Crime Drama TV

Another piece of episodic brilliance has emerged in this fresh show. Our victim today is a man that has had a bomb vaporize the lower half of his body leaving the top half still upright. This scene is one of the weirdest I have seen on TV. If there was better access to recent pictures of episodes I would have it, but I am forced to recycle pictures from other episodes. Well anyway it turns out that this extremely ordinary seeming man is actually leading two separate lives with two separate wives. One is a Mrs. Farthing and the other is Mrs. Gale. Somehow he has convinced both of these women that he is a secret agent for the government. With each woman he acts completely different with very few similarities. So Charlie starts doing a private stakeout on the lead detective in his own case. He sees him having a heated argument with some unknown man at the park. He snaps a couple of shots for his conspiracy wall. Charlie gets back on he case at hand by meeting Dani at the police department. While he is having a conversation with Dani about Farthingale they get a officer down call from in the building. Everyone rushes down to the parking deck only to find the body of the detective in Charlie’s case. Immediately the blame starts to shift towards Charlie even though clearly he didn’t do it. After all that calms down for a minute they get a hit from the federal database. Apparently he did work for the government, wait for it, as an IRS agent. Charlie has an epiphany about the case. They start looking for only things that were the same in his double lives. It turns out that he did have a lead on a serial bomber. The whole time he really did truly just want to be a hero. Charlie and Dani catch the bomber and arrest him for Mr. Farthingale’s murder. By the way what is the twist of this week? The man arguing with the detective on the day he was murdered was Dani’s father. I hope everyone checks out my last post by clicking here.

So this week there were a couple of very good twists in this week’s episode of ‘SVU’. It starts out as the detectives find an elven year old girl who has been kidnapped, raped, and put in the trunk of an impounded car. Benson and Stabler run the tags only to find that the car was rented by a man from Louisiana named Saul. They go to this man’s apartment to conduct an interview. The man nervously tells them he returned the car and shows them his paperwork. Well that checks out because it turns out that it was stolen from the rental agency. With that not checking out, they get a call over the radio saying another girl was taken. This time security cameras clearly show Saul leading the girl out of the bookstore. It turns out that right after he turned the car in he just stole it back. Through excellent detective work they luckily find them before the girl was hurt. Stabler cuffs him and starts walking toward the car when a car with a sign saying ‘Time to escape’ passes by. The man see this and proceeds to head butt Stabler which sends his head though the back window. He doesn’t get away though. Stabler is taken to the hospital where it is found out that he has been temporarily blinded. After they bring Saul in it is apparent that he is totally insane. He refuses to plea insanity. Louisiana also has a hold on him for a rape there so the FBI is trying to extradite him to Louisana. ADA helps the defense to show that he is insane putting herself in hot water with everyone around her.

So we’re back to my favorite show of the week. ‘Life’ just has such interesting writing with an out of the box kind way of storytelling that just makes this show very refreshing. With some of the other shows I watch sometimes it just feels like they are going through the motions with the storylines. Anyway I’m getting off the subject, this week’s episode starts with two Persian people were shot in a gas station and a third missing. So the owner of the store comes in and identifies one of the suspects as her son. When they do a little digging they find that the three Persians were dealing drugs. The mother of the missing boy gets a call saying that if they wanted the son back they would have to get them all the drug money. Meanwhile at the house Charlie’s mother in law to be rides along on a trip to check out a solar farm. They run out of gas there and have to spend the night out there. The detectives start searching through the boy’s things to try to find any records of the drug money. The only thing they find is a link to a file that isn’t on his computer. Eventually they figure out that it is referring to a level on a video game of his. His little sister helps them get to the level and viola’ there are the records of all the drug transactions. They also found a separate file with the initials of the owner of the store. That’s when they figure out he has both his mom and the boy. Charlie finds them in a bank where he is making them do a wire transfer.So now this has become a mexican standoff of sorts.The swat sniper shoots the suspect and that’s it. By the way check out my last post by clicking here.

I have to say that this weeks visit to the world of ‘SVU’ was one of the most intriguing episodes that I have seen. This is one show that I would hate to have pushed into reruns by the writer’s union. Not that I have anything bad to say about the strike. Quite the opposite, actually I think that the creative minds behind our favorite tv shows are more than justified in this attempt to receive more money. They create the characters, the plot twists, and just generally make TV shows more than just reality TV. I’m sorry I guess I’m getting a little offtrack here. So two people stumble across a body stashed in an elevator shaft. It was this lady who had been dosed with GHB then strangled with her own pantyhose. The killer also cut her breasts off as a trophy. So they go to the victim, Tina Snow’s apartment to find out from her roommate that she was involved in something weird. They find a burnt piece of paper that, through modern forensics, has a location and a time. The detectives head to the location only to find some kind of weird adventure seekers. They say that the night she died they left her at the Hata Mari bar. The bartender, Cecilia, says she left with some guy later that night. After she gives a description to a sketch artist, she calls Detective Benson during which she is apparently attacked. When they get to the bar they find what appears to have been a struggle and a picture of the Venus De Milo painted in blood. After running the painting through the symbol recognition software at the precinct it turns up with hit on the serial killer Robert Morton who is currently serving eight life sentences. He is expertly played by Jared Harris. He was known for torturing women for exactly twelve hour before murdering them. This means that they have a limited amount of time trying to catch this copycat before he murders Cecilia. It turns out that he has quite the following outside of prison. After wading through a number of dead ends, they find that Tina’s murder was a mirror of the cover of a graphic novel made about Robert Morton. The comic basically explores the possibility of what would have happened if he wasn’t caught. They question the writer, but his alibi is confirmed. They find that the picture left at the bar was the cover of another issue of the comic. The comic says that the girl is killed in Robert’s childhood home. They arrive there to find Cecilia barely alive. She has been cut, but she is OK. At the precinct they receive a bomb hidden in a pizza box. After they evacuate the building someone comes up to Stabler and Benson saying that the girls wounds were self inflicted. So she turns out to be intimately connected to him through his lawyers. She ends up getting off on mental defect. Morton gets his though when he is transfered to a Supermax prison allowing no human contact. By the way check out my last post by clicking here.

Well this week starts out with a washed up body and a coin in a fish belly. Immediately the FBI is there with the suspicion of terrorism. Just because he is Muslim doesn’t mean that he is a terrorist. It turns out that he is a treasure hunter who was just framed to look like a terrorist. So they do a little digging and find out about the coins. After a little looking around they find the fence that the woman used. Well they trace the woman back by her husband who owns a salvage company called Camelot. They go to her house but the husband has tipped her off so she is long gone. They do find the victim’s passport there. They find two sizes of males underwear at the loft which leads them to suspect there is an man involved. The mans name was chili, but by the time they catch up with him he is dead and his boat abandoned. So the list of suspects is very quickly narrowing. It’s down to the husband or the wife. Who is it you ask? Neither, it turns out that it was the dive investor. He stood to lose his fortune if this ship was salvaged. Goren and Eames crack another one wide open. By the way I want to make sure everyone checks out my last post by clicking here.