Longmire season 1

I liked this series a lot, the western atmosphere, Henry most of all the characters, he is my absolute favourite, but also Walt and Vic, at first, but not too much at the end because I don't like her obvious adoration for Walt. 

For a lot of episodes we keep seeing little flashbacks of Walt and Henry, regarding the mystery of Walt’s wife’s murder. Indians taking care of Walt’s wounded back, and Walt telling Henry that it was a secret not to tell Cady. 

1-Pilot  - Walt lost his wife a year ago. Case: Walt and Vic find a man dead. He was looking for an indian girl, his daughter who ran away and turned into a prostitute. Walt asks Henry’s help to talk to her, and when later hears that “if you want girls, go talk to the indian at the Red Pony” he is upset and goes to Henry asking about it, and of course he’s pretty upset too; still, later he provides informations on “the other indian at the Red Pony”. This guy gets shot while talking to Walt, and Walt gets the shooter, leaving him wounded after getting the info he wants. (Did this murderer die? Did Walt call someone to go get him? He was bleeding but I haven’t seen the wound clearly. Could he drive to find help? Did Walt really leave him there to die?) . They find the girl and they bring her back to her mother at the Reservation. They should be even now, I guess, whatever happened before between Walt and the Indian police. I loved the scene when they met Matthias and first thing first he punched Walt and Vic threw herself at him in a rage and they had to held her, she was great, a lovely scene. I already liked the actress in Battlestar Galactica, she’s good :-) . Walt finds out that his deputy Branch is running for Sheriff. 

2-The dark road - We meet Walt’s daughter. Walt speaks German! Walt asks Vic and Henry who Cady’s dating, and at the end we see that she’s dating Branch, which was not at all surprising. The case: a young girl’s body is found; she’s Mennonites, not Hamish, and Rumspringa is when they go out to see the world and decide if they want to go back or not. Walt notifies Hannah’s dad but the man doesn’t seem to care much about it “she was lost to me long ago” :-/  Walt could not notify her mother because the man wouldn’t let her talk to strangers :-/ Cyrus Brooks was a Mennonites but left at 17. Walt has known him for ten years. He drove her to work to help her, while Davis was in love with her. Hannah had scheduled to secretly meet her mom so Walt goes in her place and guess what, she didn’t know about her death because the husband had not told her! Unlike him, she cries her heart out. When Hannah’s brother found out she was working as a stripper he thought it was his duty to bring her home but she didn’t want to; she ran and he ran after her, and she fell and hit her head and died.

3-A damn shame - There’s a fire, and at first they thought that Ray had died, leaving his wife Alice and his son TJ, but he was actually running away from the mob, and faked his death. When a guy comes to the station asking where Alice is, saying that he’s Federal, Ferg tells him where to find her. He certainly wasn’t, and kept Ray’s family hostage; they get him, but Ray died trying to help, to prove he wasn’t a coward. 

4-The cancer - Two indians are found dead in a river; Henry knew one of them, Freddie Whitehawk, so he’s very touched. Great scene. A cop, Eli, is involved; he worked with Freddie growing and selling pot, but a competitor killed Freddie so Eli shot him. Another one was still around and they shoot him down, Eli and Walt.  

A woman, Lizzie, flirts with Walt, and Vic’s jealous *rollingeyes* I really like Walt and Henry’s friendship :-))  

5-Dog soldier - The disappearance of three Cheyenne children leads to discover how these children are taken from their homes for no good reason and given to white foster parents who take double money for indian children. There’s talk of an Hector, a mysterious figure that helps Cheyenne when they need him. The social worker planned the kidnappings and killed her accomplice, and although Walt has no actual proof he scares her telling her that Hector will come for her, so she prefers surrendering to him. I think the children will go back to the real parents, but I’m not 100% sure. - A woman trafficking children: disgusting :-//

6-The worst kind of hunter - Branch’s uncle is causing trouble at his retirement facility; he was sheriff once.  Henry throws a fundraiser party for Walt :-) but is not happy about Walt’s decision to go after the bear Vic’s married, and says about her husband “he doesn’t care, we fight all the time” and “he wants to move to Australia”; she hates Wyoming, but still she’s mad because he didn’t even ask

A body is found in pieces by to hikers, and it looks like he was killed by a bear. The man, Ed, 12 or 20 years a girl killed a girl, stabbed her 12 times.  Omar agrees to hunt the bear only if Vic goes with him. Vic is shot with a tranquilizer by Pete, the bear expert, who says he was aiming at the bear..  It was for vengeance: a guy (who’s that again?) who lost his job (guard?cop?warden?) because of him , put meat on him to have the bear kill him.

7-8 seconds - Vic’s called in while she was having sex with her husband :p a drunk Walt needs a ride home (seriously? drunk on beer? must be strong stuff!). He had called Lizzie from home, then he felt like he was cheating on his dead wife and hung up, and that’s why he went to the Red Pony and started drinking…  Cady feels guilty keeping her relationship secret, and when she says that maybe if Branch wasn’t competing against her dad it might be easier, he says he could quit the race! He said that and was serious, but she says no, she’d feel even more guilty, and she leaves him instead…  he says he doesn’t want them to be over.. guess he loves her..  and he probably doesn’t care all that much about being sheriff, his father does! It ends with Walt and Lizzie together at the Red Pony… I’m not sure I like her.. 

A man was badly beaten into a coma. Vic tells Walt that Branch might be sleeping with the victim’s wife because he knew about Walt being drunk, but he’s not, we know that! it’s Branch’s father (Gerald McRaney): I so don’t like Branch’s father! A kid beat that man Chris because he was having an affair with his dad; after he kid confessed his mother asked Chris if it was true about the affair… really woman? your son just told you he beat a man almost to death and you ask about the affair? 

8-An incredibly beautiful thing - Case:At a gas station the owner Ellis calls the sheriff’s office after seeing a girl, all dirty and confused, that looked scared. Later he’s found dead and Ruby is very shaken up. The place had a camera so they can see her; she had gone missing two years before in Portland. Walt asks Henry to track the fugitive’s car and Ferg goes with him and actually helps because he collects minerals and knows a lot about that. They find a cabin with a little baby in a rabbit cage. The girl Evelyn is kept prisoner with the animals. She’s called April now, and when another girl named October goes looking for the baby they catch her but have to release her. She also went missing, five years ago. When she sees the baby, she tries to get it and she stabs a social services woman, even tries to stab Cady but Branch stops her. October runs away while Branch worries about Cady; a car picks October up and hits Vic. They finally find the man of this ‘cult’, but not the women; somehow Walt figures out where to find them: the man had put them on the train tracks to be killed, but they save them :-)

Episode after episode we see bits of flashbacks on Walt’s past (did Walt kill his wife’s murderer? Does Henry know because he followed him? we’ll see)

9-Dogs, horses and indians - Walt hears shots on his radio, so he goes to help at the Reservation, and this time the Res cop seems actually glad to see them: “we could use the manpower”. They find the car and the body of the indian man Malcolm. The car is found in Walt’s territory. Matthias had actually found him already before, and had moved the car over the line to involve Walt. 

A motion had passed, at the Tribe Council, that changed the ‘percentage of blood required to be part of the tribe’!  (yeah, people are people everywhere, that’s the bitter truth :-/ ). Malcolm had decided it, wanted it, although I don’t know why or how money are involved, really don’t see how money can come out of it. 

We see Branch playing golf with his father: I really don’t like that man! - Walt finds out about Branch and Cady and confronts him, angry. Branch ‘was’ dating her for six months. Walt is furious, really mad, he says she was “dating Branch behind my back”, come on!!  He was so mad he went to check a place alone, but luckily the squad arrived :-p - Branch tells Cady he doesn’t regret a single moment, and then he says that now he can only do one of two things: either quit or beat Walt, and he’s no quitter…  

10-Unfinished business - A kid is dead, shot with an arrow. He was one of four guys that a year ago raped an indian girl but were found not guilty. When another boy is found dead, the father of one of the remaining two says that he wanted to kill the three boys that made his son rape that girl. He makes an attempt on the third boy’s life to make them believe him and protect his son, but then Rich tries to kill Jake. Walt stops him. Rich says that Jake had a gun to his head to make him rape the poor girl. Rich tries to kill himself then but Walt stops him. 

Walt wakes up on his couch, and Lizzy’s there, and when Vic and Ferg come to pick him up they see her there, and Walt’s kind of upset about that, he didn’t want them to know. Later on Vic asks Lizzy what her intentions with Walt are, and I found this so so annoying, how cliché her having a thing for her boss :-/  Lizzy asks her then. 

Vic hasn’t given Walt the gift that Lizzy brought for him. She just puts on her wedding ring and looks at the gift, but she leaves it in her desk drawer. 

Walt’s phone machine still has the voice of his wife; a year ago she was going thru chemo. 

 A Denver detective comes to talk to Walt: “we’ve found the man that killed your wife”. Before talking to him, Walt  calls Henry. Cady didn’t know that her mother had been murdered, she thought she had died of cancer. Now she knows and is hurt and angry at Walt for never telling her. 

Walt tells her that he was trying to protect her, that her mom didn’t want her to know. 

The Denver detective tells him that he found the body of the man that stabbed her, and asks him if he killed him, and Walt says no.

End of season 1

Cast:

Walt Longmire - Robert Taylor

Victoria Moretti - Katee Sackhoff

Henry StandingBear - Lou Diamond Phillips    :-D

Cady Longmire - Cassidy Freeman

Ferg - Adam Bartley

Branch Connally - Bailey Chase

Ruby - Louanne Stephens

Jacob NightHorse - A Martinez

Matthias - Zahn McClarnon

Criminal minds season 8

1 - The silencer - Abilene, Texas. While a prisoner is being transferred to a hospital, there is an accident and he escapes. The guard he kills is found with the lips sewn shut, so they wonder if the prisoner is the Silencer. It wasn’t too clear, so I’ll try: this man was deaf, then his mother had him undergo a highly experimental procedure and he started hearing, only in his head now it’s too loud and it never stops and he just can’t shut it off, and on top of that his mother was a horrible woman that should never have had children. Never a kind word in all his life, he has never spoken a single word, and the constant, loud noise kept driving him crazy. They catch him of course, and when he realizes there is no peace anywhere and there’s no other choice than put him back in prison, he shoots himself. The episode ends with a mysterious figure taking pictures of the entire team! I’m pretty sure s/he doesn’t have good intentions…

Morgan and Garcia are just back from a visit to London, where Emily works now. He was on temporary duty there. Alex Blake is the new girl. Garcia’s not talking to Kevin now, but she tries to start over and make friends with Alex. I understand her here, I love Prentiss and when things are good I wouldn’t want them to change (movie-wise of course; lots of things I’d like to change in my life :-/ ) but Alex is not bad. So far :-p

-As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say, I just watch what they do. Andrew Carnegie

-A man is known by the silence he keeps. Oliver Herford

2 - The pact - San Diego, CA. The victim, after a blow to the head, was chained to a car and dragged to death. Two women did it: the mother of a little girl that was killed, and the sister of a woman who killed herself after her baby boy was killed. They are out for a vengeance. They kill the woman responsible for Sam’s death and two of the four men who took little Kelly. The third is a psychopath who plays them around promising to take them to where the girl is buried, he even gets Ellen to shoot someone in exchange for Kelly's body, but the guy keeps playing with them and smiling until he uncovers a skull saying the rest is somewhere else, until the mother can’t take it anymore and kills him in rage with the shovel. Poor woman. 

They escape to Mexico, but when Sam’s aunt is caught, Darlene is not there, she went to get some drinks. Ellen said they killed five people, so I guess they killed all the four guys that got Kelly. When Rossi asks about Darlene Ellen protects her, she says "she's long gone" and when their eyes meet in the distance (Ellen on a police car, Darlene on a bus) they exchange smiles and nods, and Darlene escapes. It was a significant moment when Ellen saw her, and Darlene shrugged her shoulders as if apologizing for her running away, and Ellen smiles happy that she got away and nods to her approvingly. 

Rossi has an amount of 31 vacation days, but he doesn’t want to use it, he hates vacations - "how about a safari in Africa?" - "too hot" - "how about Italy?" - "too many relatives" :-p, so Alex: “if I were you I’d give your vacation days away to a colleague in need” so Rossi: “Garcia, see how many people in the Bureau have spouses in the military serving overseas”. Still he'll have to take six days he doesn't want...

-Ralph Steadman wrote: evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man’s restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.

-Paul Brown once said: if you win, say nothing, if you lose, say less.

3 - Through the looking glass - Families are abducted, kept prisoner for a few days then killed. They posted regularly pictures portraying a happy family that was only a façade.He makes them reveal their dirty secrets and make choices, and if he’s not satisfied he kills them. They manage to save the second family, though, and stop him.
The  guy kills Vanessa, the son's tutor, because the husband wouldn't say he had an affair with her, but after she's shot he understands the guy knows it all and confesses to avoid more deaths. Then he showed them Darren, the boy their daughter is in love with, and when given the choice: his life or the money, the daughter begs her to save him but she says he's a lowlife and he got her into drugs so she chooses the money saying she doesn't care if he's somebody's son... what a disgrace of a woman.
He even has the face to ask "where's my money?" and then the unsub shows her her son and says to confirm that she wants the money over her son's life... and now she regrets it.

It was a powerful scene when cheating and gambling-husband, controlling and shamely-greedy-mother and their addict-daughter were given a last chance. Kill themselves or young son/brother dies. The father could not sacrifice his wife or daughter, but mum said “it’s all my fault, do it” and when the unsub says “you won’t die for each other, you’re not a good family” or something like that, “so the boy will die” (or so the whole family will die, not sure) the woman screamed NO! and threw herself on the gun and turned it on herself and shot, believing to die, but it was a test, so it was merely loaded with blanks…

Beth tells Hotch she’s been offered a good job in New York, and he says she should take it because it’s good for her, and she thinks maybe that’s goodbye but he doesn’t want to break up at all, he says NY is not far and he can get there any chance he gets :) sweet :)

-The German author Goethe wrote: behaviour is the mirror in which everyone shows their true image

-One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others: Lewis Carroll

4 - God complex - A  man abducts men to operate on them and take their right leg, and if they don’t die in the operation he lets them go. What he tries to do is: reattach a leg. 

A man ‘walks’ with crutches into an ER with a leg that is not his own. The unsub’s a respected man with a wife that believes he experiments on mices. She has a prosthetic leg and he wanted to ‘fix her’ because he loves her, but she never wished for that.

Reid apparently has been calling regularly, for six months, a mysterious woman. He tells her that now his headaches are gone, and they have never seen each other. He calls her during the case for medical advice :-p Alex insists on asking him what's going on and he tells her that he reached out to a geneticist for his headaches and talking makes him think better and adds that he doesn't "want them to know about her" referring to Morgan and the others. Alex tells nothing and he whispers a ThankYou :)
Morgan and Garcia think she has a girlfriend but they don’t know who it is. She has a problem, and Reid tells her that his team might help her but she doesn’t want to because “I cannot let him hurt you because if he knew..” and she cries. Then she said Love You before hanging up, and he’s quite shaken by that….

-Sir Arthur Conan Doyle wrote: when a doctor does go wrong, he’s the first of criminals. He has the nerve and he has the knowledge.

-Body and soul cannot be separated for purposes of treatment for they are one and indivisible. Sick minds must be healed as well as sick bodies. Dr Jeff Miller

5 - The good Earth - La Grande, Oregon. Four men disappeared. A delusional woman sees herself sick no matter what the doctor says, and she also is super-naturalist, like: she buried her daughter, who was perfectly fine, but she saw her full of spots, because “the soil will heal you..”, and she abducted a pregnant woman to eat the placenta (mum and child were released safely) and she also abducted some men and kept them like animals in a barn. Now, I know she killed at least three… but I’m not sure about what she was doing with them… gathering their blood? Eat some parts of them believing it will heal her? The blood was to be mixed, or drank, or poured on the soil… dunno. They catch her and Blake comes up with a trick to make her surrender, just to show us how good she is, so we won’t miss Emily. 

JJ’s son Henry is scared of Halloween because it’s the time when monsters can go out and blend in, and he overheard mum and dad talk and JJ was saying that there was no end to all the monsters walking around… but at the end Henry decided to go treat or treating anyway after JJ told him he should go and figure out which monsters are real and which ones are not. Basically, he dressed up as “his favourite profiler” and came out as a little blonde version of Reid :-) so cute, it was the cutest thing :-)

-I became insane with long intervals of horrible sanity. Edgar Allan Poe

-Alfred Austin said: show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.

6 - The apprenticeship - Miami, Florida. Young prostitutes are suffocated to death. An adult murderer is teaching a teenager how to be a murderer ; the kid started out by himself torturing and killing dogs. Two psychopaths with a bond, until the kid takes a girl he knows and the other gets angry, and they fight, and the kid hits him so later the adult strangles him. The team takes him out, in the end, saving the girl. At the end, a body is found, killed like Silencer did, and there’s our mysterious figure that keeps taking pictures of them all…

Reid”were there any other victims?” - Garcia”uh actually yes but not of the human variety, in the last month six puppies have been suffocated and beaten and thank God there are no photos because I draw the line at dead dogs”

Morgan wants to teach Reid how to play baseball:-p of course he knows all the theory, so they practice :p At the end he plays with Morgan’s team, and the last winning moment is all for him, hitting and running :p and Morgan shouting You did  it! and hugging him and the whole team is there, cheering and shouting :-))

-Better than a thousand days of diligent study, is one day with a great teacher. Japanese proverb

-The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your own riches, but to reveal to him his own. Benjamin Disraeli

7 - The fallen - People are being burned and killed in Santa Monica. The unsub is killing the homeless, and at last he takes Scott and the team rushes to save him.

A victim had been there only two months, but her phone shoed only Minnesota numbers, not one from California, and Reid says: “wait, so she lived somewhere two months and didn’t make any friends? I thought that only happened to me”.

Rossi was in Vietnam in 1969, and now he meets his old sergeant, Scott. At the end Rossi tells him that he joined BAU because of him. 

Honestly I didn’t understand much about those war scenes in Rossi’s past. I understand that Marine Hernandez saved Rossi and Scott in some way, but I don’t get how. He died, but I couldn’t understand why he made that move or how it would have been had he not returned to them…

It ends with Rossi dedicating his last book to Scott and Hernandez “two men who saved me so I could save others”

-You never find yourself until you face the truth. Pearl Bailey

-I am not concerned that you have fallen. I am concerned that you arise. Abraham Lincoln

8 - The wheels on the Bus… - Fredericksburg, VA. A schoolbus full of students is abducted. The driver is killed, 14 kids are left at an isolated location that the team finds. The other 10 kids are prisoners, numbered, and sort of used for a real-life videogame. Rossi understands this right away… 

I don’t know this “Gods of combat”, if this game really exists and had a bus, gas masks, shot-collars, teams.. I was thinking more of Battle Royale, where teenagers are forced to fight to the death. 

With Kevin’s help Garcia finds the frequency the two kids are using to speak and give orders to their ‘players’, and she hacks it to interrupt it and speak to a kid [ there is also the Hunger Game’s (another Battle Royale look-alike) I volunteer! :-p ] and she helps him take the collar off. Soon the team gets there with a squad, and the kids are rescued. One of the two unsubs, two brothers obsessed with competition and with this specific videogame (learning that he was dead, his brother said: I guess I won) and two of the kids are the only ones who died: Trent, killed by a girl who was his friend but whose family had also been threatened, and the girl that the volunteer was trying to save but the now dead unsub killed her. 

Kevin is enlisted too, to help. Apparently they occasionally see each other, but are still separated.

Garcia asks him out for a drink but he has other plans, although his face shows regret. I honestly think she made a mess: she didn’t want to get married because she said she believed it would have ruined everything, and by not marrying him she has ruined everything… :-/

She then meets Rossi : R.”how you doing?”- G”have you ever had one of those days that you wanna unplug from anything? Literally?” - he has her give up to him her three phones and the tablet and says “ok, tonight you’re coming to my house, we’re gonna listen to Tony Bennett on vinyl and drink 18 year-old scotch” - G”I don’t drink scotch” - R”you’ll learn” - G”thanks” - R”anytime” 

-French novelist Jean Giraudoux said: I’m not afraid of death. It’s the stake one puts up in order to play the game of life.

-Frederick Douglas said: it is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men

9 - Magnificent light - A man who writes books and gives motivational speeches on “be who you really are and let nobody stand in your way” is the last person to see the victim alive.

The team finds out right away that the last victim had gone to see this Barry Flynn’s show. It turns out pretty quickly that he’s not the murderer: those people were actually killed by a sort of extreme ‘fan’ (Raphael Sbarge). This Carl sees things and is convinced that the people he kills are evil. 

At the end, we see the usual mysterious figure stealing Derek’s glass and hanging up more pictures on his wall.

Rossi mentions the ‘mezzaluna’ type of blade :-D :p

I know they have to close the case in 40 minutes, but seriously Garcia found Carl’s name among thousands of fans? Ok she only looked for those who live in Seattle and had had anger management issues, but come on, all the fans or superfans must for sure appear on her computer?? Anyway, it doesn’t bother me all that much (just a little bit here and there when they go too far) because it’s characters and acting performances I’m looking for in this show.

It ends with Flynn lending his car to Morgan (via Garcia) to get to a ceremony to honor Jason Ryder, his dad’s old partner, and she's there to listen to him. The mysterious figure takes Morgan's glass with his prints...

-A great deal of talent is lost to the world for the want of a little courage. Sidney Smith

-The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive but in finding something to live for. Fiodor Dostoveski  

10 - The lesson - Winslow, Arizona. Three months ago a man woke up from a coma, and is now the unsub (Brad Dourif). He wants to turn someone in his perfect marionette-exactly like the two marionettes that didn’t save his father, murdered when he was a child.

Reid is still secretly talking to this girl, who now says that she thinks her stalker has gone, because in two weeks there’s been no mail, no phone calls, and now that she thinks he’s gone she wants to meet him. Reid is scared she won’t like him.

At the end, the team goes to Rossi’s house for a drink, all but Hotchner who wants to go to NY to see Beth and Reid who goes to meet his mysterious girl, but then he sees a man sitting alone and looking around and calls her to tell her he thinks her stalker is there, and therefore not to enter. He was wrong, the man was simply waiting for a friend who was late. We see the girl’s face but he doesn’t, and we see that her gift for him is the same book he was going to give her, and when a waitress gives it to him he sees that inside she has written a quote signed Thomas Merton, the one I wrote down here.

-William Shakespeare once wrote: love looks not with the eyes but with the mind

-Thomas Merton once wrote: love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone, we find it with another

11 - Perennials - Citronelle, Alabama. Gulfport Mississippi. Pensacola, Florida. This unsub who calls his victims with different names tries to turn himself into Russell Smith, a murderer now dead 25 years. He thinks he’s Smith reincarnated, and is killing those that he believes to be Smith’s victims reincarnated.

It ends with the new mystery: after the silencer-copycat, now the mortician-exchanging-legs-copycat. “someone’s out there mimicking the crimes we’ve solved” says Morgan. Yep.

-I have never yet heard of a murderer who is not afraid of a ghost. John Philpot Curran

-The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort. Mason Cooley

12 - Zugzwang - When Reid tries to phone his lady friend, someone else is there and he’s crazy scared for her and talks to Hotch first and then to all the team. He’s so touching, like never before. This scene is very well played, when he says “please help me” his begging voice gets to you, and his “help me find her” touches your heart. It touched mine..

Garcia finds her surname quickly, not many geneticists called Maeve. I love that he doesn’t want to see her picture. :-3

Investigating, her parents tell Hotch that they suspect her fiancée (Reid didn’t know about a fiancée) and he turns out to be the man Reid had suspected to be her stalker, that time at the restaurant! He says he was stalked too, though. The solution is pretty easy: not this guy, but his new girlfriend Diane (Michelle Trachtenberg) was the stalker. 

She abducts both him and Maeve, and by this time she’s still alive. She is alive when Reid gets there too. The boyfriend is dead, and Reid tries to make a deal with her, and tells her that he wants her, not Maeve, but when Diane kisses him she understands he doesn’t love her at all. He could not fake that.

Now she’s super dangerous, and when Reid admits he would die for Maeve, Diane can’t accept that and does the worst thing, puts the gun to her head next to Maeve and when she shoots they both die. It ends right there, with Reid crying.

This was painful.

-Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tsu

13 - Magnum opus - A guy kills people to take their blood, then he uses that blood to paint. 

Two weeks have gone by and Reid has not left his flat. Garcia and JJ stop by trying to see him but he doesn't answer and doesn't open the door; Garcia only gets him to 'knock twice if he's counscious'. Morgan always gets voicemail. Morgan tries to help Reid by involving him in the case. He succeeds, and Reid comes out to help. At the end he asks their help in tidying up his place, putting aaaaaall his books back into place; Morgan JJ and Garcia help him, then hug him and leave. The last book, he puts away himself: Maeve's book.

-My blood alone remains, take it, but do not make me suffer long. Marie Antoinette

-Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go, but rather learning to start over. Nicole Sobon

14 - All that remains - One year ago a man called 911 saying “my wife is gone” and now the same man calls 911 saying “my girls are gone”, his two daughters. The police believe he killed them all, and more so when they discover how much he drinks and find out about his blackouts (and double personality). The younger daughter is found dead, the older one alive, and she accuses her dad of everything, but her behaviour is odd and JJ senses something’s wrong. Truth is: she killed her mom and her sister because she was jealous (a psychopath, they say); she says her mom loved Katie more.

-Love never dies a natural death. It dies of blindness, and terrors and betrayals. It dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings. Anais Nin

-Alan Lightman said: the tragedy of this world is that no-one is happy, wether stuck in a time of pain or joy

 15 - Broken - Austin, Texas. A gay kid was forced by his father to go to a “rehabilitation center” or whatever they called the place, a sort of prison camp, and ‘daddy’ also paid a prostitute to do it with the kid while he was present in the room, watching and judging, and shouting at him for not doing it right. Basically they broke the kid, and now that he’s all grown up he can’t accept himself. When he sleeps with a man he kills him because what they did was 'wrong', then he tries to do ‘the right thing’ and seeks out girls, but his impotence makes him angry and he kills them too. 

He eventually kills his father and his best friend gets killed by accident. He’s about to kill himself too but they convince him not to, and after his testimony the camp is finally shut down, that horrible place, and the people there are arrested. 

It ends showing that the mysterious figure has a recording of Blake’s lesson, so maybe he was in her class?

We see Blake teaching her class when a text arrives: it’s from Garcia and it reads “Avengers, assemble!” :-p

I don’t know if this counts because Rossi said it during the final showdown, to convince him he’s not an abomination at all; he said “ if you wanna live your life according to a single message go ahead but try John 13:34 instead:

-A new command I give you: love one another. As I have loved you, you must love one another

-The world breaks everyone and afterward many are stronger at the broken places. Ernest Hemingway

16 - Carbon copy - When JJ receives flowers with zugzwang written on the card, the investigation on the Replicator gets more serious. Who said that to Reid, Maeve’s stalker Diane or the Replicator? At this question they answer: if it was him then he knew about Reid’s calls, meaning he’s stalking the team

The unsub leaves a picture of Hotchner on a victim’s body. Pretty quickly they guess who he is: Donnie, a man suspected to be a murderer 15 years ago, and that was later cleared of all charges. Gideon worked on that case and caught the right guy, but Donnie’s name got to the papers and his life was ruined. Now he wants revenge. Once caught, he admits in anger of having killed those nurses, but knows nothing about the other murders, in other states. After a phone call, he kills himself. The Replicator is still out there, clearly obsessed with them

-Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Charles Caleb Colton

17 - The gathering - People with urges to kill or otherwise do horrible things, get together in a support group, where they put their fantasies into stories that will be read aloud, and this process is supposed to take the urges away. One day Peter realizes that his stories have been put into action by the man leading the group, and feels betrayed. Peter confronts Mark and then he kills him. The ep’s murderer has been murdered, and it was the first time for Peter, so now he’s struggling with it. He abducts a woman that knows him only via online chat, he takes her to the pool and eventually throws her in , all tied up to drown. The team arrives. Peter doesn’t flinch when Morgan saves the girl, he simply threatens to cut his own throat. JJ is trying to make him calm down and put down the knife, when Reid starts saying how this urges will always be in him and honestly they won’t be able to help him with that, but he still has to keep trying to fight it. Peter says “I appreciate your honesty” then slices his own throat and falls in the pool.

Hotch confronts Reid about that, and he explains: he had lied to Diane, doing what he was supposed to do, and it hadn’t worked, so now he has tried something different, sadly with the same result. His judgement is compromised because of Maeve’s death. 

Garcia meets Sam, an ex, while she was with Kevin. He’s jealous, but she is clear with him and she reminds him that “it’s no longer any of your business”. 

The episode ends with Kevin and Garcia clearing things up and stating that they want to stay friends even if the romance is no longer there (well, he has been dating other girls, so why shouldn’t she?). Garcia has invited Sam home and plays the ukulele for him (literally, no metaphores here..)

-Barbara Grizzuti Harrison once said: all acts performed in the world begin in the imagination

-Oscar Wilde said: I can resist anything except temptation 

18 - Restoration - Chicago, illinois. It’s Morgan’s city, and we meet again the detective that had suspected him. The unsub was once a kid molested by the same man that molested Morgan, so he has to talk about it to explain the molester’s MO. He even has to go to prison to talk to him, because his young friend didn’t help him, didn’t want to be a snitch, and another man dies. 

After they catch the guy, alive, Morgan speaks to the press saying that he was too one of Carl’s victims, but what happened doesn’t have to destroy you, you can become stronger and fight it. Easier said than done, one might say, but still he IS right.

After hearing the news, all the men in prison with Carl learn about what he did. It ends with Morgan receiving a call: Carl is dead.

-I am dead. Only vengeance can restore me. Terry Goodkind

-For darkness restores what light cannot repair. Joseph Brodsky

19 - Pay it forward - Bronson Springs, Colorado. In 1988 the city buried a time capsule. In 2013 it’s opened, and a head is found inside it. A man arrested for vandalism had heard of a girl being raped, and the whole thing was shut up with money. The unsub started by killing the boy responsible, then in 2013 he killed all those involved, like the journalist that did NOT write about it, then three years later he met the girl who had changed her name and married her. Now she finds out what he’s been doing and reveals the truth: she was 15 and scared, and made it up. He’s now angry at her but the team arrives, saves her and arrest him. 

-A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen. Edward De Bono

-There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now. Eugene O’Neill

20 - Alchemy - Reid is burying himself into work, and he reads lots of local newspapers, and he connects two murders that nobody else has connected. A woman lost her child and a sociopath man takes advantage of her grief and the insanity that went with it. She took men home, trying to get pregnant, because he had told her that her son would come back. They would then kill the guy and cut him to pieces. The man is arrested; the woman goes to drown herself where her son had drowned.

To help the grief, Reid lets himself fall asleep and dream of dancing with Maeve. Agent Stern is played by Claudia Christian. 

-Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams? Alfred Lord Tennyson

-JRR Tolkien wrote: I will not say do not weep, for not all tears are an evil

21 - Nanny dearest - Each year a nanny is abducted, tortured and killed and always posed on the same day. When this unsub was a child, his little sister drowned in the bathtub and the nanny was declared innocent and he never got over it. In a way it’s the same old story, over and over again, as it is always with humans: one person does something wrong and all the category gets the blame.

When they catch him, he tries to run (leaving the baby there, the baby that in his fantasy replaced his sister…) but JJ shot him twice: one hit him right on the head, she’s a great shot!

Very good the bit of scene at the end, when the little girl’s mum thanked Tara (the only victim who ever escaped him) and hugged her, and Tara finally cried.

It’s always nice to see JJ’s family, they are so cute together :-)

-Children are educated by what the grown up is and not by his talk. Carl Jung

-Alone, all alone. Nobody, but nobody can make it out here alone. Maya Angelou

22 - #6 - Downtown Detroit, Michigan. The unsub abducts a married couple and forces them to stab each other. When he finds a woman alone, without the husband, he abducts another husband alone, the ‘number six’ of the title.It turns out that number six ‘is’ the unsub.

Blake’s husband comes back with shocking news: he’s been offered a teaching position at Harvard, and got one for her too, and she doesn’t know if she’s ready to leave the BAU. Reid tells her that there will always be work, but what is rare is to find someone that makes us happy. She wants to stay at the BAU, she loves him and she'll go visit every chance she has, but she needs this job..

-We are not the same persons this year as last, nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love the changed person. W. Somerset Maugham

23 - Brothers Hotchner - Sean Hotchner calls his brother Aaron on a case. He’s a bartender now and a girl died in his club/bar/pub/whatever. At first it seems ecstasy overdose, but not to Sean. He saw the girl bleeding, from the eyes and the nose, her whole face red. People start dying, from drugs in clubs, or even at home drinking wine. 

This Sean here was kind of disgusting, talking of what his partner Thane (Sean Maguire) does very nonchalantly, as if there was nothing wrong in drugging girls to have sex with them! I call that rape :-/ How come nobody pointed that out?!?

The unsub is targeting only drug users, Thane drugged the wine to give it to girls to drink in the club, and Sean stole a box of wine from the club and sold it privately. They catch the unsub and at the end Sean shows up at Beth’s place to talk to Hotch and then is taken away in a police car.

It ends with the Replicator hacking Garcia’s computer and then we finally see his face when he’s probably on the point of killing Erin.

Garcia : “guys, I have found something stranger than a time traveling police box”, another Doctor Who reference :-D 

-Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. Richard Bach

-Cruel is the strife of brothers. Aristotle

24 - The Replicator - New York City. Erin is walking feeling very sick and then the Replicator seated her on a bench. He calls Hotch taunting him, remembering when Foyet called him and he was too late. He seats with her so she doesn’t die alone. Erin had figured out before them that the Replicator was inside the FBI and added a note on her report, an infinity symbol cut into the victim’s wrist. So the Replicator cut that symbol on her wrist. The unsub is a genius but also alone, and when he got trouble at work he snapped. He got transferred , Erin ruined his career like she did to Blake. 

He makes their helicopter crash and takes Blake. He chains her with 8 locks, and arms a bomb in there. Blake and Hotch and Reid are locked in a sort of cell. For some reason, he let them go and locked himself and Rossi in, but Rossi expected that and took countermeasures. He can get out but locks the replicator in to blow up. It ends with the funeral and the team sharing memories about Erin, together, because as they always say “that’s what families do”

Kevin is working on Garcia’s computer. 

-Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober. Not to make us sorry but wise. HG Wells

-Richard Bach wrote: the bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

End of season 8

McFarland, USA - 2015

This wasn’t bad. It was nice, one of those lovely stories based on a true one, which makes it all more precious. In the ‘Ron Clark story’ there were children studying, here there are boys running :-) It is based in McFarland, an American city were people are very poor and kids have to work a lot to help their families. Coach Jim White (Kevin Costner) moves there with his family because he lost yet another job and could only find one here. At first it seems the worst thing that could happen, there’s despair in their faces, but they have to give it a try. Soon White sees a boy running home from school and seeing how fast he is , he has an idea. He starts a cross-country team. He starts coaching seven boys of his school, meets the Diaz family, even goes to work in the fields with them to understand what their life is; slowly he makes a team out of them, and they accept him. At the end, the team wins the State Title, changing a lot for them because they all got a chance to continue their studies and have a better life. 

When the team starts winning, White finds himself having job offers from ‘better’ schools, and for a moment he seriously consider accepting it, after his daughter got hurt while she was out with the kids and other friends. His wife opposes this decision, saying that when there was trouble everybody stood in front of the girl to protect her, and that Julie would not be safer somewhere else, so at the end coach White chooses to stay at McFarland. :-)   

ITA McFarland

Dirty dancing - 2017

Just terrible. One of the worst things I’ve ever seen. Awful. Even the dancing part was terrible! If I wanted to be nice I could save only two things: Baby’s sister and the scene when Penny was giving Baby a dance lesson. Nothing more. Johnny was so plain, he had nothing of Patrick Swaize’s charisma. I didn’t like his acting, his dancing, nothing really. Baby (Abigail Breslin) was not good either. Breslin looked like she was thinking “let’s say these lines and get it over with”, no commitment whatsoever, no soul at all. Her acting was plain and the dancing… well, did she dance at all? A few poses, that’s all. I can’t even say it was bad because she made a few moves during the dance lessons, (those were bad, but one could say she hadn’t learned yet) but nothing more. She basically didn’t dance at all, we always see her face or her moving from one pose to the other. Like moving a mannequin. Then there are Baby’s parents: the actor playing her dad at least tried, but what could he do here? Their story was boring, on the verge of divorce because they hadn’t had sex in a few months and mommy was feeling ignored :-/ It’s enough that he finds himself alone at dinner once and he runs to her to cry his heart out and make peace in the bedroom. 

There is no atmosphere at the hotel, Penny and Johnny don’t look the great friends they’re supposed to be, Johnny has no expressions at all and Baby has just one. I know, after the success of Twilight apparently expressions are not so important for actors or movies, still I’d appreciate to see/feel some kind of emotions, they are not out of fashion yet, not for me.

Some things were completely changed (see parents story) and other things were so copied they were even worse, like when Johnny tried to imitate Swaize’s moves. Of course a few lines were left intact, because there can be no Dirty Dancing without Johnny saying that nobody can put Baby in a corner; its most famous line, that in the original movie was touching, in Gilmore Girls was funny,  but here it was just painful. 

Honestly in the original movie one can’t say for sure what it’ll be of the characters, because we see him come back to dance with her and the movie ends. If one thinks about it, she’ll have to go home, who knows if they’ll ever see each other again, it’s not sure that they end up together, but who cared about it, we just watched them dancing together in front of everybody and that was the important thing. Here, they decided to let us know: the scene moves to an older Frances, who just watched what we watched, and then meets Johnny after a long time. She’s married to someone else and has a child. She wrote a book about that summer that changed her and he wrote the choreography, apparently. Still, absolutely no emotions, everything’s so plain. It’s not the idea per se, it’s just that it was awful to watch. I can’t believe movies like this are finished and distributed worldwide! What a waste of time and money and space. 

Did I forget anything? I hadn’t said that this was a musical with lots of songs, everybody sang something. Now, the singing was not bad, but it was boring. Not even the music could save this terrible movie. 

The turn of the screw by Henry James

I didn’t like it much, honestly. First half was really really boring. A few people are talking about ghost stories, and a man promises to tell one, and he reads a manuscript written by a woman, a governess. She accepted the job to take care of the young nephew and niece of a rich man who had no interest in raising the children or in anything to do with them. She becomes friends with the housekeeper Mrs Grose, and is immediately charmed by little Flora. She’s surprised to receive a letter stating that the boy won’t be able to return to his school after summer vacation, but after meeting little Miles she blames the school because he seems to be as charming and adorable as Flora. Things get complicated when she sees a man first and then a woman, and talking to Mrs Grose she becomes convinced that she saw the ghosts of the previous governess Miss Jessel and of a man that used to work there. Mrs Grose describes him as a wicked man, and he and Miss Jessel had a sexual relationship, and now they’re both dead. 

She’s also sure that the children can see them too although they never say a word about it. She’s worried that the ghosts keep coming for them, that Quint wants Miles while Miss Jessel wants Flora. 

Things start moving a little in the last third of the book. Miles plays for her some mesmerizing music and she loses track of time or something, because all of a sudden she realizes she doesn’t know where Flora is, so she calls Mrs Grose and they run after her. She’s sure Flora has gone to meet Miss Jessel and sure enough they find her exactly where she knew she would be. When she sees Miss Jessel there she feels relieved thinking now Mrs Grose will see her too, but apparently the housekeeper doesn’t. They bring Flora home, and to keep her safe, away from the ghost, she tells Mrs Grose to take Flora to meet her uncle while she stays here with Miles. Somehow she thinks she has a greater chance to communicate with him. 

Now, the end is pretty strange, and I’m not sure what to think of it. She’s home talking to Miles when she sees the ghost of Quint at the window. She’s sure he’s there for Miles, and when the boy attempts to turn around and look at him, she keeps him still, looking at her, she hugs him saying that Quint will no longer have any control over him, that he’s free, and sure the ghost goes away, but then she realizes the boy is dead in her arms. 

The end. Just like that. How come the boy died? Why? What happened? Will the ghosts of Quint and Miss Jessel stick around any more? Will they try again with Flora? Nobody knows. This is how it ends. 

ITA Il giro di vite

Mistresses season 1

It’s “sex&the city”+”desperate housewives” mixed up together, losing something in the process.

I think this was an attempt to recreate the success of those two shows, failing to recreate its spirit.

There’s Joss who doesn’t want a relationship but likes sex a lot until a girl tells her how special she is and she starts a relationship with her (remember Samantha Jones? she was told she was magnificent, but the rest is the same). Mrs Perfect who loses her way, the single mom, hurt after finding out that her husband cheated on her, and the successful doctor who almost loses everything after falling in love with a married man and gets involved in a shooting…

More in details, the episodes:

1-Pilot

Karen: A psychiatrist. Her patient Tom tells her he’s very sick and doesn’t have a lot to live, and that he loves her. She loves him too so they start a love affair. After his death, his wife Elizabeth holds her hand at the funeral, and his son Sam wants to talk to her about his father’s affair.. Karen doesn’t want to talk to him, but he’s persistent. He goes to her office and tells her he’d like to meet dad’s lover to know if he hated him when he died because they had a big fight over the fact that Sam had discovered the affair. Karen goes to their house and Elizabeth tells her he wasn’t alone when he died, she was there and she helped him, he didn’t do it to himself. He had asked for her help and she did it. He had asked Karen’s help too. She tells Sam of his father’s memories of him, and denies being the mistress, of course. Sam  buys her flowers and asks her out but she refuses, of course again. 

Joss: She works in real estate. She has an affair with her boss but tells him “don’t you dare leaving her” (his wife) because she wants to be free, and as her sister says, she can’t be faithful.  He wants to buy her a house as their ‘love nest’ but she refuses. She goes to live with her sister Savy. 

April: Has a daughter, Lucy. Her husband Paul has been dead for three years, but she still thinks of him and their perfect life. She receives prank phone calls and thinks it’s Paul’s ghost telling her not to move on. Still she meets the single dad of one of Lucy’s friends and she likes him. They have a date and Joss and Savy are there to help her with the dress when Karen comes to tell them all, so the date’s off. With Savy’s help she finds out who calls her: A woman with a child. She knew Paul and had an affair with him, also a child. She shows up at April’s house to tell her. 

Savy: A lawyer. With her husband Harry, they are trying to have a baby, but the doctor tells them it’ll be difficult for him to conceive. He’s very upset and fights with her and she cries. In this fragile state, she has sex with her colleague Dominic who’s crazy about her, and then she cries at home.

2-The morning after

April: tells Savy and Karen about Paul’s son and Savy helps her with a little investigation. Paul had bought Miranda a car. Miranda asks her for money. 

Savy: is very troubled about having cheated on Harry. He apologizes to her for the fight, and she tells him she doesn’t want to have a baby.

Karen: asks Jacob’s advice then calls Sam and meets him for coffee. She tells the insurance inspector that Tom was not suicidal. Sam shows up again at her office and she bursts out “I don’t want to see you again Sam. Do you understand?” and “stop bothering me”.

3-Breaking and entering

Joss: has a new boss, Olivier, who says he speaks lots of languages and she tries a few words in Italian (:p) to get his attention but he doesn’t instantly fall for her like other men. When he texts her to meet at a restaurant she shows up dressed for a party but he only talks about work for two minutes then she has to leave her seat to another woman for another work-related-meeting.

She throws a party to sell a house.

Karen: Elizabeth tells her she’s worried about Sam because he dropped out of college. She goes to the house where she used to meet Tom and Sam comes in while she’s there. She escapes unnoticed but leaves behind her sunglasses. Sam finds them and gives them to his mom, thinking he basically told her that Tom was having an affair :-/

Savy: has a hard time working with Dominic after what happened, so she asks her boss to leave the case they’re working on together to him alone, but instead he leaves it to her, taking Dominic off the case, and he’s pretty pissed about it. She finds out she’s pregnant.

April: Richard turns her down because she has “unresolved issues” 

4-A kiss is just a kiss?

Savy: it’s official, she’s pregnant. She asks Dominic to go to Court in her place because she’s waiting for a doctor to check who the father is. 

Joss: meets her client Alex again.

April: Miranda tells her that Paul wanted to leave her, then he sends an actor to impersonate a lawyer demanding money for her child. 

Karen: Sam kisses her but she turns him down. 

5-Decisions, decisions

Savy: her husband figures out she’s pregnant just because she apparently has metal breath..  she tells him “I’m pregnant but it could not be yours” and then she tells him everything.

Karen: she hides her emotions very badly, how is it possible that they don’t guess it all?

April: sleeps with Richard

Joss: sleeps with Alex who is not just one of her men because Alex is a girl.

6-Payback

Karen: to please/help Elizabeth she turns in fake notes saying Tom was suicidal. 

April: gives Miranda a 100$ check saying she can’t do any better right now. 

Savy: tells Dominic she’s pregnant and that it’s Harry’s. Kira makes a move on Harry but he refuses.

Joss: speaks Italian again (:p). She’s very hurt when she finds out that Savy told Karen and April about her pregnancy, but not her.

7-All in

Joss: moves in with April, and has a fight with Alex. 

Savy: Harry’s colleague/friend tells him how lucky he is to have Savy who loves him so much to invest so much in his restaurant. She takes him to her firm party, but when Dominic congratulates him on the baby Harry feels mocked and punches him. 

April: sees Paul across the street and freaks out. Joss tells her to let Paul go, and in order to do so April leaves her ring on Paul’s grave, which is very silly. Symbolic too, ok, but also very silly because someone will just take it, it’s not like giving it back to Paul! Later Paul shows up at her door, alive and well. “I faked my death”.

Karen: is freaked out because Sam keeps leaving her messages and her security camera doesn’t work so she calls Anthony the insurance guy to fix it. Sam is stalking her.

8-Ultimatum

April: goes to talk to Paul, and he admits everything about Miranda and Scottie, so that’s real for sure, but he adds “I’ve been living with Miranda and Scottie this whole time” so she knew he was alive when she went to her house. Miranda came here without telling him, to scam her for money. 

She calls Karen and Savy and Savy calls Joss: they rush to April’s and she explains everything.

She has now proof that Miranda knew that Paul was alive.

Joss: Olivier asks her about Alex whom he met in the elevator, maybe interested in her, so Joss tells him she’s a lesbian. She leaves April’s home and moves in with Alex as friends, but then they make out again. Alex confesses to having “feelings” for her : “I can’t be friends with you anymore” and adds “you have no idea how incredible you are, do you?”. Alex’s friendship is so important to her that, not wanting to lose her altogether, Joss starts a relationship with her. 

Karen: finds out that Sam is Jacob’s patient now. Sam shows up at her house. He had broken into her office before and he tells her that he’s in love with her :-/ Karen goes to talk with Elizabeth about it, but finds out that Elizabeth knew she slept with Tom, and Sam hears it. 

Savy: She talks with Harry and he starts with “I love you  Savy” and she starts crying, maybe thinking he’s about to leave her. He tells her that if the baby isn’t his she’ll have to choose between him and the baby. Savy tells him she’s keeping the baby without waiting for the results of the paternity test. When she receives the results, she doesn’t open the letter but she places it in her desk drawer at work, so that we’ll have to wait. I understand, but this time it’s a little bit annoying because it doesn’t make a lot of sense, you know. The whole “I can’t deal with this right now” is nonsense here, how can she function knowing that the envelop is there but not knowing what it says? After going on and on about?

9-Guess who’s coming to dinner

Savy: Harry moved out. Jenna, her mom, comes to tell them that she’s moving to Rio. Savy and Joss have different fathers. Savy now says the paternity test doesn’t matter and she gives the letter to Joss, to keep it safe.

April: she thinks Paul went back to Florida but he’s still here, surveilling her. He wants to see Lucy. At this point April has to tell Richard about him. 

Karen: Paul shows up at her house asking her to talk to April. Karen is worried that Elizabeth might have killed Tom because she already knew of their affair, and thinks of hiring a p.i. . When told about Karen’s notes on Tom being suicidal, Elizabeth plays it shocked, like she knew nothing about it; she set Karen up. 

Joss: wanted to go to Rio with her mom, but Jenna takes Diego the bartender with her and leaves her home (they talk about Rio and Joss says Hola and Ciao …. ? )

10-Indecent proposals

Joss: is back in Savy’s house. Savy’s 37, so Joss should be 29. She plans a kinky night for Olivier’s clients: she takes them to a place where girls dance in S&M costumes…  then Olivier’s rental car arrives, and it’s a Delorean because he loves Back to the future :-) 

Savy: her firm summoned Karen for filing a false report. She can’t talk about the case with Karen. Dominic goes to work at Savy’s house but Joss tells him he’s not gonna win because Savy loves Harry. Honestly this Savy in jeans and boots looks better than the other one. She finds it hard to live on her own because she hasn’t done anything in years because Harry wanted to do everything himself.  (Come on, she’s a successful lawyer, isn’t she supposed to be organized, precise about deadlines? How could she forget her bills?)

April: tells Paul to go back to his family in Florida. Richard goes to tell Paul to leave April and Lucy alone and they fight. April goes to Paul to show him a picture book on Lucy telling him that’s all he’s gonna get and that he has to leave afterwards. 

Karen: is frustrated with Savy and the case. Elizabeth is not after money, she wants to ruin Karen. 

Sam sends her a good lawyer, then offers to alibi her for the night Tom died, then they kiss and have sex..

11-Full disclosure

Karen: she has to give her deposition. Elizabeth accuses Karen of killing Tom, and she says she was out of the house, with Sam! She asked him to alibi her and he couldn’t refuse. Her lawyer wants Jacob to lie for her to alibi her, but Karen doesn’t want him to, so she prevents him from talking and says instead that she was home alone. She tells the whole truth. 

April: April and Richard take the girls out. April and Richard make up and he suggests telling Lucy about Paul so she won’t have to lie for the rest of her life. She wants to tell her after picking her up from school, but she’s missing.

Savy: Harry just assumed that the baby wasn’t his because Savy didn’t call him, but she doesn’t know yet; Joss did not open the letter either. 

Joss: she sleeps with Olivier.

12-When one door closes

Karen: the judge dismisses the case just like that, so she’s free. She gets suspended for six months for what she did. Jacob turned her in, he’s hurt she lied to him for months and wants to end their partnership. 

Joss: after finding out that Joss slept with Olivier, Alex leaves her. Joss accuses Olivier of ruining her relationship. He’s off to Paris and she gets promoted manager but she quits instead. She gets totally drunk, Harry brings her home and she leaves him alone with Savy’s test results :-/ and later she sees that the letter is gone. Obviously. 

Savy: Dominic is to be made partner, and Savy is happy for him. She has a date with him, and it goes well, they laugh and smile :-) Savy pays for Harry’s restaurant’s debts: 25000$. 

13-I choose you

Karen: learns that Elizabeth used to be a regular in the psychiatric ward. After Sam tells Elizabeth that he slept with Karen too, she goes to Karen’s house with a gun. Tom’s last words were: I want Karen. Karen tries to call 911. Elizabeth wants to stage her suicide, but Karen opposes her, then Sam comes to her rescue, and we hear a shot. End of season.

Savy: wants to get the letter and find out who the father is, but Joss tells her that Harry stole it, then Savy drives all shaken up and gets herself in a bad car accident. At first it seems that both April: leaves Richard :-/ Paul is at Savy’s hospital to be with April, saying he’s never gonna leave her alone again, but by doing so he’s ignoring Miranda and his other son :-/ (doesn’t seem to me like he’s all that changed after all) so she sends him back to them.

Savy and the baby pulled through, which was rather incredible seeing the accident… Harry tells them to call Dominic because he’s the father, but then he tells Savy that he doesn’t care, he chooses her… then Dominic tells her that he loves her and always has.