Carissa’s back Guest Clacking for us again, after sharing her thoughts on Eureka‘s latest episode with us just this morning!
With Sturgis only a month in the can, now seems a good time to point out that nobody likes a fake biker. Those ultra rich jackasses who park a trailer, roll their bikes off and then gear up to ride with the big boys. If you’re the biggest divorce attorney in Miami, the combination spells murder. There were some pretty fun quotes at the expense of fake bikers and money hungry divorce attorneys, but this one was all about the kids. How incredibly easy it is for adults to screw up the lives of innocent kids.
Jeff sees someone peeping in the window, and his Callie thinks he’s crying wolf. Always trying to help with his meager parenting skills (he’s learning on the job, with someone else’s kid), Jim decides to try to give the power back to Jeff and leaves him looking at the crime scene database to try to find the dude he saw in the window. “Oh my gosh, there really are 3000 guys with neck tats.” I had a fun time looking at online mug shots a couple months ago, and I admit an affinity for those brazen sorts who think tatting the neck is a good fashion statement. An inordinate number of them turn to crime. Gee, I wonder why?
Anyway, Jeff hacked his way farther into the database and looked up his dad. I know what it’s like for kids to have their dad in jail, and it’s like a knife to the heart every time they think about what they’ve done and how they got there. If their other parent tries to “protect” them from the truth … just yikes. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a realistic portrayal of a regular woman and child mucked up in a relationship with a guy in jail. It wasn’t a good deal for Callie and Jeff, but they came clean with each other and that’s a good thing.
A glut of suspects for the murder of the week. The “trainer” who was more like a lackey for the dirtbag, the dirtbag’s wife who wanted her due for putting up with his crap and a down-on-his-luck father whose life was torn apart by the dirtbag attorney himself. After the divorce and paying the legal fees, down-dad was working three jobs and his kid thought he didn’t care about him. Together they had created a cool muffler with great potential, but before he could bring the dream true, his life fell apart. During interrogation and at the possibility of analysis of blood from the crime scene, dad broke down and signed a confession.
All of this made Jim see the bigger picture. Like so many other procedurals before it, what’s going down in Jim’s life has a way of infusing his creative juices to solve the crime. Down-and-out dad wasn’t the bad guy after all; he was confessing to protect his son. Dirtbag didn’t like being confronted by a client’s smarmy kid and threatened his life. The kid defended himself and Jim semi promises him a happy ending.
Without involving Callie and Jeff, Jim found the guy who was peeping and captured him trying to break in. Instead of telling them how close danger had come, he walked away. Jim has a big heart.
Now for some fun bits:
Clacked by Guest Clacker
on Aug 30, 2010 @ 12:00 EST5EDT
