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Dani Reese starts off this episode with her visit to a bar where she sees a man drinking just like her. It turns out that they were both heading to an AA meeting where he says something that makes it seem like he is a rapist. There seems to be a 911 call where larson was implicated, but later the woman recanted. Then out of nowhere Charlie shows up at the AA meeting. Dana leaves with the Larson. Larson gets angry with her and storms off. They find the previous victim, Nancy, but she refuses to testify. So Charlie and his supervisor are on a stakeout finding nothing. Meanwhile Dani catches Nancy going to shoot Larson. They pull Nancy in and try to talk some sense into her. Larson has disappeared from everywhere. Dani starts looking around AA trying to find Larson. A girl there says she meeting him at a local bar. On the poop stakeout they find out that it was her cameraman pooping on her yard. Charlie has to leave to get to the bar. There they arrest Larson for Nancy’s rape. He says the sex was consensual. They still arrest him. Larson makes bail and goes after Dani. He takes her gun and forces her to drink vodka. She slyly calls Charlie in her pocket, and he along with their supervisor heads to the rescue. They rush in and save the day. Hey check out my last post by clicking here.

I’m pretty sure that the episode that NBC played today was a rerun, but it was so good I’m still going to do a recap. Well this episode had an all star guest line up with guest star Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges playing our suspect on trail as well as cameo appearances by Nancy Grace and Star Jones. I personally don’t think that Nancy Grace has any right to be on TV after driving Mrs. Duck to suicide by brutalizing her with that interview about her missing son not to mention that Star Jones is scary looking anyway. I have to say though that Ludacris has some serious skills acting. When this episode starts up the case is already at trial. A confession has already been thrown out due to procedural errors, but they still have the murder weapon and his DNA. The ADA was having a very hard time getting his mother to testify and ends up having her charged with contempt. Throughout the trial the defense puts all the cops involved on trial systematically ruining their credibility particularly Detective Fin. I guess that this is also the episode where Adam Beach a.k.a. Detective Lake joins the cast permanently. So it all comes down to the line and whats the verdict, not guilty. By the way I want everyone to check out my last post by clicking here.

With Halloween just around the corner last night we got treated to a special ‘CSI Miami’. There was a solar eclipse in Miami during which a man was garroted to death. So they start their evidence collecting at the scene, but there are no witnesses because everyone was watching the eclipse. So they start talking about how eclipses are associated with evil. The case takes another strange twist when they find out that the hair that they found at the scene was from a wolf. Do you see the Halloween theme yet? They also found some blood on the scene that was definitely human. One of the people working there has cut on his hand, so he slides over into the suspect category. Now the bodies are starting to pile up when a woman is killed. There was also a man attacked, but he survived thanks to his pet wolf hence the wolf hair. They find the same man’s blood on this crime scene as well. Does this seem to be coming together a little too neatly? Horatio thinks so as well. The suspect tells them about the chair he cut his hand on. Upon further inspection the chair was intentionally tampered with so that he would get cut. They run trace on the chair and find that there is a topical cream used for people with extreme sensitivity to the sun on there. This explains why the killer attacked during the eclipse and only at night. That eliminates that suspect so Horatio follows a hunch and asks a suspicious guy that was at the scene of the first murder to come in so they can run a test to see if he has that cream on. He didn’t have it on so it seems that he isn’t a suspect either. Now they look into the survivor thinking that maybe he faked his attack, but he gets ruled out too. They end up catching the guy in the act. It was the guy that came in to be tested. He was covered in burns. He admits to it all saying that they were wasting their lives. Hey don’t forget to check out my last post ‘The Latest News’.

It seems that this week there is a lot of news for the crime drama genre. First and foremost I have caught wind of a crossover between two of your favorite crime shows. TV Guide has reported that this Thursday there will be a very very special episode of ‘CSI’. This starts at eight and will continue straight over on to ‘Without A Trace’ at nine. This storyline is suppose to really be explosive and nonstop through the two hours. TV Guide also said that we will be saying goodbye to Sarah. With her being kidnapped during the season finale it appears to be curtains for her. Her relationship with Grissom has also been exposed so it seems to be hard times ahead for Grissom. I have also heard that there is a new Crime Drama show coming out that is supposed to be very interactive with the audience. As soon as I know something you will too. On ‘CSI Miami’ the storyline with Horatio having a son seems to be moving along nicely adding several twists this season I’m sure. I don’t think that it is standard procedure to knock someone up while you are undercover. Stay tuned today because I will be posting an episode recap on ‘CSI Miami’ later on tonight. By the way go ahead and check out my last post ‘Smile’.

I have to say that this was a very interesting episode of ‘CI’. It starts out with a dentist soaking up some nitrous for himself when someone turns off the oxygen and smothers him with the laughing gas. The detectives proceed to canvas the area finding a witness. The witness says that he saw a large woman go in and leave. After that he saw a couple of young kids go inside. They check the records only to find a bunch of cancellations that day. All the cancellations were from the same apartment building. It turns out that a boy the dentist treated had just died recently. When they go to question the mother she is holding her other child hostage. She tells them that dentist got her child drunk and fooled around with him. She also admits to murdering the doctor. Well things aren’t always what they seem. When another kid dies it is found out that the kids had stolen some mouthwash trying to get drunk. This mouthwash turns out to be counterfeit and containing DEG as well. If you don’t know DEG is a poisonous ingredient usually found in antifreeze. Third world countries often use this in knockoff mouthwash as a sweetener. The man at the company that tried to warn them about the counterfeit turns up very cleverly murdered using his allergies and a defective inhaler. A woman named Leslie, who was the one to tip them off about them knowing, was trying to get her boss fired so that she could get promoted. This lady was very motivated I will give her that. Check out my last post ‘SVU’.

This week’s episode of ‘SVU’ was great with Aidan Quinn playing the maybe guilty husband. The episode starts out with Quinn circling the block in a taxi when his daughter runs out in the street covered in blood. He runs inside to find his wife beaten and bleeding to death. The daughter has a unique form of retardation that makes her developmentally slow but with a savant like ability with tone and pitch. The detectives hit the beat, and soon they discover that the husband actually did not go on a business trip. They try to confront him with this, but Homeland Security stops the interview saying that he works for them. They say that any information about his whereabouts are a matter of national security. The wife turns out to be pregnant and in a coma. They reinterview the daughter only to find that she heard someone else there that night. So it turns out the wife was having an affair with her friends husband. She wakes up but has retrograde amnesia meaning she doesn’t remember anything from the past six months. In a strange twist the daughter identifies the wife’s friend’s son as the killer. All in all it was a pretty wild episode. Hey check out my last post ‘NCIS’.

This weeks episode of ‘NCIS’ was decent. The victim this week was a Navy cadaver named Marvin Henton. He was misdiagnosed as alcohol poisoning when really he was injected with mercury. When the ‘NCIS’ team runs a background check there is none. According to the files this man doesn’t exist. They start with interviews at the very nearby bar that successfully smokes out a woman dressed in a business suit. She promptly informs them that she is with the FBI. She also tells them that Marvin Henton is a paid informant for the FBI. Kreiger tells them that he was helping them to catch a man simply known as the Eraser. Kimal Konkami, also known as the eraser, is a counterfeit/forgery expert that can clear someones past and give them a new identity. Well they found traces of Indian food on a note of his so they check the local restaurants. One restaurant has a standing dinner delivery order that goes to a house registered in Henton’s name. So it seems to be that Henton may be Kimal. The delivery boy describes Henton to a tee. When they did a little deeper they find that the waitress at the bar was another client of the eraser’s. She killed her husband with mercury poisoning. After they interview her some new information comes up about Henton. They ID a tattoo he had as being done by a famous tattoo artist in L.A. That means that the delivery boy was setting the waitress up for the fall. They arrest him, and he quickly gives up Kimal. Check out my last post ‘The Latest CI’.

Well this week on ‘CI’ we were introduced to Detective Falacci, plated by Alicia Witt. It was very interesting to see her being the hot tempered one, while Logan was the peaceful one for once. So this time around our victim is an abortion doctor who is found in his exam room. He is propped up in the procedure chair in a way that suggests someone is sending a message. He was beaten to death with a photo cube which seeming kind of symbolic. His brother Eli found him in the office at three in the morning. I think that sounds kind of suspicious, don’t you? So Logan and Falacci hit the trail trying to find anyone that might have had a problem with the doc. It turns out that he had an argument with a patient’s husband earlier that day. When questioned he said that he wasn’t mad at the doctor as much as he was at his wife. She had aborted the son because of a defect he would have had if he was born. Tom the geneticist confirms this, and the wife collaborates his alibi. When they dig a little deeper they see that he had a huge agrument with his son that day as well. During the argument the son threatened his dad’s life. When they questioned him he said he was in the park getting wasted with some friends. They backed his alibi up too. Next they turn their investigation towards his wife. She had a separate cellphone that she used to call only one number. Upon confronting her she admitting having an affair with her brother in law Eli. She said that she broke up with him that night. Eli said he met her that night and broke up with her for a different girl. The other girl confirms meeting him that night as well. They got the results back from the blood back at the scene. There were three sets of blood found. One was the victim’s obviously, and one was the brother Eli’s. They knew about those two, but the third was a surprise. The DNA test showed that it was a blood relative of theirs. I know what you were thinking, but its not the son. The DNA test showed that it was Eli’s son. This is kind of weird considering Eli made a point to say that he was sterile. They question one of his old friends only to find out that he just used that line on girls. He went on to say that Eli made regular contributions to the sperm bank. When they look it up, he has over a dozen kids through the donor program. This doesn’t make it any easier to find the killer. Long story short one of his son’s looked up Eli and tried to convince him to help his brother with a bone marrow transplant. Eli was a match but refused to do it. The son tried to get the victim to talk some sense into his brother. The victim said Eli would never care and that caused the boy to snap. He admitted to the crime only under the condition of the transplant being done. Another case is closed, and we’re all sated until next week. By the way check out my last post ‘Let Her Go’.

This week on life we start out with car wrecked on the side of the road with a woman in it. The woman has been shot by some in the backseat. Charlie wanders around in the woods only to find the husband of the woman out there. It is obvious that he was in the wreck, but he is not in his right mind. He thinks that he is waiting for the valet at a restaurant. When they pull him in for the interview, he seems to have blocked out what happened. It is very interesting to see the amazement he has with modern technology. With a little bit of persuading the husband says he struggled with a carjacker and his wife was shot. So from this point they start to build the time line of the couple on that night using the GPS in the car. The GPS shows that they stopped at a gas station, but the tank of the car was empty. So they go to question the attendant at the gas station. He says they paid for gas but didn’t pump it. He also said that a large latino man with tattoos was around the car. Periodically the show has documentary like interviews about his case. This kind of brings home the facts of the crime he was wrongly convicted for. They find a third set of prints in the car belonging to a Samoan ex-con with a history of carjacking. He has went AWOL on his parole, so Charlie and Dani go hit up his known associates. It turns out that he owes these guys eleven thousand dollars, and they happily tell them where he is at. When they raid his house he hits Crew with a flash bang grenade and starts running. Charlie runs him down, and he pulls a knife on him. He pulls his knife out too creating a stalemate. In the interrogation room he swears the husband shot the wife. So they interview the husband again only to get another story again. This time he gives the full account. The samoan guy tries to carjack them, and the husband tells him that he has ten thousand dollars in a safe at his house. Realizing that their kids are there the wife tries to wrestle the gun away from him. So he shoots her. All that is left is to pin it on the somoan guy. They can’t use the husbands testimony in court because his story has changed so much. This is where his old friends step in and get him to admit it on tape. Check out my last post ‘Impulsive’.

This week’s episode of ‘SVU’ was very good. This episode starts out with a kid named Shane going to the doctor. The doctor tells him that he has a STD. When he asks the Shane about it he says that his teacher gave it to him. So with Shane being a minor they go to arrest his teacher, who is played expertly by Melissa Joan Hart. When they pull her in for questioning she says that he raped her during a tutoring session. It seems to be a classic he said she said thing with no evidence pointing either way. When Benson and Stabler are forced to cut her loose she immediately proceeds to have an abortion. The police take the fetus as evidence that is later supressed in court. When the teacher’s husband finds out about the abortion he goes ballistic, and ends up punching Stabler in the face when he tries to calm him down. They had been trying to have a baby and that was why the husband was so angry. In an act of forgiveness he doesn’t charge him with assault. They tailed the kid only to find out he went to see a hooker. Ice T and Lake dig a little deeper to find that he has slept with over two dozen prostitutes always with a rape fantasy. Now that we know who is telling the truth it is time to build the case. His attorney pleads not guilty by reason of mental defect causing him to be under duress. The teacher asks for leniency on the kid so as not to ruin his life. Shane pleas out on the condition that he serves eighteen months in a juvenile sexual offenders rehabilitation clinic and that he stays out of trouble. Well on his first night there he gets raped with undertones of irony. Well they caught his rapist and shut the facility down. Check out my last link about the season premiere of ‘CI’.

Well the season premiere is here. The episode opens with two cops on a stakeout. One of the cops takes a bathroom break, and while he is gone his partner is shot. Detective Eames and Goren pick the case up. It turns out that the cop killed was Eames’s husband’s partner and was there when he was shot in the line of duty. Goren and Eames are my favorite detective’s on ‘CI’. The detective’s start looking into a possibility that this murder is connected to Detective Dotton’s death. The next day the other witness in her husband’s death was shot too. The other cop in the stakeout said he saw who killed his partner, but Goren proved that he was wrong. They go and talk to the man convicted in her husbands murder. He proclaims his innocence, saying that the drug dealer that said he saw him was lying to protect somebody. Goren with his holmes’esque style of detective work seems to believe him. He reluctantly tells Eames that he has to look into her husbands case to try to find the truth. Using modern DNA techniques they find a piece of trace DNA that doesn’t match the man convicted or the witness. The witness had testified that the killer was smoking the cigarette that was found at the scene. The gun that killed the cop and the witness was found dumped near where the witness was shot. It turns out to be a standard issue gun for Vietnam soldiers. While interviewing the convicted man’s father they find out that he was a Vietnam veteran. After a little detecting Goren figures out that the killer is the wrongfully convicted man’s son. So all that is left now is to solve the husbands murder. The detectives start by shaking down the witnesses posse. On of his friends is now an ex-con so they lean on him with the threat of revoking his parole. He tells them that the witness had a kid following him around that was waving around a glock. They go to inform the family that they have caught the man that murdered their son. It was there that they found out that during the time of the old murder his cousin was visiting with them. The cousin is a emergency room doctor in Queens now, so they go to question him. With the right questioning he gives himself up. Hey check out my last post ‘Tear Asunder’.

I have to say that the new show, ‘Life’ on NBC, is a breath of fresh air for the crime drama genre. The combination of very sharp writing and an excellent cast makes this show great. I think the premise is great, and this opens the way for many unique situations not available in other crime drama shows. Being a man who was wrongfully convicted of a triple murder, he has a unique take on the crimes. He seems to have a certain empathy for the criminals that stems from the twelve years in prison. This episode starts with a dead bride killed on her wedding night. With a little searching they found the husband drinking himself into stupor by the pool, covered in blood. He says that he found her that way, and then started drinking. When Charlie attempts to put the cuffs on the new widow, they start to fight until they both fall in the pool. They continue fighting underwater until Charlie’s partner Dani zaps the pool with about 900 volts. After the interrogation Charlie decides that he didn’t kill his new wife. They ask the friends about the couple only to be told how great they were together. The attorney for the husband was also a friend of the bride, so when they go to interview him they find a shrine to her thats in the form of a journal with her head on other bodies. The whole time they are conducting the investigation the I.A. is pressuring Dani for dirt on Charlie. Charlie is looking at the photos from the wedding when he has an epiphany. He keeps seeing one of the friends taking pictures in the pictures, but doesn’t have them. When they confront her she spills the beans. Her brother was trying to steal the money gifts from the wedding. The little sister saw him murder her. Another case closed with unique detective work. By the way check out my last link ‘The News’.

After looking at my Tivo I realize that I have watched the wrong ‘SVU’. Instead of seeing the new episode on NBC I was duped into watching a rerun on USA. Never trust anyone else to set the timer for you. You know who you are so I won’t say your name here this time. So I’m sorry about the mistake ,and I won’t let it happen again. In other news starting tomorrow I will start to cover a newcomer to the crime drama genre. The new show is on NBC ,and it’s called ‘Life’. All the critics are giving this show rave reviews. The little part of the premiere episode that I got to see this show looks phenomenal. The premise of the show is that a cop is wrongly convicted in a triple homicide. He serves twelve years in prison before his case is overturned. He receives millions in a settlement with the city and rejoins the police force. All of the years in prison have changed his perceptions of things. From what I saw it gives him an edge in solving cases. This show seems to be the sleeper hit of this season. I think that this show brings a fresh take on the crime drama, and I’m happy to get to cover this. Check out my excellent coverage of the rerun ‘The Kiddie Killer‘.

Well tonight’s episode of ‘SVU’ was very engrossing. It starts out with the chief telling them that there was a murder suspect that the normal P.D. has handed off to them. They brace themselves for another of the many perverts they see everyday when a seven year old kid walks in. It is obvious from this start that the case is going to be unique. The case just gets stranger when the district attorney decides to prosecute the seven year old boy for murder. The case looks pretty basic in a very sad kind of way. The little girl that was shot had a crush on the boy and constantly tried to kiss him. Although nobody knows what could possess the boy to kill the girl, the cops proceed to try to find out where the child got the gun. The parents are clean cut people who don’t own a gun as are the other parents in the child’s class. When the ballistics come back on the gun, it turns out that someone used the gun to kill a drug dealing the night before the shooting at the school. One of the people involved in the shooting turns out to be the great grandson of the boy’s babysitter. Upon closer inspection the great grandson was using the boy as a lookout during drug deals. When the drug deal went south, the boy saw the murder. After the killers left the boy grabbed the gun and ran.
He took it to school because he was scared of the killers. When the killer shows up outside of the playground the kid tries to scare him away with the gun. The gun goes off and an innocent girl gets shot. Well with the new information the cops grab the killer ,and the D.A. drops the case.
This story doesn’t end on a happy note though, as a twelve year old boy kills him the same day. By the way, check out my last post ‘Dangerous Son’.