shapeshifter

The female counselor is going to likely get 25 to life for hot-shotting the evil Rehab House manager. The manager is dead. If she hadn't killed him, Barba was going to bring him up on RICO charges. But, yes, there's still a manager of the halfway house. I think off-screen he too will be part of Barba's RICO case.

It's now been so long—are there any relatively recent interviews or blog posts with/by the cousins? Or how about the "friends" who initially were shown in this show to have known of the abuse years prior to the murders? Have they said anything else about it? I'm guessing not, or it would be in the show. So are there non-disclosure agreements in place? If so, what was the reward for signing them? The show seems to want to retry the case with the audience being the jury, but we still don't have enough information to form an opinion.

I still don't quite get what happened to the victim. Was the opening scene a flashback to her being hauled back to Evil Rich Rehab? Or was it just before she died? Who dumped the body? Sorry, and thanks in advance for filling me in. I really wasn't sleeping this time.

Yes, but you can't get un-raped.

It seemed the takeaway was that Obamacare was turning the opioid epidemic into open season for greedy institutions preying on unsuspecting parents seeking rehab for their kids. And it came out of Barba's mouth. Has this show always been this way and I'm just noticing it now? Or is there some way I misinterpreted? Meanwhile back at the Benoah place, am I the only one left wondering how many episodes before Granny's true nature is revealed when she's alone with Noah and he's having a bad day?

So it sounds like it wasn't illegal for them to make use of the devices—rather the law of one call (I guess?) hadn't caught up with the technology. It is interesting.

IDK, I'd like to see a followup episode in which Scorpion has to save the world from something that the Brits could have easily prevented if they still had the satellite.

I guess many people are more comfortable with any explanation other than that kind of abuse. They just don't want to believe it exists. I can understand someone not being able to accept the existence of parents sexually assaulting their sons, but it's really unfortunate that those people weren't excluded from the jury of the trial because the parents weren't on trial.

Ooo, I hadn't thought of that. So it could end with Dmitri being an innocent suspect who discovers the real mole, and then Dmitri reveals his true identity to the mole in an effort to flush out the mole, which works, but just as Dmitri is about to reveal the real mole, Dmitri is killed. Dimitri is posthumously, secretly honored. Stevie weaps. See? We could write plots at least as badly convoluted as the guys in Hollywood.

If I was on the writing team, I would be unable to resist pitching Senator Asshole getting hit by a literal bus to provide a moment of literary humor when his fate/karma is revealed.

So can we say: Only On TV (commericals) did anyone ever need a Sports Walkman?

Based on the way the camera focused on Sylvester indentifying with the new neighbor, I presume they are destined to be OTP. All of that super stressful human-rat contact and nobody got bit? Unlikely.

2.2 was a little heavier than I want from my feel good show, but given the show's location and characters, it needed to be adressed.

At the very least, there should have been a few lines out of Prof. Ethical's mouth with Bess or another confident about how lying to Dimitri to manipulate him goes against everything Henry believes in.

To me it seemed like foreshadowing that Matt will soon have Jay's job.

Yes. Here's a relatively current post on the "half tuck": https://jonesdesigncompany.com/fashion/doing-the-half-tuck-how-to-wear-your-shirt/ And here's a slightly different definition of the "half tuck" and the "front tuck" from 2013 (perhaps the origin of the trend?): http://www.whowhatwear.com/how-to-tuck-your-shirt-like-a-street-style-pro/slide15 This was around the same time tops began appearing that were longer in the back, which I also thought was odd, but now I see as a means of covering the butt, I guess. ETA: Since the 2013 posting refers to the trend as "street style," I now suspect the origin of the look was with those who had a gun in the rear waistband, concealed by a shirttail; tucking in the front—especially the side of one's dominant hand—would make it easier to grab the gun in a hurry. Of course, this style of utility would also work for a cellphone, wallet, or ID kept in the back pocket, but 40 years after the last time I had to walk through sketchy neighborhoods on a regular basis, I still keep anything of value in my front pocket. About the black bra...I haven't Googled it, but I noticed when wearing a thin, light colored blouse that a light gray or tan camisole doesn't accentuate the shape of the breasts the way white does, so maybe the black bra is an extension of that concept?

I'd rather just have Penny be Professor Proton. It would feel like a nice bookend to the series for her character to me.

Yes. Thank you. Modern day version of The Emperor's New Clothes, and, of course, in this era, every child gets a trophy for participating. WTH was that? And speaking of WTH?, is Dmitri just acting shady to be a red herring? What was up with that mouse-sized blanket? I'm half expecting there to be a microphone knitted into it, except I think the guy he casually handed it to tossed it aside. And was Ross from Friends baby's mother's lover a.k.a. Gretchen from Breaking Bad a.k.a. a frickin' child slave trafficker from an episode of Law & Order, or, IRL, actress Jessica Hecht (can't recall her character's name in this episode) just a foolish lonely lovesick woman, or was she the Second Coming of the middle aged, female, strategically posted-overseas spy on this show? 'Cause I thought we already did that plot in an earlier season.

Since you asked: One is a Discman. Two or more are Discmans.

It's beautiful, @2727! I think mine was pink, or maybe green. I would use it to listen to oldies from the 50s under the covers at night. Did Patty Duke or Gidget do that?

7.12, "Contract" (2008), just aired on ION. After a caper of red herrings, the mastermind of the murder turned out to be a background character named Barry Freeburg—a studio exec and casting couch sleaze played by the real-life sweetheart, Jeff Garlin, who coincidentally happens to physically resemble Harvey Weinstein. FWIW, the casting for the episode—as well as 67 other L&O CI episodes—is credited to Kimberly Hope (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1661736/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr20).

Now that it is clear that Angela is just using Elliot, her emotionless face makes sense to me. And I guess she doesn't know or doesn't care that White Rose is using her. My only fansplain is that Esmail wrote them out to tighten the focus of the story.

Probably because I only slogged through most of the books as a young adult because it was the cool thing to do, I read the above as: What "would help distinguish it... Season 1 would be the 4 hobbits going from the Shire to Riverdale..."

And/or Darlene thinks she's going to get Elliot killed and wants him to know in that moment that she (intends) to get revenge.

I forgot that.