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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Knots Blogger" data-source="post: 59900" data-attributes="member: 392">Episode Title: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0621120/" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0621120/" target="_blank">Out of the Past</a>Season 06, Episode 16Episode 116 of 344Written by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0068428/?ref_=tt_ov_wr" target="_blank">Neal Bell</a>Directed by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004886/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" target="_blank">Bill Duke</a>Original Airdate: Thursday, January 24th, 1985The Plot (Courtesy of TV.Com): Abby decides to lengthen Joshua's segment. She threatens Cathy not to date Joshua anymore, or she will tell him about her affair with Gary and that she murdered someone. Mack can't get a Judge to grant him a warrant for Galveston Industries, so Greg gets Mack the warrant he needs. Karen unwittingly gives Galveston information on the investigation. Gary goes to Val's diner, and recalls how he met her in a diner by helping her out when it was really busy. He tries to talk to Val, who doesn't recognize him and thinks he's crazy. Parker and his friends beat Gary up and tell him to get out of town. Val's confused as to why two people have thought she was Val Ewing. Gary goes back to the diner and helps Val like he did when they first met. For just an instant she recognizes him and says "Gary," but then, confused, runs out, and Gary follows. She insists she's Verna and has never seen him before. She tells Parker she wants to get married right away.<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r9MHR6pkzIE/WO4tFeCHvpI/AAAAAAAACP0/PiWLnjdNcuYsJj2keIsqzpvvK0dxAhyJwCLcB/s1600/outa%2Bthe%2Bpast.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r9MHR6pkzIE/WO4tFeCHvpI/AAAAAAAACP0/PiWLnjdNcuYsJj2keIsqzpvvK0dxAhyJwCLcB/s400/outa%2Bthe%2Bpast.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>                 Oh thank heavens we are back.  It might be hard for my amazing and loving and devoted readers to get a sense of how timing works out for My Beloved Grammy and I to watch KL eps since I try to put up my essays like clockwork at the same time every week.  In real time, however, the gap between our last disk of eps and this particular disk of eps (spanning Out of the Past through The Emperor’s Clothes) was quite possibly the longest ever since we first started doing our KL nights.  It took over a month for us to get back together, and let me tell you that it was agonizing.  My hands began to shake, I started to wake up in cold sweats, screaming the names of Gary and Val, and my life became a barren, empty wasteland of misery in which all I could think about was one day returning to my friends on the cul-de-sac.  Happily enough, just as I was putting a pistol in my mouth and preparing to pull the trigger, My Beloved Grammy called me up randomly out of the blue and asked if I’d like to come over that exact night for another batch of eps, so I of course immediately rushed over, speeding my car and running all the red lights and mowing down a few innocent people in my mad dash to get back into the magical, intoxicating world of KL.  I only bring this up in order to point out that we may have lost a smidge of forward momentum when it comes to all the storylines going on, but KL is obviously so good that as soon as we got started again, we were able to remember everything that was going on and slip right back into things.  So anyway, let’s go ahead and talk about the first ep on that disk, which is Out of the Past.As I think I’ve been saying incessantly, my favorite storyline going on at this exact juncture is that of Val/Verna and her adventures in Shula, Tennessee.  That story takes up a good majority of the time this week, but I’d like to start with some of the other characters and what they’re up to and then finish by talking about Val/Verna, so why don’t we go ahead and begin by catching up with Joshua and Cathy.  What’s going on with them this week?  Well, we are beginning to see an unfortunate metamorphosis in Joshua’s personality, no doubt accelerated by his quick rise to fame over at Pacific World Whatever along with Abby’s gentle manipulations.  Joshua was introduced onto the series in the second episode of the season, <a href="http://www.knotsblogging.com/2017/03/knots-landing-episode-102-of-344.html" target="_blank">Calculated Risks</a>, and he was gentle and quiet and wide eyed and innocent, but already that Joshua is starting to seem like some distant memory.  Now that he’s got that popular segment preaching on Reverend Kathryn’s show, the power is starting to get to his head and it’s negatively affecting his relationship with Cathy.  Indeed, we already saw a little storyline that I think I neglected to mention when it was going on (sorry about that) in which Cathy was gonna go off on tour with her band and Joshua said they would have to break up if she did so.Well, this week Joshua is giving one of his sermons on the show, but he sorta cuts it in half and makes it a much brisker affair, which Abs doesn’t like.  Honestly, I think I wouldn’t like that either, since I’m fairly certain when you’re dealing with time slots and commercials and all of that, if someone suddenly decides to take something that’s supposed to take up, say, ten minutes, and cuts it down to just five, doesn’t that f**k up your whole day?  Now you need to go to commercial five minutes early or move the next program up by five minutes or whatever, right?  In any case, Abs speaks to Joshua about it and he says something about how he just wanted to be brisk, but then Abs starts to give this speech about how, when you get some power, there will be people in your life who want to take that power away, or something like that.  Clearly she’s talking about Cathy, although it takes a minute for her to finally just say that, at which point she tells Joshua, “Don’t let Cathy ruin your career.”  Honestly, I’m having a smidge of trouble understanding exactly why this is a concern to Abs; does this simply lie in the base fact that she doesn’t like Cathy?  Most of the time, her manipulations seem to have some motivation which is easy to track, but in this case it sorta seems like she’s just rocking the boat for the sake of rocking the boat.  Am I missing something here?<a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8JRXIefXaSw/WO4u1wJCP6I/AAAAAAAACQA/A8ftfyC-BqIqljnIF8PG9zDKnseU7TUQwCLcB/s1600/tv%2Bguide.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8JRXIefXaSw/WO4u1wJCP6I/AAAAAAAACQA/A8ftfyC-BqIqljnIF8PG9zDKnseU7TUQwCLcB/s400/tv%2Bguide.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> In any case, this leads to a nice little one-on-one between Abs and Cathy at Lotus Point in which Abs tells her to stay away from Joshua and Cathy gets a nice line of, “Have you ever loved anyone?”  On paper that might not read, or it might even sound corny, but the way Lisa delivers that line makes it pretty funny, and I like that Cathy is not deterred by Abby’s threats here and is able to dish it out equally well, because when Abs threatens to tell Joshua that Cathy did time for murder and that she was fooling around with Gary while he was married, Cathy just points out that she could tell Joshua it was Abs who hired her to distract Gary in the first place.  It doesn’t take long for Cathy to do just that.  She’s having a chat with Joshua when he brings up what Abs said to him back at Pacific World Whatever, how maybe he needs to cut Cathy out of his life.  At this point, Cathy tells Joshua about her season five shenanigans, before he was on the show.  Joshua doesn’t appear to believe her, or at the very least he’s a bit confused, asking why Abs would purposefully hire another woman for her husband to fall in love with.  Clearly this relationship is on dangerously thin ice since Joshua basically refuses to believe anything Cathy, the woman who loves him, is saying to him. <a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oixRyt6nPcI/WO4vjMm1N6I/AAAAAAAACQI/ngvCI4dUuk0yoJxwtERTjUVz7Q_8fcOrwCLcB/s1600/young%2Bbaldwin.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oixRyt6nPcI/WO4vjMm1N6I/AAAAAAAACQI/ngvCI4dUuk0yoJxwtERTjUVz7Q_8fcOrwCLcB/s400/young%2Bbaldwin.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a> Meanwhile, Mack is still deeply committed to his investigation of the Tidal Basin murders, a storyline that I’m really beginning to follow along with and understand much better than during my first trip through the KL experience.  In this ep, Mack is trying to get a warrant to investigate Galveston Industries.  I kinda forgot the exact details of what the warrant is for, but I think it’s just to investigate the entire company, generally, to be allowed to snoop around and find some incriminating evidence.  However, the judge tells Mack he doesn’t have enough evidence in the first place to warrant getting a, um, warrant, so he turns him down.  Mack is upset, but then help arrives in the form of a certain Mr. Gregory Sumner, who shows up at Mack’s and Karen’s to inform them that they now have their warrant; he pulled some strings and used his powers and voila.  Karen is a bit suspicious about what his interest in all this is, why he’s being so helpful, and Sumner is like, “Hey, you wanted your warrant, you got your warrant.”There’s also a quick scene this week between Paul Galveston and Karen that I probably should have paid a bit more attention to, only because I’m having a little bit of trouble understanding the exact contents of the scene.  Basically Karen goes to pay him a visit and he’s sipping on a gigantic snifter of brandy (which he always seems to be drinking; brandy must be Galveston’s drink of choice just like J.R.’s was a bourbon and branch) and she says something about how Mack is doing an investigation into the Tidal Basin murders.  Honestly, I couldn’t figure out if Karen was being threatening to Galveston in that sorta nice way, where you smile and are chit chatty but you are also saying, “Watch out,” or if she was really just making polite conversation and she sorta let this information slip out.  In any case, Galveston’s ears seem to perk up at this and I take it to mean that, prior to this, he didn’t recognize how serious Mack’s investigations were, but now he sees that he’s gonna have to start doing something clever to distract Mack.<a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YRH5fiB51lw/WO4wYn_t8tI/AAAAAAAACQQ/U_DDmVLsGfkWCKpc3GfKDZXAjHHzmqejACLcB/s1600/paul%2Bgalveston.png" target="_blank"><img src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YRH5fiB51lw/WO4wYn_t8tI/AAAAAAAACQQ/U_DDmVLsGfkWCKpc3GfKDZXAjHHzmqejACLcB/s400/paul%2Bgalveston.png" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a>TO BE CONTINUED</blockquote>

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