1-Amends
Goren was on leave but he comes back.
Kevin Quinn was Eames’ husband’s partner the night he was killed. Quinn is shot and killed and the captain is called in while he was playing poker with other cops. Quinn was protecting a witness against a gang. Eames and Theresa Quinn are friends.
They arrest the gang leader but Goren knows that Quinn’s partner is not a good witness because he can’t see well. I always hate the scenes where all the cops become hostile, like here against Goren, because he’s doing his job better than them, basically. It is very realistic, because people are like that, it’s people like Goren that there’s a shortage of, but it still annoys me. So many people are really petty, and selfish, and completely lacking any sense of empathy or justice.
Another man dies, a dealer who testified in Joe’s murder case. He and Quinn testified against the same person. Ray Delgado insists he didn’t kill Joe. Goren believes him and wants to look at Joe’s murder again. Eames is hurting and so she’s unreasonable, for a while, but then she goes along.
Ray’s son killed Quinn and the dealer because they lied and put his dad in prison. Ray did not kill Joe. The dealer’s young cousin did it, now Manny’s a doctor and they arrest him.
2-Seeds
Logan and Felacci (Alicia Witt)
Monica, a doctor married to Judge Frye, is killed, shot in her house. She accused another therapist of leaking information. She couldn’t cook so the judge always cooked; she was killed in the kitchen, so Logan thinks that he was the target. The judge sometimes took bribes from people to rule in their favour. Director Clay and actress Christine were battling over their son’s custody, and she was helped by p.i. Ron Hawk. She killed Monica trying to kill the judge, and used Hawk to frame Clay. Hawk loved her and burned proof to protect her, then wanted to star in the new movie so she turned her back on Hawk, putting all the blame on him, but Clay didn’t know what she had done, and that she even coached their son to lie, so they open his eyes and arrest her, and he agrees to testify against her. He’s still her husband, but he can do it if he wants! Not a bad episode.
3-Smile
Leslie - Amy Acker
A dentist is killed. A woman says that he used to get kids drunk and them molested them, but a kid says something different. The kids were not molested, but there was a drug in his mouthwash. Two boys are dead, and also a man and a little girl, because they drank the mouthwash.
Goren takes Leslie to dinner, then they go out again, but only talk about the case. She killed a man and framed another to get promoted, but who killed the dentist, the mother for real?? :-(
4-Lonelyville
I so don’t like Felacci, she’s so arrogant and aggressive :-/ I don’t like her attitude, even here when she complaints that the lab results are not fast enough for her tastes :-/
A doctor is killed; his brother Eli lied a lot, said he was sterile but he’s not, he donated sperm and did other things, and has two sons, Tom and Ralph. Ralph needs a transplant but Eli refused because of the pain. Tom killed Zach because he didn’t want to be involved, was unpleasant and Tom ‘snapped’, and Eli staged the scene. Tom confesses in exchange for Eli saving Ralph.
5-Depths
Goren hates the beach. A diver is dead; the FBI think that Tarek was a terrorist, but Goren doesn’t. He was a treasure hunter. Another hunter is found dead, but Dana (Kelly Giddish) is found alive, but all the treasure is gone when they go there. She suspects her ex-husband took it, but he says that he only helped her. Harper did fund their ‘expedition’ but he didn’t really want the ship recovered because of some old history, something to do with one in his family that acted badly in 1861. It wasn’t because of the shame, but for some reason not totally clear to me he could have lost his fortune, so he killed the two divers.
6-Courtship
Two women approach a guy at a bar; the next morning he wakes up next to dead Anya, while the other woman will collect the blackmail money. He told nothing to his wife, but he told everything to his girlfriend Tammy, and Tammy’s lawyer Leanne is the mysterious brunette. Tammy’s not backing him up, so Noah feels lost and kills himself in prison. Tammy and Leanne are a couple, and together they blackmailed men. Leanne killed Anya, because Tammy liked Noah and didn’t want to hurt him, sort of. Noah really loved her, so she didn’t want to blackmail him.
7-Self-made
Kira is killed. She worked for a publicist who wants Major Case to work on it.
Goren playing with the spring toys was fun :lol:
They look for her boyfriend, Dante ‘detour’, as a suspect. They find him when he’s run over by a car near his mom’s place. His story makes them look elsewhere.
She wanted to be a writer, like her friend TJ - Goren playing with Lionel’s stuff :lol: - Lionel is a sort of agent/teacher. Gareth is an agent who says he wanted to publish Kira’s novel. He harassed other women before but always settled, so now they suspect him, but Goren suspects Lionel because he finds out that he stole Kira’s book, but he says he stole her words not her life...
Bobby tries to provoke TJ and understands he was never in jail, like he always claimed in his novel. Kira found out about that too, when she had to review his book in the times. TJ was stressed out because of his second book. Lionel set TJ up to kill her making him believe that Kira was about to expose him, after getting him high, but Kira wanted to expose Lionel instead.
They arrest them both, TJ killed her but Lionel conspired to have her killed. So he did, steal her life!
8-Offence
Logan & Felacci
Someone in the football team was accused of rape. Tracy is killed before she can testify. ADA Hoyle was handling the case, and says that both Tracy and her friend Carla were raped. Logan tells Felacci “after ten years at Staten Island, you learn to pick your battles” which means... what exactly??
They investigate more and things look weird: Tracy was a virgin when she died.
It looks like testimonies were never taken. Carla admits that it was her ex boyfriend who raped her and she couldn’t tell her boyfriend Benji because he has a bad temper, so she pinned it on the jerks in the football team who treated them both very badly.
Hoyle’s wife wanted this big case and told the mother of an innocent boy that Tracy would have buried her son so that she would go and kill the girl.
Unfortunately they can’t arrest Hoyle’s wife :-/
9-Untethered
Goren gives 20$ to a homeless hungry man in exchange for his brick. Frank approaches Eames; he wasn’t even at his mom’s funeral because he started using again. He tells her that his 19-year-old son is in trouble. Bobby didn’t even know about Donnie. He’s in jail and there he saw terrible things: he has eight more months and he’s scared to death of the mental observation unit. Goren saw him at Rikers. He says that the isolation unit is where the guards kill people, mistreating people horribly. Looking at the body, the doc says that a 21-year-old was restrained and severely dehydrated, and Eames agrees that he was tortured to death. The captain doesn’t want them to interfere with another jurisdiction, and gives Goren a week of sick leave. Goren says “there’s nothing wrong with me”.
We see Goren breaking a window with the brick in order to be put in jail in the mental observation unit under the name: William Brady. There someone tries to keep him out of trouble but he hits him. He talks to Eames. The nurse tells him to take his pills because he doesn’t want to go to isolation, but he does! He sees Donnie there, in another isolation cell. He’s tied up, with a bright light always on and no water.
Eames tells the captain that Bobby’s call is five hours late and she’s worried. They go there together, and have to find some excuse for him, in order to take him back. He testifies about what he experienced, even though his investigation was unauthorized. Tates Facility will be investigated by the proper authorities, they say, and Goren is suspended.
Donnie escapes and Goren goes to Frank, angry, wanting to know where Donnie is. Frank is all “what have you ever done for me” and other bad words. They have a fight, then Goren goes looking for Donnie. The episode ends there, we don’t know if he’ll find him, but it’s unlikely I think because he doesn’t know where he is and it can’t be easy to find someone in NewYork simply walking the streets.
10-Senseless
Logan and Felacci.
The beginning was so horrible I couldn’t watch: two good, close boys were shot in the head, and a girl was shot in the stomach. Good kids, shot for no reason other than being out late. Two brothers who grew up caring about each other, but met Felix who shot the girl Naomi because he wanted her iphone. She was taken to a hospital, but didn’t make it in the end :’(
They hunt Felix down and arrest him. It was an agony to watch, this whole episode was an agony to watch, so so sad and unfair.
11-Purgatory
Goren & Eames.
Mike Stoat (the actor who plays Brian Cassidy in SVU) approaches Goren while both on suspension, and offers him a job in security. Eames is on the case of a drug dealer and two English tourists found dead.
Goren has been on suspension five months already, so he agrees to work undercover to be reinstated. Eames calls him, leaves messages, tries to talk to him on the street, but he sort of avoids her. (She always calls him Bobby, he always calls her Eames, another result of his trust-issues).
He works with Mike for a club owner who also deals drugs. They want him to shoot a dealer with a wire, but luckily the police burst in, and Eames and Goren find themselves pointing a gun at each other! She was very surprised and upset; the captain had ordered him not to tell her anything but when she finds out she’s outraged and hurt: “eight years I’ve had your back and I don’t even get the courtesy of a phone call”; he says “there were rules” and “this was my only way back” and Eames “I get it, you’re the genius and I just carry your water, right? You have any idea how many times I’ve lied for you? Covered your ass?” and “I hope it was worth it”.
He is reinstated right away, but she’s not the only one giving him a hard time: he finds a dead rat in his desk’s drawer...
12-Contract
Wheeler’s back: good!
Tk was a blackmailer who was blown up next to the blackmailed who was wearing a wire.
Wheeler got engaged :-) The captain and Rogers talk the case at the station bar :-) it was nice to see her outside the morgue, there’s so little personal interactions in this series.
Tk was also a columnist. A director had raped Tk’s 16-year-old sister, and manipulated his wife’s lover into killing him. I didn’t like this episode much :-/
13-Betrayed
Kathy’s a good friend of the captain, an ex-cop that started writing successful books and just donated two millions to the police academy. Her husband goes missing, a young personal trainer.
Goren and Eames are still a little “out of sync”. He tries to make things good again , when he asks her if they should tell the captain that Woody may have run away voluntarily, and she says “let’s confirm it first”, he said “you’re exactly right, I’m just saying, you’re right” with a sort of hoping look... he so wants to be ok with her again, but it’s pretty normal for her to be upset.
Woody ran away with Avery, a married girl. They question her husband Roy, then her family receives a text from ‘her’. Goren doubts Kathy and the captain is angry at first but lets them investigate.
Goren speaks to him about his ‘blinders’, so he accepts and they resume her first husband’s body.
He had cheaten on her too, like Woody, and they’re both dead. They don’t find Woody and Avery’s bodies, but they have the judge’s body as proof and when the captain ‘abandons her’ she sort of confesses.
14-Assassin
Logan and Wheeler
A peace activist, listed for a nobel prize, was at house arrest in Sri Lanka but came to New York, finally. An attempt on her life killed her personal assistant. Her bodyguard killed the killer, who turned out to be, actually, a cab driver. She doesn’t postpone any meeting, and rejects their suspicions about her brother; during a speech at “Hudson University” there is another attempt, and this time her brother is killed. The hitman is killed, again. She’s quick to accept their accusations against her husband, but she was in on it, she planned it all and Logan figures it out looking at the video, at how she pushed her brother away from her and into the line of fire.
15-Kissinger - (or Please note we are no longer accepting letters of recommendation from Henry Kissinger)
Goren and Eames.
A man is shot in the park while he was out with his two-year-old son. They try digging into his personal life and find that he had met a man thru the internet so Eames sends an email setting a date for Goren, nickname Bigfoot :-p
Later, a woman walking her baby is shot too. Another victim turns up and finally they discover what they all have in common: their children were on a waiting list to be admitted to an exclusive pre-school for three-year-olds. Another child, Henry, has a horrible grandma, Eleanor, and when she accidentally let a gun drop from her bag, while looking for her keys, I so wanted her to be the killer. It was the same gun that killed the three victims, but the murderer is Henry’s mother: she has a conversation with Goren at gunpoint at the preschool; she is alone far away from home, people are too busy to make friends, her husband is always busy and always away, his friends are too smart for her, she feels like she can’t keep up, and she’s sad that Eleanor loves Henry but not her who after all made him... after talking for a while she starts thinking that Henry would be better off without her and points the gun to her temple, and Goren shouts “you’re irreplaceable, he needs you”. She gives him the gun, he immobilizes her so Eames and other cops can come in to arrest her and free the two hostages: she’s taken away while screaming “I thought you were my friend!” but Goren says “they had kids too”.
She was so alone she had really believed that. She must pay for what she did to those poor people, but she makes me sad too, I pity her.
16-Reunion
Logan and Wheeler.
The host of a tv talk-show about rock’n’roll is murdered: Sylvia.
Michael Massee plays Geordie Black: Wheeler was a big fan of Black’s band in high school. An assistant is a con-artist with a boyfriend just out of jail, so they’re first suspects.
Wheeler’s fiancée is still in London.
A restaurant is called “Toniolo’s” so of course the man tries to speak Italian :-p well, he really tries, gotta give it to him, he said those words right enough :-) “la sua morte mi ha spezzato il cuore” meaning his death broke my heart, and “maleducato”=rude about the son; it was a really good attempt. :-)
Sylvia didn’t like at all that her teenage boy spent so much time with Geordie, he was even about to go on tour with him as a guitarist. Geordie is trying to make amends, these last years, staying sober, doing charity, being clean... but there’s talk of him being interested in boys so they suspect him now. He has pictures of teenage boys and Milo on his laptop. They think he was having a relationship with Milo but actually Milo was sleeping with Tara, Geordie’s wife. Geordie was really doing research on abused kids, and Milo helps him playing because Geordie’s hands don’t work well anymore because of all the past drugs. Geordie’s shocked to find out about Tara and Milo.
Milo is Geordie’s son, but Sylvia didn’t want Milo to know. Sylvia told Tara the night Tara killed her. Milo doesn’t look anything like Sylvia or Geordie, though :p
I was amazed, for once Massee didn’t play the bad guy! I like him, this was a nice change :)
17-Vanishing act
Goren and Eames.
Miles Stone has been buried for 30 days as part of his big survival-act. He dies live on camera so they dig him out but when they open the casket, it’s empty. The body appears at another magician’s show, in the blade-box with his body stabbed with the trick-swords. This old magician, the great Carmine, taught him once. They look at the casket and Goren; “gotta be a trap door somewhere” and Eames to a man: “when my partner is done playing, send this over to the specialists at the garage” :lol: Miles died of malnutrition, starved to death.
Later they find potassium chloride, that triggered a heart attack.
Carmine escapes from his cells, and Goren demonstrates to his captain how he did it. They try to find Carmine’s assistant too because she disappeared and Goren plays with Carmine’s stuff, having fun I guess, and Eames laughs :-) Carmine has pictures of her and says he hired her because she had worked for another magician already. The casket had a trick, a door leading to a tunnel, leading to a room with an identical casket and a camera, he didn’t spend 30 days buried. His friend Jacob designed the trick to help him, to take care of him.
Carmine’s assistant is Jacob’s fiancée.
The mind-reader magician Dean Holliday tries it on Eames: “I’m getting something here. I think there are some unresolved issues with a man in your life, some trust issues, he’s betrayed you hasn’t he? kept a secret from you - (Goren’s face here: awww) - and not for the first time, poor thing” :-p he guessed of course, he said it already there’s always a trick, and tells Bobbi “I admit I’m a fraud, how about you?”
Jacon and his fiancée maybe helped killing Miles, but not knowing. Miles was dead an hour before, the fans were watching a dead man and didn’t know...
They have no evidence that Dean killed him, but if the case remained unresolved Miles might become more famous than he deserves so Dean confesses to the murder, vanity to let everybody know how smart he was.. stuff like that.
18-Ten count
Logan
A boxer who just won a match is shot, killed in an alley. Logan knew him and his brother, he was like a mentor for them. Their new trainer, Gus, had tried to rape Peter’s girlfriend and she told Gabriel because they were good friends. Gus thought that Cristina, like Logan, were soft, he wanted to bring out the killer instinct in his boxers, so Gus had Gabriel killed. When Peter realizes this, he beats Gus to death to have the names of the men that killed him, so Logan has to arrest Peter.
19-Legacy
Paul is found dead, hanged, in the boiler room in his high school: it wasn’t suicide, he was hanged and two days before he had been beaten up.
Rogers is annoyed again when Goren tries to lift the body’s cover himself :-p
They suspect the pack of girls that beat him up two days before, then the teacher who found him, who is the mother of one of the girls, Tessa Noble. Something else comes up: someone invented Joe Cardinal using the face of a model. A rich kid created him to trick Tessa and blackmail her mom into resigning. Goren and Eames confront the kid in his dad’s office, and Jack Walker the third admits everything to show his father what he did. Dad always thought he was some kind of failure that needed his help to go on.
20-Neighborhood watch
A nineteen-year-old boy had sex with a fifteen-year-old girl and was in jail for five years and even got on the sex offenders list, so now everybody in the neighborhood hate him. He’s found decapitated. A guy did it to ‘impress a girl’ and be famour, for the thrill of it, and “didn’t even enjoy it”. :-/
Logan meets Colin, Wheeler’s fiancée.
21-Last rites
A priest comes to Logan, wanting him to reopen an old case saying that the wrong man was convicted of triple murder. ADA Terry Driver charged him. She bribed the witnesses. The guy in jail was trying to break into a car but killed nobody. He’s been in jail for sixteen years because he tried to steal a car radio..
The couple was killed by a man they knew, a con artist using a false identity. The driver also withheld information. Logan talks to the press and after the story makes first page she releases the poor man, trying to appear the hero of justice :-/
The captain tells Wheeler that Colin is being surveilled by some agency. At the end Colin is arrested for money laundry and fraud while he’s with Wheeler.
22-Frame
Bobby is at his mom’s grave for her birthday, then at home to call Frank. He’s on drugs again. When Bobbi goes to him there’s police all around, and Frank is dead on the floor outside. Nicole killed him. She sends Bobbi flowers, then a picture of Donnie thru Gwen, the girl she loved.
Next stop leads them to a package: the heart of Nicole herself. Goren can’t believe it, he’s sure Nicole has Donnie. The captain investigates Goren and when he talks about his ‘father’ Goren gets furious and makes a scene in the morgue because Rogers promised to keep it confidential, the paternity test he asked her for - he’s the son of that serial killer, Grady or something).
At the end it turns out that his old mentor Gage partnered with Nicole and then killed her. He saw him at his mom’s funeral: “you broke my heart. I wanted you to engage again so I gave you a puzzle to solve, to play”. His daughter is in a coma: “after Jo I had no-one and you... you are the son I never had”. It ends with Gage telling him: “you’re free now Bobbi, you’re free”. He also asked him if he’ll miss more Nicole or his brother, and that dying Nicole said that Bobbi was the only man she ever loved.
Alex Eames-Kathryn Erbe
Rogers-Leslie Hendrix
Logan-Chris Noth
Wheeler-Julianne Nicholson
Falacci-Alicia Witt
Nicole Wallace-Olivia D’Abo
Gage-John Glover
Frank Goren-Tony Goldwyn
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