Re: Gil <3 Cath #22: PureJoy - What Would He Do WO her
Still life - another unimpressive episode for me. Some good Cath scenes, but that's about it.
* --is this the real Catherine?--
BRASS: I checked her answering machine: No calls.
CATH: Well, I'll get a DNA exemplar for Jesse and let her get some sleep.
BRASS: She won't sleep. (to Greg) Okay, Greg, let's do a little legwork, what do you say? You take this side of the street; I'll take the other -- find out if anybody's seen anything suspicious.
Since this was a Rambo-written episode, this small scene shows you he needs to get more knowledge of Catherine's character. As a mother, Cath would know that a mother wouldn't sleep in this situation. The lines between Cath & Brass should have been reversed. Very puzzling scene for me.
* --on the same page again--
CATH: Hey, I got the DNA results. The boy is Adam Esposito. Victor and Valerie are his parents.
WARRICK: There you go, she's lying. She doesn't have a son.
CATH: Uh, not quite. She's got 13 alleles in common with the male DNA that we got from the toothbrush exemplar.
GRISSOM: So she does have a son.
CATH: I was inside the house. Believe me, a kid does live there.
GRISSOM: And we're still looking for Jesse Matthews
* --laying it out--
GREG: "Jesse David Matthews. Mother Karen, father Dwight. Born August 31, 1999." I also checked for a death certificate. Nothing on file.
CATH: These are all in chronological order. Archie confirmed that all the photos taken along the top row were genuine. Up until the photo taken at the funeral in which he was two.
SARA: So, the rest of these were faked using Adam Esposito?
CATH: Yeah.
SARA: (to Greg) You talked to the neighbors. What did they say?
GREG: Jesse and Karen kept to themselves. But he was always leaving his toys around outside.
SARA: They saw his toys -- Did they see him?
GREG: Well, when I asked, "When was the last time you saw Jesse?" No one remembered exactly.
WARRICK: What about his grandparents?
CATH: They haven't seen him since the funeral.
WARRICK: Has anyone seen Jesse since he was two? His teachers or a doctor, baby-sitters ... ?
CATH: Well, he was home-schooled. And we're looking into a doctor and a sitter.
WARRICK: Well, I guess we can impound her car and find out if there's any evidence that he was even in there.
CATH: For four years she's created an elaborate fantasy -- which collided with reality at Mesa Valley Park.
Again, I love these scenes where they are laying out all of the information. Each of them giving input from their part of the investigation.
* --the story of dad--
CATH: I found this in Karen's medicine chest. Olanzapine.
GRISSOM: That's a heavy-duty antipsychotic.
CATH: Yeah. But the prescription is over four years old. I'll have Brass subpoena her medical records.
GRISSOM: You know, if she was being treated for psychosis, it could explain all of this, because she didn't overlook a single detail. I think she even did the finger paintings.
CATH: It's hard for anyone to let go of someone they love.
GRISSOM: Yeah. After my dad died, my mom would still get him a present every Christmas. She'd put it under the tree. Christmas morning, the wrapping paper would be all crumpled up and, uh ... the tie or the sweater, whatever it was, would be hanging in their closet.
CATH: How old were you when he died?
GRISSOM: Nine.
CATH: Little guy. ...... I'll get started in Karen's room.
GRISSOM: He taught botany. He, uh ... came home from school one hot, humid day, laid down on the couch. I was watching TV. My mom brought in some cold drinks ... but she couldn't wake him up........ No one would tell me why.
Awwwww. Break my heart, why don'tcha! *Squee* for the wonderful PureJoy moment. I like how Cath doesn't prod him for more information about it. She tries to let it go, but it's Gil who continues on with the story on his own. *sigh*
* --wonderful CGB moment--
GRISSOM: The GCMS soil analysis found cadaverine, putrescine and several other organic compounds.
BRASS: Yeah. English, please?
GRISSOM: It means there was a body buried in Karen's backyard.
CATH: Just too long ago to get any DNA. But Hodges also found traces of olanzapine.
BRASS: Well, that's interesting, because a warrant came through on Karen Matthews' medical records, and after her son was born, Karen was treated for postpartum psychosis, which her doctors treated by prescribing olanzapine.
GRISSOM: Even a small amount of that stuff would be lethal to a two-year-old.
CATH: Karen is already mentally fragile when her husband is killed. She gets into a very heated argument with the in-laws at his funeral, goes over the deep end, poisons Jesse and buries him in the backyard near the fence.
BRASS: But then she digs him up. Why?
GRISSOM: We have evidence to suggest that the neighbor's dog was digging in Karen's backyard.
CATH: The neighbor claims that Karen killed his dog. If the dog detected decomp and dug near the grave, Karen may have moved the body to protect him.
BRASS: So, where's Jesse's body?
CATHERINE: Nick found a patch of tissue and hair in trunk of Karen's car. The DNA matches the toothbrush.
GRISSOM: If Karen doesn't tell us where to look, I doubt we'll ever find the body.
BRASS: You know, as long as I do this job, I can never understand ... how a mother can kill her child.
GRISSOM: Euripedes tried to understand it when he wrote Medea. "I will slay my children without delaying long enough to hand them over to some more savage hand."... Medea, like Karen, was a soldier's wife.
CATH: His father was a soldier, his grandfather was a soldier, Karen did not want that for Jesse.
BRASS: Well, it's still murder.
So cute when these three talk by themselves. You see how Cath & Gil are always on the same wavelength, while Brass needs help understanding the way that they look at it.
Thanks for the specific explanation haha.
