Catching up - Bones, SNL

Hey everyone, first of all I want to say thanks for reading! :) I do this for fun and it's super-rewarding to have people read all the goofy things I have to say.

Secondly, due to the end of the school year, between assignments, exams, and packing up to come home, I've fallen really behind on some of my shows. I had a late class on Thursday so I couldn't actually watch Bones or BBT live, and then I just never caught up.

Catching up actually takes more time than it should, because I'm always pausing the episode to keep up to the storyline (since there are no commercials) and to be honest, a marathon of that seems kind of not fun. Since this is supposed to be a fun project, I don't want to feel like I'm stressing out over getting caught up on something I should enjoy!!

I've also been sick in bed with a stomach bug since yesterday, so now would be the perfect time to catch up on watching, but I don't think I have the energy to write about everything. So I think what I'll do is watch and then write a quick summary of my thoughts all in one catch-all post here. I'm sorry if this disappoints anyone and if you want me to go more in-depth about a particular episode, leave a comment and maybe I'll go back and write another one when I have more time.

These are the episodes I've missed:

Saturday Night Live:

Dwayne Johnson (Airdate March 28th) Not bad. He's always been a good host in my opinion. Nothing really stood out, bad or good, but maybe that's because I watched this a week ago and now can't really remember it. I do remember liking the Update bit they did about Robert Durst.

Michael Keaton: (Airdate April 4th) This one aired Easter weekend, which kind of surprised me, I thought they usually had that week off for the holiday. The monologue with Bobby and Taran begging him to do the Batman/Beetlejuice voices was really cute. And the surprise Update appearance from Norman Reedus I'm sure would have been cool for someone who 1) actually watches The Walking Dead and 2) didn't have said surprise spoiled by the Internet before they watched the episode

Taraji P. Henson: (Airdate April 11) Surprise Daryl Hammond! The QVC sketch was ridiculous Kate at her best. AND OMG SURPRISE BILLY CRYSTAL!!!! I love Billy Crystal!! He's the greatest!! Just when I thought Jacob the Bar Mitzvah Boy was getting kind of boring, too...
Fun Billy-Crystal-related fact: My dad told me to use the cover of his book for his contact photo on my phone.

I think he makes this face a lot when talking to me.

Beck Bennett does a surprisingly amazing impersonation of Nick Offerman. I don't think I've seen anything with Taraji before (and I've never watched Empire) but she was hilarious!!

Bones: 

The Putter in the Rough: (Airdate April 16th)

I think they've covered every niche almost-sort-of professional sport on this show. They've done video gaming, boxing, skateboarding, competitive eating, bowling, now mini golf? Have we done darts yet? And naturally all of the competitors take their shit WAAAY too seriously... WENDELL IS BACK!!!! Cute as per usual, but also a terrible liar.
Bonus Arden Myrin! (Of MADTv fame). She's adorable, I like her. Aubrey is adorable too - and adorably awkward when talking to an over-sharey 18-year-old girl about her sex life with a man in his 30s. (EWW!)
Hodgins and Wendell are insanely impractical, messing up at every turn and then just trying to cover all of that up - have these dudes NEVER seen a sitcom?!
Max is up to some shadiness which is, naturally, top-secret. Oh, Max. When will you learn not to lie to your daughter?!
Aaand Arden Myrin's the killer. She's also kinda dumb. Like REALLY dumb... Thinks that killing her husband's best friend to saver her marriage counts as self-defense. And that she can just get community service for murder. Good grief.
My grandma also has a wind-up clock like that that doesn't work hahaha awwe that's so cute. Good guy Wendell telling the truth.
And we finally find out why Max left when Brennan was little.

The Eye in the Sky: (Airdate April 23rd)

New intern? There's a new intern?!! Ughhh... BRING BACK FINN!!! They're pregnant!! I already knew that!! Brennan can keep eating cookies!! And Booth does a somersault off the bed. Hodgins is experimenting again. WHY HODGINS WHY.
Oh nevermind the 'new' intern is just Jessica Warren again. She's been in like 5 episodes, she's hardly new. Booth is too excited and doesn't know Jessica's name. If I didn't know better, I'd think he was high.
Angela knows EVERYTHING - immediately figured out that Brennan was pregnant. Love her.
Aubrey develops a backbone and stands up to Booth about his gambling, channeling Sweets. So proud of him.
Jessica inspires Hodgins to invent an unbreakable beaker. Those would be useful.
Aubrey said he'd take a bullet for Booth and I am compelled to hug him. And see, nobody around them knows anything about the pregnancy, so they also aren't appropriately cautious about his addiction. Aubrey's a good dude.
And Booth resists temptation! Yaaay! (But seriously, everyone saw that coming)
And Hodgins invented a rubber thing that will prevent broken stuff - isn't that already a thing? But good for him, going back to being a rich dude.
And Booth is gambling again. On baseball. Goddamn.

NCIS:LA - Field of Fire

Fights breaking out in hospital rooms - totally run-of-the-mill for this show.
I always feel bad for the casual innocent naive bystanders who are nice to criminals without knowing who they are. Case in point: that hospital security guard.

Deeks wants to mentor a kid who's like an exact Deeks Mini-me.
And naturally, the escaped guy is insanely dangerous AND a trained killer. Because why not? And if he's having mental issues which lead to him being confused and hostile. LOVELY.

The escaped guys' teenage daughter is a total snotfaced brat and I want to slap her... Although Deeks doing the *hastag* thing made me giggle.

The (nurse? orderly?) guy at the hospital is less-than-helpful, considering they're looking for the dude who attacked him. Callen and Sam also find a bag of suspicious drugs under the bed.

Apparently the missing sniper Connor was also obsessed with Charles Whitman (the University of Texas tower shooter). Greeeeat. I can see where this is gonna end up.

Apparently Kensi is an expert sniper again, something they mention so infrequently I'd nearly forgotten about it. Granger doesn't think Deeks 'cleans up well'. I DISAGREE, GOOD SIR.

Pictured: Granger's words being eaten. 

Kensi does what she does best - lie and gain people's trust to get information - and Deeks does what he does best - antagonize people - while undercover at the VA.

Sam gives a pep talk to that random homeless guy outside the hospital that we saw at the beginning - turns out he is an excellent witness and gives them some good information.

Deeks realizes that the sketchy nurse-man from earlier was totally giving away drugs illegally. Then chases him down the hallway, arrests him in the stairwell. He thinks admitting to it (after he's already caught) should 'count for something'. Not exactly how it works, pal.

A former marine who was a right-wing extremist had been visiting Connor in the hospital, and after his visits Connor began sliding into crazyville. The drugs were also a zombie drug that kind of control people's minds. That dude, Simmons, was picked up by a car service right before the same driver picked up Connor at the VA.

Some nice comic relief for a moment while Kensi and Deeks go to interview that driver, he mistakes Kensi for a stripper and she teaches him a lesson of how to LISTEN.

Deeks tells this dude to take several chill pills, and Kensi thinks it's the funniest thing she's ever heard. 

So Sam and Callen go to visit the right-wing assholes (complete with Confederate flag! The props department is really getting their money's worth out of that thing) and stare down the little weasel working at the counter. Said weasel tells them he doesn't know where their leader is, but Sam spots a conveniently-placed flyer advertising a hate rally at a mosque.

JUST as they get there, with the most convenient timing, one of the guys gets shot. By a sniper! And then in the time it takes Callen and Sam to realize this and cross the street, said sniper managed to grab his gun, go down at 6+ flights of stairs, get into a car, and speed away.

Kensi getting all up the business of disturbing this crime scene, and realizes the shooter is left-handed. Connor isn't. Uh-oh.

The leader of the hate group denies calling the hit on a Muslim, but he hates them regardless. This jerk belongs on FOX News. He says 'there's no such thing as an innocent Muslim'. This episode is setting a record for minor characters I want to slap.

Me, to that guy. 

Deeks is not here to criticize peoples' parenting styles. Callen, however, is here to deliver possibly the sassiest 'mmmmhm' I've ever heard.

Oh, Sassy Callen, I love you so

They find Simmons in and identify themselves just as he has the chance to run away (my dad points out that announcing themselves perhaps when they're closer to him MIGHT be a good idea) Also, considering there were four of them, they could have easily closed him off like they've done many times before. Why all come at him from the same angle?? They trap him in an ally, then he pops out shooting and they hit him easily. Suicide by cop?

They somehow figure out where the next target is - yet another prominent Muslim, he's sniping on the roof and Kensi is counter-sniping him. WHY are Sam and Callen taking the elevator?!! Granger and Sam in her earpieces are like the proverbial devil and angel - Granger telling her to take the shot, Sam telling her to hold on.

Because SOME PEOPLE still have faith in humanity. 

Kensi manages to shoot his gun, and Callen and Sam manage to take him down safely. And the dangerous sniper is returned to the low-security hospital and reunited with his family.

Deeks' new little brother assignment has been changed to a little nerd kid who looks suspiciously like a male version of Hetty - and he's not happy! He knows nothing about German opera! Oh dear! Adventures of Deeks as a babysitter next week, PLEEEASE!! Also Hetty tells Deeks he should get used to handling kids he doesn't have much in common with, because "when he has kids he will never know who he's going to get". FORESHADOWING. SO MUCH FORESHADOWING. Kensi is pregnant and Hetty's the only one who knows.

NCIS: LA - Beacon

Not going to lie, I definitely read the title as 'bacon' when I first saw it. Probably as a result of the bacon I just had for dinner. Nom.

Oh look, Arkady is back! Oh look, he's wrestling with someone. Oh look, an explosion! Oh look.. I'm pretty sure he's dead.

Thank you for the re-enactment, Jon.

Callen is dropping off his lady friend and she's all skeptical about whether he'll actually be around that evening like he says. Makes me wonder what exactly these people do on their days off. Work out? Target practice? Sit around practicing their quipping? She says "I'm still getting used to this". You've had four months lady! Why is this complaining only happening now? Also where the heck have you been for the last four months?!

MISSING: Have you seen this woman? Oh, nevermind. There she is.

Granger doesn't want Kensi and Deeks in the field together. Because they have fun when they're together, and Granger is against that. (Just kidding. It's actually because of that LAPD investigation about him. That hasn't been mentioned for weeks, I'd almost forgotten about that). Hetty says Callen is sad not because Arkady was his friend, but because he was possibly the last link to his father and his family. *Cue the sympathetic tears for the misunderstood orphan hero*

Callen finds a pocketwatch from the KGB on the body, which apparently Arkady always carried with him. He also looks at the burned body and says "There's no way of knowing who this is." THAT'S BULLCRAP. BONES WOULD HAVE IT DONE IN FIVE MINUTES. Actually, Angela would probably scan the head and be like "well various parts of the face burn at different rates so I reverse-burnt them and here's his face."

Not that Angela isn't a genius, but COME ON WHERE IS THE REALITY?!

Apparently Eric has taught Callen that origin stories tend to disappoint. He's not wrong. But Callen likening himself to a superhero is so cheesy... Ugh. Also, apparently Callen has been to Arkady's house a few times. Because "he has a nice pool". Suuuuuuure Callen.

Deeks found some fingerprints and ran through a crime scene scenario. Which Kensi finds pretty hot. I concur, Kensi. Also pretty observant of him. He and Kensi found a deed to a yacht hidden in a frame.

Eric is a little resentful of Deeks and I don't know why... Apparently he's jealous of his hair. But Eric has nice hair too!

Be proud of your hair, Eric. Actually, be proud of your face, too.

He and Nell figure out something smart and then Eric says "I love you!" OH MY GOD. Which obviously was because of how excited he was about her idea, but then he covers it by saying "By that, I mean your mind. Your beautiful, gorgeous mind." AWWWWEEE!!!! And then he makes it creepy/weird again by saying he wants to take some of it home with him and she says that's like a lobotomy and he realizes she's right and I am still squealing internally because THIS IS THE ERIC AND NELL BANTER I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR ALL SEASON!!

I'M SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW!!!

Callen is eating tofu. Voluntarily. That's weird. Apparently it was Joelle's idea. And he actually listened? We finally address the stuff Callen does on his day off, and I was right, it is all work-related stuff. He has no hobbies. And he also sleeps on the floor. What a weirdo.

After Eric has freaked out about the person they discovered in the video footage - we cut to Callen and Sam and Arkady walks up to them all casual and says hi. Which I totally called. Clearly he's alive. It's right in the episode description that a 'murder victim shows up alive and asks for their help.' SHOCKING!

Arkady is funny. He wants bagpipes for his funeral. And the guy in the car is the guy we saw him struggling with at the beginning of the episode, he ended up shooting that guy with his own gun. AND his car was already rigged to explode. What the shit?! Who does that?!! What if he accidentally hit that button on the remote? What if someone rear-ended him?? That is insane.

Arkady is not being helpful, he doesn't want to be in the interview room, he wants coffee, he calls kayaks 'canoes'. But seriously, the boatshed is nice. The Coast Guard finds that the yacht might actually be a cargo ship, because it has a transponder.

Arkady is worried about a random girl who's on his phone, and admits that he set up a deal between American people with ships, and Russians with cargo. Also the guy whose fingerprints were in Arkady's ransacked house was a suspended LAPD officer who now works for the sketchy shipping company. He was the one who Arkady shot and then blew up, but he was working with another guy, also an ex-cop, who they can't find.

Deeks is all sad and sighing and gloomy and Kensi asks him if there's anything bad that IA might find, and he doesn't know how to answer that. Sad Deeks face.

Arkady tells Hetty that's it's 'nice to see her again', and she responds "I wish I could say the same, but my mother raised me not to tell lies."

Haha so witty Hetty. Although that in itself was a lie, because she lies all the time. PARADOX ALERT!

The ship was full of oil. 100 million dollars' worth of oil, to be exact. HOLY SHIT. Damn oil. Apparently that's enough to start a war. No kidding.

I'm sorry, did someone say 'oil'?

The sketchy siblings who own the sketchy shipping company are stereotypically sketchy to the max. And the bad cop who Kensi and Deeks were tailing is on his way to meet them. For some more sketchy dealings, no doubt. Turns out the bad guy is not the one who they were looking for, he's dead and in the trunk of his own car. But they go into the stairway so naturally that concrete interrupts their radio and Callen and Sam can't hear them. Somehow yelling 'gun' and causing mass panic lets all the civilians know who the BAD guy with the gun is... No one ducks and runs from Sam. He didn't even try to shoot Arkady, he just shoots the shipping company owners. And then Sam shoots him. He was a Russian contract killer.

Callen returns the pocketwatch to Arkady and they exchange Russian phrases. Yaaaay symbolic gestures! And Arkady calls Callen 'my friend' as he leaves, so THEY TOTALLY ARE FRIENDS.

Hetty has a feeling that 'the day is not yet over'. And Nell says that the tanker is not where it's supposed to be. So now Hetty wants to talk to Arkady again, but that's gonna be easier said than done.

I really wish there'd been more resolution to the Nell/Eric awkward cuteness, but hey, those few scenes we had with them were a lot more than we've had in recent weeks. I'll take it!
Also, someone give Deeks a hug.

Bones - The Baker in the Bits

Hey hey hey, finishing up on the catching-up on Bones. Yay! This is the episode from last week (April 9th).

A guy who has clearly been stabbed is being chased by a guy with a knife, escapes by climbing over a fence, gets blown up. See, THAT is why you always pay attention to warning signs.

Booth is freaking out because he lost a photo, Brennan finds it, and shows off it's because of archaeology. The explosion was from a mine, it's illegal to blow things up after dark but that doesn't really help him now...
Vaziri is being weird, Brennan won't let him talk to Cam about personal stuff at work, because Brennan.

What happened to Cam with this attitude?? (Bonus: live Sweets)

Aubrey is eating again and apparently he believes in reincarnation. What a cutie.

Angela IDs the victim, he was an ex-convict, cos he had a prison gang tattoo. Also they finally figure out he was stabby-stabbed. Turns out Vaziri's brother in Iran is dying of cancer, and he wants to go back to Iran to see him even though he was expelled from the country and he'd be risking his life because he left before that happened so on a technicality he might be allowed back in.

The victim's girlfriend surprises Aubrey in a towel at the victim's house, and he's clearly been taking some lessons from Booth in the wry-delivery of bad news department. On an unrelated note, Hodgins has tied Angela up in bed but doesn't want to return the favour. Interesting... (She also doesn't want to do it again)

The victim, Connor, worked at a bakery, one that employs exclusively ex-cons. They all look stereotypically tough and muscular, because typecasting! Brennan correctly points out that if Aubrey went with them to visit the bakery, he'd "eat everything in sight. But not literally."

Pictured: Aubrey around any type of baked good. 

Cam and Vaziri argue some more, he says that leaving is the only choice he has because he has to help and he doesn't care if something bad happens to him. Which also means he doesn't care if he leaves Cam all alone. So she ends the argument by very formally calling him 'Mr. Vaziri'. Ouch.

Turns out the victim was involved in a convenience store robbery, and the clerk at the store got shot (not killed, but she was paralyzed) and even though the other robbers testified that Connor wasn't in on the plan to rob the store, the clerk's brother had been harassing and threatening Connor ever since he got out on parole. And he would come into the bakery and cause trouble (which I think is a dumb idea considering all the tough guys that work there had him outnumbered... But whatever). Aubrey does not support the concept of vigilante justice.

Oh lord. Cam and Angela are talking about ATP. As a former science student, I hate ATP. ATP is evil. Just thinking about that and cellular respiration and crap gives me a headache. Turns out Connor was on a lot of drugs at the time he died. His girlfriend knew about it, he was taking all her money to feed his drug habit.

Brennan think's it's silly for Vaziri to go back to Iran, Booth is also worried about it, Cam is resourceful and has spoken to a bunch of people (including the always-pleasant Alex from Homeland Security, but that conversation happened off-screen) who told her the same thing - THE RISK IS TOO DAMN HIGH!

Apparently Connor was also discussing robbing a place, to get more money for his drug habit. Angela does some computer magic, and something to do with parking meters, and they realize that he was casing out a check-cashing place. We have this adorable exchange between Hodgins and Aubrey:

SO MUCH HODGINS SASS. Poor Aubrey.

Then Angela looks at the staff list for the check cashing place to see if he had 'someone on the inside' and they recognize a name - which Hodgins show-offishly informs everyone "That's the victim's girlfriend!" Um, yeah, Aubrey already knows. He's the one who's already met her...

She still says she didn't help him.

Cam confronts Vaziri because he was looking for tickets to Iran on a work computer and left the browser open (subtle, dude) and he gives her a beautiful speech about how much he loves his country and needs to be there holding his brother's hand. Very touching and then they kiss and Hodgins walks in and it's awkward again.

Although I guess Cam has been on the RECIEVING end of her fair share of awkward moments.
About time she turned the tables. 

Angela works her magic based on some particulates, then Booth and Aubrey go to an abandoned metalworks plant, which, just from the angle they're shooting at, looks an awful lot like the abandoned factory from Season 1 episode 15 'Two Bodies in the Lab' (don't ask me why I thought of that randomly, probably because it was the episode Adam Baldwin AKA Chuck's John Casey was in). Are they recycling shooting locations? Shame on them,

Anyway, Aubrey is really creeped out by this place, and they find blood, and then they see THREE MORE SKELETONS in an incinerator - WOAH did not see that one coming!! And then Booth sees something even creepier, a bunch of tattoos that have been CUT OUT of people and strung up to dry. Now, CSI already did an episode like this way back in the day - someone was 'collecting' the tattoos cut out of people's bodies - but other than that, I must say...

To the writers of course. For that plot twist. I never 'Bravo!'-tea-GIF a serial killer. 

DUUDE I think the killer is the owner of the bakery. I think the victims are all ex-cons who worked at the bakery. Brennan suspects a weird ritualistic angle to the killings. One of the victims was a priest. (Priest with a tattoo? Rock on). The second victim was an ex-con who was in the same prison as Connor and some of the guys at the bakery. They think it's one of the guys from the bakery - because when he was a kid he'd belonged to the church that the priest worked at,

Booth and Aubrey have the bakery owner plan a meetup with the missing guy in a parking garage, he freaks out before he even sees them, attacks his boss, and Booth has to shoot - but only to injure. And now I feel bad for the boss guy - partly for accusing him of being a serial killer, and partly because he seemed to crushed to find out one of the guys he vouched for and trusted turned out to be a serial killer. Poor guy.

And the ending scene is with Cam and Vaziri this time around - he tells her his brother is getting worse, she gives him some research she did because she wants his brother to get better, he tells her he booked a flight and he's leaving in a few hours. She starts crying and tells him to come back to her and someone must have let an onion ninja into my room because I need a tissue.  So I guess we won't be seeing much of him for a while.
Although while we're on the topic of squinterns -  where the hell has Finn been?!! I need more of him!!

So that's it for last week's episode, hope you enjoyed it! I'll get tonight's episode done and up as soon as possible, I promise (just have to wait for someone to upload it!) I didn't watch it live because I wasn't finished this one yet and also there was a Blue Jays game on that I wanted to watch - turned out to be a massive disappointment. But that's how it goes.

Bones - The Teacher in the Books

Hey there TV fans, I've had exams and other crap over the past few weeks so I've fallen WAAAAAY behind on my blogs... But not to worry! Exams are now done, so I'll be catching up on Bones and BBT in the next few days! Just bear with me! Yay!

Aluminum is a waste when scrapping. Good to know. In case I plan on scrapping in the near future.
Maybe this is because I'm a bookworm, but abandoned libraries and bookstores always make me sad... Such a waste.

I mean... Look at all the lonely books... *Sobs into a pillow* 

Bones' publisher wants her to get Twitter and I find this concept hilarious. I mean at least let her start out with Facebook first... Hodgins and Cam are with me on the love of books. Aubrey mocks Hodgins' love of book-sniffing and I'm deeply disappointed. But he redeems himself by being afraid of a poisonous spider. How cute.

Angela's new magic software can map out someone's face based on their moles and freckles and such?? I call MASSIVE bullshit because 1) people use makeup to cover moles and such sometimes in photos, and also 2) with decomposition the SKIN MOVES so the measurements are different... Jeez.

The victim was a teacher (who knew?) and she was working with a group who taught in dangerous neighbourhoods. This is a cause close to Caroline's heart, she warns Booth about not letting it make the school look bad, because she is on their board of directors and doesn't want to see them closed because of some violence.

Caroline has a soft spot for something other than Booth! Who knew??

Aubrey has just caught up on Dr. Brennan's books, and mocks Booth's counterpart for not sleeping with Brennan's counterpart until the third book, because 'James Bond wouldn't have waited that long'. Well that is because James Bond was a scoundrel...

Touche. Moving on... 

He also says people are 'already talking about it on Twitter' but apparently the writers don't understand that people would've been talking about the books once they came out - they wouldn't wait for the author to get on Twitter herself. Is everyone as far behind as Aubrey?

For those of you who were wondering how many high school students it takes to lift a Smartcar - Apparently the answer is about 20. THIS SCHOOL IS NICER THAN MY UNIVERSITY, I CALL BULLSHIT ON IT BEING IN A ROUGH NEIGHBOURHOOD. Also the guy who worked with the victim - the actor has gone from being a high school student on Pretty Little Liars to being a high school teacher in less than a year. How old is this dude?

Caroline is laying down the law on these tough students who are talking shit while being interviewed. Have I mentioned I love Caroline?

Caroline does not have time for these shenanigans.

She thinks Aubrey is 'Sweet. Stupid, but sweet.' He does not disagree.

Bones isn't doing well on Twitter. She only has 10 followers - and hey, that's in like a day, it took me MONTHS to amass that many. Then again, she's a bestselling author and I was a random high school student at the time...

GAH YOU WRITERS ACTUALLY HAVE TWITTER, YOU KNOW HOW IT WORKS - JESSICA COULDN'T HAVE RETWEETED BRENNAN FROM HER OWN ACCOUNT ON BRENNAN'S PHONE!!! And now Brennan knows how to selfie. She's more popular than me. Damnit. (Psst shameless plug, go follow me www.twitter.com/emmycsi )

Aubrey can selfie. He should've shown Brennan.

Also I don't think it's legal/ethical for high school teachers to communicate with students on social media. #Sketchy (Although I now have one of my former HS teachers on Facebook, and I follow my physics prof on Twitter). Aubrey, don't call Caroline a dinosaur. That will not end well for you.

HOW CAN YOU RESIST THAT PRECIOUS FACE?!!! 

She's stone cold, that's how. Starting to think I need a collection of Caroline reaction GIFs... 

Cam dropping truth bombs - "Being a teacher takes a lot of time, their day doesn't end when school lets out!" As the daughter of a teacher, I know this. Turns out the victim's boyfriend was cheating. Aubrey's hitting him where it hurts - saying he knows he's shorter than he claims to be online. Also is the 'Get Lost Hotline' actually a thing? If not, it should be. 'Tis brilliant.

Angela tells Jessica to stop enabling Brennan's Twitter habit. And I'm just surprised, with the length of some scientific papers' titles, that they'd fit in 140 characters. The older brother from the earlier interview owned the knife that hurt the victim's hand - he claims she cut herself to blackmail him to keep his little brother in school. I'm surprised that a cut on the hand would leave a mark on the phalanges, but then again - this is Bones.

OK so now they get the answers based on an eraser? Like ONE specific eraser? And based on the Smartcar? Ouch. Rough day for that little car. Because the other teacher was the one who did it - and the one who drove the Smartcar. He was also the second person they interviewed! Aha! He faked some tests to get himself a better job, she caught him and they fought.

This totally looks like a car a murderer would drive.
I dare NCIS:LA to change up their criminals' cars just once. 

And Caroline is now taking those brothers under her wing - this is adorable! They're tough, but she's tougher!

Pictured: total badassery. 

I hope they bring these brothers back later on! She insists on feeding them at the diner, even when they say they're full, she waves over the waitress, and I called it - she orders them some pie. PIE! PIE IS THE BEST!

Apparently Brennan is emoticon-type material (smiley face, wink wink) and she is sitting at the counter with her tablet so engrossed that she didn't even notice Booth was cooking RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER. Oh my god, this reminds me of my mom ever since she got her new phone... LET THIS BE A WARNING. DO NOT GIVE PARENTS MOBILE DEVICES. YOU WILL REGRET IT.

NCIS:LA - Rage

As you may have noticed, my blogging has been falling far behind lately. I blame exams. Will be catching up (hopefully) within the next two weeks or so. But I couldn't wait for this episode because it looks so interesting plus I especially love you guys who read my NCIS: LA posts, sooo... here I am! But I'm half asleep so if I make don't sense, that's why.

OK so I missed the first part and the breifing, so I dunno what's going on (Sorry, Jays home opener takes precedence - they lost. Boo.)

But Callen is back in jail, being broken out, by - who else?- our favourite prison guard Sam. One of his prison buddies has some 'friends' who can pick them up. That's what friends are for! Rescuing you after you've been broken out of jail!

Kensi said something about Sam's kids, and Deeks said something about 'all of our kids' and I'm pretty sure Kensi is pregnant. They've alluded to this stuff too many times. Kensi is going undercover as Callen's girlfriend and the bad guys don'e like it. They didn't 'pre-approve' her.

As if we needed more proof that these bad guys are bad guys, they have a giant Confederate flag used as a curtain. This main bad guy Dallas has a particularly gnarly mustache. And they're going to pull off a bank robbery ahead of schedule, which is kind of the cliche for when things go wrong.

So apparently they're just REALLY racist. That's in keeping with the flag from earlier. Maybe they should've been wearing white hoods instead of those black ski masks.

Side note: why do skiers always get associated with criminals? Just for wanting to protect our faces?!

The bad guys cut all the cameras and then took their masks off. Which is never a good sign for the hostages. Because like the bad mustache guy Dallas said before, they're just gonna kill everyone. Callen somehow knows everything about robbing banks, and he's the only one not shooting everywhere or screaming at people. Shouldn't that make the bad guys suspicious? The head teller guy looks a lot like Carey Elwes. And Dallas sounds a lot like J.K. Simmons.

Sam is talking to the skinhead Dallas who says 'you better be white' and Sam says Italian and the guy then calls him a monkey and calls him stupid. And a bunch of other things. I'm really starting to hate this guy. She said with deep sarcasm.

The girlfriend of one of the bad guys is back at their house talking to Kensi, apparently she's an artist but whoever she's with wants her to draw violent shit and won't let her leave him without killing her.

For some reason once they get the vault open, the bad guys release the bank manager, who had to go INTO the bank for them to do that in the first place. First of all, that dude is incredibly brave, risking his life like that when he was safely outside. Far be it from me to tell criminals how to crime, but second of all, why would the skinheads release him?! That's an extra free hostage!

After giving Sam their 'terms' over the phone, apparently they let a whole hour pass in TV time without talking to anyone, after Callen told his prison friend to 'do the right thing' because neither of them want to die.

The FBI SWAT team streams into the bank and finds one of the bad guys tied up in the vault. And all the hostages are safe in the back room. Then, and 'you've got to be kidding me' says Deeks, there's a HOLE DUG IN THE FLOOR OF THE BACK ROOM!

But why would they make demands like ask for a bus and an airplane and say 'THEN you can have the hostages' when they were planning to just dig a tunnel through the floor and leave, leaving the hostages behind?

The Aryans and their matching jackets are hanging out in a warehouse and Dallas asks for his gun back from Callen - which is not at all suspicious. Then they tell him to string a wire along something. Apparently it's a cable. Because what secret criminal hideout is complete without cable?!! And they get all suspicious of Callen once he tells them the other bad guy must've been shot by a sniper, they send off his friend Charlie, then beat him up with pipes.

Kensi tells the girlfriend who she is, and Deeks shows up and they take the poor lady to the boatshed. I feel so bad for her. Like criminal organization or no, she was clearly trapped in an abusive relationship. And she had nothing to do with the crimes they carried out.

The Aryan bastard that got left behind is very much alive and being interrogated by Sam, and still rambling on and on about how 'the poor white man' is going to rise up because of the 'stupid African president'. HOW DUMB is this guy spouting racist shit like that when Sam clearly has the upper hand?!!

I'm sure that jerk was evil and racist LONG before this guy was elected... 

For some reason Eric is mocking up sketches of the remaining guy in drag... I don't know why... (Is this what Eric does for fun?) Apparently to blackmail him? To make the other Aryan guys turn against him? And he KEEPS threatening Sam, even though Sam's biceps are about as big around as his head. Not a wise move.

Dallas is also suspicious about the six months that Callen was supposedly in solitary confinement. And dousing him in gasoline and waving a cigarette around, threatening to set him on fire.

The FBI agent-lady is sneaky and gets into the abandoned factory, with Sam, a random bad guy hurts her leg and Sam stabs him.
Charlie, the best stereotypical morally-conflicted lost-boy name in the world, shows up, and threatens to shoot Sam while Callen pleads with him, then the FBI lady shoots him so that Sam can dive onto Dallas and take him down. Deeks and Kensi show up right after (where were you guys thirty seconds ago?) and Charlie dies.

Sam tracks down Callen leaning on the hood of his parked car staring down the street in a random suburban neighbourhood. Apparently he had run away from his last foster home, and crashed the stolen car on that very street. Hence the staring. Sam asks him what happened, why he didn't end up in juvvie.

Callen: The hand of God intervened.
Me: He means Hetty.
Callen [a moment later]: Hetty saved me.
Me: He meant Hetty.

And according to this flashback, the first thing Callen ever said to Hetty was "You're really short." I don't know why, but I love that. Although I feel bad for those cops who were trying to do their job by taking down a pain-in-the-ass kid. And Hetty sounds remarkably like the God my mom is always claiming to know the will of, saying "I have a plan for you". She showed him the way. Everything he has today is because of her.

I think the writers are trying to start the Church of Hetty Lange.
I would so join. 

What's this? No comic relief scene at the end? Barely even a word from Nell... Although I guess there was a lot of undercover action this week, barely any time to squeeze in the comedy.