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The Straw

Episode Number: 16    Season Num: 2    First Aired: Wednesday January 16, 2002    Prod Code: 016
The Scarecrow, a particularly noxious Link, is inadvertently unearthed and loves nothing more than the fear and mayhem he creates by reading - and exploiting - the "fear center" in every Chicagoan's subconscious. As the city degenerates into mass hysteria, Nick and Kate learn that to defeat the Scarecrow, they must first deal with all their own fears and phobias

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Writer: Martin Weiss, Scott Nimerfro
Director: Rod Hardy
Star: Jonathan Togo (Jonathan (season 2)),  Danny Woodburn (Carl, the Gnome),  Alexondra Lee (Detective Kate Benson),  Richard Gant (Captain Richard Page),  Michael Landes (Detective Nicholas "Nick" O'Malley)
Guest Star: Rob deLeeuw (Teddy),  Dave Ward (Jackie),  Tim Bissett (AL),  Eliza Murbach (Safron),  Joshua Hamlin (Scarecrow),  Darcy Laurie (Meyers),  Pauley Perrette (Alice),  Marina Black (Colleen),  Andrew Stone (Joey),  Melanie McLaren (Heather),  Natasha Wilson (Trish),  Adrian Formosa (Security guard),  Hiro Kanagawa (Madison),  Vincent Gale (Martinez),  Andrew Laurenson (Edwin Cass),  Cyrus Thiedeke (Movie guy),  Sarah La Greca (Girl),  Brian Anderson (Lester),  Brandy Heidrick (Sienna)

Notes

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In-joke: Jonathan refers to a director at a research facility, Edwin Cass, who they later meet and gives them problems. The name is a thinly disguised parody of Evan Katz, the series creator and executive producer. (edit)

Quotes

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Alice: Nick’s at anger management? Consider my world rocked. (edit)
Lester: I detect angry cynicism.
Nick: And I detect a man who lives in his mother’s basement. (edit)
Carl: We should have never gotten married. I was 102, she was 98, but we were young, we didn’t know any better.
Page: Are you expecting me to care?
Carl: I forgot for a minute that this is a purely professional arrangement with no room for my personal feelings whatsoever.
Page: Well as long as that’s clear. (edit)
Page: (about Jonathan) Sometimes I find myself thinking this young man need a quick kick in the rear.
Nick: Or somewhere else. (edit)
Nick: My teachers used to always call me Nick. Actually, it was short for “Nick, you’ve got detention.” (edit)

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Kate: I would have said, “Give my regards to the Wicked Witch.”
Referencing primarily the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz, based on the novels by L. Frank Baum. Margaret Hamilton plays the Wicked Witch of the West, the main villainess of the movie. (edit)
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