This is a mile down the thread, so who knows if you'll see it, but I really appreciate your comments, man. Every last one of them. I find myself ctrl-F'ing through the thread just to get to them.

Hmm, maybe she and Robyn got together?

Hmm. I don't think Cary's in denial so much as he doesn't want to bother explaining it to Herc right in the middle of his pre-prison boot camp.

Does anyone think Cary's guilty plea might not have been real? Perhaps it's just a vain hope, but I wondered if the next episode might not just pass it off as another one of his imaginings (like the shots of him about to get popped in the head last week).

Totally agree about Johnny. He's a pretty flat character in that we don't really know anything about him, but I still do enjoy almost every scene he's in.

Did anyone else think that the scene where Dante gave his surprise testimony was a shoutout to The Wire? It felt exactly like the scene in the first episode where the state's case falls apart because Stringer gets the witness to change her testimony. And then they had this little snippet as well:

Geez. Of course I didn't mean to imply that there had only been one case. I just wondered whether there was a specific case that was the target here—one that perhaps matched the details that came up during the episode.

Does anybody know what this week's case was based on?

I'm with you. From the very beginning she's been portrayed as someone who has the truly admirable ability of identifying with and aiding those in need. In this episode it was Jodi, but there have been scores of others.

Yeah, I thought it was a moment of deepening on her character's part. She understands what "struggling" with questions of belief and doubt really means in a way that the people in the circle around her didn't seem to.

I agree with you about Diane's walk out scene. It was awesome at the moment, but then I got to thinking about them orchestrating it beforehand: "Hey guys, I'm leaving exactly at 5:00. Can you be strategically positioned along my path to the elevator so that we can all get on together?" And then it kind of lost its…

I second this wish. I demand more Matan Is Dumbfounded moments, and if he ran for (and became) SA, I'm sure we'd get some.

Yeah, it was an excellent throwaway line.

I mostly agree with this review. The season was uneven and didn't hang together very well, but I thought last night's episode was solid. The back-to-back scenes of Sherlock-Mycroft in the library and Sherlock-Joan with the blood spatter were excellent.

That's the conclusion I came to as well, but like the reviewer, it did throw me for a second.

Heh. Yes, point taken!

I randomly learned from The Good Wife that it depends on where you are. In most states, including New York, one-party consent is the requirement, so I guess the recordings would have been legit since they obviously had Joan's consent.

In some respect, the outlook would require that you at least view (though not necessarily treat) guilty and innocent the same—viz., as fallible humans and thus as worthy of compassion. But that doesn't preclude the possibility of dispensing justice to the guilty.

I have never read Rand, so I can't be sure what the point of that assertion was in context, but as a statement of psychological possibility, it seems false. Of course one can have compassion for both a victim and the victimizer. The compassion may be of a different kind or degree, of course.

Yeah, I agree, and that's kind of my point. Her only legitimate reason for leaving would have been that toxic environment. But in her talk with Diane, she didn't explain herself that way. She made it seem like she actually took Canning's criticisms of Diane as gospel.