1-Playing dead
Goren.
A young man is killed, his girlfriend survived, trapped under his dead body for hours. She’s the stepdaughter of a councilman. After being taken home by her family, she tries to commit suicide. Gren understands that she was abused by her stepfather. He got her pregnant, then the family took her to Siena to have her baby, so Sophie is not really her little sister, she’s her daughter. When she confronts him at the station, the piece of s#@# tries to blame it on her, to scare her. His mother always protected him, helped his career, even had Stacey’s boyfriend killed.
2-Rock star
Nichols and Wheeler
Nichols arrives at a crime scene full of food, and the captain introduces him to Wheeler. The captain and Nichols were once partners. Nichols parents are both shrinks, he took a seven-year leave, and is a brilliant cop.
A young wanna-be-rockstar is found killed. Later another one falls down an elevator. Wheeler says to her captain “when does the brilliant part start?” and the captain “not big on trust at the moment, are we?” and adds “one partner quits on you, your ex fiancée is about to go on trial”... so Logan quit? Maybe I haven’t seen it yet.
Nichols plays the piano in front of those wanna-be-famous to prove how difficult it is to really make it.
At the end, the old manager murdered the first kid because he was jealous of a girl, and a musician killed the other kid because he wanted to get his place on stage and be famous. Nichols is all happy because he got two murderers in one go.
I was shocked the first time I saw these episodes, because I can’t understand why I don’t like Goldblum here as Nichols. Everything should lead to me loving Nichols= Jeff I always liked, and he’s the smart type.. and yet I don’t. I don’t like how he speaks, how he poses, and it’s very strange, and I haven’t been able to figure out why...
3-Identity crisis
Goren and Eames
Years ago some cops coerced a child to testify against his brother. Now that brother has grown up to be a conman and a murderer. As a child he did not kill his schizophrenic mother, but now he killed his brother believing that he wanted to destroy the life of lies he had created for himself.
4-In treatment
Nichols and Wheeler
A rich man is killed at a banquet, right after he learns his firm is under investigation. His partner Archie gets himself admitted into a mental clinic. They talk to his shrink but he talks instead of Nichols’ problems with authority figures and his rebellion.. Nichols hates him :-p
Nichols hasn’t seen his father in decades. He studied medicine & then dropped out to become a cop.
From the beginning of this episode he had been wondering if Wheeler was pregnant, and he finally asks her :p she is, but the father is in a federal prison..
Zachary joins the therapy group only to get Archie’s tea-cup. An investor who felt betrayed is found dead, believed a suicide. The doctor convinced his patients to make huge investments in Archie’s Company, as if he was part of it. The dead man told him that he was about to talk and bring down Archie’s Company, and he thought of it as his own, so he killed both men. They arrest him.
5-Faithfully
Goren and Eames
We see Goren having dinner with a family. He has a nine-year-old niece, so Frankie had other children? At the end, Molly sends him a beautiful letter “dear Robert it was nice having you at our home. I hope you can visit us soon. I’m sending you some pictures to remember us by. Love, Molly” So nice, Goren has a family :-D
A doctor is killed at his home. His wife had an affair with the local reverend. The reverend’s wife taught young Kevin how to speak without stutter and used him to kill the doctor, and then tried to blame it on Kerry, the doctor’s wife, by leaving messages imitating her voice. They don’t know if they have proof to charge her, but her husband hears and can’t forgive that, so he leaves her and they arrest her.
6-Astoria Helen
Nichols and Wheeler
Zach talks of a woman who always chooses the wrong guy as “probably insufficiently praised as a child” - “were you insufficiently praised as a child?” - “Me? No, they praised me all the time which backfired and made me think too much of myself” and Wheeler: “you over that?” - “I’m working on it” :lol: The captain is annoyed because Nichols always finishes his sentences for him. :p
Wheeler goes hard on a woman that ‘accidentally’ provided information about her work, info that were used for a robbery. She had a relationship with a man who, she thought, would be a perfect father for her seven-year-old son. Joe was a thief, yes, but not a killer. He really cared for the boy, and helped her when the murderer kidnapped her son.
7-Folie a deux
Goren and Eames
It seems like a child has disappeared. The father has a rich aunt, and her assistant sends a ransom request because he thought she’d never had any intention to give him anything after her death, but he was wrong; now yes, he’ll have nothing, of course.
It’s a case of “shared psychotic disorder”: the photos were of the neighbour’s kid, there never was a baby in that hotel room; little Emma died the previous summer, left alone while her mom was looking for her cheating husband. He convinced her that the baby was fine, to get his aunt’s money I guess.
8-The glory that was...
9-Family values
Goren without beard and Eames.
A man kills his sister-in-law and her husband, then he kills his daughter’s drama teacher because he disapproved of her choice of theatre play and because she was gay. He sends a bomb to an office; a man gives his name to the police so they go looking for him. He’s not at home, but the dog and his wife are dead, and his daughter is missing. He took her to a remote cabin and she tried to escape after hearing the news. He wants to go to God’s realm, a fanatic nutjob, well all fanatics are; a crazy man who thinks that since God didn’t stop his murderous hands it means that he approved. Such evil craziness. What I think is, if you believe Abraham’s story that he raised his knife to kill his son but God stopped him, what you learn from it is that the son was Not killed, and that maybe Abraham’s faith was so great he knew He wouldn’t really have him do it, and most of all that Abraham did Not want to kill him. People hurt and kill, Jesus helped men and women, good or bad, he did Not hurt or kill.
10-Salome in Manhattan
Nichols and Wheeler
A girl, Lisa, is killed at a rich people party. Chef Max (Eric Balfour) gave her an engagement ring (she kept it but didn’t wear it). Nichols enter the place and sees a videogame on the screen (something like Doom or similar) and says “male teenager” which of course turned out to be true, but females like videogames too, Nichols!
Nichols plays the piano again, to think, like a sort of Sherlock Holmes..
Max’s friend Larry killed Lisa because she wouldn’t help him with money, she didn’t like him, like others she thought of him as a loser, and he was angry and envious.
11-Lady’s man
Goren and Eames
Ten years ago Eames worked at the case of Boz, a man accused of killing his wife but the body was never found. First case she worked after her husband’s death. Kevin Mulrooney (Raùl Esparza) was the prosecutor on the case, and a friend to Eames... When Mulrooney lost the case his career went down. Goren is concerned for Eames, he thinks Kevin is unstable, so he goes over the old case evidence. I always found it funny how Kevin slammed the door on Goren’s face :-p but the solution always left me like :-/. I mean, he forged a letter using paper only sold in Ireland??
So, he had a double personality, Kevin and Gabrielle ‘Gabby’ Roth. Dressed as a woman he had killed Joe leaving clues to involve Eames.
12-Passion
13-All in
14-Major case
Nichols + Wheeler + Eames.
We see Eames at her desk, she took Wheeler to the hospital when her water broke, with a ‘look’ at Ross and Nichols because they didn’t notice :-p So the case is worked by Nichols and Eames. Wheeler told her that he required “adult supervision” :lol:
Grace is found dead, cleaned with bleach and thrown in a dumpster. The murderer is a friend of Nichols, a forensic scientist who wrote books and testified various times: Henry. He tries to blame it on a guy out on parole by a fake test result.
Ross tells them : “by the way, it’s a girl”, they go “oh!” and he adds “you sent roses” :lol:
Ross wants Nichols to stop going after Henry, and adds that when they were partners he got suspended once a month. Still, they catch him anyway, luring him into falsifying more evidence. So in the end Ross let him go on..
At the end, Eames comes in saying “it’s official: Margot Jane Wheeler”. Nichols asks Eames if Wheeler knows that they solved the case and she replies “she wondered what took you so long” while the elevator doors were closing :-)
15-Alpha dog
Goren and Eames.
First thing first, what kind of thermos do they sell coffee in? Apparently, since the coffee is room temperature, it means that it was more than two hours, it was like four... I mean, four?? I thought they were simple paper cups, not powerful thermos! This is supposing the coffee went from hot to warm, but maybe it went cold.. although in that case it would have made more sense to say ‘it’s cold’ instead of ‘room temperature’... anyway, moving on.
Rich cover boy Hamp is killed. His wife did a movie called “Venefica” and she says Goren pronounce it right when he said “Venefìca”... I mean, what?!?
When they talk to Rogers about the cause of death: “detective Goren once again has an irritating way of being right” :-p the guy was suffocated.
Eames meets Stash, they worked together before she moved to major case. Now he’s working security for the man they question: Duke. A girl called Gala is also killed. Gala was an escort and Stash was in love with her.
Duke wanted Gala to expose Hamp as an addict, but it still wasn’t enough for him, he was envious that women liked Hamp so much so he killed him, and Gala too. His wife was scared at first, but when they show her Duke in the interrogation room she sees fear in his eyes and she likes the change, and will testify against him.
16-Revolution
Nichols and Eames
A banker and his ex-cop guard are killed, then a car is left to be found, with a bomb inside that Nichols finds after breaking the window. Looking at a note of a revolutionary group, Nichols comments on the language: “it could be a native Spanish speaker or German, some language where the present perfect is the same as the simple past” - Eames”you’re starting to remind me of someone” - Ross”this one is taller” :-p
They wanted to get that big capitalist as a prisoner, but things got wrong and they killed them. The FBI joins the investigation.
The German man and his girl place another bomb but without killing anyone. The girl is pissed off when she finds another woman in their house: “people do revolutions to be free and this is what free people do” is what he says. The girl kills her, and he’s angry because she was just a ‘lonely woman’, and no threat. When they catch him she runs away. Nichols interrogates him but the man’s all “I do not recognize your authority”. It turns out that the girl is his daughter, and she takes up hostages in order to free him. Nichols goes in with her dad. Truth is, the man had killed her family and taken her when she was a baby, and had raised her as his own, brainwashing her into his revolution cause. Still, he raised her and loved her as a real daughter, so he doesn’t want her to die. He tries to save her by telling her that she means more to him than the revolution, but she gets shot by snipers anyway even though she was probably about to surrender. Nichols catches her, not letting her fall because she had a bomb on her.
Alexandra Eames-Kathryn Erbe
Zachary Nichols-Jeff Goldblum
Megan Wheeler-Julianne Nicholson
Danny Ross-Eric Bogosian
Nessun commento:
Posta un commento