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I'm not English, but I doubt the king could get away with arresting a cartoonist for making an anti-royalist cartoon -- and in the middle of a knighthood ceremony. And then the new knight didn't mention that the king threatened him? I don't even think he could prevent the newspaper from publishing those cartoons. This isn't Yemen or Saudi Arabia and he ain't Allah. Speaking of getting the newspaper from publishing news, no media are going to cover the smashing to bits of the memorial to the deceased monarch? I know there has to be a certain willing suspension of disbelief to watch this show, but, come on, fellows. One scene is more unreal than the next.

Speaking of the woman whom Ducky loved (and married his former friend), hadn't she and Ducky in the present times decided to keep in touch and see each other now that her husband was dead? What happened to that story line? Did she disappear with Abby's long lost brother?

Just wondering - Are the wooden stands at a high school football game surrounded by hundreds of people the most secure place to discuss EXTREMELY sensitive policy matters? If someone can hack into Air Force 1, perhaps they might also have the capability of overhearing a conversation out in the public?

I'm surprised that there are no posts yet for this episode, which I thought was one of the best of the series. Katrina had a major impact on those who lived through it and you could see that in Pride and LaSalle. I liked the reunion between Pride and the doc in the morgue. We visited NOLA two years after the storm and people were still greeting friends they had lost track of and talked to visitors about how the storm affected their lives, so I could definitely see two co-workers grateful to find that a friend had survived.

Am I the only one who thinks that perhaps the Russians planted that information at the meeting for Dimitri to find? They jail him briefly and then give him a job when he's released where he has access to highly classified information. And then they leave him alone in that room with that classified information? And then they trail him. (Unless those are CIA agents. But they probably aren't or Jill Hennessey or Super Spy Manager Dr. Arm Candy (USM, ret.) would have known why Dimitri disappeared upon arriving in Moscow.)

The Regan family is known for its arrogance, but it is usually a bit more subtle. Not tonight. Frank tells his daughter FAMILY comes first and the family business is the NYPD. Not her profession as an assistant district attorney. Not her oath as an officer of the court. No, she's from a family of police officers, so she just caves. Mrs. Buckboard said Frank sounded like a Mafia don. It's one thing to say the DA was overreaching and that quashing a few minor tickets was no big deal, but Frank should have spoken directly to his equal, the District Attorney, not dumped on his daughter. But he does blame his daughter, who is just doing the job her boss assigned her to do. Erin's family mocks her at the family birthday party. They are always putting her down for doing her job, but this was her birthday, for goodness sake.

When Professor Arm Candy brought home Olga, but told his wife - the Secretary of State - that he couldn't tell her why she was coming to their house or how he knew that she needed their help at this time, it seemed odd to me that she accepted his answer without wondering what he was involved in. Didn't question how her professor husband knew Olga was in danger. Didn't worry that this might put her own family in danger. Didn't seem too concerned that something that was so confidential might affect her position in the Cabinet, not to mention the image of the United States when it came out that the Secretary of State was harboring the daughter of someone Russia viewed as a dangerous dissident.

Hawaii 5-0 seems to be spending more time focusing on the gory and violent than in solving the actual crime of the week. I suppose most people enjoy this, because the show keeps doing it, but count me as one who doesn't. Fist fights and gun fights go on and on in painful detail (e.g., Kono's husband beaten to a pulp by the Yakusha). Then we see get to see the victims injuries in closeup details, especially in the morgue. The scene in the basement showed the best and worst examples of this. Steve fights with the criminal, but it is unusually short. We see the post-fight scene with an injured Steve explaining what happened. Then they show the latest victim's slashed body. Then the shot slowly moves up her dead body, showing the injuries in more detail. Then they slowly pan away from her body. I got it in the first shot. Didn't need to linger. Same with the body parts. Got it in the establishment shot that there were several body parts. Let the M.E. explain that they belong to several different bodies. I don't need to see all of the parts laid out. What did they expect, that we'd start reconstructing the bodies at home? Same with other morgue shots. Let the doctor explain that the victim was poisoned or show in the head or whatever. I don't need to see rotting flesh or chests cracked open.

I don't recall that they ever explained the binary code. Would one of you, please translate?

Way to go, Alicia, blurting out to Eli that the FBI were after the judge and thus blowing attorney-client privilege that you supposedly care so much about. Am I the only one who thinks that will come back to bite Eli and/or Alicia in the future? Judge will be caught up in something and to get out, mentions that he was warned about a trap by the chief of staff of the governor's wife, who just happened to be the attorney for the FBI agent trying to bribe him. Heck, maybe it will take down Peter, too. Also, since when is it legal to conduct a presidential campaign IN the governor's offices?

How stupid is Elizabeth's assistant? Sitting at home, we could see that coming a mile away that taking the photo with that skeevy looking guy was going to bite them. Aren't these assistants supposed to be the best and the brightest? Didn't the aide screw up on a previous trip, as well? Like getting arrested in a men's room or something? If I were her, I'd leave him home next trip. And while we're talking about important national issues, what is up with that blouse that Elizabeth was wearing with the material dangling from the sleeves? It looked like she was going to play flag football.

If 5-O was really working hard on Kono's case, they'd find the guy who beat up her husband and stole his money in an episode or two. Why isn't it a priority for them? The way the storyline is developing is stupid, dragging him back into a life of crime. Speaking of stupid, not only doesn't Kono ask where her husband has been for hours after leaving the hospital, but when he takes his injured hand out of a bucket of ice and puts it on her back, she doesn't notice how cold it is?

I was rather surprised that the FDNY is jealous that police officers get all the credit and love. I thought that in NYC, especially since 9/11, firefighters were considered great heroes. If anything, wouldn't the police feel that THEY are the ones not getting the love and credit? Is this a real situation or is it just the world according to Frank Reagan?

A bond court attorney substitutes in with no knowledge of the case and figures out that Selena, as a caregiver, is not allowed by state law to receive over $20,000 from the deceased, but David Lee - who deals with probate all the time - has no idea that that is the case? And the probate judge doesn't speak up about it, either?

I was wondering why they blew up the bomb INSIDE the buildings? What if there had been a bomb in the cases? Couldn't that have done significant damage to the bank and the other building? Don't they usually put a potential bomb in a bomb proof enclosure before blowing it up? Also, wasn't it dumb for the guys to go outside and search around when the bad guy was projecting Images on the wall, when another bomb could have been planted in one of the cars in the lot, just like he had done before?

For those posters who got a good laugh out of the comment about gluten free being a fad and the Jennifer Esposito connection, Esposito isn't gluten free as a fad. She has a disease - celiac disease. People with that disease have their symptoms eased by eating a gluten free diet. You may find the show's dig at Esposito funny. I don't.

I don't mind focusing on them, but for goodness sake, who needs the rest of the NYPD when all you need to stop an internationally coordinated terrorism ring are the Regan boys single handedly defeating the bad guys? (Don't they have a joint task force in NYC with several Homeland Security agencies and the NYPD? Why bother contacting them?) What thanks did the Arab-speaking man who brought the crime to their attention in the first place and the Arab looking professor/translator get? None, but they were yelled at by Danny as if they were suspects. He also mocked Muslim religion several times. (Of course, they also were disrespectful of the lap dancer who called the police to warn them, because "she was a drinker.")

I second your annoyance, slothgirl, when NCIS and NCIS NOLA are considered the primary sources for fighting terrorism. Everyone knows it's the tech geniuses at Scorpion who do that.

Does anyone else hate R&I's use of cliffhangers? Jane is shot; Jane jumps off a bridge. Maura is kidnapped. Will they survive? Of course, they will. Viewers deserve better than this. If TPTB absolutely feel they have to keep a story line going - and I wish they didn't - let it at least be that the suspect is still on the run or that we get to find out where Maura's biological mother or step-sister have been or whatever happened to Jane's other brother. But don't leave Jane or Maura in jeopardy, because we know that they'll both be fine.

The Arson Dept. said the cause was electrical wiring and now it turns out it was arson? No one thought the Arson Squad was involved when they heard that? Like, those are two very different causes.

Jennifer Boylan is still with the woman she married when she (Jennifer) was a man.

Getting tired of hearing the criticism of NOW for not speaking out on the Cosby rape accusations. Perhaps they haven't directly replied to Whoopi's idiot support of Cosby, but as far back as last November - when there were "only" 13 accusers, NOW supported the women. http://now.org/media-center/press-release/statement-from-now-vice-president-chitra-panjabi-regarding-bill-cosby-sexual-assault-allegations/

Enjoyed this episode, but I've got to say, I wish they would tone down Ruby's attitude towards Bow. She reminds me of the mother on Everyone Loves Raymond. She never has a good word to say about her daughter-in-law and her son lets her get away with it. After a while, it's no longer funny. What was funny was Bow's happy dance when it looked as if Ruby was permanently gone and Bow's imitation of her MIL.

It seems as if one NCIS agent -- or a relative or loved one of an agent -- is shot, killed, kidnapped or else is under suspicion by the authorities -- in each episode. No wonder Pride's wife divorced him. It's too dangerous to be around him. It's not much different on NCIS. Can't the writers come up with plots where the agents track down criminals when they (NCIS) aren't personally invested in the outcome? Like, I assume, the agency operates in real life?

Failing to see why so many people think this was a great episode or understanding why Frank was angry with Danny. Danny is always operating outside the lines. Frank wants everyone looking for the chief's killer, but he also doesn't want the arrest thrown out because of bad police work. Everything about this case is being intensely watched because of the prominence of the two victims. The mayor's office, the DA's office, the media all want a conviction and are making sure the cops don't screw up. Frank wants desperately to catch the perps, but he wants to be very sure Danny operates lawfully. He is angry with his son, because Danny is so righteous about circumventing the law to capture the guy that he doesn't want to listen to orders to operate legally. I would love for once to see a case lost because Danny was so full of himself that a criminal got away with a crime.