Offspring
Series One, Episode Eight
Original Air Date: October 17, 2010
Nina's guilt is working overtime over her night with Mick while Chris was in Brisbane. Mick is coping with the aftermath of his night with Nina and is getting plenty of concern and advice from the Proudman family. Nina must perform a cesarean on a brain dead woman to try and save the baby. An old friend of Billie's returns. Nina reveals the truth to Chris.
Nina is feeling guilty about her night with Mick and wakes up seeing the word "guilty" written everywhere. She fantasizes Chris sitting in her bedroom talking about how he went away for a few days and she couldn't resist another man. When she denies it was anything like that, Mick shows up. Chris and Mick end up having a conversation about how Chris sees Mick as Billie's man because he thinks they're meant for one another (as does Mick).
At Geraldine's Billie questions Nina as to why she's barely spoken to her or looked at her all morning. When Geraldine starts pressing Billie about what she is studying and any problems she might have then suggests Billie should have Nina help her, Billie says Nina is too busy having sex to help her. This draws the curiosity of Geraldine and Jimmy and makes Nina even more uncomfortable than she already is. Everyone assumes it was Chris Havel Nina was with the night before and when asked, she agrees. Jimmy mentions that he's taking some food to Mick. Nina and Billie ask him about in (in stereo!) and he tells them that Mick had an accident last night. Jimmy took him to the doctor after Mick said he put his hands out to break his fall from a staircase and broke his wrists.
After leaving Geraldine's Nina calls Mick to check on him and he admits he fell last night while trying to get away from her apartment. She asks him to never, never, never, never tell anyone they wound up in bed together and he agrees. When he gets off the phone with Nina and goes back to trying to make a peanut butter sandwich (which is hilarious!) the phone rings again. This time, it's Billie. She wants him to see a specialist. She asks how the accident happened and he starts to answer then says he has to go. A third call comes in and it's Geraldine calling him wanting him to go to a specialist. Darcy later calls him with a horror story about a mate of his that had to have his wrists broken a second time because of bad medical care. Nina calls him a second time to advise him to see a specialist for his wrists. Jimmy arrives at Mick's and poor Mick gets the "see a specialist" advice yet again.
Nina arrives at work worrying over her guilt and how she is going to face Chris. Dr. Clegg wants to see her in his office to inform her she will be performing a cesarean on a patient being transferred to the hospital that day. Before he can give her any more details, Chris knocks on the door and comes into the room. He sits down and Clegg continues to tell them that the woman has had some serious medical conditions and is still in danger of liver failure. Chris is called away for an emergency leaving Nina with Clegg. She questions why Clegg isn't doing the procedure himself and it is because the husband has requested a woman to do it. Clegg reveals to Nina that the woman is brain dead.
A pregnant woman comes into the hospital and when Nina goes to do her checkup, she asks Nina if she remembers her. The woman is Stacy Jordan (Sacha Horler), Billie's best friend as a teenager. The two girls got in mountains of trouble when they were younger leaving Nina with horrible memories.
Chris walks up to Nina while she is at the snack machine and as a good cover story as to why she couldn't let him in her apartment last night is racing through her head she blurts out "I slept with Mick". Chris is stunned. He's called away on a case and simply says "Okay".
Billie is having troubles with her realtor class and Darcy does a bit of tutoring to her at the office. She is worried about her ability to be a good realtor and thinks she might be good at nothing more than getting houses ready for inspection.
Cherie spends the day with her father so he can bond with Ray. She makes it clear to him that she doesn't want to marry Darcy. Her asks her to, at least, get Ray baptized because the Bible has laid it out pure and simple. She tells him she's read it and doesn't believe it. They end up in an argument where Cherie tells him she isn't ashamed of the way she lives. She accepts his faith and wants him to have faith in her.
Jimmy has moved on to a new sort of medical testing thanks to his ability to lie. He goes to medical centers, pretends to be sick, gets examined then gives the doctors a score. He prepares for his first visit and receives some coaching as to how he should and shouldn't present his "condition" to the doctor. He asks if he will have to pee in a cup and is quite proud that he can "pee on cue". When the nurse he's speaking with asks if he wants to show her that skill right now, he shakes his head and says he doesn't want to run out. She mentions him being "a person like you" and his "status" from the answers on his psych evaluation but can't tell him what she means by that.
Jimmy brings Nina lunch and tells her about his first medical exam. Their conversation leads Nina to ask him if she is a good person. Nina calls Mick and tells him she told Chris about them having sex. She couldn't lie to Chris.
Stacy pays a visit to Billie at Proudman Realty. The two decide to have lunch to catch up on old times. Billie asks about Stacy's daughter. Her daughter was taken from her by the authorities. Stacy wants to stay at Billie's for a couple of nights. Billie tells her she's living with Nina and she can't stay there but she takes Stacy to Mick's so Stacy can help
Nina speaks with Grant Reece (Teague Rook), the husband of the brain dead woman she will be performing the cesarean on. Grant tells Nina that her delivering the baby is the last thing that anyone is ever going to do for his wife since once the baby is delivered, the machines keeping her alive will be turned off. Nina promises him she will be careful.
Cherie suggests that Billie get Nina to help but she refuses. She doesn't want Nina's help at all. She and Nina argue because Billie believes Nina thinks she's is stupid. Nina calls Billie selfish. Billie goes to Mick's and cries to him about how she is the reason everything has gone wrong for her and her family. Mick tells her to ace up and open her book. He'll help her study.
Nina does the cesarean on Caroline Reece (Michelle Celebicanin). She delivers the Reece's son and hands him to Chris. Later, the machines keeping Caroline alive are turned off. Nina and Chris talk out on the balcony of the hospital. Everything of the past couple days is too much, she feels. Chris was proud of what she did with Caroline Reece. She apologizes again about Mick and tells him he has no reason to forgive her and every reason to be angry.
Jimmy quits doing the medical testing because it just isn't who he is. He thought the job would be a fun way to make money but it hasn't been everything he wanted it to be. That night, while at the pub with Darcy, Geraldine, Mick, Cherie and Cherie's father, Jimmy and Mick pretend to be lovers and relate how their relationship came to be so much more than just mere friendship. Jimmy and Mick snuggle and cuddle with one another while Cherie's father questions Darcy if he worries about young Ray being exposed to Jimmy and Mick. Eventually, it's finally revealed that the whole Jimmy and Mick thing is a joke giving everyone a good laugh (except perhaps Cherie's father!). Billie arrives at the pub and apologizes to her parents for all the trouble she's been to them.
The next morning, Nina goes into work and is met by Kim who says a lady has come into the hospital and claims to be Chris Havel's wife. Chris walks out and greets Nina then sees his wife.
This episode was a mixture of great laughter and great sadness. Nina having to deliver the son of Caroline and Grant Reece was very emotional. The moment was bittersweet for Grant Reece. He was welcoming his son into the world but, at the same time, he was losing the woman he loved more than anything else. As a complete opposite, seeing Jimmy and Mick pretending to be gay was awesome. Jimmy played up the boyfriend thing excellently and I couldn't help but laugh out loud throughout the entire scene.
Don't miss Offspring next week when we find out how Doc Hottie is going to deal with the return of his wife and what that means to the fractured (but hopefully mending) relationship he has with Nina. Does his wife want Chris back or is she there to completely sever the relationship with a divorce? I can't wait till next Sunday!
Offspring airs on Sundays at 8:30 p.m. on Ten Network.
Official Site: http://ten.com.au/offspring.htm
The Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1530541/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-25992
Sunday, October 17, 2010
US Television: Outlaw, Episode 1.5, "In RE: Tracy Vidalin"
Outlaw
Season One, Episode Five, In RE: Tracy Vidalin
Original Air Date: October 16, 2010
In the aftermath of a robbery, a policeman is murdered and the daughter of Senator Vidalin is being held as an accomplice to the murder. Vidalin wants Cyrus and his team to help his daughter prove her innocence. Is the young girl Cyrus Garza has always known to be sweet and innocent just that or could she really be involved in the murder? Eddie and Mereta start uncovering details from Lucinda's past.
While Al, Mereta and Eddie are watching Cyrus throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game on television, a call comes in for Garza. Senator Vidalin's daughter is in trouble and needs his help. Once he's home from the game, Cyrus and Al go to see Tracy Vidalin (Ashley Rickards) in jail. Cyrus has known Vidalin for nearly 30 years and, for most of it, considered him a good friend. Whatever bad points the Senator has, Cyrus thinks his daughter, Tracy, is a good girl.
Tracy tells them about her boyfriend, Lonnie Daws (Michael Stahler), and that he had a gun the night of the incident. She recounts the evening for them saying the couple was parked figuring out where to get dinner when Lonnie said he had a surprise for her. He gets out of the car and waits in the car for 10-20 minutes before hearing an alarm go off in an apartment building. Lonnie runs out yelling for her to drive and he now has a gun. She panicked and crashed the car after which Lonnie ran from the car and killed a policeman.
Al and Cyrus inform Senator Vidalin and his wife about the trouble their daughter is in. If she knew about the robbery, she is guilty of the policeman's murder as an accomplice. Cyrus takes the Senator aside and tells him he doesn't really feel he should handle Tracy's case considering the tension between the two men. However, Vidalin wants Cyrus because of his skill as an attorney. The two men agree that the most important thing is Tracy Vidalin.
Eddie finds nothing of interest criminally on Lonnie Daws. Lucinda doesn't want to go to the hospital to help a Senator that hates her boss. The police will not let Eddie and Mereta see Lonnie Daws when they go to interview him. To give Al some time to get past the police and obtain a statement from Daws, Cyrus tries stalling in court during the arraignment. The People charge Tracy Vidalin with felony burglary and felony murder to which Tracy pleads not guilty. Mereta and Eddie take a court order to the hospital allowing them to speak with Lonnie but find that he has died. The judge denies bail for Tracy and remands her to the county jail for trial.
Wanting to learn more about Daws, Cyrus speaks with Tracy's parents. They felt he was a bad influence on her as her grades began to suffer and her behavior changed when she started seeing him. Two months prior, Lonnie had been caught breaking into his uncle's liquor store but, at the request of his daughter, the Senator helped make the charges disappear. The prosecutor (Timothy Busfield) drops a bomb on Cyrus when he hands him a DVD that contains Tracy Vidalin's confession to the crime even though Tracy told Al and Cyrus she said nothing to the police. Cyrus spends the night watching the video but still doesn't get to the confession because of the length of time the police had been holding her.
The team goes over a list of Tracy's personal items found in the vehicle and writing, including her journal. An affair by Senator Vidalin becomes an issue and before the team can combat it, they have to know all the details. Cyrus speaks with Vidalin who doesn't want to speak of his affair. He blames Lonnie solely and feels Tracy's anger toward him for the affair was acted out by her dating Lonnie, not by the burglary. Vidalin doesn't want the details of his affair to come out at trial because he wife doesn't know. Despite saying he had called off the affair six months ago, his mistress was in town two weeks ago.
After watching several more hours of the video, Al finally gets to the confession. The confession consist solely of Tracy answering "yes" when asked by the police if she felt she needed to pray for forgiveness for what had happened. Cyrus feels her statement was coerced as does the rest of the team even though Tracy was asking for forgiveness for something.
In court, the prosecutor plays Tracy's "confession" while the detective who was talking to her in the video is on the stand. Cyrus questions the detective about the almost 22 hours of interrogation and 2,012 questions he asked her during those hours. He argues that Tracy, who didn't say anything except "yes" after almost twenty-two hours of interrogation was invoking her right to remain silent by remaining silent. The judge refuses Cyrus' argument and allows Tracy's statement to be entered into evidence. Vidalin feels Cyrus is allowing his personal feelings toward him to interfere with how he is handling the case.
Al notes an oddity in something Tracy says to Cyrus about how the robbery was committed. It brings up questions as to whether she knew anything about the building. Cyrus still believes Tracy couldn't have been involved in the crime but Al wants to look at it objectively. No one at the building knew Tracy and they cannot connect her to it in any way until they find information that Vidalin's mistress was subletting an apartment in the building. Tracy denies knowing anything about the woman living there and wants to testify that she had nothing to do with the robbery.
In court, the prosecutor has both Tracy's journal and the tenant list from the building. Cyrus calls Tracy to the stand and she denies knowing that Lonnie intended to break into the building or that they had planned the burglary together. She explains that she wanted forgiveness for being in the car and with Lonnie. Under questioning from the prosecution, Tracy claims Lonnie hit and raped her when she tried to stop him from rifling through her father's belongings for money. He then threatened her and her family with harm if she tried to get away from him.
Lucinda talked to the man who knew of the threatening messages for the Senators mistress. The man happens to be Tracy's ex-boyfriend. When confronted with what he said regarding her and her feelings for her father's mistress, she claims he is lying. Cyrus and Al know she is lying and she makes no attempt to hide the fact. She is confident that her story of being raped and abused by Lonnie won over the jury.
The prosecution makes a compelling closing argument to the jury about Tracy's guilt and Cyrus counters with an argument of her innocence. The jury finds her not guilty and she is released.
Earlier, Mereta had written down a series of numbers she sees on Lucinda's arm and even asks her about them but Lucinda doesn't answer. Mereta later believes the numbers to be map coordinates and is shocked when the numbers point to Delaware where Lucinda refuses to go. Eddie and Mereta travel to Delaware to find out the truth about Lucinda and arrive at a cemetery where Mereta stumbles (literally) into a tombstone bearing some sort of information about Lucinda's past.
I find it sad that this is the first of the four final episodes of Outlaw that we will ever be seeing. Not only is there a story line involving Lucinda opening up (and we'll probably never be able to finish it in just 3 more episodes) but this episode was excellent. Truly excellent. Some shows need a few episodes to really gather momentum to find their audience and for all we know, Outlaw could have been one of those shows.
Cyrus was given a wake-up call. He believed in Tracy Vidalin because he thought he knew her. He'd always known her to be a good girl and never thought her capable of doing anything wrong. When he learns that she isn't what he thought she was, it causes him to question more than just his judgment of her. This could have been a turning point for the Cyrus Garza character but, since there is such little time left in the series, we'll never know if that was going to be the case or not.
As for the story line involving Lucinda, I do hope we get more information about that in the next three episodes. I'm expecting the tombstone to be for a child she lost or perhaps to link her to another character in some way. I'm sure whatever it is, Lucinda isn't going to be happy that Eddie and Mereta snooped into her private life and she will make that unhappiness known. I like Lucinda and Carly Pope does an awesome job with the character. When the final seconds of episode eight tick off, I think it will be Lucinda Pearl that I will miss the most.
Outlaw airs on Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. Central) on NBC.
For more information:
NBC Official Site: www.nbc.com/outlaw/
Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592226/combined
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Outlaw
Season One, Episode Five, In RE: Tracy Vidalin
Original Air Date: October 16, 2010
In the aftermath of a robbery, a policeman is murdered and the daughter of Senator Vidalin is being held as an accomplice to the murder. Vidalin wants Cyrus and his team to help his daughter prove her innocence. Is the young girl Cyrus Garza has always known to be sweet and innocent just that or could she really be involved in the murder? Eddie and Mereta start uncovering details from Lucinda's past.
While Al, Mereta and Eddie are watching Cyrus throw the ceremonial first pitch at a baseball game on television, a call comes in for Garza. Senator Vidalin's daughter is in trouble and needs his help. Once he's home from the game, Cyrus and Al go to see Tracy Vidalin (Ashley Rickards) in jail. Cyrus has known Vidalin for nearly 30 years and, for most of it, considered him a good friend. Whatever bad points the Senator has, Cyrus thinks his daughter, Tracy, is a good girl.
Tracy tells them about her boyfriend, Lonnie Daws (Michael Stahler), and that he had a gun the night of the incident. She recounts the evening for them saying the couple was parked figuring out where to get dinner when Lonnie said he had a surprise for her. He gets out of the car and waits in the car for 10-20 minutes before hearing an alarm go off in an apartment building. Lonnie runs out yelling for her to drive and he now has a gun. She panicked and crashed the car after which Lonnie ran from the car and killed a policeman.
Al and Cyrus inform Senator Vidalin and his wife about the trouble their daughter is in. If she knew about the robbery, she is guilty of the policeman's murder as an accomplice. Cyrus takes the Senator aside and tells him he doesn't really feel he should handle Tracy's case considering the tension between the two men. However, Vidalin wants Cyrus because of his skill as an attorney. The two men agree that the most important thing is Tracy Vidalin.
Eddie finds nothing of interest criminally on Lonnie Daws. Lucinda doesn't want to go to the hospital to help a Senator that hates her boss. The police will not let Eddie and Mereta see Lonnie Daws when they go to interview him. To give Al some time to get past the police and obtain a statement from Daws, Cyrus tries stalling in court during the arraignment. The People charge Tracy Vidalin with felony burglary and felony murder to which Tracy pleads not guilty. Mereta and Eddie take a court order to the hospital allowing them to speak with Lonnie but find that he has died. The judge denies bail for Tracy and remands her to the county jail for trial.
Wanting to learn more about Daws, Cyrus speaks with Tracy's parents. They felt he was a bad influence on her as her grades began to suffer and her behavior changed when she started seeing him. Two months prior, Lonnie had been caught breaking into his uncle's liquor store but, at the request of his daughter, the Senator helped make the charges disappear. The prosecutor (Timothy Busfield) drops a bomb on Cyrus when he hands him a DVD that contains Tracy Vidalin's confession to the crime even though Tracy told Al and Cyrus she said nothing to the police. Cyrus spends the night watching the video but still doesn't get to the confession because of the length of time the police had been holding her.
The team goes over a list of Tracy's personal items found in the vehicle and writing, including her journal. An affair by Senator Vidalin becomes an issue and before the team can combat it, they have to know all the details. Cyrus speaks with Vidalin who doesn't want to speak of his affair. He blames Lonnie solely and feels Tracy's anger toward him for the affair was acted out by her dating Lonnie, not by the burglary. Vidalin doesn't want the details of his affair to come out at trial because he wife doesn't know. Despite saying he had called off the affair six months ago, his mistress was in town two weeks ago.
After watching several more hours of the video, Al finally gets to the confession. The confession consist solely of Tracy answering "yes" when asked by the police if she felt she needed to pray for forgiveness for what had happened. Cyrus feels her statement was coerced as does the rest of the team even though Tracy was asking for forgiveness for something.
In court, the prosecutor plays Tracy's "confession" while the detective who was talking to her in the video is on the stand. Cyrus questions the detective about the almost 22 hours of interrogation and 2,012 questions he asked her during those hours. He argues that Tracy, who didn't say anything except "yes" after almost twenty-two hours of interrogation was invoking her right to remain silent by remaining silent. The judge refuses Cyrus' argument and allows Tracy's statement to be entered into evidence. Vidalin feels Cyrus is allowing his personal feelings toward him to interfere with how he is handling the case.
Al notes an oddity in something Tracy says to Cyrus about how the robbery was committed. It brings up questions as to whether she knew anything about the building. Cyrus still believes Tracy couldn't have been involved in the crime but Al wants to look at it objectively. No one at the building knew Tracy and they cannot connect her to it in any way until they find information that Vidalin's mistress was subletting an apartment in the building. Tracy denies knowing anything about the woman living there and wants to testify that she had nothing to do with the robbery.
In court, the prosecutor has both Tracy's journal and the tenant list from the building. Cyrus calls Tracy to the stand and she denies knowing that Lonnie intended to break into the building or that they had planned the burglary together. She explains that she wanted forgiveness for being in the car and with Lonnie. Under questioning from the prosecution, Tracy claims Lonnie hit and raped her when she tried to stop him from rifling through her father's belongings for money. He then threatened her and her family with harm if she tried to get away from him.
Lucinda talked to the man who knew of the threatening messages for the Senators mistress. The man happens to be Tracy's ex-boyfriend. When confronted with what he said regarding her and her feelings for her father's mistress, she claims he is lying. Cyrus and Al know she is lying and she makes no attempt to hide the fact. She is confident that her story of being raped and abused by Lonnie won over the jury.
The prosecution makes a compelling closing argument to the jury about Tracy's guilt and Cyrus counters with an argument of her innocence. The jury finds her not guilty and she is released.
Earlier, Mereta had written down a series of numbers she sees on Lucinda's arm and even asks her about them but Lucinda doesn't answer. Mereta later believes the numbers to be map coordinates and is shocked when the numbers point to Delaware where Lucinda refuses to go. Eddie and Mereta travel to Delaware to find out the truth about Lucinda and arrive at a cemetery where Mereta stumbles (literally) into a tombstone bearing some sort of information about Lucinda's past.
I find it sad that this is the first of the four final episodes of Outlaw that we will ever be seeing. Not only is there a story line involving Lucinda opening up (and we'll probably never be able to finish it in just 3 more episodes) but this episode was excellent. Truly excellent. Some shows need a few episodes to really gather momentum to find their audience and for all we know, Outlaw could have been one of those shows.
Cyrus was given a wake-up call. He believed in Tracy Vidalin because he thought he knew her. He'd always known her to be a good girl and never thought her capable of doing anything wrong. When he learns that she isn't what he thought she was, it causes him to question more than just his judgment of her. This could have been a turning point for the Cyrus Garza character but, since there is such little time left in the series, we'll never know if that was going to be the case or not.
As for the story line involving Lucinda, I do hope we get more information about that in the next three episodes. I'm expecting the tombstone to be for a child she lost or perhaps to link her to another character in some way. I'm sure whatever it is, Lucinda isn't going to be happy that Eddie and Mereta snooped into her private life and she will make that unhappiness known. I like Lucinda and Carly Pope does an awesome job with the character. When the final seconds of episode eight tick off, I think it will be Lucinda Pearl that I will miss the most.
Outlaw airs on Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m. (7:00 p.m. Central) on NBC.
For more information:
NBC Official Site: www.nbc.com/outlaw/
Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1592226/combined
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/Outlaw
Friday, October 15, 2010
US Television: More News on the Fate of NBC's Outlaw
Last week, NBC announced they had suspended production of any further episodes for the new Jimmy Smits legal drama Outlaw. Currently, eight episodes have been filmed. NBC said they were going to air all of the remaining episodes in the regular Friday night time slot they had allotted to the show.
Now, NBC has stated they are going to move Outlaw to Saturday nights to air the remaining four episodes and air an expanded Dateline in the Friday night time slot vacated by Outlaw.
I guess the cancellation process for Outlaw is going to be a long, drawn out painful one for fans of the show. At least we're getting to see the remaining four episodes before finally saying 'goodbye' to the show for good.
Source: http://livefeed.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/10/nbc-pulls-outlaw-from-fridays.html
Now, NBC has stated they are going to move Outlaw to Saturday nights to air the remaining four episodes and air an expanded Dateline in the Friday night time slot vacated by Outlaw.
I guess the cancellation process for Outlaw is going to be a long, drawn out painful one for fans of the show. At least we're getting to see the remaining four episodes before finally saying 'goodbye' to the show for good.
Source: http://livefeed.hollywoodreporter.com/2010/10/nbc-pulls-outlaw-from-fridays.html
UK Television: Law & Order: UK, Episode 3.6 "Masquerade"
Law & Order: UK
Season Three, Episode Six, Masquerade
Masquerade, Original Air Date: October 14, 2010
Based on Law & Order (US) "Admissions", Season 9, Episode 22 (19th May, 1999)
Student Archie Rahman is stabbed in his flat and Brooks and Devlin are left with only one solid clue to follow: a library book. The case takes a new twist when the girl who was at his flat claims she killed him in self defense after he raped her. But is she telling the truth?
Archie didn't do drugs, wasn't a gang member, kept to himself and, by all reports, always had his nose in a book studying. There was evidence that there had been a woman at Archie's flat but she is nowhere to be found. Archie's father (Hassani Shapi) insists his son didn't have a girlfriend and focused instead on his schoolwork. Archie's mother (Sameena Zehra) mentions a former girlfriend, Darla (Suzie McGrath) but they had broke up a few months prior.
A library book is amongst the items of evidence collected in Archie's flat and it leads the detectives to the Waterloo and City College Library. They learn the book was checked out at eleven o'clock Sunday by Rebecca Anderson (Charlene McKenna). Rebecca reluctantly provides them with the information that she was in the library with her friend, Sally Douglas (Kimberly Nixon) but that she doesn't know Archie Rahman. Both Rebecca and Sally claim they were working in the library until it closed at six. On a hunch, Devlin does a bit of checking and finds the library closes at midday contradicting the girls' stories. When confronted with the truth about the time the library closes, Sally says the two girls went to the Region room, carried on with their work then went home. She is studying philosophy and art history at university on her way to a lecture on Ancient Arts of Persia and the Subcontinent, which just so happens to be the subject of the library book.
Angela (Jessica Gunning) finds something of interest to the case on CCTV. Sally Douglas was captured on tape on the high street around the corner from Archie's flat, less than a 10 minute walk, going into a local cab firm. An employee recognizes Sally as she came in late afternoon crying and saying "take me home, take me home" over and over again. Brooks and Devlin go back to Rebecca and she admits that Sally rang her Sunday night upset and told her if anyone asked they were in the library all day together. The book was checked out under Rebecca's name because she has a bad credit rating and she needed good ID to secure her flat so she and Sally swapped cards.
Sally is brought in for questioning. Her fingerprints have been matched to those found at Archie's flat. Her mother (Beverley Lembrick) is with her and her father (Andrew Dunn) arrives moments later. He is a controlling man that Sally appears to be afraid of. DI Chandler warns him that if he interferes with the interview she will have him removed from the room.
Once Sally's solicitor arrives and once Alesha is seated to watch the interview from another room, DI Chandler questions the girl about what happened. She describes meeting Archie at the library. They talked and hit it off and he invited her to his flat. She says he gave her some wine that made her feel weird and he raped her. Everything she is saying is striking a personal chord with Alesha. Chandler isn't completely sold that Sally is telling the truth while Matt is.
Bail is granted to Sally with conditions despite Steel arguing against it. Alesha questions Steel on if they are doing the right thing prosecuting Sally. If it truly was murder, they are but if it was self-defense as she claims, they will deal with it. They have no evidence that she was raped and none that she wasn't so they begin by speaking with her friends. They want to know if she knew Archie before that Sunday. Castle questions Steel if the fact Alesha was raped is interfering with her judgement on the case.
None of her friends knew of Sally being involved with Archie. She really wasn't currently involved with any boys at all. Alesha feels they have no case but Steel presses for them to investigate harder. Ali Rahman pays a visit to Castle, Steel and Phillips begging them to do something with the case one way or another because it is killing him and his wife seeing their sons name being disgraced in the papers. Rahman had received a call from the press threatening to publish an old school report where Archie had been suspended for attacking a girl when he was thirteen.
Matt Devlin has been researching mobile calls all night and he found a pattern in Sally's call records but can't make anything of it. She dials the same number for short bursts, ten to twenty seconds, nothing long enough for a conversation. Matt finally gets a hit on the number Sally keeps calling and learns it belongs to a pay phone in Archie's building. The outgoing call records show calls to a phone belonging to Sally's father proving Sally did know Archie prior to that Sunday.
Steel and Phillips contact Sally's solicitor, Christian Thompson (David Yelland) to present him with the new evidence. Alesha leaves the room to speak with Sally while Steel is talking to Thompson with Steel keeping one eye on her and one on Thompson. She discusses the process of trial with Sally who feels she is capable of going through with everything. She asks Sally if Archie did in fact rape her but Thompson and Steel arrive before Sally can say anything. Alesha knows from talking with her that Sally is lying about the rape and that she must go down for murder if Thompson refuses to take the deal Steel has offered.
Thompson is able to raise reasonable doubt on Ronnie Brooks' testimony in court and, later in Steel's office with Sally's parents, asks him to drop the case. Martin Douglas criticises the prosecutors and shows that he is a crude and violent man who wants things his way. After some investigation, they find evidence regarding Martin Douglas that changes the way Steel intends to proceed with the case.
The next day in court, he questions Sally about her home life and a broken arm she suffered two years ago. The break was a spiral fracture. He lays down a pattern of control and discipline by her father and introduces evidence that her boyfriend was black at the time of her broken arm. She admits that she loved Archie. He had threatened to go round to her parents house and tell them who he was. He wanted their relationship to be a public one and Sally couldn't let her father know the man she loved wasn't white. Steel presses her hard wanting to her tell the truth about whether Archie raped her or not. She finally admits that he did not. She is found guilty of the murder.
Alesha Phillips struggled with this case from the moment the word "rape" was first spoken having gone through what she did at the end of season one. She wanted desperately to believe that Sally was telling the truth and I believe she would have held firm that Sally was indeed telling the truth had the phone evidence that she and Archie had called back and forth not come to light. When she was finally able to talk to Sally one-to-one she didn't need Sally to tell her the truth. She knew from talking with her. In the original US series, the character of Dr. Elizabeth Olivet is the one who is raped by her doctor. On occasion after the rape, it does play a part in certain story lines just as it has with Alesha.
The last two or three minutes of this episode were excellent, in my opinion. After assuring herself that Sally wasn't telling the truth about the rape, Alesha needed to win the case, not just for herself but for every woman who truly has been and will be victims of sexual assault. The way Steel pressed Sally in court to actually get her to say publicly that Archie didn't rape her was extremely important. Almost more important than her admitting she had killed him. When Steel had already ordered Alesha's celebratory drink knowing she would show up made me smile. That the two characters care for and know one another so well is one thing Law & Order is known for. The characters don't just interact with one another, they develop a bond and what was important to Alesha was important to Steel.
Law & Order: UK airs on Thursday nights at 9:00 p.m. on ITV1 in the UK.
For more information:
Law & Order: UK ITV1 Official Site: http://www.itv.com/drama/copsandcrime/lawandorder/
Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166893/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-18198
Season Three, Episode Six, Masquerade
Masquerade, Original Air Date: October 14, 2010
Based on Law & Order (US) "Admissions", Season 9, Episode 22 (19th May, 1999)
Student Archie Rahman is stabbed in his flat and Brooks and Devlin are left with only one solid clue to follow: a library book. The case takes a new twist when the girl who was at his flat claims she killed him in self defense after he raped her. But is she telling the truth?
Archie didn't do drugs, wasn't a gang member, kept to himself and, by all reports, always had his nose in a book studying. There was evidence that there had been a woman at Archie's flat but she is nowhere to be found. Archie's father (Hassani Shapi) insists his son didn't have a girlfriend and focused instead on his schoolwork. Archie's mother (Sameena Zehra) mentions a former girlfriend, Darla (Suzie McGrath) but they had broke up a few months prior.
A library book is amongst the items of evidence collected in Archie's flat and it leads the detectives to the Waterloo and City College Library. They learn the book was checked out at eleven o'clock Sunday by Rebecca Anderson (Charlene McKenna). Rebecca reluctantly provides them with the information that she was in the library with her friend, Sally Douglas (Kimberly Nixon) but that she doesn't know Archie Rahman. Both Rebecca and Sally claim they were working in the library until it closed at six. On a hunch, Devlin does a bit of checking and finds the library closes at midday contradicting the girls' stories. When confronted with the truth about the time the library closes, Sally says the two girls went to the Region room, carried on with their work then went home. She is studying philosophy and art history at university on her way to a lecture on Ancient Arts of Persia and the Subcontinent, which just so happens to be the subject of the library book.
Angela (Jessica Gunning) finds something of interest to the case on CCTV. Sally Douglas was captured on tape on the high street around the corner from Archie's flat, less than a 10 minute walk, going into a local cab firm. An employee recognizes Sally as she came in late afternoon crying and saying "take me home, take me home" over and over again. Brooks and Devlin go back to Rebecca and she admits that Sally rang her Sunday night upset and told her if anyone asked they were in the library all day together. The book was checked out under Rebecca's name because she has a bad credit rating and she needed good ID to secure her flat so she and Sally swapped cards.
Sally is brought in for questioning. Her fingerprints have been matched to those found at Archie's flat. Her mother (Beverley Lembrick) is with her and her father (Andrew Dunn) arrives moments later. He is a controlling man that Sally appears to be afraid of. DI Chandler warns him that if he interferes with the interview she will have him removed from the room.
Once Sally's solicitor arrives and once Alesha is seated to watch the interview from another room, DI Chandler questions the girl about what happened. She describes meeting Archie at the library. They talked and hit it off and he invited her to his flat. She says he gave her some wine that made her feel weird and he raped her. Everything she is saying is striking a personal chord with Alesha. Chandler isn't completely sold that Sally is telling the truth while Matt is.
Bail is granted to Sally with conditions despite Steel arguing against it. Alesha questions Steel on if they are doing the right thing prosecuting Sally. If it truly was murder, they are but if it was self-defense as she claims, they will deal with it. They have no evidence that she was raped and none that she wasn't so they begin by speaking with her friends. They want to know if she knew Archie before that Sunday. Castle questions Steel if the fact Alesha was raped is interfering with her judgement on the case.
None of her friends knew of Sally being involved with Archie. She really wasn't currently involved with any boys at all. Alesha feels they have no case but Steel presses for them to investigate harder. Ali Rahman pays a visit to Castle, Steel and Phillips begging them to do something with the case one way or another because it is killing him and his wife seeing their sons name being disgraced in the papers. Rahman had received a call from the press threatening to publish an old school report where Archie had been suspended for attacking a girl when he was thirteen.
Matt Devlin has been researching mobile calls all night and he found a pattern in Sally's call records but can't make anything of it. She dials the same number for short bursts, ten to twenty seconds, nothing long enough for a conversation. Matt finally gets a hit on the number Sally keeps calling and learns it belongs to a pay phone in Archie's building. The outgoing call records show calls to a phone belonging to Sally's father proving Sally did know Archie prior to that Sunday.
Steel and Phillips contact Sally's solicitor, Christian Thompson (David Yelland) to present him with the new evidence. Alesha leaves the room to speak with Sally while Steel is talking to Thompson with Steel keeping one eye on her and one on Thompson. She discusses the process of trial with Sally who feels she is capable of going through with everything. She asks Sally if Archie did in fact rape her but Thompson and Steel arrive before Sally can say anything. Alesha knows from talking with her that Sally is lying about the rape and that she must go down for murder if Thompson refuses to take the deal Steel has offered.
Thompson is able to raise reasonable doubt on Ronnie Brooks' testimony in court and, later in Steel's office with Sally's parents, asks him to drop the case. Martin Douglas criticises the prosecutors and shows that he is a crude and violent man who wants things his way. After some investigation, they find evidence regarding Martin Douglas that changes the way Steel intends to proceed with the case.
The next day in court, he questions Sally about her home life and a broken arm she suffered two years ago. The break was a spiral fracture. He lays down a pattern of control and discipline by her father and introduces evidence that her boyfriend was black at the time of her broken arm. She admits that she loved Archie. He had threatened to go round to her parents house and tell them who he was. He wanted their relationship to be a public one and Sally couldn't let her father know the man she loved wasn't white. Steel presses her hard wanting to her tell the truth about whether Archie raped her or not. She finally admits that he did not. She is found guilty of the murder.
Alesha Phillips struggled with this case from the moment the word "rape" was first spoken having gone through what she did at the end of season one. She wanted desperately to believe that Sally was telling the truth and I believe she would have held firm that Sally was indeed telling the truth had the phone evidence that she and Archie had called back and forth not come to light. When she was finally able to talk to Sally one-to-one she didn't need Sally to tell her the truth. She knew from talking with her. In the original US series, the character of Dr. Elizabeth Olivet is the one who is raped by her doctor. On occasion after the rape, it does play a part in certain story lines just as it has with Alesha.
The last two or three minutes of this episode were excellent, in my opinion. After assuring herself that Sally wasn't telling the truth about the rape, Alesha needed to win the case, not just for herself but for every woman who truly has been and will be victims of sexual assault. The way Steel pressed Sally in court to actually get her to say publicly that Archie didn't rape her was extremely important. Almost more important than her admitting she had killed him. When Steel had already ordered Alesha's celebratory drink knowing she would show up made me smile. That the two characters care for and know one another so well is one thing Law & Order is known for. The characters don't just interact with one another, they develop a bond and what was important to Alesha was important to Steel.
Law & Order: UK airs on Thursday nights at 9:00 p.m. on ITV1 in the UK.
For more information:
Law & Order: UK ITV1 Official Site: http://www.itv.com/drama/copsandcrime/lawandorder/
Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1166893/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-18198
Thursday, October 14, 2010
AUS Television: City Homicide, Episode 4.15 "Reunion"
City Homicide
Season Four, Episode Fifteen, Reunion
Original Air Date: October 13, 2010
An entire family (mum, dad and two children) are murdered in their home. The father has a connection to both Jennifer Maplethorpe and Nick Buchanan. The case quickly becomes embroiled in politics and secrecy when Jen and Nick learn the Secret Intelligence Service is involved and it changes their lives drastically by placing them in danger.
All of the murders were execution style causing Nick to note that it had to be a professional job. At the scene, Nick and Jennifer both recognize one of the victims, Abdul Supomo. Jennifer wants to tell Stanley Wolfe but the situation is complicated. As they sit in their car talking about the murders and what they know, a man in a black SUV is taking pictures of them.
At headquarters, the briefing yields that the family was apparently model citizens. The parents were immigrants and their children were born in Australia. Stanley Wolfe takes charge of the case given its nature and delegates tasks to the team. He places Jennifer and Nick in the position of lead detectives.
Abdul Supomo's brother makes a positive ID of his slain relatives and both Duncan and Rhys feel he wasn't in any way involved in the murders. Rhys, while going through the victims belongings, finds that a locker key was found in Abdul Supomo's sock rather than on the ring with the rest of his keys.
Jennifer and Nick talk in hushed voices in the kitchen about how the murders have to be related to what happened four years ago. Abdul was their contact and worked intelligence. Jennifer is certain that is why he and his family were killed and that the information they have must be given to the team so the killings can be solved. Allie walks in while they are talking and they stop until she leaves.
Rhys identifies where the locker key is from (City Bath House, CBH) and Jen and Nick take it and leave. Allie immediately questions Duncan and Rhys about Jen and Nick's strange behavior. Rhys suggests that when two people start acting odd at work "it only means one thing", which Duncan laughs off.
Jen and Nick's mysterious photographer is at work again as they arrive at CBH to investigate the key. Abdul is identified as a regular and the key as one of the locker keys. While they are waiting to be taken to the locker to see what is in it, the photographer walks up to them and tells them to come with him. He says he thinks they know who he is and why he is there and that whatever was in the locker is long gone. They leave with him and he takes them to a black car where another man, Richard McCallister (Joel Tobeck) is waiting. They are questioned about having worked for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in the past.
Abdul was still working for SIS and the homicide investigation is getting in the way of an ongoing SIS investigation. McCallister wants them to slow down the homicide case because the SIS investigation is a national security measure. The homicide investigation must stay clear of the SIS investigation. McCallister gives them a "lead" that Abdul's brother was having an affair with his wife with the implication that they must set him up for the murders. He threatens them with the loss of their jobs and imprisonment if they reveal anything.
Once back at headquarters, Nick plants the information about Abdul's brother and wife having an affair. Duncan had checked his alibi and he was at work at a petrol station across town until at least an hour after pathology had timed the murders. While he doesn't feel right as a suspect to Duncan, Nick and Jennifer are able to talk Stanley Wolfe into ordering he be brought in for questioning. Rhys and Duncan get him to admit that he was having an affair with Gemma Supomo.
Stanley comes through with a warrant for the bath house locker and Allie takes a call from the owner who says he has interesting information about locker #27. The owner had asked Allie why Jen and Nick left before he could show them the locker and Allie brings this up in front of Stanley. Jen explains it that they needed the warrant. Stanley orders them to take Allie with them since the owner will be expecting her. The owner explains that the locker didn't belong to Abdul Supomo and takes them to it. They open it and find thongs and a bathrobe. The owner of the locker, Waheed, and Supomo never came to the bath house at the same time and they always came alone when they did visit.
Allie confronts Jen and Nick about their behavior and notes that it appeared Nick knew the victim at the crime scene. He denies it and Allie then asks if they are having an affair which they deny. The three go to Waheed's address to talk to him but he doesn't appear to be home. As Allie goes round back to make sure he isn't there, the black SUV drives up in front of the home and Mr. Photographer and another man get out. They are again warned to keep Homicide away from the case.
Around back, Allie sees a circle of glass cut from the door and is accosted by a man with a gun. Photographer requests Allie accompany him. Nick and Jen come around the house and tell Allie to go back to Homicide. As she is arguing the issue, her phone rings and she is ordered to answer it. It is Bernice Waverely ordering her back to the office. When Allie is gone Nick and Jen learn Waheed is dead. He had been indirectly working for SIS as he was part of a local terrorist cell and was approached by Supomo and convinced to pass information on to SIS.
Nick and Jen are taken to an SIS unit where McCallister brings them up to speed on the case they are working on. A man named Muhammad Hartono is planning a major terrorist attack on Australian soil. Travis Martin Abbott was the man who murdered the Supomo family on order of Hartono. McCallister wants Jen and Nick to go back undercover on an open-ended assignment and get close to Hartono. They are given a small mountain of paperwork about their covers and Hartono's operation with only overnight to learn it.
Bernice Waverly informs Jarvis and Wolfe that Jennifer and Nick will be working undercover indefinitely with SIS and that they are not to divulge the information to any other members of the team. Bernice was given a list of people Homicide is not allowed to investigate which doesn't please Jarvis. Allie wants to know what is going on and Stanley places Matt in charge of the Supomo case because Waverley wants Matt to coordinate. Matt is given bare bones information about the case and what areas he can pursue. The answers the team wants aren't coming.
Allie and Rhys can't let the case go and when Allie suggests that Bernice knows something about the case, Rhys talks to his aunt. She knows he's there to ask for information and flat-out tells him she can't tell him anything. Allie and Rhys go to Waheed's home that night to investigate. The glass with the circle cut from it has been replaced and all signs of a disturbance have been removed. A flight itinerary has been left on the table stating he had gone to Jakarta that morning. Rhys smells bleach where the floor had been cleaned and Allie finds blood splatter on the coffee cup on the table.
Rhys finds pictures in a drawer and one of them has Jennifer and Nick in the background. The names "Trish and Wesley Claybourne" written on the back cause Rhys to remember when Jen was accosted on the street by the woman who called her "Trish". Allie and Rhys realise Nick and Jen have been working undercover. At the office, they look up the Claybourne's and read their police files.
The next morning, McCallister tells Jen and Nick he has decided against giving them firearms. Their house is under constant surveillance. They are to contact Hartono as soon as they are settled in. They arrive at their new "home" and not long after, "Don" from across the street drops in to let them know if they need anything at all he's there. Nick makes the call to Hartono. They will be meeting him the next day at eleven.
Allie shares the photo of Nick and Jen undercover with Duncan. He advises her to leave the case alone. Rhys puts the info that Trish and Wesley Claybourne are real people on the table and Duncan knows right off that SIS is involved. Rhys wants to back away from the case.
That night, as he's getting ready to go home, Mr. Photographer asks McCallister when he's going to finally tell Nick and Jen why they are really undercover. McCallister says the info stays in house and that they know what they need to know.
When they awaken the next morning, as Nick is telling Jen that she knows how he feels about her, two masked men with guns come into the room and overpower them.
Complicated and intense are the best words I can find to describe this case. When a complicated murder investigation moves into politics and national security it becomes intense. The secrecy starts and all hope for answers dims. Allie is especially frustrated that there aren't any answers being given seeing as how she had a gun pointed at her. Honestly, if SIS wanted to mess with anyone on the Homicide team, Allie is the last person I think they would want to choose. She doesn't give up. Poor Matt was placed in a bad situation when he was handed a case that was doomed by the SIS and given orders that he couldn't talk about anything with the team (not that he knew anything as he wasn't given any answers either). Jen and Nick are thrown back into lives they thought they'd long left behind them. It's troubling that the murders of an entire family, including two small children, are pushed aside for a larger "more important" case, but, isn't that how it usually goes?
I loved seeing Stanley Wolfe again. He hasn't been around as much as I would like for him to be. Same with Duncan. Duncan seems to have been pushed into the background a lot here of late and I find that a bit frustrating. Both Stanley and Duncan are favorites of mine and I wish they were in the mix a bit more like they used to be.
This case is continued next week and I'm sure that, when the end of it does come, it will be BIG!
Note: I missed the name of the guy working with McCallister at SIS so I'm just calling him "Mr. Photographer" right now. If I catch it next week, I'll update this post.
For more information:
City Homicide Official Site: http://au.tv.yahoo.com/city-homicide/
Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024932/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-17228
Season Four, Episode Fifteen, Reunion
Original Air Date: October 13, 2010
An entire family (mum, dad and two children) are murdered in their home. The father has a connection to both Jennifer Maplethorpe and Nick Buchanan. The case quickly becomes embroiled in politics and secrecy when Jen and Nick learn the Secret Intelligence Service is involved and it changes their lives drastically by placing them in danger.
All of the murders were execution style causing Nick to note that it had to be a professional job. At the scene, Nick and Jennifer both recognize one of the victims, Abdul Supomo. Jennifer wants to tell Stanley Wolfe but the situation is complicated. As they sit in their car talking about the murders and what they know, a man in a black SUV is taking pictures of them.
At headquarters, the briefing yields that the family was apparently model citizens. The parents were immigrants and their children were born in Australia. Stanley Wolfe takes charge of the case given its nature and delegates tasks to the team. He places Jennifer and Nick in the position of lead detectives.
Abdul Supomo's brother makes a positive ID of his slain relatives and both Duncan and Rhys feel he wasn't in any way involved in the murders. Rhys, while going through the victims belongings, finds that a locker key was found in Abdul Supomo's sock rather than on the ring with the rest of his keys.
Jennifer and Nick talk in hushed voices in the kitchen about how the murders have to be related to what happened four years ago. Abdul was their contact and worked intelligence. Jennifer is certain that is why he and his family were killed and that the information they have must be given to the team so the killings can be solved. Allie walks in while they are talking and they stop until she leaves.
Rhys identifies where the locker key is from (City Bath House, CBH) and Jen and Nick take it and leave. Allie immediately questions Duncan and Rhys about Jen and Nick's strange behavior. Rhys suggests that when two people start acting odd at work "it only means one thing", which Duncan laughs off.
Jen and Nick's mysterious photographer is at work again as they arrive at CBH to investigate the key. Abdul is identified as a regular and the key as one of the locker keys. While they are waiting to be taken to the locker to see what is in it, the photographer walks up to them and tells them to come with him. He says he thinks they know who he is and why he is there and that whatever was in the locker is long gone. They leave with him and he takes them to a black car where another man, Richard McCallister (Joel Tobeck) is waiting. They are questioned about having worked for the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) in the past.
Abdul was still working for SIS and the homicide investigation is getting in the way of an ongoing SIS investigation. McCallister wants them to slow down the homicide case because the SIS investigation is a national security measure. The homicide investigation must stay clear of the SIS investigation. McCallister gives them a "lead" that Abdul's brother was having an affair with his wife with the implication that they must set him up for the murders. He threatens them with the loss of their jobs and imprisonment if they reveal anything.
Once back at headquarters, Nick plants the information about Abdul's brother and wife having an affair. Duncan had checked his alibi and he was at work at a petrol station across town until at least an hour after pathology had timed the murders. While he doesn't feel right as a suspect to Duncan, Nick and Jennifer are able to talk Stanley Wolfe into ordering he be brought in for questioning. Rhys and Duncan get him to admit that he was having an affair with Gemma Supomo.
Stanley comes through with a warrant for the bath house locker and Allie takes a call from the owner who says he has interesting information about locker #27. The owner had asked Allie why Jen and Nick left before he could show them the locker and Allie brings this up in front of Stanley. Jen explains it that they needed the warrant. Stanley orders them to take Allie with them since the owner will be expecting her. The owner explains that the locker didn't belong to Abdul Supomo and takes them to it. They open it and find thongs and a bathrobe. The owner of the locker, Waheed, and Supomo never came to the bath house at the same time and they always came alone when they did visit.
Allie confronts Jen and Nick about their behavior and notes that it appeared Nick knew the victim at the crime scene. He denies it and Allie then asks if they are having an affair which they deny. The three go to Waheed's address to talk to him but he doesn't appear to be home. As Allie goes round back to make sure he isn't there, the black SUV drives up in front of the home and Mr. Photographer and another man get out. They are again warned to keep Homicide away from the case.
Around back, Allie sees a circle of glass cut from the door and is accosted by a man with a gun. Photographer requests Allie accompany him. Nick and Jen come around the house and tell Allie to go back to Homicide. As she is arguing the issue, her phone rings and she is ordered to answer it. It is Bernice Waverely ordering her back to the office. When Allie is gone Nick and Jen learn Waheed is dead. He had been indirectly working for SIS as he was part of a local terrorist cell and was approached by Supomo and convinced to pass information on to SIS.
Nick and Jen are taken to an SIS unit where McCallister brings them up to speed on the case they are working on. A man named Muhammad Hartono is planning a major terrorist attack on Australian soil. Travis Martin Abbott was the man who murdered the Supomo family on order of Hartono. McCallister wants Jen and Nick to go back undercover on an open-ended assignment and get close to Hartono. They are given a small mountain of paperwork about their covers and Hartono's operation with only overnight to learn it.
Bernice Waverly informs Jarvis and Wolfe that Jennifer and Nick will be working undercover indefinitely with SIS and that they are not to divulge the information to any other members of the team. Bernice was given a list of people Homicide is not allowed to investigate which doesn't please Jarvis. Allie wants to know what is going on and Stanley places Matt in charge of the Supomo case because Waverley wants Matt to coordinate. Matt is given bare bones information about the case and what areas he can pursue. The answers the team wants aren't coming.
Allie and Rhys can't let the case go and when Allie suggests that Bernice knows something about the case, Rhys talks to his aunt. She knows he's there to ask for information and flat-out tells him she can't tell him anything. Allie and Rhys go to Waheed's home that night to investigate. The glass with the circle cut from it has been replaced and all signs of a disturbance have been removed. A flight itinerary has been left on the table stating he had gone to Jakarta that morning. Rhys smells bleach where the floor had been cleaned and Allie finds blood splatter on the coffee cup on the table.
Rhys finds pictures in a drawer and one of them has Jennifer and Nick in the background. The names "Trish and Wesley Claybourne" written on the back cause Rhys to remember when Jen was accosted on the street by the woman who called her "Trish". Allie and Rhys realise Nick and Jen have been working undercover. At the office, they look up the Claybourne's and read their police files.
The next morning, McCallister tells Jen and Nick he has decided against giving them firearms. Their house is under constant surveillance. They are to contact Hartono as soon as they are settled in. They arrive at their new "home" and not long after, "Don" from across the street drops in to let them know if they need anything at all he's there. Nick makes the call to Hartono. They will be meeting him the next day at eleven.
Allie shares the photo of Nick and Jen undercover with Duncan. He advises her to leave the case alone. Rhys puts the info that Trish and Wesley Claybourne are real people on the table and Duncan knows right off that SIS is involved. Rhys wants to back away from the case.
That night, as he's getting ready to go home, Mr. Photographer asks McCallister when he's going to finally tell Nick and Jen why they are really undercover. McCallister says the info stays in house and that they know what they need to know.
When they awaken the next morning, as Nick is telling Jen that she knows how he feels about her, two masked men with guns come into the room and overpower them.
Complicated and intense are the best words I can find to describe this case. When a complicated murder investigation moves into politics and national security it becomes intense. The secrecy starts and all hope for answers dims. Allie is especially frustrated that there aren't any answers being given seeing as how she had a gun pointed at her. Honestly, if SIS wanted to mess with anyone on the Homicide team, Allie is the last person I think they would want to choose. She doesn't give up. Poor Matt was placed in a bad situation when he was handed a case that was doomed by the SIS and given orders that he couldn't talk about anything with the team (not that he knew anything as he wasn't given any answers either). Jen and Nick are thrown back into lives they thought they'd long left behind them. It's troubling that the murders of an entire family, including two small children, are pushed aside for a larger "more important" case, but, isn't that how it usually goes?
I loved seeing Stanley Wolfe again. He hasn't been around as much as I would like for him to be. Same with Duncan. Duncan seems to have been pushed into the background a lot here of late and I find that a bit frustrating. Both Stanley and Duncan are favorites of mine and I wish they were in the mix a bit more like they used to be.
This case is continued next week and I'm sure that, when the end of it does come, it will be BIG!
Note: I missed the name of the guy working with McCallister at SIS so I'm just calling him "Mr. Photographer" right now. If I catch it next week, I'll update this post.
For more information:
City Homicide Official Site: http://au.tv.yahoo.com/city-homicide/
Internet Movie Database: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024932/
TV Rage: http://www.tvrage.com/shows/id-17228
BBC One Dramatic Series "Luther" Begins Airing in America
The psychological drama Luther will begin airing in the United States on BBC America at 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 17, 2010. The episode will be followed by Luther: Inside Look - Episode 1. This is "an exclusive behind the scenes look at tonights episode of Luther".
If you miss episode 1 this Sunday, don't worry! It will be aired again:
Monday, October 18, 2010:
2:00 A.M., Episode 1
3:15 A.m., Luther, Inside Look - Episode 1
Thursday, October 21, 2010:
9:00 P.M., Episode 1
10:15 P.M., Luther, Inside Look - Episode 1
Friday, October 22, 2010:
12:00 A.M., Episode 1
1:15 A.M., Luther, Inside Look - Episode 1
2:00 A.M., Episode 1
3:15 A.M., Luther, Inside Look - Episode 1
If you miss episode 1 this Sunday, don't worry! It will be aired again:
Monday, October 18, 2010:
2:00 A.M., Episode 1
3:15 A.m., Luther, Inside Look - Episode 1
Thursday, October 21, 2010:
9:00 P.M., Episode 1
10:15 P.M., Luther, Inside Look - Episode 1
Friday, October 22, 2010:
12:00 A.M., Episode 1
1:15 A.M., Luther, Inside Look - Episode 1
2:00 A.M., Episode 1
3:15 A.M., Luther, Inside Look - Episode 1
AUS Television: City Homicide "Lightens Up"
Noni Hazlehurst who portrays Detective Superintendent Bernice Waverley on City Homicide was recently interviewed by David Knox, a freelance tv.com writer. In the interview, Ms. Hazlehurst revealed some very interesting tidbits for the remainder of the crime drama's fourth season.
The series will be focusing a tad more on the lives of the characters while still delivering the same gripping drama fans have come to love the last four years. The tone of the show will lighten subtly as a bit of humor is injected into the storylines. Don't think the show will become a comedy, because it won't. It isn't to trivialize the seriousness of the cases the detectives deal with but to show the coping methods they use to deal with the grisly work they do day in and day out.
A six-party storyline will end the current season (which is scheduled to run 21 episodes) and Richard Jasek has got on board as a new executive producer.
You can read the full article at tv.com.
The series will be focusing a tad more on the lives of the characters while still delivering the same gripping drama fans have come to love the last four years. The tone of the show will lighten subtly as a bit of humor is injected into the storylines. Don't think the show will become a comedy, because it won't. It isn't to trivialize the seriousness of the cases the detectives deal with but to show the coping methods they use to deal with the grisly work they do day in and day out.
A six-party storyline will end the current season (which is scheduled to run 21 episodes) and Richard Jasek has got on board as a new executive producer.
You can read the full article at tv.com.
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