Dowel Jones

Reddington must have an unlimited supply of pistols on hand to shoot various people who have crossed him. The police would do ballistics checks on any homicide, and eventually things would start to line up. At least someone in the CID who drop to the fact that the same gun has been used by a guy who murdered various people around the state.

I would tune in just for that. The possibilities are endless, albeit hair-pulling in disbelief. She'll have to hook up with Ressler so she can have some muscle around...Wait, what was I thinking? Although they tried hard to disguise it, I still recognized Canned Heat's 'On The Road Again' during the hostage rescue scene. Why it was there I don't know.

Evan is going to get a rude introduction to the world of real estate when he attempts to remodel that broken down house in a poorer neighborhood. That place is a money pit. On the other hand, I cannot fathom the idea of two people in a 200 sq. ft. apartment. You'd have to go outside to change your mind. Oliver (the Crab Shack chef?) was dressed just a wee bit too nice to go out fishing. That's a dirty job. It's probably the best idea to sell the Crab Shack, especially given the terms. Larry is right; the income is dependent on discretionary spending, and, as we are now seeing, business are crashing right and left, many to never reopen. He sure was being a jerk about it, though. He has some work to do to integrate more fully with the other dads.

I did a quick search and found no real mention of online trials. Some courts are hearing pre-trial motions and such, but the logistics of an actual trial would almost certainly guarantee an appeal. In the show's trial, it was obvious that the defendant couldn't confer privately with his attorney due to the linkups, and it was equally obvious that the judge didn't have a very good means to control the attorneys. Granted, they were all relatively civil, but I can see a disaster if you got two antagonistic attorneys in there. And don't even think about interviewing the pool and empaneling a jury with 12 separate video links.

Taylor up on the stand, replying that 'Trial Advisement is legal. We don't don't try to manipulate the jury or do anything illegal, etc.' All the while crossing her fingers and hoping nobody asks how they get their jury pool data, or about illegal wiretapping.

Added to that, opening with "Bad Moon Rising", which has the lines 'Hope you got your things together; I hope you are quite prepared to die; Look's like we're in for nasty weather; One eye is taken for an eye'. And by the way, Zoey, thanks for the 'OK, Boomer" moment when you said "It's a song about some guy singing about a bad moon rising." 🙂

And just to throw a wee bit of humor in the mix, I laughed hearing the CEO say "It doesn't look real good for me. I could be going to prison for six months, maybe 18 if they find the hard drive in my sister's basement." American Pie has always been a stream-of-consciousness song (to me) about the loss of innocence, so it fit quite well in the end, there.

Interesting (I didn't quote the whole post, just for brevity). The last number I have was Natalie Bruca at 184. If the above was true, were they planning on 10 or more seasons? Lots of new people in there. Maybe the two dogs have numbers. And Vesco's cat. Maybe even the continuity director.

I created a list a few seasons back, and I have Tom, but not Liz, even under her Russian name.

The irony of the entire situation is that if the construction crew turned up the bones, the Detroit PD might look at the 30 year old bones and say "Oh, this is that dirty cop that everybody hated. Mob must have got him." And just quietly closed the case.

What exact position does Tommy's assistant/driver hold in the LAPD? It seemed rather authoritarian of him to just waltz up to a bunch of uniforms and demand to see what they were looking at on their phones. He's certainly not their supervisor, as far as I know. Admittedly, it was a crass cartoon, but it was the internet, not an inter-departmental memo or something. Tommy should have come right back at the detective, demanding that he detail when and where the original conversation took place, and pin him down to details. It should be easy to get testimony from others in the office to contradict what he said. I get that she was flustered, but, as pointed out above, she really ought to have a better head on her shoulders to be in a fishbowl job. Don't PD sketch artists generally use computer generated facial features now, so they can change and replace features to create the likeness? Drawing seems to be old school.

Well, his mom did drop the "Chekov's relationship question" at the reunion. I think it's a setup, maybe for next season. Or a spinoff. Urrrrgh.

Wait. Shouldn't Liz get a Blacklister number for this? Red hands them out like candy on Halloween. As a matter of fact, it would be cool if everyone on the task force had their own number. He used to be Cuban, until he got shot in Tony Montana's car. Guy needs a better agent, gotta stay alive once in awhile.

That was Clara and Lee. I stopped the frame at that point to be sure of it. What the significance was, I don't know.

I finally rewatched it, and, although it's not much clearer than before, I have to commend Jason Segal for getting such an experimental project all the way through the television maze. Although I thought it fell rather flat at the end, on the whole it was a much more entertaining ride than some of the scripted series that currently plug the airwaves with repetitive plots and dialogues. I like to have my questions answered, as does most anyone, but sometimes a bit of ambiguity at the end is food for thought too.

Well, that was more than a little confusing. It came across as 'Let's do some crazy, weird stuff and see how the audience reacts.' I get it, we're all one big community, but I'm still me and my story is mine, so there. So, Jason gets a postcard from Elsewhere, goes to the hotel, and is thrust into the game, already in progress in his life, and he decides to write a mini series script about getting into the alternate reality game? Who is running the game if he hasn't created it yet? Cameo from Elegant Squatch! Jason's support group sure bailed in a hurry. I wonder if he had been dragging them down for some time.

That's all I have.

On a side note, Skittles was a sponsor of this episode.

I'm puzzled in the use of the Blacklist. If Reddington even knew about Hatcher, why is he still alive? Given Reddington's peculiar code of ethics, he would have dealt with the guy as soon as he found out about his actions. If he didn't know anything about Hatcher, why was he on the Blacklist? Or did he add him on post-op, so to speak? The problem with Ray field is that the real Ressler and his brother are buried there, and these two soon-to-be Blacklisters are at risk of being discovered. "Ressler", of course, is Liz's twin brother, and was planted in the FBI to screw up and otherwise damage any case she works on, a talent for which he has shown an admirable ability. His supposed brother's real name is...Sikorsky. Dun dun dun.

Kinda liked the cat that photobombed the opening scene in the mini-market. Get that cat an agent! Also liked Tommy's look of pure exasperation when she hears Kiley on the newscast. Poor Tommy, she's probably wondering if there's a job available somewhere far away. I agree that she's way under speed on the political aspects of her job. She needs to huddle up really fast with her staff and start taking their advice. And then Blake dumps another problem on her. Blake's mailbox has better security than her apartment complex. Way to go, Mr. Mayor. Open up a presentation for schoolchildren to a press conference. You had to know they were going for the jugular right then. Why do it in front of kids? RIP Mark Blum.

I thought the machine crashed before there was any complete reading. It's been quite awhile ago for me, so don't quote me on that. However, they more or less dropped the original reason for the MRI, too.

That was the actual end of the episode, I think. The next scenes were next episode previews of Peter watching that bank of televisions, and a few brief scenes that I still don't understand. Next episode is the season finale. I think you can adjust your DVR options to record a few minutes past the scheduled ending of a show. Producers pull this stuff to encourage people to watch live, which boosts the show ratings. That's my conspiracy opinion anyway.

If I worked at Sprkpoint as a level 4 grunt, I would spend my time hatching an incredibly complex plot to hijack the seafood tray on its way up to the 6th floor. Of course, it would require subterfuge and misdirection so that they would never know it had been stolen. Worth an episode.

Since the credits listed this as based on the documentary "The Institute", I looked that up, and, lo and behold, there's a Wiki article on it. It was a real life alternate reality game that stretched out over three years and involved over 10,000 people in San Francisco. But there was no word on what happened to Clara. That was definitely the weirdest episode yet. Fredwynn taking us in and out of the reality of the episode was jarring but gripping. What the hell is going on here? I think that Lee invented Clara to help create the Augmented Reality program, and when it running deep into the red, she sold it to the corporation. They in turn dumbed it down to sell it to the masses, and she "killed" Clara off in her despair. The boss (Octavio?) did call her Clara at the meeting. Just my hunch, though. What do I know? Did Peter go off to live his past life with the little boy? There was just a flash of someone putting on a hat between the scene of him leaving and the scene in front of all the televisions. This reminds me so much of Brazil.

They made a bank of money doing GEICO commercials.