BBC One has given fans of Luther a very exciting present today: a preview clip of series two!
Ever since the last second of series one ended I've been eagerly awaiting the start of series two. As of right now, there isn't a set date when the series will begin but that information should be coming soon. The clip certainly doesn't give any major plot points away but that's a good thing, I think. It's always much more fun to see the shocking developments as they happen than to see/read spoilers and nothing be unexpected.
You can watch the clip here off the BBC's official YouTube network or you can go to the official BBC web site for Luther and watch the clip there (for UK residents only).
Friday, May 6, 2011
US Television: Vampire Diaries, Episode 2.21 "The Sun Also Rises"
Vampire Diaries
Season Two, Episode 2.21, The Sun Also Rises
Original Air Date: May 5, 2011
The night of the ritual has arrived and Klaus has everything, and everyone in place. Up until the last minute, Bonnie, Jeremy and John look for a way to save Elena. Jeremy and John find a way but the price that must be paid is great. Bonnie steps into action against Klaus. Matt makes it clear to Caroline how he feels about her life now. Tyler and Caroline come to an understanding in their friendship. Damon finally reveals he was bitten by Tyler Lockwood and Stefan vows to find a cure for his brother.
Caroline and Matt are trapped in the Lockwood cellar while Tyler, in wolf form, rages outside the gate trying to get to them. Matt fires the gun against Caroline's protests as she knows the wolf is still Tyler. The wolf slumps to the floor wounded and Caroline opens the door and tells Matt to take her hand. He wants to shoot again but she insists he take her hand. When he does, she secures their escape from the cellar.
Katherine and Damon look over the werewolf bite on Damon's arm. She doesn't think it looks that bad but he says it will be. She asks if he's going to just die and he counters if she knows anything about a cure, which she doesn't. He puts on his jacket to leave and she asks if after 145 years she doesn't even get a last goodbye. He tells her she doesn't get one. She gets in his way telling him not to leave mad. She insists Klaus forced her to call Jenna and she didn't have a choice but he says that's why he gave her the vervain. Katherine states it was Jenna or her and she chose Jenna. He points out that Katherine is the only one that will win in the entire situation and asks how it happened. She calmly tells him she didn't let love get in the way. He tells her to enjoy and eternity alone and starts to leave. She asks what he is going to do and he turns to tell her he's going to offer himself as a replacement to Klaus. She reminds him that Klaus saw his werewolf bite and will not take him as a replacement because of it.
Elena asks Jenna if she remembers what happened. Jenna says she (Elena) called her because she was scared but realizes it was really Katherine who called. When she walked into the house a vampire grabbed her and made her drink his blood and she doesn't remember anything after that. She asks Elena why she doesn't remember anything and Elena wants to know if Jenna remembers what she told her about how someone becomes a vampire, which she does. The realization she is a vampire dawns on her as Greta walks over to the two women telling Jenna she bets she is hungry. Elena makes a move to overtake Greta but the witch throws her back and sets a ring of fire burning around Elena to keep her in place. Greta cuts her wrist and offers it to Jenna who is reluctant to take it. The longer Greta holds her wrist before Jenna the less she can hold out and she eventually takes Greta's wrist to drink her blood. When Greta feels Jenna has had enough she pushes her to the ground and walks away. She turns back around and sets a ring of fire to burning around Jenna like she did with Elena.
At the old plantation, Jeremy and Bonnie are going through the old grimoirs to find a spell that will prevent Elena from becoming a vampire but they are finding nothing. Alaric, Stefan and Elijah arrive at the plantation and Elijah explains the ritual further saying things will happen in stages. The werewolf will die first, then the vampire and finally the doppleganger. Once Elena dies the curse will be broken and Klaus will become hybrid. He will be vulnerable during his transformation and Bonnie will be able to kill him during that time. Elijah assures them if Bonnie can deliver Klaus to the brink of death he will personally finish the job of killing Klaus. Stefan's phone rings and it is Damon calling to tell his brother he won't like what he's about to tell him. He tells Stefan the sacrifice is happening and he tried to stop it but it got complicated. Stefan tells him they are sticking with the original plan and meeting Bonnie as they speak. Damon tells Stefan about Jenna and the latter turns to look at Alaric as Damon continues to tell him Klaus will be using Jenna as the vampire for the ritual.
Jenna tells Elena she feels like herself only not. Everything is brighter and more amplified. Part of her is terrified but part of her doesn't want to feel anything. Tearfully, Jenna asks if she's going to die and Elena forcefully tells her she will not let that happen no matter what she has to do. Behind them, they hear the painful screams of a woman and they both look. Greta leads Jules in and throws her to the ground. Jules asks what is happening to her and Greta informs her she cast a spell to slow down her transformation so her insides are trying to tear themselves free then raises a circle of fire around her. Elena tells Greta witches are supposed to maintain the balance of nature and it is her duty to them to keep the curse sealed. Greta tells her her duty is to Klaus. Klaus steps out of the shadows and asks the women if they are ready.
Caroline and Matt enter the Lockwood house and lock themselves in. Matt doesn't feel they are safe there as Tyler will get in if he wants to. Caroline asks how he knew what she was since she compelled him to forget. He tells her he was on vervain and faked forgetting so he could spy on her for her mother. Shocked, Caroline asks him what her mother said. He tells her Liz Forbes hates vampires, she always has and probably always will. She asks where this leaves them and he shakes his head and tells her stuck in the house trying not to get mauled to death by a friend.
Damon answers a knock at the door to find John Gilbert standing there. John is worried because Elena hasn't returned any of his calls for days and he wants to see her. Damon informs him that Klaus has taken Elena and the sacrifice is happening that night. John asks how he could let that happen and that he was supposed to keep Elena safe. Damon says she is safe as he fed her his blood. John makes a move against Damon who throws him against the wall. John tells Damon he ruined Elena's life. Damon understands this and tells him it gets worse, something John doesn't think is actually possible.
Jules screams in agony as Klaus hands the moonstone over to Greta so they can begin the ritual. She begins the ritual and Klaus walks to the circle around Jules. Jules looks to Elena and tells her everything she did she was just trying to help Tyler as she didn't want him to be alone. The circle of fire goes out around Jules. She tries to escape but Klaus is on her in a flash and takes her to the ground and plunges his hand into her chest and pulls out her heart as Elena and Jenna watch in horror.
Jeremy finds some kind of resuscitative spell in Emily Bennett's grimoire. Bonnie saw it but Emily didn't explain exactly what the spell did. Jeremy thinks Jonathan Gilbert might have written about the spell in his journals and suggests he will have Stefan bring them. They hear someone enter the house and soon Alaric walks into the room with them. He tells them Elijah and Stefan are upstairs and he asks Bonnie if he can have a second with Jeremy. When Bonnie has gone, Alaric tells him something has happened with Jenna. Upstairs, Stefan is telling Bonnie about the developments with Jenna and Elijah explains Jenna was punishment for meddling. Bonnie wants to go now before Jenna can be sacrificed but Stefan tells her she will die and that isn't an option. Stefan tells Bonnie they are going to offer another vampire that Klaus will want more. He will offer himself to Klaus.
Klaus squeezes the blood from Jules' heart into the boiling liquid Greta is chanting over and asks if it is working, which she confirms. Jenna tells Elena that the day the lawyers called to tell her she was going to be the guardian for her and Jeremy her first thought was "isn't there someone else who can do this?". She tells Elena she failed her, something which Elena vehemently denies saying she is the one who failed. She tells Jenna that being a vampire makes her stronger and faster and she can fight back. She tells her aunt she will get through it and be alright but she wants her to promise that when she gets the chance she will run. Jenna nods her head in agreement.
Matt looks out the window and asks if Caroline thinks he killed Tyler. She tells him it takes a lot more than one bullet to kill a werewolf. She asks him if he thinks her mother wants to kill her and he responds he thinks her mother doesn't know what to do with her daughter. They hear a sound on the front porch and Matt, gun in hand, goes to check it out. Caroline won't let him shoot and looks out the door glass to see Tyler on the porch. She tells Matt to give her his jacket and opens the door and puts the jacket around Tyler who looks up to her and says her name with a confused look on his face.
Elijah tells Stefan Bonnie did a locator spell to tell them exactly where Klaus has Jenna and Elena. Stefan says he will head over first and Elijah and Bonnie will come in second at the right time, just as the moon hits it's final phase. Elijah insists Bonnie must stay hidden until the time is right as Klaus cannot know she's alive. As Stefan starts to leave Elijah tells him he is very honorable. Stefan stops and looks to Elijah and asks if he is because the whole plan is contingent upon Elijah's honor. Elijah tells him he will not fail him but Stefan brings up that Klaus is his brother. Elijah tells him that he had siblings and a family but over the centuries Klaus hunted them down one by one and took them from him and scattered them across the seas where their bodies could not be found. Stefan comments that Elijah wants revenge and the latter admits that sometimes there is honor in revenge. Again, he assures Stefan that he will not fail him. Stefan then asks Elijah to 'please end this' and walks away.
John Gilbert arrives at the old plantation with a box full of the Gilbert journals. He believes he knows of the spell from Emily Bennett's grimoire. Upstairs, Alaric tells Damon of Stefan's revised plans, which don't make him very happy. Damon insists they have a witch that can kill Klaus but Alaric reminds him it will kill Bonnie. Damon strikes the wall in anger and recoils in pain bringing a look and question of concern from Alaric.
Greta continues chanting the spell as Klaus turns to Jenna. Elena begs him to let Jenna go since she followed his rules and didn't run. They can't leave Jeremy without a family. Klaus smiles and says he doesn't recall you being on the guest list and turns to look up at Stefan who is standing on the hill above them. Jenna and Elena look to Stefan as he tells Klaus he is there to talk and Klaus goes up to speak with him.
Bonnie and John tell Damon they found something in the Gilbert journals. A mother called on the services of Emily Bennett because her child was sick and dying. Emily cast a spell that would bind the woman's life force with her child's. The child died but the mothers life force flowed through her restoring her to life. If Elena's soul remains intact she will come back to life and not as a vampire. Damon protests the plan but John tells him he refuses to let Elena become the thing he's spent his life protecting her against.
Jenna and Elena wonder what is being said between Stefan and Klaus and Elena tells her aunt she can hear what they are saying if focuses on them. Stefan tells Klaus he will take Jenna's place. Klaus comments he rather appreciates the symmetry of three women, three goddesses sacrificed at natures altar. Jenna struggles to listen to the conversation and can finally hear them talking and hears Stefan tell Klaus to make the trade of him for Jenna. She tells Elena that Stefan is wanting to take her place.
Matt asks Caroline how Tyler is doing and she tells him he's sleeping and he should be better by morning after some rest. Matt tells her the last few days with her have been great and he thought he might be able to get past the vampire thing but he doesn't know if he can. He understands this is her life now but his life is an absentee mom, a bunch of bills to pay, school and a job. It's bad sometimes but it is his life and he thinks he wants to live it without everything in Caroline's world.
Bonnie works Emily Bennett's spell with John as Damon and Jeremy anxiously wait. When the spell is complete, they start to leave for the meeting with Klaus. Jeremy wants to go with Bonnie but she casts a spell on him to keep him from leaving with her. When everyone leaves the house Alaric finds he cannot exit the door. Bonnie has cast yet another spell to prevent him from leaving so he will not get hurt.
Stefan and Klaus come down from the hill and Stefan tells Elena it will be OK. Klaus, holding a stake, asks Elena who it will be and waves the stake from Jenna to Stefan. She says 'no' and Klaus tells her not to worry as there actually is no choice. He goes behind Stefan and plunges the stake into his back. Klaus has other plans for Stefan and he wants him alive. Greta lowers the circle of fire around Jenna and Elena tries to get out of her circle. Jenna tells her it is alright as she knows what she has to do. She rushes to Greta and bites her neck. Klaus comes up behind Jenna and plunges the stake into her back then throws her to the ground as Elena stands watching, crying. Jenna looks up to her niece and Elena tells her to to just turn it off and she won't be scared anymore. Klaus turns Jenna over onto her back and plunges the stake into her heart.
Stefan awakens and sees Jenna's lifeless body with the stake still in it. Greta continues the spell as Stefan whispers "I'm so sorry" to Elena. She shushes him and whispers back "they're gonna kill him". Klaus walks to Elena and tells her it is time. The circle of fire around her extinguishes and he puts his hand out for her. She stands and walks past him to stand next to the altar where Greta is chanting and where Jenna's body is. Stefan struggles to get up but cannot. Klaus turns Elena's face to his own and thanks her. Klaus bites Elena's neck and drinks her blood as Stefan watches helplessly. Klaus drops her body to the ground and the fire Greta has been chanting over dies out.
Klaus can feel his transformation happening and begins walking as the moon enters its final phase. As he begins to transform, Bonnie enters throwing him to the ground. Damon breaks Greta's neck as Bonnie continues chanting against Klaus. Damon picks Elena up and carries her to Stefan. As Bonnie continues to chant, Klaus comments in surprise that she was dead. Damon removes the stake from Stefan's back. He tells Damon to get Elena out of there but he isn't leaving until Klaus is dead. Damon picks Elena up and carries her away as Bonnie continues to chant bringing Klaus to the brink of death. Elijah walks up to his brother and plunges his hand into his chest telling him in the name of their family. Klaus tells Elijah he didn't bury them at sea and their bodies are safe. If he kills him, he will never find them. Stefan urges Elijah not to listen to him but Klaus mutters that he gives him his word. Bonnie warns Eiljah that if he doesn't kill Klaus she will kill them both even if she has to die to do it. Elijah looks to Stefan and Bonnie and, with genuine remorse, apologizes to them then spirits his brother away.
At the old plantation, John Gilbert is writing. Alaric is worried that they haven't heard anything by now. Jeremy asks if John read everything regarding the spell, which he did. He wants to know if John understood what happened to the child's mother after the baby was brought back to life. He tells Jeremy she saved her daughter and found peace. John gives Jeremy a letter with instructions to give it to Elena. He then hands him his Gilbert ring to give to her as well. John tells him to take care of each other as they hear the door open upstairs. Alaric and Jeremy rush upstairs to find Damon bringing Elena into the house. As he's carrying her to a couch, Damon tells Elena if she comes back as a vampire he'll stake her himself so don't. As he lovingly strokes her hair he tells her he can't stand the idea of her hating him forever. Jeremy asks anxiously how she is but Damon doesn't know yet. Alaric asks about Jenna and Damon turns his head and shakes it and tells Jeremy he's sorry. John looks toward the room with Elena then walks outside the house. Inside, Elena gasps to life and Damon asks her how she feels. She tells him she feels fine much to the relief of Damon and Jeremy. Outside, John falls to the ground, dead.
Caroline sits down on the couch next to Tyler who is waking up. He tells her she was right that he shouldn't have come home. She tells him he never should have left and he shouldn't leave again. He tells her it's the second time he's tried to kill her but she replies no friendship is perfect bringing a laugh from them both. She tells him Matt broke up with her and that instead of bailing on her again he (Tyler) could just say "thank you, Caroline for taking care of me". She starts to cry and he puts his arm around her. The two of them recline back on the couch together and he thanks her for taking care of him.
Damon informs Stefan there was plenty of room at the Gilbert family plot and he compelled two of the gravediggers to do the work. He asks how Elena is doing and Stefan tells him she lost the only parent she had and is in shock. Elena is preparing for the funeral and sees family photos on her mirror. Jeremy enters her room and gives her the letter from John and the ring. When he starts to leave Elena calls him back to apologize for how many people he's lost. He tells her he still has her. When he leaves, she sits down to read John's letter. He wrote that it was no easy task to be an ordinary parent to an extraordinary child. He failed that task and because of his prejudices he failed her. He's haunted by how things might have played out differently had he listened to her side of things. For him it is the end but for her a chance to grow old and do better with her own child than she did with his. For that child he gives her his ring. He doesn't ask for her forgiveness or that she forgets, only that she believes. Whether she's reading as a human or vampire, she loves her the same as he's always loved her and always will.
At the Gilbert family plot Elena places a rose on the graves of John, Jenna and her parents. Alaric places a rose on Jenna's grave. Damon walks to the entrance of the cemetery. Stefan tells him they are going back to the house but Damon says he'll skip. Stefan informs his brother Elena needs them all right now. Damon asks what the plan is. The curse is broken and how does one go about killing an all powerful wolf/vamp and his two-faced older brother. Stefan says he has no idea and Damon tells him to get an idea--fast. Stefan insists he won't let Elena lose anyone else. Damon tells him he wouldn't make any promises. When Stefan asks what he means, Damon tells him Tyler bit him, nipped him really, and shows him the bite. Stefan vows they will find a cure but Damon reminds him there isn't one. Stefan tells him they kept Elena human; they found a way when there was no way. He promises Damon he will do it. Damon tells him if he wants to do something for him he will never let Elena find out as the last thing she needs is another grave to mourn.
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Season Two, Episode 2.21, The Sun Also Rises
Original Air Date: May 5, 2011
The night of the ritual has arrived and Klaus has everything, and everyone in place. Up until the last minute, Bonnie, Jeremy and John look for a way to save Elena. Jeremy and John find a way but the price that must be paid is great. Bonnie steps into action against Klaus. Matt makes it clear to Caroline how he feels about her life now. Tyler and Caroline come to an understanding in their friendship. Damon finally reveals he was bitten by Tyler Lockwood and Stefan vows to find a cure for his brother.
Caroline and Matt are trapped in the Lockwood cellar while Tyler, in wolf form, rages outside the gate trying to get to them. Matt fires the gun against Caroline's protests as she knows the wolf is still Tyler. The wolf slumps to the floor wounded and Caroline opens the door and tells Matt to take her hand. He wants to shoot again but she insists he take her hand. When he does, she secures their escape from the cellar.
Katherine and Damon look over the werewolf bite on Damon's arm. She doesn't think it looks that bad but he says it will be. She asks if he's going to just die and he counters if she knows anything about a cure, which she doesn't. He puts on his jacket to leave and she asks if after 145 years she doesn't even get a last goodbye. He tells her she doesn't get one. She gets in his way telling him not to leave mad. She insists Klaus forced her to call Jenna and she didn't have a choice but he says that's why he gave her the vervain. Katherine states it was Jenna or her and she chose Jenna. He points out that Katherine is the only one that will win in the entire situation and asks how it happened. She calmly tells him she didn't let love get in the way. He tells her to enjoy and eternity alone and starts to leave. She asks what he is going to do and he turns to tell her he's going to offer himself as a replacement to Klaus. She reminds him that Klaus saw his werewolf bite and will not take him as a replacement because of it.
Elena asks Jenna if she remembers what happened. Jenna says she (Elena) called her because she was scared but realizes it was really Katherine who called. When she walked into the house a vampire grabbed her and made her drink his blood and she doesn't remember anything after that. She asks Elena why she doesn't remember anything and Elena wants to know if Jenna remembers what she told her about how someone becomes a vampire, which she does. The realization she is a vampire dawns on her as Greta walks over to the two women telling Jenna she bets she is hungry. Elena makes a move to overtake Greta but the witch throws her back and sets a ring of fire burning around Elena to keep her in place. Greta cuts her wrist and offers it to Jenna who is reluctant to take it. The longer Greta holds her wrist before Jenna the less she can hold out and she eventually takes Greta's wrist to drink her blood. When Greta feels Jenna has had enough she pushes her to the ground and walks away. She turns back around and sets a ring of fire to burning around Jenna like she did with Elena.
At the old plantation, Jeremy and Bonnie are going through the old grimoirs to find a spell that will prevent Elena from becoming a vampire but they are finding nothing. Alaric, Stefan and Elijah arrive at the plantation and Elijah explains the ritual further saying things will happen in stages. The werewolf will die first, then the vampire and finally the doppleganger. Once Elena dies the curse will be broken and Klaus will become hybrid. He will be vulnerable during his transformation and Bonnie will be able to kill him during that time. Elijah assures them if Bonnie can deliver Klaus to the brink of death he will personally finish the job of killing Klaus. Stefan's phone rings and it is Damon calling to tell his brother he won't like what he's about to tell him. He tells Stefan the sacrifice is happening and he tried to stop it but it got complicated. Stefan tells him they are sticking with the original plan and meeting Bonnie as they speak. Damon tells Stefan about Jenna and the latter turns to look at Alaric as Damon continues to tell him Klaus will be using Jenna as the vampire for the ritual.
Jenna tells Elena she feels like herself only not. Everything is brighter and more amplified. Part of her is terrified but part of her doesn't want to feel anything. Tearfully, Jenna asks if she's going to die and Elena forcefully tells her she will not let that happen no matter what she has to do. Behind them, they hear the painful screams of a woman and they both look. Greta leads Jules in and throws her to the ground. Jules asks what is happening to her and Greta informs her she cast a spell to slow down her transformation so her insides are trying to tear themselves free then raises a circle of fire around her. Elena tells Greta witches are supposed to maintain the balance of nature and it is her duty to them to keep the curse sealed. Greta tells her her duty is to Klaus. Klaus steps out of the shadows and asks the women if they are ready.
Caroline and Matt enter the Lockwood house and lock themselves in. Matt doesn't feel they are safe there as Tyler will get in if he wants to. Caroline asks how he knew what she was since she compelled him to forget. He tells her he was on vervain and faked forgetting so he could spy on her for her mother. Shocked, Caroline asks him what her mother said. He tells her Liz Forbes hates vampires, she always has and probably always will. She asks where this leaves them and he shakes his head and tells her stuck in the house trying not to get mauled to death by a friend.
Damon answers a knock at the door to find John Gilbert standing there. John is worried because Elena hasn't returned any of his calls for days and he wants to see her. Damon informs him that Klaus has taken Elena and the sacrifice is happening that night. John asks how he could let that happen and that he was supposed to keep Elena safe. Damon says she is safe as he fed her his blood. John makes a move against Damon who throws him against the wall. John tells Damon he ruined Elena's life. Damon understands this and tells him it gets worse, something John doesn't think is actually possible.
Jules screams in agony as Klaus hands the moonstone over to Greta so they can begin the ritual. She begins the ritual and Klaus walks to the circle around Jules. Jules looks to Elena and tells her everything she did she was just trying to help Tyler as she didn't want him to be alone. The circle of fire goes out around Jules. She tries to escape but Klaus is on her in a flash and takes her to the ground and plunges his hand into her chest and pulls out her heart as Elena and Jenna watch in horror.
Jeremy finds some kind of resuscitative spell in Emily Bennett's grimoire. Bonnie saw it but Emily didn't explain exactly what the spell did. Jeremy thinks Jonathan Gilbert might have written about the spell in his journals and suggests he will have Stefan bring them. They hear someone enter the house and soon Alaric walks into the room with them. He tells them Elijah and Stefan are upstairs and he asks Bonnie if he can have a second with Jeremy. When Bonnie has gone, Alaric tells him something has happened with Jenna. Upstairs, Stefan is telling Bonnie about the developments with Jenna and Elijah explains Jenna was punishment for meddling. Bonnie wants to go now before Jenna can be sacrificed but Stefan tells her she will die and that isn't an option. Stefan tells Bonnie they are going to offer another vampire that Klaus will want more. He will offer himself to Klaus.
Klaus squeezes the blood from Jules' heart into the boiling liquid Greta is chanting over and asks if it is working, which she confirms. Jenna tells Elena that the day the lawyers called to tell her she was going to be the guardian for her and Jeremy her first thought was "isn't there someone else who can do this?". She tells Elena she failed her, something which Elena vehemently denies saying she is the one who failed. She tells Jenna that being a vampire makes her stronger and faster and she can fight back. She tells her aunt she will get through it and be alright but she wants her to promise that when she gets the chance she will run. Jenna nods her head in agreement.
Matt looks out the window and asks if Caroline thinks he killed Tyler. She tells him it takes a lot more than one bullet to kill a werewolf. She asks him if he thinks her mother wants to kill her and he responds he thinks her mother doesn't know what to do with her daughter. They hear a sound on the front porch and Matt, gun in hand, goes to check it out. Caroline won't let him shoot and looks out the door glass to see Tyler on the porch. She tells Matt to give her his jacket and opens the door and puts the jacket around Tyler who looks up to her and says her name with a confused look on his face.
Elijah tells Stefan Bonnie did a locator spell to tell them exactly where Klaus has Jenna and Elena. Stefan says he will head over first and Elijah and Bonnie will come in second at the right time, just as the moon hits it's final phase. Elijah insists Bonnie must stay hidden until the time is right as Klaus cannot know she's alive. As Stefan starts to leave Elijah tells him he is very honorable. Stefan stops and looks to Elijah and asks if he is because the whole plan is contingent upon Elijah's honor. Elijah tells him he will not fail him but Stefan brings up that Klaus is his brother. Elijah tells him that he had siblings and a family but over the centuries Klaus hunted them down one by one and took them from him and scattered them across the seas where their bodies could not be found. Stefan comments that Elijah wants revenge and the latter admits that sometimes there is honor in revenge. Again, he assures Stefan that he will not fail him. Stefan then asks Elijah to 'please end this' and walks away.
John Gilbert arrives at the old plantation with a box full of the Gilbert journals. He believes he knows of the spell from Emily Bennett's grimoire. Upstairs, Alaric tells Damon of Stefan's revised plans, which don't make him very happy. Damon insists they have a witch that can kill Klaus but Alaric reminds him it will kill Bonnie. Damon strikes the wall in anger and recoils in pain bringing a look and question of concern from Alaric.
Greta continues chanting the spell as Klaus turns to Jenna. Elena begs him to let Jenna go since she followed his rules and didn't run. They can't leave Jeremy without a family. Klaus smiles and says he doesn't recall you being on the guest list and turns to look up at Stefan who is standing on the hill above them. Jenna and Elena look to Stefan as he tells Klaus he is there to talk and Klaus goes up to speak with him.
Bonnie and John tell Damon they found something in the Gilbert journals. A mother called on the services of Emily Bennett because her child was sick and dying. Emily cast a spell that would bind the woman's life force with her child's. The child died but the mothers life force flowed through her restoring her to life. If Elena's soul remains intact she will come back to life and not as a vampire. Damon protests the plan but John tells him he refuses to let Elena become the thing he's spent his life protecting her against.
Jenna and Elena wonder what is being said between Stefan and Klaus and Elena tells her aunt she can hear what they are saying if focuses on them. Stefan tells Klaus he will take Jenna's place. Klaus comments he rather appreciates the symmetry of three women, three goddesses sacrificed at natures altar. Jenna struggles to listen to the conversation and can finally hear them talking and hears Stefan tell Klaus to make the trade of him for Jenna. She tells Elena that Stefan is wanting to take her place.
Matt asks Caroline how Tyler is doing and she tells him he's sleeping and he should be better by morning after some rest. Matt tells her the last few days with her have been great and he thought he might be able to get past the vampire thing but he doesn't know if he can. He understands this is her life now but his life is an absentee mom, a bunch of bills to pay, school and a job. It's bad sometimes but it is his life and he thinks he wants to live it without everything in Caroline's world.
Bonnie works Emily Bennett's spell with John as Damon and Jeremy anxiously wait. When the spell is complete, they start to leave for the meeting with Klaus. Jeremy wants to go with Bonnie but she casts a spell on him to keep him from leaving with her. When everyone leaves the house Alaric finds he cannot exit the door. Bonnie has cast yet another spell to prevent him from leaving so he will not get hurt.
Stefan and Klaus come down from the hill and Stefan tells Elena it will be OK. Klaus, holding a stake, asks Elena who it will be and waves the stake from Jenna to Stefan. She says 'no' and Klaus tells her not to worry as there actually is no choice. He goes behind Stefan and plunges the stake into his back. Klaus has other plans for Stefan and he wants him alive. Greta lowers the circle of fire around Jenna and Elena tries to get out of her circle. Jenna tells her it is alright as she knows what she has to do. She rushes to Greta and bites her neck. Klaus comes up behind Jenna and plunges the stake into her back then throws her to the ground as Elena stands watching, crying. Jenna looks up to her niece and Elena tells her to to just turn it off and she won't be scared anymore. Klaus turns Jenna over onto her back and plunges the stake into her heart.
Stefan awakens and sees Jenna's lifeless body with the stake still in it. Greta continues the spell as Stefan whispers "I'm so sorry" to Elena. She shushes him and whispers back "they're gonna kill him". Klaus walks to Elena and tells her it is time. The circle of fire around her extinguishes and he puts his hand out for her. She stands and walks past him to stand next to the altar where Greta is chanting and where Jenna's body is. Stefan struggles to get up but cannot. Klaus turns Elena's face to his own and thanks her. Klaus bites Elena's neck and drinks her blood as Stefan watches helplessly. Klaus drops her body to the ground and the fire Greta has been chanting over dies out.
Klaus can feel his transformation happening and begins walking as the moon enters its final phase. As he begins to transform, Bonnie enters throwing him to the ground. Damon breaks Greta's neck as Bonnie continues chanting against Klaus. Damon picks Elena up and carries her to Stefan. As Bonnie continues to chant, Klaus comments in surprise that she was dead. Damon removes the stake from Stefan's back. He tells Damon to get Elena out of there but he isn't leaving until Klaus is dead. Damon picks Elena up and carries her away as Bonnie continues to chant bringing Klaus to the brink of death. Elijah walks up to his brother and plunges his hand into his chest telling him in the name of their family. Klaus tells Elijah he didn't bury them at sea and their bodies are safe. If he kills him, he will never find them. Stefan urges Elijah not to listen to him but Klaus mutters that he gives him his word. Bonnie warns Eiljah that if he doesn't kill Klaus she will kill them both even if she has to die to do it. Elijah looks to Stefan and Bonnie and, with genuine remorse, apologizes to them then spirits his brother away.
At the old plantation, John Gilbert is writing. Alaric is worried that they haven't heard anything by now. Jeremy asks if John read everything regarding the spell, which he did. He wants to know if John understood what happened to the child's mother after the baby was brought back to life. He tells Jeremy she saved her daughter and found peace. John gives Jeremy a letter with instructions to give it to Elena. He then hands him his Gilbert ring to give to her as well. John tells him to take care of each other as they hear the door open upstairs. Alaric and Jeremy rush upstairs to find Damon bringing Elena into the house. As he's carrying her to a couch, Damon tells Elena if she comes back as a vampire he'll stake her himself so don't. As he lovingly strokes her hair he tells her he can't stand the idea of her hating him forever. Jeremy asks anxiously how she is but Damon doesn't know yet. Alaric asks about Jenna and Damon turns his head and shakes it and tells Jeremy he's sorry. John looks toward the room with Elena then walks outside the house. Inside, Elena gasps to life and Damon asks her how she feels. She tells him she feels fine much to the relief of Damon and Jeremy. Outside, John falls to the ground, dead.
Caroline sits down on the couch next to Tyler who is waking up. He tells her she was right that he shouldn't have come home. She tells him he never should have left and he shouldn't leave again. He tells her it's the second time he's tried to kill her but she replies no friendship is perfect bringing a laugh from them both. She tells him Matt broke up with her and that instead of bailing on her again he (Tyler) could just say "thank you, Caroline for taking care of me". She starts to cry and he puts his arm around her. The two of them recline back on the couch together and he thanks her for taking care of him.
Damon informs Stefan there was plenty of room at the Gilbert family plot and he compelled two of the gravediggers to do the work. He asks how Elena is doing and Stefan tells him she lost the only parent she had and is in shock. Elena is preparing for the funeral and sees family photos on her mirror. Jeremy enters her room and gives her the letter from John and the ring. When he starts to leave Elena calls him back to apologize for how many people he's lost. He tells her he still has her. When he leaves, she sits down to read John's letter. He wrote that it was no easy task to be an ordinary parent to an extraordinary child. He failed that task and because of his prejudices he failed her. He's haunted by how things might have played out differently had he listened to her side of things. For him it is the end but for her a chance to grow old and do better with her own child than she did with his. For that child he gives her his ring. He doesn't ask for her forgiveness or that she forgets, only that she believes. Whether she's reading as a human or vampire, she loves her the same as he's always loved her and always will.
At the Gilbert family plot Elena places a rose on the graves of John, Jenna and her parents. Alaric places a rose on Jenna's grave. Damon walks to the entrance of the cemetery. Stefan tells him they are going back to the house but Damon says he'll skip. Stefan informs his brother Elena needs them all right now. Damon asks what the plan is. The curse is broken and how does one go about killing an all powerful wolf/vamp and his two-faced older brother. Stefan says he has no idea and Damon tells him to get an idea--fast. Stefan insists he won't let Elena lose anyone else. Damon tells him he wouldn't make any promises. When Stefan asks what he means, Damon tells him Tyler bit him, nipped him really, and shows him the bite. Stefan vows they will find a cure but Damon reminds him there isn't one. Stefan tells him they kept Elena human; they found a way when there was no way. He promises Damon he will do it. Damon tells him if he wants to do something for him he will never let Elena find out as the last thing she needs is another grave to mourn.
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Thursday, May 5, 2011
US Television: Hawaii Five-O, Episode 1.22 "Ho'ohuli Na'au (Close to Heart)"
Hawaii Five-O
Season One, Episode Twenty-Two, Ho'ohuli Na'au (Close to Heart)
Original Air Date: May 2, 2011
When a famous photographer, Renny Sinclair, is murdered during a Hawaiian photo shoot Five-O is called out on the case. The prime suspect, one of Renny's old girlfriends turns out to have an alibi so the team must dig deeper into his life to find out who might have wanted him dead. Could the answers they find be even more sinister than a lover scorned or even the bookie Renny is deeply in debt to? Meanwhile, Chin Ho's uncle has gone to Internal Affairs and confessed that he stole the money Chin Ho was blamed for stealing. Chin makes a decision regarding the investigation that could end up sending him to prison. Kono crosses paths with a very old acquaintance during the course of the Sinclair investigation.
At Puaena Point, North Shore, O'Ahu, famed photographer Renny Sinclair (Rick Springfield) is doing a swimsuit photo shoot. He comments to one of the models "you're beautiful, Alana" bringing a smile from her. When he's finished taking pictures, he guarantees the cover is in the last sequence he shot. He throws his camera to his assistant Amy (Andrea Bowen) as Alana (Serinda Swan) walks to him and takes his hand. The two put their arms around one another and walk away as Amy gives the crew their instructions. Once away from everyone, Renny and Alana kiss and he asks if she's not getting too tired as the setups are taking way too long. She assures him she's fine and is way more than OK as she's on a beach in Hawaii with the man she loves. He tells her they should stay there a couple more days, fly her family in and get married right there. Under the watchful eyes of another of the models, Jordan, he tells her to get changed. They kiss once more and she leaves him to change clothes. Amy walks up next to Jordan and asks if she's alright. Renny goes to his trailer and goes inside. As he's going through the pockets of a pair of jeans he hears a sound at the door. He tries to open the door to see who is outside but cannot. From the window he sees a fire begin to rage beneath the trailer and tries harder to open the door. He beats on the windows for someone to help him when another blaze flares up in the back of the trailer. The models and crew leave their tents at the commotion and see Renny's trailer engulfed in flames. As they run toward it the trailer explodes.
When Steve McGarrett finishes a run at Kamehame Ridge, Windward, he finds an envelope beneath the wiper blade of his truck. He looks around but sees no one he could suspect of having left it there. He opens the envelope, that has his name written on it, and removes a key bearing the number "103".
At the Lower Makapu'u beach in Windward, Kono and a little girl, Susie come out of the water. Susie asks Kono if she was bummed when she was beaten in the finals for junior nationals. Kono admits she was and Susie says she (Kono) came back and beat the girl who took her at the finals in the U.S. Open. Kono tells her that was fun. Susie gives Kono and Kawika (Kala Alexander) a hug then runs to her parents. Kawika tells Kono the little girl was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was six months old. The environment in Hawaii has been good for Susie and thanks Kono for helping him with his charity. She is glad he invited her as she can't think of a better way to spend her day off. Her phone rings calling her into work.
Danny and McGarrett arrive at the Sinclair scene and Kono brings them up to speed. She shows them the shackle lock that was on the door. They had to cut the door handle off to get it open. Renny didn't stand a chance of getting the door open. Chin Ho steps out of the trailer to show them the magazine cover showing Renny surrounded by flames with the caption "Worship Me" saying it might have inspired the killer. Steve knows the killing was personal. He tells Kono to stick with the crime techs to finish processing the scene while he, Chin and Danny go to talk to witnesses starting with Renny's closest associates. As Five-O are chatting about Danny needing to stick to the case since the women are "insanely hot and make millions of dollars" a fight breaks out between Alana and Jordan. Steve and Danny rush over to break it up. Alana screams that Jordan killed Renny as he didn't love her anymore. Alana takes an ultrasound picture from her pocket. She wants the woman to see that she not only took Renny away from her but she took him from his unborn child. Steve takes Alana aside while Danny escorts Jordan away.
Steve asks Alana why she thinks Jordan killed Renny and she tells him she was jealous of she and Renny's relationship. Danny asks Jordan if she still loves Renny and she asks what that has to do with anything. They dated six months ago. Danny points out the baby and Alana and Renny getting married killed any chance of Jordan and Renny getting back together. She insists she was over him. Alana tells Steve Jordan wasn't over him. She lost it after he broke up with her and she doesn't feel she really recovered. Jordan tells a different story to Danny saying she wished Renny well and never looked back and wasn't going to stand in the way of him being with Alana. Alana says Jordan couldn't stand seeing the two of them together and happy. Jordan questions why she would have taken the job if she wasn't over him. If she were to turn down every job because of past relationships with photographers she wouldn't have a career. Alana tells Stevie Renny was everything to him and she doesn't know where she will go from there.
Chin speaks with Amy who tells him everyone knew Jordan still had a thing for Renny. He asks where Jordan was when the fire started and Amy tells him she should have been in the changing tent but she was running around getting things ready for the next set up so she couldn't say for sure. He asks about the other models and she says from what she could tell, everyone loved Renny. The next day would have been one week that Amy was working on the shoot as she was a local hire and doesn't even know the names of most the people there. He next asks if there was anyone on set that didn't work there, visitors or people around the trailer that shouldn't have been there. She mentions a guy that drove a silver Porsche who Renny told her to allow in. She didn't get the plate number and didn't even see what the driver looked like.
At the HPD Crime Lab, Kono meets Charlie Fong (Brian Yang) who knows who she is before she even introduces herself and asks how she is, catching her by surprise. She cannot place where they know one another from and he comments he knew she wouldn't remember then says they should get started. He shows her a reenactment he put together from the Sinclair crime scene data. Of the two gas cans collected at the scene, one was placed under the exterior of the trailer and the other inside under the bathroom sink. Kono asks if they ever worked a case together, which they didn't. Fong continues that once the exterior flames caught, they ignited the second can inside. She asks if he was able to analyze the gasoline sample. He's running it now and if it is viable, they should know what station the gas was purchased at. He found something inside the melted gas can but can't see what it is from the x-ray. The plastic will have to be carefully melted away to extract the object. She asks if he graduated from her school but he didn't. She smiles and comments he's not going to make her realizing where they know each other from easy.
At Five-O headquarters Steve arrives as Chin is finishing a phone call with IA. He is to meet with them that afternoon at three. Chin's uncle talked with them and admitted he was the one who stole the money and why. IA has officially reopened the case. Steve points out it will clear Chin's name but that doesn't make things easier for Chin. His uncle was a good cop who did good work and if he's found guilty it will bring his 25-year arrest record into review. Steve offers to call the governor but Chin refuses saying it is his problem and he will handle it then walks away. Danny arrives asking what is wrong with Chin. Steve tells him his uncle is about to be arrested. Chin has held the secret for so long he'd rather live with it than see his uncle go to jail. Danny questioned all the models that morning and it turned out that Jordan and Alana were both in the changing tent at the time of the fire. He had HPD run Renny's financials and phone records and found dozens of text messages, but no calls. When Steve wants to send the texts to an analyst to break what appears to be a code, Danny takes the paper and points out the texts aren't code but instead bets on sports teams. Renny had open credit markers all over Las Vegas. All the money he made went right back out in bets. They settle upon Renny's bookie as a new suspect.
Chin goes to see his uncle who is fishing at Makai Pier in Windward. His uncle tells him he shouldn't have come since IA opened the case he's in violation of a department mandate if they have contact with one another. Chin tells his uncle about being called by IA and having to appear before the review board. Uncle wants him to tell the truth when he appears. Chin insists it doesn't matter anymore and what does is keeping him out of jail. Uncle insists Chin owes him nothing and needn't be silent any longer. Chin wants his uncle to go back to IA and tell them he hasn't been thinking clearly since his wife died and didn't know what he was saying and that Chin took the money. Uncle refuses saying it could put Chin in jail and he's not lying anymore.
Charlie Fong tells Kono the findings are back on the gas used to start the fire. The additives in the fuel are a match to a local chain, Lex Brody, of which there are 12 stations on the island. They need to match the fingerprint to a specific Lex Brody station and they will know where the gas was bought. Kono and Charlie go out to collect a gas sample from each station.
At Five-O headquarters, Chin feels he found the mystery man who visited Renny at the shoot that morning. He shows Steve a picture of a silver Porsche from a traffic camera near the crime scene. The plates go back to a shell corporation linked to Derek Marcum (Andy Trask), a major-league bookie who runs most of the action on the island. From what Chin hears, finding Marcum is by referral only. Danny enters Steve's office with a client list he put together from numbers texting Marcum's pre-paid cell. He knows of the perfect guy to give Marcum up.
Kamekona is trying to get someone he's hired to be his shaved ice mascot to be a bit more energetic and passionate about being shaved ice. Steve and Danny pay him a visit and ask him to help them find Marcum. Kamekona claims he doesn't gamble for money but they know differently and that he hasn't won a bet in six months and owes money to Marcum. They want him to call Marcum and say he will not pay him a cent of what he owes him and if he has a problem with it they know where he works. Kamekona refuses but Steve and Danny are able to change his mind and he makes the call. As Kono and Charlie are leaving the last station, Steve calls and tells her they think they might have a suspect but they will need evidence and to call him when they get it. She starts the car and Charlie suggests some music and mentions her liking Boys II Men and even her favorite song of theirs. She thinks she's figured out where they know each other from (camp) but she's wrong. As expected, two of Marcum's men arrive to see Kamekona. As they are hassling him, Steve and Danny come out and want to talk but the men bolt and, after a short chase, catch them.
The men take Steve and Danny to Marcum's home in Kahala. They move all the men working the phones into the office where Marcum is and Steve orders him to keep his hands where he can see them. They ask about Renny and Danny tells him they have him on camera leaving the photo shoot right after Renny was killed. Marcum is surprised to learn Renny is dead. He tells them Renny was a friend, not a word he uses lightly and he wouldn't kill a client if he were, hypothetically speaking, involved in illegal book making. Renny didn't owe him a debt. He was at the photo shoot because Renny asked to borrow $291,570 and he gave it to him. Danny asks what the money was for since it was a very specific amount but Marcum insists that while banks ask those questions, he doesn't. He shows them how Renny had planned to repay the money: a book and a contract. He had signed over the first $400,000 of profits from a book of photographs he was going to publish to Marcum. Steve says if the contract is legit is backs up Marcum's claims, if not, it gives him motive. In the meantime, they take him into custody so they'll have him while they're checking the contract.
In the lab, Kono and Charlie are working on the gas samples. She continues trying to place where she knows him (it isn't from surfing). Charlie is able to pinpoint the exact station where the gas was purchased. If the killer used a credit card they can pull the receipts and cross reference with suspects.
At Marcum's house, Steve tells Danny to run the contract through handwriting analysis to make sure the signature is actually Renny's and it wasn't signed under duress. Danny points out the very specific amount of money had to be for something very specific. Steve will have HPD forensic accountants dig deeper into Renny's financials for that exact amount. Steve calls Chin as he's heading for the IA meeting. Chin answers saying he's going to tell IA he took the money and he shouldn't try to talk him out of it. Steve says he's just calling to wish him good luck. At the IA meeting, Chin is told the board will listen to his statement. Chin tells them his uncle was devastated by the death of his aunt and wasn't thinking clearly and tried to implicate himself in a misguided attempt to help his nephew salvage his reputation with HPD. He tells them he did take the money. Chairman Akahoshi (Duane Char) asks if after all these years of vehemently denying the theft and fighting against it even with a resignation he's now admitting to the theft after his uncle came forward. Chin insists his uncle is lying to protect him. Akahoshi asks how they can know the situation isn't reversed and how he can explain the fact none of the money has turned up after all the years of financial surveillance they have had on Chin. Chin tells them he never spent the money.
Kono pulls her car up next to Chin's and finds him sitting there in thought. She gets in the car with him. He tells her he told IA he took the money. She asks if they believed him and he says they didn't right away and tells her about the spending habits and how he explained that. IA ordered him to produce all the money by the end of the next day. Charlie is calling from the HPD Lab but Kono ignores the call. She tells Chin no one in the family has that kind of money and he can't go to the bank. She wants him to go back to IA and tell them he lied to end things but he says he's not going back. Her phone rings again and he tells her to answer it.
At headquarters, Steve tells Danny the handwriting analyst confirmed Renny signed the contract with no markers to indicate signing under duress. Danny spoke with Renny's attorney in New York and his will supersedes any other arrangements he might have made. Most of Renny's assets are to be put into a trust for a woman named Pauline Lucero. Danny's running background to find out who she is. Kono and Chin enter the office and she tells them the lab managed to get the item that was melted into the gas can out. She brings it up on the screen--it is a lighter that sells for thousands of dollars. Danny shows them a picture of Alana from Renny's book where she is holding the lighter.
Steve finds Alana sitting on Waikiki Beach and sits down next to her. He shows her the picture of her with the lighter wanting to know more about it. It was shot in L.A. and Renny insisted the cake in it be purple. He tells her the lighter she's holding was used to start the fire. She explains it was Renny's lighter as the client gave it to him as a gift at the end of the shoot. She last saw it yesterday in his trailer. She didn't think he would have loaned it to anyone as it was worth a lot of money and he cherished it. Anyone could have stolen it as there were a lot of people on the beach. He asks her about Pauline Lucero and, while she doesn't know the name, she does remember a woman named Shannon Lucero. She was one of Alana's role models as a little girl. Shannon and Renny dated in the early 90's. Renny had told Alana his relationship with Shannon ended badly as she wanted to get married and have children and he was just starting his career and wasn't ready. Steve's phone rings and it is Chin calling to say that HPD's forensic accountants showed the amount of money Renny borrowed from Marcum is the exact amount the U.S. Department of Agriculture says it costs to raise a child to the age of 18. Steve tells him he thinks Renny and Shannon had a daughter named Pauline. He wants him and Kono to run Shannon through Interpol and the Italian embassy and to cross-reference the name Lucero against receipts from the gas station where the gas was purchased.
Chin runs the Lucero names and finds that Shannon Lucero is deceased. He finds information on her daughter, Pauline and learns that he's already spoken with her: Renny's assistant Amy. Kono confirms that Pauline Lucero purchased the gas the day Renny was murdered.
Five-O arrive to take Pauline into custody and she tires to run but is easy caught on the beach by Steve and Danny. They cuff her and before they put her in the HPD car Steve asks how she could kill her father. She tells them Renny wasn't her father as he left when her mother was pregnant and never even knew her. When her mother got sick, he turned his back on her. She tried to contact him but he wouldn't take her calls. She tells them he wanted to be worshiped, so now he can be. Danny tells her of what they found regarding the money Renny had borrowed and set up in a trust for her in his will.
At the beach, Kono comes out of the water and meets a friend who brought her cousin, Charlie Fong. Charlie and Kono played spin the bottle and kissed at her friends 10th birthday party. Kono was the first girl Charlie kissed.
Kawika brings Susie to see Steve and Danny. She asks Danny if he's a surfer. He admits he isn't and tells her he's a cop. She comments his hair looks like a surfer's haircut. He assures her it isn't. When Kawika and Susie go back out to the water, Danny asks where Chin is and Steve tells him he doesn't know but he said he had to do something before he came.
At Marcum's house, Chin enters the office and Marcum tells him he's answered all the questions and paid his bail and is done talking about Renny. Chin tells him he's not there about Renny. Marcum tells him he's listening and Chin hands him the deed to his house. When Marcum asks what he'd want that for Chin tells him he needs $200,000 and he needs it now.
Hawaii Five-O airs Monday nights at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on CBS.
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Season One, Episode Twenty-Two, Ho'ohuli Na'au (Close to Heart)
Original Air Date: May 2, 2011
When a famous photographer, Renny Sinclair, is murdered during a Hawaiian photo shoot Five-O is called out on the case. The prime suspect, one of Renny's old girlfriends turns out to have an alibi so the team must dig deeper into his life to find out who might have wanted him dead. Could the answers they find be even more sinister than a lover scorned or even the bookie Renny is deeply in debt to? Meanwhile, Chin Ho's uncle has gone to Internal Affairs and confessed that he stole the money Chin Ho was blamed for stealing. Chin makes a decision regarding the investigation that could end up sending him to prison. Kono crosses paths with a very old acquaintance during the course of the Sinclair investigation.
At Puaena Point, North Shore, O'Ahu, famed photographer Renny Sinclair (Rick Springfield) is doing a swimsuit photo shoot. He comments to one of the models "you're beautiful, Alana" bringing a smile from her. When he's finished taking pictures, he guarantees the cover is in the last sequence he shot. He throws his camera to his assistant Amy (Andrea Bowen) as Alana (Serinda Swan) walks to him and takes his hand. The two put their arms around one another and walk away as Amy gives the crew their instructions. Once away from everyone, Renny and Alana kiss and he asks if she's not getting too tired as the setups are taking way too long. She assures him she's fine and is way more than OK as she's on a beach in Hawaii with the man she loves. He tells her they should stay there a couple more days, fly her family in and get married right there. Under the watchful eyes of another of the models, Jordan, he tells her to get changed. They kiss once more and she leaves him to change clothes. Amy walks up next to Jordan and asks if she's alright. Renny goes to his trailer and goes inside. As he's going through the pockets of a pair of jeans he hears a sound at the door. He tries to open the door to see who is outside but cannot. From the window he sees a fire begin to rage beneath the trailer and tries harder to open the door. He beats on the windows for someone to help him when another blaze flares up in the back of the trailer. The models and crew leave their tents at the commotion and see Renny's trailer engulfed in flames. As they run toward it the trailer explodes.
When Steve McGarrett finishes a run at Kamehame Ridge, Windward, he finds an envelope beneath the wiper blade of his truck. He looks around but sees no one he could suspect of having left it there. He opens the envelope, that has his name written on it, and removes a key bearing the number "103".
At the Lower Makapu'u beach in Windward, Kono and a little girl, Susie come out of the water. Susie asks Kono if she was bummed when she was beaten in the finals for junior nationals. Kono admits she was and Susie says she (Kono) came back and beat the girl who took her at the finals in the U.S. Open. Kono tells her that was fun. Susie gives Kono and Kawika (Kala Alexander) a hug then runs to her parents. Kawika tells Kono the little girl was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis when she was six months old. The environment in Hawaii has been good for Susie and thanks Kono for helping him with his charity. She is glad he invited her as she can't think of a better way to spend her day off. Her phone rings calling her into work.
Danny and McGarrett arrive at the Sinclair scene and Kono brings them up to speed. She shows them the shackle lock that was on the door. They had to cut the door handle off to get it open. Renny didn't stand a chance of getting the door open. Chin Ho steps out of the trailer to show them the magazine cover showing Renny surrounded by flames with the caption "Worship Me" saying it might have inspired the killer. Steve knows the killing was personal. He tells Kono to stick with the crime techs to finish processing the scene while he, Chin and Danny go to talk to witnesses starting with Renny's closest associates. As Five-O are chatting about Danny needing to stick to the case since the women are "insanely hot and make millions of dollars" a fight breaks out between Alana and Jordan. Steve and Danny rush over to break it up. Alana screams that Jordan killed Renny as he didn't love her anymore. Alana takes an ultrasound picture from her pocket. She wants the woman to see that she not only took Renny away from her but she took him from his unborn child. Steve takes Alana aside while Danny escorts Jordan away.
Steve asks Alana why she thinks Jordan killed Renny and she tells him she was jealous of she and Renny's relationship. Danny asks Jordan if she still loves Renny and she asks what that has to do with anything. They dated six months ago. Danny points out the baby and Alana and Renny getting married killed any chance of Jordan and Renny getting back together. She insists she was over him. Alana tells Steve Jordan wasn't over him. She lost it after he broke up with her and she doesn't feel she really recovered. Jordan tells a different story to Danny saying she wished Renny well and never looked back and wasn't going to stand in the way of him being with Alana. Alana says Jordan couldn't stand seeing the two of them together and happy. Jordan questions why she would have taken the job if she wasn't over him. If she were to turn down every job because of past relationships with photographers she wouldn't have a career. Alana tells Stevie Renny was everything to him and she doesn't know where she will go from there.
Chin speaks with Amy who tells him everyone knew Jordan still had a thing for Renny. He asks where Jordan was when the fire started and Amy tells him she should have been in the changing tent but she was running around getting things ready for the next set up so she couldn't say for sure. He asks about the other models and she says from what she could tell, everyone loved Renny. The next day would have been one week that Amy was working on the shoot as she was a local hire and doesn't even know the names of most the people there. He next asks if there was anyone on set that didn't work there, visitors or people around the trailer that shouldn't have been there. She mentions a guy that drove a silver Porsche who Renny told her to allow in. She didn't get the plate number and didn't even see what the driver looked like.
At the HPD Crime Lab, Kono meets Charlie Fong (Brian Yang) who knows who she is before she even introduces herself and asks how she is, catching her by surprise. She cannot place where they know one another from and he comments he knew she wouldn't remember then says they should get started. He shows her a reenactment he put together from the Sinclair crime scene data. Of the two gas cans collected at the scene, one was placed under the exterior of the trailer and the other inside under the bathroom sink. Kono asks if they ever worked a case together, which they didn't. Fong continues that once the exterior flames caught, they ignited the second can inside. She asks if he was able to analyze the gasoline sample. He's running it now and if it is viable, they should know what station the gas was purchased at. He found something inside the melted gas can but can't see what it is from the x-ray. The plastic will have to be carefully melted away to extract the object. She asks if he graduated from her school but he didn't. She smiles and comments he's not going to make her realizing where they know each other from easy.
At Five-O headquarters Steve arrives as Chin is finishing a phone call with IA. He is to meet with them that afternoon at three. Chin's uncle talked with them and admitted he was the one who stole the money and why. IA has officially reopened the case. Steve points out it will clear Chin's name but that doesn't make things easier for Chin. His uncle was a good cop who did good work and if he's found guilty it will bring his 25-year arrest record into review. Steve offers to call the governor but Chin refuses saying it is his problem and he will handle it then walks away. Danny arrives asking what is wrong with Chin. Steve tells him his uncle is about to be arrested. Chin has held the secret for so long he'd rather live with it than see his uncle go to jail. Danny questioned all the models that morning and it turned out that Jordan and Alana were both in the changing tent at the time of the fire. He had HPD run Renny's financials and phone records and found dozens of text messages, but no calls. When Steve wants to send the texts to an analyst to break what appears to be a code, Danny takes the paper and points out the texts aren't code but instead bets on sports teams. Renny had open credit markers all over Las Vegas. All the money he made went right back out in bets. They settle upon Renny's bookie as a new suspect.
Chin goes to see his uncle who is fishing at Makai Pier in Windward. His uncle tells him he shouldn't have come since IA opened the case he's in violation of a department mandate if they have contact with one another. Chin tells his uncle about being called by IA and having to appear before the review board. Uncle wants him to tell the truth when he appears. Chin insists it doesn't matter anymore and what does is keeping him out of jail. Uncle insists Chin owes him nothing and needn't be silent any longer. Chin wants his uncle to go back to IA and tell them he hasn't been thinking clearly since his wife died and didn't know what he was saying and that Chin took the money. Uncle refuses saying it could put Chin in jail and he's not lying anymore.
Charlie Fong tells Kono the findings are back on the gas used to start the fire. The additives in the fuel are a match to a local chain, Lex Brody, of which there are 12 stations on the island. They need to match the fingerprint to a specific Lex Brody station and they will know where the gas was bought. Kono and Charlie go out to collect a gas sample from each station.
At Five-O headquarters, Chin feels he found the mystery man who visited Renny at the shoot that morning. He shows Steve a picture of a silver Porsche from a traffic camera near the crime scene. The plates go back to a shell corporation linked to Derek Marcum (Andy Trask), a major-league bookie who runs most of the action on the island. From what Chin hears, finding Marcum is by referral only. Danny enters Steve's office with a client list he put together from numbers texting Marcum's pre-paid cell. He knows of the perfect guy to give Marcum up.
Kamekona is trying to get someone he's hired to be his shaved ice mascot to be a bit more energetic and passionate about being shaved ice. Steve and Danny pay him a visit and ask him to help them find Marcum. Kamekona claims he doesn't gamble for money but they know differently and that he hasn't won a bet in six months and owes money to Marcum. They want him to call Marcum and say he will not pay him a cent of what he owes him and if he has a problem with it they know where he works. Kamekona refuses but Steve and Danny are able to change his mind and he makes the call. As Kono and Charlie are leaving the last station, Steve calls and tells her they think they might have a suspect but they will need evidence and to call him when they get it. She starts the car and Charlie suggests some music and mentions her liking Boys II Men and even her favorite song of theirs. She thinks she's figured out where they know each other from (camp) but she's wrong. As expected, two of Marcum's men arrive to see Kamekona. As they are hassling him, Steve and Danny come out and want to talk but the men bolt and, after a short chase, catch them.
The men take Steve and Danny to Marcum's home in Kahala. They move all the men working the phones into the office where Marcum is and Steve orders him to keep his hands where he can see them. They ask about Renny and Danny tells him they have him on camera leaving the photo shoot right after Renny was killed. Marcum is surprised to learn Renny is dead. He tells them Renny was a friend, not a word he uses lightly and he wouldn't kill a client if he were, hypothetically speaking, involved in illegal book making. Renny didn't owe him a debt. He was at the photo shoot because Renny asked to borrow $291,570 and he gave it to him. Danny asks what the money was for since it was a very specific amount but Marcum insists that while banks ask those questions, he doesn't. He shows them how Renny had planned to repay the money: a book and a contract. He had signed over the first $400,000 of profits from a book of photographs he was going to publish to Marcum. Steve says if the contract is legit is backs up Marcum's claims, if not, it gives him motive. In the meantime, they take him into custody so they'll have him while they're checking the contract.
In the lab, Kono and Charlie are working on the gas samples. She continues trying to place where she knows him (it isn't from surfing). Charlie is able to pinpoint the exact station where the gas was purchased. If the killer used a credit card they can pull the receipts and cross reference with suspects.
At Marcum's house, Steve tells Danny to run the contract through handwriting analysis to make sure the signature is actually Renny's and it wasn't signed under duress. Danny points out the very specific amount of money had to be for something very specific. Steve will have HPD forensic accountants dig deeper into Renny's financials for that exact amount. Steve calls Chin as he's heading for the IA meeting. Chin answers saying he's going to tell IA he took the money and he shouldn't try to talk him out of it. Steve says he's just calling to wish him good luck. At the IA meeting, Chin is told the board will listen to his statement. Chin tells them his uncle was devastated by the death of his aunt and wasn't thinking clearly and tried to implicate himself in a misguided attempt to help his nephew salvage his reputation with HPD. He tells them he did take the money. Chairman Akahoshi (Duane Char) asks if after all these years of vehemently denying the theft and fighting against it even with a resignation he's now admitting to the theft after his uncle came forward. Chin insists his uncle is lying to protect him. Akahoshi asks how they can know the situation isn't reversed and how he can explain the fact none of the money has turned up after all the years of financial surveillance they have had on Chin. Chin tells them he never spent the money.
Kono pulls her car up next to Chin's and finds him sitting there in thought. She gets in the car with him. He tells her he told IA he took the money. She asks if they believed him and he says they didn't right away and tells her about the spending habits and how he explained that. IA ordered him to produce all the money by the end of the next day. Charlie is calling from the HPD Lab but Kono ignores the call. She tells Chin no one in the family has that kind of money and he can't go to the bank. She wants him to go back to IA and tell them he lied to end things but he says he's not going back. Her phone rings again and he tells her to answer it.
At headquarters, Steve tells Danny the handwriting analyst confirmed Renny signed the contract with no markers to indicate signing under duress. Danny spoke with Renny's attorney in New York and his will supersedes any other arrangements he might have made. Most of Renny's assets are to be put into a trust for a woman named Pauline Lucero. Danny's running background to find out who she is. Kono and Chin enter the office and she tells them the lab managed to get the item that was melted into the gas can out. She brings it up on the screen--it is a lighter that sells for thousands of dollars. Danny shows them a picture of Alana from Renny's book where she is holding the lighter.
Steve finds Alana sitting on Waikiki Beach and sits down next to her. He shows her the picture of her with the lighter wanting to know more about it. It was shot in L.A. and Renny insisted the cake in it be purple. He tells her the lighter she's holding was used to start the fire. She explains it was Renny's lighter as the client gave it to him as a gift at the end of the shoot. She last saw it yesterday in his trailer. She didn't think he would have loaned it to anyone as it was worth a lot of money and he cherished it. Anyone could have stolen it as there were a lot of people on the beach. He asks her about Pauline Lucero and, while she doesn't know the name, she does remember a woman named Shannon Lucero. She was one of Alana's role models as a little girl. Shannon and Renny dated in the early 90's. Renny had told Alana his relationship with Shannon ended badly as she wanted to get married and have children and he was just starting his career and wasn't ready. Steve's phone rings and it is Chin calling to say that HPD's forensic accountants showed the amount of money Renny borrowed from Marcum is the exact amount the U.S. Department of Agriculture says it costs to raise a child to the age of 18. Steve tells him he thinks Renny and Shannon had a daughter named Pauline. He wants him and Kono to run Shannon through Interpol and the Italian embassy and to cross-reference the name Lucero against receipts from the gas station where the gas was purchased.
Chin runs the Lucero names and finds that Shannon Lucero is deceased. He finds information on her daughter, Pauline and learns that he's already spoken with her: Renny's assistant Amy. Kono confirms that Pauline Lucero purchased the gas the day Renny was murdered.
Five-O arrive to take Pauline into custody and she tires to run but is easy caught on the beach by Steve and Danny. They cuff her and before they put her in the HPD car Steve asks how she could kill her father. She tells them Renny wasn't her father as he left when her mother was pregnant and never even knew her. When her mother got sick, he turned his back on her. She tried to contact him but he wouldn't take her calls. She tells them he wanted to be worshiped, so now he can be. Danny tells her of what they found regarding the money Renny had borrowed and set up in a trust for her in his will.
At the beach, Kono comes out of the water and meets a friend who brought her cousin, Charlie Fong. Charlie and Kono played spin the bottle and kissed at her friends 10th birthday party. Kono was the first girl Charlie kissed.
Kawika brings Susie to see Steve and Danny. She asks Danny if he's a surfer. He admits he isn't and tells her he's a cop. She comments his hair looks like a surfer's haircut. He assures her it isn't. When Kawika and Susie go back out to the water, Danny asks where Chin is and Steve tells him he doesn't know but he said he had to do something before he came.
At Marcum's house, Chin enters the office and Marcum tells him he's answered all the questions and paid his bail and is done talking about Renny. Chin tells him he's not there about Renny. Marcum tells him he's listening and Chin hands him the deed to his house. When Marcum asks what he'd want that for Chin tells him he needs $200,000 and he needs it now.
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US Television: Breakout Kings, Episode 1.9, "One for the Money"
Breakout Kings
Season One, Episode Nine, One for the Money
Original Air Date: May 1, 2011
The "Breakout Kings" are called into action when a charming thief escapes from prison. As they delve further into his life, they find a long trail of women easily under his spell. Could one of them be his true love and the key to finding him? Meanwhile, Shea wants a conjugal visit with his wife but convincing Charlie and Ray to allow it is a huge hurdle so he takes matters into his own hands.
At Orleans Correctional Facility in Albion, New York, a prisoner's cell has been trashed. When complaining to the guards does no good, one of the prisoners, Andre Brennan (Richard Burgi), convinces the other that he needs to retaliate against the three men he feels trashed the cell. He lays out the plan the man should follow and assures him he will be there to back him up. The plan goes into action and Andre again provides assurance he will be there for backup. The attack begins and, when the action starts, Andre quietly slips away in the confusion. Andre and another prisoner go to the roof where Andre scales the side of the building and leaves the grounds for a waiting SUV.
At Maybelle Minimum Security Prison in Hudson, New York, Shea and his girl, Vanessa (Tattiawna Jones), are talking during a visit and she tells him she's proud of him for the work he's doing with the Marshall's. She asks if the people he works with are nice and he says they are. When she asks about the "other informants" he immediately corrects her saying he isn't an informant. They simply bounce stuff off him. She tells him nothing has changed between them and, if anything, she loves him more now because he's doing what is right by them. When they are together again they will be free and clear--no more running, they can't go back to that. She expresses her wish they could be alone as he kisses her hand. He refuses to allow her to have to go through the security measures for them to get into a conjugal trailer. When she leans across the table to kiss him one of the guards yells to him "no excessive contact" and they break their kiss. He tells her he will figure something out. The guard calls to him that the transfer van has arrived.
At the office in Brooklyn, New York, Charlie goes over Andre Brennen's information with the team. Andre's cell mate died in the riot started so Andre could escape. Lloyd asks how Andre escaped but that is unknown as the warden is still conducting his investigation. Brennan was in prison for tax evasion but he had been suspected as being an associate of the "Bad Elvis's", a sophisticated group of jewelry thieves that have never been caught. Two security guards were killed in a robbery in Brussels two years ago so the Bad Elvis's are known for violence. While Interpol never pinned the Brussels job on Brennan, they know he was the mastermind. Lloyd questions the moniker of the group and Julie explains they were given the name by the press after a heist where the group wore ridiculous pompadour wigs. Shea points out that "Breakout Kings" is a name that has a ring to it and Lloyd asks if that is what they are calling them and Erica remarks she loves it. Ray tells them they aren't called Breakout Kings because they aren't breaking out of anything. Erica takes a picture of Andre Brenna from a folder and comments on how attractive he is. Shea reads over Brennan's list of luxury belongings and notes he must have been thieving for a long time before he was caught because of his high lifestyle. When Ray asks if the team is ready to do some work or continue going over the folders Lloyd points out the amazing list of Brennan's conjugal visitors. Julie brings up an image sent to them by the warden's office, the tip of a copied key made from some kind of plastic that was found inside the lock in the visitors area. Shea feels they should talk to trustees and guards as Brennan got the key from someone to make the copy. When Charlie goes into his office, Shea follows and asks if he could get some alone time with his girl. Charlie replies that he is getting time, time off his sentence. Apart from that he gets nothing. As he is leaving the office, Charlie tells Julie to run every trustee as he wants to see everyone who has ever had contact with Brennan and pull his visitation log as he wants to know what Brennan is up to.
Charlie and Ray interview Jose Fuentes (Joshua Barilko) a trustee at the prison about the key. At first, the man denies knowing anything about the key. When they inform Fuentes his wife just paid cash for a brand new Escalade, and show him proof, he angrily exclaims he's going to kill her as he told her to sit on the money for a year. He admits that Andre gave him $25,000 to make a copy of a key for him. He told Andre he needed another week to get the key. An angry Andre, needing the key immediately doubled the amount to $50,000. He doesn't know why Andre was in such a hurry and only assumes he was breaking out for a woman and comments on some of the ladies that used to visit Andre at the prison.
At the office, Erica, looking at Andre's mug shot, comments he is well endowed. Julie questions how she knows and she explains he is confident, yet calm and doesn't need to resort to all the nonsense men do that need to compensate. He knows what he has. She points out his expression in the photo as "Whatever. I don't need to make a big deal out if it. You know why? Because I'm packing." Shea speculates that she didn't get that from a mug shot but instead because she hasn't had a conjugal in three years and is a little frustrated. Lloyd chimes in saying he thought it wasn't the size of the liner but the motion of the ocean that mattered. Erica asks who told him that and asks him not to say his mother. He simply says he read an article in Psychology Today. Julie finishes her phone call and tells the cons Andre paid a lot of money to get out that day so Charlie and Ray want them to focus on anything time sensitive and what women were Andre's most recent visitors. Lloyd sees information on Kate Lavin (Josie Davis) and selects her since Andre is a man who lives for instant gratification, his vanity, his trappings of wealth and self-satisfaction. He clearly suffers from persistent ego aggrandising disorder so his first order of business now that he's out of prison will be to follow that suit. Shea asks what that means and Erica points out Brennan will need to get laid. Lloyd informs them of all Andre's lady callers, Kate visited him the most in prison and one of those visits was a conjugal.
Charlie and Ray pay a visit to Kate Lavin's home and she admits she knows Andre. She claims she became enamoured with him after meeting him through a friend he used to date. She admits she's heard the 'rumors' about his criminal activities but that she has never personally witnessed him stealing anything. Charlie asks what her prison visits were about and she tells him she felt sorry for him and since she'd never had a conjugal visit in prison and thought she'd check it off her list. Ray cuts to the chase and tells her he wants the truth from her and they want to know where Andre is and what he is up to. She insists he isn't helping him evade arrest and tells them that one month ago Andre asked her to wait for him and run away to his uncle's property in New Mexico. She felt it was a bit desperate so she turned him down and maintains that was the last time she saw him. Charlie notices her packed luggage and asks if she's going somewhere and she tells him she just returned from a trip as she is seeing someone else. Charlie gives her his card and tells her to call them if she has any further contact with Andre.
Charlie and Ray return to the office and Charlie questions Julie if she has anything on Andre's uncle in New Mexico. The phone rings and Julie tells Charlie Director Knox is on the line. Shea makes a call to an associate asking if he still has access to the uniforms. When he's apparently given an affirmative answer, Shea says he needs a favor. Charlie takes the call from Knox in his office and despite giving his boss what information they do have an assuring him they are working diligently on getting Brennan back into custody, Knox is clearly displeased and makes sure Charlie knows it. Charlie leaves his office and tells the team he was given a way to go by his boss and wants to know what everyone has as they have to catch Brennan. Lloyd explains he doesn't understand where New Mexico fits into Brennan's profile as he is a 4-start kind of guy and wouldn't want to live on a farm in New Mexico. Julie informs them Brennan's only uncle died eight months prior and never owned a farm. Ray knows that Kate was lying to them.
Andre arrives in the Presidential Suite of a fine hotel to meet with his associates. Kate Lavin hands him Charlie's card and asks what they are going to do about the Marshall's. His phone rings and he takes the call. It is from a woman, Heather Storrow (Helena Mattsson). She wants to know what is going on and he promises everything will be made clear and asks if she's ready for them to be together forever. She asks how that will be possible as he's a fugitive. He tells her to just be ready as he has to take care of a few things and will call her back. When he hangs up, one of his associates, Doug (Colin McClean) steps forward and tells him there's too much heat from his breakout. If they are going to do the deal, Andre needs to disappear and wait to hear from them. Andre calmly looks to everyone and says he only has two questions. The first is if everything is on schedule. When Doug says everything is under control, Andre takes out a gun and kills him. He poses his second question "who is in charge". Kate replies that he is.
Ray, Shea and Lloyd enter Kate's house and find her bags are gone. Ray calls Charlie to let him and know and the latter says he and Erica will watch the street while they search the house. While Lloyd and Shea look at one of Kate's nighties, Ray searches the cupboards. Ray tells them to put the garment down and do their job. Shea points out that is why they need conjugal time because at a certain point you can't think of anything else and wants him to talk to Charlie. Ray comments they have a chance to get out early and it still isn't good enough. Lloyd finds a box of cigars on a table and looks them over. He notes that Freud said sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and he runs one of them beneath his nose to savour the smell. He recoils and says it isn't a cigar, it's a turd. Ray has found a packing envelope showing the cigars were sent over that morning. He takes the box from Lloyd to inspect it closely. He points out one of the traits of the Bad Elvis's was coded communication. Lloyd says that sometimes a box is just a box but Ray finds a false bottom in the box with a paper containing the name of hotel where Andre met earlier with his associates.
At Hotel Deveaux in Manhattan, New York, Ray learns from the desk clerk that neither Andre or Kate registered for a room in their names. Charlie looks to a maid vacuuming nearby and gets $40 from Ray. He tells Ray to lock down the lobby with Erica then goes to the maid and speaks to her in Spanish. As she's from Philly, she doesn't speak Spanish. He shows her Brennan's mug shot and asks if she's seen him. She smiles and admits she has saying he's unforgettable, handsome and charismatic and that he's staying in the Presidential Suite. He then shows her some money and says he needs a big favor. She lets Charlie, Lloyd and Shea into the Presidential Suite so they can look around. Lloyd comments that Andre buys his women via his lavish lifestyle. He gets high from vicious cycles of spending. He spends because he's a walking ID and he steals because he can't not spend. He is incapable of laying low which will be good for them. When they enter the kitchen of the suite they find Doug's body. Ray removes a hotel parking receipt from the man's pocket and calls Ray to have him check out the car.
When the car is brought to the front of the hotel, Ray and Erica look through it. In the trunk, Erica finds a case full of high-tech safe cracking equipment. From across the street, Andre and his team are watching Ray and Erica search the car. Kate is worried about the Marshall's but Andre is still cool and collected. He tells the team if anyone wants to bail they can now but will receive nothing. Andre receives a text and when he returns it, Kate asks what the woman's name is. He tells her she doesn't know her. Kate guesses she's young, pretty, naive and believes all he tells her. He turns to her and says he thought he told her enough times but apparently he hasn't then warns her to get her head in the game. She tells him this will be her last job as she's finished after this, something he agrees with. Ray calls Charlie to tell him what they found in the car and spots Andre watching them. As they must wait for Charlie to get there, he tells Erica to stand in front of him and talk about anything. She starts talking about conjugal visits and remarks visits would help clear her head. He comments she is "mungry" as Lloyd said earlier and she smiles saying she's "mamished". He tells her to take it up with Charlie but she says she'd rather take it up with him. When Andre realizes Ray has made them, he speeds out of his parking place. Ray runs toward the SUV while giving Julie a description but he's only able to get half of the plate.
At the office, Julie has Douglas Acadia's information for them. He has no priors and is unmarried and has been unable to find any connections between he and Andre or Kate. Julie has already spoken with Major Case and NYPD for the Bad Elvis case files but she is awaiting approval from the sergeant. Ray gives her a name telling her to inform him Ray Zancanelli said to send the files over. Charlie wants to know more about every single woman who went to see Andre in prison. The telephone rings and Julie informs Charlie that Andre Brennan is on the line wanting to speak with him surprising everyone in the room. As Charlie and Ray are walking into Charlie's office, Erica asks Julie what Andre's voice sounds like. She replies "creme de menthe". Andre introduces himself and tells Charlie he'd love to meet with him, especially if it was to work out a deal. Charlie asks what he's offering and receives the answer "my cohorts". Charlie mentions finding Doug in the suite and asks how many more are left. Andre replies there are three others and he is ready for a change that doesn't involve incarceration or being a fugitive. Charlie asks where they can meet but Andre wants the deal up front. He walks, with witness protection, for his testimony. When Charlie tells him he can't personally offer a deal but can put him with someone who can, Andre politely tells him he doesn't like to hang up on people so that is why he is informing him of it beforehand then hangs up.
Charlie asks Julie if the back trace on the phone has started and how long it will take. She tells him 5-10 minutes but that was 5 minutes ago. Charlie is anxious to get Brennan into custody and pushes hard and Julie informs him she can do her job. He's more than a little annoyed that Andre had the nerve to call him at the office and "run game" on him. Julie gets the information that Andre called from a pay phone at Mercer and Grand. Charlie takes the address and tells her to have Lloyd meet him at the car. Charlie and Lloyd go to the location of the phone and find a cigar bar nearby. Lloyd doesn't think Andre would call from a traceable phone outside one of his hangouts but Charlie asks Lloyd where he, a known problem gambler, was then they caught him. Lloyd admits he was in a casino. They go into the cigar bar and look through Andre's stash for clues. Lloyd smells a cigar from each box until he finds the displeasing cigars. Inside the false bottom they find a postcard with a modern expressionist painting on it and the information "Friday, 9:00".
At the restaurant beneath the office, while waiting on their pizza, everyone looks over the painting on the postcard trying to figure out what it is. Julie sent an image of the painting to Major Case Squad in hopes someone could identify it. Shea feels they should be talking to one more of Andre's girls, Heather Storrow as she visited him three times in prison but didn't stay for the conjugal. When Lloyd asks why she is important, Shea explains that maybe all the women are Bad Elvis's and maybe none are. Andre and Heather might have been a couple on the outside. Lloyd then theorizes the "Madonna/whore" of it all. A man courts a woman with the qualities of his mother and, over time, begins to see her as a mother figure. He reserves his sexuality for the 'dirty women' and cannot love a woman who satisfies him sexually and cannot sexually satisfy a woman he loves. Ray thinks Shea may be onto something and gets up to go upstairs to call Heather in. Shea wants to go for the interview and when Ray asks why, he insists Heather was his call and he's trying to help out while Julie is accepting a package from a messenger. Charlie gives him permission to attend the interview and the two go upstairs. Shea tells Ray he can start the interview with Heather and he will listen in. When Ray and Heather walk away, Shea makes the excuse to Julie he left the file downstairs and will be right back and gets into the elevator with the messenger who turns out to be Vanessa. He stops the elevator so the two can spend some quality time together. Downstairs, Charlie asks Erica to do a search for famous shipwreck paintings. She finds the painting and they learn it is at the Geller Museum in Midtown.
Andre and his team are putting their plan into action. They break into their target and bypass the security measures as planned. Heather tells Ray she loved Andre before she knew he was a criminal. His arrest turned her world upside down. Her visits to prison were to make sure she didn't love him anymore. She insists he isn't a bad man as not paying taxes doesn't make someone a monster. Ray agrees and tells her about him being a suspect in a murder, something she doesn't believe. Andre and his team continue bypassing security to reach their intended goal. Charlie arrives in the office commenting about having to take the stairs. Shea, who is getting out of the elevator tells Charlie it got stuck and that he doesn't like snakes and enclosed spaces and insists he get the elevator fixed. Julie brings Charlie a picture of a jewelry collection that arrived yesterday and is being housed at the Geller Museum. Charlie goes to get Ray and orders Shea to get the others downstairs. Julie informs Shea is fly is open and he knows that she knows what really happened with the elevator and quietly tells her he misses his girl. Charlie opens the door and tells Ray they figured out the thing. He thanks Heather for coming in and that she deserves better than Andre and leaves the room.
The team arrive at the Geller Museum to the sound of an alarm. They enter, guns drawn. They are met by a women who tells them to put their weapons away as it is only the primary alarm sounding and they have confirmed there has been no security breach. She shows them the jewels and states security has been with it around the clock since it landed. Andre and his team continue their work and Kate informs them they are good to go. They get the vault open. At the museum, they learn the alarm was pre-programmed to go off and could have been programmed months ago. The Gellar Museum was a distraction. Ray asks Julie to get information on every alarm that went off in the city that night and she gives him a list. Andre and his team empty diamonds into their bags while she goes over the list. She comes to Schullman and Sons Diamond Wholesalers on 47th Street. Andre and his team have what they came for and start to leave. Andre, seeing a pearl necklace, pauses.
The team arrive at the Diamond Wholesalers and are informed between nine and ten million was taken from the vault alone. Erica notices a case broken into and asks what is missing and is told about a pearl necklace, not worth much compared to the diamonds. Lloyd again states Andre will not be leaving town alone. He will be taking a girl with him, one he can impress with pearls leading Ray to remember Heather wearing pearl earrings when he spoke with her. Ray and Charlie go to see Heather and tell her Andre is a murderer and thief and will continue to do both because he's good at it. Ray convinces Heather to give them some information. Through tears, she tells them Andre just called begging her to meet him so they could run away together. When Ray asks where he wants to meet, she asks if Andre is really a murderer. Charlie tells her the photos are in the car and asks what she wants to see. She tells them Andre told her to meet him at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in half an hour and wait for him. Ray gives her a tissue and puts the package he took it from into her purse before they leave.
At the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the police arrive. Andre is sitting in a car and is pleased law enforcement bought the story then pulls away. He pulls up to the curb and Heather gets into the car. They two kiss and he asks if she was followed. She tells him she wasn't as she took a cab, then the subway then walked around the block as he said. She tells him they said horrible things about him and he asks who she will believe, him or them. With a kiss she tells him "you". He gives her the pearl necklace he stole from the Diamond Wholesalers for her faith in him. He tells her they will be leaving tomorrow for Buenos Aries but he has to buy them a little time first. He places a call to Charlie and tells him he wants to take his offer as he is done running. Charlie asks where he is. Andre says he must take care of a couple of things first but says he will meet him at a coffee shop the next morning at nine. Charlie tells him it means so much to him he's getting misty-eyed thinking about it and asks if he can borrow a tissue from Heather's purse. Andre asks Heather if they gave her tissues. Charlie taps on the window with his gun and law enforcement move in. He orders Andre out of the car and Ray opens Heather's door and takes the tissues he put into her purse out telling her they are what they call a "bird dog", a tracking device and orders her out of the car.
Charlie and Ray bring Andre Brennan back to the office and Julie and Erica take the opportunity to get a good look at him. Erica comments he's so much better looking in his photos and Julie reluctantly agrees. Charlie tells him they will be coming by in a half hour to pick him up. Ray brings cheap cigars and champagne into the office so the team can celebrate Brennan's capture as Julie and Shea share a look about what happened earlier. Later, Julie knocks on the bathroom door and asks Shea if she can come in. He grants her permission and she opens the door. She steps inside and tells him she doesn't appreciate the situation she's in because of him. She's risking her job by not telling Charlie. She knows that everyone is aware of her personal issues and feels he might have thought she was a pushover because of it. He insists it wasn't like that and he just needed some time with his girl as he's been locked up for a long time. She tells him she's been locked up for a long time as well. After she washed out of the Academy, she lived with her mother for three years doing telemarketing as she never left the house. She thought that would be the rest of her life until Ray called her for the job. They both want out of prison and the team is an opportunity for them both to get their life back. She tells him not to mistake her illness for weakness and to not put her in the position again as she will tell Charlie if he does.
During a visit at Maybelle, Shea tells Vanessa he can't wait six years. She points out they would be fugitives again. He takes her hand in his and says they would be together and that's all that matters. He tells her "this is for you" and kisses her hand. When he leaves she looks into her hand and sees a diamond then to Shea standing at the gate waiting for the guard to open it.
Breakout Kings airs every Sunday night at 10:00 p.m. (Eastern time) on the Arts & Entertainment Network.
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Season One, Episode Nine, One for the Money
Original Air Date: May 1, 2011
The "Breakout Kings" are called into action when a charming thief escapes from prison. As they delve further into his life, they find a long trail of women easily under his spell. Could one of them be his true love and the key to finding him? Meanwhile, Shea wants a conjugal visit with his wife but convincing Charlie and Ray to allow it is a huge hurdle so he takes matters into his own hands.
At Orleans Correctional Facility in Albion, New York, a prisoner's cell has been trashed. When complaining to the guards does no good, one of the prisoners, Andre Brennan (Richard Burgi), convinces the other that he needs to retaliate against the three men he feels trashed the cell. He lays out the plan the man should follow and assures him he will be there to back him up. The plan goes into action and Andre again provides assurance he will be there for backup. The attack begins and, when the action starts, Andre quietly slips away in the confusion. Andre and another prisoner go to the roof where Andre scales the side of the building and leaves the grounds for a waiting SUV.
At Maybelle Minimum Security Prison in Hudson, New York, Shea and his girl, Vanessa (Tattiawna Jones), are talking during a visit and she tells him she's proud of him for the work he's doing with the Marshall's. She asks if the people he works with are nice and he says they are. When she asks about the "other informants" he immediately corrects her saying he isn't an informant. They simply bounce stuff off him. She tells him nothing has changed between them and, if anything, she loves him more now because he's doing what is right by them. When they are together again they will be free and clear--no more running, they can't go back to that. She expresses her wish they could be alone as he kisses her hand. He refuses to allow her to have to go through the security measures for them to get into a conjugal trailer. When she leans across the table to kiss him one of the guards yells to him "no excessive contact" and they break their kiss. He tells her he will figure something out. The guard calls to him that the transfer van has arrived.
At the office in Brooklyn, New York, Charlie goes over Andre Brennen's information with the team. Andre's cell mate died in the riot started so Andre could escape. Lloyd asks how Andre escaped but that is unknown as the warden is still conducting his investigation. Brennan was in prison for tax evasion but he had been suspected as being an associate of the "Bad Elvis's", a sophisticated group of jewelry thieves that have never been caught. Two security guards were killed in a robbery in Brussels two years ago so the Bad Elvis's are known for violence. While Interpol never pinned the Brussels job on Brennan, they know he was the mastermind. Lloyd questions the moniker of the group and Julie explains they were given the name by the press after a heist where the group wore ridiculous pompadour wigs. Shea points out that "Breakout Kings" is a name that has a ring to it and Lloyd asks if that is what they are calling them and Erica remarks she loves it. Ray tells them they aren't called Breakout Kings because they aren't breaking out of anything. Erica takes a picture of Andre Brenna from a folder and comments on how attractive he is. Shea reads over Brennan's list of luxury belongings and notes he must have been thieving for a long time before he was caught because of his high lifestyle. When Ray asks if the team is ready to do some work or continue going over the folders Lloyd points out the amazing list of Brennan's conjugal visitors. Julie brings up an image sent to them by the warden's office, the tip of a copied key made from some kind of plastic that was found inside the lock in the visitors area. Shea feels they should talk to trustees and guards as Brennan got the key from someone to make the copy. When Charlie goes into his office, Shea follows and asks if he could get some alone time with his girl. Charlie replies that he is getting time, time off his sentence. Apart from that he gets nothing. As he is leaving the office, Charlie tells Julie to run every trustee as he wants to see everyone who has ever had contact with Brennan and pull his visitation log as he wants to know what Brennan is up to.
Charlie and Ray interview Jose Fuentes (Joshua Barilko) a trustee at the prison about the key. At first, the man denies knowing anything about the key. When they inform Fuentes his wife just paid cash for a brand new Escalade, and show him proof, he angrily exclaims he's going to kill her as he told her to sit on the money for a year. He admits that Andre gave him $25,000 to make a copy of a key for him. He told Andre he needed another week to get the key. An angry Andre, needing the key immediately doubled the amount to $50,000. He doesn't know why Andre was in such a hurry and only assumes he was breaking out for a woman and comments on some of the ladies that used to visit Andre at the prison.
At the office, Erica, looking at Andre's mug shot, comments he is well endowed. Julie questions how she knows and she explains he is confident, yet calm and doesn't need to resort to all the nonsense men do that need to compensate. He knows what he has. She points out his expression in the photo as "Whatever. I don't need to make a big deal out if it. You know why? Because I'm packing." Shea speculates that she didn't get that from a mug shot but instead because she hasn't had a conjugal in three years and is a little frustrated. Lloyd chimes in saying he thought it wasn't the size of the liner but the motion of the ocean that mattered. Erica asks who told him that and asks him not to say his mother. He simply says he read an article in Psychology Today. Julie finishes her phone call and tells the cons Andre paid a lot of money to get out that day so Charlie and Ray want them to focus on anything time sensitive and what women were Andre's most recent visitors. Lloyd sees information on Kate Lavin (Josie Davis) and selects her since Andre is a man who lives for instant gratification, his vanity, his trappings of wealth and self-satisfaction. He clearly suffers from persistent ego aggrandising disorder so his first order of business now that he's out of prison will be to follow that suit. Shea asks what that means and Erica points out Brennan will need to get laid. Lloyd informs them of all Andre's lady callers, Kate visited him the most in prison and one of those visits was a conjugal.
Charlie and Ray pay a visit to Kate Lavin's home and she admits she knows Andre. She claims she became enamoured with him after meeting him through a friend he used to date. She admits she's heard the 'rumors' about his criminal activities but that she has never personally witnessed him stealing anything. Charlie asks what her prison visits were about and she tells him she felt sorry for him and since she'd never had a conjugal visit in prison and thought she'd check it off her list. Ray cuts to the chase and tells her he wants the truth from her and they want to know where Andre is and what he is up to. She insists he isn't helping him evade arrest and tells them that one month ago Andre asked her to wait for him and run away to his uncle's property in New Mexico. She felt it was a bit desperate so she turned him down and maintains that was the last time she saw him. Charlie notices her packed luggage and asks if she's going somewhere and she tells him she just returned from a trip as she is seeing someone else. Charlie gives her his card and tells her to call them if she has any further contact with Andre.
Charlie and Ray return to the office and Charlie questions Julie if she has anything on Andre's uncle in New Mexico. The phone rings and Julie tells Charlie Director Knox is on the line. Shea makes a call to an associate asking if he still has access to the uniforms. When he's apparently given an affirmative answer, Shea says he needs a favor. Charlie takes the call from Knox in his office and despite giving his boss what information they do have an assuring him they are working diligently on getting Brennan back into custody, Knox is clearly displeased and makes sure Charlie knows it. Charlie leaves his office and tells the team he was given a way to go by his boss and wants to know what everyone has as they have to catch Brennan. Lloyd explains he doesn't understand where New Mexico fits into Brennan's profile as he is a 4-start kind of guy and wouldn't want to live on a farm in New Mexico. Julie informs them Brennan's only uncle died eight months prior and never owned a farm. Ray knows that Kate was lying to them.
Andre arrives in the Presidential Suite of a fine hotel to meet with his associates. Kate Lavin hands him Charlie's card and asks what they are going to do about the Marshall's. His phone rings and he takes the call. It is from a woman, Heather Storrow (Helena Mattsson). She wants to know what is going on and he promises everything will be made clear and asks if she's ready for them to be together forever. She asks how that will be possible as he's a fugitive. He tells her to just be ready as he has to take care of a few things and will call her back. When he hangs up, one of his associates, Doug (Colin McClean) steps forward and tells him there's too much heat from his breakout. If they are going to do the deal, Andre needs to disappear and wait to hear from them. Andre calmly looks to everyone and says he only has two questions. The first is if everything is on schedule. When Doug says everything is under control, Andre takes out a gun and kills him. He poses his second question "who is in charge". Kate replies that he is.
Ray, Shea and Lloyd enter Kate's house and find her bags are gone. Ray calls Charlie to let him and know and the latter says he and Erica will watch the street while they search the house. While Lloyd and Shea look at one of Kate's nighties, Ray searches the cupboards. Ray tells them to put the garment down and do their job. Shea points out that is why they need conjugal time because at a certain point you can't think of anything else and wants him to talk to Charlie. Ray comments they have a chance to get out early and it still isn't good enough. Lloyd finds a box of cigars on a table and looks them over. He notes that Freud said sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and he runs one of them beneath his nose to savour the smell. He recoils and says it isn't a cigar, it's a turd. Ray has found a packing envelope showing the cigars were sent over that morning. He takes the box from Lloyd to inspect it closely. He points out one of the traits of the Bad Elvis's was coded communication. Lloyd says that sometimes a box is just a box but Ray finds a false bottom in the box with a paper containing the name of hotel where Andre met earlier with his associates.
At Hotel Deveaux in Manhattan, New York, Ray learns from the desk clerk that neither Andre or Kate registered for a room in their names. Charlie looks to a maid vacuuming nearby and gets $40 from Ray. He tells Ray to lock down the lobby with Erica then goes to the maid and speaks to her in Spanish. As she's from Philly, she doesn't speak Spanish. He shows her Brennan's mug shot and asks if she's seen him. She smiles and admits she has saying he's unforgettable, handsome and charismatic and that he's staying in the Presidential Suite. He then shows her some money and says he needs a big favor. She lets Charlie, Lloyd and Shea into the Presidential Suite so they can look around. Lloyd comments that Andre buys his women via his lavish lifestyle. He gets high from vicious cycles of spending. He spends because he's a walking ID and he steals because he can't not spend. He is incapable of laying low which will be good for them. When they enter the kitchen of the suite they find Doug's body. Ray removes a hotel parking receipt from the man's pocket and calls Ray to have him check out the car.
When the car is brought to the front of the hotel, Ray and Erica look through it. In the trunk, Erica finds a case full of high-tech safe cracking equipment. From across the street, Andre and his team are watching Ray and Erica search the car. Kate is worried about the Marshall's but Andre is still cool and collected. He tells the team if anyone wants to bail they can now but will receive nothing. Andre receives a text and when he returns it, Kate asks what the woman's name is. He tells her she doesn't know her. Kate guesses she's young, pretty, naive and believes all he tells her. He turns to her and says he thought he told her enough times but apparently he hasn't then warns her to get her head in the game. She tells him this will be her last job as she's finished after this, something he agrees with. Ray calls Charlie to tell him what they found in the car and spots Andre watching them. As they must wait for Charlie to get there, he tells Erica to stand in front of him and talk about anything. She starts talking about conjugal visits and remarks visits would help clear her head. He comments she is "mungry" as Lloyd said earlier and she smiles saying she's "mamished". He tells her to take it up with Charlie but she says she'd rather take it up with him. When Andre realizes Ray has made them, he speeds out of his parking place. Ray runs toward the SUV while giving Julie a description but he's only able to get half of the plate.
At the office, Julie has Douglas Acadia's information for them. He has no priors and is unmarried and has been unable to find any connections between he and Andre or Kate. Julie has already spoken with Major Case and NYPD for the Bad Elvis case files but she is awaiting approval from the sergeant. Ray gives her a name telling her to inform him Ray Zancanelli said to send the files over. Charlie wants to know more about every single woman who went to see Andre in prison. The telephone rings and Julie informs Charlie that Andre Brennan is on the line wanting to speak with him surprising everyone in the room. As Charlie and Ray are walking into Charlie's office, Erica asks Julie what Andre's voice sounds like. She replies "creme de menthe". Andre introduces himself and tells Charlie he'd love to meet with him, especially if it was to work out a deal. Charlie asks what he's offering and receives the answer "my cohorts". Charlie mentions finding Doug in the suite and asks how many more are left. Andre replies there are three others and he is ready for a change that doesn't involve incarceration or being a fugitive. Charlie asks where they can meet but Andre wants the deal up front. He walks, with witness protection, for his testimony. When Charlie tells him he can't personally offer a deal but can put him with someone who can, Andre politely tells him he doesn't like to hang up on people so that is why he is informing him of it beforehand then hangs up.
Charlie asks Julie if the back trace on the phone has started and how long it will take. She tells him 5-10 minutes but that was 5 minutes ago. Charlie is anxious to get Brennan into custody and pushes hard and Julie informs him she can do her job. He's more than a little annoyed that Andre had the nerve to call him at the office and "run game" on him. Julie gets the information that Andre called from a pay phone at Mercer and Grand. Charlie takes the address and tells her to have Lloyd meet him at the car. Charlie and Lloyd go to the location of the phone and find a cigar bar nearby. Lloyd doesn't think Andre would call from a traceable phone outside one of his hangouts but Charlie asks Lloyd where he, a known problem gambler, was then they caught him. Lloyd admits he was in a casino. They go into the cigar bar and look through Andre's stash for clues. Lloyd smells a cigar from each box until he finds the displeasing cigars. Inside the false bottom they find a postcard with a modern expressionist painting on it and the information "Friday, 9:00".
At the restaurant beneath the office, while waiting on their pizza, everyone looks over the painting on the postcard trying to figure out what it is. Julie sent an image of the painting to Major Case Squad in hopes someone could identify it. Shea feels they should be talking to one more of Andre's girls, Heather Storrow as she visited him three times in prison but didn't stay for the conjugal. When Lloyd asks why she is important, Shea explains that maybe all the women are Bad Elvis's and maybe none are. Andre and Heather might have been a couple on the outside. Lloyd then theorizes the "Madonna/whore" of it all. A man courts a woman with the qualities of his mother and, over time, begins to see her as a mother figure. He reserves his sexuality for the 'dirty women' and cannot love a woman who satisfies him sexually and cannot sexually satisfy a woman he loves. Ray thinks Shea may be onto something and gets up to go upstairs to call Heather in. Shea wants to go for the interview and when Ray asks why, he insists Heather was his call and he's trying to help out while Julie is accepting a package from a messenger. Charlie gives him permission to attend the interview and the two go upstairs. Shea tells Ray he can start the interview with Heather and he will listen in. When Ray and Heather walk away, Shea makes the excuse to Julie he left the file downstairs and will be right back and gets into the elevator with the messenger who turns out to be Vanessa. He stops the elevator so the two can spend some quality time together. Downstairs, Charlie asks Erica to do a search for famous shipwreck paintings. She finds the painting and they learn it is at the Geller Museum in Midtown.
Andre and his team are putting their plan into action. They break into their target and bypass the security measures as planned. Heather tells Ray she loved Andre before she knew he was a criminal. His arrest turned her world upside down. Her visits to prison were to make sure she didn't love him anymore. She insists he isn't a bad man as not paying taxes doesn't make someone a monster. Ray agrees and tells her about him being a suspect in a murder, something she doesn't believe. Andre and his team continue bypassing security to reach their intended goal. Charlie arrives in the office commenting about having to take the stairs. Shea, who is getting out of the elevator tells Charlie it got stuck and that he doesn't like snakes and enclosed spaces and insists he get the elevator fixed. Julie brings Charlie a picture of a jewelry collection that arrived yesterday and is being housed at the Geller Museum. Charlie goes to get Ray and orders Shea to get the others downstairs. Julie informs Shea is fly is open and he knows that she knows what really happened with the elevator and quietly tells her he misses his girl. Charlie opens the door and tells Ray they figured out the thing. He thanks Heather for coming in and that she deserves better than Andre and leaves the room.
The team arrive at the Geller Museum to the sound of an alarm. They enter, guns drawn. They are met by a women who tells them to put their weapons away as it is only the primary alarm sounding and they have confirmed there has been no security breach. She shows them the jewels and states security has been with it around the clock since it landed. Andre and his team continue their work and Kate informs them they are good to go. They get the vault open. At the museum, they learn the alarm was pre-programmed to go off and could have been programmed months ago. The Gellar Museum was a distraction. Ray asks Julie to get information on every alarm that went off in the city that night and she gives him a list. Andre and his team empty diamonds into their bags while she goes over the list. She comes to Schullman and Sons Diamond Wholesalers on 47th Street. Andre and his team have what they came for and start to leave. Andre, seeing a pearl necklace, pauses.
The team arrive at the Diamond Wholesalers and are informed between nine and ten million was taken from the vault alone. Erica notices a case broken into and asks what is missing and is told about a pearl necklace, not worth much compared to the diamonds. Lloyd again states Andre will not be leaving town alone. He will be taking a girl with him, one he can impress with pearls leading Ray to remember Heather wearing pearl earrings when he spoke with her. Ray and Charlie go to see Heather and tell her Andre is a murderer and thief and will continue to do both because he's good at it. Ray convinces Heather to give them some information. Through tears, she tells them Andre just called begging her to meet him so they could run away together. When Ray asks where he wants to meet, she asks if Andre is really a murderer. Charlie tells her the photos are in the car and asks what she wants to see. She tells them Andre told her to meet him at the Port Authority Bus Terminal in half an hour and wait for him. Ray gives her a tissue and puts the package he took it from into her purse before they leave.
At the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the police arrive. Andre is sitting in a car and is pleased law enforcement bought the story then pulls away. He pulls up to the curb and Heather gets into the car. They two kiss and he asks if she was followed. She tells him she wasn't as she took a cab, then the subway then walked around the block as he said. She tells him they said horrible things about him and he asks who she will believe, him or them. With a kiss she tells him "you". He gives her the pearl necklace he stole from the Diamond Wholesalers for her faith in him. He tells her they will be leaving tomorrow for Buenos Aries but he has to buy them a little time first. He places a call to Charlie and tells him he wants to take his offer as he is done running. Charlie asks where he is. Andre says he must take care of a couple of things first but says he will meet him at a coffee shop the next morning at nine. Charlie tells him it means so much to him he's getting misty-eyed thinking about it and asks if he can borrow a tissue from Heather's purse. Andre asks Heather if they gave her tissues. Charlie taps on the window with his gun and law enforcement move in. He orders Andre out of the car and Ray opens Heather's door and takes the tissues he put into her purse out telling her they are what they call a "bird dog", a tracking device and orders her out of the car.
Charlie and Ray bring Andre Brennan back to the office and Julie and Erica take the opportunity to get a good look at him. Erica comments he's so much better looking in his photos and Julie reluctantly agrees. Charlie tells him they will be coming by in a half hour to pick him up. Ray brings cheap cigars and champagne into the office so the team can celebrate Brennan's capture as Julie and Shea share a look about what happened earlier. Later, Julie knocks on the bathroom door and asks Shea if she can come in. He grants her permission and she opens the door. She steps inside and tells him she doesn't appreciate the situation she's in because of him. She's risking her job by not telling Charlie. She knows that everyone is aware of her personal issues and feels he might have thought she was a pushover because of it. He insists it wasn't like that and he just needed some time with his girl as he's been locked up for a long time. She tells him she's been locked up for a long time as well. After she washed out of the Academy, she lived with her mother for three years doing telemarketing as she never left the house. She thought that would be the rest of her life until Ray called her for the job. They both want out of prison and the team is an opportunity for them both to get their life back. She tells him not to mistake her illness for weakness and to not put her in the position again as she will tell Charlie if he does.
During a visit at Maybelle, Shea tells Vanessa he can't wait six years. She points out they would be fugitives again. He takes her hand in his and says they would be together and that's all that matters. He tells her "this is for you" and kisses her hand. When he leaves she looks into her hand and sees a diamond then to Shea standing at the gate waiting for the guard to open it.
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
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Note: Recent Post Delays
I want to take a moment to explain the recent posting delays on the blog.
For the past few weeks, the area where I live has seen some extremely severe weather. Power and Internet outages have been relatively common and have lasted anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days. It is amazingly easy to get behind on just about everything when you have so much downtime. For this reason, pretty much all recent blog posts have been delayed. For that, I apologize most sincerely.
Thankfully, the weather has taken a turn for the better and I am working hard to get caught up. I hope to have all of this weeks show recaps on the blog by tomorrow night. This includes Hawaii Five-O and Breakout Kings.
Everything should be returning to normal very soon and any recaps will once again be posted in a timely manner.
For the past few weeks, the area where I live has seen some extremely severe weather. Power and Internet outages have been relatively common and have lasted anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days. It is amazingly easy to get behind on just about everything when you have so much downtime. For this reason, pretty much all recent blog posts have been delayed. For that, I apologize most sincerely.
Thankfully, the weather has taken a turn for the better and I am working hard to get caught up. I hope to have all of this weeks show recaps on the blog by tomorrow night. This includes Hawaii Five-O and Breakout Kings.
Everything should be returning to normal very soon and any recaps will once again be posted in a timely manner.
Recommendation of the Month: Supernatural
I enjoy any show that is well written and has a fine cast. Supernatural is such a show. But I don't just enjoy it, I love it.
I'll admit that I got into Supernatural late into its run. The Winchester boys were already well into season five and nearing the end of the big angels and demons arc by time I picked the show up. My greatest television regret is that I wasn't there with them from the very beginning. But, better late than never, right?
Supernatural is just finishing up it's sixth season on the CW network and has recently been renewed for a seventh. The show centers around Sam and Dean Winchester, two brothers born in Kansas to John and Mary Winchester. The Winchester's aren't a normal family, however. They are hunters. And I don't mean the deer or big game variety, they hunt the really bad stuff. They hunt vampires, Wendigos, demons and shapeshifters.
When the series begins, the eldest Winchester son, Dean, pays a visit to his little brother in need of help. Their father, John, is missing and he needs Sam to help find him. Sam has left the hunting life to attend college and is even engaged to a nice girl and doesn't want to be drawn back in. But, he goes with Dean because family is everything to the Winchesters. So, with the understanding that once they find their father Sam will return to the new life he's made for himself, the brothers hit the road. They encounter a different "monster of the week" in each episode as they come closer to finding their father. Beneath each weekly story is a continuing arc that only gets more complicated and intense as the series progresses.
When Sam was just six months old, his mother was killed in an unusual way: she was burned on the ceiling of his nursery. Sam's fiance dies in the same manner further fueling Sam's desire to get to the monster who murdered his mother, the same monster John Winchester has been tracking ever since Mary's murder. The trail leads them to a yellow-eyed demon who has his sights set on Sam. He doesn't want to kill Sam. Sam is "the chosen one" that will secure Lucifer's escape from Hell.
Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) approaches everything with a sense of humor and often has some of the best lines in the show. His most prized possession is his black 1967 Impala, something he often refers to as his "baby". We later learn his father purchased the car when he was a young man. Dean is as passionate about protecting the Impala as he is about "ganking" the creatures they hunt--perhaps more so.
Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) is soft spoken, intelligent and caring. He has a sensitive side to him that feels deeply for the people they come in contact with who have had their lives destroyed by the creatures they hunt. Sam always wants to do what is right even at great cost to himself.
Along the way, Sam and Dean team up with an old family friend and fellow hunter, Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver). Bobby is a grizzled hunter who has seen just about everything to come along. He entered the hunting life when his wife became a victim. He's fought alongside John Winchester and thinks of Sam and Dean as if they were his own sons. He's the man all the hunters call when they need someone to back up their stories of being federal agents or when they need some quick research done to know how to kill a creature. He's smart, tough and says it like he sees it. He sugar-coats nothing for no one.
As the angels and demons arc progresses, the Winchesters meet the angel Castiel (Misha Collins). He's a soft spoken, trenchcoat-wearing no-nonsense soldier of God who always looks at everything in terms of the greater good. Poor Cass is often the brunt of Dean's sense of humor and he doesn't always understand everything Dean says and takes him too literally most times. For Castiel one thing, and one thing only, is important: saving Heaven at all costs. However, Cass does become very fond of Sam and Dean and is always there when they need him. He's gotten them out of some major trouble on many occasions--just as they have him.
The writers hit the ground running with the start of season six and the race hasn't stopped even for a second. Now that the angels and demons arc has concluded, the Winchesters, Bobby Singer and Castiel are picking up the pieces left behind from the thwarted Apocalypse. There are new battles to fight and new creatures to deal with. Supernatural story lines are almost always very unique. How often do you see a modern show taking a step back into the Wild West to kill a phoenix or the two main characters jumping into the bodies of the men who play them? The guys have even dealt with dragons and fairies in season six. While both of things might sound silly and cliche, in the very capable hands of the Supernatural writers, they were anything but. Regardless of the situation, everything fits perfectly and it makes sense.
When it comes down to it, Supernatural isn't a show about monsters and scary things that go bump in the night. It's a show about two brothers who grew up in a life that neither of them probably wanted but they took on because of familial duty. They love one another more than anything and would literally die for each other--and have. They have few friends and they cherish them because they know with the life they lead, they can't really invite anyone in. The monsters are the vehicle that bring the story, but it's the true heart, Sam and Dean and what they mean to each other, that makes Supernatural such an outstanding television show. The writing is strong and the actors are top-notch. There's not a single bit of fluff to Supernatural. It has the power to make you laugh and cry and it will leave you thinking. There are real characters there that you truly can care about and you want to know more about them and what makes them who they are.
The show has spawned novelizations based on the Winchester characters and even an anime series. Watching just one high-action, nail-biting, humor-laced episode is enough to tell you why Supernatural has the best and most loyal fan base out there!
Cast:
Dean Winchester: Jensen Ackles
Sam Winchester: Jared Padalecki
Bobby Singer: Jim Beaver
Castiel: Misha Collins
Former Characters & Special Recurring Characters:
Ellen Harvelle: Samantha Ferris
Jo Harvelle: Alona Tal
Samuel Campbell: Mitch Pileggi
Rufus Turner: Steven Williams
Ash: Chad Lindberg
Azazel, the yellow-eyed demon: Fredric Lehne
Ruby: Katie Cassidy (later, Genevieve Cortese)
Death: Julian Richings
Crowley: Mark Sheppard
Lucifer: Mark Pellegrino
The Trickster/Gabriel: Richard Speight, Jr.
Zachariah: Kurt Fuller
Gordon Walker: Sterling K. Brown
Balthazar: Sebastian Roche
Seasons one through five are currently available on DVD & Blu-Ray. Season six is available for pre-order in both formats.
Season One: DVD | Blu-Ray
Season Two: DVD | Blu-Ray
Season Three: DVD | Blu-Ray
Season Four: DVD | Blu-Ray
Season Five: DVD | Blu-Ray
Season Six: DVD | Blu-Ray
Supernatural airs Friday nights at 10:00 p.m. (eastern time) on the CW Network.
For more information:
Supernatural Official CW Web Site: http://www.cwtv.com/shows/supernatural
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460681/
TVRage: http://www.tvrage.com/Supernatural
I'll admit that I got into Supernatural late into its run. The Winchester boys were already well into season five and nearing the end of the big angels and demons arc by time I picked the show up. My greatest television regret is that I wasn't there with them from the very beginning. But, better late than never, right?
Supernatural is just finishing up it's sixth season on the CW network and has recently been renewed for a seventh. The show centers around Sam and Dean Winchester, two brothers born in Kansas to John and Mary Winchester. The Winchester's aren't a normal family, however. They are hunters. And I don't mean the deer or big game variety, they hunt the really bad stuff. They hunt vampires, Wendigos, demons and shapeshifters.
When the series begins, the eldest Winchester son, Dean, pays a visit to his little brother in need of help. Their father, John, is missing and he needs Sam to help find him. Sam has left the hunting life to attend college and is even engaged to a nice girl and doesn't want to be drawn back in. But, he goes with Dean because family is everything to the Winchesters. So, with the understanding that once they find their father Sam will return to the new life he's made for himself, the brothers hit the road. They encounter a different "monster of the week" in each episode as they come closer to finding their father. Beneath each weekly story is a continuing arc that only gets more complicated and intense as the series progresses.
When Sam was just six months old, his mother was killed in an unusual way: she was burned on the ceiling of his nursery. Sam's fiance dies in the same manner further fueling Sam's desire to get to the monster who murdered his mother, the same monster John Winchester has been tracking ever since Mary's murder. The trail leads them to a yellow-eyed demon who has his sights set on Sam. He doesn't want to kill Sam. Sam is "the chosen one" that will secure Lucifer's escape from Hell.
Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles) approaches everything with a sense of humor and often has some of the best lines in the show. His most prized possession is his black 1967 Impala, something he often refers to as his "baby". We later learn his father purchased the car when he was a young man. Dean is as passionate about protecting the Impala as he is about "ganking" the creatures they hunt--perhaps more so.
Sam Winchester (Jared Padalecki) is soft spoken, intelligent and caring. He has a sensitive side to him that feels deeply for the people they come in contact with who have had their lives destroyed by the creatures they hunt. Sam always wants to do what is right even at great cost to himself.
Along the way, Sam and Dean team up with an old family friend and fellow hunter, Bobby Singer (Jim Beaver). Bobby is a grizzled hunter who has seen just about everything to come along. He entered the hunting life when his wife became a victim. He's fought alongside John Winchester and thinks of Sam and Dean as if they were his own sons. He's the man all the hunters call when they need someone to back up their stories of being federal agents or when they need some quick research done to know how to kill a creature. He's smart, tough and says it like he sees it. He sugar-coats nothing for no one.
As the angels and demons arc progresses, the Winchesters meet the angel Castiel (Misha Collins). He's a soft spoken, trenchcoat-wearing no-nonsense soldier of God who always looks at everything in terms of the greater good. Poor Cass is often the brunt of Dean's sense of humor and he doesn't always understand everything Dean says and takes him too literally most times. For Castiel one thing, and one thing only, is important: saving Heaven at all costs. However, Cass does become very fond of Sam and Dean and is always there when they need him. He's gotten them out of some major trouble on many occasions--just as they have him.
The writers hit the ground running with the start of season six and the race hasn't stopped even for a second. Now that the angels and demons arc has concluded, the Winchesters, Bobby Singer and Castiel are picking up the pieces left behind from the thwarted Apocalypse. There are new battles to fight and new creatures to deal with. Supernatural story lines are almost always very unique. How often do you see a modern show taking a step back into the Wild West to kill a phoenix or the two main characters jumping into the bodies of the men who play them? The guys have even dealt with dragons and fairies in season six. While both of things might sound silly and cliche, in the very capable hands of the Supernatural writers, they were anything but. Regardless of the situation, everything fits perfectly and it makes sense.
When it comes down to it, Supernatural isn't a show about monsters and scary things that go bump in the night. It's a show about two brothers who grew up in a life that neither of them probably wanted but they took on because of familial duty. They love one another more than anything and would literally die for each other--and have. They have few friends and they cherish them because they know with the life they lead, they can't really invite anyone in. The monsters are the vehicle that bring the story, but it's the true heart, Sam and Dean and what they mean to each other, that makes Supernatural such an outstanding television show. The writing is strong and the actors are top-notch. There's not a single bit of fluff to Supernatural. It has the power to make you laugh and cry and it will leave you thinking. There are real characters there that you truly can care about and you want to know more about them and what makes them who they are.
The show has spawned novelizations based on the Winchester characters and even an anime series. Watching just one high-action, nail-biting, humor-laced episode is enough to tell you why Supernatural has the best and most loyal fan base out there!
Cast:
Dean Winchester: Jensen Ackles
Sam Winchester: Jared Padalecki
Bobby Singer: Jim Beaver
Castiel: Misha Collins
Former Characters & Special Recurring Characters:
Ellen Harvelle: Samantha Ferris
Jo Harvelle: Alona Tal
Samuel Campbell: Mitch Pileggi
Rufus Turner: Steven Williams
Ash: Chad Lindberg
Azazel, the yellow-eyed demon: Fredric Lehne
Ruby: Katie Cassidy (later, Genevieve Cortese)
Death: Julian Richings
Crowley: Mark Sheppard
Lucifer: Mark Pellegrino
The Trickster/Gabriel: Richard Speight, Jr.
Zachariah: Kurt Fuller
Gordon Walker: Sterling K. Brown
Balthazar: Sebastian Roche
Seasons one through five are currently available on DVD & Blu-Ray. Season six is available for pre-order in both formats.
Season One: DVD | Blu-Ray
Season Two: DVD | Blu-Ray
Season Three: DVD | Blu-Ray
Season Four: DVD | Blu-Ray
Season Five: DVD | Blu-Ray
Season Six: DVD | Blu-Ray
Supernatural airs Friday nights at 10:00 p.m. (eastern time) on the CW Network.
For more information:
Supernatural Official CW Web Site: http://www.cwtv.com/shows/supernatural
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460681/
TVRage: http://www.tvrage.com/Supernatural
The 2011 Kentucky Derby
It's that time of year again! In a little over two days, the fastest, and greatest, as they say, two minutes in sports will begin and end for another year. The celebrities have already turned out for the pre-Derby festivities and you can be certain that when Derby day arrives, they'll be out in full force.
Last year, the weather played a major role in the Derby. Near flood conditions plagued the track but the horses and jockey's got out and gave it their all to give sports and Derby fans a wild race. This year, race fans are hoping for a dry day and dry track.
Last year, I wrote a bit about the history behind the Kentucky Derby so I won't go into that again this year. Instead, I'll simply list the post positions and say I wish the Derby goers a sunny day of excitement.
So, pick your horse, place your bets, put on your massively gaudy hat, grab your Mint Julep and sit back and get ready for the 137th annual Run for the Roses!
2011 Kentucky Derby Post Positions
01 - Archarcharch, Jon Court (jockey), Jinks Fires (trainer), 10-1 (odds)
02 - Brilliant Speed, Joel Rosario (jockey), Tom Albertrani (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
03 - Twice the Appeal, Calvin Borel (jockey), Jeff Bonde (trainer), 20-1 (odds)
04 - Stay Thirsty, Ramon Dominguez (jockey), Todd Pletcher (trainer), 20-1 (odds)
05 - Decisive Moment, Kerwin Clark (jockey), Juan Arias (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
06 - Comma to the Top, Pat Valenzuela (jockey), Peter Miller (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
07 - Pants on Fire, Rosie Napravnik (jockey), Kelly Breen (trainer), 20-1 (odds)
08 - Dialed In, Julian Leparoux (jockey), Nick Zito (trainer), 4-1 (odds)
09 - Derby Kitten, Javier Castellano (jockey), Michael J. Maker (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
10 - Twinspired, Mike Smith (jockey), Mike Maker (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
11 - Master of Hounds, Garrett Gomez (jockey), Aidan O'Brien (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
12 - Santiva, Shaun Bridgmogan (jockey), Eddie Kenneally (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
13 - Mucho Macho Man, Rajiv Maragh (jockey), Kathy Ritvo (trainer), 12-1 (odds)
14 - Shakleford, Jesus Castanon (jockey), Dale Romans (trainer), 12-1 (odds)
15 - Midnight Interlude, Victor Espinoza (jockey), Bob Baffert (trainer), 10-1 (odds)
16 - Animal Kingdom, Robby Albarado (jockey), Graham Motion (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
17 - Soldat, Alan Garcia (jockey), Kiaran McLaughlin (trainer), 12-1 (odds)
18 - Uncle Moe, John Velazquez (jockey), Todd Pletcher (trainer), 9-2 (odds)
19 - Nehro, Corey Nakatani (jockey), Steve Asmussen (trainer), 6-1 (odds)
20 - Watch Me Go, Rafael Bejarano (jockey), Kathleen O'Connell (trainer), 50-1 (odds)
The Kentucky Derby runs on May 7, 2011.
Last year, the weather played a major role in the Derby. Near flood conditions plagued the track but the horses and jockey's got out and gave it their all to give sports and Derby fans a wild race. This year, race fans are hoping for a dry day and dry track.
Last year, I wrote a bit about the history behind the Kentucky Derby so I won't go into that again this year. Instead, I'll simply list the post positions and say I wish the Derby goers a sunny day of excitement.
So, pick your horse, place your bets, put on your massively gaudy hat, grab your Mint Julep and sit back and get ready for the 137th annual Run for the Roses!
2011 Kentucky Derby Post Positions
01 - Archarcharch, Jon Court (jockey), Jinks Fires (trainer), 10-1 (odds)
02 - Brilliant Speed, Joel Rosario (jockey), Tom Albertrani (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
03 - Twice the Appeal, Calvin Borel (jockey), Jeff Bonde (trainer), 20-1 (odds)
04 - Stay Thirsty, Ramon Dominguez (jockey), Todd Pletcher (trainer), 20-1 (odds)
05 - Decisive Moment, Kerwin Clark (jockey), Juan Arias (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
06 - Comma to the Top, Pat Valenzuela (jockey), Peter Miller (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
07 - Pants on Fire, Rosie Napravnik (jockey), Kelly Breen (trainer), 20-1 (odds)
08 - Dialed In, Julian Leparoux (jockey), Nick Zito (trainer), 4-1 (odds)
09 - Derby Kitten, Javier Castellano (jockey), Michael J. Maker (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
10 - Twinspired, Mike Smith (jockey), Mike Maker (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
11 - Master of Hounds, Garrett Gomez (jockey), Aidan O'Brien (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
12 - Santiva, Shaun Bridgmogan (jockey), Eddie Kenneally (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
13 - Mucho Macho Man, Rajiv Maragh (jockey), Kathy Ritvo (trainer), 12-1 (odds)
14 - Shakleford, Jesus Castanon (jockey), Dale Romans (trainer), 12-1 (odds)
15 - Midnight Interlude, Victor Espinoza (jockey), Bob Baffert (trainer), 10-1 (odds)
16 - Animal Kingdom, Robby Albarado (jockey), Graham Motion (trainer), 30-1 (odds)
17 - Soldat, Alan Garcia (jockey), Kiaran McLaughlin (trainer), 12-1 (odds)
18 - Uncle Moe, John Velazquez (jockey), Todd Pletcher (trainer), 9-2 (odds)
19 - Nehro, Corey Nakatani (jockey), Steve Asmussen (trainer), 6-1 (odds)
20 - Watch Me Go, Rafael Bejarano (jockey), Kathleen O'Connell (trainer), 50-1 (odds)
The Kentucky Derby runs on May 7, 2011.
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