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THE RED CELL TEAM TRIES TO FIND THE CONNECTION BETWEEN TWO BRUTAL MURDERS, ON "CRIMINAL MINDS: SUSPECT BEHAVIOR," WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2

Justine Bateman Guest Stars as Margaret, a Retired Nurse

"See No Evil" - The red cell team travels to Arizona to decipher the message a suspect is sending following two brutal murders, on CRIMINAL MINDS: SUSPECT BEHAVIOR, Wednesday, March 2 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.


SERIES REGULARS:
Sam Cooper........................... Forest Whitaker
Beth Griffith........................... Janeane Garofalo
Mick Rawson.................................. Matt Ryan
John "Prophet" Sims................... Michael Kelly
Gina LaSalle................................ Beau Garrett
Penelope Garcia.................. Kirsten Vangsness


GUEST STARS
Margaret................................. Justine Bateman
Det. Vivian Solis........................... Karen Olivo
Det. Turner.................................. Vince Duvall
Older man................................. Kevin Brunner
Medical Examiner.......................... Terri Hoyos
Evelyn Lawford........................... Kathe Mazur
Dr. Florio.............................. Kirk B.R. Woller
Allison Gilroy........................... Lauren Koslow
Kenneth Richards......................... Marc Singer
Brenda Richards........................... Susan Leslie
Nurse Karen............................ Torri Higginson
Assistant..................................... Antoine Perry
Detective................................... Jack Kennedy
Reporter.................................... Sharon Muthu


DIRECTED BY: Rob Spera
WRITTEN BY: Barry Schindel

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Fringe 3x15: In Which Little Peter Wants to Go Home and Walternate Gets a Clue

As a sequel to last season’s 'Peter', this week’s 1980’s flashback stood out as one the show’s most poignant, most revealing episodes to date. No gruesome offerings, no FBI interrogations, no lead actors save for John Noble – 'Subject 13' was a stark look back at the six months following Peter’s abduction by Walter from the Other Side.



THINGS THAT MADE ME HAPPY (and by happy I mean teary-eyed):

The Teaser – Despite the lack of gruesome or grotesque, the opening sequence was chilling and eerily disturbing as we saw little Peter trail across the icy Reiden Lake in an attempt to go home and Elizabeth Bishop racing to save her ‘son’ from dying a second time. The desperation and sadness really set the tone for the rest of the episode.



Little Peter – we’ve seen so many episodes relaying the terrible consequences of Walter’s decision to steal Peter from ‘Over There’, but never has the effect been so poignant, so devastating as having to watch the little boy in question, confused and desperately yelling, “I want to go home!” We see this eight-year old child suddenly faced with unimaginable trauma – knowing that he is in a place he is not supposed to be, yet no-one willing to take him back where he belongs. In an interesting parallel, Walter is reluctantly trying to convince young Peter that he is someone he is not. Twenty-five years later Walternate will maliciously do the same thing with Olivia. When we think back to Olivia’s trauma, it makes little Peter’s broken plea to Elizabeth, “I know that I sound crazy. But I'm not, okay? I'm not crazy”, all that more heart-breaking.


Major kudos to Chandler Canterbury who played young Peter. I wanted to adopt him about ten minutes into the episode. Not only did he play the part well, but he got all the Peterisms spot-on, right down to Josh Jackson’s intense-angry face and easy side-smile.

The Beguiling Olivia Dunham – so we finally got to understand the true source of Olivia’s ‘power’. It is not only fear, as previously suggested, but as Walter postulated, “the unique combination of love and terror stimulates a cortical reaction.” Which makes sense, when we think about the times Olivia’s been ‘triggered’. It was this combination which obviously allowed her to cross over to bring Peter back at the end of season 2 and I’m guessing that it won’t be the last time that these emotions are invoked with regards to Peter, particularly now that we’ve seen little Olivia’s mad pyro-skizilz at the sight of those she holds dear. Imagine the kind of damage adult Olivia could do if Peter was ever in any real danger (I’m thinking strapped to a Doomsday machine with fire coming out of his eyeballs kind of danger).


This episode also gave us some insight as to why Olivia is who she is. We saw glimpses of the little girl Olivia could be at the day-care centre. With Dr Walter and the other children she could be playful and carefree yet at home, she was terrorized. The simple concept of home meant fear. Is it any wonder that as an adult she questions her ability to allow herself to be vulnerable when everything in her life has cautioned her against it? This episode did a good job of peeling back the layers. And as with Chandler Canterbury, Karley Scott Collins did a great job of capturing Olivia’s nuances.

Loving you is easy when you’re beautiful - I could practically hear the lyrical chirp of Disney birds flying overhead as little Peter laid eyes on little Olivia for the first time. It was one of those magical ‘first meeting’ moments that generally occur in pilots which we had to wait three seasons to see. And by the look on his face, little Peter was definitely beguiled.



Their scene in the tulip field was incredibly beautiful and hard to believe that such young actors could pull off such a strong, emotional piece. Altlivia ain’t got nothin’ on childhood tulip-field destiny trysts.




Walter/nate – We saw Walternate, before he was Walternate and just Walter. Walter who had lost a son, who was mad with grief and whose marriage was crumbling down around him. For the first time since the introduction of Walter Bishop’s alternate, I felt true sympathy for this character. Watching him fall into despair and obsession as he tried to uncover the mystery behind his son’s abductor was pitiful. The switch (this word was also this week’s glyph by the way) between the two Walters was profoundly effective in showing the thin line between the two men. While our Walter was testing on children and desperately trying to keep his family sane, the other Walter was wearing Ray-Bans and strolling into Bishop Dynamic, effectively tearing his family apart.


I would say that this changes my perception of Walternate’s character from this point forward, but then I remember that he held Olivia captive, brainwashed her, was prepared to lobotomise her, sent shape-shifters over that killed our Charlie Francis, is currently experimenting on human beings, and I find my sympathy sorely lacking. Both men may have been cut from the same cloth, but while Walter became the root-beer loving mad scientist we all know and love, Walternate became somewhat of a sociopath, so no, I’m still not willing to forgive and forget.

TWIST! – Sooo…Olivia told Walternate that there was another universe and that Peter was in that other universe, thus provoking Walternate to start the war. Okay Fringe. You blew my mind. That was seriously one of the best WTF moments I never saw coming.



Orla “Mama Bishop” Brady – Once again, Orla Brady brought poise and grace to her role as Elizabeth Bishop. Watching the beginning of the lie and the slow unravelling of her character with the knowledge that she would eventually take her life was painful. She also delivered one of the most significant lines in the episode and ultimately, the thing that allows young Peter to move on : "“Sometimes what we have is not the world we want, but we have our hearts and our imaginations to make the best of it”.



THINGS THAT MADE ME NOT SO HAPPY:

Memories – I’m pretty certain that this isn’t the last we’ve seen of the eighties, or of young Olivia and the rest of the Cortexiphan kids. Even so, I’m impatient to learn how as an adult, Olivia has no memory of, not only the trials, but kind Dr Walter who stood up for her when no one else would. Surely such a figure would make an impression in a young child’s life. In ‘Jacksonville’, we have Olivia saying to Peter, who also has no memory of ever visiting the day-care centre, “I have a freakishly good memory, I remember everything, but not this”.

Now either the trauma from the trials was so bad that she repressed it really, really deep in her subconscious or Walter and Bell realised that having these children out there with the knowledge of the other universe and how to get there was dangerous so they muddled with their memories. As Nick Lane said in ‘Bad Dreams’, “I think they meant for us to forget.” Either way, I’m hoping this is one of the mysteries that don’t stay unanswered for too long.

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“Nothing is random.” So says Mark Helprin, author of A Winter’s Tale, the book little Olivia was reading before she crossed over. “Nothing is random, nor will it ever be.” Words like fate and destiny have been thrown around in Fringe before. In ‘White Tulip’, we have this little exchange between Olivia and Peter.

PETER: Yeah, I read that déjà vu is fate's way of telling you that you're exactly where you're supposed to be. That's why you feel like you've been there before. You are right in line with your own destiny.

OLIVIA: Well, do you believe that?

PETER: Mmm... no. It's a bit mystical for my taste. I never get them, myself. Maybe that's 'cause I'm not on track with my own destiny.

Of course the dramatic irony is that at this point we know that Peter may not be in line with what was supposed to be his destiny. It would seem that these characters are following a certain path, a predetermined path. Peter and Olivia meet as children, then again as adults. They are brought together by a series of events from the moment Peter is brought over to this side. What are the chances that the Dr Walter who experiments on Olivia as a child was the same man she would need years later to save her boyfriend from a chemical attack? Or that Walter experiments on Olivia and the other children in the hope that they will be able to take Peter back, yet 25 years later it is because of these experiments that they are able to retrieve him from the Other Side and bring him ‘home’? It certainly seems as if there is a larger scheme in play.

Now destiny, isn’t a very ‘scientific’ concept, yet neither is God and in White Tulip (which this episode makes a loose reference to) we have Walter making an appeal for the existence of God. To which Peck responds, “God is science. God is polio and flu vaccines and M.R.I. machines, and artificial hearts. If you are a man of science, then that's the only faith we need.” In a similar fashion, in A Winter’s Tale the concept of destiny can be reduced to Nietzsche’s concept of the ‘eternal recurrence’, which can be whittled down to the basic phrase “All of this has happened before and all of this will happen again,” which is to say, that time is a perpetually recurring i.e. we make certain choices because we’ve made them before and will continue to make them in the future.

No matter, it all happened at once, in less than an instant, and time was invented because we cannot comprehend in one glance the enormous and detailed canvas that we have been given - so we track it, in linear fashion piece by piece.
- Mark Helprin,
A Winter’s Tale

Of course, time and the recurrence of time was the primary theme in ‘White Tulip’. All these threads are beginning to tie up. We’re starting to see interconnections not just between characters, but between themes and storylines and I’m getting more and more excited by what the writers have planned.
This episode was complex, textured and definitely one of the best the show has ever delivered, it goes down as one of my all-time favourites.




RATING:


9.8 White Tulips

Here is Sean Furfaro's recap of The Amazing Race, Episode 2.
Last week’ s season premiere of The Amazing Race ended with the teams still racing, and no one being eliminated at the Pit Stop mat with Outback Phil. This week, all 11 teams continued on their trek through Australia. Would the Cow-bros be able to overcome the huge gap that was created last week? Who is on the verge of passing out? And why are the teams dressed like Kangaroos?

My Random Thoughts:

- First of all, I need to point out that I have an issue with this season being called "Unfinished Business." Yes, I understand that all of the teams are back for a second shot at the million dollars, but only one of these 11 teams are going to "finish" their "business" by winning the race. Know what I mean?

- I fully expected that at some point in the race, there would be some sort of language barrier between a team and a cab driver, but I certainly didn't expect it to be with an Asian cab driver...in Australia.

- Why were we seeing so many blurred faces while the teams were in Sydney? I know that CBS has to get people that appear on the race to sign a release to use their image in the show, but why were so many people in Sydney saying no? Is it a hotbed for the Witness Protection program?

- I had read last week that someone called the alliance of Luke & Margie with Jaime and Cara as "The Evil Alliance", and initially I jumped on board, but then I realized that it wasn't really fair. None of the 4 of them are really evil: Luke is a crybaby, Margie is an enabler, Jaime can sometimes be rude, and Cara is quite likeable. Maybe "Luke and The Gals" would be a better nickname, although his description of them as his 'race girlfriends' was cringe-worthy, especially after the awkward jumping up and down the 4 of them did after finding out they would be on the first flight. Did you see Luke making sure he had the redheads on either side? The look on his face was like, "Touch me, touch me." Creepy.

- I'll say that I'm incredibly impressed that Mike is 70 years old and running the race with his son, but if you're cramping up and nearly passing out on the first leg, then the future isn't looking too bright for Mel and Mike. Although Mike does get some Caring Son Points for telling Mike "I don't want to kill you for some joyride."

- Jet and Cord in wetsuits just looked awkward. I'm not sure if I've seen anything that looked so wrong on this show before. But hey, at least the City Slickers music is back when something good happpens with the Cow-Bros.

- At the Detour, the teams had to choose between Spirit World and Natural World, and all 11 of the teams picked Spirit World, which initially bothered me because, let's be honest, who doesn't want to see some good old Spit Art? But then I remembered that Amanda and Kris had to do it anyways because of the U-Turn, and I wondered how I could have forgotten that after being reminded about 13 times in the first five minutes about the U-Turn...again.
The Spirit World detour was pretty straightforward, with the teams having to complete a stone mosaic and then dance on top of it...all while accompanied by what appeared to be a homeless guy sitting cross-legged and blowing into a didgeridoo. (And if you want to hear some awesome eclectic music featuring the didgeridoo, check out my friends from Australia, Oka.) Kent made the easy part of the challenge more complicated by insisting to his partner "Vyxsin, please go get me children!" I like Kent and Vyxsin too much to make the obvious joke here.

Ron's master plan to Christina was to speak Chinese to each other so that the other teams couldn't understand them. I'm not sure that really mattered once the 10 other teams had left and they were the only ones there. Maybe they should have found that cab driver.

- Amanda and Kris breezed through the Spit Art, and as out-of-place as it was too watch a boyfriend teach his girlfried HOW to spit (sorry, couldn't resist), I had to wonder if it was so quick to complete (and it appeared to be...not just due to editing), then why didn't any of the other teams choose it?

- Do you think the teams this season were coached in advance on the use of "freakin'" and "frickin'" this season, because we're hearing it a LOT more than usual?

- I have to say, I really liked the task the teams had to do by solving a clue from the periodic table. I was thoroughly impressed that Kent (from his A in chemistry) was immediately able to identify the elements as Mercury and Bismuth (and not Bitunia or Business, as Ron suggested), while other teams resorted to the lame-ass strategy of "find someone with a Blackberry or iPhone."

- The Kangaroo suits were absolutely ridiculous...and awesome at the same time. I had to wonder if the Big Brother costume department, who has used unitards, Banana costumes, and Penguin costumes, was responsible for those outfits. To be fair, I'm sure that Kisha & Jen, Luke & Margie, and Jaime & Cara all had no problem with them, because at least they weren't running around St. Petersburg in their underwear in the winter like last time.

And the Globetrotters in the Kangaroo suits looked more ridiculous than anyone. Let me amend what I said a little earlier about the Cowboys in the wetsuits being the thing that looked the most wrong on the show.

- At the end of the Kangaroo task, the teams were given their Route Info directing them to the Pit Stop, which suggested "you may want to put on other shoes before driving." May? MAY? Are you telling me this isn't a specific requirement? How could it possibly be legal for them to drive without taking them off?

- Zev and Justin came in first on this leg, and how can you possibly not like these two and want to root for them? When I initially saw the cast list for this season, I wasn't too interested in seeing them back because, let's be honest, other than losing their passports, there wasn't really anything that memorable in their 4 episodes during their season (other than Zev the Duck Whisperer, which was pretty funny), but I'm getting on board with Zev and Justin now.

- Amanda and Kris were unable to overcome their 2nd U-Turn, and although they declared that they had won the lottery (Really? Being eliminated first is like winning the lottery?), it was another forgettable season for them. I suggest they embrace their Amazing Race legacy, and just get matching tattoos of the U-Turn symbol.

- Last week, I implemented a season-long “Goth” count for Kent and Vyxsin, and an “Oh My Gravy” count (currently at 1) for Jet and Cord. Well, earlier this week, Kent actually contacted me and playfully asked how many times they said it in the first episode. I must admit, it was a grand total of ZERO, and the Goths were obviously a victim of TAR editing in Season 12, since nobody really thought they walked around saying things like "We're the Gothy Gothersons from Gothville." Your point was very valid, Kent. Glad you're enjoying the blog.

Although, after tonight, I thought it may be a better idea to institute a whiny "Mommmmm" count from Luke, but I'm not sure I can count that high.

Next Week: Japan, Mudslinging, and a Fire-Headed Fender-Bender.

Amazing Race Fans, feel free to check out the archive of Amazing Race Recaps at Sean's Random Thoughts, or you can also add me on Facebook, where I post all of the recaps as soon as they go up. Don’t forget to mouse over the pictures for captions.

Thanks for reading.

February's inductee to the list of People Who Are Awesome is...a Hamster.

Of course, I'm speaking of Top Gear presenter Richard Hammond. He's got a dream job and he's never short of something to say. Check out what makes the Hamster great - and clips of some of his greatest hits - in this month's People Who Are Awesome.

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First off, sorry for not getting a review up for last week’s episode, “The End Of The World As We Knew It”. With everything else going on, unfortunately something had to give, so I did figure I would make a couple comments on that one right up front.

Last week’s episode was very aptly named. Josh found out that Ray was his “weredad” and Sally found out that she didn’t just die! Evidently Danny has a jealous, abusive streak and shoved her so hard that she fell down the stairs, cracked open her skull and broke some floor tiles in the process. We also found out that Bishop was seriously testing Aidan’s “no hospital” rule by bringing in a vampire priest with a new recruitment plan. Yes, I just gave a lot away, but it is needed because of how it shades this past week’s episode. “The End Of The World As We Knew It” was written by Nancy Won, who was a producer and writer for Brothers and Sisters and Everwood. I danced with glee a little when I saw Jericho in her credits. The director, Charles Biname, has done a lot of work on the other side of the pond, but here his big credit was with Flashpoint. Biname directed this week’s episode too, with the dynamic married duo of Jeremy Carver and Anna Fricke writing.

Josh’s fascination with Nora continues and he actually starts “dressing up” for work. Aidan gets a snuff film of Rebecca’s which horrifies Josh and Sally, and upsets Aidan. Emily and Jackie just broke up so Emily comes to Josh for a place to stay while she gets on her feet. Sally is becoming consumed by the fact that Danny killed her, and is trying to seek out ways to get her revenge.

On to the analysis!

First off, that revenge thing. Danny throws the ring into the harbor at the beginning of the episode…and it winds up bouncing down the steps in the house ending up on the landing where Sally died. Sally is now furious and cannot stop obsessing about the way she died and Danny getting away with it…which means the house has done a lot of violent shaking. Aidan doesn’t understand how Sally is able to hold the ring. She cannot pick up other objects but she can pick up that. Sally thought that it was the house that wanted her to have the ring. It does almost seem like it could be the house itself that was doing it…you remember what Shirley Jackson wrote in The Haunting Of Hill House—some houses are born bad. But she was able to go nutty on Danny’s apartment in the last episode, so it does really seem to be her. This is interesting because it shows that Sally has the ability to have some real POWER if she were to learn how to harness it. We see more of this in the character of Lindsay, a ghost haunting an ex lover named Bill at the club Sally goes to with Aidan and Emily.

Lindsay is the epitome of the angry poltergeist. She has the power to make Bill imagine that horrible things are happening to him. Unlike Tony, who had some constructive information for Sally about a door and moving on, Lindsay doesn’t seem to know anything about a door, or care about anything beyond tormenting Bill. She has totally dedicated herself to this singular purpose. I would also like to note the cool Lindsay wear. Since she died in 1991, her clothes were reminiscent of the early 1990s. There was the actual yellow gold, and big earrings. The hair was just starting to come down from the big fountain hair of the late 80s. I am having a lot of fun seeing the ghosts from different decades. Since Sally’s clothes are so “now”, her style could become very dated very fast. Sally, better hurry and find that door, girl!

But on a serious note, this idea of becoming focused on one thing, and making it the sum and total of your existence seems to be exactly what Aidan is worried about for Sally. He says to her that he doesn’t want her to do anything that would hurt her karma. Sally seems to be walking--or, well, she's a ghost...hovering-- that dangerous line where she could do something horrible to Danny that would change her from the person she was. Lindsay had an aneurism and died, but how would that be Bill’s fault? Yet she is obsessed with ruining his life because she doesn’t want him to go on living without her. Sally had gotten over that hurdle. She realized that she wanted Brig and Danny to be happy. She made her peace with him moving on, and then found out the horrible truth of what had happened to her. Sally has a real reason for wanting to hurt Danny herself, and now she knows that Danny may be getting abusive toward Brig too. Sally saw the bruises from where Danny grabbed Brig. There is a real fear here that Sally could do something bad that might ruin her chances of going through that door…

As dark and broody as that aspect of Sally is, I did like the light way Meaghan played the “porn before breakfast” scene with the Rebecca home video, and the introduction to Nora, where she was so excited for Josh. Just thought I’d throw that in there…

And now, on to Josh. After dealing with Ray, who tried to make a real werewolf out of him, Josh has seemed to realize that he wants to dwell on the human things. We know Josh likes to cook, and at the end of “The End Of the World As We Knew It”, Josh makes food and has Sally and Aidan sit with him to eat it just so that they have that normalcy going on. Here, he is trying his own way, instead of the random way that Ray was teaching him that really wasn’t working, to get Nora interested in him. I have to say that Josh is really growing on me. I found his scenes with Nora adorable. Nora too is a very interesting character with that way of joking that is difficult to read. She finds herself pleasantly surprised with Josh, and I have to say that is where I am coming in with him too. Of course his werewolf side is still there, even though we don’t see it in this episode. The vampire bashing he and Ray did has had consequences. We don’t know how watchful Bishop’s vampire nest was of Josh’s activities before that night, but now he is definitely on their radar. Not only does Josh have a vampire tail now, but it appears that Marcus messed with Emily…when she was supposed to be under the watchful eye of Aidan. I imagine that between Emily getting hurt, and that snuff film that showed just what vampires do to get their rocks off, Josh is going to have some serious issues with Aidan. I can’t help but think this is going to cause some real problems in their friendship.

And what can I say about Rebecca? Where are her allegiances? She comes clean to Aidan at the club, but then it just seems like more of the same. Tell the guy the truth and he falls into the trap willingly, evidently. She did exactly what she was supposed to do—she was supposed to keep his attention averted and she did. Aidan was not there to protect Emily and Emily is hurt. So was it all a scheme or does Rebecca really care about Aidan and really want help? Aidan brings up that he saw fear in Rebecca in the beginning of that video. Aidan, even though he is saying he has given up on her, obviously hasn't. He told Sally that he felt responsible for Rebecca. He doesn't confirm that he is in love with Rebecca, but he doesn't deny it either. Personally, I think that Aidan should stay as far away from her as he can. Or kill her…

But one thing that really shone in this episode is that it was really all about relationships, and the need for other people. Sometimes those people we love only bring out the worst in us, like what is happening with Sally as far as her past with Danny is concerned. Sometimes the people we love make us forget everything else, sometimes in a positive way, like with Josh and Nora, and sometimes in a negative way, like with Aidan and Rebecca. Again we come down to trying to find the right relationships that play to our strengths, and help us overcome our weaknesses, like we saw with Aidan talking to Sally, and Aidan talking to Josh…

Couple of side comments. Did everyone catch that Brig said that Josh was “The Boyfriend”? Evidently Danny and Brig think that Josh and Aidan are “together”. Did y’all hear the word “asshat”? Josh used it to describe himself…or what he is trying not to be…All in all, I would say that all three of them are growing on me. I was upset when the episode ended so up in the air! So anyway, Monday’s coming…buckle up!

Did you catch last night's Kitchen Nightmares? I had the chance to sit down with none other than Chef Gordon Ramsay himself to discuss the series - and how next Friday's episode is one he'll never forget. Check out what he has to say about what's coming up here.

Thanks to 14ulysse for the video.

This week there was plenty of conflicting interests. Beginning with Lisa's food allergy client. She shares her excitement for the case with her secret lover ADA Ward, while he tries to lure her to switch sides. It was not surprising to see these two together, after their run-in during the Doug Christensen case, a few weeks ago.

Back at the office, the team review the surveillance video showing Sonya Lee die. It proved that something else cause her to have a heart attack. Nick advises her to direct blame elsewhere, other than the restaurant.

The ever resourceful Tony (Kuno Becker) is back. He discovers more information on the case through unofficial channels. He learns that Sonya overdosed on epinephrine. Hospital records also show a similar thing happened to Luke Noland who was brain dead for 10 minutes. Different EMT, same drug. It becomes a case of misleading packaging. The two dosages were virtually identical.

Nick wants to sue Galloway Pharmaceuticals, a fortune 500 company with a lot of lawyers. "...to take a bite out of the dragon's tail." And he wants to represent Noland first over Lee. A decision that doesn't sit well with Sonya or Lisa. They had a rock-solid case against the EMT. Going after the drug company was a gamble. Sonya felt abandoned. Despite Lisa's reassurances to her client, Sonya hired another lawyer to sue the EMT for her. In a heated exchange, Lisa vents her anger at Nick for screwing over her client.

On the eve of their trial, they loose the EMT testimony. And when the judge heard how Nick had tried to get it from opposing counsel, disallowed the EMT from the Noland case as witness. They were really half-cocked... half-ass... and half-screwed. The bad strategy could cost them the case.

There is a touching moment for Nick, where he vows to Luke Noland how he will not give up fighting for him, with the young man's mom looking on.

He does that by tricking the doctor behind the drug to picked the wrong dosage to help Pete with his allergic reaction.

My favourite scene had to be the one near the end with Nick in Lisa's office. He is trying to make up for getting angry at her. His reason is that they are a passionate bunch. I blame it on his low cholesterol diet.

"Saying "screw you" is a pretty rough thing to say to your boss."
"Not compared to what was in my head."

It became more than just asking her out to celebratory dinner. It's his way of telling her that she is appreciated and a valuable member of the team. I loved how he tried to read her reaction, by getting right up close to her face. For what it was worth, it was enough to change her mind about switching jobs.

Other memorable quotes:
Zoey: You have sex hair.
Lisa: Did you just say "big whoop"?
Zoey: Look around we work in a fishbowl. There are no secrets here. (Zoey is the only one to know about Lisa and ADA Matt Ward.)