Goren and Eames+Nichols
Taras Broidy and his fiancée are executed; wanted for illegal weapons trading. Goren sees a picture of Broidy with his daughter and says that it was taken over four years before because she’s dressed for fox hunting, so: before they banned it....now, how is that different from being dressed for riding a horse, either for oneself or for any kind of exhibition?
He had taped himself shooting ‘pirates’ while on a cruise heavily armed with lots of friends and they all cheered like it was a lovely party. The people on the boat didn’t look like pirates at all. They were in fact a sheik with his wife and his people.
Ross tells Goren and Eames to stop investigating and hand everything over to him. Ross gets killed working undercover for the Feds. They try to stop Goren and Eames to go near the crime-scene but Goren won’t let them stop him. Rogers was crying in shock :’(
Nichols comes in to stop him from stealing a hard-disk, but helps them making a copy. The three of them work together, and the temporary boss lets them continue until the Feds intervene.
2-Loyalty: part 2
Goren and Eames+Nichols and Stevens
Everybody’s in cop uniform but Goren, at Ross’ funeral. Serena Stevens introduces herself to Nichols. She’s the last person that Ross hired. Zach says to Eames “she’s new” and the reply “oh it’s fun here”
Goren is suspended for attacking a suspect in federal custody. When that man is killed too, like they expected, the Feds ask them where Goren was... he’ll keep on investigating and Eames says “I really feel I should try to talk you out of this” - Goren:“but that’s always been a wasted effort” - “yeah. right”
Goren pretends to be the hitman to get a man to talk. The sheik’s son and daughter are buying weapons for their cause. Stevens’ father was a Marine officer at some embassy, so she can read Arabic. Goren is offered to help the Feds, and Eames is offered to take the captain exam.
Assan’s girlfriend Jill is killed by his sister. He had his father killed, and this shocks his sister who didn’t know about it and she turns against him. Goren tells Eames and Nichols to let Assan go so he can give the weapons to the terrorists, weapons with gps devices so that the Fbi will find those terrorists camps. Nichols doesn’t like it but Eames agrees so they let him go. Eames tells Goren about the offer to be captain. He knows they want him fired. She cries but he accepts him quietly. Eames: “you’re the best, you always will be” he gives her a big kiss on the cheek, hugs her, says “I’ll see you around I guess” and he leaves. After he’s gone, she calls the chief to say that she won’t be taking that captain exam, and she also puts her gun and badge on the desk...
3-Broad channel
Nichols and Stevens
There’s been a murder in Broad Channel, Ryan Fields, a cop. He had just busted a Russian mob’s place, after Irish boss Jackie Dooley tipped him off. The police convince Jackie to find out where the boy who shot him, Eddie, is but before Nichols or Jackie arrive the local cop Atwater has shot the kid dead. Eddie’s mom Moira is in love with Jackie but they open her eyes by letting her watch and hear Jackie’s interrogation. They use this to have him make a deposition about what Atwater did: use Eddie to kill Fields to take his place on Jackie’s payroll and then kill Eddie. At the end they arrest Atwater while Jackie walks free.
4-Delicate
Nichols and Stevens
A ballerina is killed. She had a boyfriend but also had an affair with her dance teacher Ethan. Alona was very competitive, specially against Jocelyn. Paulette was once expelled from a school for stalking, and her record says she had potential for violence. Paulette goes with Jocelyn to her family dinner where she fought with them. Paulette tells her “she did it to make her happy”.
Paulette poisoned every girl but Jocelyn, to make them sick. They arrest the two girls, but their bond seems too strong, but it gets broken when Jocelyn learns that Paulette once helped Alone by hurting Jocelyn’s foot, before they bonded. Alona turned on her for what she did and then Paulette turned to Jocelyn. Now Paulette is on her own.
Nichols parents considered him a piano prodigy.
5-Gods & insects
David and Nathan were in Iraq together, and are friends. Nathan is now CEO of the bank where David works. David was dishonorably discharged from service. A callgirl’s boyfriend Kevin is found dead with his head, hands and feet cut off. David always helped Nathan and covered for him, like he covered for him in Iraq. Now, Nathan killed Kevin then he called David and he disposed of the body. Finally he snaps and says that he won’t let him do this to him, not anymore. Kevin wanted to blackmail Nathan with compromising photos that David kept as insurance.
6-Abel & Willing
Nichols and Stevens
A social worker, Dr Abel Hazard, gave interviews saying that given the choice between love or survival, everybody would always choose survival. He abducted couples to prove his theory: he asked a wife or a husband to shoot their spouse or be killed. When his grandfather was given the same choice during the war, he survived...
Hazard recorded everything to have “scientific proof” and he shows Nichols his proof: 10 couples total in four or five years.
7-Love sick
A nurse and her firefighter boyfriend abduct girls, rape them, kill them and dump their bodies after dressing them up as prostitutes. They catch them when they try again with the only girl still alive.
8-Love on ice
Bailey O’Doyle, ex baseball player, is killed. 22 years ago four boys (Bailey John Chris and Greg) made Tom swim on a winter night and he drowned.
Greg kills himself after John told him the police were after him for the murder since he was the one who beat him up. Actually, his wife killed him, angry that he was a ‘loser’.
9-Traffic
Nichols and Stevens
A woman killed the man that was sleeping with her daughter, much younger than him, but she did it because he was now praising the girl’s writing the same way ten years ago he praised hers.
She thought her writing was much much better, the narcissist. When they take the family in she tries to blame it on her daughter and then on her ex-husband, the shameless...
10-Disciple
A serial killer is executed. He murdered prostitutes but was killed for the murder of Courtney, a ‘clean girl’ as Nichols put it, but before dying he said he did not kill her, and he gave a priest a letter to Dale, his disciple. Dale was with him and was supposed to kill Courtney but couldn’t, he “failed him, but I haven’t failed him since”. Dale started killing now, after receiving the letter. They were both killers, did it really matter which one had killed Courtney? Why did it matter so much to Stevens that the evil guy was executed for her murder, only because they couldn’t prove the other murders? Maybe it was so important to her because she knows Courney’s family, a ‘clean family’ ? I don’t know, but something about this whole thing felt weird, wrong, like she only cared about her and not as much for the other girls that died :-/
11-Lost children of the blood
A goth girl, daughter of a congressman, is found dead covered in blood. She vomited blood that wasn’t hers, and Rogers couldn’t find in her any of her blood to test for toxic substances. The blood was of a healthy illegal man who sells it to make money for his family. A man, Jeremy/Anton lives as a vampire (has the teeth, drinks blood), and he had sex with her but didn’t kill her, he got his money as an elite prostitute. When they meet him, he acts like a leader but actually he’s a follower too. It’s Virgil the real leader, the real psychotic who really thinks he’s a vampire and believes in what he is and what he does. I liked this actor in the first part, his speaking was peculiar and mesmerizing, at least at first. The final showdown was a bit disappointing.
Sarah’s boyfriend is found dead in Anton’s place, where Virgil drained him dry of blood. Virgil has no feelings but Anton does. Virgil (real name Jonathan) changed Jeremy’s life, creating Anton, giving him his belief, but then tried to frame him for Sarah and Kyle’s murders.
12-True legacy
Nichols and Stevens
Ryan is found dead in the truck of his car. He had an affair with Angela Caldera, daughter-in-law of congressman Caldera, now up for elections. Stevens has her confide in her, but then she goes to talk about it to her husband with Nichols. Rick didn’t know about him or about the affair Angela had with his father before senator Victor and his wife knew about Ryan, though, and she had her brother kill him. She couldn’t have more children so she planned for Angela to have a baby with Victor, then arranged to kill her own son who said he wanted to take “his son” away. She’s arrested and who knows, maybe Rick and Angela can build a family with the child out of all those ashes...
13-The mobster will see you now
Another one of those episodes: a man is dead. The doctor is happy to call it accidental, no evidence to the contrary whatsoever, but they are all “I’m not sure, give us time...”, like the police are so eager to have more cases ...
The son of a mob boss, who wanted to appear legit starting a business. At the end he confesses because Nichols gives him his word that his friend Dom - who was also his father’s friend, and more dear to him than his real dad - won’t do time, but the DA disagrees and tells the guy that he’ll personally see to it that Dom be charged.
14-Palimpsest
Nichols is in London to talk to a friend about a case, and talks to her about it, about what happened and what he felt. I liked this episode, finally he showed some emotions.
The case: a man Nichols knew is dead, along with another man. The murder/suicide was staged though. Zach talks to the man’s daughter, Lenore. The man was an old friend of Zach’s father because he sent to him Lenore for schizophrenia. There’s a picture of him and her in the house. They were together before her condition worsened “she was always odd, wonderfully odd” and Nichols kept seeing the man from time to time to play chess. The last time was a year ago. The house is full of rare books, and a very valuable book is hidden somewhere in it. The other man sold them stolen books and then blackmailed them to reveal it. Lenore slept with him to protect her father. A couple have been giving money to Lenore and her father Palmer, because they’re antiquarians who love old books and love Lenore who “lives in the past” but “has no choice about it”. The man serving in the house as a caretaker is actually Father Celeste, looking for the book to burn it, fearing it could change Jesus’ story as we know it. A fanatic.
The book collection will be sold, that antiquarian couple will keep visiting her and Lenore will live there as long as she wants. As goodbye, she asks Zach when will he kiss her and he says “tomorrow” :-)
He says she was the one person he fell in love with and that “she was just magical” and right there : the Goldblum smile I like :-) “if you really love somebody, maybe it never goes away”...
15-Inhumane society
Boxer Danny Ford got two years jail for dog fights. The guy who ‘snitched’ now gets killed by dogs.
Danny’s coach Sal Biaggi wants him to win, to have the ‘killer instinct’, not to go to Church. Another one of Danny’s old pals gets murdered, beaten to death. Nichols kicks a van to get the owner to show up when the alarm goes off... really? it’s amazing that it worked...
and what a surprise, the coach did it, personally, but with a little help from one of his boys - not Danny. What a big surprise, I knew it as soon as it started, same case as the one with Logan, if I remember right.
Does Stevens talk while chewing gum in order to seem tough? :-/
16-Three-in-one
A woman killed in an empty building, an angel and words on the wall written in blood. The writing was very bad “qles stoq” instead of “please stop”. Nichols suspects Dr Curtis to have multiple personalities: a house painter and a child.
We meet Zachary’s dad Dr Nichols (F. Murray Abrahms). Zach seemed nervous when he goes to him for advice on “dissociative identity disorder”. They catch him, but they need him to tell them where the second woman is because she might still be alive, and finally Nichols and Stevens find the teacher alive :-)
The doctor is the violent personality, he kills women that talk about discipline regarding children. Zach and his dad find a way to work together. I liked this Dr Nichols and the way he looked at his son :-) I know this is a little thing, merely a series episode not a big movie, but this is one of my favorite FMA’s roles :-) The last scene is very nice, with Zach and dad meeting in a bar and talking : “should I take that as approval?” Zach :) and then he adds “I’m so glad you called, dad” and it was a very nice ending :)
Eames-Kathryn Erbe
Goren-Vincent D'Onofrio
Nichols-Jeff Goldblum
Ross-Eric Bogosian
Stevens-Saffron Burrows
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