Dowel Jones

That was a pretty badass trick, rappelling off a bridge and landing, unscathed, on a train traveling at least 40mph. Not to mention they all went off the bridge parallel to the bridge and perpendicular to the train, meaning that two would be wide of the intended car. Now, six carloads of whatever dimethyl ethyl killusol and they have only two guards? Who get caught slackjawed when the hatch opens up? Tsk tsk. Poor McGrath henchman. Didn't get too much to do, unfortunately. Are they implying that Kirk intends to drain baby Agnes all at once, a la The Last Ship? Because, aside from being off the charts sordid, it would be mostly ineffective. As they said, the serum is good only for a few years. Or, is he going to take just a bit to create that serum every week or so? With all that money and sidekicks available, I would think he would revert back to plan A and kidnap Liz and store her away.

Shoot. I had it down as Thief B. Well, anyway...(tips hat).

In addition, phone calls from prison are usually collect, as the state isn't going to foot the bill. You have to be a bit stupid to take abuse on a collect call.

The main thing to remember about the rules of baseball is that the most common word in the rulebook is "except". A third strike and you're out, except when the catcher drops the ball; A pop fly in the infield is playable except when there are two runners in force positions; and so on. I thought MLB rosters were limited to 25. If Ginny is brought up, wouldn't someone, likely the injured pitcher have to be sent down? I get that he's disabled, but in that case he shouldn't be suiting up for the games.

Available at a moment's notice from our favorite deep-plant Russian spies/married couple. Which brings to mind the fact that every foreign agent in America would be shitting 24k gold bricks right now (that is, if they weren't in the viewing gallery at the Congress) worrying about their immediate condition.

That's fine, I don't track the characters that closely, but my point was that Annalise has no authority to allow people into a crime scene, but she did.

Regardless of who is under the sheet, the PD has done an absolutely terrible job of scene security so far. Even one of the Keating 5 could get Annalise acquitted based on tainted evidence. First she rushes in and pushes right by the cops to the body. Then, tonight, Asher, I think, calls out to her from the tape, and she says, "Let him in." Whaaaat? You're in charge now?

Best. Cartoon. EVER.

The opening song to the episode was "Romeo and Juliet" from Dire Straits. Maybe this? Maybe Kevin should loudly complain that he is not submitting any reels from "The Manny" for Emmy consideration this year because of the writing, and see where that leads. Mostly likely, though, all he would get would be a city-wide "And?"

I have to add that I find it just a bit tacky that some pharma company is advertising a medicine on this show (and some other med shows) that has the tagline "It may give you a CHANCE at a longer lifespan" because of your chronic disease. Even more absurd, during the cautions, they say "tell your doctor if you have had an organ transplant". Yeah, don't you think your doctor would know that already?

The recently departed General Cogswell (Tyrant) comes to mind..... No! Say it ain't so! Someone call Maxwell Smart! Regarding the rebuilding, the original Cabinet had only four Secretaries: Attorney General, State, War, and the Treasury. It might not be so difficult to get an interim government back on its feet.

I don't see Amelia as a witch right now. Granted, she puts up a very hard face to everyone who wants to get to Ginny, but that's part of her job. Most any celebrity has a hard case agent, so they can be the nice guy in public. What she has to do is gain Ginny's trust in a big way, not just in the professional sense. She erred in booking Ginny onto the Kimmel show with the decorating spiel, because it played down Ginny's playing skill and because she's still caught up in the "You need me" mentality. Ginny wants to be "the boss", but if she doesn't have someone to guide her along, she will surely make some craptastic decisions along the way. Amelia has a star client, but unless they have a true partnership, she will find herself jobless in short order. Right now Ginny is still a bit of a novelty act, and she could disappear from the show in a heartbeat, and there goes Amelia's star as well. Mrs. Blip should have bought two or three of those tee shirts if they were available. Never hurts to a have a reliever on staff. I loved that scene of the manager walking into the visiting manager's office after receiving the bad news. Completely wordless, but he sold it with just his expression of looking around the place maybe for the last time. I think this show is doing a good job of setting up story arcs for a number of characters. It would be the most boring trope to focus only on the baseball, with Ginny becoming the star of the season a la The Natural. Speaking of horrible games, that sequence they used for the Padres game was just cringeworthy, their play was so bad. I replayed it just for the thrill of seeing that. Not that I'm anti-Dan Diego, it was just hilarious to watch.

Not only that but 82 deg. south latitude is smack in the middle of Antarctica. Did we annex Nova Scotia recently? Because the last time I looked, it would seem appropriate for the FBI to contact the RCMP and the locals before launching an armed rescue mission. And once again, they failed to secure the area because Kirk got away. So here we are in Cuba. Red should have known that Kirk would leave on a plane. Why not have a chase plane on standby to follow him and report back? By the way, the Coast Guard guy's statement about the balloon mounted radar is true. They are marked on aviation maps. Anyway, the henchcouple and Liz's baby end up on a refugee boat, presumably headed for Florida (I would have laughed had they been the ones to find Liz and Kirk). Red & Co. head for Amarillo, which is not exactly next door to Cuba, where, shortly afterward, Mato shows up because of the text. How in the hell do these people travel? I was kind of hoping that Liz would take a look around the summer palace and say, "Yeah, this works for me. Screw the FBI. Screw Red. Screw Tom. Mr. Kaplan, would you like a job? Maybe I'll get a dog for Agnes to play with." By the way, Mr. Kaplan, should you decide to venture out into the cruel world again, a sidearm and some training would be in order. I see that Red made use of those same auto repair guys as last episode, as his car, so recently centerpunched on Mato, had a perfect hood and front window.

I work out by our local airport, and one day five Apache gunships flew in, keeping formation, and landed at the airport. The swivel machine guns were plainly visible below the forward cockpit. Quite the drama. A week later I saw them at an airport 70 miles up the road. Turns out they were returning to Ft. Lewis up in WA., and at least one was breaking down every single day. Sometimes the simplest explanation is the best. I piped up about the National Guard as soon as Kirkman asked what his legal options were. I don't know what the long term ramifications of that would be, but, damn, you have to stop rebellion where it starts. It wasn't that unlikely, either, given some of the public statements politicians have made. I did like his poker bluff. I hope it never gets revealed. What do you bet the phone call to First Twerp was a drug connection?

Addition: Probably the injectable foam is a real thing that they got from the tech. advisors, but that was about the grossest thing I have seen yet on the show. I'm sure it works, but I sure wouldn't want to see Hostess filling pushing out of my wounds. Just hold your hands over my eyes, thank you very much.

Well, they certainly made Rob Lowe look a lot more world-weary. Along those lines, is it really conventional wisdom that having cheek and chin stubble imparts some sort or maturity or confidence to the actor? Every time I see some character in a professional role looking like that I think sloth. I bet LA County FD put out a press release stating "We do not fly with doors open and unsecured people on board." That was nice how the copter could land and take off without stirring any sand up. One of the first years puts Mama on the spot with a question about why they don't expand to mitigate the Code Black occurrences. No money, says Mama. How is it they can afford a hyperbaric chamber? Angus almost tanked his internship at Angels before he got a hold of himself in the ER. But the apology covers everything.

Yeah, when Cameron was about to tee off on Donna, he was pretty stern. "Be careful, that's my wife."

Weller's reaction to Nas at the hostage situation was ridiculous. You have a couple (now one) of stone killers who have no remorse about what they're doing. The remaining one controls the detonation switch. Just because he is beginning to cry, Weller thinks his pep talk is going to change his mind? Add to that, it was obvious, or should have been, to anyone at scene that the detonator was not a dead man switch. He could have been dispatched at anytime without detonating the vest. I love the Manhattan folks at the second bomb. Gunshots all around? Hell no, I'm gonna keep right on hiking down this path.

I would like to see an episode, maybe a multi-episode arc, where Bull & Co. take on a high profile civil case between two very rich clients, and Bull is faced off with another top notch jury research company with every bit of resource that he has. Let's make it a contest for once.

1) That was my contention also. Regarding the nav system, a Wiki article says that the FAA mandated radar detection equipment for wind shear in 1993 for all airlines and ATC airports, but my guess is that technology isn't always a savior, but it does put more pressure on the pilot in the civil suit. The airline is responsible because they have deep pockets, pure and simple. 2) The pilot made the statement that she had control of the plane and the co-pilot wasn't needed to fly it. Bad idea, in my mind. They were implying through Bull's strategy that the plane was going down no matter what, and her military tactics saved people on the ground, but doomed the passengers. I think the co-pilot's woman was just an anonymous add-in who happened to look like the pilot, which served the rather convoluted plot to get the co-pilot's wife to blow up in mock court instead of real court. I don't know.

The jury verdict was all well and good, but (since they brought up OJ, so will I), a civil suit requires a much lower level of proof than a criminal trial. Wouldn't she still be under the gun for a civil trial from any of the passenger relatives, or even the airline? She did, admittedly, violate procedure, and, although she probably saved lives on the ground, as argued, passenger relatives could argue that she sacrificed those lives for the other lives. Not an easy case to duck. I hope, as mentioned in the forum for the pilot, that they don't resort to a "win every time" plotline for every episode. That will become very formulaic in a very short time. His firm needs to face some difficulties, or even lose, to make this interesting.

At least Cameron moved out before the shank. That would have been awkward. I think Gordon is channeling his inner Machiavelli and stirring the pot for his own ends. He set Cameron up for that confrontation, he knows what Joe is angling for (even if we don't), so I think he has some master plan. Or maybe he just thinks he has some master plan. In any case, Ryan, the self-absorbed boy wonder, pulled the rug out from everyone by essentially removing any worth from Joe's (now Gordon's) company. They have nothing to sell. Worst wedding party ever. I did kind of like Donna's very pointed remark about handing the company over to a "petulant child". Cameron's reaction proved her point. Not that Donna is the savior, either, but Cameron has a very inflated sense of her own importance to the company, as though she and she alone got them to where they are. In an IPO, how much of the company is normally offered to the public? I would think that the original investors (Cameron/Donna/Joe/Diane/Boz/SwapMeet) would still keep the majority of the stock and therefore control of the company. Outside investors would surely get a seat or two on the BOD, sure, but it shouldn't be the end of a dream. And, as Donna says, the improvements could still be done on a timeline. I loved Cameron's snark about SwapMeet becoming "a place where people sell junk to no-one". And later on, a multibillion dollar multinational business. Joe is going to rat out Ryan. Just watch.

I, on the other hand, was surprised to see it listed as Season 2. I had flushed S1 so completely that I had to come back to the forums here and read a recap of S1E1 to remember what the series was about. But it's good, forgettable television and that's okay as far as it goes.

It did look like he had a bit of bulk on his back as he went out the window.

Is NYC ever going to get a chance to rebuild? A year after S1 repeated bombings, and now this. I'd be looking into the construction contractors after this episode. Season 1, 2.0. The CIA, after investing who knows how much time and money investigating possible recruits, sets up yet another Survivor-style breakdown to see who the final four are. Stupid. And I'd be really pissed if I was the recruit that got the message at 1pm, and everybody else came straggling in that night. Will they be sharing shower rooms? And I'm waiting to see how revealing the uniforms are this season. Producers: If you're going to show them in flight in a DC-3, at least show them exiting a DC-3. They're still around. Never mind the utter stupidity of "testing" recruits via an activity that can get you killed even if you are trained. That, and unless the plane was circling the drop zone, it would have been 20 miles away by the time the two lovebirds got over their fight. And, finally, what the hell kind of organization needlessly sacrifices it operatives before they even get to the mission, because "the mission is everything?" The premise of this season is even more outlandish. There's a rogue CIA group that wants to remove the leashes on the agency's behavior, and it's these two fuckups' job to find out who they are. News flash. The CIA kills people. That's what they do. Do you think there will be the slightest hesitation on the cabal's part to whack Alex and Ryan. The only real question is, will there be any competition for Priyanka's hair this season?