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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 13993" data-attributes="member: 23">JANE DOE #37This episode has a bit of a mystery running through it, but pretty well done. So the viewer gets to interact a little and try to put the pieces together from the information given. The mystery is enthralling enough. Ultimately, though, it&#039;s another episode of obsession and existential crisis for Chris. Here she is on the cusp of her birthday, throwing herself into the case of a murdered bag lady. Once again we see her so preoccupied with this she goes off on her own time to sort it. There are some nice moody scenes - this episode has a lot of atmosphere with storms, rain, dimly lit bars. There&#039;s a great scene between Chris and a woman who provides food for homeless people, played by Doris Roberts. Through the course of the scene Chris learns how homelessness is an easy trap to fall into for a nice, middle-class woman who falls behind on her rent or mortgage, loses her home, spends a night or two sleeping on the train and it becomes a way of life. Earlier in the episode, Mary Beth had commented that the dead woman could be either one of them, but for the grace of God. Chris had replied that there&#039;s no way it could ever be her. During the scene with Roberts, we see Chris lose that blasé attitude. When the woman is revealed to be in her thirties, there&#039;s even more connection. The woman is pretty much a sliding doors version of Chris. We also enter Godfather territory a little with the homeless woman having witnessed a mob execution. Lightening things up this episode is a recruitment video that Chris and Mary Beth are asked to do. So we see them in uniform, leaping out of police cars while smiling at the camera and fluffing their lines. Daly does bad acting so well it&#039;s not even funny. Except it is. Really funny.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 13993, member: 23"] [B][I]JANE DOE #37[/I][/B] This episode has a bit of a mystery running through it, but pretty well done. So the viewer gets to interact a little and try to put the pieces together from the information given. The mystery is enthralling enough. Ultimately, though, it's another episode of obsession and existential crisis for Chris. Here she is on the cusp of her birthday, throwing herself into the case of a murdered bag lady. Once again we see her so preoccupied with this she goes off on her own time to sort it. There are some nice moody scenes - this episode has a lot of atmosphere with storms, rain, dimly lit bars. There's a great scene between Chris and a woman who provides food for homeless people, played by Doris Roberts. Through the course of the scene Chris learns how homelessness is an easy trap to fall into for a nice, middle-class woman who falls behind on her rent or mortgage, loses her home, spends a night or two sleeping on the train and it becomes a way of life. Earlier in the episode, Mary Beth had commented that the dead woman could be either one of them, but for the grace of God. Chris had replied that there's no way it could ever be her. During the scene with Roberts, we see Chris lose that blasé attitude. When the woman is revealed to be in her thirties, there's even more connection. The woman is pretty much a sliding doors version of Chris. We also enter Godfather territory a little with the homeless woman having witnessed a mob execution. Lightening things up this episode is a recruitment video that Chris and Mary Beth are asked to do. So we see them in uniform, leaping out of police cars while smiling at the camera and fluffing their lines. Daly does bad acting so well it's not even funny. Except it is. Really funny. [/QUOTE]

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