missing: ep 1
1- Grow
the one with Nicole and the little girl, when she leaves to protect her because he really loved her and couldn't risk it.
2- Diamond dogs
Logan and Barek (she speaks lots of languages, nice)
(there's Peter Scanavino in this ep. From killer to victim to detective, nice L&O career)
Johnny robs jewellery stores while his mom drives him! They are all addicts, well, mom turned him into an addict, made him steal for her, provided a girl then killed her when she became a liability. He got angry but still she's his mom. She'd be alone after he goes to prison, so to help her he helps them charge her.
3- Prisoner
Goren and Eames.
Bill's a warden. Ten years ago his wife Jenny was kidnapped by an inmate. Cops are called when he is found with his wrists tied to a grid, suspended and bleeding from the wire cuts. They find Jenny: she's now called Wendy LeBlanc, married to Mitch LeBlanc, and she says she ran away with him, that they are in love. Now they think that Bill did it to himself to look the good one (ok, tying your belt to stay suspended, tying your right wrist with your left hand, yes, but how did he tie the left hand??)
Actually he himself had hired that Vic/Mitch to kill her, but after kidnapping her he told her everything and let her live. Bill wanted to stop her from asking a loan because a background check in her finances would have shown money that he stole. Poor woman, hard to find herself now, I guess.
4- Unchained
Logan and Barek
They stumble on a mafia case. It starts with Joe Long being killed, the son of a cop, but not the Long they wanted to kill. The investigation leads them to two cops. They are totally loyal to each other, but they show the daughter of one of them what kind of man he is, giving her number to bad men, so she turns against him. He sort of sold her to befriend important men, giving them her number...saying stuff like 'no relationship's needed, just dinner is ok, make sure to make her drink and have fun...' that sort of things, what a disgusting man.
How come that nobody ever called her? I mean, never! This is clear because at the end she tells her father that he was the only one who had her number, when she wants it to admit it. Before they let her hear his recorded words she thought he was a hero, so it's not likely that she had bad experiences connected to someone calling her on her phone...
5- Acts of contrition
A young nun buys young girls off their pimps to save them. She was a different person when she was young, a bad girl, a drug addict who wanted to please a violent man and to do that she tricked a poor black young man into going where two white guys were waiting for him and what they did was beating him so badly he almost died, but suffered tremendous wounds and for nineteen years has lived in a vegetative state, and she took a small part in the beating too, she kicked him once. The brother of that young man tried to find her, knowing she was the only witness, but an older nun got in the way trying to protect her and got killed. They finally have her confession. It's too late to charge anyone for the beating, but he won't live for long now and after his death it'll be a homicide and they'll be able to charge them all, young nun included.
I liked the actress playing the young nun.
6- In the wee small hours part 1
Goren and Eames. :-) Logan and Barek too. I like the four of them working together, and I liked Goren and Logan working together :)
A school trip. Two boys and a girl go missing. The boys are found but not the girl. They find there was another girl, missing for two months, a black girl who did not run away on her own. They trace the blog of a seventeen year-old predator. The kid is the son of a judge (played by Colm Meaney). They find Tiana's body, the poor black girl. They ask Conny (the guy who had three girls devoted to him, I remember him, and he's now in prison) to talk to Ethan in their cell. They keep working on it together . End of part one.
I know about texting and the shortcuts used, sometimes on twitter they're necessary, and htey were even more necessary when I used messages because sometimes one more character could mean paying for two messages instead of one, but I don't like it when not necessary. The girl's text said: "ur a$$ luks gr8 in those jnz", which probably takes longer to write than the actual right letters :-/
7- In the wee small hours part 2
They find Bethany's body, and evidence that someone else had sex with her, not just Ethan the boy. His friends say that the judge paid an escort for Ethan's 16th birthday, and then he had sex with her too. They start thinking that the judge is involved too. Ethan's mom tries to help her son, she admits that the reason she never divorced him is simply because "he's a judge and all his friends are judges".
She tells her son to talk, Ethan admits that the judge made out with Bethany and they arrest him. The judge tires to go hard on them: going after Logan as a violent cop, but Barek backs him up; going after Goren by harassing his old sick mom who got so agitated she had to be sedated. Goren's very angry at him. He goes to talk to the judge and Eames calls Carver too (I like angry, manipulative Goren :D ) Great scene :) They made it look like he was so angry as to not think of his actions and maybe put himself into trouble, but in a few seconds you realise he knows what he's doing, and he gets his man, making him confess :)
He provokes him well enough to admit that he had sex with her: statutory rape. There's a trial, the defence lawyer goes after Goren (his father abandoned his family when he was a child) and shows a letter that Eames wrote five years prior, stating "detective Goren's erratic and antisocial behaviour... lead me to have serious doubts about his judgement and mental stability", back when she requested a new partner. She then withdrew the request. She explains, almost crying "over time I came to see that his approach was based on deep understanding of human behaviour. I came to appreciate his as an ethical person and an effective police officer". He's there, listening, but is not angry, he understands. I loved him here :)
The way he looked at her and moved when he approached her, and when she tried to apologise there was actually no need: "I am an acquired taste" and "I'm lucky you withdrew your letter" :) lovely scene :) He kinda looked proud, I mean if you think about it being an "acquired taste" is better, because it's not superficial, while some people are immediately likable but sometimes you realise it's only a mask, a farse.
The judge admits the sex but denies the murder on the stand, instead he implicates his son for that. Ethan didn't kill her, but after the judge had done with the girl, his mom found her drugged and bleeding and got rid of her, she killed her, to protect her son, knowing he was involved in the scandal.
8- Saving face
Logan and Barek
A medical student, a girl, is dead. A charity foundation is 'helping' people, doing plastic surgery to disfigured people. A nurse was doing the actual facial surgery, the surgeon has a condition, she can't see clearly or something like that. She killed the girl because she had found out.
9- Scared crazy
Goren and Eames.
A programmer is killed. A programmer of a competing company has mental issues and his therapist is controlling him. She worked in Guantanamo, sort of psychologically torturing terrorists to get information, she studied them to learn what they were afraid of and then told it to interrogators. She felt guilty about it.. it's not clear to me what happened here. Robbie killed that man because he couldn't stand the music he listened to. Because she had already tortured him? Why did she, if now she can't stand the idea of him suffering???
10- Dollhouse
Logan & Barek.
Danielle blackmails married guys. She told a lot of men that they were the fathers of her child, all married man who had an affair with her, so they gave her money and toys.
They think Danielle shot a man dead. Her lawyer Declan is her sister Claire's boss and lover. Declan's wife knows of the affair and is fine with it. He stood by her through her cancer fight and she wants him happy. No ground for blackmailing there. He's in love with Claire, and she used him to get custody of the little kid. When Declan realises that she was to leave him he kills himself in his cell.
Claire arranged for her to be killed , so they arrest Danielle for blackmail and murder, and Claire for attempted murder, and the child stays with his grandparents.
Still, who tipped Danielle off? How did she know about it? She was prepared, when she killed him... I missed something here. Oh well, doesn't matter, it was a boring episode anyway.
11- Slither
Goren and Eams
A rich couple, the husband turns up dead, the wife totally drugged, wasted. Their house was completely stripped of everything, even light and ceiling.
Goren smells everything :p
In another apartment they find a head in the fridge. Bernard and Sammy have a little club; Sammy and two other women seem to be charmed by him.
Goren says "he spoke Chinese with an accent", because he had been in a prison in Taiwan :p
He was Nicole's boyfriend, he taught her to kill!
Apparently Sammy, Hillary and her sister are all in love with Bernard ! Hillary confesses to murder to protect her Bernard !
He's so full of himself, they can play him easily. At the arraignment, bail is set to two millions. Sammy and Hillary can't pay but Hillary's sister bails him out.
Once out, he is killed with poison, with a syringe, and they think of Nicole.
Well, he's nothing like her.
12- Watch
A body falls out of an airplane and is found by two surfers. There's a serial killer .Someone likes to kill women, then he puts the body on plains to be dumped around the world. Dwayne likes to watch it. Dwayne's younger cousin Art does the beating and the killing, and Dwayne watches it. A sick relationship for sick people, they are both disgusting, Dwayne is a sick bastard too, choosing the girl, convincing Art to do it all the way.
13- Proud flesh
Goren and Eames.
Trip, the son of a rich man, dies. The rich man, Jonas, has a Chinese wife and daughter, Emma.
Trip hired a man to find dirt in Hanna's life. Jonas thought of it as disloyalty on his son's part, so he had that man kill Trip and implicate his wife and her ex-husband. He gains his other son, apparently. He was about to move out of town with his pregnant wife but now he'll stay here with him.
They arrest him, but at the arraignment he's released on his own recognizance. Really? For a murder charge?? yeuch.
Outside, his precious son tries to shoot Hanna and Eames kills him, and before he dies he confesses killing Trip in front of cameras, to free his father. "That's what sons are for", says the old shit.
Talking to a pawn shop owner in Chinatown Goren tries to speak Chinese but apparently his Cantonese is not good :p
14- Wasichu
A secret service woman is found dead. A neighbour kid says he saw a man killing her.
The actor that plays Korzak was in here too: a congressman. Because of interests, he sent a man to look into her house because in business with her husband. He got worried when he learned she was secret service.
Actually a boring ep....
15- Wrongful life
Goren & Eames
A guy, Eric, is found dead on a roof. Erik with his sister Nicky and her boyfriend Drew and one other friend liked to break into places and take pictures nobody has seen before. They interview Drew's mom who's sewing her doctor because they didn't tell her that her other child Lisa had a problem that would put her forever in a wheelchair. Since her dad died, Drew takes care of Lisa. Her mom got pregnant so her rich boyfriend would marry her, and when a doctor told her to take a test, she chose a doctor that was against those tests. Eric could ruin her baseless lawsuit and she killed him.
(or had him killed? what did Drew do? will he go to prison too? I think so but am not sure why. His mom told him to and he killed him? Anyway, interesting ep, I liked these kids, Lisa Drew and Nicky.
16- Dramma giocoso
Logan and Barek
Violinist Laura is dead, she was the lead soprano's daughter. Actor Julian Sands plays the 'Maestro' here, or God if you were to ask him (and by him I mean the character obviously).
The doctor is apparently a fan of the soprano and sings 'la donna è mobile qual piuma al vento' and Logan is so rude, says that he envies the dead and to stop singing, so rude and not funny at all.
They suspect the maestro, and when Barek talks to him, playing the 'understanding' part, his lawyer says "enough with the Vulcan mindmeld"..
The soprano Gillian and the maestro Philip Reinhardt have been on-off lovers for years. Now she has him to marry her, as a proof that she 'believes in his innocence'. She's very sick and thinks that he'll have to take care of her. She killed her daughter because she was about to have him fired.
Now that he knows it all he wants her out of his life, he only cares about himself, and she of herself.
The daughter was always too busy to take care of her when she needed her (you know, with her life)
17- Vacancy
Goren and Eames
It's snowing big time, planes are cancelled, so two girls had to stop at a hotel. During the night, Alice goes out to the bathroom leaving the door open because she couldn't find the key, drunk as she was, and when she came back her friend was dead.
An actor digs so deeply into his characters that he becomes his characters, and now his character is a serial killer.
I didn't like that Alice, she was loud and crazy, but the actor playing Tim was sort of interesting.
18- The healer
Logan and Barek
Two sisters are found dead in their apartment, wrapped in plastic. One of them was too interested in a nurse services: people know Lydia as the healer. Barek respects voodoo as well as any religion.
Their first suspect Jack dies too. Lydia told Logan that he might get sick and when he does Barek takes him to see Mama Louise, and she tells him that Lydia put poison ivy oil on the candle he touched and he had an allergic reaction "the magic is in the believer's faith" she says.
Jack had given a sister a copy of Lydia's book.
Robbie's water contained Lithium Carbonate, it doesn't make people better, but makes them 'think' they are getting better because the lithium makes them feel better, they convince themselves that they 'are' getting better, and if they stop paying she takes away the water and they feel worse. Robbie thinks that Lydia put her healing powers in that water. He made a suicide attempt in college, and she made him believe that he has suicidal tendencies and the water keeps him from killing himself. He believes her totally. They bring Lydia in too.
Barek puts her herbs in a glass of water; those herbs are not good, they're poison. Robbie believed her and tried to drink it when she suddenly stops him. He understands now and tells them that she killed them.
19- Cruise to nowhere
Goren and Eames.
Ben Williams is dead, a poker player. He lost 500.000$ to a young man, Joey Frost. Since Joey's dad died, Phil has watched over him. Joey's really addicted to games and bets, even bingo at church! He's unbearable.
Joey's dad was killed. Goren takes him to watch Phil's interview, so he can see if he lies. Goren wants him to realise that Phil killed his dad and used him. Finally Joey tells the truth, Phil is arrested and Goren tells Joey that 'he's gonna be alright'...
20- To the bone
Logan
Whoopi Goldberg was in this ep! Playing the foster mother.
Two families are slaughtered. Logan sees a man with a gun and shoots him, but he's a cop, and he dies. Watkins has the suspect foster kid to turn himself in and he gets killed in prison. Watkins told these kids to go steal at big houses. Logan talks to her but can't break her. She gets arrested, along with three foster kids. The one who talks dies throwing himself off a window, the case against the others will probably be dismissed.
21- On fire
Goren & Eames
The captain is questioned about officer Martinez, the first on the scene at last episode's Logan's shooting, and they say that the captain recommended him to task force, in exchange for his silence they say....
In one night five churches are set on fire, and three more the night after. There's one victim. They say they have an email that came from the captain. He tells Goren and Eames about it. They try to help him, looking into it.
They find who forged the email. A man the captain sent to prison arranged it all to frame him, so he decides to resign.
Justin is a successful man with a beautiful wife. He has a father, a stepmother and a stepbrother, Glenn. The stepmother actually had a story with him when he was 14 and Glenn is his son. Justin didn't know but Glenn did. Glenn set the fires and Justin killed his roommate to protect him.
22- The good
Two weeks left on the job for the captain, so he wants to join Logan and Barek on the new case - only for a scene though. A wealthy couple was killed, and their troubled son Kevin is their suspect. An addict, with debts. Another team handles it, and lie to Kevin to make him confess. Logan and Barek are upset. Logan finds a conflict, the victim's business partner is a client of the cop making the arrest, so it's a conflict of interest. The partner had an ex-con kill the victims. The killer had his veteran son cover for him, but Logan gets to him. At the end, the captain leaves.
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