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9.4 Superb
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Air Date

Friday November 23, 2007

Production Code

3T6959

Episode Summary

Mick is hired to provide surveillance on a rich man's wife, and one of the conditions is that the husband wants photo proof of the affair. Mick asks Morgan, the female photographer who bears a striking resemblance to Coraline, to help him with the pictures and they get mixed up in more than a cheating spouse case. Beth gets jealous over their working together and researches Morgan's past. She makes a shocking discovery that the mystery lady isn't who she claims to be.

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    7.1 Good

    I think I missed something! hide show

    Ok, let me see if I understand this...Mick, who A. cares about Beth
    B. knows that he can't be involved with a human
    C. two weeks ago was convinced that Morgan was Coraline...is now kissing Morgan. I think I missed a step. It would be different if she kissed him, but he actually moved in first. That disappointed me. I really felt that Mick had more honor, integrity & self-control than that. I know he and Coraline have this intense past relationship, but he has changed so much since he "killed" her, I just don't get it. I can explain away the shower scene, that was his way of getting the proof he needed. I can make that logical, but random kisses...NO!
    We have been watching for weeks now as Mick struggles with himself over his feelings for Beth. He doesn't pursue them for a lot of reasons but mostly because she is a human and he is afraid she will get hurt. But, it's ok to hurt her by making out with Morgan? I love this show and will continue to be an avid watcher, I just feel that this episode the writers pulled a character departure, and I don't like it.

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    5 Mediocre

    Now this show has gone from crime drama to day time tv in a week! hide show

    Of all the sexual tension - and hey, who doesn't watch for that reason - built up of the course of 8 shows suddenly we find Mick kissing Morgan/Coraline. We know it's Coraline and he does on some dim level of conciousness. He kisses her! Not once but twice. I about fell out of my chair. He never kisses Beth, Beth always has to kiss him. But our main squeeze had no problem letting a human rev up his sexuality in the shower scene. I wanted to barf right then and there. Beth is upset enough knowing now that Coraline is Coraline that she stakes her thinking she is a vamp. Only then does Mick explain that somehow Coraline became human again. I hope Coraline dies. It would serve her right for the pain she has caused both main characters.

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    10 Perfect

    Mick and Morgan work together on new infidelity case. While Beth is sleuthing through morgans life. The storyline is nicely twisted giving you a WAM!!!. hide show

    It's once again one of those storylines which start from the end. Yeah you know whats going to happen in the end. For once the ending is not ruined by that little scene. But this time even the blatent obvious still hits you. The reaveling scene cleverly leaves out important detail which the body of the story line builds toward. The writer has cleverly combined the blatently obvious to create the WAM!!! factor. The story line was very cleverly written with two plots to the line. Morgan and Mick's case and Beth's sleuthing through Morgans life. The concept has been used before but pretty much everything has happened on TV. Very well written though originality is immpossible it's a good effort. Oh Yeah. Beth Narrating for once is a fresh touch.

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    9.7 Superb

    Mick works on a case with Morgan, who shows more and more signs that she could possibly be his ex-wife, Coraline. Beth is jealous and suspicious of Morgan and does some investigating herself, finding out who Morgan really is. hide show

    This episode was amazing. I loved how it started off with the ending, and then backtracked to show how it all led up to that one, intense moment of Beth stabbing Coraline. The fact that there wasn't an episode last week has been driving me crazy, but I'm a little concerned, because next week's episode doesn't seem to follow up from where the last one left off with Beth stabbing Coraline.. Has anyone else noticed this? If the next episode doesn't give me some closure on that, I'll go insane. Ha. I guess I'm getting just a little too into Mick St. John..

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    10 Perfect

    What an episode! This time around, we have Beth narrating, so we learn more about what she's thinking. Beth is becoming very suspicious of Morgan, so begins to investigate her. hide show

    What an episode! This time around, we have Beth narrating, so we learn more about what she's thinking. Beth is becoming very suspicious of Morgan, so begins to investigate her. Granted, some of this may be jealousy, but she wants to figure out the Morgan issue. As she does so, she begins to remember more and more about her abduction. Enlisting Josef's help, she finds Coraline's home. And hits the mother lode – she finds where Coraline kept her, and the memories keep flooding in.

    Meanwhile, Mick is working with Morgan on a case, and is drawn to her. This spells trouble for the Mick/Beth relationship! Especially after that shower scene! And then Beth goes to Mick's place, finds Morgan/Coraline there, and stabs her with a makeshift stake.

    Does Mick still have feelings for Coraline? Or does he just want to know how Coraline became the very human Morgan? What about Beth?

    This episode starts to answer some of the questions we've had since the beginning of show, but poses some more. I can't wait to see the next episodes!!

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  • This is the first episode to feature a voiceover by a character other than Mick. []
  • Goof: When Micks see the fleur de lis on Morgan's/Coraline's skin in the shower it is shown as an outline, like a tattoo without color, but earlier in the episode there was a scene clearly showing it being burned into her skin like a brand. If we are to assume that that scene is how Coraline received her fleur de lis, it seems highly unlikely that it would only show on her skin as a detailed outline. If it was branded into her skin it would have been a mass of scar tissue in the shape of a fleur de lis with no details. []
  • This episode took place over a 24 hour period. However, when Mick text messaged Beth at BuzzWire to let her know that Morgan took the case, the date on Beth's phone read "October 30, 2007." Later, when Mick texted her to let her know he was on his way to Morgan's apartment, the date on her phone read "November 9, 2007."

    Also, when Beth found the bottle of medication in Morgan's bathroom, the date the prescription was written was December 12, 2007. []
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  • This episode was included on the Emmy Awards "For Your Consideration" DVD for this season. []
  • International Air Dates:
    UK: April 15th, 2008 on LivingTV
    Denmark: May 31st, 2008 on TV3
    Sweden: July 20th, 2008 on TV3
    Germany: August 11th, 2008 on ProSieben
    The Netherlands: December 7, 2008 on Net 5
    Norway: January 31st, 2009 on TV3
    Poland: February 27th, 2009 on TVP1
    Turkey: July 20th, 2009 on CNBC-e
    Australia: October 20th, 2009 on Channel 9 []
  • Beth: Why did Coraline choose me?
    Josef: Maybe she thought she could put a little family together and settle down. You know, like the woman who gets pregnant to save a bad marriage. And you specifically, you were probably just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
    Beth: But it didn't work. She didn't get him back.
    Josef: And I think you know Mick better than that.
    Beth: And you knew Coraline for a long time. So if she is back, what does she want?
    Josef: If Coraline is back, and that's a big "if," then she's back for Mick. []
  • (Beth is searching Morgan's apartment.)
    Beth: (voiceover) Don't know what I was expecting to find. Impressive shoes, though. Prada, Y-3, Manolos. I'm in the wrong line of work. Guess immortals don't shop at the Shoe Barn. []
  • Beth: (voiceover) Memories can be fragile. Fleeting as a whisper one moment, powerful as a scream the next. I spent so long hiding from my past. Ignoring the whispers. But I remember everything now, and the screams are the only thing I can hear. []
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Allusions

  • The Conversation

    The storyline in which Mick has trouble hearing exactly what the couple is saying is lifted from the 1974 Francis Ford Coppola movie The Conversation. In that film Gene Hackman played a high-tech private investigator who was employed to record a couple's conversation. He is unable to hear everything they say due to interference, but from what he does hear he believes that they are about to be murdered. It is only later that he realizes they were in fact talking about committing a murder - of the person who hired him in the first place. []
  • Michael Jordan and his relationship with Nike.

    After Mick saves Morgan/Coraline from an oncoming car by grabbing her and jumping straight up in the air, he remarks, "And they say Jordan has air." This is an off-handed comment about Air Jordans, Michael Jordan's trademark shoe marketed by Nike, that was hyped to give its wearer extraordinary jumping abilities. []
  • Wizard of Oz

    Josef: (about becoming a human again) There is no magic pill, no "click your ruby slippers together and rejoin the mortal coil."

    The ruby slippers are a reference to The Wizard of Oz, where Dorothy needs to click the heels of her ruby red shoes together to return home. []
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