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Hi all, last night's episode reminded me of why I miss Nathan Stark. There was no foil to Jack. No one to be all snarky with him and the episode showed it. But we could also chalk it up to the fact that the whole town is missing the 'great scientist'.

So, enough with the maudlin approach. By now, everyone should have seen the episode so let us begin.

The scene opens with sitar music. Jack comes running down the stairs asking Zoe what she is strangling only to find his sister Lex going through yoga poses. She composed the music while she was in India and Jack isn't amused. He asks her if she should be doing those exercises in her condition and she tells him that yoga is good for the pregnancy since she doesn't have a lamaze partner. Jack tells her that she could have a partner if she'd tell the father. Lex refuses claiming that the baby is her choice and the father is half way around the world curing cholera. Jack doesn't agree with it but decides to leave well enough alone.

He turns around and crashes into an object. Zoe comes running out with coffee and Lex tells him that she rearranged the house. For a smart house it didn't have good feng shui (I can't spell the term). She apologizes to S.A.R.A.H. who doesn't mind and says that it increases her 'flow'. Jack takes the coffee and it has soy milk in it, because the lactose will give him gas. He isn't pleased and Lex accuses him of not liking change. He fires back that she has habit of fixing things that aren't broken. Zoe wouldn't mind having a sibling.

Jack's phone goes off and he rushes out of the house and tells them to not change anything. Lex tries to give him a copy of her music, but Jack doesn't want it.

At Global, Fargo is driving Henry nuts with the lettering on Nathan Stark's memorial hallway. Fargo truly misses Nathan and it shows in his over-attention to detail. Jack asks him what is happening and Fargo explains that he had hoped it would be finished before Allison came back to work. She's back at work a fact which surprises Jack, but Fargo said that she claimed she was feeling better.

Fargo takes Jack to the lab where the problem is and there we find Dr. Wilding, Eureka's resident Egyptologist chained to the entrance of the lab. Zane explains that they transported a tomb from Egypt and that they were going to open it under sterile conditions. Jack is a bit impressed but still has to do his job. Dr. Sebastian Marx, who is a friend of Eva Thorn wants Dr. Wilding arrested. Dr. Wilding insists that the tomb should not be opened because of the warnings on it.

Jack gets him to unchain himself and Dr. Wilding leaves with the prophetic warning of Queen Nyota returning from the dead and bringing a plague with her. Jack leaves and Fargo looks sufficiently spooked by the idea of a curse.

Jack goes to see Allison and she tells him that keeping busy helps. It has been a couple of weeks since Nathan's death and it is obvious that Allison has been crying the whole time. Jack gives her the wedding gift from Nathan. It is the Logic diamond that he had received and asked Jack to keep it. Jack didn't know how to give it to her. But he hands it over and leaves. Allison at the point of tears places the necklace around her neck.

At the lab, they use the metasomatic ray to open the tomb. Marx and his camerawoman Eileen Michaels enter the tomb and Marx does his whole documentary approach. Zane watches with Eva and is amused. All Eva sees are dollar signs as they can do a 'world tour' of the tomb that people will pay for. Marx and Eileen open the tomb and Queen Nyota's remains are uncovered for all to see. Her linen wrappings have dissolved and there is an element of desecration to it.

Later, Fargo is busy trying to figure out the best place to put Nathan's portrait. He hears a sound behind him and he feels a hand on his shoulder. He runs off screaming about the curse of the mummy. He drops Nathan's portrait and the glass shatters. We see a desicated hand in the shattered pieces of glass. Meanwhile, in Allison's office, she turns off her lights and Nathan appears to her. He tells her that he loves her. She turns on back the lights in fright and he vanishes.

Fargo gets Jack and Jack doesn't believe that it's a mummy but he thinks that Fargo saw something. They end up going to the lab and they find the mummy missing and Marx unconscious. He wakes up in the medical lab and Eva is concerned. They find that he's dehydrated. They also need to find the mummy. The obvious suspect is of course Dr. Wilding.

Jack brings Dr. Wilding into the office and he tells them that he would never do that. He believes that the ancient Egyptians should be respected. Jo points out that they're dead. Dr.Wilding is stunned by her attitude. He tells them that Marx's real name is Paco Lopez and that he's no stranger to scandal. Jo pulls his sheet and finds that he has been quite unscrupulous.

Dr. Wilding doesn't put it past Marx to rig a hoax to promote his movie. Jo tells Jack that Marx is supposed to have his book signing at Cafe Diem. Vincent's having a pharaoh - palooza. They go and we find all of Cafe Diem dressed up in the theme of ancient Egypt.

Vincent gives them coffee with pomegranate creamer. Jack wants real milk from a cow in it. Vincent goes to his 'tomb' a.k.a. freezer. Fargo comes in with herring blood. He tells them that the palentology lab had regenerated the cells using the metasomatic ray. The same thing they used on Queen Nyota's tomb. Fargo takes Jack's water. Lex comes in with her music and Jack isn't pleased. Jo is interested a copy of it and Lex finally gets her brother to take a copy, he tells her to talk to Fargo about his mummy issues and she asks him about his mother. Marx hasn't shown up so Jo and Jack head over to the B&B to look for him.

When they get there, no one has seen Marx since the previous night. They open the door and find that the carpet is soaked. They open the bathroom and the place is like a sauna. In a bath full of hot water they find the desicated remains of Sebastian Marx.

Henry comes to do the autopsy. He quarantines the body because he figures that there is a highly infectious bacterial agent present. Eva wants to know where the mummy is. Jack is concerned that she's more worried about the mummy than she is about the fact that her friend is dead. Eva points out that she is worried and with the mummy missing more people could be in danger. She mentions that she doesn't need to lose another great scientist. Allison is there and runs back to her car.

Eva realizes her gaffe and follows Allison. In her car Allison sees Nathan in the rearview mirror. She is frightened when he tells her that he'll never leave her. Eva knocks on the window and explains to Allison that she understands. She too is a widow. She tells her that she'll never get over it but things will get better. [For a brief moment I actually like Eva.]

They begin searching for Eileen Michaels the camerawoman. Zane notes that she didn't log out of the building. Jack realizes what Fargo saw. He goes to the fountain in the hallway and finds Eileen's body. Allison and Jack are arguing about how to find people and Jack says that they were really thirsty. We see Fargo in the background taking apart a drinking fountain to get at the water and Allison and Jack realize that Fargo is infected.

Henry found growth masses inside Marx's body. He doesn't know what they are but he has to investigate. They send the body of Eileen Michaels to him for an autopsy while at the lab they try to figure out where the mummy went. When Henry unzips the body bag, Eileen's corpse disintegrated. Zane notes that no one breached security. Jack figures out that Queen Nyota didn't go missing. She disintegrated.

Zane confirms this and now they are worried for Fargo keeps getting worse even though they're hydrating. Jack watches Fargo and is quite worried. He touches the screen as Allison walks in. She shows Jack Fargo's blood work. There are organisms present in his blood. Jack then tells her that maybe they're looking for the wrong kind of plague. They are looking for a disease when maybe they should be looking for insects. He mentions Fargo's finding with the metasomatic ray. Allison figures that the bugs may have gone into crytobiosis a form of stasis. Then they were reactivated. They needed water to regenerate which explains why Fargo isn't getting better.

Jack rushes to see Henry who at that moment is trying to cut open one of the growths. Jack tells him that the are dealing with bugs at which point the metamorphosis happens and they are unleashed unto Eureka. They rush to find a way to deal with the swarm.

Zane has been working with Dr. Wilding to find out what the ancient Egyptians did. They discover that the high priests had killed Queen Nyota to protect her from the disease. They killed the infected and burnt the city to the ground to stop the spread of the swarm. Jack puts that down as option 2.

He then asks why is it that Eileen's body didn't produce bugs yet Marx's did. They analyze the water and find that the water is same. Jack notes that Marx was in hot water. Allison tells them that the water in Stark's fountain was ice cold. They figure that cold must kill the bugs.

They begin to experiment on Fargo. They freeze him and the bugs die. They then bring him back and when he's unresponsive Allison tells him that she refuses to lose him as well. When he begins to revive she tells Jack that she thought that she would 'lose it'. She turns around and sees Nathan. However, Jack and Henry do as well. Henry figures out that it's the necklace that is projecting a hologram of Nathan. The diamond is a Logic diamond and is used to store information. Allison is grateful that she's not crazy and Fargo glimpses Nathan before he passes out again.

Jack calls Zoe and tells her to stay inside. She tells Jack that the bugs are huge and they're swarming Cafe Diem. He can barely hear her over Lex's music. Zoe makes Lex turn it down and the bugs leave. Jack tells her to turn it back on and the bugs return. They have the lure and he will freeze them in Vincent's freezer.

Jack races with his car and loud speakers blasting Lex's music. Henry had theorized that the harmonics must be attractive to the bugs, but Jack just thinks that they have poor taste in music. He gets the whole swarm to converge on Cafe Diem, when they break in he tosses Lex's cd player into the freezer and bugs follow the music. He slams the door shut and Vincent pushes the fusion reactor to zero Kelvin. The bugs attempt to break out but are killed.

Vincent is traumatized about his food and Jack points out that at least he's not the food because the bugs used humans to incubate. Zoe hands them brooms to help her clean up the mess.

They sterilize the tomb and everything is put back together. Eva approaches Zane to solve a cryptex. Zane loves puzzles he cracked his father's safe at the age of 5. Eva turns to Zane because Henry demanded to know what she was up to and she refused to tell him. (That sounds like trouble lays ahead.)

Jack leaves Allison alone to watch the message from Nathan. He offers to stay with her but she refuses. Allison watches the message and it is obvious that Nathan did love her. It makes it even more heartbreaking.

Next week....captain Eureka? Oh dear...

Feel free to add your own thoughts.

Ciao.

Hi all, hopefully by now you would have seen the episode of Burn Notice so I'll jump right in and tell you one thing before I go into the whole recap.

THIS

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THE

LAST

ENTRY

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THE

SHOW

FOR

A

WHILE


[Wait while you rant, scream and throw things....finished? Feel better now?]

The reason for this, is that USA is taking a 3 week break from the show and then will air the last two episodes in the season....yeah, I know...I agree with you...*sigh*...but it kinda helps me a bit considering next week my life is going to be seriously crazy...hang in there, we'll be fine.


Last night's episode was interesting. Virgil who was a former client of Michael's and wasn't supposed to return to Miami comes back. Virgil was involved with Madeline and nearly got her killed. Michael loves his mother and we all know how that one will go...yep...it does.


Recap time, and if I get the names wrong...well there were just too many bleeding people to try to keep track of....ay mami!


So the episode opens with Michael and Fi waiting to see this arms dealer that Fi knows. While waiting she gets a call and Michael wonders if it's the arms dealer, but it's not it's this guy that she met and he wants to go out with her. Michael isn't happy but keeps it to himself. The arms dealer, Seymour drives up in his car. He tells his driver/bodyguard Jackass (hey Seymour never called him anything else) to wait with Fi.

He and Michael walk down the beach where Michael asks about the Russian sniper rifle the draganuv that he helped boost the previous week. He wants to know where the gun could be recalibrated in Miami. Seymour doesn't really answer as he's too busy meeting with Pavel and the other Bulgarian. Seymour doesn't even know who he's dealing with. He wants the money for the weapons. Apparently Pavel and his friends have short changed Seymour. Things go downhill in a hurry and Michael ends up in a 'little' firefight.

They manage to lose Pavel and company and Michael is not very pleased. Oh by the way is there any way we can get Michael to 86 that powder blue suit? All right moving along.

Michael shows up at his place and finds Sam and Virgil having beers. Virgil is in town to help Marcella who is the daughter of his late partner. She sends medicines to needy children. Her latest shipment was hijacked and she needs it back. Michael agrees after prompting from Sam to speak with Marcella. Virgil takes up Michael's phone to call Madeline. He had already told her that he was coming into town and Michael snatches the phone and tells Virgil to stay away from his mother.

They go to meet Marcella and while there a little boy sends a soccer ball at Michael. He asks him to kick it and he does. So we know that Michael played soccer at one point in his life a fact which becomes important later on.

Virgil tells Michael that he has a lead and that Michael and Sam should check it out in Boca. Michael tells Virgil that he's coming with him and they're leaving Sam behind. They stake out this sporting goods store and see that pharmaceuticals are being sold 'under the counter' (I've never met a bad pun that I could resist). They go into the place and get the information out of the store owner. He tells them that a psycho named Gerard has a shipment of antivirals that he wants. He also tells him where Gerard hangs out.

Sam goes in under cover and pretends to be a man named Finchley. He tries to make the buy for the antivirals but Gerard tells him that they're already sold. There is a fight and Sam helps out Gerard. Michael's voiceover explaining exactly why Sam helps as it is the easiest way to get Gerard to 'trust' Sam.

Back at the loft, they discuss their options with Marcella. She's upset and doesn't know what will happen. Sam assures that they can make the whole thing work. Michael knows that he has to go in as a person who will be a member of Gerard's crew. Finchley is going to set up a heist.

He returns to the place where Gerard hangs out and discusses a job. Gerard isn't interested at first, but Sam tells him that these are performance enhancing drugs that are undetectable. They're worth $2million. Gerard wants half, and Sam agrees. Sam tells him about Michael's cover. He's a former meth cooker called Jackson who works for the lab.

Michael comes out of the building and has to pretend to be some helpless critter who needs an inhaler. He slouches over when he walks and runs well, it was rather silly. He has to take hard hits and complains that he's nervous and he doesn't like guns.

Virgil has borrowed a yacht, a guy owes him a favor for sinking a catamaran that his ex-wife wanted in the divorce. They drive to the marina and Michael explains that Virgil does the run. The drugs have to be kept a certain way or they will be lost. However, Madeline turns up. Madeline who earlier had confronted Michael at his loft because she believes he's keeping Virgil from her, followed Virgil to the marina.

Michael doesn't know what to do and pretends to be freaked out so he and Gerard leave. Madeline speaks to Virgil who tells her that he can't be with her, because he attracts bullets. He tells her that her son is looking out for her and she tells him that she can look after herself. Virgil refuses to pursue and Madeline becomes upset and leaves.

Michael is taken to the same place where Sam met Gerard. Gerard tells him that he stays with them until the job is done. Michael tells one of the goons that he has to call in sick. Michael phones Fi and pretends to be calling in sick. She's on her way to her date and she's upset. She calls Sam and asks if the number 1820 mean anything to him. Sam tells her that it's a place on the marina. She is upset and crashes into the car that Michael is placed in.

She pretends to look for her insurance and Gerard tells her that for her phone number he'll forget the whole thing. Fi tries to find a pen and ends up going to Michael. As he gives her the pen she tells him that she missed her date. Michael tells her that the heist is on. But he looks pleased that she can't make her date.

Sam and Virgil take Michael's fridge and put it aboard the yacht. They rig soda to look like drugs and use compressed air from the hardware store to fool people into thinking that it's liquid nitrogen that will make you lose a finger. It's a pretty neat trick I must confess.

They head out in a zodiac and overtake the yacht. Michael demands a gun, after Gerard threatens to kill Virgil. While the others take apart the yacht looking for the drugs. Michael confronts Virgil. He tells him to play along and they act out a scene where Michael is afraid of being recognized. He grabs Virgil and puts the gun under his arm and fires. Virgil falls into the water and being a former navy seal has to hold his breath for 3-5 minutes. Michael doesn't know if he still has it but hopes that he does.

They get off the yacht and Virgil emerges safely. One note, Michael is upset when he sees that they've used his fridge. Poor Michael and his yogurt....poor thing.

Fi and Sam are waiting and Fi argues that she had to make up an excuse to break her date. She's upset. Sam says nothing. They follow Michael and the others back to the warehouse. Fi wants them to smack Michael around a bit.

When Michael is inside he realizes that there is no way that they'll find the antivirals. He sets up the place and when he gets out shakes his head waving them off. Later they have to figure out how to get the medicine.

Michael comes up with a plan and that involves getting Gerard to move the medicine. Before this plan goes into effect, Michael meets up with Seymour. Seymour gives him a gun and Michael tells Seymour that he only wants information. He sees Pavel come to meet him and Michael is concerned. Seymour assures Michael that he needed someone better than Jackass, which is why he used his first meeting with Michael to do the gun buy. Pavel is still upset and starts firing and they have to leave.

After that, Fi and Michael go to Seymour's house. She accuses him of being jealous because he won't even ask about the guy, who happens to be a paramedic. Seymour is nuts by the way. He thinks everything is fine because Pavel has now paid him everything. Michael wants to know where the draganuv can be recalibrated and Seymour promises to find out. [On a side note, do you notice that there are a lot of these girls in bikinis hanging around with these criminal types. It's make me sad.]

Back to the case. Michael goes to see Gerard and attempts to fight him. Gerard thinks he's nuts. Michael keeps insisting that he wants his money. He tells him that Finchley doesn't pay anyone. Everyone who works with him ends up dead. They have to move everything, in fact, he's sure Finchley's already cleaned him out.

They go to the warehouse and Gerard insists that Michael help them load the van. When everything is there, Sam drives up in a truck and Gerard and another guy take off to shoot it up. Meanwhile Fi calls the police and pretends to be frightened by men with guns. Of course since they had already made several calls, when the call came in, they were likely to get a faster response.

Michael knocks out the guys left with him, while Gerard empties his clip into the truck. When he turns around he sees that Michael isn't what he pretended to be. Michael takes out the gun and fires at the stuff taped to the gas tank and creates an explosion. He drives off and Gerard and pals are arrested by the police.

Marcella is happy that the medicine is returned and she thanks them. She asks how she can repay them and Sam asks for help to move the fridge. After all, his beer can't hold in the cooler with Michael's yogurt. Madeline comes and Virgil is surprised. Madeline tells him that Michael called and explained everything and they leave together. Sam can't resist needling Michael about Virgil becoming his stepdad.

Later that night, Fi and Michael return to Seymour's house. Michael wonders if she's breaking another date and she tells him no. Seymour promised her a gun with laser sights and other things that she likes. They enter the house and Seymour attacks them. Michael uses his knowledge from soccer to take down Seymour. Seymour threatened to kill Fi, his girlfriend. She tells him that she's not Michael's girlfriend and Michael has an odd look on his face. (Hmmm...) He takes up gunpowder and throws it at Jackass.

Seymour urges Jackass not to fire or he'll kill them all. Michael pins Seymour to the table and demands to know why he attacked them. Seymour wanted to know what Michael got him into. The shop where the gun was fixed with all kinds of things was burnt to the ground and everyone killed. Seymour figured that they were going to kill him too. Michael told Seymour that they were never there. Seymour agrees.

Michael apologizes to Fi for her dress being ruined as they left Seymour's house. She doesn't mind because she got her gun. She looks so happy, like most of us get when we see chocolate. .

Michael knows that the rifle has been made to kill someone. They need to find the target and perhaps we get closer to learning why he was burned.

Feel free to add your own thoughts people.

Ciao.

All right, I'm still a wreck. I must admit that I did wonder how everything would change after last night's episode and well, it did. The town will change in ways that are unfathomable. It's always a risk when a show kills a main character. Even if that character can be irritating at times, the character is also fun and a perfect foil.

I mean, I enjoyed seeing that particular character put firmly in place but I cannot overlook the genius and brilliance of that character. I'm being a bit obtuse for those who will read the top part of the entry and haven't seen the episode yet.

All right fair friends from here on out there will be details discussed.

Last night what happened? It was the wedding of Nathan and Allison. It opens with Jack in the shower...*sigh* So tempting, so...ahem...right back to the entry.

He slides in the shower and manages not to fall (yep, I've managed to avoid that, but once I did slip and land on my hip, thank goodness I was a teenager and didn't break anything...but it was painful). He tells S.A.R.A.H. that the water needs to be warm. He's going to wash his hair. I must confess that because Jack's hair is so short, that wet or dry it looks the same...hmm..(maybe the water's CGI???..all right I'll behave...but y'all know how I love me some...okay back to the episode)

He takes up the shampoo bottle but it's empty. He drops it on the floor of the shower and tells S.A.R.A.H. not to mind about the warm water. He gets out of the shower and puts on a towel...[I'll give the ladies a minute....]. S.A.R.A.H. observes that his adrenaline is a bit high. Jack speaks about his day and reaches into the medicine cabinet for his degree deodorant. (Hey, it's the product placement by the sponsor...).

He begins to shave and cuts himself. S.A.R.A.H. offers him a band-aid and he refuses. Jack enters the kitchen to find Zoe eating her breakfast. She likes the cut on his face and wonders why he's dressed for work. Jack tells her that Allison called and he has to go to Global. Zoe wonders what kind of 'type A' personality works on her wedding day. Jack isn't very forthcoming and Zoe challenges him about his feelings. She observes that he's in love with Allison and he's walking the woman he loves down the aisle so that she can marry another man. Jack is uncomfortable with this sharing and Zoe points out that she's 17 and he needs to be more self aware.

S.A.R.A.H. made eggs and Jack picks up the bottle of ketchup. He can't get the contents out and it lands on his clothes. He laments that it's his last clean shirt. S.A.R.A.H. tells them that there is an unexpected visitor at the door. It's Jack's sister Lexi. She's three days early and Jack doesn't know if he wants to see her. S.A.R.A.H. lets her in and she comes in with two cats in a carrier. Lexi tells them that one of the cats is the reincarnated spirit of Grandma Lil. Jack isn't pleased because he's allergic to cats.

Jack's sister is into chakra and the ilk, much to Jack's consternation. Lexi observes that Zoe is looking like a supermodel and must be her father's nightmare then sees that Jack looks a lot like their father. [Hmm.....very interesting.] He leaves Lexi with Zoe to put the cats in the guest room and he heads to Global.

Allison greets him and when he asks why she's not at the beauty parlor, she retorts that she didn't know that it was 1960. She tells him that Eva Thorne called her in. Eva comes in with the whole thing about the quarterly budget being due on Monday. She wishes Allison good luck on her 'big day'. Allison tells her that she's not a first time bride.

Eva also observes Jack's stain and wonders if it's blood. Jack replies that it's breakfast. He also has the similar reaction to Nathan's question if Jack had been in a bar fight with the cut on his face...hmm....poor Jack.

Eva is firing more people from Eureka. Jack has some of the list and Allison has the rest. He also learns that Eva wasn't invited to the wedding. He finds the 'poop' guy and tells him that he's sorry. The 'poop' guy observes that after working in Eureka the Petco is going to be hard to go back to. Jack understands. He spots Nathan and Fargo. He asks them if they know where the maintenance guy Weinberenner is. Fargo tells him.

Nathan asks Jack to not be late and to not forget the diamond. Jack mutters that he can't believe that Allison is marrying Nathan. Nathan mutters that he can't believe that Allison asked Jack to walk her down the aisle.

Jack goes to the maintenance lab and is hit by a bright indigo light. He tells Weinbrenner that he's managed another day on the job. He leaves the lab and heads to get ready for the wedding.

He drives up and we see Nathan waiting for him. He asks Jack if he has the necklace and Jack asks him what necklace. He gives the necklace to Nathan and proceeds to the wedding tent and on the way spots Zoe drinking champagne. He points to her and she puts the glass down quickly. In the tent, Allison is dressed in her wedding gown. Jack's response to her is 'wow'. She turns and sees him and asks why he's so pale, to which he replies that it's the tent.

Jack walks Allison down the aisle and he hands her over to Nathan. Henry officiates the ceremony (I didn't know Henry could do that...) Nathan places the diamond around Allison's neck and while Henry speaks, the sky does a strange warble and the light flashes and Jack stumbles in the shower.

He is a bit puzzled and asks for the water to be warm and realizes that the shampoo bottle is empty. He cuts himself shaving and wonders why everything seems to be repeating. He finds Zoe who again wonders about the type A personality working on her wedding day. S.A.R.A.H. announces that there is someone at the door. Jack knows that it's Lexi.

She comes in and Jack quickly leaves. He sees Allison and basically can tell her what is happening. She's puzzled as is he. The same interaction happens with Eva and Jack observes that perhaps Allison should have invited her to the wedding. Jack tracks down Nathan and Fargo who are receiving the new clock that will make GD the authority for time. The Swiss guys are fuming according to Fargo. Jack asks if it's possible for him to be reliving the same day and Nathan assures him that such at thing would affect casualty and delete them from the universe.

Jack goes through the rest of his day. He goes to Cafe Diem where he sees Lexi and they speak. Lexi thinks that it's Jack's mind because he really likes Allison. She tells him to show her since he's not a sharer. Jack shows up at the wedding. He rushes past Jo to enter the tent and finds Allison not dressed. He kisses her and Allison assures him that he will always be her friend and she's sorry that things didn't work out between them but that she and Nathan have a history and she loves him. Jack has to let her go.

Allison gets her necklace and then it happens again. Jack is again in the shower. He doesn't like what's happening. He forgoes shaving and when Zoe sees him she wonders about that. She hands him the bottle and he puts it away. Lexi turns up and Jack leaves.

He goes to Global because he thinks that it's the new clock that's causing the whole thing. He finds Thorne who refuses to stop the synchronization. Jack speaks to Allison who wants nothing to interfere with her wedding. Jack then moves forward and sees Nathan and Fargo. He asks them not to turn on the clock and they refuse. He returns later and forces Fargo to shut the whole thing down at gunpoint. He goes to the wedding and it happens again.

This time when Jack wakes in the shower he has a cut on his face from the last loop. He wonders what is happening. He leaves the house and calls Zoe and tells her what to do with her aunt Lexi when she shows up. He heads over to Global because he can't find Henry. He speaks to Nathan and Fargo. Nathan dismisses what Jack says and Jack wonders how Nathan's ego can fit in the whole building.

He asks if there's a time guy. Fargo tells him that it's Weinbrenner who is in charge of time. Weinbrenner's job is now obsolete with the new clock. Jack goes to find him and finds Allison about to enter the building. She tells Jack that she had just left him a message. Jack wants to talk to her. But before he can, Weinbrenner shows up. He tells Jack that he knows that it's his last day. He also tells Jack that he doesn't trust Eva.

Jack overhears Eva making plans to do something with calibrated equipment and she admonishes him for what he did. Jack asks her to be his date for the wedding she refuses. They find Allison while walking and she hands over the list of people and leaves. Allison wonders what that was about and Jack tells her that she should have invited Eva to the wedding.

Jack tracks down Eva in the same field that she had Henry take test samples from. He wants to know why she's rewinding time. Eva doesn't know what he's talking about and Jack takes the device from her. The event happens again and Jack pulls her into his arms to shield her from the explosion. He appears in his shower fully clothed still grasping the device and S.A.R.A.H. notes that he has broken ribs.

Jack hurries out and finds Henry. Henry activates the device and sees that Eva was doing a geological survey of the land. Whatever she was doing had nothing to do with the time loop. Henry notes that Weinbrenner worked with him at NASA on theory of spinning time backwards. Jack realizes that Weinbrenner knew about being fired way too early.

Jack tracks him down and Weinbrenner confesses. He had accidentally bathed in the indigo light which is why Jack can remember everything from the previous loop. [Incidentally in each loop Jack warns Zoe not to drink and he finds out from Zoe after fighting with Lexi that she came to Eureka because she's pregnant and needs help from her family.]

Weinbrenner had activated the machine because he was out of time and he didn't have the whole thing worked out. But each time the tear gets worse and they only have 2 more times to fix it. Weinbrenner tells Jack that if he can't fix it then Jack has to get Nathan. Jack points out that Nathan won't believe him so Weinbrenner teaches Jack the equation as a failsafe. But we all know Jack and equations.... He tries to fix it but ends up being killed.

Jack rushes out of the house and finds himself back at Global. He finds Weinbrenner's charred remains and he goes to Nathan. Nathan is dismissive until Jack sings the equation to the tune of 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Twinkle little star'. Fargo corrects the equation in the song and Nathan believes him because Jack couldn't possibly have known the equation for the speed of light.

Allison tells them what happened and they go to Weinbrenner's lab. Nathan realizes that they only have this time loop to fix it. He tells Jack that it's Allison's wedding day and he doesn't want her worried. Jack agrees and then asks Allison if she shouldn't be at the beauty parlor.

Nathan figures out that Weinbrenner tried to use the old GD clock to get time back on track but the clock wasn't enough. Jack points out that the new clock would be. Nathan observes that Jack's smarter than he looks. They put together the fix and Fargo works on getting it done. But things go wrong and the seal breaks and the only way to fix it is manually. Nathan wants to go inside. But Jack stops him, saying to him that's how Weinbrenner dies. Nathan points out that they will be deleted if it doesn't happen.

Jack offers to go inside and do it. Nathan smiles sadly and tells Jack that he can't teach him a song to do the connection. It's too complicated. Fargo offers to go instead. But Nathan shoots that idea down as well. Nathan tells Jack to be there for Allie. That she's going to need him and that Jack must take care of her. Jack nods in agreement but is too emotional to speak.

Nathan tells Jack that he's doing this to save the world for her. Jack needs to let her know that. Fargo calibrates the machine, the proton is accelerated and time is back on track. Fargo is happy and they watch sadly as Nathan is vaporized.

Jack and Fargo show up at the wedding where Lexi is again trying to get Zoe to drink the champagne. Jo tries to speak to him and Jack waves her off. He enters the tent and Allison asks him why he's so pale. Jack repeats the similar thing he has been saying. That he will always be there for her. She looks at him and asks where Nathan is. He doesn't have to tell her and she sinks to the chair and sobs while Jack kneels next to her.

Yes, Allison kept repeating that everything would work out as it should. Yes, we have been saying that we didn't want Nathan with Allison but we didn't want Nathan to die either. In the end Nathan laid down his life for love. In the end I wept as I watched it. I wonder how the 'money team' will work. In the end Nathan told Jack to take care of Allie. Nathan's animosity toward Jack has always stemmed from the fact that they were both in love with the same woman.

This episode wasn't filled with levity. It was somber throughout, a thing that is unusual for the show. The one thing I will note is that both of these men have acted heroically together. They have, whether we want to admit or not. Yes, Nathan's arrogance grated at times, but that was the character. They were not above having a common ground. The whole incident with Callister Raines (Nathan's robot son) had them working together for the first time with things in common.

I suppose underneath it all they did like each other, they just wouldn't admit it, because they wanted the same woman. Yet, when Jack's life was on the line, Nathan worked hard to save him. When Nathan was in trouble Jack did the same. Jack was willing to die so that Allison would be happy with Nathan. Everything has changed, well they weren't wrong about that.

Feel free to add your thoughts.

Ciao.

Hello everyone. How are y'all doing tonight? Y'all really upset by tonight's episode? Did ya cry? Want to throttle something? Throw something? Reach through the television and seriously slap some people really silly? Wonder why Mary couldn't just pass her gun so that you could...well...ya know...go full on Terminator style on certain family members?

Did you? Well, after my very biased recap...ahem...you shall have free reign...because I think we need some seriously cathartic Jungian scream therapy. Don't you? I think so...

Now for y'all that haven't watched this yet I advise you stop reading at this point.

Still here? Well either you've seen it or you've been warned.

Here we go...

Tonight's episode picked up exactly where last week's left off. We see Mary in the car being driven home by Marshall. They look at each other but they say nothing. Nothing needs to be said. That silence was filled with everything that defines them and the relief that everything ended with her being alive was apparent.

The next shot shows Mary in the bathtub sitting in the water. She's clearly been affected by what happened. The long process of healing has to begin and well, she's living in a house with two...well...the tvguide censors won't allow me to use the word...except this way s***heads.

Mary is in bed and her mother Jinx brings her a cup of Lipton and a half assed sandwich. Mary recalls the tradition of the sandwich is usually made from whatever is on hand. Thankfully Mary's got a fully stocked kitchen so she didn't have to eat white bread with saltines and jelly.

Brandi enters the room and Mary asks her to sit. Mary then proceeds to tell them both that she cannot help Brandi. She is not able to do that and Brandi cannot tell her anything because she will turn her in. Brandi gets upset and leaves and Jinx is amazed at her daughter. [I'm like what? Brandi nearly got her sister killed! You as the mother should slap her silly with a shovel!]. I would like to point out that Mary giving the card for a lawyer to Brandi was a good sign as well.

Meanwhile, Stan and Marshall (who unfortunately had to let O'Connor out of the closet) are busy trying to track Spanky down. Stan tells Marshall that they have to stand down because if it goes wrong, it'll look as though they were out for revenge. Marshall points out that that would be correct.

O'Connor gets a hold of the chick Rachel who Brandi turned in at the motel. She wants get some drugs into her system. The baby was taken from her but she will help O'Connor if he will give her the drugs.

She tells them that Brandi was the person who they saw. She had 20lbs of pure crystal in her suitcase. Marshall and Stan are now very worried. They go to see Mary and explain that not only is her job on the line but the fact that Brandi had the drugs in her house and the drugs led to the death of two FBI agents, Mary may end up with a felony conviction as well.

They leave Mary to see if they can help her out of this mess that Brandi has landed her in. While Mary sleeps, Jinx comes to wake her. She demands to know why Mary isn't going to help her sister. She tells Mary that Brandi's boyfriend was killed and Mary hasn't even said that she's sorry. Mary becomes livid and tells her that she was kidnapped, drugged, watched a man murdered while she was chained to a wall and that it could have been her and she was also almost raped. Jinx then says that she didn't know.

She tells Mary that she never opens up to anyone. Mary comments that why should she do that. Jinx tells her that if she doesn't open up then she can't connect with the world. Mary doesn't want to connect with the world. Jinx begs her to tell her what happened. Mary tells her that vaporized blood has a sweet smell. When Chuck was killed the air was filled with a fine mist that coated the inside of her nostrils and she can't get rid of the smell. She doesn't think that she can and she killed a man. Mary runs from the room and finds the bottle of liquor and starts chugging the bottle and ends up gagging while Jinx follows her with her hands on her head.


While that happens, they find Spanky who is unwilling to speak. He tells Stan and Marshall that he'll say that Mary was in on the whole thing with Brandi who was the mastermind. He knows that he has them over a barrel and wants to walk. He doesn't need a needle in the arm.

Marshall and Stan have to go back and look into Spanky's life. He killed his father to protect his brother who later od'd with his mother from heroin. After that he turned to a life of crime until they caught him. They know that Spanky flew to New Jersey for Chuck and killed the two FBI agents in the process. [After all when the couple were grabbed in the motel they would have told them that Brandi was involved with Chuck. That's what I figure....they never did explain why the Feds were there.]

Jinx and Brandi have a conversation. Brandi wants to turn herself in and Jinx tells her that it won't help. She tells her that the Feds don't keep their promises. They promised her that if she turned her husband in that they would take care of everything, but instead they reneged on their word. [Hence we know why he was on the most wanted list.]

Mary comes into the living room and has a confrontation with her mother and sister. She tells them that she was remembering what Jinx said to her at the theater. Brandi asks how they could go to see a movie without her and Mary asks if the attention could remain on her for half a minute. She tells them that she has had to be parent since she was 10. She doesn't like it and she's tired of them hating her for it.

Both Jinx and Brandi accuse Mary of thinking that she's superior to them. She's not. They cuss her out and Jinx calls her a colossal b****. [Okay, I needed a shovel to reach through the television set and smack her hard. Mary is the one paying her bills and giving her a roof over her head. Mary takes care of her. She doesn't seem to care that Brandi almost got Mary killed. Neither does Brandi care that her stupidity almost got her sister killed. Instead they blame Mary.]

Jinx claims that it's her fault that Mary thinks she's so superior. Mary points out that she's never been evicted, lost any of her utilities nor has she ever been arrested, convicted or had her name on a restraining order. She's also managed to keep a job longer than a month. Jinx tells Mary that she lied to her. When her father left she made Mary believe that her father loved her more than anyone else.

Mary leaves the room and returns with a box. She throws the box on the table and tells them to look inside. She tells Jinx that she can't rewrite history. In the box are letters from her father. He has kept tabs on Mary the whole time and knows what she has been through. He told her to look after her mother and sister. He told her that she had to be brave and that he wasn't a bad man, he had just made mistakes.

When Mary left her mother's house, she started receiving regular letters until Jinx moved in with her. Jinx is amazed that Mary kept them from her. Brandi tears up one of the letters and threatens to use the letters as leverage to get herself a deal. She runs out of the room. Jinx asks Mary if she can read the letters. Mary tells her yes. Oh, on a side note, Mary was briefly married to a guy who she used to escape her mother. But she had it annulled a month later. Neither Brandi nor Jinx knew that Mary had married the guy.

Which incidentally sets up the whole mystery for next season. I think...I suspect. How does Mary's father know what's going on with them? Hmm....But that's for next summer.

At the office, Stan asks Marshall if he knows about a condition that affects babies. Marshall explains about if the mother is RH negative and the baby is RH positive then the mother has an allergic reaction to the baby. They realize that Russell can't be the baby's father. In fact it's Spanky. They have leverage over him.

Spanky confesses that Brandi didn't have a clue. Chuck was the person who did everything and Brandi was the dumb girlfriend who got duped into helping him. Behind the glass the Attorney General/D.A. (I didn't catch which he was if they said) speaks with O'Connor. he wants Brandi and Mary on a spike. The A.G. tells O'Connor unless he finds them with something then there's nothing to be done.

At Mary's house, Raph shows up drunk. He tells Mary that he called her 20 times and she didn't call him back. She is surprised that no one called him and told him what happened. She asks if he drove in that condition and he tells her that he rode his bike. Mary points out that he doesn't have a bike. Raph wonders whose bike he rode on.

He gets into Mary's house where he explains that Brandi came to him upset and crying. She told him things, but he's not able to tell her what Brandi said. He tells her though about the loss of the bear Biscuit. He tells her that Brandi is afraid that the only thing holding them together as sisters is that bear. Now that the bear is gone (at which point Mary gets upset because that bear was special to her) Raph tells her that Brandi is afraid that Mary won't be in her life anymore.

Mary goes into the room and finds both Jinx and Brandi reading the letters. She tells Brandi that she wants to hear everything. When Brandi falls asleep, Mary removes the suitcase full of drugs from the chest. Jinx wants to know what Mary is going to do and Mary leaves the house. As she pulls out of the drive, the Feds show up with Stan and Marshall and Bobby D.

O'Connor tells her that they have a warrant to search everything and another agent pulls the suitcase out of the backseat of the car. When they open it, Jinx and Brandi have come outside. But instead of drugs, it's a suitcase full of towels. O'Connor is upset and states that they're going to tear the house apart.

O'Connor literally does, I mean everything in the house is in shambles. After a while Stan grabs O'Connor and tells him that there's nothing in the house and that it's over. O'Connor tells him that it's not over and that it's just beginning....(yep, he's the villain for next season.)

Stan offers to get her a hotel room, but Mary tells him that they're staying at the house. They just need to clean up. Marshall starts by picking up a chair. Mary stops him and ushers them out, telling the three of them, Stan, Marshall and Bobby D that they (Jinx, Brandi and herself) will clean up.

Brandi and Jinx wondered who switched out the drugs for towels. Jinx tells her that it wasn't her because she hasn't been near the suitcase. It couldn't have been Mary because she was with her the whole time. I'm left wondering where are the drugs.

The final scene is Raph practicing his baseball swing. He wears a smile on his face and what we see is the field being painted with white paint and we can guess that that's where the drugs are. Raph knew the whole story and while Brandi slept made the switch. I'm thinking. If not, then it's the handiwork of the father and frankly I don't know which I prefer.

Well we shall have to wait until next summer to find out. In the end not bad, I think.


All right people time to rant, praise, vent...

Ciao.

All right people, I did see the episode and I know that I've been rather remiss in doing the entry. But things in real life got a bit complicated and now my memory of the episode is a bit foggy. However, I shall attempt to reconstruct the initial entry that I had floating in my head and hope that I get all the details. I beg your indulgence.

Now, I understand that Michael Shanks is a good actor. Why do I say that? Well as Dr. Daniel Jackson on Stargate SG-1 I adored him. As Oliver the 'wrangler' on Burn Notice, I wanted to reach inside the t.v. and hold him so that Michael could get a chance to beat him within an inch of his life. [Gee, was that a tad harsh?]

Here we go.

Last week, Michael found mylar balloons leading to a magnum of champagne on an envelope with a crossword puzzle clue as to where the next meeting must be.

Michael goes to the meeting, and realizing that he must be dealing with someone new looks to see who it could be. The location is a park where people are playing chess. A man calls to him and Michael recognizes that this must be the new person. He makes a daring move using one of the chess pieces to threaten the man. Oliver, as he is called, counters with a gun under the table.

Oliver lets Michael know that he is in charge of the game. Michael must do a job and not ask questions. [Our Michael not ask questions. Just who in the hell do these idiots think that he is? But they've been studying our boy for a while and well, they pretty much try to counter him.]

Oliver hands Michael a phone and tells him to keep it with him at all times. Michael of course realizes what is at stake and when he goes back to his place he finds Sam cleaning the car. He tells him how the meeting went and the fact that the way that they would do this is if Michael doesn't cooperate they'll kill everyone in his family. He tells Sam that he needs to go stay with Madeline for a few days.

Sam isn't very happy about spending time with Michael's mom but Michael has already dialed the number and Sam sells Madeline the sob story about being depressed about Veronica and Michael being tired of him. She agrees and Sam hands the phone to Michael who is trying to avoid speaking to his mother.

Michael drops Sam off at his house and Sam finds a strange man on his knees in the house. He pulls his gun and Madeline comes out already knowing the guy. Ricky (I hope that's the name if it's not...I apologize) is a friend of Michael. Well Ricky's brother Anton was always with Michael and he wants to see Michael.

Sam quickly puts away the gun and later Michael meets all of them for lunch. Since Madeline wants a new home theater system, she leaves with Sam to go shopping to leave Ricky and Michael to talk. Ricky explains that he is now an accountant and that he's being set up to be killed. He works for a rap mogul and money is missing. Ricky figures it must be Eddie (I hope that's the right name) who has done it.

Michael doesn't know who the rap mogul is (by the way Method Man did a good job I thought) and it was rather funny when Fi and Michael went to stake out the building. Michael needs the records to prove Ricky's innocence. Because a forensic accountant was out of the question.

While staking out the whole thing, Michael gets a call to show up at a location to meet Oliver. Oliver tells Michael where he is and Michael figures out that there is a GPS switch in the phone. Michael leaves Fiona to deal with the 'job' and he meets Oliver at the beach.

Oliver tells Michael that he needs to be available to do a job. Michael pushes but is in essence shut down. He returns to his place where he disassembles the phone there inside is a note with smiley faces 'Leave the GPS alone Michael'. I was forced to laugh at that one.

Michael sets up a 'bomb' scare in order to break into the building. He gets inside and finds that the records aren't there. The $2 million is nowhere to be found. But Eddie is attempting to find a place to 'clean' his money. (There was this whole thing about escaping from the guards. Because the vents were only able to accommodate a 4 year old, the sub-ceiling was his best bet. Michael is a spy after all.)

Ricky is afraid, but Michael tells him that it'll be all right. Michael gets in touch with Barry and convinces Barry to set up a meeting. But Barry wants guarantees that his guy won't get hurt. Michael promises and the arrangement is made.

Oh by the way, Michael call-forwarded the phone calls from Oliver to his cell. Michael meets with Oliver who shows him where the 'job' will take place. After all it is a hijack of sorts. Michael is the wheel man and needs to know how much the thing will weigh. Oliver tells him it's in a wooden crate and not to worry.

Michael of course is not one to sit on his hands. But we'll get to that later. Michael meets with Eddie and promises that he's the answer to Eddie's prayers. He needs to move fast with it though. However in the middle of the second meeting, who should show up but Oliver. Oliver is upset with Michael. He tells him that he is supposed to have the phone with him.

Oliver pretends to be a burned investor and chases Eddie off. Michael at that point is ready to kill Oliver and frankly, so am I. By the by, the Boston accents were amusing...ya know since Jeff is from Andover...it's amazing the stuff that floats around in my head.

Michael is left to attempt to deal with the fallout of Oliver's interference. Meanwhile there's a meeting called at the label's office. Ricky is scared and when things appear to be going 'south', well Fi gets out of the car and walks toward the building with her gun in hand. She's about to take out everyone who is a threat to Ricky. Michael is hard pressed to stop her and we know that Fi is a hardcase, but she really shows it.

Michael has to set the plan in motion because Ricky has two days left. He attacks Eddie in the parking garage, claiming that Eddie is the one setting him up. They fight and Michael has to lose to Eddie. It was difficult but he did it.

Michael tells Sam to take his mom on a field trip. They pretend that they're following Eddie to panic him. Sam tells Madeline that he's looking for a new place and he needs to check things out. Madeline wants to know why they won't get out of the car and Sam gives her an excuse. Not a very good one mind you, but an excuse.

Eddie finds Michael and insists on getting in on the action. Michael refuses but Eddie insists, playing straight into Michael's hands. Michael asks him if there is anyone who knows what's going on. Eddie assures him that the 'loose end' is being taken care of. Michael gets Eddie to get another drink and quickly calls Fi.

He wants her to get over to Ricky and protect him from the hired killers, but not to blow up the place. So what's a girl to do? Fi drives over there and pretends to be an angry girlfriend. She throws a brick through the window and the 'killers' run off.

Michael meanwhile sets up the whole sting operation. He tells Eddie that he needs to get rid of the loose end himself. Eddie goes to Ricky's house. But what he doesn't know is that Fi and Sam have abducted the boss. (That scene was funny with the mogul making a pass at Fi in French and she replies after Sam takes out the guards.)

Eddie confesses everything as he's about to kill Ricky. But the gun is not loaded. Then the mogul appears around the corner. He has heard everything and Eddie disappears off a yacht.

Michael gets the call for the theft. He has rigged his trunk as an x-ray machine and has a gun in the back. He meets up with Oliver and they drive to the location. When the security comes on the scene, Michael prevents a blood bath by exploding sealant in storage containers.

They get away with the crate and Michael takes an x-ray of the whole thing. They drive to the secondary location and Oliver who had warned Michael not to pull any stunts was amused by the way Michael exploded the containers. It was the jumping up and down that made me scared of the character. Then,Oliver asks Michael if he wants to see what's in the crate. Michael tells him that he's learned his lesson.

Oliver drives away with the crate and Michael strips the x-ray equipment out of the car. By the way, the fact that Michael rigged the x-ray by removing the tube from an old television set in conjunction with a taser, well that just cements the MacGyver element of the character.

Another interesting thing that I noticed. When Fi suggested that Michael get rid of Oliver and look inside the crate, Michael mentioned that everyone he cared about wouldn't be safe, including her. That's as close to be told that he loves her as she is ever going to get....eh....maybe.

Now for the end, when Michael got Fi paid by her getting some shoes. My dad asked me if Michael never accepts money from his clients how does he live. I think he does to a certain degree, but that's an interesting point. Michael never seems to actually get paid does he? Or he's always refusing to take the money. Hmm...

Sam is about to leave Madeline's and he has been cooking. Apparently Sam has discovered how addictive cooking shows are...yeah they kind of are, it's so weird, but I digress. Madeline gave Sam back his bullets. She found them in his pocket. Sam leaves the house and Madeline joins Michael around the table.

Madeline: Michael, next time you send someone to protect me. Tell me.

Michael is amazed at his mom. But she knew something was wrong when Sam insisted on going to her water aerobics class. Michael apologized that she had to see that. Madeline understands that her son loves her is trying to protect her.

Well people, I hope I did a credible job. Any mistakes that I made, again I apologize. Feel free to add your own thoughts.

Ciao.

All right people, thanks to my vampire hours and the fact that I was watching the men's all around in gymnastics, I was wide awake and found the repeat of Sunday's episode. Markedly I missed Jinx's singing but I got the gist of what happened.

She managed to blow her audition and Mary was a witness to it. When she tries to speak to her mom, Jinx accuses her of needing both her mother and sister to fail. She calls her daughter selfish and walks away from her. Mary is at a loss and considering she thinks that Brandi managed to 'bed' her boyfriend Raph, well....it wasn't too pretty.

Mary leaves the theater and receives a phone call from Agent O'Connor. A real well, is there a term that I can properly use on this site to describe that measured piece of pomposity masquerading as a dedicated investigator? I think not. He really is a sad civil servant, with a bad haircut and ugly shoes. Come on FBI guys are supposed to be 'hot'. Look at Mulder and even agent Hendricksen from SN. Sure we hated his character but he was good to look at even when we couldn't stand him. This guy, well, if he was good looking I didn't notice. [But I digress....this is what happens when schedules get thrown out.]

Mary while on the phone with O'Connor is told asked if she knows where her sister is and before she can respond she's grabbed by two guys, who she has to fight off. But they manage to chloroform her and well...she passes out. Agent O'Connor on the phone keeps trying to speak to her, and while Mary is loaded into the back of a car, a vagrant sees the whole thing. He hears O'Connor's voice calling 'Mary' and he mentions that 'Mary is gone bye'.

Meanwhile Brandi and Raph discuss the fallout of Mary having discovered them together and assuming the worst. Raph encourages her to speak to her sister and Brandi tells him that her sister needs to calm down. He leaves for practice and her phone rings. He thought that she had lost her phone but she told him that she had lost it and when she replaced had found the phone. He advises her to get rid of the phone.

He leaves and Brandi returns Chuck's call. Only it's not Chuck it's Agent O'Connor. [At this point he's annoying me.] She hangs up the phone and quickly calls her mom. Jinx still distraught over the failed audition is resorting to drinking. She answers the phone and hears Brandi asking her to pick her up. Jinx tells her that she's not driving to New Jersey. But Brandi tells her that she's actually at Raph's.

At the alley, the vagrant calls the police. Bobby D shows up and listens to the tale of 'Mary' being abducted. The guy's on the street and therefore must be unreliable. He tells the uniforms that they should canvas but not to put too much into it. He hears a phone ringing and the vagrant tells him that that's Mary's phone. Bobby D finds it under the dumpster and answers it. Brandi wants to know who this person is. Bobby identifies himself and she hangs up.

He then searches through the memory of the phone and finds his phone number. He realizes that Mary, the person he knows is the one who was grabbed. He calls into the Marshall office. Where Marshall has discovered that two FBI agents have been murdered at Brandi's house. Stan is not amused and the office line rings. It's Bobby D asking him if he has seen Mary. At that moment, O'Connor calls Marshall and well it all goes downhill from there.

They are at the alley where Mary was grabbed and Marshall is at the point of tears. Bobby is pulling out all the stops to find her and frankly given that they weren't on too friendly terms the last time they clashed it was good to see that he was willing to put it aside, 'cause he really likes her.

Jinx picks up Brandi and is upset with her for lying and sneaking off to see Raph. Brandi tells her mom that she's in serious trouble. They return to the house and Jinx tells Brandi that she has to speak to Mary. When they park the Marshall service, FBI and the police show up at the house.

Jinx learns that Mary has been kidnapped and she is upset and crying. She tells Stan and Marshall that it was true that Brandi broke up with Chuck and in fact, even though Brandi was supposed to return to New Jersey, she snuck off to be with Mary's boyfriend.

Brandi gets her things and goes with Jinx to her room, where she tells Jinx everything. Jinx is upset at her and she asks Brandi if she realizes that what she has done. She brought her boyfriend's drugs into her sister's house. Brandi tells Jinx that Chuck told her that if she didn't do it, then he wouldn't love her any more.

Agent O'Connor shows up and has flyers out for Chuck and Mary. Stan points out that Mary's identity is classified and O'Connor will 'take it under advisement'. He wants to speak with Brandi. They try to stop him. O'Connor has Brandi's file as well as Jinx's and the fact their father was a bank robber (I thought he was just a degenerate gambler). He's surprised that Mary made it into the service. Stan is upset that O'Connor pulled a Marshall's file.

Stan practically hits O'Connor (I was ready to knock his lights out too) and Marshall stops him. They have to leave and O'Connor stays.

Meanwhile Mary wakes and realizes that she still has her gun in her boot. But she doesn't have a way to shoot the chains. She hears footsteps on the stairs and she manages to get the gun back into the boot. Umm, okay so girlfriend showed some serious yoga flexibility that would probably make some men who watch the show have well...ya get the picture.

The kidnappers drag a man with a hood over his head down the steps. They get him to the floor and they take off the bag. He looks at Mary surprised. The kidnapper 'Spanky' (the guy Brandi narc'd on) demands to know where his drugs are. He thinks that Mary is Brandi and the idiot Chuck tells them that she's not Brandi. Spanky gets upset and punches one of the chuckleheads who grabbed Mary. In his defense he was told the 'hot blond'. He followed the first 'hot blond' out of the house. Mary comments that it was almost worth it to be kidnapped.

Spanky demands a number to call Brandi. Chuck gives him the number and Mary is in awe of his stupidity. Spanky calls Brandi who realizes that she has got her sister's life in danger. He tells her to meet him after he kills Chuck. She has to meet him or her sister dies. At that moment O'Connor walks in and demands that Brandi speaks with him.

He manhandles her into the couch and while yes she deserves to be slapped upside the head, I worry about Mary's safety. Brandi feeds him a story that O'Connor doesn't believe. He presses her and tells her that he wouldn't be happy if his life was like hers, a series of disappointments. Brandi fires back that it could be worse, that she could be a civil servant with a bad haircut and ugly shoes. He returns with that she could be on death row.

Brandi sees that the time to meet Spanky has passed and when O'Connor leaves her she begins crying. At which point I really want to hit her because if she wasn't such a twit then Mary would be safe.

At the Marshall's office, Marshall, Stan and Bobby D are racing to find who grabbed Mary. Marshall realizes that she was being followed by the traffic cam footage but they can't read the license plate. They had found an scribbled page from Mary's notepad and when Stan points out that Mary would have 'made' the tail, Marshall looks and finds the plate. Bobby D gets someone to run the plate but the car was stolen. He gets a call and they found the car. They found blood and a partial print.

Marshall comments that they picked the wrong girl to grab and he figured that Mary must have broken someone's nose. They find a print and identify one of the goons. They go to his house where they find his 'spouse'. She wants them to put a bullet through his head. She tells them that he hangs out with another guy.

They race against the clock. Before they left the office they saw that O'Connor had posted the bulletin. He mentions that they're also looking for a female Marshall. Stan knows that the clock is against them.

Mary is approached by Spanky who is upset that Brandi didn't make the meeting. Mary tells him that Brandi doesn't care about anyone and that sending her thumbs would achieve nothing. Spanky continues to attempt to sever Mary's thumbs, until she mentions that Brandi took her money too. $500,000. Spanky wants a cut and before he can unchain Mary, one of the thugs, the one with the broken nose, tells Spanky that Mary is a kidnapped Marshall.

Spanky tells him to clean up his mess and make sure she's not found. He leaves. The goon tells Mary that he's not a monster and that he plans on 'making her happy' before she dies. They will have 'fun'. Mary isn't amused and knows that she has to get her gun somehow. He tells her to turn around and she manages to loosen the screw in the beam that she's chained to. The man proceeds to maul Mary, and she demands to look at him. She headbuts him and smashes his nose even more.

Because he placed his gun on the floor he gets the shovel to try and hit her. She ducks and pulls the screw loose. Gets her gun out of her boot and shoots him dead. The other goon upstairs believes that his partner has killed Mary before he got his turn. She starts firing and so does he. There are a series of shots and Mary runs out of bullets. She grabs the shovel to defend herself and nearly brains Stan.

Marshall is behind him and grabs her. There is genuine feeling I think between them. Hey the man's voice was cracking at the thought of something bad happening to her. Back at the office, Stan and Marshall tell her that the thing with Brandi isn't going away. There are too many dead bodies. She doesn't want to deal with it now. She has to go under review before she can go back to work. She thanks Bobby D, who really did come through in a big way. I think he likes her more than he wants to.

On their way to the elevator, for Marshall will take her home. O'Connor comes off. He wants to speak with Mary and Stan puts him off. O'Connor asks her if Spanky mentioned Brandi. Stan pulls him to one side and Marshall gets on the elevator with Mary. Stan leads O'Connor to a utility closet and locks him in. [Did I mention how much I like Stan?]

So Sunday is the season finale and it looks like will be a doozy. Frankly I think that Mary needs to slap Brandi silly and I was hoping that Jinx would do it as well. Jinx needs to apologize to her daughter, because the truth is that Mary is in no way selfish. If she were, then they wouldn't have had a place to live all this time. But those are my thoughts.

Again people sorry for the late blog, but technical difficulties will strike on occasion. Feel free to add your own thoughts.

Ciao.

That about sums up what last night's episode of Eureka was about. The show continues to dance between drama and comedy. It also makes me really afraid of a town filled with scientists. Perhaps the reason that the number of incidents that have created red spots on Eva Thorn's chart have increased since Jack took over has more to do with the risks that these 'mad' scientists have taken than with him.

But then again, hmmm... perhaps they're taking these risks because Jack can clean it up. Oy, I'm giving myself a headache with that thought.

All right, I am a professed cat person. I adore cats. I have a cat who I adore and at times will condescend to adore me. Ya know, like when she's frightened or needs tending to and especially when no one else is around. I know that with me it's a double edged sword, after all, how much love can you have for the person who will dress your wounds, take out your stitches, give you a bath if you get covered in mud and administers the medication that you must take when you have to take it....*sigh* but enough of my sob story....

I also happen to like dogs. If I were to ever have a pet dog, it would be a cute terrier. I liked Fifi..and Sparky, but I am getting ahead of myself.

Last night's episode opened with Jack and Zoe having a parent/child discussion (at Cafe Diem) about an accelerated class that the school wants her to take and she doesn't want to take it. Jack wants his daughter to take the class, she tells him that she doesn't know if she can manage to put in the time, at which point (being the father that he is) Jack tells her that they may have to revisit her having a part-time job.

Zoe who likes working at Cafe Diem, agrees that she is taking the advanced physics class. Jack wins and tells her that the pressure will make her better. He even pulls out the 'my mother used to say' card. Which is kind of funny but then Jack is in essence a single father with Zoe.

He glances around at all the dogs and wonders at the unsanitary nature of things. He asks Jo about it and she tells him that they're biomnetic (I can't spell the blooming word). Jack tells her that he doesn't care about the breed of dog, and she tells him that the dogs are all robots. [I did I mention that these people are to the left side of sanity...]

They sit at the counter and in walks Nathan and Allison speaking about their wedding. Allison realizes that she needs a dress for the wedding. Nathan is going to take care of everything. Apparently the first time they got married was at city hall...(now that was interesting.) Jo on hearing the word dress, tells Allison that she'll go shopping with her. Nathan snarks 'It's a dress not a flak jacket.'
Jo stands and in a very threatening manner 'I like weddings. You got a problem with that?'

---For those who may recall, Jo likes these things. She and Zoe had an arrangement. She would get Zoe the contraband coffee from Vincent if Zoe got her the fashion magazine.---

Jo receives a phone call about an apparent break in and she asks Jack if he wants to come with her. He gladly agrees and they leave the cafe. While outside who should we see but the 'organic chicken lady'. You remember her, she's the one who cloned the pieces of meat and it was organic which lead to the cognitive decline because the bicculine was a Gaba blocker. [Oh my goodness, I've really been paying attention to this show...]

Well, she has a dog named Fifi. This dog has been best in show. The dog attempts to urinate on Carter's leg but she tells him that it's a robot dog (so no worries). Dr. Young comes up with her dog. [Dr. Young the one who did the sexual harassment seminar and ended up 'frenching the sheriff in front of Allison because Jack was made irresistible by the prehistoric spores.]

(I did it again....shakes head)

Fifi has been the winner for the last two years. Her owner/maker is trying for the triple crown. But something goes wrong, Fifi shorts out and Dr. Young is amused. Apparently these dog builders get really competitive. It's enough to make a person really afraid of scientists living in a small town with access to dangerous things.

Jack and Jo go to the scene of the break - in. The scientist is working on artificial mucus. (Yes, you're reading that right.) Apparently the mucus can eliminate airborne pathogens. He believes that the crazy dog people broke in to help their dogs more authentic. [Yes, I agreed with Jack, these people are spending millions of dollars to build something that can be got from a pound for free.]

Jo takes the scientist into the house and leaves Jack in the lab alone. Jack is warned not to touch things. Jack has lived in Eureka for almost 2 years and he still hasn't learned not to touch things. Ay mami. Suddenly there is a flash of light and the place shakes, vials are broken together and mucus explodes all over Jack. The scientist is annoyed and Jack claims that it was an earthquake.

Now Eureka is solid bedrock and there are no fault lines so that is impossible. Jack goes to Global and Allison is upset at him dripping mucus all over her floor. He insists that it's an earthquake and she assures him that it's not. Nathan wants Jack to do something for him. Allison leaves them and Jack insists that it was an earthquake. Nathan points out that Allison was 50 feet away and she would have felt it. He demands Jack do him a favor.
Jack, "That's how you ask for a favor? Who raised you?"

They go down to the computer core. Yep, Global's computer has diamonds for its memory chips. Logic diamonds which are grown in Pensacola. Dr. Fox is in charge. Nathan tells her that the authorization should have been delivered but Fargo didn't deliver it. Nathan goes to find Fargo. Jack is amazed at the way that they use the diamonds and Dr. Fox explains until Nathan returns leading Fargo by the scruff of his neck.

Fargo accuses Dr. Fox of helping the dog builders. She tells him that she's not getting involved because they're too competitive. Nathan wants one of the Logic diamonds as a wedding present for Allison and he needs Carter to sign it out of the building. Carter signs and talks to Fargo about the quake. Fargo tells him about Dr.Hood who could probably help him.

Jack drives out to see Dr.Hood who is in 'retired' state. Jack tells him what happened and Dr. Hood assures him that he couldn't have experienced it. But Jack mentions the lights and Hood is intrigued.

Jack returns to town and Eva asks him for the progress on the destruction of Fifi. Well she lost her head actually, the dog I mean....right moving along. Jack tells her that they don't look into malfunctions and she counters that the dogs are a good marketing strategy. 'A pet that would never get sick or die.' Well she's there to make money isn't she?

Jack and Jo go to visit Dr. Young who is appalled that she's being accused of sabotaging Fifi. She was going to trounce the dog once and for all. She tells Jack to throw the frisbee for the dog. Jack does that and the dog disintegrates. Fargo is called in to do the 'dogtopsy'. Fargo hugs Jack and he tells him 'stay and down.'


Jo tells Jack that Fifi's owner refuses to release the remains to Global. She wants to guard her secrets. Jack is still amazed at these people. The whole place begins to shake and Dr. Hood emerges from a tunneler. He jumps out and tells Jack that there's something building under the town.

Jack directs traffic while they attempt to fix the street. Allison is upset at Dr. Hood and tells Jack that Dr. Hood had a mental breakdown. That was why he no longer worked. She asks Jack to keep an eye on him.

Jack goes into Cafe Diem and finds Henry explaining something to Zoe. She has her laptop out and Henry is melting copper using a device. Jack reaches forward and is of course zapped. (When will he learn.) Zoe leaves to bus a table and Henry tells Jack that he's supposed to do a favor for Eva Thorn (she showed up at the garage and when Henry asked how he could repay her, she tells him.) Henry doesn't want to do it, but he leaves to meet her.

Jack sees Dr. Hood enter Cafe Diem. He sets up a machine and tries to drill a hole. Jack stops him and Dr. Hood realizes that Allison spoke to him. Jack tells him to go home, and Dr. Hood asks if he can tow his tunneler home. He wants to clean her up before she rusts. Jack agrees and he leaves.

Meanwhile, Jo waits for Allison to try on wedding gowns. Allison fumes that no one wears white the second time they get married and the dress is too big. The fitter zaps the dress and it is immediately altered. Jo wants to try it on next. (Hmm, is Zane in trouble?)

There is a flash of light and the place rumbles. Allison ends up being stuck in the dress because the devices don't work. She rushes to a field where she meets up with Jack. She's furious because he didn't keep an eye on Hood. Hood insists he wasn't using his tunneler. He's tracking a fumerole ( a mud volcano). Jack tells Allison that she looks pretty. She likes the neckline but the dress is too princessy and she couldn't get out of it because half the circuits were blown in town.

When she hears that it's a fumerole she starts screaming as she's covered in mud, (oh, the poor gown). Nathan shows up and they attempt to figure the whole thing out. He likes the neckline but not the rest of the dress. He tells Jack that they'll do something with the satellite. Jack asks if that will help and Nathan assures him that he's only saying the to 'sound smart'. [We know that they don't like each other, but they are still 2/3 of the 'money team'.]

They return to Global as Fargo calls him to tell him that he found something. Fargo tells Jack that the dogs had Logic diamonds in their circuitry. It's a Federal crime. He tells Jack that the two women refused to tell him where they got the diamonds. Jack tells Fargo to leave the interrogating to him. He goes to see Dr. Fox who says that she doesn't know where the diamonds came from. All of Global's Logic diamonds are accounted for. She tells him that it may have come from another country's covert operation.

Jack finds Allison in her office attempting to cut her way out of the wedding dress. She tells him that she has to see Thorn and he attempts to get the zipper down. He finally gets it done and Allison at the last moment recalls that she shouldn't take the gown off in front of him. She turns around to thank him and...well, there was that moment. That look that makes every hack romance writer weep.

He leaves her and heads back to see Dr. Hood, for it is suggested that the magma pocket is man-made and who better to do that a scientist trying to get back his accreditation. Dr. Hood is appalled at it because he is the last person who would ever create a volcano. Jack asks who else could do it, and Dr. Hood points out that in a town that builds robot dogs for a hobby...

Jack tells him that the dogs are exploding. (Hood is a nice guy. He and Henry are of the same ilk. They don't over - complicate the science talk and explain what is happening without making Jack feel like an idiot.) Jack shows Hood the Logic diamond and he offers to put it through his machine to figure out where it came from. Hood is amazed that the diamond came from Eureka.

Jack didn't know that there was a diamond mine. Hood tells him that there isn't but there was a coal mine. [Remember class that diamonds are made from coal that has been subjected to intense heat and pressure...I read the Bobbsy Twins as a little girl and they explained the whole process of how diamonds were made.]

Jack, Hood and Jo go to the mine, where Jo points out that they should be looking in a diamond mine. While there Jo flips a switch and they spot the diamonds. Hood examines them and says that they're fake. He's hit by a wave of sound and Jack and Jo quickly destroy the power to the generator. Hood is all right but his arm is broken. Jack realizes that the wave must have melted the bedrock and created the 'lava'.

In a conference back at Global Jack asks if one of the other programs are using Eureka to make the diamonds. Allison tells him that Global is 30 years ahead of everyone else. He asks to see the personnel records. Dr. Fox was growing the diamonds in the mine. When they confronted her, she defends herself saying that she wanted to have them available for everyone not just the military, but she needed to test them so she built them into the dogs to get a real life testing scenario. She didn't expect the dogs to overload and blow up. Allison tells her that Global is a lab. Dr. Fox points out that it's a secret lab and Jack tells her that she has created a volcano with her machine. Dr. Fox is amazed because she didn't realize that it could happen. Oy!

Nathan can't figure out where the pressure is building. Jack has an idea and asks if they think it's stupid. Nathan tells him yes without hearing the idea. Jack thinks that to use Fifi to sniff out the volcano. He gets the mucus and 'the chicken lady' (I can't remember her name) goes to work on improving her dog.

Hood gives them the tunneler and the briefcase of explosives. He warns them to be gone and they have to quickly dig a channel to the lake. [Lava doesn't stop til it meets water...yep I paid attention during every disaster movie on volcanoes ever made...oh stop rolling your eyes at me.]

While in the tunneler, Jack drives while Nathan holds the dog. (That dog is so cute.) Allison calls them and Nathan thinks that the dog has them chasing their tail. Methane vents are popping off and they have very little time. Fifi starts barking and Jack stops the tunneler. Fifi finds the 'lava'. Nathan points out that it's magma below ground and lava above it. Jack doesn't want the dog to be more confused. Nathan is basically getting a headache from Jack.

Fifi starts digging at the wall and they realize that they don't need the explosives because it's punching through on its own. They run back to the tunneler and Jack makes sure that Fifi is in the tunneler and starts racing in the direction of the lake. But the instruments are not working properly. Jack tells Nathan to hit them. Nathan doesn't want to but Jack insists. He hits them and they get the bearings. Jack manages to get the tunneler to the surface and out of the way of the magma.

They get out of the tunneler with Fifi to look at the stream of magma going into the lake. Jack turns to Nathan, 'So what do you want to do tomorrow?'

Back at Cafe Diem, Jack speaks to Hood. Hood tells him that he'll stay retired. Nathan and Allison walk in and she wants an iced coffee. Jack comments on the fact that it's muggy. Nathan responds that the magma will take a few days to completely expend itself.
'Isn't it technically lava,' Jack points out.

Allison thinks that they worked well together and that they should do it again. They look at each other and say 'yes'. They leave and Fargo comes in with Sparky. He has won the dog competition and Hood with Jack smile at Fargo's acceptance speech. Sparky relieves himself on Jack and Jack realizes that Sparky is a real dog. Fargo quickly leaves.

Jack finds Henry at his office. Henry asks Jack if he wants a game of chess, and Jack tells him that he has to go home and change because Fargo is a cheat. Henry realizes that Sparky was a real dog. Henry tells Jack that Eva wanted him to test a piece of land for radiation. He found all kinds of radiation including bariogenic which is supposed to be artificial and by the way purple.

Henry tells Jack that he doesn't keep secrets anymore and Jack is not fooled by Eva. [A fact of which I'm extremely glad.] Henry leaves.

But back to that scene between Eva and Henry, she tells him that it's a hotel she wants to put there. He finds the radiation and she tells him that she doesn't want to clean up that land because she's there to make money not spend it. Henry is doubtful about her but promises to keep her secret (which I'm glad that he didn't). However, we have an idea as to what she's up to..hmm...wasn't that the radiation that made Bruce Banner into the Hulk...


Back at the house, S.A.R.A.H. tells Jack that he's supposed to exercise and pay bills. He tells her that he's taking the night off. She tells him that stress is the number one killer of people and when he replies, she adds 'after sarcasm'.

Zoe comes home and tells her dad that she's going to study. He offers to help her but he can't. Instead he tells that she must do her best and he'll get pizza. She realizes that he's not putting any more pressure on him and is happy.

Next week wedding? maybe? hmm....I wonder...did I see that part right about someone kissing Allison...next week people.

Feel free to add your own thoughts.

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All right people I know that you're all waiting for my IPS entry, however, I'm trying to see if the episode is available on itunes. I was without electricity last night because one of the electricity poles caught on fire. I've not been able to see the episode and given the fact that the Olympics are also on USA...it's a crazy thing here. Which means that my Burn Notice entry will also be late.

However, the second I get it on my computer and watch it several times, I shall get this thing going and y'all can speak to your heart's content. Sorry people, this is my technical difficulty.

Ciao.

Here we go. Michael at the end of last week's episode gets an address for a mailbox that is used by Carla. He stakes out the mailbox with Fiona. He does the voice-over explaining how boring stake outs are, which is why it is necessary to do so in pairs.

Fiona is eating her nuts and throwing the shells at Michael and out of the window. Michael spots a woman who goes to the mailbox. They follow her to a building where Fiona wonders where is the security. Michael has a way of checking who the security is. He orders a pizza and has the pizza delivery guy drive around attract the attention of the security personnel.

Michael returns to his place where a man is waiting for him. He wants Michael to help him, but Michael refuses. Eventually he breaks him down and Michael agrees to help him.

The man named Trevor has been recruited by a criminal named Timo to act as his 'wheelman'. Trevor has been paroled and doesn't want to go back to jail because his child was born while he was in prison and he wants to raise his child.

Michael drafts Fiona and Sam to assist him in taking down Timo's gang. There is a heist planned but Timo likes to keep things to himself until the last minute. Michael's plan is to get the job called off. He arranges for the safe cracker to be arrested by having Fi approach him and get him to drink and drive which would land him in jail.

The man takes Fi to be a 'professional' and tells her that he doesn't 'pay for play'. He leaves her and Sam has to pick a fight. There are police across the street but they don't pay much attention. Sam ends up getting beaten and still the police pay no attention. Fi manages to scream and they come and arrest the safe cracker.

Trevor comes to see Michael. He tells him that the job is still on, for Timo is looking for another safe cracker. Michael decides that he will pretend to be the person. However, he can't meet until the next day.

Michael breaks into building across from Carla where he installs a webcam to a wireless router so that they can spot any holes in the security. Michael does an interesting disappearing act, which lets you know just how strong his fingers are when he's hanging over the side of the building to escape security.

Michael meets with Timo who decides that he needs to test Michael. Michael doesn't want to break into the liquor store's safe but Timo puts the gun to Trevor's head. Michael cracks the safe and Timo is pleased.

Michael meanwhile has been practicing with cracking safe locks. Fi tells him that the last number is always the same, C4. It's better to blast your way into a safe rather than open it. Michael needs less mess.

Michael then goes to a meeting with Timo and the rest of the crew. He asks questions that irritate Timo. Timo insists that there isn't question for Michael to answer. Michael asks when was the safe installed. Timo has to answer that one, for if Michael only has 19 minutes then he has to know what he's going up against. Given the type of safe that they're going after, Michael can figure out where the heist will be.

Sam meets with his 'lady friend' Ronnie. She is so taken with him that she always showers him with gifts then she asks Sam to marry her. Sam doesn't know what to say. He asks Michael who tells him to marry her. He tells Michael that it's complicated, so Michael tells him not to marry her. Sam needs more help than that. They go inside where they find the hole in Carla's security system.

Trevor turns in the location of where he must put the getaway cars. Sam takes the address and with the knowledge of the type of safe, they track down the location. It is the Jewel Exchange. Trevor is pleased that Michael figured it out, except Michael points out that one of the crew CJ has a job there. Which is how Timo has the whole job planned.

Michael tells Trevor to play it cool and he'll take care of everything. (Ever notice that when everything goes wrong is the more assuring Michael gets?)

Michael attempts to get into Carla's place. Sam pays a boy to get the only guard on duty away from his post. He gets in the car and asks Fi her advice on Ronnie. Fi asks him if he doesn't love her. He admits that he does, so she tells him that he should marry her. Sam tells her that he can't because he's already married. He got married in the 70's and they both knew it was a mistake but neither ever got around to getting a divorce. Fi tells Sam to tell Ronnie everything. She assures Sam that Ronnie will understand.

Michael meanwhile almost gets in the door when his phone rings. It's Timo and he has to get to the job. Michael aborts his attempt and explains to Sam and Fi that Timo has called. They move out to the place.

Michael has his phone taken from him, so he manages to drop a note to alert Sam and Fi.

Michael and the crew go to the place. While inside, Michael manages to get the whole job to go south and they run. Michael and the others run back to the boat house while Timo finds himself with a flat tire.

Michael shows up and the others are upset that they pulled the job and got nothing. Michael tells them that he got the jewels and that he gave them to Timo. He then fights the others and the female (the muscle of the crew) tells Michael that Timo will be dead soon.

Michael leaves to return to his place and Timo runs afoul of his 'muscle'. She shoots Timo believing that he really betrayed them. It was a consequence of his need to control every aspect. Michael tells Trevor that he managed to stay out of the trouble and that they didn't steal anything. Trevor leaves.

Michael tells Fi that he wants to go back to try and infiltrate Carla. Fi is painting her toe nails. Michael smudges them and tells her that she has to do them over. She's upset until Sam comes in with his bags. Ronnie didn't understand and she kicked him out. He glares at Fi while he tells her. She runs off telling him that she has to go help Michael.

Fi sets up a man who acts as a diversion for Michael. Michael enters the building and finds Carla's offices empty. There is a screen with photos of him on his last attempt to enter into the building. There is also a recording of Carla's voice mocking him. He sees balloons and in the next room a magnum of champagne and an envelope. Inside is a crossword puzzle with an assignment.

All I can say is that Michael is going to kill these people when he gets them to re-instate him. They have no idea the world of trouble that they have unleashed.

Feel free to add your own thoughts.

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