Life: 5 Quarts
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aw…yay!...wait…..what, what, what?????
What the hell just happened? Vans are bad, right? I consulted my TV-to- Reality dictionary and Windowless Van = Death. Or something very bad. So, Show, you’re trying to TRICK us into thinking something bad is going to happen to Dani, right? RIGHT?
Holy cow, does anyone have theories?
Ha. Look at that; it’s finally happened. I’m calling her Dani. That took a long time, actually.
Ok, more worried flailing later.
Bodner: “So we’re done shooting each other?”
Charlie: “Yeah, I think so.”
Good. We already knew that, but good. I think Bodner is my second-favorite rehabilitated enemy, after Rayborn (unless Amanda comes back, then she is).
Hey look, there’s Seever in a lycra-blend tank, tight jeans, stiletto-heeled boots and a neutral jacket. Huh. By the end of this episode, I count SIX outfits of this exact description, since the start of last episode. Dani had a sort of uniform too, but not like this! I would so love the show to get this, and give us a shot of her closet, with the tanks of many colors and the jackets all hanging in a row. J
Charlie to Seever: “You’re very certain, aren’t you?” He pokes at her a few times in this ep, including the face he makes whenever she speed-reads. I’m not getting that he doesn’t like her, just that the combination of oddness and Not-Reeseness is making him uncharacteristically judgy.
The thing about Tidwell and the smells was funny, but too forced. Why would he say, “How exactly does the nose smell things anyway?” What are they, doctors? He just said it to set up the line from Kwo, outside. “That’s just the particles in your nose.” And then she says she’s not allowed to eat in the lab…except she implied that they have cake there, and later she does eat in the lab. I’m confused.
Actually, that part was pretty funny. She’s got some kind of wrap-type sandwich in her left hand, eating, and a corpse’s hand in her right hand, getting his finger prints. When they tell her they need her to go get something, she’s exasperated and drops both things at once. That was a nice bit by the actress playing Kwo.
This was interesting. Charlie tells Sierra that everyone has a “scene.”
Sierra: “Yeah? What’s yours?”
Charlie: “It’s complicated. It’s like a puzzle. With a missing piece, you know?”
Sierra: “No, I don’t.”
Charlie: “It’s dark. Right? Goth? It’s dark….”
Oh, I loved Crews and Reese on the phone again!
Charlie: “When are you coming back?”
Dani: “In a few days…Is there still room for me in the car?”
Charlie: “Right behind the wheel.” He smiles. *loves them*
Crews and Seever coming out of the LA County Coroner’s building: PANTS. Wow, that was a nice Pants. Watch that back, you’ll see.
Questioning the chef.
Seever: “Actually, 97% of all cops never use their gun except at the range.”
Jimmy: “You talk like a lawyer.”
Charlie: “You’ll have to cut that out if you want to be mayor.”
Jimmy: “She wants to be mayor?”
Charlie: “Fifteen-year plan!”
Seever: “You’ll just be going up for parole.”
Hey, that was almost Crews and Reese-like! (Don’t throw things…I want her back just as much as you do.)
Charlie: “What’s with the meat, Jimmy? Sitting back here, getting drunk, cutting all this meat.”
Seever: “Errol died back here, right?”
Charlie: “What’s with all this meat, Jimmy?”
This is a great example of the “style” thing I was talking about last week. They say everybody’s name a lot. They have different characters say the exact same lines as each other. They do this a lot, which is to begin and end a section of dialogue with the same words. Charlie does it mostly, I think. Here’s another example:
Tidwell: “He was cutting meat?”
Seever: “And crying.”
Tidwell: “Ellison gets that bullet back, he’s gonna get rid of it, but why take the coroner’s blood?”
Seever: “He was cutting meat and crying.”
Kathy White. I loved the part where Charlie’s looking at her photos on the computer, and leans in really close. The actress playing Kathy does a great job with the subtle attraction. The sideways glance, then she turns toward him, very close to his face and looks right at him. That was a littlebit hot.
I also loved this.
Charlie: “Am I gonna die? I mean, soon?”
Kathy: “You really want to know?”
Charlie, smiling: “Yeah. Yeah, I really wanna know!”
That’s a great example of his thing, where he goes where the other person takes him. She says she sees dead people; Seever’s all rolling her eyes and moving on in the conversation, but Charlie stops and wants to see what she says. And he’s not spooked by whatever answer he might get.
Then it’s kinda sweet, later, when he thinks maybe Seever is spooked by the fact that Kathy said someone “close to him” would die soon.
Charlie: “It didn’t have to be you. There are a lot of people close to me…. (thinky face) Actually, there aren’t a lot of people close to me. I guess there should be more. I’ve been away.”
And again:
Charlie: “Just out of curiosity, what would I be worth dead?”
Kathy: “Six figures.”
Charlie (happy): “Six figures! But not anytime soon.”
The part with Seever and Crews on the floor of the coroner’s lab was cute too.
I haven’t yet mentioned: I love the snarky coroner. He’s one of my favorite things this episode. They’re interrogating him about the murder weapon.
Charlie: “And Grant’s skin and blood?”
Santos: “Which I forgot to wash off. I assure you that if I killed him, I woulda made time. I’m very good at prioritizing.”
Ted!!! OMG, I loved Ted so much this week.
Ted: “So he left you. For a dog-walker. Ann, what is a dog-walker?”
Ann: “She walks dogs.”
Ted: “She walks dogs. For a living. And he doesn’t help with the baby?”
Ann: “He doesn’t’ want to see the baby.”
Ted: “He doesn’t want to see the baby.”
Ann: “He doesn’t want to see me.”
Ted: “He doesn’t want to see you? Ann, what’s the baby’s name?”
Ann: “Ted.”
They both start sobbing.
You guys, BABY TED!!!! I can’t tell you how much I love that. It’s a baby, named after Ted! AND, it’s a BABY named TED!
Ok, I just have one question, though. Didn’t Ann say something about her husband’s ethnic background, when she first appeared a couple episodes ago? I have this weird memory that she said he was…middle-eastern? Mongolian? I can go back and watch, but does anyone remember?
Ok, I can’t tell you how much I loved the end, right up until I really DIDN’T. Charlie’s looking at the conspiracy wall and at the photo of Reese with Rayborn. Dani’s looking at the photo of Charlie, and we hear the Zen tape voiceover, but I didn’t get right away that Dani is listening to it!
“Objects are not deceiving, they are deception. What we see, what we have, all that our senses present to us is a fiction. No more real than a dream. We can only know what we believe. That which we believe - that is all we have.”
Ok, 1) Dani is listening to Zen! <3 2) We’re meant to understand that they’re both deciding not to trust the “fact” in their hands, but to trust what they believe. And each believes that the other is innocent and trustworthy.
So Dani turns down Suit Lady’s offer to spy on Charlie. I would wag my finger at her for even considering spying on him, but I’m too happy. And Suit seems happy! That was sorta cute, how she seemed happy and almost proud of Dani for refusing to spy on her partner.
So then…I was mildly confused that Dani took the San Diego offer, when she had seemed pretty happy to get back on the job with Charlie, but whatever. Maybe she wants to salvage the career boost that was promised her at the outset of this fiasco.
But then, seriously, you guys! WHAT IS GOING ON? Black van, agents who won’t talk to her, Dani’s nervous. They’re messing with us, right? I know she’s not going to die, but what do you think this is? Is this just phase two of the FBI’s plan to crack her and get Charlie for Rayborn’s murder? Is Roman behind the whole thing, and now she’s going to visit His Whiteness for some more intense questioning and coercion? I tip my hat to you, Show, because now I can’t wait for next week.
Speaking of which, the promo for next week. I counted at least one new redhead. And this:
Ted: “What do you want?”
Charlie: “I want a peaceful soul.”
Ted: “What do you need?”
Charlie: “I need a bigger gun.”
Honey, I really don’t think you do. J
Ok, before I go, I just read that somebody's making a Steve McQueen biopic (possibly two!) I mentioned this to someone last night, and got blankness...So I was thinking, is it just me? Am I the only one who thinks they look alike?
Apparently not. :-) I went searching for images of Steve McQueen and got this:
a bit of wishful thinking by the apparently very delightful
adlervan..