Due to a rogue program locking me out of my VCR, I watched this episode via a download off the Net. I love technology. So, the episode started with the 24 lead in, and I don't know if there was a graphic violence warning. Given there's been one the last 418 episodes, I'll guess there was. And, no clock tracking and no krazy kaptions this time around.
In the "Previously on LA Law", Sgt. Bierko says couriers are delivering canisters to their targets. All plurals.
And, we relive, or is it redie, the awful scene with Edgar becoming Deadgar. It's a tacky thought, but I was thinking they're going to need a forklift to get him out of there.
As we plunge into the episode, the Evil Canister of Death is still belching nerve gas into the air system. It's been several minutes now since it was set off. How much is in there?
So, just who does this disembodied voice belong to, and where is he? Everyone still alive is in one of three rooms. So, is it helpful at this point to mention there are three safe rooms? Who's left to hear? And it's not as if anyone is going to open the doors when they get there. The bodies stacked outside the safe rooms are testament to that. Voice Guy calls the gas "Sentox VX-1" nerve gas. Good grief, that's the third name they've used this season. Don't they have a writer's bible for this season? First it was Sentox Six, then Sentox VX, and now Sentox VX-1.
Louis Lombardi (Edgar) is still in the opening credits. Not bad, collecting a paycheck for no work.
Curtis, who was AWOL most of last episode, is still out cruising LA. He says he and the CRT team are still 30 min away. (Why, are there computer terminals in trouble somewhere?)
Eeeewwwww, a closeup of a foamy-mouthed Edgar. Which will be a theme, as it turns out.
Chloe is not coping well. She's nearing the fetal position. Jack tries to talk her down, or back up as the case may be. Barry butts in, and says he'll try to work his voodoo. Shrink fu, attack!
Ick, is it right to touch patients like that? Maybe it's a subtle clue about his unethical conquest of Kim.
In Holding, Lynn is trapped with some Red Shirt, who gets all uppity with his superior about not reporting the stolen key card.
We check in with CTU Medical. At least they won't have killed the most people in CTU today when all is said and done.
Last week I thought that was Old Doc Besson, and we see him again. He's wondering what's going on. Apparently he missed all the dying and the door slamming and barrier dropping and Disembodied Voice talking.
Article comments
1 - Mary K. Williams
Thanks for the birthday gift. : )
Great post!
2 - Mary K. Williams
"on the surface, so that the corrosive agent (I don't mean Chloe"
love this line!
3 - Jeff
It's your birthday?? Well, Happy Birthday then! May you never get gassed in a public shopping mall.
4 - Joanie
Congrats! This article has been placed on Advance.net
5 - Mary K. Williams
Gosh, that's one of the nicest things anyone has ever wished for me. (yeah mine was on the 15th - and today (17th) my son - NOT named Patrick - turns 17)
And I don't work at a CTU type institution, or a hospital - so I'm safe there.
I wonder what the next target could be? Sporting arena? Civic Center?
Only Snakehead knows for sure
6 - Jeff
Thanks Joanie!
7 - Mark Sahm
"The barriers go up at CTU. Air is clear. Just where did they vent all that air? Outside? Have they killed every living thing in a ten block radius?"
That's so true, it's not like they blasted the poison into space (a la Super Friends).
What a bunmmer that you missed the Krazy Kaptions this week (which my wife and I watch and laugh at every week), because during Logan's speech with Martha, the captions were popping up ten seconds before being spoken.
8 - Jeff
Another kaptions lover? Cool! Yeah, if they used the AC to blow the gas out of the building, I think there's gotta be birds dropping from the sky outside the building.