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  1. Was this un-aired episode featuring a Trump-like character from this season or the end of the previous season? Regardless, would it be included on the DVD? Do we know its title? Heh. So true. When they had the sister throw in the line defending Carisi because it was her brother's cigarette smoking habit that got him pinched, I figured this was to telegraph that Carisi wan't going to be the focus of any future, related arc on the subject (and that they had pretty much covered the topic to death--no pun intended?).
  2. . . . This would have explained Joan's entire season-long arc. Why was it not introduced early, or even at all? And thanks, @johntfs, for sharing that proverb. It coincidentally applies to a conversation I had with a doctor yesterday. . . . It's not like Joan constantly quotes Confucius or consults the I-Ching. She absorbed a lot of that culture from her mother, but she's also very much a modern American woman. . . . You're welcome. I was thinking more along the lines of the writers maybe having Sherlock quote the proverb at her, which would trigger an expository conversation between them that would explain Joan's motives. But anyway, I was so intrigued with the idea of such a proverb that I did a little research on it and found that it might only be a fictional trope, perhaps most famously appearing in a 1975 episode of the TV show Kung Fu (http://www.kungfu-guide.com/kftos_g.htm): If, in fact, there is no such proverb, it's interesting that in the episode the character to whom it is attributed does not actually say it. Perhaps the Kung Fu writers knew the "proverb" was itself a legend.
  3. If she doesn't get killed, Nikki getting the stamp would satisfy me, especially since Varga's henchman just took it away, so she'd have to either be very clever and/or lucky to get it. OTOH, if Nikki does get killed, I hope our last view of her is as a beautiful corpse rather than a hideous one. Excellent point! I totally missed that. Of course I suppose Nikki and Ray might have gotten out of Dodge with the stamp and the money before the henchman showed up. Or maybe Ray might have managed to kill him. Poor Ray. I bet when he was dying, his biggest regret was that he felt he had let Nikki down.
  4. This could be Nora/Sarah's future version of her mission to squelch all false hope (in her opinion) beliefs and communications of those beliefs regarding the original event. If Australia remains cut off from the rest of the world, hopeful left-behinders may believe that their loved ones are in Australia, and carrier pigeon messages have become big business in support of that (false) hope. Maybe John is gathering as many pigeons as he can too, but sending them back with fake responses from the intended receivers of those messages, just like he and Laurie were doing with the palm print readings.
  5. Sounds like a good cover story to me, but Emmit doesn't exactly think too quickly on his feet, and I get the impression that he really is "Minnesota nice" and without guile. I could be wrong, though. When he mentioned to Ray that of course he had a key since he had cosigned on the mortgage, I figured Emmit was probably just patting himself on the back for signing a piece of paper and that he might not have actually put out any money. But I think we are supposed to believe he never cheated on his wife and that he is law abiding etc. Still, my jury is still out on whether he's selfish—given his ostentatious (to me) lifestyle.
  6. Was it shot in NYC? If so, that might have had something to do with speed dial actors. I thought it might also be why many of the COW characters looked like real people, and not all Hollywood. NYC would have a lot of off-Broadway actors who haven't had "work" done for the HD screen.
  7. From 16.10 "Acid" on ION yesterday: Jack McCoy: They'll wheel me out of my retirement home to be at your parole hearings.
  8. That rings true with my memory too. I'm guessing Stacey knows Mike has a stash of cash but not where it is, and she's hoping he'll soon depart this world, and the money will be hers. I don't think she plans to hurry along his demise, just that she thinks he's old. In the mean time, she's keeping up the relationship. Given their chilly relationship in the rapidly approaching BrBa world, I'm guessing Mike soon discovers that Stacey has no respect for him and/or just can't stand him, and maybe she's even a negligent mother. But I'm just riffing here, so Stacey might be a terrific mom and DIL, and, if so, I apologize for character assassination.
  9. I was thinking Emmit and Nikki might wind up riding off into the sunset together.
  10. I'm not sure what the point was. He might have been thinking that the short skirt would attract rapists without thinking it was immoral for her to wear it. After all, he was doing everything he could to prevent being killed for being gay while accepting his own non-Islam-approved gender identity, so maybe he just thought she should take a similar degree of protective measures, but he would have been accepting of, for instance, if she decided to have a sexual relationship with someone outside of marriage. He did sort of walk back the skirt comment right after it was out of his mouth.
  11. I guess they decided to write him off as the point to a PSA on the dangers of tobacco addiction? —with maybe a sprinkling of instant karma for his crack about his sister's short skirt?
  12. Did Joan know the details of Shinwell's beating of Sherlock, i.e., that he had a bottle broken on the back of his head? This would have explained Joan's entire season-long arc. Why was it not introduced early, or even at all? And thanks, @johntfs, for sharing that proverb. It coincidentally applies to a conversation I had with a doctor yesterday.
  13. Of course, on a show like this, they could just "bring back" her [Madeline Zima] doppelgänger.
  14. No kidding. We are so far beyond a little artsy blood on the snow— more like what I imagine chainsaw massacre territory looks like. I wonder if the writers and/or directors were influenced by world and/or family trauma at the time of writing and/or filming.
  15. Perhaps it is confirmation that the Kevins Sr and Jr supernaturally communicated through a TV, but I think that's also a pretty common hallucination for schizophrenics to have, and schizophrenia has a genetic component, and Kevin Sr was actually diagnosed (right?), and Kevin Jr seems to be that way too. Uh oh. Thinking of how Lost ended with the Occam's Razor-ish of it all being Jack's dying thoughts after the crash, and now I'm wondering if this will all turn out to be Kevin Jr's first schizophrenic meltdown, and maybe he did kill some people, or it happened while he was engaged in extramarital sex, or. . .? The people dressed in white could be hospital orderlies, doctors, patients, nurses, custodians, etc. Matt and John could be fellow patients. I hope I'm wrong.
  16. Quite likely. And then it seems it's been Sy whispering in Emmit's ear all these years —whenever Emmit wants to help Ray—telling Emmit that Ray already got his portion. Thanks for this explanation, @AzureOwl, it actually makes sense to me, because I keep thinking everyone (including Ray) has learned the $9,999 rule from Lenny Briscoe or some other L&O-type.
  17. Jimmy's tears reminded me of the Friends episode in which Joey reveals that his secret to crying on cue is to have something like a safety pin in his pocket with which to stab himself. I wonder if Jimmy supported Chuck's "illness" for so long because it was Chuck's con?
  18. One more reason for Kevin Jr to be wonky: He and his father may be suffering from schizophrenia, which is pretty debilitating in the real world, but would be even more confusing in a world where it was no longer so simple to diagnose a break with reality.
  19. Which starred Matthew Lillard as the reporter —who really should have some awards by now, right? More of his character could save this. Too bad they offed Madeline Zima in the opening 2 hours. She really has a Twin Peaks vibe. I watched the original for the first time a few years ago,(1) and watching this reminded me of the excellence of the first season but not the second. IIRC, Lynch said in interviews it wasn't supposed to have a second season. While I can appreciate that he happened upon some original, creative bits in the second season and subsequent movie that he felt were worth using in this sequel, a little more structure might not have been a bad thing. Not sure if I can stick with this. Note to others without the requisite subscription: Nearly every library—public or academic—has the DVDs of the 1990s available for check out.
  20. I believe that suicide was Laurie's intent in the scuba scene, but on this show, one never knows, and in scifi in general: No body, no death certified.
  21. I hope Laurie was able to figure out (inspite of it being impossible) the correct dose to knock them out until the day after the 7-year anniversary (assuming that they wouldn't water board Kevin after the anniversary). If that wasn't Chekhov's don't-forget-me lighter, is there a correct term for that kind of plot device?
  22. I was sorry back when Eli Stone was canceled, but I really don't want to see that show reincarnated into Elementary (with Sherlock having an aneurysm or brain tumor).
  23. Loved the doggie smile. Liked the final scene a lot. Not sure what to think of the fleeting Dimitri-Stevie chemistry while Jareth waits in the car.
  24. The only way for the news reporter to convey the comma would be with a pause, which might make it seem like a SNL bit —not that there's anything wrong with that.
  25. Will David Burton also rise from the dead again? —If so, I hope we get to see Matt seeing David Burton. But I doubt we'll even find out why DB threw the nameless guy overboard to his death.
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