Chicago Redshirt

Saying "You're one of the good ones" carries the implication of "the rest of you are bad." It's a backhanded compliment. Along similar lines, saying someone is "a credit to your race" again is rooted in being patronizing about how inferior their race is and how you can judge them as a member of a superior race. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/YouAreACreditToYourRace

That's what a sane, real-life person would do. But in this show, Anni's hoo-ha is darn near magical, drawing in lesbian exes, humiliated minions, disgraced cops, high-ranking mob bosses with its siren song. It apparently is not quite as effective against homicidal maniacs, though. Go figure.

Was it shown that Loeb was explicitly on Maroni's (or more likely, Falcone's, since he was the head gangster) payroll? I don't think it is any more untrue to the comics than Two-Face, Riddler and Penguin all being somewhere in that 10-15 years older range. Because he is a practicing ADA at this point, basically the youngest Harvey could be is 24-25 (graduating law school at 21, then 3 years of law school and then the bar), and one would presume he's a bit older since he apparently had some juice to be talking about the Wayne murders and to be targeting a fairly high-up citizen. Nygma has to presumably be not just a college grad, but may have some sort of advance degree. He also seems to have been on the job for some time. So I would say he has to be in that same 24-25 range. And Pengy has no credentials that basically require him to be 24-25, but just seems to be at least that old, if not older.

There is no reason to think that any of the Maniax have had real training (i.e., the sort of training that involves spending hours at a range shooting targets, going through simulated situations, etc. etc.). The sort of training that is commonplace in real-world big-city police departments and that one would assume GCPD has. Even assuming for some reason that all of the Maniax were trained as extensively as the cops, and assuming that "Let's dress up as cops" gets them through the front door with big-ass guns, sheer numbers would mean that at least one of the dozens of cops would get a shot in and wound/kill most of the Maniax. Even assuming that the element of surprise/poor GCPD shooting managed to allow the Maniax to kill most of the cops present with suffering minimal casualties, there is pretty much no way the headquarters would not be surrounded by the time Jerome and his buddies kill the Commissioner.

In fairness to Liv, With regard to 1, I don't know if she knows about the killing of the Supreme Court justice and the people he killed during Remington were not "murdered" per se, nor were the hundreds of American and foreign lives killed during the Great War of Side-Piece Protection. Also, of the people she knows, pretty much all of them have murdered someone or tried to have someone murdered. With regard to 2, her mother was evil, so killing her is at least hypothetically excusable. With regard to 3, let's hope Liv doesn't know about that, because yeesh. I suppose if Fitz or Papa Pope told her, Fitz could just be like "I totally didn't mean that, and I was just trying to get under his skin. Boy, did that not end well." With regard to 4, yeah, in the real world, Liv should be wracked with guilt because Papa Pope was pulling a Wishmaster and killed Li'l Jerry to fulfill Olivia's desire to keep Fitz in the White House. But she got over it. I got nothing for 5. Seeing how quick Fitz was to abuse his power and imprison someone as an enemy combatant who he knew was innocent all to get back at him for daring to hook up with his sidepiece should be a permanent turnoff.

I think that there is a chance that they will go with the defendant sister as literally being "Rebecca 2.0" like they joked about and Wes will start to have interest in her or vice versa. As someone else said, there is a bit of a quasi-incesty vibe between the two defendants, so that might stir up trouble between Wes and them. As to Michaela being a "gold digger," I don't think that the term inherently means that she has no personal ambitions. I think it means she was focused on the money and the status more than the person. I could not see Michaela dating someone like Wes because he doesn't have fabulous wealth, even if (hypothetically) his other qualities were everything she's looking for. Michaela seemed to be more concerned about building a perfect life with Prince Aiden than actually being attuned to who Aiden is or what he's about. Hence her hesitancy about the prenup. As I remember her scenes with Aiden pre-reveal, very little of an "I love you" vibe came out, and much more of a "We are going to have the perfect life that I've planned where we're rich and fabulous together" was at the heart of things. My recollection of her "I choose me" speech was it basically involved her breaking away from considering being involved with Aiden just to get that perfect life or a semblance of it, which was especially tempting when she thought she was going down for murder.

I'm operating under the assumption that all the K5 are supposed to be 25 at the oldest, since most 1Ls come to law school straight out of undergrad (putting them at 21-22 for most) or have maybe 1-2 years in the real world before deciding to go for law school

Can I request changing the title of this forum to Wes Gibbins: Puppy Power! Because Wes is embracing his role as the Puppy, and (at least to me) he is as annoying as Scrappy Doo a lot of the time. I do enjoy him more when he's Dark!Puppy, like when he pretended the coin flip came out in his favor, or when he got Sis to admit that they lied about the two of them being together the entire evening.

They showed that he was hanging out with Rebecca through the picture that was left in the hall from the landlord cleaning out Rebecca's apartment. So at a minimum, dude knew Rebecca. It seems like a stretch for him not to be Eggs, as it would basically require dude to randomly be at the courthouse, randomly start chatting up Michaela and for there to be yet someone else who was RealEggs.

In fairness, there has been no evidence that the DA's office has anyone better. As far as we've seen on the show, they are probably like a combined 1-12-1 to 1-15-1 against Anni/Bonnie at cases taken to trial? And presumably, Anni's track record prior to the show is about as good. The one case they won was with the priest who killed another priest for being a pedophile, and the only reason they won that was because her client basically was soft and plead out. Pretty much no jury is going to convict someone for killing a pedophile, especially when the killed person is a priest. Also, the other prosecutor in this episode lost his case at an arraignment. An arraignment! In real life, I don't think that's possible. And he's going to face hell for the failure to turn over exculpatory evidence (or he should).

No reason to think that only one evo could have a given power. In fact, the previous series showed that both Sylar and Peter were power sponges, for example. Since they are trying to recreate the Hiro/Ando dynamic, I'm assuming Ren is normal. Harris Prime was wearing the watch on his left wrist when Gamer Girl cut off his left forearm. Harris Prime regrew his left forearm, while the detached forearm grew into a full-fledged clone, complete with clothes. Since Harris Clone had the watch, Harris Prime asked for it back. Evos don't get their powers like mutants at puberty. The original series suggested that eclipses somehow triggered these evolutions. So perhaps Luke got triggered at June 13, or these northern lights/storm things are starting to trigger new evos. Tommy's mom presumably fakes nursing credentials for the new identities. It may be that Pennyman belongs to an organization that has been helping the Tommy family. Yeah, I've been assuming that was an eclipse.

Real life celebrities try to pull that all the time, though. While I agree with you that Liz is a cypher, I think the show made a decent case for why she would have been the leak. Liz is about trying to accumulate power. She's the president's chief of staff, but she at best is third on his list of advisers. Olivia comes first and then Mellie. By leaking about Fitz's affair, she takes Olivia out of the picture if the conventional script is followed. The president and his team would deny, deny, deny. And they would probably have to cut most public and private ties with Olivia to ride it out. Liz got the footage using Mellie's codes. So normally the conclusion would be that Mellie was responsible. That would destroy any possibility of a reconciliation between Fitz and Mellie and also likely lead to the personal and political destruction of Mellie, which is frosting on the cake. So in the aftermath, Liz gets to be the last person standing in the circle of trust. While Abby would not do anything to hurt Liv, the potential damage is done. I guess she figures that Liz will be helpful in being "the adult," which by the way is super patronizing.

I don't know that they don't care about Anni's being shot. I think they just care more about being caught by the police at a crime scene with one dead body and a dying one in Anni, with -- presumably -- no good explanation as to what happened. Wes probably does care more, but he is able to compartmentalize better than Connor and just go into survival mode. IIRC, he and Laurel were the only ones to not freak out in the immediate aftermath of Sam's death. The prosecutor said the DNA was found on the car rather than in. There wouldn't necessarily have to be large injuries to lead to Caleb bleeding. Caleb's head appears to be shaved, so he could still leave head hair. According to this, the average person sheds about 100 head hairs a day. And presumably, Caleb also has body hair that be shed or pulled out during a struggle.

Being a lawyer doesn't stop you from having a big mouth, from having a low IQ, emotional or otherwise, etc. And of course, these guys are 2 years away from graduating and potentially being lawyers. In Connor's case, he tried to lie by telling a bit of truth. There wasn't any particular reason to think that it would backfire, as there hasn't been much interaction between Oliver and the rest of the K5. A preliminary hearing is, as the show stated, meant to determine that the prosecutor has enough evidence to meet the relatively low threshold of probable cause (i.e., that it is more likely than not that Person X committed a crime. Far easier to do than Person X committed a crime beyond a reasonable doubt). In addition to the lower burden of proof, hearsay is generally admissible. So typically in real life, the prosecutor will put on just one cop who will testify based on what one or more cops put in their arrest report. No need to have a victim or other witnesses testify. So in this case, all the prosecutor needed to do was get a detective to say, "The investigation showed Mr. Lahey was having an affair with Ms. Keating. The investigation showed that Ms. Keating was having sex with Mr. Lahey after she had an argument with Sam. We discovered Sam's ring and found Mr. Lahey's fingerprint inside." Probable cause established. Instead, I guess the most charitable way of looking at what this prosecutor did was that she was trying to get a two-for-one special. By questioning Anni while under oath, she hypothetically could have gotten info to build a case against Anni. However, she was just bad at her job. A defendant would NEVER EVER take the stand in his own defense at a preliminary hearing because all that would do is hand the prosecutor a loaded gun to use against you at trial. As for the alleged conflict of interest, well, it would seem unusual that Nate would take on Anni's ex for his attorney out of the blue. We happen to know Nate and Anni talking with each other, and Anni plotted both with Nate and Eve for Eve to represent Nate. Fortunately for the three of them, Emily had no idea about the depths of the relationship or that Eve misrepresented her relationship with Anni to the court. For people who know what we do, it's a fair inference that Nate and Anni are collaborating on his defense because they collaborated on Sam's murder. The trouble is the prosecutor doesn't know anything close to that and so it looks foolish. Her trying to say that Anni or Eve should be sanctioned for not disclosing something that they are under no duty to disclose was pretty ridiculous. They didn't specify what type of DNA was found. If it was hair or skin, not so unusual. If it was blood, much more unusual. Also it was found on the outside, which would tend to suggest that it had been there relatively a short time, at a guess. It would be doubtful that DNA would be found weeks later. Also, there's no reason to think that Caleb would have been hanging out with the aunt who testified that he was a murderer. She claimed to know what happened at Trotter Lake. What that is, the show hasn't said, but it presumably is fairly bad to turn Asher into a snitch..

In this episode, we have the radio in the background about how evos are not meant to be covered by the Bill of Rights. The fact that evos have to register with the government, and there's an underground railroad to smuggle them to Canada, and there's a group that is getting $25k a head to deliver them, and Molly can just be bagged and tagged and plugged into a machine are other examples of anti-evo discrimination.

It seems like they are have Jake be an "associate." And they are probably going to do a Huck redemption arc along with Huck/Quinn, neither of which I have interest in watching.

Renautus apparently had some sort of partnership with Yamagato that has culminated in building Epic. Why they went to Japan to have that meeting rather than simply say "thank you" in a conference call/video call, especially when the debut of Epic was right around the corner doesn't make much sense. Epic as shown is super-Cerebro that anyone can use. So it will change the world in several ways: 1. It will allow whoever is willing to pay for it to find evos no matter where they are. Thus, no more evo terrorist attacks, or at least, the ability to track the evil doers immediately after they attacked (what the CEO promised) 2. It will allow Renautus to track down evos and turn their abilities into apps, as Molly suspected. 3. There is presumably nothing that stops Epic from being used to track down non-Evos. So we have Big Brother. Miko's real-world skills had her successfully kicking the crap out of about a dozen security guards, if not more. The only reason she got captured was she fought another Evo. So I would say that was a pretty good translation to the real world. I will refuse to believe Claire is dead until we see her actual body, up close and personal. We saw just a blond, with evidence of time manipulation. My money is the body is a fake and part of the plan. Zach Levi's character's powers appear to be based in some sort of energy absorption/generation. It seemed to me that he shut down the car accidentally by using some electricity, while he heated up his steak knife to roast his steak. So he's probably taking a page from Superman's playbook and turning solar energy into something else. There's a long-lived trope of human comic characters being able to take way more punishment than a real-world person conceivably could. So that's right where Carlos fits in. Seems like Flying Woman was not able to go very fast. I'll fan-wank that she probably couldn't have mustered the speed to bust through the window on her own. One would argue that hunting evos is "good work," if it helps avoid another June 13 attack. It seems the glasses may have different functionality than the full system. With the goggles, the CEO could pinpoint exactly where in the auditorium an evo was. Even assuming the goggles only convey the info that the full system does, it could be cheaper, allow more independence of users, etc. Or it could just be a marketing thing. There have been a number of people who are able to duplicate themselves in comics who can self-clone (off the top of my head, DC's Duo Damsel/Triplicate Girl and Multiplex, Marvel's Multiple Man), but most of them that I can think of can't regenerate like Harris was able to.

I have to say that so far both Jamal and Cookie are basically trustworthy. At least in the sense of "Don't start none, won't be none." Cookie will cut a bitch, but she'll stab you in the face, not the back. And of course, discounting the occasional drug sale or snitch or murder. And as the Lee Daniels proxy, Jamal has so far been on the side of everything righteous, minus the occasional dangling of someone over a railing.

As portrayed, the prison guard was getting off on the fact that Lucious is powerful and wealthy as he was on the outside, but in the inside he was just another inmate, allegedly. Total power trip. Plus, he thought that Prosecutor Boobsalot had his back. I wish they just called it "Dynasty." It works better as a name and it is more of a nod to the soap. One theory: Rhonda isn't actually pregnant but is telling people to manipulate them. First Andre to not rat her out for killing his surrogate dad, and now Jamal to make him feel special. Another theory: Rhonda, for all we know, might be carrying someone else's child. We saw last season that Andre tried to pimp her out. Probably wasn't the first time. Another theory, assuming it's an actual pregnancy and Andre's the dad : Lucious has never been happy with the interracial marriage/Rhonda. Her having his grandchild probably will bring up some mixed emotions, about his age, his relationship to Andre and Rhonda, and so on.

Given that TPTB have specified that Big Blue is a character from the comics called Lash who is an Inhuman, I guess I stand corrected. However, based on what has been actually shown and discussed, my speculation seemed reasonable. I think it's still a safe bet that Lash was the one going around killing Inhumans.

The big blue guy we saw fighting Lincoln, Mack and Daisy was presumably a Kree, rather than an Inhuman. As per last season, the Kree tried to create Inhumans as living weapons but for whatever reason abandoned the project. Last season, we had a Kree that came to Earth to eradicate Inhumans, only to be taken in by his own power to induce amnesia. Big Blue has apparently discovered the existence of Inhumans and is on a similar search-and-destroy mission and is blasting away Inhumans. In terms of being gay, I thought Mack was shown to be officially gay/bi as during the Hydra attack he seemed to have a boyfriend. Maybe that is me misremembering or reading something into the scene. In any event, maybe he and Captain Melty can have a romance going on. Re: the FB page, I wonder if Daisy/Skye brought back her mad hacking skillz to help Bobbi find out that info. :)

Knowing that Rebecca was trying to prove that Sam killed Lila is not the same as knowing that Rebecca was committing a felony in order to do so or agreeing to participate in the felony. They did not know specifically what Rebecca was doing. Michaela called and told Wes that Sam had attacked Rebecca. Sam said she's doing something with my computer. Rebecca lied and said she didn't find anything. We know that was a lie. The Murder 4 does not. They could believe that she came with a flash drive and having not found anything she was just leaving with her own empty flash drive. Let's say that they inferred it was a lie and guessed correctly that the flash drive had data from Sam's computer. Was their intent to help Rebecca steal it? One can certainly argue that. But given the short amount of time I would say that it's at least equally likely that their intent was not to permanently deprive Sam of the information, but to get him to calm down or some other non-criminal motive. Plus, you would have to look at what each of them intended separately. The strongest cases would be against Wes and Laurel. As I just said, though, it's an open question as to why Wes yelled to get it and why Laurel took the drive. There is no direct evidence from the scene above that Michaela (who just dodged Sam) and Connor (who was hit by Sam and seemed to be trying to protect Rebecca) had any intentions whatsover as to taking the flash drive. In terms of being uninvited, the Murder 4 had the ability to come and go at the Keating house because they worked for Anni. Plus, it would be at least arguably justified by the perceived imminent danger to Rebecca. In any event, Sam asks them to leave and as the clip above shows, the Murder 4 struck a deal with Sam that once they could get Rebecca out safely they all would leave. Ultimately, even accepting that they had some knowledge of what was going on for argument's sake does not mean that they had the needed mens rea, or guilty mind, to commit the underlying felony. Without the mens rea, they cannot be guilty of the underlying felony, and therefore cannot be guilty of felony-murder.

It is at least a common American law school thing. Most American law schools, I feel safe to say, use the Socratic method. The idea behind the Socratic method is that people learn most by answering questions (as opposed to just being lectured or writing papers or what have you, although I feel safe saying that every law school has classes of those natures as well.) I haven't heard of "pass" being a thing in non-law school, because most non-law school classes don't use the Socratic method.

The military created safe zones thinking they could use them as a beachhead and then attack and take back Los Angeles (and presumably, all other cities.). As we can intuit from the latest episode, that's not going so well. The one squad got entirely taken out by zombies. The Staples Center (or whatever stadium that is) is chockfull of zombies. The doctor (and presumably multiple people in the chain of command) are aware that whenever someone dies, they will become zombies unless they have sustained a traumatic brain injury. Since basically everyone who dies is subject to zombification, it seems a reasonable approach to remove anyone who is a disproportionate risk to either die or kill someone else, or for that matter, stir up trouble. Otherwise, your safe zone is not so much a safe zone as a zombie Golden Corral. As a junkie, Nick is disproportionately likely to die of an overdose or do something stupid that will result in his death or someone else's death. Griselda was sick enough to die and then become a zombie, so she needed to be taken and put down. Depressed guy, one could argue, was a great risk for suicide. He needs to be taken out. As I alluded to above, the number of zombies should be growing geometrically. After 9 days, if my conservative math is correct, there is something like 1.5-3 million zombies across the country. As it's becoming clearer that the plan to retake L.A. (and again, presumably other cities) is failing big-time, the only thing that really makes sense is another retreat. I agree that firebombing the civvies in the safe zone doesn't make sense. But what I assumed Cobalt meant was destroying the hospitals and those infected, not the safe zone people.

But never ever recognize him, even though he's showing the same M.O., even though forensics would presumably have his fingerprints and possibly his DNA on file, even though the main disfiguring is to turn his skin even paler and his hair even redder? That would not be worthy of the World's Greatest Detective. Heck, that's not even worthy of classic Lois Lane not being able to piece together that Clark and Superman are one and the same.