Life: Re-Entry
Flashback to Charlie answering the door and getting shot. My notes: “He doesn’t like the person at the door.” That’s what I got from his expression there, but that’s not much to go on.
Reese leaning over Charlie. "We're nowhere." I knew what she meant right away, but I'm always happy to let them bring in the zen funny.
I notice that, at some point in my relationship with certain characters, I switch from mostly using his last name to mostly using his first name. Bartlet to Jed, Starbuck to Kara. It sorta depends on the character. I’m still on “Reese”; Ted was always Ted, and Tidwell will never be “Kevin”. I can’t remember when I started calling him Charlie, but I notice that I do that about half the time now.
Reese waits for Crews in the hallway. He comes out quickly and she tosses him his cell phone, I guess that’s what it is. DAMN, I have missed that walk! Look at him walk. “Are you fit for duty?” I am fit for duty.” Yay! It’s on.
Tidwell’s hair is less greasy, but now it looks weird in a whole nother way. Some kind of way that reminds me of high school. He asks to talk to Charlie alone. “Don’t you usually kiss Reese when you call her in like this?” Ha.
MUUUUUUCK! It’s Muck! Look at that, it’s Muck and Winters! Sorry, I get this excited every time I see any two of them together. Bull and Winters. Buck and Lipton. Bull and Nixon. All the BoB stunt casting makes me happy. Even the crossovers, like Desperate Housewives. “Dude, that’s Buck and Dana and Mrs. Landingham!”
Richard Speight is looking quite nice with, you know, clothes and clean hair and stuff. (I’ve only ever seen him in BoB so it’s a shock.)
He works in Expended Resource Control and Distribution. That’s actually very funny! I like that.
I am just in love with these two this week. Crews and Reese, I mean. As opposed to the other weeks, right? 8-)
Crews: “After I got shot. You thought about me, didn’t you? Come on, you did; you thought about it. What it would be like if I, you know, floated away? How empty your life would be. Reese with no Crews...” I love him.
Then it’s my favorite part, where we mount the camera on the FLOOR and have Charlie WALK TOWARD IT, the way he walks, in those pants of his. The walk is good, the pants fit very well, the fabric is doing what comes naturally. This happens a lot on Life, shots like this. All of which leads me to believe that at least one of the following is true:
a) The director is a woman.
b) The director is a gay man.
c) The director is a man so straight that he’s oblivious to the way he’s shooting Damian Lewis.
d) The wardrobe mistress is a woman or a gay man and in cahoots with the director.
e) It’s my birthday.
f) I’m a little pervy.
You may vote if you like.
Charlie and Reese are staking out Muck’s house. They see suspicious activity.
Reese: “How’s your injury?”
Crews: “100%. Why?”
Reese, with a very hot look on her face: “Wanna kick in a door?”
Something sort of clicked into place in my head during that scene. I’ve been looking at it all along, but I guess I could never quite describe it. I’ve said how much I LOVE their partnership. The way they’re so in sync, when they walk, when they move in on someone, when they interrogate someone. And we’ve talked about how they’re kinda hot together, but we’re not sure we want them together together. I’m just so happy with the partnership; I’m not sure I want anything else from them. But it’s hot. It’s a hot partnership. And I think it’s not just because these two are very sexy individually. It’s that they get off on police work. Specifically, they get off on working together.
I mean, look at that look on her face just then! They’re having fun. At the top of the episode, when she springs him from the hospital. “Are you fit for duty?” “I am fit for duty.” When they interrogate someone, they do it as one person, and they’re having so much fun. And it makes me think of scenes like the one in “Everything…All the Time.” (I remembered an episode name!) where they’re at some outdoor café sitting at a table next to several suspects.
Charlie: “What do you want?”
Reese: “I want that big one in lockup.”
Charlie: “Then that’s what you shall have.”
Reese: “On what charge?”
Charlie: “Assaulting a police officer.”
Charlie gets up and walks toward the suspect.
It’s a rhythm and a synergy and an emotion that they both give off. So I’m saying that being detectives together is like their version of sex. And I’m ok with that most days.
Ok, sorry. Tangent closed.
TED! Still in prison. “Charlie Crews says hang tough, Mr. Earley. It won’t be much longer.” That still makes me happy.
Interrogating Muck is another great example of my point, above. Crews and Reese are so connected when they question someone. Look how happy Charlie is. J
Look how sad Muck is. L And Charlie winds down the pressure the sadder Muck gets. “I’m afraid of heights.” Aw. That was a really good scene.
Charlie’s making a new bullet out of his old one. Wow, I really like where this is going. His comment to the doctor at the beginning was, “Somebody gave it to me.” Now he’s re-forging it and it’s good as new. Usable, even. As the Zen tape plays. Nice.
“When I wish to forgive another, what do I mean? I mean I wish to forgive myself. When I wish to harm another, what do I mean? I mean I wish to harm myself. Close your eyes and think of the world as seen from space. From that distance it is calm, silent, at peace. One.”
I don’t really understand why Reese is so mad at Tidwell. It seems to me like she thinks she’s asking him not to make things personal, but actually she’s asking for special treatment! Yet another thing about their relationship that I don’t get. Are they even together anymore? When she backed away from him, last time, was that it?
The airfield. Skydiving guy. Wouldn’t it be awesome if Winters and Muck could do a jump together? Oh yeah, Muck’s afraid of heights. Hey, I just got the irony of that! I was so moved by his scene I forgot he was Muck. ACTing!
Skydiving Guy is the guy who played Ed’s best friend on Ed. So he’s not here to play nobody, is all I’m saying. In fact, look at that, he’s the suspect.
Charlie bursts in on…Not!Special Agent Bodner! Ouch. Bullet returned. He finds out that Roman is threatening NSA Bodner’s family. And Charlie’s last line makes me all kinds of happy. “Call me when your leg heals. And don’t throw that bullet away!” YES!!!! Another Charlie and Roman showdown! Is there such a thing as a Nemesis ‘Ship? Because they’re mine. I love them together.
Charlie tells Tidwell that Tucker didn’t do it because Tucker saw the face of God. Tidwell knows somebody who saw the Virgin Mary in grilled cheese. “Tucker didn’t mention grilled cheese.”
Tidwell: “Is this about him nearly dying and you nearly dying?”
Charlie: “Nope. I don’t think it is.”
Great delivery on that line.
Tidwell calls Breem, who hangs up on him. And Charlie picks up talking exactly where Tidwell leaves off. Here are Crews and Reese again, walking into Breem’s office, delivering the bad news in rapid-fire syncopation. Busted. I think somebody needs a cigarette and it might be me.
Reese asks Crews about who shot him. Crews asks Reese whether she wants to know about her father. At last, she does. I love this scene. It's very sweet. She’s nervous; she blinks and swallows. He tells her it wasn’t her dad. Look at his face. He’s so happy to ease her mind that way.
Which makes me sad, though, given the spoilery thing I read today. Does anyone want mild spoilers? Anyone who wasn’t on the keytus thread today? The wish list is on my mind, and I think it’s on gatz’ mind too. J
ETA: Listen to this! http://wmgk.com/Audio/tabid/209/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1594/Damian-Lewis-Interview.aspx . Anyway, I hope someone listens, cause not only is it loads of fun and BoB-heavy, but between finding the entry, getting the link, editing, LJ FAILING and then doing it all over again, it's taken me about 20 minutes to get this in here.