Episode Report Card Manimal: C+ | 1 USERS: A- YOU GRADE IT Color-Blind
By Manimal | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.24.2001
Los Angeles. The Fanciest Newsroom In The Entire World. Jennie delivers a memo to Will from Legal. "It's about reporters quoting other reporters." "What's it say?" asks Will. Jennie breathes in his ear, "Cut it out." Yick. Yick on both of them. She calls out, "Happy Thanksgiving!" off-camera.
Will looks up in time to see another reporter looking at a screen with a story about Kate Jones/Eloise Kurtz on it. It's also got a huge picture of her on it. Okay. I vowed to myself that I would not nitpick over every little thing, since sometimes the writers have to resort to these devices for the sake of expediency, and this is a small thing, but this really bothered me for some reason. There's no way that a major metropolitan newspaper would waste precious column inches running a photo of some gunshot victim unless she were famous or possibly the victim of a serial killer or some gangland slaying they could milk. The headline reads, "Woman Found Shot in Echo Park."
Will. Coffee room. Will's editor. He's badgering her to him run his story, which now involves two murders -- Daniel Hecht and Eloise Kurtz -- and they were related. La Editress points out that he's going to look like worse than a crackpot if he goes around spouting conspiracy theories without any proof. Obviously La Editress went to journalism school. Obviously Will did not. She tells him he might as well publish his own homepage. She agrees to look at his notes, and says that she's simply telling him to develop the story more thoroughly and she'll take it more seriously. I like La Editress. Will looks frustrated, and a little disbelieving.
Romanian Mental Asylum. Shepard is dreaming. His restive sleep is intercut with scenes of his dream. The dream consists of lots of black-and-white shots of the back of Danny's head, and then a big close-up of a photo of Sydney with a banner reading, "Happy Birthday, Sydney" in the background. Shepard wakes up, muttering, "Oh my God."
Stairwell. A goon leads Sydney down. Sydney chatters nervously about his tattoo and how she almost got one herself. She pretends to stumble a little, and then straight-arms him across his throat. They fight. He tumbles down the stairs. She grabs his keys.
Sydney, wearing a janitorial outfit of coveralls and cap that makes her look like an extra from Newsies, makes her way down to the main entrance. A long-haired goon eyes her suspiciously but moves on. She pretends to mop and waits for the hall to clear. She attempts to open the dual-key lock, using a mop handle to turn one of them. A goon and Dr. Ratched catch her at the last minute and taser-gun her. Man. Did they get a bulk deal on taser guns for this episode?