ItCouldBeWorse

I actually thought that after deciding to become a team for scheming purposes, they were also going to decide to hook up again.

Yes, I can't think of any law firm that would an employee to try cases in NY without confirming that said employee was a member of the NY Bar, complete with registration #. At the very least, their legal malpractice carrier would require that information. Yes and yes. Augie from Covert Affairs (the plaintiff) said something early on about wanting to be "open source" but couldn't if the defendant had a patent? Does the defendant have a patent on the technology? If so, the technology would be published and wouldn't be a secret at all. That's very different from trade secret misappropriation. Also "open source" refers to software. This wasn't asoftware invention. The whole case was a mess. Let's just hope that Shae isn't Senior's secret daughter (yuck.)

Foolish for Edwin to lie to Maddy about the email; why mention it at all? She hadn't asked him. Alfie's 12, right? Hopefully at least one of them will still be in decent health for the next 6 years - it's not likes he's a toddler. And they do have relatives to act as guardians if neither of them survive that long. It really doesn't make sense to stir things up now, on the chance that his father is a perfectly fine person.

I guess the grandson was left home by himself for awhile when grandpa was in Georgia.

It was nice, but if I were a real chef, I might be annoyed at the conceit that amateur cooks could function as well as experienced restaurant line chefs (even a stoned one), as long as the head chef knows exactly what each of them is up to at every moment. They still need knife skills, sauteing skills etc. And the ability to work quickly and consistently.

I don't even understand how Mary has a recent posed picture of herself and Ceecee together. And Ceecee will soon look very different. The picture should have been of George and Mary, so that Ceecee can learn who her other grandfather was. Would Audrey really have refused to include such a picture? Mary could have offered to bring one last time she was at the house, when she must have first seen the photo album. Also, does Mary regularly invite Georgie, Mandy and Ceecee over for a (weekend) meal and they refuse to go? She knows how to cook a nice meal. Why isn't she making more of an effort to see them at her own place? Just because Missy is being difficult? Missy would probably like to see Ceecee, too.

As long as people realize that a negative stool test doesn't mean that polyps are not present.

I get that you're probably joking, but for those who don't know, (and having known people with colon cancer) I must say that "mailing your poop" is in no way equivalent to a colonoscopy, which is a visual exam that is extremely accurate at detecting polyps (and allowing removal), before they turn cancerous. Colonoscopies are performed by gastroenterologists, who generally see you before you book a procedure. Stool tests primarily look for signs that you already have cancer. If there is a family history of colorectal cancer, the current recommendation is to start colonoscopy 10 years before the age that the family member was first diagnosed. This is also recommended if the family member had significant pre-cancerous polyps. For the average person, colon cancer is extremely treatable if detected at a timely colonoscopy. Unfortunately, there are those without a known family history who will develop it early, before the recommended screening age.

Also a little dangerous for Bruce as a surgeon to risk damaging his hands (not so much using the wrenches, but he was also welding a hammer.) What insurance will pay for a person to get an elective colonoscopy 8 years early/pre-approve it the same day? Plus, the patient would need to see a gastroenterologist first.

I think Pete said he crawled from the nearest bus stop. It's a good thing he still had 1 arm. And that ghosts can't get abrasions from whatever he crawled over Weird that Isaac made a comment about John Jay stinking up a carriage when stinking up the place is exactly what Isaac does now whenever someone walks through him. Weirder that no one called him out on that. I also dislike the trope that someone loses days, weeks, or years of work when something happens to their laptop. Does anyone really save anything of importance locally anymore? If you don't trust any cloud service (Google, Microsoft, your own email), then use a flash drive. If Jay really lost "all his recipes", he was pretty careless. Presumably, they were all shrimp recipes? Perhaps not, but not because of what happened. It's still an enviable ability. It just has limitations, which he knew before he took the risk to help Thor. She was probably flattered that the "beautiful" ghost still showed interest in her.

Another tactic to avoid discovery, when actually discovered rifling through someone's drawer, is not to say "Weren't you supposed to be interviewing a witness?" Kind of a suspicious thing to say. Too bad the original recording pen wasn't linked to a specially-created email. But then, maybe Autry wouldn't have won his case? Btw, a landlord in NYC would have to be crazy to lock a tenant out. You can't do it even if they stop paying rent. The tenant can not only collect damages, it's also a misdemeanor to do so. No rational landlord would chance it for the reasons this one did. Also, how is it relevant that the tenant has a daughter in Queens he could allegedly live with (other than it provided a clue)? A tenant doesn't get points in housing court for not having near-by relatives, or lose points because he does.

The thing is, I thought Ron was perfectly fine in the way he told the patient how losing weight would probably help with his medical issue. He didn't say it rudely or contemptuously. It wasn't a good example of something Ron needed to change, even though he was prepared to really apologize to the patient. With regard to the opening, I wouldn't want the fact that I had been tested for a STD to be videoed any more than I would being informed of a positive result.

And Joanna Cassidy as Lucille.

"I've always considered myself an empathetic person, but do other people think I'm empathetic? I don't know how other people feel. Never really cared."

If it's not a friend from work (I don't remember them saying it was), then handing it over to the friend did contribute to the theft, because she wasn't watching the truck, which was her job.

Yes; when we've seen him eat, he does. I wonder what would happen if Jim asked him to get a job. (We saw him get one on the road trip.) If he can clean bathrooms at home (assuming he somehow knows what items to use where), he could do it for pay. Audrey should be able to satisfy her need to care for a baby through CeeCee, not Connor.

I don't know. I think admitting you handed over the truck to a non-employee (even without it being stolen) would be excellent grounds for termination, even if it was so you could go to the doctor. What if the driver got into an accident? They haven't had the appropriate training.

She seemed eager to take over the spa. And she certainly knows about the frogs. I wonder if she plans to use them (she didn't sign any settlement agreement.)

I rewatched. Janine said "I can't eat this" because Gregory kept talking about every ingredient, I think. He misunderstood her meaning and asked if they could go get some truffles, she said they'd talk about it, he said "Thank God!" and got up to go, she realized what he was doing and said "ok" and got up, too. They discussed paying on the way out. I don't think she was unable to eat the salad, garlic mussels and the osso bucco in red wine reduction because of the flavor; it was because of him, although I can see where her original "I can't eat this" might be confusing. What do others think?

Yes, in his glove compartment.

You may not be referring to Cole, but it's not clear to me that he could have reached over, opened his glove compartment, and injected himself while both driving and undergoing an allergic reaction, even if he had realized he'd been "poisoned".

From John McWhorter, a Columbia University linguist, which would apply to Olympia: "What people are hearing as Southern is Black English, with which white Southern English overlaps only partially. Black English has a great many traits alien to white Southern English." He discusses examples of non-Black people code-switching also. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/15/opinion/harris-code-switch.html

https://www.britannica.com/topic/code-switching

I feel that the "Howdunnit" was obvious from the start in this episode. I also don't know why Elsbeth felt Kayla was unusually wonderful in this case. She wasn't with her for the majority of the episode, and Elsbeth was the one who figured out the mustard oil/sesame oil connection, as well as how it was administered to Cole (the later of which I figured out as soon as Cole started scarfing down doughnuts on his way out of the spa.) I half expected Tom to have bugged the only phone. I turned away for a moment - how did Elspeth figure out the code to get into the frog terrarium? Was it just the 2nd or 3rd random combination she tried?

Code switching.