Post by Patcat on Mar 3, 2011 9:15:56 GMT -5
Will air March 7 at 10 am (EST) on the USA Network. The 18th episode of Season Six. First aired April 3, 2007.
Directed by Dean White. Written by Marygrace O’Shea and Warren Leight.
Guest Actors:
Bill O’Brien as Detective Peter Lyons
Alexandria Wailes as Malia
Garrett Zuercher as Tommy
Synopsis: Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a surgeon who performs a controversial procedure that allows deaf individuals to hear.
Quotes:
Eames: “Stealing prescription pads. Jarod, you’re a Wall Street guy. Can’t you afford a Dr. Feelgood when you need to feel good?”
Goren: “Fat cats going deaf from too much oxycodone.”
Ross: “A lot of playwrights are angry.”
Ross (to Lyons and Eames): “I hope I didn’t interrupt anything.” Eames: “You didn’t.”
Ross (about Lyons): “He seems like a nice guy.”
Foresca (in sign language): “Get me a deaf cop.” Eames: “A deaf cop?” Foresca: “Get me a jury of my peers. Get me a deaf judge. Then I’ll participate in your system. Until then, there’s no justice for me.”
Goren (about Malia and Larry Forseca): “She puts him on a pedestal.” Eames: “They all do. Nobody who was at that cast party will speak to us. And Larry, over in holding, has his hands tied behind his back, so to speak.”
Mother (about her deaf baby): “She’s perfect.”
Eames (to Lyons and Goren): “Don’t put me in the middle.”
Queries:
Some 16 pages of discussion. Many people liked his examination of the deaf and their culture and the performances of the deaf actors. Some felt Goren appeared unengaged in this story. There are some great comments about this story in the original discussion, and I recommend revisiting them.
Did Lyons like Eames? Did Eames like Lyons? Was Goren jealous? Did Goren and/or Lyons put Eames in the middle of their argument? Was Ross trying to play matchmaker?
Is Ross trying to separate Goren and Eames? Is Ross patronizing to Eames?
Was Lyons unprofessional? Was he ethical or compromised? Was he too nice?
Is Sign Language protected speech? Should Tommy and Malia have expected their conversation at the ice rink to be private?
Does Goren know Sign Language? Did he learn just a little for this case?
Were Eames and Ross more in the foreground of this episode? Did this place Goren in the background?
What is the state of the Goren/Eames relationship during this story? What about the one between Ross and his detectives?
Was Tommy believable as the killer? Was his motive clear? Did his sister abandon him, or did he abandon her?
How well will Tommy do in prison? Will Malia visit him? Will Goren attempt to stay in contact with him?
Will Malia have the implant?
This episode takes on several controversial issues. How well does it handle them and incorporate them into the story?
Comments:
To answer my own last question (g)—sometimes LOCI takes on an issue, and the issue gets lost in the story. In this episode, the issues of the deaf community seem to me to be handled with great sensitivity. I like the writing of the deaf characters and the performances of the actors. Tommy and Malia are particularly well acted, and I felt enormous sympathy for Tommy. But it occasionally seemed that this was one case where the story may have gotten lost in the examination of the issue. The brief trip down the possible prescription drug theft angle wasn’t a problem for me. I was glad to see how well the undercover cop and Goren and Eames worked together, and Goren and Eames tag teaming the guy with the prescription pads. I wasn’t crazy about Detective Lyons. Admittedly, he’s in a difficult position, but, whether because of the writing or the performance, he came across as a wimp. Alex Eames would have him for lunch(g).
As always, submitted for your comments and considerations.
Patcat
Directed by Dean White. Written by Marygrace O’Shea and Warren Leight.
Guest Actors:
Bill O’Brien as Detective Peter Lyons
Alexandria Wailes as Malia
Garrett Zuercher as Tommy
Synopsis: Goren and Eames investigate the murder of a surgeon who performs a controversial procedure that allows deaf individuals to hear.
Quotes:
Eames: “Stealing prescription pads. Jarod, you’re a Wall Street guy. Can’t you afford a Dr. Feelgood when you need to feel good?”
Goren: “Fat cats going deaf from too much oxycodone.”
Ross: “A lot of playwrights are angry.”
Ross (to Lyons and Eames): “I hope I didn’t interrupt anything.” Eames: “You didn’t.”
Ross (about Lyons): “He seems like a nice guy.”
Foresca (in sign language): “Get me a deaf cop.” Eames: “A deaf cop?” Foresca: “Get me a jury of my peers. Get me a deaf judge. Then I’ll participate in your system. Until then, there’s no justice for me.”
Goren (about Malia and Larry Forseca): “She puts him on a pedestal.” Eames: “They all do. Nobody who was at that cast party will speak to us. And Larry, over in holding, has his hands tied behind his back, so to speak.”
Mother (about her deaf baby): “She’s perfect.”
Eames (to Lyons and Goren): “Don’t put me in the middle.”
Queries:
Some 16 pages of discussion. Many people liked his examination of the deaf and their culture and the performances of the deaf actors. Some felt Goren appeared unengaged in this story. There are some great comments about this story in the original discussion, and I recommend revisiting them.
Did Lyons like Eames? Did Eames like Lyons? Was Goren jealous? Did Goren and/or Lyons put Eames in the middle of their argument? Was Ross trying to play matchmaker?
Is Ross trying to separate Goren and Eames? Is Ross patronizing to Eames?
Was Lyons unprofessional? Was he ethical or compromised? Was he too nice?
Is Sign Language protected speech? Should Tommy and Malia have expected their conversation at the ice rink to be private?
Does Goren know Sign Language? Did he learn just a little for this case?
Were Eames and Ross more in the foreground of this episode? Did this place Goren in the background?
What is the state of the Goren/Eames relationship during this story? What about the one between Ross and his detectives?
Was Tommy believable as the killer? Was his motive clear? Did his sister abandon him, or did he abandon her?
How well will Tommy do in prison? Will Malia visit him? Will Goren attempt to stay in contact with him?
Will Malia have the implant?
This episode takes on several controversial issues. How well does it handle them and incorporate them into the story?
Comments:
To answer my own last question (g)—sometimes LOCI takes on an issue, and the issue gets lost in the story. In this episode, the issues of the deaf community seem to me to be handled with great sensitivity. I like the writing of the deaf characters and the performances of the actors. Tommy and Malia are particularly well acted, and I felt enormous sympathy for Tommy. But it occasionally seemed that this was one case where the story may have gotten lost in the examination of the issue. The brief trip down the possible prescription drug theft angle wasn’t a problem for me. I was glad to see how well the undercover cop and Goren and Eames worked together, and Goren and Eames tag teaming the guy with the prescription pads. I wasn’t crazy about Detective Lyons. Admittedly, he’s in a difficult position, but, whether because of the writing or the performance, he came across as a wimp. Alex Eames would have him for lunch(g).
As always, submitted for your comments and considerations.
Patcat
) and had some new thoughts about Det. Lyons. 
I'm glad I made you and Kacesq smile! I'm sure everyone is getting sick and tired of Charlie Sheen...I'm glad he got fired! 