TV Review: Painkiller Jane - "Toy Soldiers" - Page 4

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He does get up though and is about to ram a big pipe into Maureen Bowers (fellow SFV member) when he stops for some reason, drops the pipe, and falls on the ground. Then, though we don't see it, he runs off.

SF crew investigates what's in the building the guy was trying to get into. They see a lot of sporting equipment - and this is never explained.

Scene switches to an older guy walking out of a graveyard. Well, on second thought he looks older at the moment because he's just climbed out of a grave. Which raises a question I've never thought of before - guess coffins don't have locks. For some reason I can't quite figure now, I've always assumed they did.

Albert Malley is the new dead guy and, oh, he was older. He's "off profile, different from the healthy, young men walking away from the other graveyards.

The WCB dedication ceremony is tomorrow morning. The team's trying to make connections between what they know. Tech Nerd knows the exact presidential route, somehow, and he quickly analyzes three possible kill points in the circular route displayed on the screen. You know, 'cause that's how he rolls. Vasco seconds later is in private convo with McBride. She says the zombie army and the presidential visit are not connected at all, and everyone's wasting time.

"You may be right, but we have our orders," McBride says.

"I thought we didn't take orders?" comes the entirely reasonable question in reply.

"This conversation is over," McBride harrumphs. Hmmm... Orders from who, indeed?

Vasco is missing from the detail that has moved to scoping the presidential route as he approaches. She's trying to work on her own, a separate angle to the new model army and she's back at HQ.

Connor King is on the roof and McBride and Maureen Bowers are on the ground. Tech Nerd is checked in to the detail and able to view it all on video. There's a crowd, just large enough to max out the extras budget. Some TV commentator says, "Both supporters and opponents have come together to greet the Commander in Chief." The president later appears briefly and looks like a weird cross between Jimmy Carter and Edward Kennedy.

King, Bowers, and McBride all flash back to corpse scenes, trying to picture faces and match them to the crowd. They start homing in on a guy with a big backpack, without seeing his face. He looks kind of homeless in a long black coat. Bowers catches up and pulls him back as the president gets out of the car. He's a youngish, bearded guy, with long hair. A nobody. The whole president scene look entirely too chaotic and Secret Service are unseen. And that's the end of that, no more presidential assassination worries.

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  • 1 - Temple Stark

    Apr 23, 2007 at 8:50 pm

    This is on Tuesday night as well. I had the thought earlier today that I like calling this "TV Recap" better. However, I should either do more of a review, which with me would just be a lot of nitpicking, or change title to "Recap" in the future.

    Is this too long. Too much detail? I'm thinking yes on both but could be wrong.

    - Temple, thinking out loud here

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