5.24 - The Beginning

[Dricks]

From THE FUTON CRITIC:


ELENA'S LEGAL CASE AGAINST HER EX FALLS APART IN THE MIDST OF THE TEAM'S QUEST TO FIND A MISSING 13-YEAR-OLD GIRL, ON THE FIFTH SEASON FINALE OF "WITHOUT A TRACE," ON A SPECIAL NIGHT, THURSDAY, MAY 10

Patrick Labyorteaux ("JAG") Guest Stars as the Prosecutor on the Case Against Elena's Ex for the Abduction of their Daughter from Elena's Home

"The Beginning" -- The team searches for a missing 13-year-old girl whose mother fears fell prey to a fierce neighborhood drug dealer, and Jack tries to figure out how to protect Elena from her vindictive ex after her legal case against him falls apart, on the fifth season finale of WITHOUT A TRACE, on a special night, Thursday, May 10 (10:00-11:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

SERIES REGULARS:

Jack Malone: Anthony LaPaglia
Samantha Spade: Poppy Montgomery
Vivian Johnson: Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Danny Taylor: Enrique Murciano
Martin Fitzgerald: Eric Close
Elena Delgado: Roselyn Sanchez

RECURRING CAST:

Lucy: Adriana Demeo
Carlos Aguilar: Jsu Garcia
ND Agent: Martin Kildare

GUEST CAST:

William Broeder: Patrick Labyorteaux
Teri Long: Danielle Bisutti
Jennifer Long: Haley Ramm
Bradley Foster: Adam Rose
Omar Manir: Dayo Ade
Gary Sedgwick: Jeff Yagher
Frank Cole: Evan Parke
Dane Hopkins: Wiley Pickett
Greg Bell: Seth Isler
Ashley Gable: Meera Simhan
Judge Frey: Bill Lee Brown
Manager: Clay Bravo
Angela: Vanessa Britting
Lou: Jonathan Fraser
Henry: Clayton Frey
Woman #2: Casey Williams
Cop: Delon Howell
Kristie Donovan: Heidi Sulzman

WRITTEN BY: David H. Goodman, one of the series' supervising producers, and Jan Nash, one of the series' executive producers

DIRECTED BY: Jeannot Szwarc

RATING: TV-14-LV

[Jennifoofighter]

I'm unlocking the thread since it is airing tonight.

[mstrace]

I did not liked this season finale, it sucked!!!
I am so dissapointed right now.

[spyglass]

First impression: disjointed, too busy/too many things going on. Overall, pretty disappointing.

Also, I was not a fan of Viv's hair. MJB is beautiful, would it kill them to show that once in awhile?

[Jennifoofighter]

Can you tell me how it ended? I'd be ever so grateful.

[mountainsnow]

To be continued.

Blah episode. Well executed, but not much else going for it.

[Jennifoofighter]

Okay, so it is a two parter. What happened? I am so tired and don't want to sit through it if possible.

[spyglass]

Towards the end I kind of stopped paying attention, so I might not get this all right, but from what I understood/saw/vaguely acknowledged:

The last scene was back in the diner by where the 26 year old (Todd?) had been shot. A middle-aged woman who worked at the diner called out to Angela (girl from photographs Martin and Viv found at Todd's house earlier and just identified). The woman gave Angela a card and said someone from the FBI called and wanted to talk about the guy who was shot. Angela pockets the card and walks to her car. As she's unlocking her car door, the cult van thing pulls up beside her. A masked man grabs her and pulls her in the van. End scene.



You may want to wait for someone else to explain it better. My brain is fried.

[Jennifoofighter]

Thanks Spyglass. I will record and watch later then.

Buenas noches!

[spyglass]

No problem! Hopefully that made sense

Buona notte!



For awhile when Jack was stopping back home, was I the only person who had this moment of panic that Sam would be sitting on his front steps? I am so paranoid. Yeeeesh.

[mountainsnow]

Heh. No, I knew it wouldn't be Sam. It was way too spooky a set up for that.

Besides, there was no J/S in tonight's episode. Makes me wonder if ALP and PM got shot down with their J/S request.

In any event, the I thought the episode had some good moments although it isn't my favorite episode this season by far.

[mariepaule]

Mountainsnow, you made my day.

NO J/S!!!!!!! Yeah!

I had convinced myself that Jack and Sam would kiss in the very last scene of the season.

[spyglass]

My brain kept telling me that it was going to be Carlos (and I think we knew that scene between Carlos and Jack was coming IIRC), but I wasn't paying attention and then all of a sudden my grip on reality left me.


There were definitely some good moments. I even had a few moments of actually liking Sam/a scene that Sam was in, which has been unusual for me as of late. Maybe that was influenced by the lack of Sam and Jack in the same scene this week -- an all too rare an occurance as far as I'm concerned.

[ahung]

if it is sam.
it really really discourage me to watch s6

[fallinstars97]

I knew it wouldnt be Sam, but I really did think Carlos was going to shoot Jack or when Carlos walked away Jack was just going to shoot Carlos. Overall I thought it was a pretty good episode...was it just me or did Martin look like he had a late rough night in that first scene? I actually did enjoy one scene with Sam when she was talking to the mother. And what was up with Danny? He never gets in Jacks face, not even when Martin was shot. Loved the line where Danny told Jack that apparently only he could bend the rules and Jack told him that the next time he saw Carlos he could shoot him. That had me laughing. I really hope season 6 is better than 5. At first season 5 started out really good, but it kinda fizzled out after Christmas and everything.