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Well, he was cranky but couldn’t let children die. Plus I think that nurse (forgot her name) wore him down by not putting up with his BS.

I think they are talking about the Foster care system, and how it would be difficult to find foster parents for a disabled child. The only other alternative was to go straight into the orphanage, which is what they eventually did. Lots of different plots tonight. They seemed to have their hands full with the spina bifida case and the home alone children and curmudgeon downstairs, only to suddenly have Trixie facing the board as well! She did a masterful job, smilingly facing down their condescension with facts. Not to mention the pigeon!

Considering that he made a lot of hollandaise sauce, maybe it was the “heart attack“ station.

I felt a little better when they said that octopus is often frozen and that it’s often more tender than fresh. I eat and cook a lot of Indian food and hollandaise sauce does not belong, especially when there was already another sauce. Vinny just talked her into it.

That third place was so perfect, I knew they would have to make up something to add even a little suspense. So they had the wife pretend to like the loft apartment with the bathroom on a different floor from the too low loft bedroom. They were both laughing when they discussed it. Then…surprise…they chose the perfect place.

Betty might have pawed at her mouth before the stitches healed.

I could not believe the stupidity of this episode. Gah! Maybe the whole thing was an April Fool’s prank on US!

I had to laugh out loud when Manuelito suggests that the tankers (or some of them) could be full of cocaine instead of oil. Damn! We’re talking $billions here! Totally ridiculous. I’m thinking a small compartment built into a tanker otherwise filled with oil. I’m not sure how tankers could be used for human trafficking, which was her original idea. I suppose if it were completely cleaned out, people could fit in there, but it just doesn’t seem practical. And it would only take one peek by an inspector to see that the tanker wasn’t full of oil.

I actually googled BJ Vines because his name is familiar. There is a minor character by that name in one of the books, as it turns out, but this plot does not exist. I also suspect roommate with the smiley cup. That alone puts her in my crosshairs.

No…the books aren’t gory like this at all, and the characters are completely different.

I hope that the home they sent Paula to was better than those horrific Irish ones which existed until fairly recently. Interesting that the father came around and not the mother. I’ve read about that so often, that the mother is harder on her child than the father, when one would think she would have more compassion, being a female herself. I’m seeing a hint of romance between Cyril and Rosalind, but I know he is too morally upright to do anything while he is still married to the long absent Lucille. I wish they would resolve that story line and let the poor man move on. So was the Isle of Dogs story something that happened, historically? As an American, I’ve barely ever heard of The Isle of Dogs, no less that it seceded from England! So, did we miss much on this side of the pond? There are always missing scenes that we don’t get to see. Edited to add that according to Wikipedia, the secession of The Isle of Dogs wasn’t 100% serious and didn’t last very long, by some accounts only a couple of hours, and by others, up to a week. But it did really happen.

The floors in the “ice rink” weren’t slippery. The chefs put paper booties on so that they could “skate.”

Baking is a science. You can’t just throw things in at random and expect it to turn out properly. Did they not have an ice cream machine? Massimo’s ice cream didn’t freeze before he tried the liquid nitrogen, but I’ve never seen liquid nitrogen fail before. I don’t know what he did wrong. And Anya froze her ice cream in molds, so of course they turned out like bricks. Ice cream has to be aerated as it freezes or it freezes solid. She melted and tried to refreeze it. Maybe liquid nitrogen could have helped her. I honestly don’t know what I would have done if I’d chosen licorice as an ingredient. I hate it with a passion. But I did think Katiana could have used fennel in her broth to get licorice flavor, since she was having trouble with the licorice root. But what do I know? She won!

I think both Leaphorn and Emma think that it was. He’s been suffering intense guilt since he did it. I’m not sure what a judge would think.

I think Leaphorn is suffering from Ghost sickness and he needs a healing ceremony. He isn’t really a believer, or he wasn’t in the books, but I think his symptoms might be convincing him. If course he’s also guilty of murder, and I’m not sure how he can reconcile that.