Life 9/29/08

"Find Your Happy Place"

We left off last season with Charlie finding out that not only is Rachel Seybolt, the daughter of his former partner, alive. But the person responsible for hiding her all of these years is the father of her current partner. Remembering that Charlie spent 12 years in prison for his former partner's murder. He was exonerated and given $50 million and went back to work as a detective to solve the crime for which he did the time.

This season has us "at the river" staring into an open foot locker with a beautiful dead body in it. Yes, when you die of heat in a box, you look gorgeous. When they remove the body they discover the number one stenciled on the bottom.

The next scene has them on a freeway staring at an identical foot locker. Another body, this one a man, with the number two stenciled on the bottom. They get another call which takes them to the roof of a building, staring at another foot locker.....

They find another beautiful girl inside along with the number three. They open her wallet, find cash, a driver's license, and a business card.

They go to the business on the card, a shipping depot type place. Charlie asks the clerk what he can put in a box, to which the clerk replies, "whatever you want." Charlie then pulls fruit out of his pocket, a kumquat, and asks if he has a box for that. Of course we know that Charlie loves his fruit, having been denied it while in prison. They go over some other possibilities of what you can put in a box. Charlie asks if he has a box big enough to hold a man, his partner chimes in, "or a woman." This freaks the clerk out, and then they reveal that they are detectives. And they find out that victim number three usually runs the counter.

The next scene is in an office building, they are talking to the widow of victim number two. They try to determine if he had any connection to the other two victims.

The first victim, was an immigrant. They are about to go and investigate when a man owning a luggage store comes in and announces that a man had come in earlier and bought 10 trunks like he'd seen on the news.

The first victim apparently was a stripper, who worked in a place where the dancers dance in boxes. The other dancers cannot think of anyone who enjoyed the boxes more than anyone else. They explained that she was happy for no reason. The other dancers said she'd just gotten a line in a movie "I've never seen a sky that blue."

The detectives get a text, the new boss, (played by Donal Logue) wants to see them. They report that they cannot find a commonality between the victims. The new boss says "so it's random?"

To which Charlie replies, "except nothing is random."

"why is that?"

"Because it is all connected."

Charlie walks out after saying maybe it's not who they were, but where.

Charlie comes and pounds on the window for Reese to come and check out what he's found. The last two victims had cars with GPS, and the only place their lives intersected was a park. Crews and Reese go and check it out.

While they are there the notice an ice cream truck. They go and talk to the guy, while Charlie is asking about which kind of fruit they might have in their ice creams Reese asks him if he's alright, he looks a little shaky. He starts to mumble out some answer, and Charlie says "I don't know what your friend on the floor is planning to do, but I'm going to count to three and then I'm going to shoot him." The bad guy on the floor has a shot gun pointed at Charlie through the wall of the truck, and Charlie has a gun pointed at the bad guy. We fade to commercial and hear a gunshot.

We come back from commercial, Reese is eating icecream and there is a man being loaded into an ambulance, screaming "you didn't count to three." They were selling crack out of the ice cream truck, happened to be in a school zone. They couldn't have committed the murders because they had just been released that morning.

In the public restroom, we see Crews trying to catch up on lost time, the bathrooms have had installed laser faucets, and apparently he's sold his soul to Milhouse for a buck, because he can't get them to work. A woman from the park identifies victims two and three as people who were at the park last week. Victim three was taking a picture of victim two. She had noticed because guys without kids in parks stand out.

Crews and Reese are discussing the possibilities of the two having an affair and the wife finding out and killing them both, adding in the stripper because the guy had likely visited there. They cannot find the wife, but the building security says she's at the office. Crews and Reese go and check it out and hear a woman in the office saying she'd "do anything you want." Guns drawn, Crews and Reese the wife having a little fun with a girl.

The wife reveals that they were splitting for obvious reasons, and that victim number two was moving to London. He was going to make a new start and try to be happy.

We then see another trunk being left at LAX. Inside is a high school senior who had just gotten a full ride scholarship to run track.

Crews realizes that all of the victims were about to be happy. He also realizes that when people are happy they want to announce it, so back to the box store, they do announcements. The clerk can't find their customer list. So Crews and Reese go and see if any of the friends and family had gotten happy announcements from the victims. Sure enough,

They get a warrant to search the clerks apartment, who lives above his mother. They get her to let them in, and inside it is set up for a birthday party for a kid. There are invitations on the table, one for each of the victims. There is another invitation for a wedding. They go back to the box shop and break through the door, in the back they find another foot locker. Inside is the clerk with a bag over his head. They notice a missing ceiling tile. Crews goes up into the attic to find four more boxes. Along with the ones the victims were in there are nine trunks accounted for.

Next scene is a woman crying, the wedding is tomorrow and they can't find their daughter. The clerk is in the interview room, he won't tell them where the girl is because the thought of her in the trunk is the only thing that makes him happy. They bring in his mom to get some answers. He's a freak, he tells his mom it's ok it's one big smile. Crews turns over the box of party favors and finds a map with a happy face drawn on it. They find the girl on one end of the happy face of the map.

With that crime solved, Crews goes to the prison to speak to the man who had killed Crews' partner and family. He'd been raising their daughter as his own. Said the Lord had told him to do it.

Crews leaves the prison and goes to a Hostel that Rachel had been seen leaving several days ago. The guy who ran the Hostel claims that no Americans ever stay there. Crews and his accountant, who had spent time in jail too, discussed that the room they were in were smaller than the others, they notice the floor is dinged up under one of the beds, they move the bed to find a hidden room, in the room they find Rachel. Rachel is freaked, Crews tells her to calm down, the "fire sent me to get you." She immediately calms down, he picks her up and walks her out of the Hostel. He tells his accountant to shoot anyone that tries to stop them.

Fall 08 TV - Drama

Last year we had an abbreviated tv season. This year is going to be better than every!!!! Here's what I'm waiting for.

Criminal Minds. When we last left the FBI Profilers they were all getting into their Government issued, no doubt Hybrid, SUV's and KABOOOM. One of them blows up. But whose. Based on commercials leading up to the new season, it's not anybody. Probably a fake stunt to get us to come back. If I got to place my vote....not Spencer and not Garcia and not Hotch and not NOT NOT Morgan. Please not Morgan.

CSI: Warrick got the bejeebers shot out of him, by the creepy, evil, detective dude. I think he's alive. Sarah is back, just to help with the Warrick case. Then, rumor has it, her and Grissom drive off into the sunset. So, Warrick HAS to live, who would be left, Stokes, Catherine and that creepy lab guy. No, Warrick has to stay.

Eli Stone. This was a mid season replacement. I wouldn't have watched it otherwise. But I am oh so glad that I did. It is awesome. Eli, sees and hears things that others cannot. Is it his brain aneurysm? Is it God? He claims not to believe in God, but his "spiritual" advisor/acupuncturist explains that God is everywhere, in everything, in every time. Sounds like God to me. Now I know that to pitch a GOD is everywhere, in everything show to the networks wouldn't fly, but I'm glad that it may get some people to think. Also, Eli - or rather the guy who plays Eli, Angelina Jolie's first husband.

Pushing Daisies I am so glad this is back, I hope they change NOTHING about it. A love story, without the possibility of sex. Now, don't get me wrong, I like sex as much as the next guy, but tv shows built around 'when are they going to have sex' no thanks. Sex is out of the picture because the main character, Ned, and his love interest, Chuck (it's a girl Charlene), can't touch. They can't touch because Ned had a gift of bringing people back from the dead. Touch them once, alive. Touch them twice, dead forever. He uses his special skill to solve murders, when one day he happened on to the love of his life. Chuck lived across the street from him when they were children. When Chuck's father died she was sent to live with her aunts. They never saw each other again, til she was dead. He touched her, because he couldn't not touch her, and he didn't touch her again, which he usually does after he finds out who killed them. Now they are happy, in love, and can never touch again. They get around the romantic parts of their love by wearing gloves to hold hands, and she happens to be a beekeeper, so when she's beekeeping they can dance. Even kissing is possible because he's a baker, and she does this cute thing with Saran Wrap. It's just awfully cute, and a musical to boot. I know, sounds lame, but it's not.

CSI: Miami Who knows what's happening, and who cares. We don't watch CSI: Miami because of the story, we watch because of the horrible acting. It's a train wreck and we line up every week for it. But if I remember correctly Horatio got shot about a bazillion times in the cliffhanger. He has a kid with an ex informant who married a billionaire and then killed him for the money. She then married her true love a guy who is going to kill and her son for her money. But I don't really care. I'm still hoping the resurrect Speedle in some sort of undercover government thing. I just like it when H comes to rescue Calleigh, who he's known for years, and calls her "ma'am" does that make sense? NO. It's hilarious.

Life Oh, I so cannot wait for this one. Murder, intrigue, mystery and weirdness. I love it. Although, it is built on the premise of "when are these two going to have sex?" But when we last left it, Crews had just figured out that his current partner has an evil father. The evil father murdered Crews former partner, and framed Crews. Crews spent 12 years in prison, then got a bazillion dollar judgement and was released. Instead of taking his money and enjoying his life, he has set out to solve the murder for which he did the time. It has led him back to his partner's father.

This are the major dramas I follow. We'll do comedies and reality later.

Life 12/5/07

Ok, now what? Crews solved the crime and caught the guy that he did twelve years in prison for. It turns out it was his new partners, dad's CI, (or confidential informant). And the biggest shocker of all. The CI had been raising the daughter of the people he murdered. Only slightly less shocking, the CI had found Jesus and had been a televangelist for the last 10 years. OH MY.

So, the criminal is caught. But during the confession, he admitted to killing those people, but he did not set Crews up. Of course we know who did? Crews' partner's dad. Keeping Crews from hauling daddy in, the information that daddy knows where Crews' friend's daughter is. That'll keep the closet crime solving in full gear, once the writer's strike is over.

The Zen moment of the week, useful exercises for Zennies. Dig a hole. Fill it up.

Life

I LOVE this show. I love the crazy eccentric multimillionaire trying to solve the crime that had him imprisoned for twelve years. I love his Zen-ness. Although I'm very decidedly Christian, I love the round about thinking he does.

I love the quirky accountant/fellow felon who is handling all of this mystery money, I love that the accountant is in love with the dad's trophy fiance' I just love it.

My favorite eccentric millionaire moments to date are the purchase of the orange grove, he likes fruit, not having access to it for twelve years would probably do that for you. I also love the "let's buy a solar farm." Loving the lack of furniture, and the closet full of clues.

Wondering who on the board set him up, wondering if the person who set him up is even on the board.