Dowel Jones

I know these episodes are filmed well in advance, but is it ever going to be spring in New York? Everyone looks like homeless people with all the clothes on their backs. I guess neither Maggie nor OA came from large families, else they would know that bunk beds are assembled by lifting the upper bunk up and over the pipe stands of the lower bunk. Works in reverse, too, and pregnant lady would have been freed straightaway. I didn't get Maggie's statement that " 1" below or to the left and I would be dead". The bullet would still have been stopped by the vest, but if that's the catalyst for future Maggie-less episodes, so be it. So all the wackdoodles are gathered up in front of the palace to prevent entry. Did anyone think to look around at the back door? Several months worth of MREs stored in the garage. Now I know why they're all brainwashed.

Aurora, Vermont. Which doesn't seem to exist, according to Google Maps. And not a single shoutout to maple syrup, although I did kind of like the deputy's snark at Colter's homeschooling. But only kind of. Once again, Colter shows up unannounced at a door, doesn't identify himself except with a brief "I just had some questions for you about a missing girl", and the woman not only lets him in, but lets him roam through the house. I guess it's somewhat mitigated by her being a psycho kidnapper anyway.

As long as they check the kids as baggage, it's fine. 😈😄

Right off the bat I said "How could that cart woman not see Blair Underwood step out from the corner?" That was so obvious it hurt. I've tried a few episodes now, maybe one more. I'm tired of the TV trope of incompetent detectives shown up by the outsider on the most basic of evidence. I am glad the twatwaffle ball girl got nabbed, too. Extortion is not a misdemeanor.

Plot twist: Sweet couple Sully and Daniela breathe a sigh of relief after everyone has left, and Sully says "Now we can get back to the money laundering scheme that the dope smuggling was covering up." I am always amused that during these type of shows, a totally unknown person walks up to someone else, doesn't identify themself, and proceeds to ask all manner of questions which are readily answered. Especially "Where were you last night?" To which the majority of people would answer something like "I was hanging around the corner of Piss Off and Go Away."

Yabber yabber yabber.... I almost fast forwarded through their scenes because I hate bickering. Show of hands, here - how many of you said "The deputy did it," when Mickey and Sharon drove up on the two down sheriffs and no Rudy? Rudy should have been yanked from camp and put in a prison hospital (not just the infirmary) when he was diagnosed with stage 4 cancer. You can't work on a fire crew in that condition (although he was outrunning Bode at the end there) and there's a ton of liability if they do keep him there. Ahh, Gabriella is in love again. "Let's get some water on that fire, folks! Let's knock it down!" I think you're a bit behind the power curve there, boss. Won't save much. Management should never have placed Eve up in front of the cameras. That's why you have Public Information Officers, and CDCR would have handled that situation so much better. It wasn't CalFire's fault that the inmate escaped from the camp; that would be on CDCR.

One question about the potluck dinner at the end. How long exactly can one hold onto a tray of hot lasagna while talking to everyone else?

In New Jersey? Perish the thought!

Or maybe get on the PA and announce "Free beer at the tavern next door!"

The subtitle of this episode should have been "It was at that moment that Tiffany knew she fucked up." Since the radio mikes are apparently voice activated, Jubal and Co. back in the office would hear every piece of dialogue between Tiffany and Scola, and Maggie and OA. Jubal should have stopped everyone with a direct order to stand down before they ever went in the club, but of course that would impinge on their independence. And Isobel shouldn't even bother with questioning Scola about Tiffany. "You're both on admin leave, starting right now." Army guy falls into that TV group 'Too Stupid to Live.' Sure, I'll take a package of high explosive to some guy I've never met and give it up before I see the money.

I still think her case will be settled "out of court" so the Russian Embassy will not be tied to a murder ring in the US.

What's more dangerous is the tunnel effect caused by airspace below the vehicle. That could very easily suck fire and hot air from the fire tornado through the tunnel.

Mouch, I have a job for you. Find a dictionary, and look up the definition of "grovel", because that's how much you owe Trudy. The look on his face when she took down Crazy McCrazypants was just perfect. As was Trudy. No nonsense all the way. That arson investigation might have got off to a faster start if the crews had actually done some proper overhaul at the scene. They would have found that body straight away. I did like the looks the cop gave Severide in the interrogation room when he jumped into the questioning even after she told him not to. OMG, we have a man-eater (maybe even omnivorous) on the ambulance. That, plus a little heavy drinking is setting up a big fall down the road.

Himself.😝

The problem with vigilante justice is that the perpetrator now gives carte blanche to anyone else, police or not, to do the same thing in revenge for a perceived hurt of any kind.

Plus, it is really difficult to plan a T-bone collision with that kind of force. Timing is everything.

Since the New York field office has only four agents, they have to adapt.

So the side victim was a "high value asset" in Russia. That means he was a Russian, or some allied nation, as an American citizen would not need a delicate exfiltration. Yet the DoS toady has to go notify his wife in New York. Doesn't make sense to me. Marina Koslova (does that name sound familiar? :) ) is in deep shit. The diplomatic immunity, if it exists, won't hold water now that the FBI has evidence of her activities. The Russian Embassy has to deny any knowledge of it, and they're still likely to get shut down because of all the deaths involved, regardless of proof in court. She's dead before the sun comes up. Nicely scripted episode, with only a minimum of felony stupid people involved. That construction idiot takes, what, 5 kilos of C-4 and leaves it in a parking lot to be picked up by some anonymous source who wants to blow up some tree stumps? Even his attorney is going to laugh at that story. Great security at that fundraiser at the end. After a disaster at the other facility, nobody even thinks to check around the room even before the event begins? And, I'm sorry to say, that crowd is going to look very sideways at a tall, Middle Easter-looking guy with a beard when OA and Maggie walk in. The Wall Street bombing in 1920 was a real thing. Anarchists were attacking several institutions in the wake of WWI and the "Palmer raids" instituted by the Department of Justice, and, although several suspects were identified, no one was ever arrested for the bombings.

If I remember correctly, he was planning to let her stay there overnight because it was safer. I could be wrong.

Colter: "No, I don't need any payment for this job. I did it for a friend." Translation: "I pocketed several rolls of bills of that extortion money while I was in the van. Who's gonna know?"

Well, that elevator door is going to be topic of conversation for a long time, however the Amanda crisis is resolved. He could have used a Sharpie at least, so the message could be cleaned off.

Notwithstanding the fact that the complaints against Boden had some validity, or at least would in the real world, the paramedic chief is right. Boden is overprotective of his station, to the point that eventually something will go wrong and all the growling in the world won't stop the upper management (or the media) from looking into the operations. Maybe it's just me, but my first reaction to the hazardous gas coming out of the storeroom would be to block up that door with a towel while all the patients were evacuating. I wonder if Chicago Med has dedicated parking for a 40' vehicle so that the truck crew can go inside and check on their friend. I would think that CFD would have some kind of Employee Assistance Program where Gibson could get referred to treatment without prejudice and eventually return to 51. The medical aid at the biker bar had some realism to it. Those bikers, as we learned from "Mayans MC" are very particular about their kuttes.

Not to mention shouting at the guy from 15' away, knowing that he had a deadly weapon in his hand with the intent to use it. Why not get around behind him and tackle him without warning? Obligatory chase notwithstanding, of course.

Wow. Professor Villainess sure had some fight moves. She was mopping the floor with Maggie for a bit there. That was sure a lot of ricin in those two bottles (and a lot of pressure, too), to contaminate all five floors of that building. I would have thought that a central alarm would have been faster, maybe with a public announcement that there was an active hazmat incident in progress. Most people would clear out in a hurry. Students in the lab: "She's busted? Woo hoo! No final this semester!" I don't care if the little twerp was brainwashed and radicalized. His lawyer will be lucky to get a plea deal of life without parole. A tip of the hat to James Cagney in "White Heat" with that chase scene in the refinery complex.

As soon as he said "Why would he bet on the horse if he was going to steal it?", I immediately thought, red herring. He did it to cover his tracks. But, no. Stuart must have lined up some really stupid buyers overseas if they were willing to pay big bucks for a horse without a complete medical exam. And yet another instant reaction. He was holding her left arm behind her back, and I thought 'Just swing around, pin his arm, and clobber him and/or knock the gun down', and that's what she did. It's getting hard to find good bad guys anymore. He couldn't even explain his evil plan to them, had to make it up. Possibly related to the sports delay (although mine started on time), but the show cut to commercial unexpectedly in the middle of some dialog, and then, at one point after a commercial break, there was a minute of black screen. Looks like CBS had a gremlin loose.