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Kate's was the mode of death I immediately thought of when they realized someone was mimicking previous deaths. I guess that one stuck with me far more than Jenny or Mike. I was never fond of either of them. I thought Abby might get in the line of fire (because that's whose face was on the screen when I thought of Kate). I was surprised it was Diane - and surprised that Gibbs didn't just shoot Sergei, since he blasted through the others. That's the second time he didn't make sure he made the killing shot. I think the headaches are bound to be more than caffeine withdrawal - because TV. No one has any symptoms of anything without it being major. Plus, Gibbs was way more rattled at the end than we've ever seen him, I think.

I was puzzled about the marine pod myself. I expected, given the emphasis, that the person who put her there would be someone who cared about her or her family. But the only one who was involved in her death who might have fit that bill (the owner of the hula place) wasn't directly involved in the clean-up. I briefly thought maybe it was so the hula club wouldn't be investigated too thoroughly - but a missing girl would still attract less attention than a murdered girl. I don't mind hearing the backstory of other characters, but they could have tied it to the story on hand -- the ME intern could have worked her way through med school working at the hula place, and known the girl, but didn't want to reveal that connection. That was a lot of emoting for someone who just reminded her of someone.

The TV Guide blurb on my cable carrier reads "Adam and Crosby must leave to tend to a crisis at their restaurant." So, did someone think "The Luncheonette" was incorrect grammatically, and edited it? Translated it into a different language, then retranslated?

I didn't even know this was coming until I saw the recap (which I didn't read until I fired up the computer and watched it online). Teared up more than once. Cynthia being called to a vocation seemed right to me - it suited her, I thought. Chummy is, as always, the best. Who wouldn't love a friend like that - so kind and steady. I had to reacquaint myself with Patsy and the newer nun. I'd forgotten about them. Though it was fun to see Vanessa Redgrave, I don't think I'll miss Jenny all that much - mostly because this is an ensemble show, even if told (originally) from her perspective. My mother grew up in a restrictive society, and not only did she not know how babies were made, she found out where babies came out when she started pushing contractions. She thought her belly button was going to open up and they'd pull the baby out. Bad time to find out. She over did the sex ed with me because of it. Many uncomfortable talks about the strangest aspects - but I got to lord it over the other kids who didn't know anything. :)

A little late to the game...the show has been piling up on my DVR for many of the reasons already stated by others. Though I still enjoy Abby and Ichabod. So, when Ichabod intoned "we shall not witness the Apocalypse on this night" did anyone else flash to Idris Elba in Pacific Rim: "Today we are canceling the Apocalypse." Actually, the whole speech works with Sleepy Hollow's theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9ULnQ2fGjE.

That was my take on it - he's "outing" himself during his last week.

In regards to the rules of resurrection, I wonder if what stays with Henry (and perhaps Adam) is something he had on him at the time of his original resurrection (like the scar from the gunshot). Maybe it has to be something metal, or enduring in some way (unlike clothes). I don't recall if he was naked after the first resurrection - and I'm not sure how the watch gets back to him - but it is the one thing he's owned all along. When I saw Burn I knew he had to be Adam, but I kept an open mind and enjoyed the reveal anyway. I thought it was possible, given the Highlander reference, that the only way an immortal could die is by the direct hand of another (not necessarily a beheading). Since Clark wasn't an immortal, that possibility still exists. "Hydrotherapy" was really something they used in asylums back in the days of Bedlam. I'm not sure if it was the same as waterboarding, but as I recall from what I've read, it was generally cold water. The cast is really starting to gel, and I enjoy each episode more than the last.

Well, to be fair, for the most part, most of our angst and truths are of our own making. That being said, what annoys me the most about Rayna is that she can't seem to spend 15 minutes without a man in her life. Deacon, Teddy, Liam, Deacon, Luke. I may be missing someone, or various iterations of Deacon. I thought evil Jeff actually showed a flash or two of regret when he shut Layla down. But then calling Teddy instead of 911 made me wonder if I'd seen it. I'm no fan of Luke (the character), but I also thought the actor did a great job with his reactions. But as some have said, the writers seem to go back and forth about how we're supposed to view him (as well as other characters). There's a difference between gradually developing a character into a complex person and throwing out contradictory traits every episode. Did anyone notice that Scarlett's hair was silky, curled and bouncy for the first part of the episode? I saw it and said "well, I guess she's in a good mood tonight." Kind of like Coach Taylor's hair in FNL.

I'd have to watch again to see if there were any missed clues about Tom's involvement - there were so many red herrings, they could have been there without my noticing it. But I don't really want to spend any more time with this group of people. A couple of things I wanted to comment on - by hiding what actually happened is far more damaging to Tom than confessing to the accident. Hiding it makes it seem like he did actually do something wrong, when it was an accident. Add guilt over his father taking the blame for murder, and he's going to be even more of an emotional wreck - at best. Also, maybe I'm mistaken, but in the first episode, didn't Danny's mother expect him to be at the soccer game? It seems to me she realized he was missing by going to the game. If Danny had quit the team months before, that doesn't make any sense. Anyone else remember?

When Romjin's character got her invite, I was strongly reminded of Harry Potter's invite to Hogwarts. The music seemed very similar to one of the Potter themes. It did feel Warehouse-ish to me, but that's not a bad thing in my opinion. Noah Wyle's character annoyed me (I hadn't seen the other movies), so I'm kind of glad he won't be around much. I've only watched the first hour so far, but I think it's worth watching a few more episodes - especially since the holiday season thins out my DVR list.

That's what I thought, Netfoot. In fact, it is what cemented him as a primary suspect, rather than just the creepy possible suspect, in my mind. I have a vague memory of the scene where they're hunting for Tom in the woods, and something Marc Solano said (I think) indicated that Danny had been hit during a camping trip. I thought it was a church/sunday school trip. But I could be wrong. Had to laugh at that, Saber5055. Though in my case, my SAH did do most of the work, but our priorities about which work should be done were VERY different. Though Vince is likely not the killer, I thought Susan's comment that he was just like his father did more than hint at inappropriate relationships with the boys (hence the sketchy look when he closed the garage door, and the Danny tattoo.) He's the one who led the charge against the old guy who killed himself - and what better way to hide his own actions? As for what could be on a computer - there are endless things, videos, photos, etc. - which could lead to exposing their secrets (related to Danny's murder or not).

I'm a little late getting to the forums, but I wanted to comment on this. My first responses to the character were that she was beautiful, a doctor, and had a great deal of dignity. During the fight scene, she seemed to handle herself pretty well. I didn't see it as "lynching" during the action, partly because I didn't think she was dead initially, and by the time I realized that, there were other distractions. However, in retrospect, I can see how Neurochick would respond to that killing as a "lynching." It was an agonizing scene - a little more graphic a strangling than I've seen in a while. I don't think it was a deliberate POC choice/issue, but I could be wrong and I can understand the reaction. This was, even for Hawaii 5-0, an exceedingly violent episode. I looked away a lot of the time - it was too realistic and gratuitous, what with Danny gleefully kneecapping the Irish guy, and the extended brutal fight scenes.

Well, if the circumstances were reversed, I wouldn't blame Joel for doing the same thing. So, in an odd sort of way, we agree (in terms of gender not factoring in to our opinion about the behavior itself). I do, respectfully, disagree about a year (or even 6 months) being a blink of an eye. I too, have been married for a long time (in my case, 30 years), and a separation that long without active attempts to reconcile and refusal to go to a counselor to fix the issues, would be a deal breaker.

I don't hate Joel at all. As I said before, they've both done things and made mistakes. In an earlier season (the first?) Joel was kissed, in the same fashion as Julia was kissed, and not only didn't tell Julia, but once she knew, expected her to be okay with the woman hanging out with Joel. Taking a step back when you're the only two involved is one thing. Taking a step back - and refusing to go to counseling - when you have a family. When you have children who will be scarred, who already have trust issues (Victor), is pretty bad. Leaving once you know it is done is one thing - but Julia wasn't the only one left hanging for a year, so were the children. Myself, I don't don't really get all the slut shaming regarding Julia. In the space of a year she had sex with three men (her husband, a fling with a teacher, and a relationship with the lawyer - unless I missed someone). Hardly sounds like she's running around messing with every man in sight. If it had been a guy, generally speaking, no one would blink at that. She and her husband were separated - by his choice - and she tried but he wouldn't address it. In my opinion, year long step back is way too much time to expect or even hope for a reconciliation. But again, I don't hate Joel, but also don't hate Julia. Most divorces have a fair amount of blame on both sides. Doesn't make either party a bad person, just people who for whatever reason, couldn't make it together.

Joel and Julia both have their share of blame. As a parent, though, it really bothers me that Camille and Zeke are more supportive of Joel than their own daughter. I don't care how wonderful Joel is, or that Julia screwed up, Joel is the one who chose to blow up their lives - not just Julia's, but their kids' lives as well. He was the one who wouldn't fight...for a year. And when Julia's moved on and come to terms with the new normal, THEN he decides well, maybe I've made a mistake? As a parent, how can you see your child and grandchildren go through that and still push for reconciliation? How very un-Braverman of them. It's like they're saying, "You're a bitch and you're lucky anyone loves you like that. Forget the last year of confusion and pain. Settle." As for the kiss at the end, I didn't read it as reconciliation. Just bittersweet nostalgia and wistfulness and a last intimacy. But if anything, the forums show that mileage varies with pretty much anything.

Mileage varies when it comes to losing childhood accents. Henry Kissinger, for instance, moved to the US when he was 15 and still has an accent as thick as if he'd only lived here a year or two.

I still like the show, but I have to admit, during one of the lab scenes I zoned out and started working out a work problem in my head. I didn't bother to back up and find out what I'd missed. That's never happened before. That being said, even if the rest of the team were technically able to be suspects - having and ACTUAL suspect work on the forensics would be catastrophic to any prosecution case, possibly even with a confession. IIRC, there was an episode that addressed that very issue - maybe even with Hodgins when he was previously a suspect - or am I confusing it with another procedural?

Since the knife was his, and we didn't see the initial struggle, I don't think he was defending Nathan. Isn't he the one who pointed Nathan toward the bearded guy in the first place? He killed the first one as a threat, because he did not want the trouble to be fixed. I'm not sure the writers creating a motivation for his character is the same as making him a patsy.

Yes, Danny and Christopher Masterson do have a strong family resemblance. I wonder if any other sibling actors have appeared on Haven.

Elsinore, the mention was when Vince and Dave were talking about the last time there was lost memory - 30 years earlier when the Colorado Kid was found dead.

I really enjoyed this episode. I love body-switching storylines in any case, and the actors all pulled it off quite well. Vince and Dave were a little harder to distinguish, but that's more because they're both crotchety and fussy, and are seldom seen individually. I liked the fact that they gave Audrey a body of her own - avoiding the ethical questions about forcing Mara out of her own body in order to save Audrey. I was pretty tired of the "I'm in here, help me!" moments. I wasn't altogether sure she WAS Audrey. I kept waiting for her to say something to make her identity clear (given the whole Lexie/Audrey storyline last season), but she didn't. With the Colorado Kid and the circumstances surrounding his death back in play, I thought it was possible she was Lucy, despite the hairstyle being the same as Audrey's. I still think it's a possibility, but I don't really think they're going to go that way.

I thought the gift was pretty great. It not only showed this guy knew Julia well enough to remember her stress food (a memory he'd kept since their college days), but by including the Cal shirt, his gift also referred to Zeke. I thought it was a very thoughtful gift, and if I'd been on the fence about a guy and he did that, that might just make up my mind. Since Zeke's surgery was basically elective at that point (he was not on the brink of death) he should have been off of the thinners for a while. My brother - who was on the brink - was kept in the hospital for nearly a week to clear the thinners from his blood before they finally performed his quadruple bypass surgery.

They definitely need to dial-back the New Orleans references. After watching Treme, which managed to incorporate the charm of the city within the dark storylines of the impact of Hurricane Katrina, NCIS: NO just seems to use a checkbox list of references to the highlights. I like Scott Bakula and think he has as much charm as Harmon - whose character is a polar opposite in terms of personality. But whoever decided that he should have a NOLA accent made the wrong decision. It doesn't even make sense for his character - who is not a native (they made reference to him being there 10 years in this ep). Whatever accent he's trying is nowhere near right. The writing was clunky, which isn't the actors' fault. I will watch it a few more times. I like the cast, so I'm hoping it shapes up.

"I wonder also about the choice to show uniformed service people having sex with the scientific staff (pun not intended), but only the females being depicted as whores." NorthstarATL, this has been bothering me for the last two shows. It is too close to a rant a relative of mine used to make about military nurses he knew in Korea. I never believed it, as I'd had years of knowing how this relative responded to women in general, and it is a common go-to insult to women who refuse someone's advances. I wonder where the writers got this tidbit. I wouldn't be surprised if the source was someone like my relative.