Dowel Jones

All the stations in my former department installed locks on the doors, or spent the money on some basic remodeling for that very reason.

That was fun, but my pet peeve is always with stupid criminals. Why did he have to walk right up to her to kill her? The pistol didn't have enough range to reach across the room?

Okay, pure fancy here; How I want The Americans to end: Philip and Elizabeth wake up in a huge overstuffed bed, somewhere in New England. In rapid succession, perky but scatterbrained housecleaner Paige comes in to complain about something, followed by irascible but warmhearted handyman Stan. In the background you can hear Oleg talking to his brothers Ivan and Ivan. Philip looks at Elizabeth and says "I just had the worst dream of my life. No fucking way." Elizabeth replies with a sigh, "Way, dude. Way."

What I would like to know is, if Casey was close enough to shore to easily rescue, why didn't someone simply strip their turnouts off and do a quick swim over to Severide and stabilize him? It probably took 10 minutes to get that ladder set up for a potentially ruinous outcome. To answer your question, FnkyChkn34, no, he wouldn't float. Once you get water in those boots, you're a boat anchor, and the heavy clothes make it that much harder to move. They would cushion his fall somewhat, though. There was an engine already at the accident scene; why didn't they set up a perimeter and block traffic, if only to allow access to the victim? Oh, I know; so Casey could rescue the clown. I did like Boden's speech, though. It's not their job to decide who is worthwhile in this world (cough-Cruz-cough). What's the deal with Stella? Is Zach the Mack trying to pimp her out to his sister? That was a very odd lead in to the upcoming story. I'm glad Sylvie stood up for the homeless guy. But, I was thinking at the time, what if the crazy woman had managed to land a swipe with the knife? They would have had to create an incident to cover the treatment, and explain to Boden, "Well, we thought this homeless guy was being assaulted in the camp, so we took the ambulance over to investigate, and it turns out that some crazy woman was there, and I more or less threatened her, and she took a swipe at me with a knife." And Boden says (with a sigh), "And your job description is?" Alright, Hermann, let's review: F is for Forget About It I is for Immediately R is for Remember What Happened- E is for Every Other Time

I would really like to see Reddington in therapy, simply for the dialogue the writers could cook up.

Bull was apparently working as an agent for the prosecution at their request, so I think the restrictions would apply. I did a quick search and found this: "You can invoke your right to have an attorney present, and until your attorney is present, the interrogation must stop." Assuming she did so on the initial arrest, as the attorney showed up, this would indicate that any future interrogation on behalf of the prosecution would have to involve her attorney.

You would think that terrorists/guerrillas worldwide would instinctively know from years of television plots that, when the Designated Badass woman in the group says she "just has to go to the bathroom right now, it's a dead giveaway that she has an escape plot already figured out. Also from years of television plots: Someone is always in on it. Start doing background as soon as the ransom demands come in, and you'll have that much more time to sell commercials. Favorite line of the night (for reasons I can't quite figure out): "I'm not a switch flipper". I have to save that one for future reference.

Would someone please explain to the writers how the Miranda warnings work? Such as, the accused is entitled to have an attorney present whenever she is being questioned? The entire sequence of questioning by Bull in the conference room would be inadmissible, as well as any leads produced from that questioning. That's basic knowledge, which this show routinely ignores in its pursuit of "the wily Dr. Bull wins again" plotlines. Is Bull a psychiatrist or a psychologist? It made mention of two PhD's that he has achieved, but neither were in the medical field, I believe. The reason I bring this up is that if he is not an MD, he has no business telling the medics in the room to give her an injection of whatever it was. And if they did follow through with it and she went into seizures, she would have one hella good case against the State of New York, as well as Bull.

I remember watching a minor movie several years, actually decades, ago, that took the premise that the culture in the early grade schools of England during that time may have created such a dislike for that class structure among some of the more disadvantaged students that they harbored sympathies for the communist cause simply out of revenge. And thus acted on it by the time they reached university. It wasn't a documentary, but rather a "what if" story.

This just made it onto Ovation TV here in the US, so it will be interesting to follow it.

I have been watching it, but I'm afraid I have to throw in the towel. It just seems like they're trying to hard to be an edgy look at soulless corporations, but it comes off as a 10 minute sketch stretched out to 30 minutes. Hope you all enjoy it.

Channeling Robert Service and Sam McGee...

Well, shucks. After reading the episode title, I was wondering how the free market could be a blacklister, and how they would ever bring it to justice (Adam Smith reference). I had to laugh when the IH woman claimed that they would never find the van in time because the superfund site was ten square miles and they could never search that large an area. Ever hear of a helicopter?

You should come out to the San Francisco Bay and drive over the Carquinez Straits Bridge (I-680). That thing scares me to this day. It's incredibly high for the ship traffic and everything around is visible. Yeah, I can see the Board of Directors at Crockpot grousing at their meeting: "WTF? We're hated by the entire country, but this show gives Jeep a full hour for their POS Wagoneer?" The reverse is also true. I have almost always been the driver, and it's somewhat unnerving to get into a passenger seat and ride around without control. Just me. Paging Quentin Tarantino...

I have to confess that as soon as I saw the line of code that said "Janet", I thought Good Janet or Bad Janet? Team Cockroach to the rescue! The government's nearly blind desire to contract with TAC for this trial, although a necessary plot device, seemed really superfluous to me. The edge is always to the prosecution in felony cases, simply because the prosecution doesn't bring a case to court unless it has enough evidence to convict. They don't risk it, albeit certain celebrity cases to the contrary, but using the excuse that the jury won't understand the evidence is just not real. I'd like to see Cable go to work for one of TAC's competitors, maybe even Bull's former flame.

1/31/18. Man who committed suicide by immolation while the FBI watched, but we covered it. We know a thing or two...

"Temporarily out of stock" on the website. Did TIU start a rush? Good for them if so.

I had forgotten about the leg. That's certainly the objective reality, but I was thinking of Kevin looking at it from his own perspective and its effect on him. Just as with Kate, if he starts to opine on this as an excuse for his life, someone needs to sit him down and explain that objective reality.

Regarding the sirens and the arrival of the fire department, keep in mind that sirens are not always audible for a long distance, especially considering topography. Engine operators are told repeatedly that, when approaching intersections, always assume that no one around you can hear the siren or see the red lights. So, a mile away and the Pearson's might not even hear the sirens yet (in real life). Also, as a former dispatcher, it takes a little time to get the information from the caller, dispatch the call, and a minute or two for the resources to get on the road. The closest ones might be involved in another call somewhere else, also, so that call goes to the next closest. Obviously, this is all speculation. It's enough that the show was written such that there would be both short and long term cause and effect from the fire. Along those lines, I wondered later whether part of Kevin's dismal post tragedy behaviors are a result of his absence from the fire, and his feeling that, if he had been there, he could have been the hero he was meant to be on the football field, and everyone's life would have been changed forever.

I guess I'm going have to look up some recipes that involve melting chocolate bars over lasagna in a crockpot.

Somewhere in the hospital scenes I remember a wall clock reading 12 midnight, so I think this is pretty accurate.

The previous episode showed the flames rushing up the stairwell quite fast. I worked in the fire department for many years before retirement, and that's not unusual. 5 minutes and some houses will be fully involved. And I'm guessing that the reason no one saw it so soon was that the neighborhood was inside their own homes watching the Super Bowl too. I remember being at my sister's house, which is on a hillside and has a large picture window overlooking the neighborhood. We were all chatting around until someone chanced to look out the window and noticed the house down the hill was on fire. As for the tv show, what I can't see is waiting around in the bedroom to be told to get out.

But, by the same token, those of us on the west coast have 3-5 pages of comments to go through even before the show ends on any given night. :)

Spanish does, with some frequency. The term for describing something that's really good is "bien padre", and the level above that is "bien padrisimo".

(Making plans to smuggle large quantities of Mars bars across the border for resale) Curses! Foiled again!