Showing posts with label episode 14. Show all posts
Showing posts with label episode 14. Show all posts

Friday, February 14, 2014

'Person of Interest' GifTweetCap: Shaw's New Gal-Pal

Most of these gifs are available on this Tumblr post. "Provenance" is one of the sillier Person of Interest episodes, but hey, sometimes fans need a break from heart-pounding, non-stop suspense and huge revelations. This is one of those "break" episodes, but still enjoyable.

Now that Reese (Jim Caviezel) is back home, things are somewhat back to normal, which means the gang has a new number to contend with. That new number is an event planner, which means that Reese and Finch (Michael Emerson) will be attending an event together. The only problem is that Reese wants to look spiffy for his "boyfriend," but his tie seems to have other ideas.
During the event, a thief makes off with some goods, but Shaw (Sarah Shahi) puts up a human roadblock in the form of a bright white, sexy push-up dress. The thief is their event-planner-number, and also a former gymnast!
The "NCSI guys" as Shaw calls them (incorporating the names of the bulk of other CBS shows in various flavors of CSI and NCIS), believe that Kelli (Elaine Tan) is a very dangerous killer, thanks to Interpol's French Agent Bouchard (Henri Lubatti). While law enforcement is preoccupied, Shaw finds Kelli's bag hidden inside, which contains a device with GPS coordinates for a bar she frequents.
Shaw spies on Kelli enough to learn that the two of them could probably make great gal-pals, if only Shaw was, you know, a criminal. But hold up -- Kelli's not your average criminal! They can be pals after all! Shaw stops Kelli from committing her latest crime, only to find that she was forced to steal by people who kidnapped her daughter (Chloe Cheng). These criminal masterminds have also been going in and "cleaning up" after Kelli by killing people, and framing her for the murders.
It turns out Kelli was kicked off the Chinese Olympic team after winning silver because she was prego... and when she pawned her medal to feed her baby, she decided to steal a watch too. The owners of the shop just happened to be bad guys who liked her thieving talents, so they kidnapped her child so she would do their bidding. Now, Interpol believes she's also a murderer.
There's a slight problem, however: the daughter is being held in Prague, and will be murdered if Kelly doesn't steal the Gutenberg Bible, which is exceedingly more difficult to steal now that Shaw prevented her from stealing it during transport. So, here are the steps they take to steal the artifact:
Step 1: Buy a 3D printer. This step contains five other steps:
Step 2: Have Fusco (Kevin Chapman) covertly pull prints from one of the security guards who works at the place where the bible is being held.
Step 3: Print a hand that has the prints lifted from the guard.
Step 4: Have a Grumpy-Cat-mustachioed Reese knock out some poor, unsuspecting fool, so he can pretend to break in and get caught by the guards on purpose.
Step 5: Place the fingertips of the printed hand on fingers, lick, and scan.
Step 6: Use Kelli's gymnastic thieving techniques to traverse the convenient gymnastics bars placed above the bible.
Voila! With the guards distracted by Reese, Kelli and Shaw have time to make off with the bible.
Unfortunately, Kelli is now in even hotter water with Interpol, now that she made off with the bible. So, Shaw pulls Agent Bouchard aside for a little chat with Finch. They give him all the necessary info to make him helpful in finding Kelli's kidnapped daughter, and promise to return the bible once the daughter is safe.
Kelli returns to the bar to speak with Cyril (Gene Farber), her "boss," about leaving the crime world now that she stole the bible for them, but of course, he refuses. When she insists, he makes a call to his kidnapper friends, thinking he will simply threaten her daughter's life again. This time, Reese is there to knock out the bad guys and save the girl. Soon after, Shaw helps take down the Cyril. As the cops finish the job, Shaw has a drink nearby, undeterred.
Now that Agent Bouchard is a hero for taking down a set of criminal masterminds, he sets Kelli free. They also fly her daughter to the USA, resulting in a rare warm smile from Shaw as she watches the mother-daughter reunion.
Later, our gang has a small celebration for a job well done, and Reese pours one for Carter. Hey, it wouldn't be a celebration without Carter there, at least in spirit.
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Thursday, February 6, 2014

'Elementary' GifTweetCap: Sherlock and Watson 'Drill Down' on a Case

"Dead Clade Walking" is the Scooby-Doo episode of Elementary. The best part of the episode is the tiny dinosaur, but there is also a nice bit of character development involving Sherlock's (Jonny Lee Miller) sponsorship work.
The episode starts off with Sherlock attempting to drill into a skull. He is interrupted by a text message from Randy (Stephen Tyrone Williams), the drug addict he is sponsoring.
On the way out, he meets Gay (Ashlie Atkinson).
Before Sherlock leaves, Watson (Lucy Liu) tells him about a case file she had been checking out. The file is from the time when Sherlock was continuously high, and it is therefore incomprehensible. Watson makes out enough of it to know that there is a rock she should be checking out in the backyard of a murder victim named Doug.
Watson takes Gay, a geologist, to check it out while Sherlock meets with Randy. The rock contains a Nanotyrannus dinosaur fossil.
Meanwhile, Randy is having trouble because his drug addict girlfriend wants to see him. Sherlock knows the girlfriend will drag Randy down, but Randy has trouble believing it. Consequently, he texts Sherlock numerous times throughout the day while he's trying to work.
Watson does much of the work on her own while Sherlock is off helping Randy. She finds that there may be a smuggling ring involving ice cream trucks. During a stakeout with Gregson (Aidan Quinn), they witness a deal going down in which a great deal of money changes hands for "winter ice cream." It's actually payment for illegal cigars.
The smuggler seems confused. He confesses to delivering the rock, but not his buddy Doug. Later, the rock is stolen out of evidence.
Sherlock believes that C, his dirty-talkin elderly pen-pal, can help with the case, as she's an executive at a top auction house. She says that someone who goes by the nickname Magpie could have something to do with it, but she has no way of contacting him. You have to own something the Magpie wants, and then he finds you.
In order for the Magpie to take notice, Sherlock creates a fake priceless thesis from 1895 in order to get his foot in the door.
Once again, Sherlock is interrupted while trying to drill into the skull. He meets with Randy again, and finally tells him that, if he wants to be sober, he will have to stay away from his girlfriend. He's stern, but let's Randy know that it's for his own good. It's not enough: Randy skips out.
Meanwhile, they finally hear from a buyer who sounds like the Magpie. When they go to meet with him, they find him dead, and the fossil rock smashed to pieces.
You can find most of the images below on this Tumblr post. I know this is way late, but I've had the gifs since last week, so I wanted to share them. Plus, it's worth reading just for the funny tweets! The DNA of a man named Donnelly (Joel Hatch) is found at the scene of the murder, but he is in a wheelchair. Doug's fossil would have disproven a lifetime of Donnelly's work, but he wasn't the murderer. Sherlock is spread too thin, and stuck on the case, so he decides to try a novel approach to gaining some enlightenment: he eats part of the Magpie case file.
Watson offers a small bit of insight, and Sherlock runs with it. Jerome Thomas (Jonno Roberts), a man who collaborated on a book with Donnelly, is just as opposed to Doug's work. He also has a penchant for faking fossils in order to further his career. But when Sherlock mentions that he left DNA at Doug's murder, he confesses.
Later, Sherlock makes a third attempt at drilling into the skull, when Watson interrupts him.
Watson enters with a gift: the remains of the Nanotyrranus fossil. Sherlock thanks Watson for ensuring that the case got solved, and jokingly offers to repay her by removing disturbing thoughts from her brain with his drill.
The episode closes with a visit from Randy. Randy went back to his girlfriend and relapsed. Well, at least now he knows that Sherlock speaks the truth about how to stay sober.
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