Live Wire - Episode 11

Des and his dad are so adorably exactly like each other, clearly Des is an excellent example of nature over nurture. Ergo, some fantabulous lines and scenes between these two.

I loved Des' very human, very natural vulnerability when he's waiting to see his dad at the top of the episode. So sweet and a somewhat new side of Des. I mean, he's always neurotic, but this was different. And lovely. And Rose's word of comfort to him, when he says 'What if he's disappointed in how I turned out' was awesome.
ROSE: Oh my god, he just got out of prison, I don't think he's going to judge.

DES (musing about why Jody attempted a break in): Maybe it's like a nervous tick. Except with explosions.

JODY: I'm such a clutz. Sometimes I fall off my chair, for no reason.
DES: Yeah? Me too!

JODY (in a brilliant display of dyslexia or was it a Freudian slip?): Freedom is more important than family Jake.
JAKE: What?
JODY: No, no. Family is more is important than freedom.

However, my favourite has to be this:
(Des and his Dad sitting in the interrogation room, their last moments before Jody goes back to jail or is it gaol in Newfoundland?)
DES: Well, I'm all grown up now, so you won't be missing any milestones.

And I think we're all wondering why Jake always calls to the person he wants to talk to and/or apprehend from an uncrossable distance. Well, the distance is crossable, but it would take more time than he has from the moment he calls out. I hope you're still with me, since I'm not sure I'm even still with me.... I know, it's a plot device – or maybe a drama device – so that we can all get to see Jake run fast through the colourful back alleys of St. John's, Newfoundland in that dashing leather coat and his jeans (does he own any other pants? Probably not, since he lives in his office. And not in a workaholic kind of way), but it doesn't make him look any smarter. Actually, it makes him more deserving the periodic smacks upside the head that Malachy delivers with such casual and hilarious aplomb.

I'm running a little hot and cold toward Leslie this season. Not her fault, I just don't love what they've done with her. Like, this episode, she was just so by the book, hard-ass cop, with no nuance, opposed to last episode where she was human. It's like not all the writers know what to do with her. Or none of them know what to do with her if she isn't hot for Jake. But I hope they figure her out at some point.

Love Rose's moment with Tinny when she says to the teen: Come on, you're not kidding anyone. We all care about Des and we know you care about him most of all. And in other great Tinny moments, the look she gives Kathleen when Kathleen opts to fix her own past problem involving the little blue book instead of banding together with the family to help Des with his kidnapping trouble, SO GOOD! Like, I disown you and I hate you and you so aren't my mother and go f*ck yourself all mashed into three second long cut. Nice.

Which brings me to Graham Abbey. Holy turn around in character for him Batman! Usually he's brooding and mean, which redeems him, or brooding and a lover, or brooding and funny, or just a lover or just funny or just brooding, but I've never seen him mean. Even when he was Chauvelin's right hand man – unquestionably a villain – in The Scarlet Pimpernel, he was funny. Especially when he was vomitting on the crossing from France to England. But I digress and possibly my I'm a fan of Graham Abbey colours are showing a little too brightly. He was SO MEAN! Is so mean, since I don't think we're done with him. However, I'm seeing parallels between the Rose/HUSBAND story with this Kathleen/Graham Abbey story. Anyone else? Funny, too, how Graham Abbey played HUSBAND'S son on The Border. Oooooh! It's like the Twilight Zone. Without monsters.