Quite an interesting story. The game was obviously not important, if Roger had been killed for it, it would have been released but it wasn't and the co-designer Gil didn't even know Roger had completed the game. The murder was a crime of passion due to a miscommunication – had Roger told Gil why he was running off with the girl, Roger would probably still be alive. I liked how it turned out that the baby was Roger's, it was sweet, not the usual jock-gets-the-girl tale, but instead that the girl was won over by the sweet geek to the point where they not only had sex but also got pregnant. Even twenty years later, Janine still talks of Roger with such affection, this wasn't just a fling. Nice touch.
Brennan gets twisted out of shape by her Smurfs story and Booth makes a point of who Smurfette was. Makes you wonder if the 'humiliating' incident she got so upset about was misinterpreted by her – could her 'secret Santa' have been trying to make the same point?
I liked this one, the underdog getting the girl and it unfortunately got him killed.





