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Yeah, I meant a car ferry. Ok!

Except that he happened to have his car with him at work when William visited.

And now we know that it's within a few minutes "running distance" from Off Broadway, so definitely in NYC. Maybe some Twitter user on this board could just ask the show-runners to clarify the geography? They shouldn't have any problem revealing where everyone is located, unless it's some secret plot point?

Nice to see Data. Who babysat for Agnes while Tom went chasing his past?

Harvey actually did say something last week about the guy on the fitness committee finding someone to mentor Mike, but it was all nonsense. Also, as I recall, the NYS Committee on Character and Fitness considers you after you have finished law school (or in this case, law school and mentorship)n not before you have started the process. Here are the requirements for the First Department, which covers Manhattan and the Bronx: All applicants must file an application questionnaire, with supporting documentation. Only complete applications will be accepted for filing. A complete application consists of the application questionnaire, all required accompanying forms and supporting documentation, including two Affidavits of Good Moral Character, and Legal Employment Affidavits from every law-related position you have held, including paid or unpaid internships, summer associate positions, volunteer work in law school clinics or elsewhere. The application materials also include law school certificates for you to fill out and send to every law school you attended. The law school then fills out its portion of the form and sends it directly to the Committee. (Bolding mine.) Also, Rachel can't be compelled to testify against Mike when this whole scheme blows up, but she can certainly testify against Harvey. The Donna subplot is also pretty intolerable.

He's currently co-starring in Powerless Thursday nights on NBC.

I don't think I like Dylan being so constantly abusive to Ray. She's got some real issues there.

Yes. And Diane shouldn't wait until the night before she needed the potato costume. That actually seemed out of character. What was she planning to use for fabric if she had made it herself? Also, they seem to have retconned Bow's lack of cooking ability and absence of knowledge concerning the toaster. We have seen her make complete, healthy meals for the family many, many times after a full day of work. Ruby rarely cooks for them, and the big holiday dinner she does do turned out to be catered!

Yes, but he would have to complete a year of law school first. There's no getting past that barrier.

Kevin has a history of being quite satisfied with sleeping in the basement.

I'm not clear on why they would want to ground Kenny and Shannon. At the worst, it looks like they brought their drunk brother safely home. Why would they want to discourage them from doing that?

(1) I remember you calling it, so congrats. (2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coffee_cup_sleeve: The coffee sleeve was invented in 1991 by Jay Sorensen and patented in 1995 (under the trademarked name Java Jacket), and are now commonly utilized by coffee houses and other vendors that sell hot beverages dispensed in disposable paper cups. There are a number of patents that cover various coffee sleeves and their aspects. Other people have claimed to invent the coffee sleeve.

I know this is long, but I have to post it: http://www.nybarexam.org/eligible/eligibility.htm LAW OFFICE STUDY/CLERKSHIP New York is one of only a few jurisdictions that permits an applicant to qualify to take the bar examination on the basis of some law school study combined with law office study or clerkship. Section 520.4 of the Rules of the Court of Appeals sets forth the eligibility requirements for law office study. Interested applicants are urged to carefully review the requirements of Section 520.3 To qualify to take the bar examination on the basis of law office study under Section 520.4, the applicant must demonstrate: that applicant commenced the study of law after applicant's 18th birthday; and the applicant successfully completed the prescribed requirements of the first year of full-time study in a first degree in law program at an ABA approved law school, whether attending full-time or part-time, earning a minimum of 28 credit hours (the threshold period); that applicant thereafter studied law in a law office or offices located within New York State under the supervision of one or more attorneys admitted to practice law in New York State, for such a period of time as, together with the credit allowed pursuant to this section for attendance in an approved law school, shall aggregate four years. After carefully reviewing rule, the applicant should submit a written request for an evaluation of eligibility to the Board office. In addition to making this written request, an applicant must have his or her law school or schools submit the following directly to the board: an original and official transcript; and a written statement from an authorized official which includes verification that the applicant was in good standing, not on academic probation and was eligible to continue in its degree program at the conclusion of the threshold period and also at the conclusion of all subsequent semesters. Upon receipt of the request for an evaluation together with the required supporting documentation, the Board will determine whether the applicant meets the threshold criteria under Section 520.4 and issue a written determination in due course. If an applicant meets the threshold criteria, the Board will then determine how much credit toward the four year requirement the applicant should receive for their law school study, and notify the applicant how many weeks of law office study must be completed before the applicant may apply for the bar examination. Next, the applicant must obtain a position as a law clerk/student in a law office, and have the attorney with whom he or she is working complete and file a Certificate of Commencement of Law Office Study with the Court of Appeals. Please note: NO credit is given for any law office work that was engaged in PRIOR to the applicant's completion of the threshold period at law school OR the filing of the Certificate of Commencement. The applicant must study law in the law office for a period of four years under the supervision of an attorney who is admitted to practice law in New York . (Credit toward this four year requirement is given for successfully completed semesters in an ABA approved law school.) Once the required period of law office study is completed, the applicant is eligible to apply for the New York State bar examination. When applying for the bar examination, the applicant and the attorney or attorneys responsible for the law office study both must complete affidavits. ----------------------------------- Also, what world-class French chef accepts a call late at night to prepare a 9 course meal for 4 for the next day? Does Rachel have his cell phone number?

It's likely his school uniform.

They were born in 1980. I hope they're older than 14 in that flashback. Remember Jack and sophie are having sex. So, hopefully, they're at least 15, 16 would be better. Haven't you ever mentioned a movie more than a year after it came out? I assumed that they were in their junior or senior year since Randall's school was ranking the kids. That's usually for the purpose of college applications (although it would make more sense at the very end of junior year or at the end of first term of senior year; February of senior year is too late for college applications.) So they'd be 16 1/2 or 17 1/2.

Don't tour for more then 2 weeks max. Or, maybe tour 1 week per month.

It's completely in keeping with his character even in that state. That call was basically him on auto pilot doing another thing he knew needed to be done. He probably doesn't even remember the phone call. Remember, he asked Kevin why he had called him, even though he had placed the call? As to who was watching the kids after school, I am going to assume that since this was not a play for kids, there was a pre-arranged babysitter who was coming to the house to watch the girls (and William) in order for Beth to leave their home and meet Randall for dinner before the play. If the curtain goes up at 8, they would want to be at dinner by 5:30, and since they wouldn't want 2 cars in the city, Beth would have to allow sufficient time to take the train in (from NJ?), so she would leave home by 4. ETA what birkenstock said: I'm thinking that Randall and Beth would have arranged for a babysitter to pick the girls up after school. They already needed one since they planned to go to Kevin's play. It would have been logistically easier to make a change of plans in the morning to have the sitter pick up the girls rather than Randall leaving the city, picking up the girls, waiting for the sitter and then heading back out to the play.

I think it's pretty normal for actors to have jitters on opening night, and a television actor feeling insecure before his first Off-Broadway performance? He'd be pretty full of himself if he didn't have some jitters. I'm sure he has plenty of other issues, though.

I understand that Beth was in a rush, but couldn't she have dropped the girls at school before heading to the airport? She knew that Randall was waiting at home for the nurse to arrive. Why wouldn't she want to just get the kids to school? As to the geography of the show: We now know that Randall works in NYC, within running distance from an Off-Broadway theater. Kevin is able to easily go back and forth to Rebecca and Miguel's house from NYC. Rebecca and Miguel can easily get to the theater in NY . Kate can get from the camp in upstate NY to Toby's hotel, presumably in NYC, with time to shop, etc. Also, this was the day after Toby visited her, so wasn't he going to see her the next day at Kevin's premiere? Why did he waste time going upstate? Or was she not planning to leave camp to go to the premiere before she was asked to leave?

Please take the scene with the hospice nurse as the writers using if for moving the plot forward and NOT as reality. In hospice we deal with all stages of grief including anger which is frequently leveled at the staff. We know how to deflect it. And we do everything in our power to give a quality end of life, not denying anything if at all possible and remaining calm and controlled when people are verbally or even physically abusive. It comes with the territory. I don't understand how William got the nurse out of the house so that he could lock the door on her.

Her mother was just as anxious for Victoria to have a son as anyone else was, and certainly wasn't her confidante.

I doubt it, since he knew it wasn't accurate advice. I thought it was awful to seriously woo a married woman. Ernst's mother lost her children for taking up with a married man. Would Ernst want that to happen to the Duchess of Sutherland if she had an affair with him? Very selfish. She was smart enough not to want more than a flirtation. If Coburg was like England, people in service were not meant to have personal lives. That's why "Mrs." Jenkins, Lehzen, and Penge have never married. The downstairs marriages in Downton Abbey, a century later, were not realistic.

I guess Moana isn't Hawaiian, or she would be a citizen? Did anyone see this?: http://www.usmagazine.com/news/denis-leary-i-look-like-kellyanne-conway-w464858

Eileen knocked the mug off VP Murray's desk; it didn't break. Pat knocked over a glass at the restaurant. Yes. And then Eileen asked him if it didn't feel good. Top Chef, I think, or possibly Chopped? I recall a cooking show, although that might be the fantasy sequence from the Thanksgiving episode.

I didn't understand why he didn't ask for a day off, either. As we all have seen, Ressler's brother could live halfway 'round the world and Ressler could still make it back in the same day. Every time that a van is overturned in order to rescue/capture someone important, how do the perpetrators know that they won't kill that someone? Didn't the previews imply that Isabella Stone would be going after Liz in order to get to Red? Didn't Liz say something about that to Red himself? Wouldn't that actually make sense? Couldn't they have framed Liz for Tom's murder, or framed Agnes for both their murders or something?