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I re-watched this scene and I think Sister Julienne was supposed to be surprised by this treatment of Joyce by this patient since she had heard nothing about it from either Joyce or Sister Catherine, but instead by her reaction and words, it seemed that she was astonished to realize that racial prejudice exists. It did not help that the script had her ask Joyce if that was something she had experienced before, which was a very naive question from a woman of mature years who has witnessed that type of behavior on many occasions, as the viewers have seen. I blame the writers and the director, although they probably got what they wanted from the scene, with Joyce saying she could laugh or she could cry at the question, but instead she would do what she always tries to do and respond with dignity, saying that racism is something she encounters everywhere and in everything. I think they wanted to get to that statement by Joyce and they took a very clunky path to reach it.

I agree that it was ridiculous that Sister Julienne was flabbergasted to realize that racial prejudice exists when it's been the story line of many previous episodes involving people coming to Poplar/the East End from the Caribbean, Africa, India, Pakistan, etc. As well, there have been multiple stories that have involved religious intolerance.

If he is acting as the agent gone rogue, why not tell McGee when it was clear he was suspicious? They don't have to give him the details, just tell him to back off, the powers that be are aware, national security, blah blah blah. There are ways to say this. I don't believe that is how locality pay works for feds, that it is increased if two employees are married to each other. Isn't locality pay based on the individual and their posting, so regardless of whether Torres and Knight are married to each other or anybody else, they get the same locality pay? There are financial benefits to being married (as well as disadvantages) but this is not one of them. Accidentally going through with an actual marriage while undercover must be the NCIS equivalent of getting drunk in Vegas and realizing you got married while in that condition.

I think it could start in the lead up to the Munich Agreement, "peace in our time," when they all thought war had been averted, only to be at war less than 12 months later. Through the blitz, the relief when the worst of it seemed over, only to then have V1 and V2 bombs, and then the post-war with the establishment of the National Health Service. I agree, it would be nice to see how Dr. Turner arrived, but I also want to see Sisters Julienne, Monica Joan, and Evangelina during that time. So many potential story lines - Mosley & British fascists, Jewish refugees, the evacuation of children, Churchill, invasion fears, rationing, delivering babies in bomb shelters, midwives going out in the middle of night to a delivery during the blackout, the introduction of the miracle drug penicillin, the arrival of American troops, etc. Where's my consultant fee? 🤣

We think alike! A few years ago, I said in one of these threads that once they decide to end CTM, they should do a prequel series of the Nonnatans in 1930s/1940s East End. I was wondering whether Jenny Agutter was dealing with some health issues or perhaps she wished to do less, and they said ok, we'll write one scene per episode with you sitting at your desk.

I think a lot of the men who do not unbutton are those who are self-conscious about weight around their middle and they think keeping their jacket buttoned is hiding it. But not so much when instead of paying attending to their conversation with Stephen, we're all hoping they don't injure Stephen when the button pops off. Just wear clothes that fit (both men and women) - that is better looking than being in really tight clothes or oversized clothes.

I saw one report that said his salary is $1.6 million. So a $100K fine is just over 6% of his salary. I wouldn't be very happy about losing 6% of my salary. It's not as if he'll be in line at the food bank, but it's enough to notice, especially if it's take all at once. For the Falcons organization, I agree their fine is chump change.

LOL - if I or any other fan had behaved as Halliburton's dad, we would have been arrested and the NBA would have banned us from all arenas.

I'm an unfeeling bitch, but I believe Angie's mother received a fitting funeral service. The only thing more appropriate would have been tossing the box into the dumpster behind the crematorium. It's too bad it took a bunch of alcohol for Angie to be able to dispose of her, but at least she finally seemed resolved to be better than her mother. Of course, Angie being Angie, she immediately walked into a volatile situation and got assaulted. I wondered where Franklin was as she walked around carrying this box of human remains. He knew the situation with Angie's mother, and as her sponsor, wouldn't he realize what a stressor that would be, how it could cause Angie to relapse?

$100K fine for the coach? I guess that's his son's birthday and Christmas gifts for the rest of his life 🤣 And this just might come up in future job interviews as potential employers do a cursory background check. In other words, Google him. I suppose the league provides contact information on all prospects to every team. It's probably something the entire coaching and scouting staffs have. If the GM or head coach calls a draftee to tell them they are being picked, the OC or DC might want to follow up with a call. As well, they need contact info as they try to do UDFA deals at the close of the draft. And administrative staff need the info to connect the draftee with the PR staff and the team travel people to arrange those details when they come for rookie camp. With just how much information the teams have, it's not surprising the NFL brought the hammer down on the Falcons and the coach, given the potential for bad things to happen.

I was wondering whether the fact that the judge is dead might help Elsbeth et al. with the investigation into the 2 murders they believe he committed. Perhaps the person(s) at the lab who must have colluded with him to destroy/disappear the fanny pack would now testify about the pressure he put on them to do so. Why weren't the captain and Elsbeth wearing wires? Had their phones on record? Why did Elsbeth meet the captain and his wife at the event to take the glass? Didn't they think that she might be seen? I was expecting them to do a double fake by sending a different fanny pack to the crime lab and the real one to a private lab. I think I've seen too many similar episodes on shows of desperate people feeling there's no other option than to take the law into their own hands, since I was not at all surprised that Delia killed the judge. I was expecting it.

This episode made me wonder how long someone could live in an iron lung. I discovered there was a Texas man who died in 2024 at age 78 after more than 70 years in an iron lung. The wife's devotion to her husband was beautiful. Of course, this being Call the Midwife, we had to have the contrast with the awful man who assaulted his pregnant wife. Sometimes I think the writers assume we won't realize how wonderful Betty and Owen's relationship is unless they show us the opposite. I felt badly for Sister Catherine. My grandmother was one of a large Catholic family and she had a nephew who became a priest and two nieces who became nuns. The families were very proud of them, but it was as if they had lost them. If Catherine's family is not particularly religious, they may view it as her rejecting them rather than answering God's call.

Barryn Sorrell was a cool story. He was in Green Bay for the entire draft (he and his family thought it would be a fun experience), but he wasn't in the green room on Thursday night. He didn't think he would get picked in the first round. He watched at a hotel. He was hoping to be a day 2 pick, so was in the green room that day. He said he debated whether to leave Green Bay but decided to be there for day 3. Since he and his family were the only people in the green room, Goodell came in and spoke with him. And then he was drafted by the Packers, so the NFL did a nice thing for him, had the commissioner announce the pick, and had him come out so he could hear the crowd reaction. When the Packers called him to tell him they were picking him, they had no idea he was in Green Bay. They didn't know until they saw him with Goodell on the stage. When I heard about the son of the Falcons' assistant coach, I assumed he was 14 or 15, the age when a lot of kids would think this was a hilarious thing to do. But he is 21, old enough to think he'd know better. I wonder if the coach stepped away just for a moment or two. A lot of people set their devices with a delay of a few minutes before the screen goes black when the device is idle.

My mother, born in the mid 1920s, had a cousin who had permanent damage to her eyes due to measles, another cousin who died of diphtheria, and of course everyone was terrified of polio. Needless to say, Mom was a huge proponent of vaccination and would be horrified by the return of measles that we are seeing in the U.S. I too thought it was odd that there wasn't any questioning of the decision to have a tubal ligation, even given the fact that she had seven children. A friend of mine wanted one at the age of 28, around 1990, about 18 months after having her first child. Her husband had two children from a prior marriage and they decided three was plenty. She really had to argue for it, because her doctor thought she would regret the decision. She never did. There was no question of her husband having to give consent, although I believe she was asked what her husband thought of her decision. There were some odd cuts/jumps from scene to scene in this episode. I'm sure PBS chopped their usual 3 to 5 minutes. I'll never understand why they do this. I appreciated Sister Monica Joan's talk with Sister Catherine, acknowledging with her all that one has to give up when entering a religious life. I think with any postulant, Sisters Monica Joan and Julienne feel it is their duty to make sure there aren't any doubts before the final vows are taken. I looked up the actress who plays Sister Catherine since she looked very familiar to me. I didn't recognize any of her credits, so now I'm thinking it's because she resembles someone. Perhaps Anne Hathaway?

It was because he was in the news this week after being DFAed by the Phillies. It was the first name that came to mind!

I like seeing how excited these young men are as they are drafted. The Packers posted a couple of "My Draft Story" videos on their website. They had a fun one with TE Tucker Kraft. He had most of the town at his party for the second night of the 2023 draft since he was expected to be late 2nd or 3rd round pick and he said as the picks went on, he began to think he had the party for nothing. There was video of him sitting quietly and then glancing at his phone, totally surprised to see an incoming call from the Packers. He said he had crossed them off his list since they took TE Luke Musgrave in the second round. The look on his face when he saw the call on his phone was so cute. Then it was "yes sir, yes sir, I'd be happy to wear #85."

Derrick Harmon's mother died last night after he was drafted by the Steelers. She had been on life support. He was able to get to the hospital and tell her he had been drafted before she died. How sad for him.

It's all genetics, right? Explains why Michael Jordan's sons are perennial all-pro in the NBA . . . oh, wait a minute. For every Peyton/Eli Manning, or every Ken Griffey, Jr., there are many, many Kody Clemens.

I like the NFL making kids' wishes come true. is the green room where the players are waiting in De Pere? That is quite a long walk.

Obviously I wasn't clear, but that's what I was thinking when I asked about the reality of comatose patients waking to coherence, issuing zingers, then expiring. One other thing I wanted to mention - what a great friend Franklin is to help Angie color her comatose mother's hair. I have very close friends whose mothers were wonderful to their children (and to me) and I don't think I would immediately run to the nearest drugstore to buy hair color kits in that type of situation without a little pushback. Are you sure that's necessary? That's the priority? I have a friend who helped her husband give his mother a manicure as she was in the last hours of her life, because she was agitated by what her nails would look like when she was in her coffin at the visitation. But the mom was conscious!

They were on an island off the coast of Georgia since Faith said she and Ormewood were driving there? It would have to be a place where they would have jurisdiction. Why would they assume the killer was still on the island? What if they had a boat or canoe or kayak or jet ski or a wetsuit/flippers/oxygen tank with which to make their escape? I don't care how long it had been since Amanda had sex, I found it difficult to believe that the Amanda we've seen as the deputy director of the GBI would hook up with a potential suspect in a homicide. What if he had been the killer? Can you imagine it becoming public that she had spent the night with him and was in his room half-dressed when Faith and Ormewood came to arrest him? Since the only member of the entourage that the group met on screen was Alonso, and I didn't think they would have Amanda hook up with a killer, it had to be one of the three hotel staffers we saw, narrowed down to two when the security guy was found dead. The desk clerk provided an alibi that could be easily verified, so it had to be Lola. It was nice of the kid to wait until Will was in front of him to pull the gun from his backpack. How did he know where Will lived? Will needs better locks on his windows if that child could break in so easily. Not really a stone cold killer, since getting home to do his homework was a priority. I wonder how many years until he realizes that if he had killed Will, his mom probably would have been suspect #1? Angie's story line showed just why she's so screwed up. Did I understand correctly that her mother had been comatose for years? Does that happen often, where comatose people wake up, speak in coherent, complete sentences, and then promptly die?

Maggie Q is not how I envisioned Renee Ballard, since she is not how she is described in the books. But they changed so much from the books about Harry, his history with Eleanor, about Maddie, about Eleanor's death, about his partnership with J. Edgar, the type of person Irvin Irving was, and lots more, so I can't expect they would not do the same with Renee. I said some time ago in the Bosch thread that I have to put aside the books and realize this is a TV series that coincidentally has characters with the same name as the book characters. I wonder if the Ballard series will keep her in RHD or have her work the night shift.

There is absolutely no way Vasquez would have been near that operation to arrest her nephew. She would not have been told any details about when or where it was going to occur. She most likely would have been put on leave immediately as an investigation was conducted to determine exactly when she knew her nephew was involved in multiple felonies and when she reported that knowledge. She would have been told that any contact with her nephew or other members of her family until he was in custody could be cause for her to be fired and/or criminally charged. If she really wanted to help her nephew, she should have arrested him the minute she knew he was involved, contacted a lawyer, and told the kid to spill his guts and be the first one to get a deal. Why did the head cop call in the airship to alert them all they were under surveillance? And what kind of perimeter security is one car with two cops? What if all three of them had tried to flee out the back way?

Although we didn't see any negotiations, I assume he got some payment from Siobhan Murphy for investigating the disappearance of her family members. And he must have other paying clients in his PI business. Is Mo an employee of Harry's PI business, or just hired on when needed? Or are they partners and Mo brings in a lot of cyber security clients?

I agree. Also, Chandler's staff being so agitated over the Times pulling their endorsement seemed a bit out of date, especially with what the Times has become in recent months. Do you think the LAPD command staff and/or the DAs office will ever realize that they should keep a 24/7 surveillance on Scott Anderson? He talks more to those in the detective branches than they do.