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Thoughts on 'Lack of Candor'
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Quite an interesting case, and it was a good one to start up the November Sweeps. The only downside, it was WAY to confusing for me to piece together during the episode. Too many names and events to piece together and write down, so just try and ignore my messy plot outline. ^_^ -- I was glad that the writers finally got together and wrote Reyonalds' backstory. He now had a decent history that we can base his character off of for the rest of the season and a reason as to why Cal wanted to figure him out. -- We begin with a New Years party, and a fight that Reyonalds seems to be involved in. Now the subtitle pops up '11 Months Later' and this is what our case is based off of. It's ironic that the case that the 'Lightman Group' recieves has to do with Reyonalds personally. Just throwing that out there. But right away we see this guy being taken away to witness protection, and he get's shot. Very bloody, I might add, but it was a nice change to this show...to see blood splatter everywhere... Anyways, Cal is freaking out in the office, "Get away from the windows. Get away from the bloody windows." And closing the blinds on his team. Now apparently, and this is what I just brought up, that Reyonalds' saftey is now in jeaprody because a case that he was on 11 months ago is now all relying on him to testify against "Mr. Green" (I know that's not his name, but It's as close as you'll get from me today...with no episode last week, I'm a little slow at taking Jot-notes) And now that Reyonalds is wanted for 'protective custody' Cal just won't allow that to happen, so...he hold's him hostage. We cut back to 3 men in the room who were suspected of leaking the the location of the 'safe house' of the man who just got shot, and Cal pulls the cool trick of narrowing down that 3 into 1. This guy didn't do anything, but Cal decides to talk to "Mr. Green" anyways. "Is this a test for Swine Flu?" (It was a hilarious refrence, I must admit. I love how this show is so up-to-date on current events.) Cal's playing doctor! My goodness, I was waiting for House to barge in and ask Cal why he was interrogating his patient or something. Heh, heh, but this character releases a name that strikes a chord with Reyonalds when Cal brings it up. 'Scotty.' He freaks out, looking into the case file, hoping to find something...but nothing. "I'm not testifying." "You can't do that." "Watch me." "...I've seen that face before." (It's that know-it-all look that people give when they know something that no one else knows) and that changes the focus of this case from "Mr. Green" to Reyonalds. "Have you lost your mind?" "Funny because I was about to ask you the same question." We hear a sad backstory on Reyonalds, how his father died when he was on his case, and he couldn't do anything about it. (What is it with sad backstories on these guys?? Man, Cal's mum died, Ria hung out with the wrong crowd, Gillian JUST got divorced, and Loker...well he's self explanitory.) But Cal wants to figure him out and pulls some strings of his own. He learns the name of SPECIAL Agent 'Radatti'...? Something along the lines of that, and that leads Cal onto another person to interrogate. But she's difficult to crack. Apparently Reyonalds shot scotty, he was in with the wrong crowd and at this point, it was the right thing to do to get in deeper undercover. He was damaged by it and called her to tell her...but she didn't file it. Long story made short, she did it to cover her a$$, to hang Reyonalds to dry and to move her career up into the world. And she thinks she can do this by saying that it was the only way to save the case? Nope. I'm skipping alot of plot devlopment here, but most of that is CHARACTER devlopment, and we all know that she was taken away. Her career over, and Reyonalds testified about his case. -- But I did miss the awesome way on how Cal attempted to manipulate SPECIAL Agent 'Radatti', first by pushing Reyonalds buttons, handing him a gun, and forcing that rage unto her to make her crack, not much is said. Then second, by going to a bar (as he's been doing ALOT recently...) and talking to her himself, getting a recording of her outburst and bringing her down. It's the accent, I tell you. -- Loker? Again in the shadows, but I'm not typing this out just to talk about how little screentime Loker gets...I've said that 50 times, I swear so everybody knows it. However, Loker WAS at least involved in a bit of the case...so that was new. Ria, she's starting to become Loker's buddy both hiding in the corners together. (Wink, wink, nudge, nudge...?) She had practically the same screentime as Loker and the EXACT same involvement. The only thing...she's the one who dragged him into it... Gillian WAS affected by the 'affair' part of the case, but once that was shut down she was just alongside Cal splitting the interrogations with him and moving the plot along. We need more Gillian!! Reyonalds, as I had hoped for, it was all about him! His personal life has finally been revieled, and we learn that his history wasn't all that cheerful. (Drugs, and fitting in, play a role in this) so we can safely assume that he has to fight every case that he does, and this one literally hit him close to home. I just hope the writers keep him in focus for a little longer before jumping onto any other characters history. He's quite the interesting guy. Cal? Well his screentime was great! As always... but what REALLY intriuged me the most was how he was so involved in EVERYONES personal life here. It wasn't just Reyonalds (though it was interesting seeing him try to pick him apart), but it was his scene with Gillian talking about the affair. How he immediatly brought up her divorce with Alec and Gillian had to stop him there. Cal was interrogating her instead of their case subjects, and Cal immediatly snapped out of it. This was huge, making the audience aware that Cal can't keep these emotions he reads to himself. He has a natural curiosity that can't be easily supressed, and it's only amplified by the science that he studies every day. The only person that can hold him back...is Gillian. And THAT, my dear friends, is the relationship of Callian as it stands now. This was a great episode, one I will deffinatly have to watch again to understand the plot more...it was confusing, but more to study Reyonalds. He's the interesting guy for now, and I can't wait till next week!
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is it just me or is he talking bout gillian????
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