Technically, I think it's Russell, but yeah:

Are we sure the billionaire funding the crime-stoppers isn't Hank Scorpio? Because then I'd venture that he has some sot of ulterior motive… and Tom Landry's hat for sale.

This might be downthread, but has anyone been keeping a count of the Mitzvah truck in each episode?

Now that the show has picked up its speed (I swear, the location titles are making all the difference), I was looking forward to recaps to help me retroactively enjoy/contextualize the first several of the series!

I'm pretty sure that was a chicken.

I also thought this provided a nice companion to the Marshall's father dying episode. The countdown here was implicit, of course, but the sort of "oh shit. That hit me like bricks out of nowhere" dynamic was similar — and in some respects more coherently executed. It wasn't a stunt episode; it was how an old couple…

Well, I mean, maybe they have? It's a little clunkier a logic, but I mean it is Ted, after all.

I kind of saw this episode as Ted's "How I Met You" episode: a weekend for just the two of them, before she's gone. He's happy to fill in way too many details, just to keep living in the story of how they came together, and The Mother is gently asking him to keep making new memories. (Other people down thread spoke to…

The phone call from a 27 year older J Edgar Hoover was for him.

Right?!

(Hands over ears hands over ears)

Yeah - The middle episodes have been sorely outclassed by the first and third in previous seasons. This season's 2nd ep had me laughing; I thought it did a wonderful job and being comfortable with what it was and having fun.

Hey - my reply is below, I think. Disqus is being weird.

[Sorry - this was in reply to dygitalninja - DISQUSgrumble]

Totally. I think the recap's use of it as an example was unwarranted in this case.

Which also makes me wonder about the potential case re: the woman who thinks she's married to 3 different men…

My fact-checking is probably rough, here, but re: "the crimes (which dovetail so nicely it’s nearly comic) provide a solid backdrop" seems to be a well they go to on more than one occasion: the seemingly unrelated cases in The Great Game or the missing pet in Hounds of Baskerville.

One thing re: Mary's having "lost a lot of weight to fit into her dress" — this, while a cliche, was probably structurally necessary for the plot, as it provides a counterpoint to her no longer fitting in the dress, which is one of the factoids Sherlock uses to deduce her pregnancy.

fun.-lite?

I will say, despite the "Everywhere" joke being in the trailers, what got me was Goggins in the reverse shot sort of looking around his feet and chair as the episode went to commercial. Nice little grace note for the character.