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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mel O&#039;Drama" data-source="post: 262141" data-attributes="member: 23">Iron Ships And Dead Men <img src="http://www.cinemacats.com/wp-content/uploads/television/bionicwomanironships05.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /> Incorporating real life tragedies into fiction can go either way, and in this case it was successful for this viewer because of my recent exploration of a related event. Just the night before watching this episode I’d watched a documentary about the USS Indianapolis, with references to Pearl Harbor, accounts of people who died locked in the hold of a sinking ship which is filling with water, and an ending that took a relative of one of the survivors back to the scene to give them a burial at sea, with a gun salute and the last post. All of which brought a strange kind of authenticity to this episode as the same scenes were shown and the lines between fact and fiction blurred.At this point, Oscar is still an enigma. It’s part of his charm. This means a mystery centred around his presumed dead brother Sam is a little thrilling, even though Oscar himself is kept out of sight for most of the episode, with Jaime assigned to investigate and hopefully clear his brother’s name, since the military unofficially believe Sam stole a large sum of money and disappeared under cover of the Pearl Harbor attack. It struck me that Oscar asking Jaime to investigate this most personal of cases is telling of how close he feels to her. Based on their interactions in the episodes that introduced us to Jaime, I’ve generally assumed Oscar has a closer relationship with Steve than Jaime (even though he doesn’t kiss Steve and call him “babe” as he does Jaime). This suggests that’s changed and he trusts Jaime at least as much as he does Steve. But there’s also the small matter of Steve having been mysteriously taken off the air for a couple of months between the final two episodes of his TV season (investigating The Mystery Of The Missing Moustache, I like to think).The black and white flashbacks to Sam’s disappearance during the attack on Pearl Harbor were a nice touch and made the story feel expansive and important. For part of the episode, I’d half expected Sam to show up alive, but was pleasantly surprised when he didn’t. Less is more, after all. Jaime goes undercover using her own name and while, as ever, there's not a glimmer of recognition for this renowned tennis pro who'd been on the circuit just a couple of years earlier, this episode is noteworthy for finally addressing the unusual spelling of Jaime's forename (even if it does so in a roundabout way). When she first shows up for the job, Zanetos is shocked as he'd been expecting a bulky Mexican man whose name is pronounced "Hymie".  I'm surprised this doesn't happen more often. All this and a litter of cute kitties too. </blockquote>

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