Dowel Jones

Second best was Dariela's "Maybe we got off on the wrong foot." Even though she admitted it. And I want whatever painkillers Jaime is using off camera to blunt the effects of a traumatic amputation. That's Scandal isn't it? That's some damn good piloting, I'll tell you what. To keep all the lab material on the table, and the two unsecured 4,000# vehicles from flying around the compartments all while flying through a hurricane, yeah. Oh, and, yeah, when someone tells me not to move because there is a giant, deadly, radioactive (but boner inducing) spider right over my head, I think I'll oblige the spider to find me in some other part of the room, thank you.

She's been a puzzle to me also. Although she expresses herself well with just her face, does she have a speaking role? Or is she written as mute? Something just seems off.

Maybe this is the real, secondary meaning of the show's title.

Reminds me of a certain political convention... Wouldn't it make more sense (stop right there) to seal up the houses and belongings as best as possible, as they are presumably going to wake up in WP, however distant in the future. Of course, there is always the possibility that the Abbies have settled down and taken over the town, ice cream parlor and all. And don't forget the carousel.

Within the confines of the plot, it could be occurring because of the upcoming deployment. Personal experience: I worked for many years with CalFire, or CDF as it is officially known, as a fire crew captain on an inmate crew. One of the work camps is outside San Luis Obisbo at the National Guard facility Camp Roberts. When we would pull in there, the MPs would wave the crew buses full of inmates right on through, but stop the supervisor's pickup to check for identification. Go figure.

I wonder why the lights would go out sequentially. Every time my town loses power, everything goes dark as one. I liked Kerry's response to Doc's "He was a tyrannical moron." To which Kerry says "He wasn't a tyrant." That clarifies things. Now that would have been the perfect solution to saving WP. "Form a line here, Abbies, and fill out these forms for your Official Wayward Pines Identity Cards. You must have them to enter the town. Please be patient." So, I am to understand that all the Junior Nazis made it into the pods? After all the crap the townspeople endured at their hands, I would have thought there would have been widespread elimination of pod spaces to make room for more ordinary folks. But then again, these clods have been so brainwashed, anything is possible.

Perhaps, but logic has been shown to be a casualty of the red flu all the way through the series.

The show is definitely getting darker. Woichuck is not just the well dressed foodie mobster; he's evil. Shame on you, though, detective, for even consenting to get in the van. In a box of bad choices, that was the worst one. Turn around and start running back down the street, yelling. The worst that could happen is no worse than what did. Woichuck is going to have the entire PD on his case now. I don't think Tommy's reluctance to do a DNA test is helpful to either him or TJ. He will still spend the rest of his life wondering if he is the father, and it will burn a hole in his soul. I think it would be better to know, and seek out some counseling on how to deal with it. And wailing to the grief group about how he was betrayed and lied to is probably not the place. TJ doesn't need to know right away; as he matures, the truth could be released in such a way as to be as gentle as possible. Hell, maybe he already knows, and is thinking "I'm not ever talking to this putz again." I wonder if they will do a fingerprint check on the weapon. Is TJ smart enough to cover his tracks?

I have this feeling that the scene was supposed to be prescient of some future episode where the mystery musician boyfriend plays a part in one of the story arcs. It doesn't make a lot of sense to just throw in that piece of dialogue.

And yet, the title of the episode is uttered by the guy cleaning up after the pool party.

Only if another season is anticipated.

I think that sometime during a previous episode it was established that Takahaya was formerly in the Vietnamese Navy as an officer.

Louis for the goal: "If your time cards are one second late, you will never work as a fake associate in this town again"

Halfway across the ocean a sudden breeze comes up, blowing the fabric out to sea...

How does one hang oneself from a bedpost only 4-5' high? That looked like the most awkward method ever. At least we all got our dose of Navy stuff with the Nathan James playing cat and mouse with the Chinese, even though our guys should have sank them at the earliest opportunity. Didn't they learn any lessons with the sub and the Russians? And the anvil of delivering a baby that guarantees cooperation from the bad guy, well, we all saw that coming, right? Sasha, it's your turn now to speak up about the smoke monster green mist. I vote for Kara as the new, interim President.

Not to mention wasting time trying to crowbar a door. Break the window. Jeez. Rashid must be a bit on the other side of the crazy door too, as he is evidently willing to sacrifice the entire town to prove a point. Any tyrant would now react in such fashion; "I want every plane in the air, armed with napalm, bioweapons, whatever. Lay waste to that town and everyone inside it". I'm not advocating that position, but I think a tyrant certainly would follow that path.

China needed railroads too.

Thanks, I had forgotten all about that.

Man, those wooden seats on the passenger cars sure looked uncomfortable. I'll take Amtrak any day. Oh, those poor drunk Irishmen. Will somebody please tell that spider to quit stomping around on the ceiling? I thought for sure that Eva was going to get thrown off the horse and then killed, but good for her. Even if riding off into the sunset just gets you lost most of the time. I guess it had to be said, but giving the valedictory speech to such a pompous blowhard like Durant just felt wrong. He spent time in the West, sure, but every thing he did was accomplished by taking credit for other people's work, either by riding on their coattails or walking over their backs in the mud. I liked his New York ending in the previous episode better. And while the railroads performed some herculean tasks completing the line, it should be noted that they didn't move an inch before receiving some very generous benefits from those stuffed shirts at the hearing. If you ever have the chance to look at a US Forest Service map of the Shasta Trinity NF in Northern California, observe how much of the wilderness is actually owned by the SP, as all the land in the checkerboard white areas is theirs. Sidenote (again): The railroad did not, and still does not, go to San Francisco (BART excepted). It ended in Sacramento, and Bohannen would have taken a steamboat down the river to the Port of San Francisco. ETA: What was the point of Bohannen removing the piece of wood in the confessional? He saw something there but then the scene moved on.

I got this odd, Good/Bad/Ugly vibe from that scene, fully expecting the "Ay ya ay ya ay ya" from the soundtrack. But that would have been too obvious. Wait a minute. A mom named Abigail, a crowd of Abbies outside the fence? I smell conspiracy. And who's to say that the Abbies are intent on destroying WP? After what Margaret has seen and communicated with her tribe, they might just say "The hell with them, let's head to Boise and hang out until they're finished with each other." And the crowd grows at the entrance to the mountain. Soon, teenagers are setting up tents, portable stoves, etc. And inside the mountain, Jason and his council listen to a recently unfrozen, wizened old Nazi in a wheelchair ramble on about breeding and slauuuughtering animals, and a female/male ratio of 10 to 1 for breeding purposes...

Is Dion unaware that his attorney/part time lover is the daughter of Detective Asshat? The dialogue implied as much, but that really seems farfetched. When Tommy and TJ were driving by the Rie memorial, I would have thought that Tommy would have at least looked over at it out of force of habit. And TJ doesn't even give an alarm when he sees the bully torching off the photos. Huh? Way to sink your restaurant right off the bat, Tommy. Because the whole world is about you, right? And it wouldn't kill you to shave and look professional, either. What kind of mobster readily opens his door at night when someone knocks, especially after the gangfight last week?

I know where they can find some ants..

They misunderstood the name of the town as CarrotCake. Dessert, please! Outside of this particular plotline, is there any reason to have propane gas in an aerosol cylinder? WD-40 it ain't.

Maybe the cat lady is the killer. Or maybe the cat is.

Call Of Duty, maybe? Well, I see the Chinese commandos are as incompetent as always, since they couldn't seem to hit the broad side of the barn (literally) despite the close proximity. And the idea of firing a 5" diameter shell right next to your own personnel, which seems to kill everyone else except them? Huh? Not to mention the slightest little error in course plotting and.... I get that the past few episodes have been set in order for Capt. Kirk to save his Slattery's crew, but could we move on with the overall story arc now, please? Geopolitics aside, I'm a helluva lot more interested in what is happening throughout the US than the rest of the world. And let's leave the body bags right there in the middle of the bay for everyone to see!