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Saturday, December 7, 2013

'Person of Interest' GifTweetCap: It's Payback Time in 'The Devil's Share'

Fans are reeling from the loss of Det. Carter on Person of Interest, and now, in episode "The Devil's Share," it's time for payback. Having Carter back on the show would be much more preferable, but what are ya gonna do? They already killed her off, dammit, and it just sucks. The gif caps won't stop, however, so you can always count on more anigifs and tweets for your viewing pleasure. By the way, this recap contains many more tweets than usual because of all the twists and turns and high emotion of the episode. The mood swings contained in the tweets are actually pretty interesting!
Bear sits beside Reese as he recovers from his gunshot wound (the wound he got from Simmons, when Carter was shot and died in his arms). He's not going to take it lying down, however, even though he misses Carter's funeral.
Shaw knows how to deal out vengeance as well, and as the less-bedridden of the two, she gets straight to work beating some goon with a photo of Simmons (and her fist).
Now it's Reese's turn. Three more goons collect a payment from evil tyrant Simmons for some presumably devious deeds, and take off by gas-guzzling SUV. They count their happy fortunes, until BAM! Reese sends the SUV flying, then demands to know Simmons' location from their sorry dumb asses.
Fusco is worried that "tall, dark and deranged" (Reese) will make Simmons harder to find with his "scorched earth" approach. They track down Shaw, who in turn had tracked down Reese's latest victim. He says Quinn knows where Simmons is, which leads to another contact who knows where to find Quinn.  Reese and the Russians had both already caught up with him, but the Russians killed him. The only person who can help them now is Root. 
Shaw pushes Finch to release Root, but she nearly regrets it when Root directs all of her driving and everything else, even in complete darkness. Talk about a backseat driver!
When they arrive at their destination, Root introduces her brand of crazy full force, leaving Fusco's mouth wide open. That bi*ch knows everything! Perhaps it's difficult not to be completely nuts when delusions of grandeur are confirmed by a disembodied voice on the phone.
They wonder whether Reese made it to the party when, BOOM! Yep, that must be him! Explosions are a Reese-ism that immediately gives away his location.
It's Reese against SWAT, and Reese wins. He gets right to work, knocking people out and finding his intermediate prey (Quinn), who will hopefully write down the location of Reese's ultimate asshat goal (Simmons). Reese will kill Quinn either way, but Quinn must choose between giving away Simmons' location for a quick shot to the head, or saying nothing for a drawn-out torture session that will make him wish he was dead.
Our gang makes their way to Reese with Root's help, and Shaw thinks Root's precision two-handed firing is "hot." Nothing like a little crazy to disable all the bad guys in your path!
When Finch finally arrives at Quinn's last rites, Reese is in pretty bad shape. Finch attempts to take Reese's gun, but he's not gonna give it up that easy! He fires on Quinn, but it's a flop: he's out of bullets, and about to pass out.
Fusco is one of the last to walk out of the room, and notices a piece of paper on the floor. It's Simmons' location! Reese really did put the fear of God into Quinn!
Fusco keeps the location to himself, and tracks down Simmons. Simmons clearly wants and expects Fusco to put a bullet in his brain, but Fusco takes the more torturous route with him: making him feel like a complete dumbshizzle by kicking his ass.
He beats the crap out of Simmons, then gives him a fantastic monologue about why killing Carter was the stupidest thing he ever could have done. All she ever did was good, and in honor of her, Fusco arrests Simmons rather than killing him.
That's right, Simmons lives… a little longer. That is, until Elias gets his hands on him. Elias has his own memorable monologue about the amazing Det. Carter, but he is not bound by ethics. Elias will never stop being a bad guy, even if he respects the good people, such as Carter. Simmons isn't worth getting Elias' hands dirty, however. He just sits back and watches one of his goons get the job done. How fitting.
On a side note, we get some backstory on each character with flashbacks for each of them. Two of them contain interesting tidbits about three of the characters:

Shaw used to be Dr. Shaw, but was let go because she was unable to show feelings for her patients. She was brilliant, and always got the job done, but could not be trusted when saving a life required an emotional response rather than a logical one. Her emotionless bluntness was also a problem when speaking with the families of deceased loved ones. 
Reese was interviewed (in an interrogation format) for a dangerous secret government assassin job, but already had the job: he had been sent to kill the interviewer for spilling secrets. Seems that killing had been easy for him for a long time.
Fusco went to a therapist after shooting someone. He wasn't sorry though. After ensuring he had doctor-client privilege, he admitted to killing an unarmed man who deserved it for all the pain he had caused.

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Friday, December 6, 2013

'Grimm' GifTweetCap: Beware the 'El Cucuy' Before Stealing Purses from Old Ladies!

"Grimm" took a slightly different tack with the episode "El Cucuy," presenting a creature that straddles the lines between good and evil, Wesen and childhood bogeyman. It was a huge success by all accounts, with many fans listing El Cucuy as their favorite monster-of-the-week.
The episode begins with two asshats robbing a convenience store. Even though they're wearing masks, they decide to beat the cashier half to death, just for kicks.
The young cashier kid winds up in critical condition, with his mother crying and begging for justice at his bedside. A creature with disturbingly long nails decides to destroy some furniture in reaction to the news report about the case.
The asshats are at it again, soon after beating the poor kid. This time, the long-nailed creature is ready for them, ripping out one of their throats. The other robber tries to escape, but makes a wrong turn and flops around a bit before meeting his demise.
The neighbors are afraid to say anything to the cops, but one person mentions Ray Bolton, a guy who fights dogs had a beef against the robbers. Nick and Hank go to speak with him, but he's got a really bad attitude, big Höllentier Wesen fangs, little fear of Nick's Grimmness, and a scary-looking snake tattoo on his neck. Nick brings him in for trying to start a fight with him, as neighbor David Flores berates the cops for not doing something sooner about all the crime in the neighborhood.
Later, Nick and Hank enjoy dinner over crime scene photos with the rest of the gang to determine whether a Höllentier could have slashed the throats of the robbers. Rosalee and Monroe both agree that it's a distinct possibility. Plus, Höllentier are unafraid of Grimm because they're too stupid to know when they're in trouble... such as when old-time Höllentier thought they were being promoted by being buried with a Pharaoh.
When the large-clawed creature kills another criminal who was trying to attack a woman, the woman claims that the creature that saved her was "El Cucuy." Nick decides to bring Juliette to the Spanish-speaking Pilar to see if she knows what that's all about. Pilar says that El Cucuy has yellow eyes and foul breath, and answers the cries of women in sorrow, such as the mom of the poor cashier who had been badly beaten.
Nick then brings Juliette to Aunt Marie's trailer to help him find mention of such a creature in his many inherited Grimm conquest books. They are unable to find anything, but Juliette seems overly excited reading about the gruesome stories of strange Wesen, and their deaths at the hands of Nick's Grimm ancestors. She looks like a kid reading fairy tales, and Nick obviously thinks she's adorable.
Hank and Nick realize that a nice old lady had been at both crime scenes, so they pick her up to look at some crime scene photos at the precinct as she flirts with Nick.
Meanwhile, Bolton is released and decides to take some of his thug friends to go beat up Flores for causing trouble. Poor Flores, who lives with his mom and has PTSD from the war, is furious that Bolton was released at all. He decides to take matters into his own hands, so his mom calls the cops to stop him from making a mistake.
Hank and Nick take a detour to Bolton's place with the older woman still in the car. Bolton beats Flores again before running inside to get away from the cops, at which point El Cucuy rips his throat out right before Nick and Hank walk in. She switches back to human form, then begins playing dumb. They don't have any way to prove that she did it, and she's just a sweet old lady who has completed her job of helping people in the neighborhood anyway.
While she is still at the precinct, gramma hears some new cries of women in need, and gets right back to work slashin' d-bag throats the moment she's released. What a lovely happy -- and gruesome -- ending. Everybody wins.
On a side note, Adalind has an ultrasound, wherein she learns that the one baby in her belly has two hearts. And Renard's lackey sends him visual proof that Adalind is alive and with child. He may be a daddy to a brand new Hexen-psycho-biest!
On another note, Monroe's mom calls while he's doing some Pilates. Rosalee wonders if Monroe ever told his Blutbad wolf mom that he's with a Fuchsbau foxy girl, but he has not. That will be a very interesting conversation at some point.
Concurrently, Juliette wonders about the "M" who wrote that she loves Nick in the email she read in the last email. Nick confirms that it's just his mother (although it would have been fun if it had been Moriarty for Elementary fans who followed a similar storyline on another network). Juliette had been in the hospital the whole time mama Grimm had been around, so he tells her the whole story. 
Later, Juliette drinks a bit too much coffee, and spends all her spare time tracking the IP of Nick's kick-ass mom. She's in Slovenia, on the way to Greece!

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Thursday, December 5, 2013

'Elementary' GifTweetCap: Sherlock's Actions are 'On the Line'

Quick note: I've had this almost finished for over a week, but got sidelined by Yahoo! TV telling me they'd begin publishing the recaps, then failing to review them, then by the holidays. Please enjoy this belated recap.

 "Elementary" changed things up this week, by going with a cat and mouse plot over the usual whodunit plot line in the episode "On the Line." By all accounts, the tweak was a huge success, with many fans exclaiming that this was their favorite episode of the season.

First off, we have what initially seems to be an appetizer of Arthur Conan Doyle canon: a woman named Samantha Wabash commits suicide by gun on a bridge while framing a man named Lucas Bundsch, whom she believes had killed her sister Ally six years earlier. Sherlock is called to the scene for a quick look at what the cops believe to be a suicide, and quickly finds the truth.
This has happened before. Sherlock has solved a small case in the first five minutes of the episode on several occasions, before moving on to a bigger case. This time is different. The man being framed for the crime had already agreed to a polygraph test to clear his name, and this is where it gets interesting. Sherlock notices that the man bites his tongue three different times during the polygraph, so Sherlock goes in to ask one more question: "Did you kill Ally Wabash?" With the answer, and the sensation of antiperspirant deodorant as he shakes Lucas's hand, Sherlock believes they have a serial killer on their hands. 
The original investigator on Ally's case, Det. Coventry, believes that Samantha was nuts for believing that Lucas had anything to do with her sister's murder, and shows Sherlock and Watson a photo of Ally calling Samantha from a payphone the day after her abduction. Sherlock isn't phased, and berates Coventry in front of the other cops in the station for doing a sloppy job.
Later, Lucas shows up at Sherlock's home. Coventry gave him Sherlock's address! Sherlock grabs a knife as he invites the suspected serial killer into his home, then proceeds to tell him what he and Watson have found this far: Lucas had kidnapped Ally and kept her somewhere for two weeks before killing her. When she called her sister from the phone, she was wearing a fake bomb that she thought was real.
Lucas gives Sherlock a veiled threat, saying that Samantha ruined her own life by obsessing over him, and Sherlock should not make the same mistake. Later, Lucas dupes Sherlock and Watson by making them believe that he is about to murder someone who wants to give them more information about the case, only to find that the original call had been faked. 
Lucas's antics send Sherlock over the edge, causing Shetlock to show up at Lucas's studio to have some words with him. Instead, Lucas goads Sherlock into punching him out (resulting in a broken finger), which forces Gregson to kick him off the case (which was also exactly what Coventry had wanted). Lucas also takes out a restraining order. 
Lucas abducts another girl, and calls Sherlock and Watson to the scene using the same fake phone number he had tricked them with earlier. Sherlock has had enough, and decides to frame Lucas, just as Samantha had tried to do when she committed suicide. Before jumping in on the frame job, Watson gives Sherlock an idea of where to look for the abducted woman.
Sherlock finds that Lucas submitted smaller square footage for a storage closet in his sound-proof studio than it had originally been built with. Gregson gets around the restraining order with a warrant, and Sherlock is the one to pull the abducted woman from Lucas's dungeon.

There's also a surprise inside: a woman who had been abducted earlier is also inside. Watson had interviewed the husband earlier, and he is both surprised and immensely relieved to find that his wife has been found.
Meanwhile, Sherlock and Watson have a spat because Sherlock gets so snarky with other people who are on the same side, leading to problems such as having a serial killer sent to their home and getting kicked off cases. Sherlock absolutely does not agree, and frustratingly throws out a childish piece of paper depicting Sherlock and Watson relieving themselves, which had been posted at the police station.
Later, Sherlock's snarkiness seems to pay off somewhat (at least for viewers) when Coventry's (or "Detective Hip-flask," as Sherlock calls him) true nature is revealed as he seems annoyed that a serial killer has been captured with Sherlock's help, just because he was wrong about the case.
At the end if the episode, Sherlock tells Watson how special she is to him, but that is the only reason he is nice to her. He explains that he is not a nice guy by nature, and that is usually an advantage for him rather than a deficit. Watson ominously informs him that a person can't live with that sort of attitude forever, and Sherlock simply responds, "to thine own self, Watson."



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'Almost Human' GifTweetCap: Rudy Comes to the Party!

The "Almost Human" episode "The Bends" showcased Rudy (Mackenzie Crook), and his talent for being extremely nervous under pressure. At least he has a good sense of self-preservation, which he proves in a quick flash-forward at the beginning of the episode, involving Rudy pointing a pipe of hot steam on three criminals before escaping.
After the flash-forward, we see "Jorian" (John Kennex and Dorian) having their usual banter before heading back to work. This time, it's at a Japanese restaurant, and Kennex (Karl Urban) is about to get Punk'd by Dorian (Michael Ealy). Dorian is annoyed that Kennex must spend the time to eat everything on his plate (so as not to hurt chef Nuri's feelings), but it's all worth it for a good prank. Dorian speaks a few words of Japanese to Nuri (Walter Uegama) to convince him that John would like a live slug. John is a bit hesitant at first, but he gets the job done like a pro. Dorian looks as if he's very proud of his handiwork.
Next, we are introduced to a futuristic phone imbedded in the hand of a guy known as Cooper (Steve Bradley) as he makes a call to his wife (Jane McGregor) to let her know he'll be home soon.
Unfortunately, that's the last call the undercover cop will ever make, as a bad guy he believes to be called The Bishop takes a phone call that proves deadly. The person on the other end apparently outs Cooper as a cop. Cooper's undercover "cook" (of drugs, played by Mark Acheson) is shot first, then the bad guy pulls a subcutaneous wire out of Cooper's belly button as if he's cutting the umbilical cord on an infant worm, then shoots him dead as well.
Cooper had not been active for months, but he had wanted long-term surveillance on the drug operation which the department could not afford. Many at the station believe Cooper was dirty, but Kennex doesn't buy it. He knows Cooper was a good cop, and aims to prove it.

Cooper's wire had to be transmitting somewhere, so Kennex decides to search for it at a cabin that Cooper's wife says he inherited from his dad. While there, John reminisces about Cooper being the only other guy at the top of his class in training, at which time Dorian makes a totally inappropriate joke about how there must have been only two guys in his class. It's funny, in a way, but Dorian has not yet learned when to save his jokes for the right moment. We finally see a flaw in Dorian's human-like demeanor. Perhaps Kennex will learn a bit about his own humanity while teaching Dorian the ins and outs of being human.
Someone had already broken into the cabin, but did not find the device that was capturing Cooper's exchange with the Bishop. Kennex is able to find it in the fireplace, however, based on what he knows about his friend Cooper. Dorian also calls John his friend, but John is having none if that, especially after his inappropriate joke.
Cooper's audio recording indicates that he met with the Bishop face to face, which is a very rare occurrence. Kennex wants to nab the Bishop, so he convinces Rudy to go undercover as a "cook." It's not hard to convince him, as Rudy begins having delusions of becoming James Bond in a fedora, although Kennex nixes the fedora idea. An emotional robot head he is working on isn't so happy about it, however, and calls him a prick for "abandoning" him.
The situation heats up when a bunch of young people begin ODing on the drug called "the Bends," which is what the Bishop deals in. It's not pretty either, as their faces turn a nasty shade of green.
Kennex decides to speak with a low-level dealer of the Bends to get a meet with the Bishop, but first tells Dorian to wait outside, as they don't take kindly to 'droids. As you can see, that doesn't work out too well for him, leaving quite a humbling look on his face. He brings in Dorian the next time around. Eventually, the meet between Rudy and the Bishop is set up and ready to go.
Rudy's first job is to remember his cover. Snarky cop Richard (Michael Irby) prepares Rudy by getting rough with him while asking questions about his cover. Richard also says no to the fedora. 
Rudy's next job is to prove that he can cook up some of the drugs well enough that the Bishop will want him on the team. Unfortunately, he forgets the iodine, causing a piece of equipment to malfunction and send a piece of metal through an android's eye.
Rudy's third job is to swallow some new undetectable GPS tech that will make him trackable, albeit nauseated and farty.
Now it's time for Rudy to meet with the Bishop. He dons his fedora to meet with the Bishop's first layer of security, Effren Cruz (Robert Parent). When Cruz introduces himself, the first word out of Rudy's mouth is his real name! His face immediately gives away the fact that it's an "oops" moment, and when the bad guys train their guns on him, he... farts!
He is able to talk himself out of it by saying that Rudy is his middle name, then Dorian turns off his communications and walks in as backup. The criminals fall for the whole thing, seeing as how the DRN models had been decommissioned as cops, and the criminals have their own, mean-looking VX android (Richard Jollymore) there anyway.
Cruz has Rudy cook up some drugs for taste-testing by the criminal bot. It's 95% pure, making Rudy a "chef." Rudy finally meets who he believes to be the Bishop, but his real name is Gavin Maxwell (Josh Blacker).
Maxwell has Rudy drink something which turns out to be a drinkable-GPS deactivator, then leads him away. With the signal gone, the cops begin moving in, with Dorian doing an impressive neck-snap on one of the criminal guards.
They also take down Cruz. Kennex, using his favorite police brutality tactics, beats Cruz until he talks. Dorian even joins in, poking Cruz in a bullet wound until he informs them that Maxwell is not the Bishop. Knowing that Maxwell had a counteragent to GPS tech that is only a few weeks old, the Bishop has to be someone inside the police department. Maxwell was released on a previous charge by his boss, Capt. Alex Barros (Benito Martinez). He's the Bishop!
Rudy gives a nice little speech on why he loves cooking up drugs, but he's almost too convincing, sending Maxwell and his men into fits of laughter. It's not enough, however, when the bad guys put in a call to Cruz and he doesn't answer. Rudy has been made! He pulls a pipe, sending hot steam into the faces of the drug dealers, but is shot in the arm as he runs off.
Our boys find Rudy after Maldonado (Lili Taylor) calls Barros and conducts a phone trace. When "Jorian" reach Rudy, the VX "bad robot" begins blocking all the gunfire toward the bad guys, T2-style. Then comes a T3-style fight between Dorian and the bigger, stronger VX android baddie, and Dorian gets knocked around like a robo-doll.
The fight becomes epic when Dorian outsmarts the bad VX bot with what looks like a meat hook. Wires and metal for dinner anyone?
Meanwhile, Kennex's gun runs out of ammo, and he's forced to fight Barros in hand-to-hand combat. Just as Barros is about to smash Kennex in the head with a pipe, Kennex grabs the gun he knocked out of Barros's hand and pops him in the gut a couple of times. The injury turns Barros into an idiot, and he begins mouthing off about how he will bury "stupid" Kennex the same way he buried Kennex's buddy Cooper. Kennex appears to end the fightin' words with a shot to Barros's head, although it's not shown. Looks like this may be part of an upcoming story arc!
Later, Dorian informs John that Rudy is coming along to John's favorite bar to celebrate, and Rudy hops in the car, wearing his fedora, before John can say no. John fumes a bit before listing his three rules: Don't embarrass him, don't talk about test tubes (not a euphemism), and pretend that they just met. Party time!
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