Re: Gil <3 Cath #22: PureJoy - What Would He Do W
Secrets & Flies - one of the few remaining Season 6 episodes that I actually enjoyed fully.
* --arriving at the scene--
The girls walking from the vehicle to the house. I need to take a much closer look, because the first thing I always think about here is who was actually driving. Normally Sara likes to do the driving, but when the girls are together does Cath actually let her? It’s so great to see the girls playing nice again. Probably the biggest reason I love this episode.
* --just an illusion?--
CATH: Postpartum depression so bad, it leads to suicide?
SARA: Sister was feeding the baby. Where'd she get the bottle?
BRASS: The fridge is full of bottles of breast milk.
SARA: Mom stocks the fridge and kills herself, knowing her sister was going to show up.
CATH: She wanted to make sure that her baby was quickly found and fed.
SARA: David, do you mind if I render the gun safe?
DAVID PHILLIPS: Better you than me.
SARA: One shot fired.
CATH: Sara, check out the blood on her hand.
SARA: There isn't any. The gun is spattered in dried blood. She wasn't holding this gun when she was shot.
CATH: And what appears to be -- is not.
* --after credits, back to the case--
It just baffled me here that all of a sudden the entire team is on this case. It seemed that it started out as a Cath/Sara case - now you’ve got Warrick and Gil added too. It didn’t seem that high-profile of a case to me, even though there was a small child involved.
* --the first married-couple moment for this episode--
As outlined by Hottie above - when Cath mentions to Gil the reason that he can’t delay the evaluations. I think it’s her short time as supervisor that brought her more insight to the paperwork that needs to be taken care of on a timely basis. She knew the significance of the evals being done, while Gil - even after all these years- didn’t understand the importance of getting the evals done to allow his team some extra pay.
* --a subtle, sarcastic dig?--
SOFIA: Hey, Catherine. Grissom, Ecklie's been looking for you. Is your cell not working?
GRISSOM: What are you doing here?
SOFIA: Well, apparently, I was a CSI, then a detective, but now I'm a messenger. You're needed at the lab ASAP.
GRISSOM: Why?
SOFIA: I have no idea. But the undersheriff's camped out in the break room.
Is this a way for the writers to poke fun at themselves for trying to find a place for Sofia to fit in with the rest of the team?
* --six words that bring so much meaning--
CATH: I'll have Greg run down the gun's serial number. Nick is covering the autopsy Warrick and I will finish the processing here and I'll keep you posted.
GRISSOM: Thanks.
CATH: What would you do without me?
*sigh**sniffle*sigh* Oh so much PureJoy in just one little question. Another question I have here - What’s Sara going to be doing then? Cath lists Greg, Nick and Warrick - but Sara’s definitely a part of this case too.
* --Gil plays politics--
It’s so fun to see Gil being friendly with both Ecklie & the Sheriff. Maybe Cath’s lessons for him to be more politic have paid off.
* --is flirting allowed?--
HODGES: Your black-and-white particles were composed of plagioclase, biotite, hornblende and pyroxene.
CATH: Diorite granite.
HODGES: You remember your geology.
CATH: Yes!
WARRICK: Wow.
CATH: Actually, senior year I took "rocks for jocks." I dated the TA.
HODGES: Lucky guy.
WARRICK: I'm sure you got an "A."
CATH: As a matter of fact, I did.
WARRICK: Mm-hmm.
HODGES: (to Warrick) You're married? Don't flirt.
I swear, every time that Cath is around Hodges, there’s some kind of sexual remark made - subtle or not! It’s so cute, but so very freaky!
* --Cath being hit on again? By a woman, no less--
WENDY SIMMS: So I heard that my predecessor in DNA had all these you know, personal hygiene issues. Well, just for the record, I'm not like that. I have always been very touchy-feely. I mean, I used to work in San Francisco, you
know. So ... every day we started with hugs.
CATH: Uh-huh. Yeah. That must've been nice for you. So ...
WENDY: Hey, how about lunch tomorrow? Just you and me. Cause, see, I-I figure that you gotta know where the bodies are buried around here. So to speak.
CATH: Is that why you paged me?
WENDY: No. No, um ... I compared Christina Adalian's DNA to baby Joey's, and guess what? Mother and son -- they're not mother and son. At least not genetically speaking. There's no relation.
CATH: And Evan Peters isn't the father?
WENDY: Nope. So assuming that there was no big baby mix-up at the hospital, I'm thinking that Christina Adalian had to be a surrogate.
CATH: Surrogacy ... that would explain her hymen.
WENDY: Hello.
CATH: Her hymen was intact, which is consistent with in-vitro fertilization.
WENDY: Yeah, but there's one problem. A surrogate's not supposed to keep the baby. The surrogate is supposed to be a gestational carrier who returns the child to the biological parents after it's been born.
CATH: Yeah, that is a problem.
It was funny to see Cath so flustered when Wendy was talking about dead bodies. I really like Wendy. She seems to fit in well - not as stuck-up as Mia was.
* --another married-couple moment--
CATH: Oh, hi, Archie.
ARCHIE: Hey.
GRISSOM: I just finished your eval.
CATH: And?
GRISSOM: In the comments section, I noted that if you had my job, these evaluations wouldn't be late.
CATH: Thank you. So I understand that you're going up against Mark Thayer. The guy's an ass.
GRISSOM: He used to be a competent scientist. We actually co-authored a paper together ten years ago. I believe greed has gotten in his way.
CATHE: Well, I've seen him on the stand. He manipulates evidence.
GRISSOM: He manipulates people. The public assumes that scientists are ethical, but many of us are no better than politicians, evidently.
CATH: So do you think that Thayer is presenting the jury with faulty forensics?
GRISSOM: I know he is. I just don't know how. Videotapes are clean. The science appears sound. How's your case going?
CATH: (chuckles) Huh. I don't know who killed Christina Adalian, I don't know how she got pregnant and I don't know the identity of the baby's biological parents.
GRISSOM: It's always good to know what you don't know.
Oh the PureJoy continues *sigh* Oh how I miss these types of scenes. We used to have them regularly - maybe one every episode or two. Now if we get a small handful throughout an entire season, we’re lucky!
* --waterfowl?--
SARA: Oh, ducks. That's a new decorating choice.
CATHERINE: I now have to share this office with the day shift supervisor. She's got some kind of thing for waterfowl. What's up?
SARA: Warrick and I tracked down Joey Adalian's birth certificate. Christina's named as the mother, father's unknown. We also found another document in her desk. It's a registration form for an organization called Project Sunflower. They find mothers for abandoned embryos.
CATH: Abandoned embryos?
SARA: According to literature, Project Sunflower believes that every fertilized egg or embryo is a baby from the moment it's created in a laboratory dish. Fertility clinics freeze fertilized eggs for their clients undergoing in-vitro
fertilization. Often, the clinics freeze more eggs than they ultimately need.
CATH: And Sunflower tries to find women willing to gestate and raise the leftovers?
SARA: Uh-huh. Project Sunflower promotes itself as doing God's work.
CATH: I knew a stripper who claimed the exact same thing.
LMAO! Now that’s the Catherine that I love! She gets the great one-liners again, the girls are playing nice, and Sara’s little smirk at her is so cute.
* --You go, Cat! Meow!!!--
CATH: Are you aware that throughout much of history, the official church position held that a child's life begins when the mother first becomes aware of movement?
EMILY RYAN: Oh, that's your opinion.
CATH: In the 16th century, the pope proclaimed that embryos less than forty days old are not human. That is not my opinion.
EMILY RYAN: You've had an abortion, Miss Willows?
CATH: Huh. No. Thank God I decided not to have one. But we are not talking about me, Dr. Ryan. Are you a medical doctor?
EMILY RYAN: I don't care for that insinuation.
CATH: Oh, it's just a question. I take it that's a no?
EMILY RYAN: I have a very busy afternoon. What exactly can I do for you?
Meow! Cat’s showing her claws! Somehow, I wish that Cath’s line had been “I didn’t have an abortion, I had a daughter”. I think that would have been more powerful. I also like how it’s Sara that comes to the rescue here and tries to placate the doctor to try & get more information. A total reversal of roles - something Jorja had mentioned in an interview that she loved the fact that her character was the stoic one in this scene and comes to the rescue.
* --more politics--
GRISSOM: I can't tell you what to do, Sheriff.
UNDERSHERIFF MCKEEN: No, you can't. But you can tell me where we stand. What are you doing?
GRISSOM: Circling blowflies.
UNDERSHERIFF MCKEEN: Why?
GRISSOM: 'Cause dead flies tell no lies.
See! He’s getting better at playing politics, even while looking at pictures of bugs!!
* --the professor returns--
SARA: Hey, Professor. Looking good. (to Catherine) You know how sometimes fact is stranger than fiction?
CATH: Yeah.
SARA: Brass got the court order for Joey Adalian's biological parents: A Kenli and Dan Johnson in Seven Hills. We also found Christina's will. Guess who she named as Joey's guardians.
PROFESSOR RAMBAR: Kenli and Dan? (sheepishly) Excuse me.
SARA: You're right.
CATH: A single woman adopts a leftover embryo from an infertile couple and upon her death agrees to give the child back to its biological parents?
SARA: Who gave up the embryo in the first place?
CATH: You happen to have an address for this Mr. and Mrs. Johnson?
SARA: Let's go.
Ah, the professor is back! Have we seen him since I-15 Murders? He’s so adorable!
* --still teaching the guys--
CATHE: Oh, hey. How's the way of the gun?
GREG: It was lost in a poker game.
SARA: Did you get the winner's name?
GREG: No, but he has a large mole between his eyes and his nickname's "Cy." That's all I got, so sorry.
CATH: Greg, never apologize for doing your job.
Even though this was a very short scene, it was still cute. Cath is still teaching Greg and giving him encouragement. In the end, you see it’s his “mole between the eyes” comment that actually breaks the case.
* --Lindsey’s riddle--
HENRY ANDREWS: Why did the fly, fly?
GRISSOM: Because the spider spied her. Catherine's daughter told me that when she was three. Do we have results?
*giggle* Henry’s face after Gil’s comment was hysterical. He was outwitted by a three year-old! Proof again that Gil spends time with Lindsey, and cares enough to remember it, and remember how old she was at the time.
* --philosophical discussion or reprimand--
CATH: Oh, hey, Ecklie said you wanted to see me.
GRISSOM: Yeah. A Dr. Ryan called and said that you verbally harassed her?
CATHERINE: I met Dr. Ryan in the course of my investigation. She runs an organization called Project Sunflower. Philosophically, I completely disagree with the organization. Perhaps I expressed myself.
GRISSOM: Which means?
CATHERINE: I'm pro-choice. I'm in favor of stem cell research. I'm sorry she felt harassed, but my comments were in response to her statements. I don't think I was out of line.
GRISSOM: You should have cited Leviticus 17:11. "The life of the flesh is in the blood." Taken literally, life doesn't begin when the sperm meets the egg, but 18 days later. When the embryo is infused with blood.
CATHERINE: Is that your position?
GRISSOM: Well, if I were speaking with a woman who prefers theology to science, it's a position she'd find tough to refute.
CATH: So are we having a philosophical discussion here, or am I being reprimanded?
GRISSOM: I don't know. I got to go to court.
CATHERINE: (to Hodges, who was eavesdropping) What?
More PureJoy at its finest *squee* Gil’s face when she asked if she was being reprimanded - kind of like “I can’t believe you think I would reprimand you!!” He was so flustered that she would think he’d do that!
* --Cath plays hardball--
SANDRA WALKEY: I don't need an attorney. I've done nothing wrong.
CATHE: Would you mind emptying the contents of your purse?
SANDRA WALKEY: First you go after Kenli, now me. A few hours ago, you guys were saying there was gunshot powder on Kenli's blouse. You make a mistake?
CATH: No, it was probably transferred from your blouse, the one that you wore that night. I have a warrant to search your person and your home. Please empty the contents of your purse onto the table.
(Cath looks through the contents)
CATHERINE: A red coda pen. You knew that her sister was coming for a visit, so the baby would be okay. You killed her and then staged the scene.
SANDRA WALKEY: You have a wild imagination, Ms. Willows.
CATH: Is this your husband?
SANDRA WALKEY: Arnold. He passed away. Two years ago, May.
CATH: He looks like a poker player.
SANDRA WALKEY: You can tell that from his photo?
CATH: Actually, it's ... the mole between his eyes that's his tell.
SANDRA WALKEY: Why are we talking about Arnie?
CATH: Because you used his gun. The gun he won in a poker game.
SANDRA WALKEY: Are you going to put me in jail?
CATH: That's how it works.
SANDRA WALKEY: And the baby -- he goes with Kenli, right?
CATH: I'm sure that Child Services will follow the dictates of Christina's will.
SANDRA WALKEY: Then it was all worth it. My baby has her baby. That's all
that really matters.
CATH: Did you ever consider that Christina Adalian is somebody's baby?
SANDRA WALKEY: We each protect our own. That's how it's done.
CATH: Officer, would you please escort Mrs. Walkey to lockup?
I always love watching Jenny O’Hara (Mrs Walkey) She’s always the bad bitch each time. Poor Cath, just sitting there at the end, knowing there was nothing she could do about it. In the end, Mrs Walkey won because the baby would go back to her daughter - the reason she did this in the first place.
* --Gil to the rescue--
MARK THAYER: I want to talk to you.
GRISSOM: I have nothing to say to you.
MARK THAYER: You impugned my character.
GRISSOM: What character?
ADA JEFFREY SINCLAIR: Uh, excuse me, Dr Thayer.
MARK THAYER: What the hell do you want?
ADA JEFFREY SINCLAIR: Well, to inform you that you have the right to remain silent. The DA'S filing charges for perjury ...
MARK THAYER: (groans) Oh, my God ...
ADA JEFFREY SINCLAIR: ... and obstruction of justice. We won't be accepting a plea.
MARK THAYER: (to Grissom) This is all your fault.
GRISSOM: I hope so.
* --he calls in a favor for his team--
UNDERSHERIFF MCKEEN: When I took this job, I heard a lot of things about you. If you ever need a favor, if I can help you in any way ...
GRISSOM: You know Sheriff, you could help me. I'm late delivering my team's personnel evaluations.
UNDERSHERIFF MCKEEN: I'll tell Ecklie. He'll backdate your cost-of-living adjustments.
GRISSOM: Thank you.
UNDERSHERIFF MCKEEN: So, Grissom, I'm not sure of your ambitions, but if you're interested in taking on more responsibility, maybe a promotion, I'd be glad to pass ...
GRISSOM: (interrupts) You know, Oscar Wilde once said, "Ambition is the last
refuge of failure." I'm fine. Thanks.
Cath has taught him very well on the ways of kissing butt to politicians. He would not have even thought of asking for the favor if Cath hadn’t brought it to his attention earlier.
so I'm happy and so is everyone else. Just another addition in the GC Quote Hall of Fame. 
