Life Rules

Season 2, Episode 13, Aired
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The team search for a missing motivational speaker only to find that there is an abundance of suspects. During the investigation they find out that the man is not who he appears to be.
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  • Plot inside plot..

    7.0
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    By Parricida, Feb 12, 2009 Report Abuse
    If that episode stand without something then how it all was twisted - we get first shock when we learned that the man taken planned his own kidnapped.. then when we get his brother his behind it.. and did I forget the shock when we learn that his real name is not the one we knew him.. so.. quite many turns, quite many unexpected and element of surprise but the end .. in that kind of out of the box episode (or was it?) you would expect something good to end too - maybe they just wanted to show that he could have talked himself out of this.. and that was the "big" thing in the end.. but I would have expected something different.moreless

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  • This is actually a bit like a situation comedy, as opposed to a thriller - which is actually quite refreshing

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    By qstevie, Sep 13, 2006 Report Abuse
    A motivational guru is picked up in a limo for a trip to the airport. Trouble is, it's not the right limo, and he disappears. Who could have done it?

    Lots of suspects, from troubled clients to business partners. The truth itself is hilarious when it's revealed.

    What is very good about this episode is its take-off of motivational speakers and the change-your-life gurus. What seems like perfect life advice is just an actor taking on a role and talking some common sense that anyone could actually come up with if they took a moment to think about it.

    The trivia & quotes section already reveal the plot, so I won't put in a spoiler warning, but the idea of a staged kidnapping going wrong is clever, but even when it gets to the end, the humour doesn't end.

    Lots of fun, lots of twists and lots of double-talkmoreless

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    • Original Title: "Power Up" Edit

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    • Samantha: Come on, you big crybaby. Edit
    • Jack: You shut up, and you drop your gun. Edit
    • (While holding two bags full of shredded documents.) Danny: Can you say Enron? Edit

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    • At the end of the soap opera that the agents watch with the kidnapped guy as an actor in, he can be heard yelling 'Stella! Stella! Stella', realising his wife has been kidnapped. This is a nod to the famous line in A Streetcar Named Desire, most famously known as spoken (or yelled) by Marlon Brando in the film. Edit
    • Jack Malone: Sounds like he drank too much of his own Kool Aid A reference to the Jim Jones People's Temple mass suicide in 1978. Many drank cyanide laced 'Flavour Aid', but in many stories it's refered to as 'Kool Aid'. Edit
    • Danny: Can you say Enron? Regarding the infamous Enron scandal. Edit

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