Dowel Jones

Spoiler Alert! Station 51 in peril again! I was willing to accept Robinson's question on the first call as an ordinary suggestion about an alternate treatment, but when he doubled down at the house call, he lost my favor. By the way, what was that in the victim's mouth? Too icky for TV? Gentlemen, that is why you don't mess around with valuables on an incident scene. They should have immediately notified the Incident Commander (speaking of which, where was Boden?) and have him call the cops right away. Get that monkey off your back. It was stupid putting those sacks in the Squad. Anyone could have seen that. But anyway, so Grandma pocketed it and they all lit out for the territories, eh? I'm a bit curious, though. ~$60K missing from the total stash of ~$100K. Even with $100 bills there's no way that amount would fit in that little vent hole. Maybe those gangbangers will hire Anton Chigurh to go find it for them. Mouch. What are you doing? Just give the citation to Boden, let him deal with CPD. The city would pay it anyway, right? He got lucky with the clerk, financially that is. And, now they drop the technical rescue class in the plot, so is Mouch going to disappear for a while? Sorry, 51, but Robinson has a point. You don't go storing non employees at the fire station, for any reason. There's so much that could go wrong there, even though it's been a plot point many a time.

Bad guys don't drive electric cars. They drive big, ugly cars from one of the competitors to the car company sponsoring the show.

Well paced episode. I got a slight laugh when Elise pulled some data up on her screen, and Jubal came over to look at it. She waved him off and pointed to the big screen. Your agents are getting ahead of you, Jubal. Well, Hector, I hope your friends in California are willing to do a long term babysitting gig, because that "I was scared for my kid" excuse isn't going to tread water in court. Three counts of kidnapping, several counts of attempted murder (shooting at the agents on arrival), and numerous and sundry other charges.

Vincent (Vinny) Gambino might disagree. :)

Inquiring minds want to know; what's the over/under on Colter bluffing his poker hand vs. actually having a winner?

Convicted murderer in a fire camp. Yeah, no. Not gonna happen. That being said, Eve doesn't get to determine who stays in camp, and who gets transferred, unless there was some violation of fire department/CDCR rules, and even then the COs determine the inmate's fate. Vince sure got huffy when he was replaced as Incident Commander. That's the way it works, boss, although there should have been an orderly transfer and briefing, but, hey, why quibble. I'm sure glad that Bode could hold his breath for however long it took to rescue Vince from the burning building. Because, you know, all those toxic fumes might actually do some damage to a lesser man. Why is there a chemical plant in this isolated village? I mean, you have to truck all the raw material in, and the chemicals back out, which adds to the cost of production, but I guess it's not so bad that one engine company and a hazmat squad can't handle it. That is true. He should have walked her back to the camp, and sent Freddy 2.0 on ahead to get help, but that's real life. It serves to protect both the civilian and Bode; her from possibility of assault, and him from the possibility of a false claim of assault. Here it's required that he get arrested to drive the plot.

I thought that Hassan was going to buy a red shirt when he walked into that shop to meet the Saudi banker, heh. Agreed that he totally screwed up but that falls on the FBI, too. You don't throw agents into a tight knit and possibly dangerous undercover atmosphere without some training on how to conduct yourself, and nobody gets to wing it. He should have been talking to his handlers at Counterintelligence every step of the way. All that being said, I did get a kick out of the slowest foot chase yet on this show. Can you really pick up fingerprints underneath other fingerprints? If they need a full SWAT team to enter that apartment, but just OA and Maggie to go to the restaurant, even though the guy is still dangerous. Wouldn't the W-2 have an address on it?

I looked up Manhattan Kansas on the map, and Colter was right. It's about 1700 miles from Mt. Shasta City. How he knew that I don't know, but, figuring about 15 mpg at best in that beast of a truck and towing a trailer, that's just over 100 gallons of fuel. I hope he cashed that reward check before he left.

(Colter) "Noah was alone in the woods for 24 hours. He was afraid. He managed to elude his pursuer. He managed to find water." I understand now. Shelter Stone is not a prison. It's a training ground to help delinquents escape from prison!

That's my issue, too. The difference is that Columbo was a detective on the police force and Elsbeth is a nosy attorney getting involved where she shouldn't be, and the police seem to be complacent with it. Sure, the premise of the series is that she swoops in where all the cops can't figure it out and provides the critical link to the guilty party. What's holding this whole idea up is the investigation into Captain Wagner, which likely will be the season long arc.

Anyone with half a brain (which excludes the majority of arrestees on TV) would say "I want to talk with an attorney. Now" And a good attorney would at least attempt to get the charges reduced by a plea bargain with the DA.

I'm curious as to how the drone camera can see down through all that fire and smoke when people can't even see anything on the ground. Bad advice, Manny. Eve should not be playing fun games with the inmate crew in a bonding effort. That way lies disaster. I was waiting for Super Bode to break away from the crew and run through the fire to help guide the engine back to relative safety.

That, and lighting a candle to memorialize the 580 CFD personnel who have died on fires. What a great way to start a wedding.

I was wondering if Gemma was pulling the long con on OA, and is actually tied in with the Ukranian gangsters. Well, stupid preppy girls gonna stupid preppy girl, no matter what. How stupid do you have to be to sell a lot of cocaine to someone you just met in a disco club? So she takes a bullet in the end, probably wondering "How did I screw this up so bad?" I bet OA is going to confiscate that sex tape for, uh, evidence purposes. Tiff is doing a terrible job of undercover surveillance at the bar. Standing alone, staring at the crowd, and never once cracking a smile.

Unless they have some magical promotions to Captain (I'm looking at you, Fire Country), and someone takes Casey's vacant slot.

What? You mean the paramedic boss didn't get an invitation to the wedding? I'm shocked, shocked! Maybe it's just me, but I would have had the crew pass up an attack line and flooded that room through the ceiling vent. The heat coming through that vent would have been brutal. I hope they bandaged that crook up just a bit better before handcuffing him.

Last scene in the episode is Colter screaming across Nevada in the Cobra on I-80, hitting around 130-140, and answering the phone: "No sir, I haven't found the Shelby yet, but I've got a few leads..."

Maybe it's in the car.

I think they said that the studio was built in an old warehouse in the Dales area, but not in Grassington; some distance away.

I hope Coyle is jailed alive so that he can't escape the sentence that Father Percy received. I halfway think there will be some suicides among that pack of jackals. Good to know that Lorna is able to sleep now and her daughter welcomes her into her life, at least a little.

I didn't find it on my Passport listing either. It was used here locally as a special presentation as part of the pledge drive. Maybe call your local PBS station and inquire if they are planning to run it.

It really was interesting. The amount of work the crew put in to change appearances was impressive. The front of "Skeldale House" is in Grassington, but the rear is in Arncliffe, and the interiors are on a studio lot. As are the interiors for the Drovers Arms. And the bread shop had a ready made shelf of fake, laquered bread to put in the real window of the real shop. That's funny. And, of course, no documentary would be complete without mentioning Mother Nature's timetable of sunshine v. rain.

So, the $20,000 reward for the missing car (???) was set aside for the helpless lost woman for $5000? Better start thinking about economics if you want to pay off the $75,000 trailer and $60,000 pickup. So now, it's off to Mt. Shasta, finally. Did Colter pay up front for the minor surgery, or did he just walk out on the basis of hotness with the doctor? Inquiring minds might want to know. Or not. Interesting that Tozer, after getting a beatdown, is all too willing to talk to Colter about Mia back up in the woods. Cherchez le femme, boys!

(Producer standing at the end of the block with a stopwatch): "Nope, not good enough. Next."

She did make some mention of being on a large (campaign) fire for the last six months, which just piles on the absurdities.