know who killed Harvey.

Joseph Bede (Christopher Eccleston) was an associate of Harvey Wratten and the two men started a venture together with Bede investing everything he had.  After Harvey is murdered, Bede makes it clear to those remaining in the organization, as well as prospective new associates that he wants to finish the venture he and Harvey started, make his investment back then he's out for good.  In his personal life, Bede's wife, Julia (Lesley Sharp) is suffering from early-onset Alzheimer's.  Joseph is determined to take care of his beloved wife no matter what.  Having lost someone extraordinarily dear to me to Alzheimer's I'm usually not fond of the disease being used as a device for sake of plot.  Seeing Sharp's handling of her character's illness, Eccleston's reaction as an adoring husband knowing what lies in store for his wife and how the Alzheimer's is actually written into the plot impressed me.  I didn't get the feel that it was thrown in as a simple way to make Julia Bede a sympathetic character or to try and give a little humanity to Joseph Bede.

Then there is "Gatehouse" (Stephen Rea).  He's a mysterious man in a dark coat and hat who manages to reach each person connected to the Wratten murder just before the police.  More often than not, those he comes in contact with end up dead

There are a lot of different story lines going on in The Shadow Line at once.  You have the police investigation into Harvey Wratten's murder, Jay Wratten's own quest to find out who killed his uncle, Joseph Bede's continuation of the operation he set up and put everything he had into, Bede's wife's struggle with early onset Alzheimer's, DI Gabriel and his wife wanting to have a baby and the secret he is keeping from her and, finally, but certainly not the least of things, a mysterious briefcase of money in DI Gabriel's closet and the mystery surrounding a shooting he was involved in and whether or not the amnesia he claims to have regarding it is true or made up.

While it might sound like so many things going on at once would be confusing, it really isn't.  The story is so well presented it's easy to keep up with everything and not get one confused with the other or lose your place.  Not once have I found myself asking "wait...what just happened there?".

Fans of other British drama's such as State of Play or Luther might find The Shadow Line to be their cup of tea as it sort of has the same feel to it.  The writing is strong, the acting is superb and each episode of The Shadow Line is better than the last.  The only negative thing I really can say about the show is that it will be just seven episodes.  Something this good, I could watch for much longer and enjoy every second.

Four of the seven episodes have aired already.  The final three will air on the 2nd, 9th and 16th of June.  Residents of the UK can watch previous episodes online at the Shadow Line Official BBC web site (link below).

The Cast of The Shadow Line:
Chiwetel Ejiofor as DI Gabriel
Christopher Eccleston as Joseph Bede
Kierston Wareing as DS Lia Honey
Rafe Spall as Jay Wratten
Lesley Sharp as Julie Bede
Stephen Rea as Gatehouse
Clare Calbraith as Laura Gabriel
Richard Lintern as Patterson
David Schofield as Sergeant Foley

The Shadow Line airs Thursday nights at 9:00 p.m. (UK time) on BBC Two.
For More Information:
The Shadow Line Official BBC Site:  http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0111dqc
The Internet Movie Database:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1701920/
TVRage:  http://tvrage.com/shows/id-28099

someecards.com Card Of the Week: 29th May, 2011

US Television: Breakout Kings, Episode 1.12, "There Are Rules"

Breakout Kings
Season One, Episode Twelve, There Are Rules
Original Air Date:  May 22, 2011

The Breakout Kings are called into action when five men escape from prison after an 18-wheeler crashes through the wall at Attica.  Ray sends Shea undercover at Attica to find out information on a sixth inmate who bailed on the escape putting Shea into danger.  Meanwhile, the new chief director pays a visit to Charlie letting him know that he wants to change things around with the team and they might very well lose one of their members.

Ronald Barnes (Jeff Seymour) walks through the yard of Attica Correctional Facility in Attica, New York holding a map.  He's walking as if pacing off steps to find something drawing curious looks from other inmates.  He makes eye contact with two inmates, Chester Rhodes (Avery Kidd Waddell) and Sandy Clemente (Dean Chekvala).  Rhodes taps on a table in front of yet another inmate, Tran Jun (Jeff Ong) who looks up from what he's writing then stands and follows Rhodes to stand before Barnes along with Clemente and a fourth inmate, Carlos Zepeda (Lombardo Boyar).  An inmate behind Barnes tells him he thinks he's lost.  Barnes turns and informs the man he's just enjoying the sunshine.  He's told by the larger inmate that that part of the yard belongs to him and he needs to get out of there.  Barnes looks to his watch and tells the man that it's funny as he was about to say the same thing to him.  At that moment, an 18-wheeler crashes through the wall of the prison yard.  As the guards start the lockdown, a man gets out of the truck with a gun and begins firing.  Barnes, Rhodes, Clemente, Jun and Zepeda run to the trailer of the truck and get inside.  In the process, Rhodes takes one of the guards hostage.  A guard fatally shoots the man who drove the truck into the prison yard.  The back of the trailer lowers and a black SUV drives out and through the hole opened in the wall by the 18-wheeler.

At the team office in Brooklyn, Richard Wendell (Gregg Henry) has paid Charlie a visit.  He reads off a list of complaints made against the team.  Charlie admits the team tends to be a little unorthodox but they always stay within the confines of the law.  Wendell asks if Charlie would say that with his hand on a Bible and receives no answer.  He closes the folder he is holding and sits down telling Charlie he's there to shake things up a bit.  Charlie tells him to speak with Director Knox and he'll learn they have all the necessary clearances.  Wendell informs him he did speak with Knox, once he became his new boss.  Wendell wants Charlie to put the fear of God in the cons to make the team more effective.  He tells Charlie he has a thick file in his office of guys that could replace any one of the mutts on the team.  Charlie tells Wendell they have a massive case they are about to take on and now isn't really the best time to make change for change sake.  Wendell stands saying he is going to study the case files and watch the operation and see if anything should be done.

The cons come into the main office and Lloyd is telling a joke, that no one seems to enjoy but him.  Wendell, who is leaving Charlie's office, comments on the team.  Charlie introduces him and Lloyd immediately says "it's a pleasure to meet you, Dick" and introduces himself then asks if he'd like to hear a tasty joke.  When "Dick" makes no reply, Charlie identifies him as the Marshall's new chief director then introduces Ray to Wendell.  Wendell leaves and Lloyd says he didn't know that Wendell was the boss but Charlie isn't pleased.  He tells the team they have no time for joking as they have a major case to work and a new director who is riding him hard for results and orders them to get to work.  Erica comments that it might be paranoia but she doesn't like the fact Wendell was just there, something Shea agrees with.  Charlie wants to put the issue to bed then and there and tells them Wendell might send one of them back to the big house, make his mark and take credit as if he put the team together himself.  He warns them if they pull their regular antics he might not be able to save them so the best thing they can do is play it straight and focus on the case.

Charlie starts the briefing telling the team of the five men on the run and of the guard that was kidnapped.  Ray runs down the crimes of each man.  Ronald Barnes was in for securities fraud and insider trading and took half a billion dollars before getting caught.  Before Ray can run down Rhodes, Shea tells the team about him.  He knows he's a bad man who has killed more people than smoking.  Ray continues with Carlos Zepeta who ran the biggest east coast car theft ring.  Tran Jun is a forger who has gotten half the Russian mob into Coney Island with his passports.  Finally, Sandy Clemente who is a drug runner.  His looks are deceiving as he's left a lot of bodies on both sides of the border.  He asks the team for thoughts and Shea theorizes that Barnes provided the money, Rhodes the muscle and one of his old prison buddies on the outside drove the 18-wheeler, Zepeta provided the transportation.  Erica adds that Clemente smuggles drugs over the border and this time it will be people--the escapees, and Ray adds that Jun will provide the passports.  Julie tells the team something just came in and Charlie informs them the guard that was kidnapped was found by a barn in New Paltz shot twice in the head.

The team arrive in New Paltz, New York where Ray tells Charlie Julie found out the land was owned by a holding company buried under a half dozen names and the bottom line is it belongs to Ronald Barnes.  Charlie asks the local police officer standing guard at the barn to open it but he's told they need a warrant.  Ray tells him they have exigent circumstances as the cons could be in the barn.  He takes a sledgehammer and breaks the lock then opens the door so the team can enter.  Lloyd notes that the cons have changed out of their prison gear into street clothes and Charlie finds where Jun had already started making passports by cutting up photos.  The local officer notices thinner tire tracks and radios to put out an alarm out for three cars and two motorcycles.  Erica corrects that it's four cars and one cycle.  From the office, Julie tells them that when Barnes' assets were seized, several cars in his collection were never found including a 1937 Jaguar Roadster valued at a half million dollars.  Charlie knows they will be using it to fund their escape out of the country and Zepeta will broker the deal.  Shea thinks they'll go someplace close and gives a few places where he can take them but Ray says he'll be needed for something else as there is a sixth set of civilian clothes and they need Shea to go inside, undercover, to find out who the sixth runner was supposed to be.  Shea is vehemently against this plan but Ray points out that the cons won't talk to a Marshall and asks Julie to run him up some prisoner transfer papers.  Charlie agrees with the plan and he takes Lloyd and Erica to check out the chop shops for the Jaguar.

At the office, Ray goes over four reasons why the sixth con didn't make the breakout.  He thinks the best option is that the sixth man was hurt and in the infirmary.  Julie confirms that five inmates were admitted a week before the escape.  Ray tells Shea he was transferred to Attica because he assaulted a guard at Sing Sing and assures him no one knows he's with the Marshall's, including the guards and wardens.  Shea isn't comfortable with the plan and wants to go back to Maybelle and will work the next case.  Ray slugs him telling him he would have gotten tuned up had he attacked a guard and they need authenticity.

Charlie, Erica and Lloyd arrive at a chop shop in New Haven, Connecticut.  Lloyd again tries making a joke but Charlie isn't amused.  Charlie asks the owner about the Roadster they're looking for and informs him if he helped sell it he'll book him on aiding and abetting.  The man nods toward one of the buildings and the team enters to find the Roadster with a man under it.  Charlie drops the raised side of the car down and the man starts screaming and, when asked what his name is admits it's Carlos Zepeta.  Charlie raises the car and asks where his pals are.

Zapata tells Charlie that because of Rhodes he'll be killed if he tells where they are and goes back inside.  Erica thinks that it should appease Wendell that they caught one but Lloyd doesn't think so.  She feels she's a necessity to the team, something else he disagrees with as she's just eye candy that can run fast.  As they argue, Julie tells them it will be her that is let go since the Marshall's let her go once already.  Charlie comes in for some water and Lloyd tells him he's been behind a desk for some time so interrogation might not be his strong suit and he has an idea.  Charlie declines Lloyd then comes back and asks what his idea is.

Lloyd enters the interrogation room dressed in a jacket and tie pretending to be Charlie's superior.  He tells Charlie to get he and Carlos coffee.  When Charlie leaves, Lloyd tells Carlos he needs him to talk but knows he won't rat on Chester Rhodes.  He asks what if he took Chester out of the equation by taking him out of Attica.  He will set him up at Maybelle with a new name and all he has to do is sign a form.  Carlos asks if it is legit and Lloyd tells him it is as legit as anything he can offer.  Charlie returns with coffee and Lloyd asks Carlos what he knows.  He tells him he was supposed to meet Tran Jun in Maywood, New Jersey at the bus stop on Palmer and Passiac with the money he got for the car.  It was Ronald's plan and he told him anything else.  Again, Carlos asks if the offer is iron-clad and Lloyd assures him an offer made by a U.S. Marshall cannot be rescinded under the law.  When Carlos starts to sign he realizes it isn't a transfer form and Lloyd admits he isn't a Marshall.

At Attica, Shea arrives and walks through the yard.  He sees an old friend, Stucky (Cle Bennett) and Stucky introduces him to a member of his crew Dee (Karl Campbell).  He tells Shea he always has a place at his table but in Attica, there's one alpha dog and that's him (Stucky).  Shea is cool with that and wants to know if Stucky can get him into the infirmary as it's easy work, something both Stucky and Dee agree can be arranged.

Two couples are playing a game in a house when Barnes and Rhodes break in.  One of the men tell them to take what they want and Rhodes hits him on the side of the head with the sledgehammer he used to break the door down.  Barnes points to an area of the floor and orders Rhodes to start tearing up the boards.  Rhodes doesn't want to but Barnes points out he can tear the floor up faster than he can as he's more muscular.  Reluctantly, Rhodes sets to work.

In the Attica kitchens, Dee tells Shea he couldn't get him in the infirmary and he's on bucket duty instead.  Shea protests it isn't straight up and Stucky warns him to take the job he's offered.  Shea and Dee fight, landing Shea in the infirmary.

The team are at the Corner of Palmer and Passaic in Maywood, New Jersey watching from a convenience store when Erica spots Jun.  The team exit the store and, when he sees them coming his direction, Jun takes off running.  He runs into the street and is hit by a bus leading Wendell to reprimand the entire team back at the office.  Ray asks what he would have had them do and Wendell said a real task force would have approached at a perimeter and surrounded the fugitive who would have known escape was futile.  Ray informs him they couldn't create a perimeter as three on the team cannot carry weapons.  Wendell orders Charlie to get the team in order or he'll do it for him, then leaves the office.

Lloyd and Erica argue again about how should and will be cut.  Ray orders them to shut up and look at the passports they confiscated off Jun.  They are remarkable quality and they got lucky as they could have carried the escapees anywhere in the world.  Julie informs the team she got a hit that a credit card reservation was made under one of Sandy Clemente's aliases at a private air strip in Delaware.

At the private airstrip in Delaware, the team arrives four hours before it opens.  Charlie wants them to bunk somewhere then come back after the place opens.  They bicker over which of the cons they will bunk with and Ray eventually is paired with Erica and Charlie, Lloyd.

At the hotel, Ray ends a conversation with his daughter as Erica exits the bathroom after a shower.  She asks about his daughter but Ray doesn't want to talk about her as he doesn't wear his kid on his sleeve as she does.  She tells him she does that way she has her with her and cannot get kicked off the team as she needs to get back to her daughter.  Ray tells her they have no idea what Wendell will do and all she can do is focus on her job.  Charlie and Lloyd have to share a bed because there weren't any two-bed rooms available.  Lloyd, much to Charlie's displeasure, talks a lot.  Charlie turns over and sees Lloyd's underwear on a chair and asks why they are there.  When he tells Charlie that he "sleeps unencumbered", Charlie jumps out of the bed.  Lloyd smiles and wishes Charlie "sweet dreams".

In the Attica infirmary, Shea's fight injuries are attended to.  He starts talking with the other inmates in the infirmary about the recent escape.  He notices one inmate isn't joining in the conversation and doesn't make a bet as to where the men will end up like the others do.  Shea approaches the man saying he should have been in on the escape and shouldn't deny it.  He asks the man for information but an intern comes in and takes the man out of the infirmary interrupting the conversation.

Barnes and Rhodes finally break through the floor at the house and find a stash of money.  Rhodes looks to the man he hit earlier and picks up the sledgehammer telling Barnes he'll be back.  Barnes stops him saying it was bad enough the guard was killed and if they get caught the deaths will be on him (Rhodes) and tells him to think.  Rhodes tells him they aren't any different.  He steals with his fists and Barnes steals with a pen and that he (Barnes) caused more devastation than he ever did.

While the team is sitting in the car at the airfield waiting for the escapees to show, Lloyd tries his Dennis Miller routine again causing Charlie to tell him to stop it.  Erica sees a car drive up and alerts everyone.  Ray has Erica and Lloyd get out of the car while he and Charlie remain.  Charlie drives the SUV after the car and stops it on the grass.  Inside is Clemente.  He gets out of the car and tells them none of the other guys are there, just him.

At the office Lloyd crosses off yet another captured escapee but finds that it's almost too easy.  Clemente doesn't want to talk to Ray as he knows he'll be killed if he does.  A knock on the door draws Charlie out of the room and, after he tells Clemente he's making a mistake and Charlie knocks on the window, Ray leaves the room.  Charlie tells him about Barnes and Rhodes entering the house and assaulting the civilian.  The man died at the hospital of a brain aneurysm.  Charlie tells Ray to do whatever he must to find out what Clemente knows.  When Ray asks about the chief director Charlie again tells him "whatever you gotta do".  Ray goes back into the interrogation room and draws the shades.  He takes a lighter from the table and puts his arm around Clemente's neck.  He burns his nose with the lighter until the man talks.  He tells Ray he was supposed to fly to some one-horse airfield in Florida where they would all meet and fly to the Virgin Islands.

In the main office, Lloyd tells the team Barnes isn't going to Florida even though Clemente said they were.  Lloyd feels Clemente was lied to as part of "Barnes' Strategy of Controlled Chaos" according to a Forbes article.  Barnes wants the authorities to think they have him because they have captured two of the men involved in the escape.  Lloyd says Barnes is in the northeast since he has them going south.  Shea calls Ray with news that he found the man who bailed on the escape.  He doesn't know why the man bailed out but he got himself into the infirmary before the escape.  Shea thinks the other cons in Attica might know he working for the cops and he wants Ray to get him out.  Ray turns to Charlie to tell him they need to get Shea out as his cover might be blown but Charlie says they can't pull him on a "might be".  Ray tells Shea to stay safe, find out what the guy knows and they'll get him out as soon as they can.  In his cell, Shea makes a rope to use later.

In the prison yard, Shea wraps the rope around Dee's neck and starts hitting him as other inmates, including the one who bailed on the escape, look on.  He tells Stucky, who is watching that he ran the syndicate, he ran Sing Sing and now he runs Attica.  He hits Dee one last time then frees him from the homemade rope and goes after the man who bailed on the escape.  He tells him unless he wants to be next he will answer his questions straight up and asks what he knew causing him to bail on the escape.  The man tells Shea Ronald was taking motion sickness pills and he knew that three weeks worth of pills were necessary only if you were going on a boat.  He knew Barnes was lying.  He couldn't quit the escape so he cut himself to get into the infirmary.  Shea calls Ray with the new information and again asks for him to get him out of Attica.  Ray hangs up and tells the rest of the team Barnes is taking a boat out of the country.

Barnes and Rhodes are at a storage facility and open a locker.  Rhodes goes inside to retrieve something and hears a gun cock behind him.  He turns to see Barnes holding a gun.  He shoots Rhodes and takes the boat keys from him and leaves.

Julie learns that Barnes had four boats that were all seized and sold at auction.  She names off the buyers including Gabe Trokie.  Ray recognizes the name and Charlie tells him Trokie was the man who drove the truck through the prison wall for the escape.  The boat is registered at Woodmere Docks, Long Island.

The team arrive in Long Island with Lloyd continuing to make jokes.  Charlie tells him to shut up and go show the harbor master Barnes' mug shot while he and Ray go to the boat with guns drawn.  They don't find him on the boat.  Lloyd calls to them and Barnes is standing behind him with a gun to his head.  Barnes orders Ray and Charlie to put their guns down and, after a few seconds, they do.  Charlie tells Barnes he has no way out as if he comes past them to the boat they'll get him and while he can shoot one of them, he can't get all three of them.  Ray tells Barnes they know about his stash and Barnes asks if they want part to let him go.  Ray tells him he wants it all.  Barnes tells Ray and Charlie to take half the stash now and get off the boat.  Once he gets into international waters he'll leave the rest of it on buoy marker 12.  If anyone follows him he will burn it all and will be taking Lloyd as insurance.  Charlie looks to Ray and says he wants the money first and gets off the boat.  He opens his jacket to show Barnes he isn't armed and walks up close to Barnes and Lloyd.  When Barnes takes the bag off his shoulder to toss to Charlie, Ray reaches down and grabs a flare and shoots Barnes in the leg with it.  Charlie cuffs him to take in.

At the office, an angry Shea arrives immediately telling Charlie there are rules and he should never leave one of his crew hanging.  A fight almost starts between Shea and the Marshall's until Wendell arrives.  He takes Charlie into the interview to speak with him and Lloyd turns the intercom in the main office on so they all can hear the conversation.  Charlie tells Wendell Shea has been having a rough go of it the past 24 hours and Wendell assures him he isn't tossing the gangbanger.  Lloyd and Erica are also safe.  Wendell wants Ray off the team because he's a corrupt Marshall.  Charlie asks for permission to speak freely and tells Wendell he's full of it and his whole issue of coming to check on the cons is smoke and mirrors.  Wendell maintains keeping Ray on the team is too much of a liability and Charlie counters that it's his task force and Wendell responds it's his Marshall's service.  He warns Charlie he'll be back behind a desk on Monday unless he backs off and changes his tone.  Charlie replies that there are rules and he will not leave one member of his crew hanging so come Monday morning he wants Wendell to make sure his desk is waxed and every pencil on it is sharpened because he'd rather be there than to spend another day here with out Ray.  If Wendell wants to explain to the feds about breaking up a team that solved a case of five escaped Attica prisoners in a day, fine.  But he will get his two cents worth in as well.  Wendell smiles and tells Charlie that if it goes south, he won't just nail Ray, it's on him (Charlie) now too.  Ray opens the door telling Wendell it's been on him since day one.  Once Wendell is gone, Charlie tells the cons to get changed up as the transfer van is waiting then goes into his office.  Ray follows him in and thanks Charlie for standing up for him. 

Breakout Kings airs every Sunday night at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the Arts & Entertainment Network.
For more information:
Breakout Kings Official A&E Site:  http://www.aetv.com/breakout-kings/
The Internet Movie Database:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1590961/
TV Rage:  http://www.tvrage.com/Breakout_Kings

someecards.com Card Of the Week: Sunday, 22nd, May, 2011

American Television: Blue Bloods, Season One DVD's Available for Pre-order

Season One of Blue Bloods is currently available for pre-order on amazon.com.  Right now, it's only available on DVD.  The price is $42.59, a beautiful discount from the list price of $64.99.  There is currently no release date available but that information should be available within a few days.

Blue Bloods: The First Season

Worred about the Zombie Apocalypse? Never Fear! The CDC Has Got You Covered!

Do you often wonder what you will do if and when the zombie apocalypse occurs?  Will you be able to survive or will you fall prey to one of the zombies or, even worse, not be able to make it through because you are unprepared?

Well, put your fears to rest.  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have released some tips and guidelines to let you know what you should include in your survival kit and how you should plan to meet up with loved ones. 

So, my friends, follow these tips!  They could save your life!

The zombie apocalypse guide was originally prepared and posted on the CDC Blog by Dave Daigle, a longtime CDC spokesman.  Since it was released Monday, it has drawn so many hits it crashed the CDC blog (I still can't get it to come up!).

Daigle, a 52-year-old father of four is one of several writers on the blog and said he was looking for a way to create interest in preparedness in the wake of the recent disasters in the United States and with hurricane season just around the corner.  According to Daigle, "Essentially, the kids and many of the messages are the same.  We have had a hard time engaging people."

For More Information:
Working Link:  http://emergency.cdc.gov/socialmedia/zombies_blog.asp
Original Public Health Matters Blog Link (blog currently not working):  http://blogs.cdc.gov/publichealthmatters/2011/05/preparedness-101-zombie-apocalypse/

US Television: "The Secret Circle" News & Video from Upfronts, 19th May, 2011

The CW Network released some great information, stills and video for The Secret Circle today at Upfronts in New York.

The Vampire Diaries will remain in its Thursday night 8:00-9:00 p.m. (EST) time slot.  The Secret Circle will air immediately after Vampire Diaries from 9:00-10:00 p.m. (EST).  You can see the entire CW schedule at Deadline TV. 

(The Supernatural fangirl in me cannot resist mentioning that the show remains in its current 9:00-10:00 p.m. (EST) Friday night time slot.)

Below are a couple of web clips released by the CW for The Secret Circle.  As of now, I cannot find these on YouTube on a CW official channel.  When I can, I'll get YT links up here for international viewers who may not be able to view these.

US Television: Hawaii Five-O, Episode 1.24 "Oia'i'o (Trust)"

Hawaii Five-O
Season One, Episode Twenty-Four, Oia'i'o (Trust)
Original Air Date:  May 16, 2011

Steve receives another envelope containing a brass key that belongs to a piece of antique furniture.  Laura Hill is murdered by a car bomb and Five-O begins the investigation.  However, as they proceed into the case, shocking details begin to emerge as to who was behind her murder and why.  Meanwhile, Danny and Rachel make plans to leave Hawaii and go back to Jersey together.

Danny is in bed watching Blue Hawaii as Rachel sits down on the side of the bed and tells him Stan is coming home tomorrow night and they have to tell him.  Chief Mahaka (Kelvin Han Yee) pushes a badge across his desk to Chin Ho telling him to take it.  He compliments Chin Ho for how he handled the situation with his uncle and all the false accusations of his having stolen the money.  It showed character and now that the the case is closed and his record is cleared the HPD would like to re-instate him as a Lieutenant, a bump in rank from his former position of detective.  Chin appreciates the offer but they are doing great work at Five-O and that's his home now.  As he's leaving HPD, he passes Sgt. Duke Lukela (Dennis Chun) and another officer.  Both men are carrying bags.  Chin asks what he has and Lukela explains a rancher found what looked like burnt money on his property.  They are going to run the pieces that still have serial numbers and try to figure out where it came from.  At Five-O, Chin talks with Steve about what he learned from Lukela.  Steve tells him it's impossible as both he and Kono saw the money burn.  There is also no hard evidence linking the money back to them and the exact amount was returned to the locker where it was taken from.  They both look to the stairs where Governor Jameson (Jean Smart) and Laura Hills (Kelly Hu) are descending.  The ladies stop and greet the two officers.  When the ladies have gone, Steve asks Chin when he's going to ask Laura out but he laughs it off.

Steve and Chin arrive at Five-O headquarters and Jenna tells Steve he has another envelope delivery.  He gets one every Wednesday like clockwork.  Inside is a skeleton key.  He explains that it drove him crazy as he tried it on every lock in his father's house and his father's old HPD desk and it worked on none of them.  Jenna did a little research on the key and found it belongs to a piece of antique American furniture from the 1800's, something his father never owned and Steve suspects it might have belonged to the person his father was investigating.

Outside, Laura continues to update the Governor on crime statistics saying it looks like the Five-O task force is making an impact.  The Governor warns they shouldn't sell HPD short as they are doing a great job as well.  She takes the opportunity to tell Laura it's perfectly alright for the woman to make the first move and tells her to call Inspector Kelly today.  Laura chuckles and goes to her car.  When she starts the ignition, the vehicle blows up.  Steve, Jenn and Chin Ho run out of the building, guns drawn.

Jenna and Danny survey the car and she believes some detonating cord was used meaning the initial blast came from the wheel itself.  Danny hands Steve a small evidence bag with what Kono thinks looks like BB's in it.  Steve identifies them as projectiles from a claymore mine.  Jenna finds an electric blasting cap wire from a claymore attached to the ignition.  She's seen a device like this one before and she knows who set the bomb:  the person who killed her fiance and Steve's parents, Wo Fat.

In the office, she explains that the improvised explosive device is one of Wo Fat's preferred methods of execution especially when he's trying to send a message.  Danny thinks the bomb seems sloppy but Jenna says it isn't, Wo Fat is just vindictive.  When Steve took out Victor Hess and the Yakuza he made it personal.  She brings up a visual on the screen and explains how the bomb works.  When the ignition engages, approximately 700 steel balls about 1/8 of an inch shoot out at around 4,000 feet per second through the interior of the vehicle.  The blast aims square at the drivers face making it a very personal targeted attack.  Chin doesn't understand why Wo Fat targeted Laura Hill and not one of them.  The first question is where he would have gotten his hands on a claymore mine.  Danny asks if they wouldn't have heard about it had one been stolen from a military base but Steve points out that the police would be the last to know when something was stolen from a base.  He tells Jenna to double check with all bases on the island to see if any claymores are missing.  She also offers to check with contacts she has on the black and gray markets to see if they know anything.  He sends Chin and Kono to search Laura's office while he and Danny check her house.

Danny and Steve arrive at Laura Hill's home to find the door open.  They draw their weapons and enter the house.  They look around and see the house has been tossed but find no one.  In one of the pulled-out desk drawers Steve sees a stash of envelopes exactly like the ones he has been receiving the contents of his fathers toolbox in.  He takes Laura's appointment book back to the lab for a writing sample.

Charlie Fong informs Steve and Kono it definitely was Laura Hill's writing on the envelopes Steve received.  The only difference between the two samples are slant and pressure.  She was under stress when she addressed the envelopes to Steve.  She used heavy pressure indicating she was very serious about what she was doing and her letters were upright indicating she was trying to cover up her tracks.  Kono tells Steve she and Chin searched her office from top to bottom and if she had any more of his father's things they were not there.  He doesn't understand how Laura got her hands on the evidence as it was stolen by the Yakuza.  Jenna calls Steve with the information that she pulled a serial number off a piece of the claymore and tracked it down.  The mine was stolen four years ago from a shipment destined for Iraq and the military held their own investigation.  CID investigated a defense contractor by the name of Dale O'Reilly (Val Lauren) but never convicted him or recovered any of the stolen shipment.

In Pearl City Steve and Danny go to a military surplus store where Danny tells Steve this is what it will look like when Steve dies; that will be his heaven.  They see Dale and speak to him but the man says Dale isn't there.  When Steve brings his photo up on his phone he apologizes saying you never know who will come looking for you.  Steve comments like someone in the market for a claymore mine.  Dale takes off running with Steve in pursuit.  Dale pulls a machete but Steve has his gun drawn and threatens to shoot him in the face if he doesn't put the knife down.  Danny says Dale's name from behind him and when he turns sprays him with pepper spray.  Steve asks him who he sold the claymore to and Dale screams out the name "Steve McGarrett".

At headquarters, Danny tells Dale he is definitely going down for accessory to murder.  He wants to know who told Dale to say the name "Steve McGarrett" but he's unresponsive.  Danny shows him a picture of Wo Fat and asks if it was him but Dale doesn't even look at the picture.  Danny informs him they tracked down the $50,000 Wo Fat paid him but he still says nothing.  Danny proceeds to tell him Wo Fat used the claymore to kill a government official, someone he knew.  Dale tells Danny he will not talk to him as Steve enters the room carrying a chair with a computer on it.  He raises the screen and Dale's brother, Army Sgt. Gary O'Reilly (Shane Seggar) is on video wanting to speak with Dale.  Gary asks Dale what's going on and when he doesn't answer, asks if he's still there.  Dale begins crying and Steve closes lowers the computer screen.  He tells him the next time he sees his brother in a federal courtroom when he's (Dale) charged with treason and crimes against his country.  He will be branded a terrorist and his family will suffer as a consequence.  Gary will be disgraced and forced to leave the service all because Dale won't talk.

Jenna congratulates Steve and Danny on their work with Dale saying between the claymore and O'Reilly's testimony they have Wo Fat cold.  All they need to do is find him.  Chin tells the three that he just got off the phone with the crime lab.  They finished processing Laura Hill's house and found prints all over the place.  The prints belonged to Steve McGarrett.  Steve had never been to her house before that day.  Chin tells his boss that someone wants HPD to think he's been there before as he's being set up.

At the Governor's Residence in Honolulu, Steve and Danny arrive as she's finishing a conversation with Laura's parents.  She wants them to be able to tell her they have something and they do.  Danny says they know who killed Laura and Steve hands her a folder telling her the man's name is Wo Fat and details his connections to the Yakuza.  She leafs through the folder as he's talking and asks why they think he's responsible.  Danny reveals they have a man in custody who sold Wo Fat the explosives used in the murder.  Steve includes that as soon as the man sits with an attorney he will give them a full statement in exchange for leniency.  HPD is taking him to jail right now.  She congratulates them on their work and asks how close they are to finding Wo Fat.  Steve says they aren't close enough and Danny adds they are piecing things together and would like to ask her some questions about Laura.  As she's telling Danny Laura never mentioned Wo Fat's name to her, Steve glances to a corner of the room and sees an antique bureau with a locked top drawer.  She asks why they think Laura was murdered and Steve says he isn't sure but they're working on it.  Steve thanks her for her time and he and Danny get up to leave.  She stops Steve telling him this is very personal to her and asks him to find Wo Fat by any means necessary.

Outside the governor's mansion, Danny asks Steve what is with him.  Steve doesn't answer right away but turns to watch the guard enter the security code on the keypad.  Once he has the code, Danny asks why Steve neglected to tell the Governor about the envelopes.  Steve asks if Danny noticed the bureau in her office.  Steve thinks the brass key Laura sent him fits that lock and he thinks the Governor is hiding something.

Steve and Danny arrive at Five-O headquarters arguing about Steve's plans to find out about the bureau in the Governor's office.  She had a press conference in a couple of hours and he will make his move then.  Danny tells the rest of the team Steve's plan to break into the Governor's mansion and everyone agrees with Danny that it is a bad plan.  Steve tells the team about the bureau on the Governor's office and Kono asks if the key fits what he thinks he'll find.  He tells her the rest of his father's stuff then answers his ringing phone.  He hangs up and tells the team the transport taking O'Reilly to prison just got hit.

Steve and Danny arrive and find O'Reilly and both of the officers transporting him dead from a hail of gunfire.  An angry Steve asks Danny how Wo Fat knew.  Danny pulls him aside to tell him no one but them knew O'Reilly would testify against Wo Fat but Steve reminds him the Governor knew.  He reminds him of her having lunch with the head of Yakuza and Steve feels she's in his pocket.  Danny says she's the top elected official in the state but he doesn't care.  If she caused the death of three people, she goes down.  Steve agrees they need rock solid evidence and Danny tells him they have to use their heads.  They'll look at all the evidence his father collected and see if it points to the governor.  Danny's phone rings and it is Rachel wanting to see him in an hour at Sand Island.  Danny goes back to Steve and tells him to go home and get some rest and in the morning they'll look at the evidence and come up with a game plan.  Steve agrees but when Danny walks away he takes the key from his pocket and looks at it.

That night, Steve waits for the Governor to leave her residence then goes over the wall and breaks into the house.  He goes to her office and tries the key in the lock of the bureau drawer.  It opens and inside he finds photographs of Laura putting the envelopes beneath the windshield wipers of Steve's car.

Danny meets Rachel at Sand Island.  She tells him she's pregnant and he's definitely the father.  He hugs her and she asks how she tells Stan she's leaving him and is pregnant with Danny's child.  He offers to go with her but she says it's something she needs to do by herself.  Once it's done she wants to leave Hawaii as it's Stan's home, not hers.  She checked with the airline and there is a red eye to Newark leaving tomorrow night.  When he tells her he'll come with her she says he can't leave as he has a life there.  He tells her she and Grace are his life.  Where they are is where he wants to be and will be.  She asks about his job and he tells her they'll go and get her settled in Jersey then he'll return to Hawaii, wrap up all his cases and that will be it.

Danny opens the door and enters the McGarrett home and seconds afterward, Steve grabs him with his gun raised.  Danny asks what's wrong with him and Steve asks if it would kill him to knock on the door.  Danny asks what is going on then begs Steve to tell him he didn't break into the governor's house.  Steve tells him the key fit and shows him pictures he took on his phone of the photographs he found in the bureau.  He tells Danny the Governor found out Laura was sending him pieces of evidence and he believes Laura was taking that evidence from the governor to return to Steve.  Danny asks why she did it piece by piece and Steve theorizes she probably hoped the Governor wouldn't notice anything was missing.  He shows Danny Laura's datebook and reminds him that every Wednesday he gets something from his father's toolbox.  They go back a month and find that every single one of Laura's Tuesday lunches are open.  The Governor has a standing lunch with the Chief of Police every Tuesday.  Laura used that time to enter the Governor's office and steal a piece of evidence.  Steve feels it's his fault Laura is dead because she was trying to help him.

Steve shows the team the pictures he found in the bureau and confirms that he feels the Governor had Laura murdered and Wo Fat made it happen.  The team want to bring her in but Danny points out they have no evidence except the photos Steve illegally obtained by breaking into her house and she could claim he planted there.  Steve says their focus now is to silently investigate the Governor like his father did.  Once they find something, they bring her down and she leads them to Wo Fat.  Chin's phone rings and when he answers it Duke asks if he's sure he doesn't want his old job back as it looks like his current one will not exist much longer as a warrant for murder has been issued for Steve McGarrett.  Chin goes to Steve to tell him HPD is on it's way to arrest him for killing Laura Hill.  They hear the sirens outside and Steve orders them to get everything off the screens and wipe the drives.  Chin asks Steve what he's going to do and he replies he has no honest chance of beating it if the Governor is involved.  Danny tells him to lay low and the team will get something on the Governor.  Steve again tells them to clean house as he's running from the office.  Kono works feverishly to remove all evidence as Steve runs from the building.  He is stopped in the hall by an HPD officer who orders him to put down his weapon.  He starts to get to his knees then stands and fights the officer to make his escape.

Steve drives up to Kamekona's house in a vintage black Mercury Marquis and tells his friend he needs a gun.  Kamekona points out he's a parolee and possession of a firearm can send him back to jail and asks where his gun is as he's a cop.  Steve tells him he's not a cop anymore and he needs his help.  Kamekona takes him to an old truck that is packed with weapons.  Steve chooses the weapons and ammunition he wants as Kamekona looks on.

HPD scours Five-O headquarters while the team waits in an office.  Chin refuses to stand around and do nothing and leaves the office.  Detective Ahuna tells Kono he has orders to bring her in as they have a witness that can place her at the scene of a break in at the HPD Asset Forfeiture Locker and she knows something about some money that went missing recently.  Danny tells her to not say anything and he will take care of it and she leavs with Ahuna leaving just Danny and Jenna.  He tells her to watch HPD while he find McGarrett before they do.  As Danny is leaving headquarters, Kamekona calls him about Steve.  He's worried about him as he paid him a visit and loaded up for bear.

Danny races to intercept Steve if he can trying to call him along the way but Steve doesn't answer his phone.  Rachel calls Danny to let him know she and Grace are at the airport and asks if everything is fine or if he's having second thoughts.  He tells her he loves her, everything is fine and he will meet her at the gate but he has something to take care of.

Steve arrives at the Governor's Mansion and one-by-one takes out the guards as the Governor sits inside working.  He enters her office and she tells him she was hoping they were wrong about him.  He tells her he didn't kill Laura, she did and if she moves he'll put a bullet in her.  She asks what he wants and he takes his phone out, turns it on to record and throws it on her desk.  He wants a confession.  He wants the truth but she maintains she doesn't know what he's talking about.  He tells her he knows everything and she asks why he doesn't just pull the trigger.  He wants answers and she tells him to trust her, that isn't what he wants.  Her phone rings and he warns her not to answer it.  He tells her his father was investigating her and he knows all about her connections to the Yakuza and Wo Fat.  He wants to know who gave the order.  He knows who set the car bomb that killed his mother and he knows Victor Hess killed his father but he wants to know who gave the order--Wo Fat or her.  She tells him he caught the man who killed his father and he took down the men who killed his mother.  She gave him the ability to do that.  She gave him the immunity and means and she protected him.  He states she put the money in the Asset Forfeiture Locker and she admits she was trying to protect him as Five-O has done a lot for the people of Hawaii.  He warns her to stop lying and says she created Five-O so she could keep an eye on him so he wouldn't pick up where his father left off.  She tells him she's always been loyal to those who have been loyal to her.  He asks if that's why she had Laura murdered because she was disloyal and the Governor answers 'yes'.

Wo Fat tasers Steve from behind while the Governor erases her confession from his phone.  She asks what they will do as they have to get rid of him.  Wo Fat assures her he has everything under control and shoots her with the gun Steve brought there that night then puts the gun in Steve's hand as the sounds of sirens grow closer.  Chin arrives with HPD and orders them to set up road blocks and get EMS there and orders other officers to accompany him.  Inside the Governor's office, Steve struggles to his feet as Chin and the officers enter the room.  Chin orders Steve to put the gun down as Duke confirms the Governor is dead.  Steve tells Chin it wasn't him, it was Wo Fat but Chin tells him they checked the house and no one was there.  Chin cuffs and arrests Steve and takes him from the Governor's house.

Danny arrives as Steve is being led out of the Mansion and Chin tells him the Governor is dead.  As he's being put in the car, Steve tells Danny it was Wo Fat.  Danny wants Chin to let him go but Chin says he can't as Steve was the only one there and his gun was just discharged.  Danny says they have jurisdiction as they are Five-O and Chin tells him there is no Five-O anymore.  Danny asks Chin if he just went back to them after everything they did to him but Chin doesn't answer.  Danny knocks on the window next to Steve and tells him he'll get him out of everything and to just hang in there.

Rachel and Grace wait at the airport until the final boarding call is issued.  They get on the plane when it's obvious Danny isn't going to arrive.

At the precinct, an elderly woman positively identifies Kono as the woman she saw near the Asset Forfeiture Locker.  Ahuna tells her she will have to turn in her gun and badge pending an investigation.  Behind them, Steve's mug shot is being taken and he and Kono see one another.

Hawaii Five-O airs Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on CBS.
For more information:
Hawaii Five-O Official Site:  http://www.cbs.com/primetime/hawaii_five_0/
The Internet Movie Database:  http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1600194/
TV Rage:  http://www.tvrage.com/Hawaii_Five-O

US & CDN Television: Programming Notes

There are a few programming notes to report tonight.

ABC Television has moved back the season two premier of Rookie Blue from 16th June to 23rd June.  The show will air Thursday, 23rd June at 10:00 p.m. (EST).

The New York Times ran a report over the weekend that CBS Television had renewed both Hawaii Five-O and Blue Bloods for a second season.  Hopefully, official word from CBS will come within the next day or so but given the respectability and reliability of the New York Times, I think it's pretty safe to assume both shows are definitely returning next season.

AUS Television: Offspring, Episode 2.1 & 2.2

Offspring
Series Two, Episodes 2.1 & 2.2
Original Air Date:  May 16, 2011

Nina Proudman is living a happy life in Baltimore, Maryland when she receives word her father has had a heart attack.  She returns to Australia and finds she must make a choice about whether to return to the United States or remain in Australia with the family and job she loves.  Meanwhile, Billie and Mick are trying to have a baby but receive disheartening news.

Nina looks out upon Baltimore thinking of her life there thus far.  She's been in Baltimore for five months, had zero panic attacks, has delivered 68 babies, has 3 1/2 new friends, has had 3 flings with quite nice men (no major sparks but at least the men were unmarried and not her sisters ex and refrained from blowing anything up) and her sexual performance while in the U.S. is an 8.  She's grounded, centered and living in the moment confident she can hang onto it when she receives a text to ring home as her father has had a heart attack.

Nina returns to Australia and is met at the airport by Billie.  On the way to the hospital, she tells Nina they've done another battery of tests on Darcy and they're just waiting to hear.  Their mother is stoic then just falls apart.  She's left messages for Jimmy online in hopes of contacting him as he's still overseas.  Billie tells her to check out what she's been doing in the backseat.  Nina retrieves a folder where her sister has been organizing a family archive containing key documents, photographs and family memories.  Billie can't identify one of the photos and makes a note to ask Darcy, something Nina questions if the time is right for or not.  Billie advises that Nina doesn't need to return and take charge as she's been the one holding the fort while Nina has been away and Jimmy's been up the Amazon.  As her sister is talking, Nina closes her eyes and remembers her life in Baltimore and how she felt while she was there until Billie stops the car hard upon arriving at the hospital.

Nina goes to her father's room and gives him a hug and kiss.  He apologizes for her having been dragged back home.  He tells her how the heart attack happened.  He took Ray to the park and while playing a game with him he played with the other Proudman children the heart attack happened.  He asks her to do him two favors:  stop Billie hassling him about photos and papers as it's making him feel as if he's already dead and most important, go to Geraldine's house and fish her wedding ring out of the S-bend.  She tossed the ring in there 15 years previous after finding out about one of his affairs.  Now, he wants to ask Geraldine to renew their wedding vows and he needs the ring.  Billie enters the room and straight away asks Darcy to identify some pictures.  She tells Nina to find the cardiologist as she should be their medical translator.

Nina leaves the room and sees Cherie in the hall.  The two women hug and Cherie tells her Ray is at day care as she's starting back to work.  As Cherie is giving Nina a Rescue Remedy, she sees the cardiologist coming down the hall and points him out to her.  Nina and Dr. Forbes discuss her father's condition as Billie and Cherie look on.  Nina returns to the ladies to tell them it looks like Darcy might need another procedure and Dr. Forbes will make that decision this afternoon.  Billie is shocked at how calm Nina apparently is over their father possibly needing a bypass and as she's giving her sister a talking to about her 'detached attitude' Nina zones out to Baltimore once again.  Billie asks her what she's doing and Nina tells her she's using her imagination as her ally as she needs techniques to survive re-entering the family.  Nina wants to go home and get a shower and meet Billie later to talk properly.  Billie warns her sister to pay no attention to the boxes and musical instruments all over her flat as she and Mick have been living there the past few weeks as part of the plan to do things the right way.  She can't get pregnant until they have enough of a deposit for their own place so Mick has been taking extra gigs and landscaping jobs and they've sublet his place to some French-Canadian acrobats.

In the lift, Nina contemplates going to obstetrics to visit her old coworkers.  The thought of running into Chris Havel crosses her mind but she decides to go anyway.  She receives a warm welcome from everyone, including Dr. Klegg.  Kim, who is sleeping under the nurses station is awakened to feed her baby.  As she's listening to the group talk about Dr. Klegg's willingness to have hormone injections so he could share in the breastfeeding (something he points out isn't beyond the realms of possibility, anatomically speaking), Nina looks around hoping to catch a glimpse of Chris Havel.  Zara asks if she's back for good and she explains she's there because her father is sick and has been invited to stay on in Baltimore to participate in some fascinating research projects.  She has great options and hasn't decided yet.  Klegg tells her it's a shame she missed Chris Havel before he left.  He moved to Brisbane last Tuesday as his wife got a job there.  Nina, shocked by the news of Chris' leaving excuses herself saying she needs to make a call and goes out to the balcony where she stood so many times to think.  Zara follows her out to tell her they all figured Chris had stayed in contact with her and asks if she's alright.  Nina says she is and when Zara goes back inside, she tells herself she is and goes back to Baltimore in her mind.  She's drawn back to reality by her phone ringing.  It's a clearly distraught Jimmy asking about their father.  After finding out Darcy is still alive, he asks Nina if she can come downstairs and rescue him.  She goes down and finds he owes the cab drive $80, which Nina pays.  Jimmy gets out of the cab and gives his sister a hug while a girl he brought home with him gets out and retrieves their luggage.  Jimmy quickly helps the girl throw their bags out of the trunk and Nina tells him to go upstairs and she'll take care of the bags.  Jimmy kisses his girlfriend then goes up to see his father.  The girl introduces herself to Nina as "Tammy".

In Darcy's room, Jimmy reads his father a note he scrawled in the margins of a newspaper after learning of his heart attack, crying as he reads.  Darcy tries to get Jimmy to stop reading but he continues anyway.  In the hall, Tammy tells Nina how when she saw Jimmy she knew he was the one she was put on earth to be with.  Nina stares off into space for a second thrilling Tammy as Jimmy said Nina 'goes into her head', something Tammy thinks is cool because she's doing it right in front of her.  Jimmy steps into the hall to tell Nina their father wants to ask her something.  Darcy whispers to his daughter to get Jimmy out of there as he's reading him the eulogy from his funeral and not to forget Geraldine's wedding ring.  Nina takes Jimmy out of the room telling him their dad needs to rest up.

At a table outside Nina asks how long the two have known one another.  Jimmy says he first saw Tammy two weeks ago.  She had just broken up with the guy she was traveling with and a week later, the two of them were canoeing through the Amazon when Jimmy got the message about Darcy.

Nina is walking along the sidewalk talking to Billie on the phone when she runs into Mick.  The two hug and continue walking.  He tells her Billie missed her a lot while she was away almost like when Rocket punishes him for going away.  Billie looks up from her work on the family archive and sees Nina and Mick walking together and laughing.  The three go to a cafe where Billie begins to nag Mick about not being late for a gig as it pays serious money.  When Nina comments that something Mick said wasn't in sarcasm, Billie remarks that Nina of all people is defending Mick.  Mick jumps on Billie's comment and she must produce a voucher for him, which he tears up.  Billie explains the actions in that they didn't want his sex with Nina to be a constantly oozing sore in the relationship so they developed a containment method.  He issued her 10 vouchers.  One could be used every time Billie played the "sex with Nina" card against him.  After the batch they currently have, there will be no more playing the "sex with Nina" card.

Geraldine arrives in her kitchen to find Nina under the sink digging the wedding ring from the S-bend.  She hugs her daughter and asks why she was in the S-bend.

In Darcy's hospital room, Mick is playing the guitar for him as Darcy looks over some of his music.  Darcy asks Mick if he kicks the bucket, will he finish writing the songs for him, which he promises he will.  Darcy tells him that he knows Billie is hard work but it will be a big relief for him to know Mick will stick with her.  Mick tells Darcy he is going to.

Geraldine knows Darcy is after the wedding ring.  She thinks the heart attack is her fault as he had chest pains after their last fairly vigorous encounter and she laughed it off as heartburn.  Nina assures her mother it isn't her fault.  Geraldine begs her daughter to talk Darcy out of making the romantic declaration, something Nina doesn't want to be asked to do.  Her mother asks if she's seen Chris Havel yet and Nina informs her he's moved to Brisbane.  Geraldine suggests Nina lie down there for a few hours but Nina leaves saying she has something to do.

Nina takes the wedding ring to her father and asks if he should hold off proposing for the moment causing him to ask if Geraldine said something.  She tells him he's all churned up at the moment and that she can be the guardian of the ring for now.  He gives it back to her and she puts it on her finger.

In the lift, Nina drops the wedding ring and the handsome young man in the lift with her, Dr. Fraser King (Jay Ryan), picks it up.  He asks if she's Nina Proudman and when she confirms, he introduces himself.  They make small talk about their first weeks on the job and her press around the department.  She drops the ring again and she starts talking and cannot stop.  She tells him about her parents being estranged, or were since they started having sex again and that her father wants to propose to her mother again.  As he compliments a paper she wrote on gestitational diabetes, she imagines him standing in the lift, completely naked and holding a file folder in front of him.  When the lift stops, he steps into the hall telling her he'd love to chat with her about the whole Baltimore experience.

She returns to her flat and is met by Rocket.  She hears Billie and Mick having sex and, as she walks through the room, hears another couple.  She realizes it's Jimmy and Tammy.  She thinks about how in the face of death rampant sex is understandable with the urge to connect to some primal force.  She goes in to take a bubble bath and wonders who she will cast in her own fantasy.  She first thinks of Dr. Andrew Rochford but he's not the right choice as she needs the fantasy to feel more earthy and achievable.  The second guy is turned down because if he talks in the fantasy he'll wreck it.  Third, Zara shows up and, while Nina would love to make the play, she sadly turns it down.  Fourth, she opens the door to find Chris Havel standing there and then immediately closes the door again.  The next time the door is opened Dr. Klegg is standing there to let her know the offer is still there.  Next, the handsome cardiologist, Dr. Forbes.  He's a maybe but it feels wrong since he's her father's doctor.  Lastly, she sees Dr. King and he kisses her passionately.  She enjoys the fantasy even though it definitely feels wrong as he's too young.

After her bath, Nina looks through the mail and finds a letter from Chris Havel.  He didn't want to disappear without an explanation and tells her an opportunity came up for Alice in Brisbane and he decided to take a job there as well.  He thought it would be easier for everyone, including her.  She'll always be very special to him and he wishes her much happiness.  She sits by the window crying as Billie and Mick come downstairs.  He's on his way to a gig and he orders him to ring her when he arrives so she knows he made it.  She changes her mind and wants him to ring her halfway there but only if he pulls off the road because he can't crash and die on her.  Mick kisses Billie and leaves the flat with Rocket.  When he's gone, Billie sees Nina has been crying and Nina hands her Chris' letter.  She reads over it then tells her sister she should have had sex with Chris a while back and flushed him out of her system as the sex could never have been as good in real life as it would have been in her fantasies.  She insists Nina now needs to cut the cord and burn Chris' letter, something Nina doesn't want to do.  Nina's phone rings and it is Cherie telling her Darcy had another heart attack.

The girls arrive at the hospital and Nina is met at the lift by Kim.  They need her help in obstetrics as they are short on doctors and Dr. King, who is still under review, is the only one there to deal with a breach birth.  She drags Nina to the room where she helps Dr. King deliver the baby safely.  She then runs to Darcy's room and arrives to find the rest of the family there and Darcy gone.  Cherie tells her they've taken him for tests.  Billie wishes she hadn't sent Mick away as he really loved Darcy and would want to be there; she needs him to be there.  Geraldine runs into the room and Tammy points up saying "he's gone" leading her to think he died.  Nina corrects her and comforts her mother.  Rocket runs into the room next and Mick follows shortly telling Billie they need to revise the plan as life is short and he should be with her at times like this.  Later, Dr. Forbes enters the room to tell the family they cleared the blood clot and, while they were there, managed to stint the other lesion.  There's no need for a bypass and Darcy is fine.  Everyone is overjoyed and Nina, who is sitting on Darcy's bed, begins to cry uncontrollably.  Billie comforts her sister while Sam arrives to lend support to Cherie.  A very drugged Darcy is brought back into his room where he takes the opportunity to propose to Geraldine.  After a few moments of apparent thought, she eventually agrees.

The family celebrate later at the pub where Nina gets very drunk.  Billie again tells her to burn the letter and Nina says she'll file it away in the defunct relationship archive as it doesn't feel right to burn it and throws the letter in the trash.  While it isn't as much fun as burning, Billie thinks it's a wise decision.  When Billie gets up, Nina pulls the letter out of the trash.  She lays down on the couch she's sitting on and decides she doesn't to give up delivering babies and wants to say 'yes' to being sucked back into the Proudman family vortex.  Jimmy covers Nina up as she smiles happily thinking "I'm home".

Nina remembers her childhood when her mother went to the doctor because she was pregnant with Jimmy.  Geraldine allowed both of her daughters to come into the room and listen to the babies heartbeat.  Billie was uninterested but Nina was fascinated and decided right then and there she wanted to be an obstetrician.  She relates the story to Frasier King over coffee.

Mick arrives at the doctors appointment at a fertility clinic with Billie.  She wants to do the talking as she told them they were trying to get pregnant for six months instead of two weeks so she could get the appointment.

Nina gives Frasier tips on how to introduce himself to women and their husbands.  She watches as he confidently walks in and greets a woman there to have her baby.

Billie, as planned, does the talking with the fertility doctor until the lifestyle questions are asked.  Neither Billie or Mick answer very well when she asks about exercise.  Then, Mick tells the doctor he's on anti-inflammatory medication after breaking his wrists last year.  Mick then offers the information he used to smoke joints, a lot of them in his younger days, when she asks if either of them smoke.  The doctor suggests they do a semen analysis, something Billie says they can do today.

The woman's labor intensifies and as Cherie is calming her, Nina continues to instruct Fraser.  When it's obvious the figures aren't what they should be, Frasier informs the woman they'll need to do a Cesarean and Nina tells her in 15 minutes she'll be holding a perfectly healthy baby.  After the procedure, Nina and Cherie step out onto the balcony where Dr. Fraser King is the subject of conversation.  Nina thought it would be distracting having a student but she feels she makes better choices knowing he's there and watching.  When she's at the store choosing something to eat she, at first, chooses something unhealthy.  After imagining the look on Fraser's face at her choice, she puts it back and chooses something healthy.

The next morning, Fraser catches up to Nina as she's arriving at work and gushes to her over a case he is working on.  When he walks away, Zara and Kim both comment to her that he really wants her.

Mick starts working on collecting the sample for the fertility doctor when he's interrupted by a call from Billie.  She hangs up and he continues and is interrupted yet again by Jimmy and Tammy at the door.  They want to stay there but he tells them 'no' and goes back to what he was doing.

Nina is having a meal with Cherie and Sam who are arguing about the fact Sam wants Cherie and Sam to move in with him.  Cherie turns her attention to Nina telling her there were some major 'love eyes' going from Fraser that morning.  Nina changes the subject back telling Cherie it would be good to tell Darcy that night she and Sam want to move in together.

Billie arrives at Geraldine's house to take Darcy to the cardiologists.  Darcy suggests that the family sing seven songs, as a family, covering the history of the marriage at the re-commitment ceremony.  Billie asks her parents if they were heavy pot smokers when they were young.  Darcy says he didn't care for it but Geraldine liked the occasional smoke which angers Billie.

Mick gets ready to take the sample back to the fertility clinic but his vehicle won't start.  He calls Billie who can't come get him and tells him to run the sample to the clinic.  Mick, who is wearing thongs, does as she instructs.

At Dr. Forbes' office, he needs another 10 minutes before their meeting.  While he's out, Billie calls Mick.  He answers but can only breathe heavily from all the running he did.  She asks if he made it but he cannot answer.  She asks him to give her one big wheeze if he made it, which he does.

Fraser and Nina talk on the balcony at the hospital and he talks to her about how everyone told him being in obstetrics would kill off his love life.  He comments on her as she's beautiful, crazy smart and could have anyone she wanted.  He asks if she'd wished she'd chosen something a bit saner.  She sometimes does but there are moments at work that make her remember why she loves her job.  He tells her that Kim and Zara re-enacted Nina's relationship with Chris Havel for him.  She tells him hooking up with someone from work can bring up a whole set of problems and he asks what if she's really smart about it, which she thinks sounds like a pick up line.  Her phone rings saving her from the conversation.  It's Billie calling to say she's found Nina's future husband.  Dr. Forbes is the male version of her and obsessed with her and she's arranged a date for he and Nina and she and Mick for the following day.

At Nina's flat, Billie points out what she should wear for the date.  She explains how Dr. Forbes is the perfect man for her.  The first sign was when she saw an owl on a shelf behind his desk.  Then, during the checkup, he asked detailed questions about the family to suss out if Nina is single.  She implied subtly Nina is unattached.  Finally, she asked him to dinner the next night with she, Mick and Nina.  When he got nervous, stumbled and used more words than necessary Billie knew it was perfect.

Darcy is playing with Ray at Geraldine's when Cherie chooses to tell him Sam wants her and Ray to move in with him.  Darcy gives his blessing while Geraldine sits outside smoking.

Billie arrives home to find Mick watching television with his bandaged feet up.  He tells her the swimmers are in and they should get a call in a couple of days.  Billie informs him they're having dinner tomorrow night with Nina's future husband.  He picks her up and carries her upstairs.

Nina and Fraser are walking and having a coffee talking about work when Dr. Forbes runs up to speak with Nina.  Fraser introduces himself to Dr. Forbes who mentions the date they have that night.  On the obstetrics floor, Fraser questions Nina about not recommending workplace dating.  She explains that it isn't a date as Dr. Forbes is her father's cardiologist and technically, they don't work in the same place.  Cherie comes out of a woman's room and brings Nina and Fraser up to date on the patient.  She then tells them she saw bruising on the woman's back when she was changing into the gown and the couple are hardly speaking.  Fraser asks Nina what they do and she answers their first priority is to deliver a healthy baby for now they focus on that.  They enter the room and Nina speaks with the woman but her husband answers all the questions.

At the pub, Mick receives a call from the fertility doctor.  She wants to see both he and Billie to discuss the results of the semen analysis.  She thinks it might be good to speak with them individually at first and she prefers to discuss things in person.

Fraser tells Nina the bruises visible through the back of the gown are really bad.  He asks if they call in the social worker but she tells him they can't do that yet because before anyone can do anything Kate needs to acknowledge the bruises were inflicted so they are going to wait for the husband to leave the room.  The two of them will leave and since Kate has spent the most time with Cherie they will see if she will open up to her.  Fraser is clearly unhappy with how the situation is being handled.  Later, Cherie tells them she got Kate to speak but she claimed she was getting out of the bath, slipped and hit her back on the taps.  Nina goes into the room and sits down with Kate telling her she's in a safe place and they're all there for her; she's there for her if she needs any kind of help.  Kate tells her she just wants to have the baby leaving Nina few options.  Nina goes back into the hall and tells Fraser they need to prep for an epidural.  He's angry they can't deal with the situation head on as he knows the woman is being abused.  Her husband walks up behind Fraser and asks if everything is alright and Fraser comments 'you tell me, mate'.  Nina pulls Fraser away telling him to go do rounds as he's no longer part of the delivery and goes back to the room with the husband.

When Nina takes Fraser home that evening she gets out of the car and tells him she understands his feeling of wishing he could do more.  But, they always can't do more.  He starts to walk away and she asks what he would have done as she genuinely wants to talk it through.  He admits he doesn't know.  He's still angry and comments he didn't know they also had to protect wife bashers as well as deliver the baby.  He starts to walk away but turns back and apologizes and takes her into his arms and kisses her.  She pushes away and he tells her she knocked him out the first second he saw her and every day it gets more and more intense.  He takes her in his arms again and kisses her and she returns the kiss.  She pulls away citing her date with her father's cardiologist.  Fraser asks how they are leaving things but she only tells him she'll see him at work.

Billie arrives home from a run and starts to run upstairs but Mick stops her.  She asks why he isn't changed for their dinner date and he tells her he was called into the fertility place with his results and they've got problems--he's got problems.

Nina arrives for dinner with Dr. Forbes and finds Billie and Mick aren't there.  The two of them talk and have a drink and Nina and thinks Dr. Forbes reminds her of her when she likes someone.  They talk and realize they have a lot in common.  She calls Billie to see why she's late.  Her phone rings and when she answers it it is Dr. Fraser saying he's at home and can't stop thinking about her and asks if she can come over.  She almost drops the phone and turns to see Billie and Mick walking in.  The four sit down at the table and Mick and Billie are clearly having a problem.  Billie starts to cry.  She gets her composure and starts making conversation again.  Mick tells the others they just found out he has dud sperm, drawing a reprimand from Billie.  Billie starts crying again and Nina comforts her while Dr. Forbes watches the scene before him.  Nina's phone rings and she's called into work by Zara.  Dr. Forbes walks Nina to the hospital and he asks her how long she thinks she'll stick with obstetrics as most change fields.  He comments she must get tired of screaming, hysterical women.

Billie confesses to Mick that she had two abortions when she was 17 and 19 and she's always feared someone would tell her she can't get pregnant.  Mick asks if his problem is a deal breaker for them and she tells him the point is they both have pasts and she loves him.

Dr. Forbes tells Nina he'd love to catch up again when they can find a night without a birth or family crisis, something she comments counts out most nights for her.  He sympathizes with her on the family front as he has a bi-polar brother, an alcoholic father and a mum who was a 1970's bikini model.  He strictly limits seeing them to Christmas, Easter and his mum's birthday.  When they arrive at the hospital, he asks if she knows when she might be free.  She thinks that while he's charming, rich and interesting he's dismissive of obstetrics and doesn't like crazy families.  She says she might have to let him know and they part ways.  She enters the hospital and goes about her routine thinking of what she will say to Ben Forbes.

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US Television: Breakout Kings, Episode 1.11, "Off the Beaten Path"

Breakout Kings
Season One, Episode Eleven, Off the Beaten Path
Original Air Date:  May 15, 2011

The team is called in when a dangerous psychiatric inmate escapes during a field trip to a medieval-themed restaurant.  As the man is a known killer, the team knows they must work fast before he can kill again.  When they learn he has abducted a young television host time starts running out even faster.  An old face returns to the Breakout Kings to help them track the inmate through the Adirondack's.  Erica has flashbacks of the area where they are searching for the inmate as it is where she sought vengeance on one of the men who murdered her father.  Meanwhile, Charlie's father's watch is missing and he blames one of the cons for taking it.

At Sunnybrook Psychiatric Detention Center in New Hampton, New York, several inmates are lining up next to a bus for a field trip to Chivalry Castle, a medieval-themed restaurant.  When the woman in charge of them, Paula Berry, asks why the are going on the trip one of the inmates, Kenny, raises his hand.  He answers because they listen and have good behavior.  She asks why Todd and Phillip aren't going with them and Kenny again raises his hand to answer because they didn't listen and had bad behavior.  She tells them field trips can be taken away so they must follow the rules then allows them to board the bus.  One of the orderlies, Victor, stops an inmate, Bennett Ballester, telling him he can't take the stuffed animal he is holding with him.  Bennett begs Paula and she tells Victor it's alright and to let him go.

At Chivalry Castle in Hudson, New York, Paula tells the inmates any misbehavior will result in the loss of all privileges and they'll end up in the isolation room.  She thanks an employee, a Green Knight (Sean Delaney), of Chivalry Castle for opening early for them.  She finds Bennett standing next to the cage of a falcon petting the stuffed animal he is carrying and looking at the bird with fascination.  She asks if he likes the bird and he says only "grandpa".  She asks "grandpa, what?" and he replies "grandpa painted" leading her to understand that his grandfather painted birds and asks him if it is a nice memory which he admits it is.  She pats him on the shoulder then walks away to check on the other inmates.  He watches her leave then turns back to face the falcon.  He turns his stuffed animal upside down and removes a tool from it.

The Knights are on their horses in the center ring and the jousting show begins.  The inmates watch and cheer as the nights joust with one another.  Paula notices Bennett isn't there and Victor goes to find him.  Bennett is using the tool he had in his stuffed toy to pick a lock to the staff weapons room.  When Victor finds him, he tells him he's in big trouble if he doesn't come to him right now.  He gets the door open and retrieves a sword which he uses to kill Victor.

At the office, as Ray briefs the team on Bennett Ballester, Charlie is in his office rifling loudly through the drawers of his desk drawing the attention of everyone in the main room.  Shea comments that the inmates were given a day trip and Lloyd points out integrating patients with the outside world is a standard and often successful practice when you're working toward rehabilitation.  In this case, it was clearly very unsuccessful.  Julie adds that the CCTV system at the Castle showed Bennett leaving the facility and Victor's wallet was missing.  Lloyd asks if Bennett has killed before and Ray confirms it.  Julie provides the information that Bennett was in for ten years for killing a local newscaster he was obsessed with.  She was engaged to be married.  Her body was never found but her DNA was pulled from beneath Bennett's fingernails.  Lloyd begins telling the group about erotomania, a common trait in stalkers, when Charlie comes out of his office and looks strangely at everyone in the room.  When Lloyd stops talking, Charlie tells him to continue.  Julie tells them Bennett should be in maximum security prison for life but his lawyer proved he was unfit to stand trial due to a history of comorbidity.  Lloyd asks Charlie if he's alright and he quietly tells Lloyd to finish.  Lloyd explains that comorbidity means that Bennett is "a whole cocktail of crazy".  Erica says there is evidence in the files of a diary Bennett's lawyer had suppressed during the competency hearing and Lloyd says he needs to see it, something Ray tells Julie to look into.  Charlie continues looking strangely at the cons as Shea says the only family is Bennett's brother and they should talk to him.  When Charlie gives Shea a strange look he asks him "dude, what?" leading Charlie to tell the team he's most angry at himself for actually thinking he could trust the cons.  He tells them his father's watch is missing and it better be on his desk by the end of the case or heads will roll.  Lloyd denies taking it and points toward Erica who also denies it as does Shea.  Charlie maintains he doesn't care who took it, he just wants it back.  He tells Ray to continue.  Ray and Lloyd will be going to Sunnybrook to find more information on Bennett and Julie should call in his brother for Charlie to interview.

Ray and Lloyd arrive at Sunnybrook and Lloyd finds the place undeniably fascinating while Ray doesn't like being there.  Ray asks him if he took Charlie's watch and he flatly denies it.  Paula walks up to them and introduces herself.  She tells them Bennett was an ideal patient who was on a good combination of meds.  Lloyd points out that his actions from that day suggests he had been off the meds for quite a while without her knowledge.  She asks how he knows so much and he tells her he has a PhD in behavioral psychology.  Ray wants to look over Bennett's room and see copies of his files and notes.  Lloyd asks her about the history of fixations he saw in the files and asks if he was fixated on anything recently.  When she admits she doesn't know as he had them fooled he asks if Bennett was close with any other patients.

Lloyd sits down to talk with Bennett's friend, Teddy.  He skips his usual talking to win Teddy's confidence and instead bribes him with sweets.  Teddy says "meow time" and points to the television.  Lloyd gives him the suckers and gets up.

Bennett is in a shop buying ropes and survivalist gear.  His last choice of purchases is a 19-inch stainless knife.  He surveys the knife then reaches into his pockets and pulls out two handfuls of money and gives them to the man behind the counter.  He picks up his purchases and leaves the store without getting his change.

As Bennett's brother, Calvin arrives at the office, Charlie asks Julie if she's had any luck getting a hold of the diary.  She's on hold with the lawyer's assistant at that moment.  Charlie points Calvin toward the interview area and tells them when he comes back, they better have a lead.  Erica says she thinks Lloyd took it and Shea says she might have as he knows he (Shea) didn't take it and he doesn't think Lloyd has the gumption to steal the watch.  Julie finally gets to talk to the lawyer and informs him his client is a fugitive and they don't have the time to get a warrant as it could take days.  When he hangs up on her she tells Shea she might need a favor.

In interview, Calvin tells Charlie he's ashamed to share the same last name with Bennett and if he knew where he was he would tell.  Charlie asks why he came in to see him and Calvin says it's because he asked.  Charlie points out that ten years ago when Bennett killed the newscaster no one in his family cooperated when he didn't mind sharing the same last name with his brother.  Yet, today, he makes the trip from mid-town.  Angry, Charlie stands and tells Calvin he doesn't have time to waste and asks where Bennett is.  Calvin swears he doesn't know and admits he should have told the police ten years ago that Bennett would disappear into the Adirondack's behind their house for days and sometimes return with a backpack filled with dead birds.

In the main room, Julie is searching for "meow time" and is having trouble finding a match.  Ray says that the session notes are useless as Bennett was running game on the entire facility.  Charlie enters the room and asks Julie to get him a map of the southern Adirondack's above Northville.  Upon hearing the location, a memory is triggered in Erica's mind.  Charlie tells them about Calvin giving him information that Bennett is obsessed with survivability.  Ray tells Charlie they need Gunderson but Charlie refuses.  Erica asks who Gunderson is and Lloyd tells her he was one of the first Breakout Kings until Charlie caught him stealing an eating utensil.  Ray points out Gunderson is a survivalist who grew up in the Adirondacks and is tailor-made for the case.  Charlie again refuses.  Julie has found "meow time" and tells the team it is the signature greeting of the host of the children's program "Goodnight Kitten", Debbie Myers.  Shea puts a picture of Bennett's first victim, the newscaster, next to a picture of Debbie.  The two women have a striking resemblance.  Lloyd says he'd feel way more comfortable if they let Ms. Myers know what is going on immediately.

At her home, Debbie Myers goes to answer the incessantly ringing doorbell.  Bennett is standing there with flowers.  When she asks if they are for her he says "hello, kitten" making her immediately uncomfortable.  She tries to shut the door and run but he manages to get inside the house.  He puts a bag over her head and drags her away.

The team arrive at the house and find that her car is missing as well.  Erica has been looking through Debbie's closet and believes Bennett took her ski jacket and hiking boots.  When Charlie comments he's heading into the Adirondack's, Erica again zones out.  He asks if she has something to say she tells him 'no'.  Charlie finds wedding invitations as Debbie was supposed to be getting married that Saturday.

At the Law Offices of Phillip Kincaid, Esq., in Brooklyn, New York, Shea and Julie arrive and speak with Kincaid.  Kincaid asks Shea if he needs help with some criminal issues and he tells him he does because he's heard Kincaid was one of the top criminal defense attorneys around and he knows a lot of guys who has used him.  Kincaid tells him it's a $5,000 retainer up front and Shea looks to Julie.  Kincaid asks who she is and she tells him.  Immediately, Kincaid tells them the diary, as she chooses to call it, has the words "dear counselor" written on the first page and "sincerely, your client" written on the last.  Everything in it is attorney/client privileged correspondence and tells them to leave until they have a subpoena.  Shea says he doesn't think so and tells him Julianne pulled up his court records and he personally knows ten guys who have used him.  Six worked for him, one is his second cousin and they all owe him.  Kincaid asks who he is and Shea says he's going to pull three names from a hat then have those three names cut a deal saying Kincaid recommended the perjure themselves for lighter sentences.  He's choosing three because it will ensure Kincaid will get his ticket punched and end up in Sing Sing where he (Shea) will make sure the right booty bandits run a train on him.  His other option is to give Julie the diary.  Kincaid chooses the latter.

Bennett stops Debbie's car on a deserted road in the woods and takes her from the trunk.  He takes the bag from her head and tells her she can come up front.  As he's putting her in the back seat, she asks who he is and what he wants.  She gets into the car and touches a bag he has in the backseat.  He cautions her to be careful or she'll crush it.  She looks in the bag and sees her wedding dress.

Charlie arrives at the office and Ray tells him they have something.  Gunderson is sitting there and smiles at Charlie as he walks in.  Ray tells him Gunderson used the information given them by Calvin to narrow down the location in the Adirondack's to locate Bennett.  Ray insists they aren't equipped for that sort of pursuit and since Gunderson grew up in the mountains, they need him.  Charlie still maintains they can do it with the use of technology and even K-9 units but Ray says they don't have the time as the girl will be dead.  Gunderson tells Charlie if Bennett is a true survivalist he will take the abandoned trails which are hard to find and aren't on the hiking map.  Erica's memories come back again and she sees flashes of herself hiking through the woods with a man.  Julie and Shea return with the diary and he says it looks like a mouse on mushrooms wrote it and throws it to Lloyd.  Charlie asks Ray what deal he made with Gunderson.  Ray promised him all the ribs he could eat, a 12-pack of beer and copy of Hustler.  Charlie consents that Gunderson can take them to the trail head but that's it.  If it looks promising, they call the local fire team from special operations, with which Ray agrees.  Charlie tells Julie to call the ranger on duty to make sure he meets them there.  Lloyd is to stay at the office and go through the diary as they'll have satellite phones and will be in constant communication.  Before they leave, Charlie warns Gunderson that one wrong or stupid move means he will bury him up there.

Bennett stops the car at a locked gate.  He gets out to try and open it and a ranger's truck pulls up behind him.  He orders Debbie to be quiet and the ranger tells him the road is closed.  If he wants to hike there he needs to get a permit and leave the car at the park entrance.  Bennett comments that rangers don't come up there this time of year and the ranger tells him he saw his car pull off the side of the road and again tells him to get a permit so he doesn't have to cite him.  When the ranger's phone rings, Debbie starts beating on the back glass and screaming 'help' leading Bennett to attack the ranger with his knife.

In Adirondack National Forest, Charlie stops the SUV behind the ranger's truck.  The team get out and survey the area.  Shea finds blood on a leaf and Erica calls them over to where Bennett has hidden Debbie's car beneath some limbs.  In the trunk, they find the body of the ranger.  Charlie says he'll call in the fire team and they have to gear up.  Gunderson points out the old tire tracks and tells them this is prime crop area for pot growers.  Shea reminds him the feds cleaned that up but Gunderson says a lot of the traps they set in the area to protect their crops are still primed.  He tells Charlie he doesn't need to wait for backup.  He'll get him where he needs to go if he trusts him.  Shea urges Charlie to not take the cuffs off Gunderson because if they go up in the mountains with him he's the only one coming back.  Charlie assures Shea that isn't happening.  Ray again insists they can't wait and he will personally watch Gunderson.  Gunderson again tells Charlie he can trust him.  Erica steps forward and tells them they don't need Gunderson as she knows the area like the back of her hand.  She chased a bail jumper who allegedly dumped a body up there.

Charlie chains Gunderson to the SUV and pairs the team off.  He and Shea will travel together and Ray and Erica together.  Gunderson asks Charlie if he's really going to bet on Erica over him and Charlie confirms he is.  Gunderson says they'll die up there and he'll laugh about it.

As they are walking, Debbie asks Bennett what a grown man is doing watching a children's show.  He tells her the show isn't a children's show and forces her to sing the theme song.  When she starts saying "goodnight" to different names, she asks what his name is.  Angrily, he tells her she knows and says 'Bennett'.  He tells her he loves her and when he turns around, she pulls one of her fake fingernails off and drops it on the leaves.

At the office, Lloyd is going over Bennett's diary which is full of pictures of falcons, and drawings of boxes and the number two.  Julie says she can't make heads or tails of it and asks him if he'd like to have some coffee.  He is absorbed in the diary and doesn't answer.  He tells her schizophrenics who take their fixation to the next level sometimes latch onto symbolic element and he has found "RBF" all over the diary.  Julie asks what it means and he looks at one of the drawings of the falcons and tells her it's a bird and asks her to pull up everything there is on the red-bellied falcon.

In the woods, Shea tells Charlie, man-to-man, that he didn't take his father's watch.  Charlie doesn't want to hear it and again tells him as long as the watch is back on his desk by the end of the tour he won't ask any questions.  Shea slips on some leaves and some cans fall from a tree.  Charlie draws his gun and comments it's a homemade alarm system and he wonders what else they planted.  They continue climbing as Charlie's phone rings.  Lloyd tells him the red-bellied falcon nests at 5,000 feet and there is only a quarter-mile section of the mountain at that elevation.  Charlie will notify Ray and he wants Lloyd to update him on anything else.

A strange animal sound catches Erica and Ray by surprise.  She tells him it's a fisher cat and nothing to be worried about.  He asks if she studied the mountains when she was chasing the bail jumper and she confirms she did.  He grabs her hand and pushes her coat sleeve up exposing the marks on her wrist and asks if it has anything to do with the guys who killed her father that she allegedly made disappear.  She has a memory of firing a gun and just says "allegedly" to Ray.  She looks down and sees the fingernail Debbie dropped.  She tells him to call Charlie as they're on the right trail and she continues walking.

Bennett points out a red-bellied falcon nest to Debbie as they are walking.  He tells her when the birds mate, they do so for life.  He looks behind her and asks "do you remember their eggs?  Those pretty eggs?".  He continues talking to someone she cannot see causing her to ask him who he's talking to as there's nobody there.  He tells her she sang to him on her show and said his name.  She looked right into the camera and said "goodnight, Bennett" then went off to marry him.  He jerks her to the forest floor.  She pleads with him saying there are lots of little boys out there named "Bennett" and if she said his name before it didn't mean anything.  He tells her they will be together forever and jerks her to her feet so they can continue walking.

Debbie is tied to a tree and asks Bennett what he will do with her and to just let her go.  When he doesn't answer her, she yells for him to kill himself.  He walks to her and takes out a knife and cuts the palm of her hand then cuts his and presses their hands together.  Their blood is the same now and they belong together.  He looks to the side and angrily tells an invisible person not to talk about her like that.  He tells them she just doesn't understand yet and gets up and walks away.

Julie asks Lloyd why Bennett is so obsessed with birds and he explains Bennett will "marry" Debbie than rape and kill her.  In his mind, the woman he loved betrayed him so he will try to possess Debbie with the same ritual.  He has an intricate ceremony laid out and will try to do it at a specific time.  He points out the "2's" on several pages of the diary and the drawings of cubes.  He realizes they symbolize "two cubed" and Julie says "eight".  The ritual will happen at eight o'clock and it's now seven-thirty.  Lloyd calls Charlie with word that Bennett's ceremony will be happening at eight giving them a half hour to save Debbie.  Julie remarks to Lloyd that he is amazing.

Debbie hears a helicopter overhead but Bennett tells her they can't see her and she should stop crying as it's disgusting.  He shows her what she looks like in a mirror, gives it to her and tells her to clean herself up as today is her wedding day.

As Ray is receiving word from Charlie about the time of the ceremony, Erica again remembers walking through the woods with a man.  She tells him he took her father from her and he tells her he wasn't the only one and didn't pull the trigger.  She tells him it's four down and two to go then shoots him.  Ray snaps her out of her thoughts and urges her ahead.  She climbs over a fallen tree and Ray throws his pack to her.  When he climbs through the limbs of the tree, he steps into a bear trap.  Debbie, still hearing the helicopter, tries using the sunlight to reflect off the mirror in hopes someone will see it and come to her rescue.  As Erica is trying to free Ray, she sees the glint from Debbie's mirror.  Ray orders her to leave him and go check it out.  Bennett turns and looks to Debbie who hides the mirror.  Erica runs toward the glint and sees Debbie alone.  She cautiously goes to her and is able to cut her loose before Bennett comes up behind her.  Erica yells for Debbie to run, which she does.  She tells Bennett it is over and as she's backing away from him holding her knife, she trips over a rock.  He raises his own knife ordering her to drop hers, which she does.

Charlie and Shea hear Debbie crying and soon see her running through the forest.  Charlie identifies himself as a Marshall and she tells him Bennett has got her.  Charlie figures out it is Erica he has and asks Debbie where she ran from.  She points behind her telling him about five minutes that way.  Charlie orders Shea to cut Debbie loose and he goes to save Erica.

Bennett has Erica dressed in Debbie's wedding gown and tied to a tree.  She is able to free her hands and as she's trying to make her escape he sees and stops her.  He tells her she ruined everything and puts his knife to her throat.  In the office, Lloyd notes it's eight o'clock and he hopes they got to Debbie.  Bennett tells Erica the most painless way to kill an animal is by cutting off their head quickly.  If the knife isn't sharp enough, cut the throat at the carotid artery and press on the neck so the blood drains quickly.  Charlie, his gun raised, yells to Bennett wanting to talk.  Bennett tells him Erica took away what was his.  Charlie tells him Calvin wants him to come back home but Bennett says he is home.  Charlie orders Bennett twice to put the knife down.  Bennett looks overhead at one of the choppers flying over then back to Erica and tells her to 'say goodbye'.  She yells to Charlie who shoots Bennett.

The team arrive back at the office where Lloyd and Julie are both asleep.  Charlie tells Julie to get Ray to a hospital and the cons to get changed up so he can take them back to Maybelle.  Julie tells Ray Debbie is with her fiance and is doing fine and Gunderson wants to know when he can get his ribs, beer and Hustler.  Lloyd congratulates Charlie on his marksmanship.  Erica touches the marks on her wrist with a faraway look in her eyes bringing a knowing look from Ray.  He goes into the restroom to get a look at his leg.  While in there, he finds Charlie's watch on top of the paper towel dispenser.  He takes it into Charlie's office and hands it to him.  Charlie asks who had it and Ray tells him the paper towel holder.  Charlie remembers taking the watch off and leaving it there when he cleaned his shirt.  Ray tells him not to say anything to the cons and it will make him lose credibility.  After Ray has left, Charlie goes out to where the cons are and tells them he misplaced his watch and no one took it, but he doesn't actually apologize.  When he walks away, Lloyd asks if he just heard what he thought he heard and Shea remarks "I think so".  As they are walking to the elevator, Lloyd mutters he's pretty sure he didn't hear an apology.

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