finefoxyladies | LOCI 7x017: Magic! (Not with Anthony Hopkins) (Reply)

What can you say about an episode where both Bobby and Alex smile several times? Openly. Happily. And at each other.

But it wasn't all chuckles. Sometimes it was The Return of the Shared Glance:

But most of all...and I can't believe I missed this the first time:

Let's go to the Telestrator for the replay on that:

I am very strongly in favor of the Pieces' Theory on Caffeine Love.

1) If you hand a party a coffee, it is love.
2) If you use coffee as an excuse to HOLD HANDS, YOU GIVE JESSIE A BRAIN ANEURYSM.

Also: heh heh.

But it wasn't all fun and games and smiling and coffee love and teacup rides at Disneyworld: the perp happens to be a smug, arrogant, douchey jackass who needles Eames by "reading" her:

"I think there are some unresolved issues with a man in your life...some trust issues. He's betrayed you, hasn't he? Kept a secret from you...and not for the first time. Poor thing."

Eek.

"Am I close?"

Awwwwwwww-kward.

Bobby obfuscates, mostly for the sake of his own skin, but then the Magic Man starts dismantling criminal profiling.

That doesn't go over so hot:

Added to the awkwardness: there's the red herring geek-and-hot-girlfriend couple. Turns out the girlfriend LIED about something. She was only trying to PROTECT her ONE TRUE LOVE. But her LIES were a BETRAYAL and a MISTAKE.

Please note who seems to have sympathy for the liar:

And who is framed with the righteous party, walking away very, very, very, very disappointed and still pretty angry and betrayed and all those things that douchebag murderer said:

It's a bit of bittersweet from that point on, as our detectives return to reinterview the douchey magician who clearly is guilty.

More smiling:

And Douchey takes one more poke at Goren...

"What about you, Detective? Lost a step or two over the years."

(Note: guy who has never met Ol' Scotch-and-Bacon Milkshakes? TOTALLY GIVES HIM THE ONCE-OVER AND KNOWS HE PUT ON ABOUT 30 LBS OF GRIEF WEIGHT.)

Yeah, I think ~~D'Onof~~ Bobby takes this cutting remark a little harder than the blah-blah about criminal profiling.

There is a moment where his girl steps in to say that Bobby, and Bobby alone (oh, Eames) has solved the case (pitching out a false scenario to draw out Douchey's jealousy and blah blah blah):

And his reaction is priceless:

My interpretation:

Anyway, Douchey gets hauled off. After denying Douchey the option of being cuffed in front:

Eames says, "We learn our lessons too."

Douchey's response: "Glad that some people still know the meaning of respect."

So the bad guy goes away. We'll get our pithy wrap-up from our heroes, right? Perhaps Eames will say something about magic again. Or Bobby will say something smart and slightly righteous.

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Nope. They're still not ~~MARRIED YET! GET MARRIED! OR HAVE SEX! SEX WILL FIX IT! MAYBE!~~ back to good, as Matchbox 20 would say.

But let's not end on such an ambivalent note, okay:

Hee! That part was funny-hot.

And because I'm hopeless:

Dude. I know someone who, if he hasn't had a naughty nurse fantasy about one A. Eames, is probably going to have one that night.

Magic.

Oh, and:

Captain Bitch Please? Not impressed with magic. Even less impressed with the uniform who let Christopher Lloyd steal the keys.

Oh, yeah, Christopher Lloyd was in this ep. He was funny.