I am also very fatigued with the religious adherence to MO by all of the Alcatrazians, since they most have had some pretty exotic ones without analog to many/any criminals of their time. I imagine that having a series about criminals who aren't very exotic doesn't appeal to the show runners.

Though I'm not a fan of Fringe either (though my exposure has been limited) the plot holes you bring up are limited in scope to the BS that goes on in this show weekly.

His heart is the size of canned ham

That architecture extrapolation really annoyed me too, especially since the architecture of San Francisco has a lot in common and a lot of things get borrowed, there aren't a lot of neighborhoods that have a distinctive elements that aren't replicated a few blocks over and a few blocks from there. I'm not saying it…

I only got to watch this episode with half my attention (we were checking out of the hospital with the newest member of the Sin9 clan!), and it seemed to be doing better than the other episodes from what I saw - but I was figuring a lot of that might have to be that I was only following the bits that were engaging…

I agree with you, but I also doubt we will get any coherent version of the coverup beyond an appeal to the brilliant competence of the government when it comes to covering things up and keeping them secret. I'll cut the show some slack on it, I guess, until they start making stupid appeals like that. It's ridiculous,…

I think that is the best supported theory, and the most sensical one given the show's propensity for the Reader's Digest version of psychology

Yeah, the sea air and time wouldn't have been that kind to a gun, and the magazine springs would have been pretty useless after 50 years, if they were loaded…

Thank you? I guess those are the perks of being a vitriolic failed academic.

I knew a girl whose dad used that line on her boyfriends - kept 'em in line and respecting curfew. I never met the man, personally.

Right on, I admit it isn't the worst way to resolve the situation once you've put your protagonist in it, but I thought it was a little overused by this point. Certainly not an eye rolling moment, except, as you mentioned, for the exposition.

stunningly observant of you.

What was good about the scene?

So they would only catch these criminals because they'd have access to the files? How were they caught in the first place?

And hey, if the series showed any inclination to not take itself so deadly serious and have a little fun on the weird side of ridiculous, I would agree with you. But so far it has taken itself very seriously and been very stupid, which I can be entertained by, but I will not defend as quality programming.

Oh, we're talking about ratings and not quality. Shit…

See, those questions were all just examples of actual oddities about the case that she could have fixated on that would have made some sense. She wouldn't have had to do them all in one scene. And in fact, she could have found the flowers in one scene, in less screen time, with better development, just by cutting to…

And why we're on the topic of women in this show… Why were so many of them so revved up this episode? You have the three bank employees who are risking almost certainly getting fired and possibly getting arrested just for a bit of strange at work. On top of that you have the always fun bedroom talk of Geri Jewel and…

But in the context of a show that is only directing us at significant things, this must then be significant, yeah?

Yet there are plenty of psychological experiments with rats, that don't involve talking therapy, that do involve memory and behavior. hrm.