Showing posts with label episode 8. Show all posts
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Friday, January 17, 2014

'Almost Human' GifTweetCap: How to Catch a Tracking Bullet

"You Are Here" was a bit out of place, since it was originally supposed to be the second episode in the "Almost Human" series, but was aired as the eighth. That's OK, because it was still one of the best episodes. It was nice to see some of the first days of Kennex/Dorian snark. That is one thing about this show that will never get old.

Near the beginning of the episode, Kennex is in an anger management seminar. The first guy we hear from seems to be hatin' on everything in the group, including their therapist. But Kennex insists that he is doing fine. The therapist insists that he is not telling the truth, what with his girlfriend having been part of the criminal organization that blew off his leg and had his entire team killed. Instead, he projects it all on a poor guy named Marty... because he would definitely want to off himself if he were that poor sap. And then he asks "Anal"... er, "Aneel" how he's doing. Kennex really knows how to lay on the insults to pull the focus away from himself.
The episode opens with a man running for his life, attempting to find a place to hide. He just misses a subway train, and that's when the cops stop him. He frantically tries to explain that his life is in danger, but it's too late; a bullet enters through the glass in the top of the building, and makes its way to the man, killing him.
Kennex and Dorian arrive, showing off some cool tech, highlighted a little better than it had been in previous episodes. The first is the nifty transparent paper that acts as a tablet computer. The next is the virtual crime scene tape that checks the identities of the people who enter through it to ensure they are allowed.
Det. Richard Paul's MX comes up with a highly improbable theory for what went down, suggesting that a single bullet ricocheted to its destination, and just coincidentally hit a man walking by at that moment. Dorian disagrees, explaining that that is no residue from any object from which the bullet could have ricocheted. The MX then suggests that Dorian is an inferior DRN, and should be replaced, causing Kennex to cover the MX's mouth so he can hear the rest of Dorian's theory.
When Kennex removes his hand, the MX just won't shut up in his unemotional beratement of Dorian. Of course, that leaves Kennex with only one option:
Maldonado is pissed beyond belief that Kennex has wasted so much of the department's money, along with firing his weapon in a public place. He insists, however, that the MXs are inferior "bullet catchers," deserving of the same fate as a "broken toaster." Paul is, of course, pissed that Kennex destroyed his MX, and threatens to do the same to Dorian. A short cat fight ensues.
Rudy confirms that Dorian was correct. The single bullet did not ricochet, but had its own power source and tracker, allowing it to find a specific target. The shooting was not due to coincidence and ricochets.
Kira, the girlfriend of Anton, the guy who was shot, doesn't know anything other than the fact that Anton had been distracted. She also has a phone message from him, which she displays for Kennex right on the palm of her hand.
Dorian notices some ads targeted directly to him in the building where Anton and Kira worked together. After a little research (in his own brain), he learns that the ad tracking software created by Anton is the same technology used in the bullet, and the bullet design was stolen by a group known as Revolution Now. Meanwhile, an arms-dealing woman who has the tracking software to match with the special bullet, sets up a new tracking bullet for some customers. She's going to prove that it works by killing Kira!
The arms dealer fires the weapon, but Dorian can sense it coming. He moves Kennex out of the way and takes the bullet!
Dorian's injury leads to a round of hilariousness, in which he is only able to speak Korean until Rudy patches him up. He even sings a little ditty in Korean... until Kennex threatens to shoot Dorian in the face unless Rudy turns off the noise.
Kennex brings Kira and her daughter to safety, but she's under the delusion that she can go to a "Scrubber" to have her memories of Anton erased, and the bad guys will simply let her go free.
She escapes from her safe haven, and heads right to the Scrubber's for some brain-erasin'. Kennex shows up to stop her, but she pushes him away. This must be the first woman in 2048 history who can withstand the Kennex charm.
The arms dealer doesn't care about Kira's memories. She just wants to prove her tracking software, and she doesn't want to waste time or mess around. That won't be happening with our dynamic duo, however. Dorian becomes a "bullet catcher," and takes out the arms dealer while Kennex takes out one of her customers.
Kennex and Dorian had found a safe deposit box belonging to Anton, which contained a blackmail video. The arms dealer was going to kill Kira if he had not given her the tracking software for the bullet. They also found a number on a torn piece of paper. It was Anton's phone number, written with an antiquated pen, and given to Kira. Kira had ripped up the paper, but he kept it as a memento until he won her over. Kira gives the sentimental pen to Kennex.
Earlier, Kennex had been awkward on the phone with Stahl when she said she had something for him. He thought it was a gift, but it was actually information about the case. To make up for it, Stahl later gives Kennex an actual gift: an energy chew. In return, Kennex gives her a note, written in pen. What was written on the note is a mystery we may never learn.
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Saturday, November 16, 2013

'Elementary' in Ani-gifs: 'Blood is Thicker,' but What's up with Mycroft?

Mycroft (Rhys Ifans) sticks around for "Blood is Thicker," his second episode in a row for "Elementary." He finally gets to spend some time with Sherlock! Well, maybe that's not such a good thing.

 The episode begins with a sparring match. Mycroft is fencing with Sherlock (Jonny Lee Miller) on the rooftop with an egg on his head. The loser is Mycroft, when his egg is broken. Good thing it's not a middle school exercise to protect an egg-baby!
Sherlock's and Watson's (Lucy Liu) first case of the episode begins when a kid hears something going on in a delivery van. The delivery guy shrugs it off, and winds up driving through town with a dead girl on his roof.
When Sherlock is finally called in, he is able to determine where the girl fell based on the location of the paint chips she knocked off the ceiling and onto the packages. Watson notices that a tree is missing off one of the balconies on the building, and they use that to determine from what room the girl fell.
Sherlock deduces that the dead girl was a "kept woman," but she is actually Haley (Kersti Bryan), the daughter of the rich owner of the building, Ian Gale (William Sadler), who is dying. He has a rare blood type, and needed a blood transfusion from her.
Some fans had a few additional things to say about the actor who plays Ian Gale.
...and, Mr. Gale also has a spectacular view from his hotel.
Watson offers to go to the morgue alone to study Haley's body so Sherlock can send some quality time with his brother at dinner. Sherlock tries to get out of it, going so far as to say that eating is a waste of his time, but Watson has already bought her vending-machine dinner.
It turns out that Haley would have died from her stab wound whether or not she had fallen off the balcony, which means the fall was a mistake. Her boyfriend Ray (Kieran Campion) says that Haley had been seriously ill with the flu for the last two weeks, but Christian Suarez (Elliot Villar), the lab tech who took her blood for her father, said she was fine. 

Ian Gale dies, and Sherlock soon realizes that he was murdered by his wife, Natalie (Margaret Colin). Natalie used Haley (her step-daughter) as a human incubator to create a custom toxin for her husband so it would appear that his body was rejecting his heart transplant. Christian confesses to taking a million dollars to do the job, while the wife would inherit $15 million.
Meanwhile, Sherlock finally shows up for dinner at Mycroft's restaurant after repeatedly standing him up. In order to be honest with his brother, Sherlock must label the dinner as "exquisite."
After the dinner, Mycroft makes the symbolic gesture of handing over the keys to 221B in London, just as Sherlock appears to be losing interest in their conversation. Mycroft then informs him that their father wants Sherlock to move back to London, or forfeit his financial help.
Sherlock asks Watson to come with him to London, but confesses that he doesn't really want to leave, because New York, and the people he has met there, have kept him on track with his recovery from drug addiction. Watson puts it much more simply: "screw him" (referring to his father). They can make it on their own, as long as they begin taking on paying jobs, once again.
The father is not the culprit, however. Sherlock has a nice moment with his brother, wherein he tells Mycroft that he has decided to stay in New York, and gives him a letter to pass to their father. When Mycroft is alone, he tears up the letter, then carries on a nefarious-sounding conversation with someone at a +44 country code (which is in the Isle of Man, U.K.). He says that the plan didn't work, mentions his father, and refers to Sherlock and Watson as "they," indicating that he is speaking with someone who probably shouldn't know about their personal business. Something is afoot!
 
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

'Person of Interest' in Gifs: Badass Carter Channels Badass Reese!

"Endgame" -- PERSON OF INTEREST on CBS
Tuesday, November 12 (10:01 – 11:00 PM ET/PT)
left to right: Taraji P. Henson, Laz Alonso
Photo: Giovanni Rufino/Warner Bros. Ent. Inc.
© 2013 WBEI. (used with permission)
Last week, Carter (Taraji P. Henson) had just learned that Quinn (Clarke Peters) is the HR boss. This week, on the ominously titled episode "Endgame," she becomes the badass we all knew she could be in her journey to take down HR and avenge the murder of her boyfriend Cal Beecher (and her new rookie partner, Laskey).
The Machine spits out 38 numbers, all members of HR. Reese (Jim Caviezel) inquires whether the Machine "blew a belt," but it's more likely that something big is going down (and because the Machine is "not a lawnmower," as Finch replies). Finch (Michael Emerson) and Reese realize that someone is attempting to take out HR. We see that Carter is the vigilante when she tells everyone she knows to lay low and smashes her phone. The look on her face shows a heavy burden.

Before asking Elias (Enrico Colantoni) to lay low, Carter has him talk to the Russian boss, Peter Yogorov (Morgan Spector). Of course, Elias puts his own flair on it, leaving a bullet in Yogorov's food.

We soon learn what all the secrecy is about when Carter steals a shipment of Russian drugs with a grenade launcher, a punch in the face for one of the drivers, and the universal sign for "on the ground, before I shoot you with this gun" for the truck's copilot.

Oh, and Carter stole Reese's grenade launcher to pull off the stunt!
It's all a ploy to make the Russians conclude that HR has stolen the drugs, and to make HR think that the Russians want to kill them for stealing the drugs. HR also thinks that "the man in the suit" is behind the whole thing, trying to start a war between the two groups. HR is willing to go to war if the Russians do indeed attack them, which is exactly what Carter makes them believe when she shoots at Quinn with a ginormous rifle. It's at this point that the Machine begins spitting out numbers for the Russians as well.

Meanwhile, the episode goes heavy on Carter flashbacks, making viewers believe that this could be her swan song. One flashback involves her PTSD-inflicted ex getting a bit violent.

In the present, that cutie-patootie ex, Paul (Laz Alonso), has gotten help and is doing well, and Carter has entrusted in him the safety of their equally nice-looking son, Taylor (Kwoade Cross). She calls them for what seems like "one last time," knowing the danger she faces.

Carter's ex
Carter's son
Fusco (Kevin Chapman) attempts to help out, but Carter leaves him high and dry after a few sweet sentiments about trusting him more than anyone else. Carter thinks she can take them on by herself and keep everyone else safe, having had saved up all the surveillance evidence she needs, as well as a sworn statement from a witness. It's enough to obtain an arrest warrant for Quinn, and now all she needs is to find the right judge. Unfortunately, she makes the wrong choice, and the judge (Paul O'Brien) immediately calls Quinn.
Meanwhile, Reese and Shaw (Sarah Shahi) go out to help all the Russians HR have rounded up, but they're too late: Carter has already called in the FBI, and they save the Russians and arrest a large number of HR members. All neat and tidy!

When she arrives at the judge's house, she walks right into the trap: Simmons (Robert John Burke), a few other HR goons, and a tarp, all ready for her body. But then something beautiful happens: she basically let's them know that she's not stupid enough to actually trust anyone, then Reese shoots his way through the door, and they drag Quinn out to take him to the FBI. Unfortunately, there will be plenty of dirty HR cops on the way there.

And... many fans did not want it to end there, what with the teasing of Fusco's possible demise in the previews!
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