Episode Notes: due South "Manhunt"
I might be watching these out of order, though I'm going from the order on my DVDs. Because aingeal8c said in the comments on "Free Willie" that the next episode is less slashy. And it's *so* hard to imagine this being less slashy than *anything*!! spikedluv mentioned that sometimes they put them on the DVDs in the order they were meant to be aired. Does anyone know why the American DVDs are "out of order"?
There are some moments that are off notes in the episode, at least from my point of view. I am having a bit of trouble with the Magical Realism, as predicted. To be completely shallow for just a sec, I'm also not 100% crazy about Fraser's hair in this ep (it's too short).
There are *tons* of pics of Ray this time, because, well, I fell in love and love will do that to you.
But that's all trez trivial because the episode is *fantastic*! The dialogue is, as always, delicious. Ray brings Fraser *flowers*! Hurt/comfort! Action!Hero!Dief.
Totally fantastic episode!
spikedluv has posted Quotes from Manhunt over at her journal, so you really should go over there and check them out. She gets a lot of *great* moments!
Notes on watching Manhunt (with screencaps, as usual)
--That's a pretty perfunctory search of what's supposed to be an empty truck for someone leaving a maximum security prison. I'd think the guard would do a more thorough job.
--Okay, this guy's ugly as sin. And...I think he played the sociopath in the Riptide episode "The Hardcase".
--Leslie Nielsen!! He was a reasonable dramatic actor when he was a young man. Somehow I suspect they're going to be drawing on his more recent comedy work though here. :)
--So wait the *Mountie* is leaving the country illegally!? Man!! Something is *very* not right here.
--Fraser lecturing the elementary school kids. :) Obviously this is Canada day or some such. Fraser: "Since their formation our two countries have found a peaceful way to coexist. Except for the war of 1812 when your country invaded ours and we sent you packing. But that's hardly worth mentioning." Heee!! Snarky!Fraser but still perfectly polite.
--Kid: "Do you have to unbutton all of your buttons to go to the toilet?" Fraser: "No."
--Okay, who is this chick? *snarl snap* Okay, Frobisher's daughter or something.
--Okay, I love Fraser's *horror* at the idea that he was the man she loved and his *relief* that he wasn't. And then that he doesn't know what to say. So cute! Then she just comes out and says that Fraser's gay hopeless with women.
--I love that she knew she could count on Fraser.
--Why is Vecchio talking to someone who's had her cat stolen? Isn't he in homicide or something? Though I love him sending her over to Huey and Gardino. :) "No, no, ma'am. The pleasure's all mine." :D
--Love Fraser catching the toy basketball with his hat!!
--And I love Fraser going to ask Ray for his help and Ray *immediately* says "I'm your man." (Well, after ascertaining that it had nothing to do with domestic animals).
--Because sassyinkpen wanted pretty pictures of Ray... I really like this one! Because he's talking, and Ray's always talking, and I like the angle of his head. :)
--I love Fraser recognizing the the RCMP watch that the boat captain is wearing!! Yay, Fraser!!
--Ray: "You know, I was thinking of going to Maui, but now that I've seen this place I'm reconsidering."
--This show has the most *awesome* incidental characters. This guy who runs the hotel is *great* with his mangy pigeon (I guess that's a pigeon) and just *automatically* holding his hand up so that Ray can put money in it without even looking! Heee!!
--Hotel Guy: "We live here 24 hours of the day. I sleep here. I eat here. I know every face that comes in here." Ray: "So is he in?" Hotel Guy: "I have no idea."
--Fraser's *so* certain that Frobisher knows they're coming! Awesome!
--Gosh, Fraser's so concerned about Frobisher and so pretty! I love the way he handles people--takes them at face value but then pushes just that little bit, ever so gently, to get them to move out of whatever comfortable lies they're telling themselves or him.
--Ouch! Man, what did Fraser do to Frobiser to deserve this. Frobisher: "Look, I'm Buck Frobisher, you little pissant. I've taken more men down than you've ever met. The day I take help from a boy like you the day I'll put this to my own head." Love the way Fraser takes it though.
--So were Frobisher and Bob Fraser partners? I kind of got the impression that Bob Fraser and Gerrard were partners.
--Oh man, I love the excerpt from Bob Fraser's journal: "Riding like that, completely helpless, slung over Buck's shoulder and staring down his back I came to understand two things. One, at a certain point in life a man's hips spread and there's nothing you can do about it and two there's a very easy way to define friendship. A friend is someone who won't stop until he finds you and brings you home." Heeee!
--I love Fraser's smile as he's reading it too. :)
--Oh, I *love* that it was Ray knocking on Fraser's door!! Ray: "I think I know who's after the old man. It came in over the wires so as usual I decided to drop my life and bring it on over."
--Damn!! I paused for a second for another reason and just caught *this* by accident! Sweet!
--One more, just because I love the lighting on Fraser's face. And he's just *gorgeous*!
--Ray: "God, I hate tourists." :) Heeee!! (And Ray's actually sitting on the stairs in Fraser's slum?? That's brave.)
--Love Fraser in those jeans!! ::stares for a bit::
--I love Fraser's scene with Frobisher here. Sometimes he's gently implacable and sometimes he's just forceful. Fraser: "You're Buck Frobisher. And you know exactly who you are. The only question is how long can you keep running from that."
--So far they really *are* drawing on Neilsen's dramatic acting ability.
--Hee, the hooker leaning agianst the massage therapy sign.
--Okay, I think it's really *very* cute that Fraser will sit on the bed to read, but for sleeping he goes for the bedroll on the floor. (And I wonder if he makes the bed so tight he can bounce a looney off of it every single day, even though only Dief's using it.)
--Apparently Fraser's never gotten the electric hooked up at his apartment, because he keeps using the kerosene lamp.
--The horses galloping down the streets of Chicago are *such* a bizarre little touch. I'm not sure what I think about it.
--Okay, I suppose I'm supposed to be going *nodnod* magical realism *nodnod* and looking all literary and knowing here. And I'm really *not* supposed to read anything into the fact that Fraser won't break discipline for Ray or for a case that Ray's *helping* Fraser on, but he will for Frobisher. Or am I?
--Love the dialogue though. Buck: "Hop on son. We have a villain to catch." Fraser: "You ran away, but you brought your dress uniform with you?" Frobisher: "No, I rented it. If we don't catch him by Tuesday, I have to pay extra."
--*nodnodnod* Magical Realism *nodnod* Yes, yes. I'm trying. *grits teeth* Don't like Buck falling off the horse. I know it's just a joke but...it's just such an off note...
--I love that Frobisher's just as polite and courtly with Elaine as Fraser is. :)
--Other woman: "Now there's a country that knows what to export." Elaine: "Absolutely." Heee!
--God I love Ray!! Ray: "Okay. This is going to take some team work so listen up. Here's how it's going to be. I go to the front door, you stay in the car. I go into the bar, you stay in the car. I'll question the locals of the whereabouts of a Walter Ho, you stay in the car. When I get back, where do I find you guys?" Fraser: "In the car?" Ray: "Exactly." Heee!! So does he really *expect* that Fraser and Frobisher are going to stay in the car?? ::hugs Ray::
--So now why does Fraser expect that *Dief* will wait in the car when he doesn't? :)
--Hey, it's like a revisit of the scene in the Pilot. :) Except Fraser's learned that this isn't an effective approach here and is trying to warn Frobisher away from it. :)
--Frobisher: "We're prepared to overlook the firearms infractions, it being hunting season and all. [knife thunks into wall next to him] No, no, sir, you keep that." ROTFL!!
--Fraser: "You see, it's usually at this point they start shooting, so might I suggest we take cover behind that small wall there?"
--Frobisher: "Very nice people these Americans. You hear these stories but..."
--Ray: "Okay, I'll get the shovel. You handle the interrogation." I *love* Ray!!
--Love love love Fraser realizing that there's something wrong because of the absence of the guy behind the desk!! So *wonderful!! (And so beautiful. I totally want to kiss him.)
--I do love Fraser going after the bad guy--even though this guy kills every cop he comes in contact with.
--Wibble!! He stabbed Fraser!! Oook and ook and ook again!! ::pets Fraser:: Any doctors out there know how bad an injury a deep (all the way to the hilt!) stab right in the meaty part of the thigh would be? At least assuming Geiger missed the femoral artery and Fraser didn't bleed out.
--Yay for ActionHero!Dief, though! (Doesn't screencap well, alas--in most of the frames he's a pale wolf-shaped blur--but I tried.)
--Okay, it's really embarrassing how appealing I find injured Fraser! But just look...
--OMG, Ray running through the hospital to Fraser!! And he's *so* upset!! ::collapses on slashy happy place fainting couch:: Okay, sassyinkpen, I'm totally convinced that Ray adores Fraser! I'll just have to deal with the angst when it comes.
--Ray: "You know I can't believe it. I mean like...it's like Fraser was invincible. I mean..."
--Love Ray hustling the nurse out of the hospital room so he can be alone with Fraser. :) And then staring at his bare leg...and staring...and staring.
--Fraser: "They tried to cut off my boots." Vecchio: "No!" Fraser: "Right up the side. I wouldn't let them." Vecchio: "Well I don't blame you. Lose a leg sure, but a good pair of boots isn't easy to replace." ::swoons!!::
--Okay, so Frobisher's saying that Fraser's leg will heal better if he stays off it for a little while. Which is undoubtedly true. (At least I assume so.) He admits that he didn't stay off it and we know from the rest of the episode that Fraser doesn't either. So do we ever see any repercussions of this injury?? Almost certainly not in canon, I'd assume. What about in fanfic??
--I love Fraser learning from Frobisher that his Dad had used a wallet that he made for him and even wen out of his way to find it after it got lost! All these little hints he gets of his dad are so great, touching and bittersweet.
--Man, this Geiger guy just has a serious hate on for any and all men in vaguely-cop-ish uniforms doesn't he. Police, FBI, RCMP, Border Guards, Hospital Rent-a-cops.
--Love love love Ray bringing Fraser flowers. But not just cut flowers, he's bringing him a potted plant. :) That's so wonderful! And you know Fraser would like a live plant better than cut flowers. I know Ray drops this plant when he realizes that Geiger's around, but can't you just picture the scene when Ray bringing over another little potted mum for Fraser--to brighten up his apartment a little. And Fraser caring for it so diligently. *swoon*
--Oooh!! Fraser getting himself out of bed because he hears the fight between Geiger and Frobisher!! Jesus!! It's not actually all that easy to yank one of those IV's out and it hurts like a *bitch*.
--Love Ray's face when he figures out that something's wrong with the elevator.
--Okay, ActionHero!Ray is damned fine!
--Eeeeeee!! Fraser asking Ray to hold his hospital gown closed in the back and Ray doing it!! ::dies of squee::
--Ray: "We got half the police department after this guy, but is he going to worry about it? No, he's got two limping Mounties on his tail." LOL!
--Love Fraser pushing through the obvious pain. Though, really, it's not a good idea.
--And he just rips the ID bracelet off his wrist!! Wow! That's also not as easy as it looks.
--Okay, so Geiger, who has killed almost everyone he's encountered so far, just pulled the guy out of his car and didn't hurt him. It really is a hate on for the uniforms, or the cops, apparently.
--Ray: "Oh no! You're tasting things again? Oh that is the grossest thing I have ever seen."
--So why has Geiger brought in five men as backup? Apparently, he really is that scared of two limping Mounties. :D
--Love the profile!!
--Fraser: "Oh, one thing. If we should happen to feel he stole something from us..." Frobisher: "Well, you can come too."
--Okay, so why did I not like the horses but I love the canoe?
--Ray: "I'm in a canoe with two wounded Mounties and I'm being humiliated by rats."
--Okay, so Geiger deliberately left the trail of clues for Frobisher and Fraser. Huh. That actually speaks to a certain amount of disrespect. I think they give Geiger much more credit than he's giving them.
--Love Ray forcing the aspirin on Fraser!! Love, love!! God, this show is doing rather nicely on the hurt/comfort. At least within its own idiom. Heeee!!
--Love all this sneaking around and fighting!
--Hey, Ray's got something that looks a lot like a .38 in an ankle holster just like Jim Ellison. :D Eeee!
--Geiger's wicked with a knife but he can't shoot worth a damn, because he *totally* should have had Frobisher there. Like half a dozen times over.
--Oooo, Wounded!Heroic!Fraser's turning my crank like *woah* here!!
--His "Thank God" when he finally drops the gorilla he's basically wrecked himself fighting is so great!! Eee!
--Oooh, torn between helping Ray and helping Frobisher, Fraser goes to help Ray even though Ray's *younger*, *fitter* and not fighting the uber-Cop Killing Bad Guy!! EEee!!
--Ray: "Thanks." Fraser: "No problem."
--That's a damned mean looking knife that Geiger's wielding--kind of serrated and sharp and just *nasty* looking.
--Pretty Fraser!!
--Frobisher: "If you get a chance, shoot him."
--So was Fraser the one that Frobisher's daughter was in love with or not? I kind of like the ambiguity here.
--Cute Ray!!
--Because of this episode I am now *completely* convinced that Ray is absolutely *smitten* with Fraser. Fascinated, infatuated, and entranced.
--I'm not sure that I see that from Fraser, however. From Fraser I see a lot of friendship, deep caring and affection. But I'm not sure I see the same level of enchantment. I want to. For Ray's sake, I hope I do.
--And please, please tell me that someone has written the post-ep hurt/comfort stories. Ray taking care of Fraser in his apartment, Fraser being hard to take care of because he won't stay off his leg. Or Ray taking Fraser to the Vecchio house where Ma Vecchio takes a hand in caring for him and Ray's having to fight Frannie off. Links please, these stories must exist. :) Or, someone, please adopt my poor orphan bunnies and write me these stories!
All screencaps are my own. Feel free to use them however you like.
due South Episode Notes
Pilot
Free Willie
There are some moments that are off notes in the episode, at least from my point of view. I am having a bit of trouble with the Magical Realism, as predicted. To be completely shallow for just a sec, I'm also not 100% crazy about Fraser's hair in this ep (it's too short).
There are *tons* of pics of Ray this time, because, well, I fell in love and love will do that to you.
But that's all trez trivial because the episode is *fantastic*! The dialogue is, as always, delicious. Ray brings Fraser *flowers*! Hurt/comfort! Action!Hero!Dief.
Totally fantastic episode!
spikedluv has posted Quotes from Manhunt over at her journal, so you really should go over there and check them out. She gets a lot of *great* moments!
Notes on watching Manhunt (with screencaps, as usual)
--That's a pretty perfunctory search of what's supposed to be an empty truck for someone leaving a maximum security prison. I'd think the guard would do a more thorough job.
--Okay, this guy's ugly as sin. And...I think he played the sociopath in the Riptide episode "The Hardcase".
--Leslie Nielsen!! He was a reasonable dramatic actor when he was a young man. Somehow I suspect they're going to be drawing on his more recent comedy work though here. :)
--So wait the *Mountie* is leaving the country illegally!? Man!! Something is *very* not right here.
--Fraser lecturing the elementary school kids. :) Obviously this is Canada day or some such. Fraser: "Since their formation our two countries have found a peaceful way to coexist. Except for the war of 1812 when your country invaded ours and we sent you packing. But that's hardly worth mentioning." Heee!! Snarky!Fraser but still perfectly polite.
--Kid: "Do you have to unbutton all of your buttons to go to the toilet?" Fraser: "No."
--Okay, who is this chick? *snarl snap* Okay, Frobisher's daughter or something.
--Okay, I love Fraser's *horror* at the idea that he was the man she loved and his *relief* that he wasn't. And then that he doesn't know what to say. So cute! Then she just comes out and says that Fraser's gay hopeless with women.
--I love that she knew she could count on Fraser.
--Why is Vecchio talking to someone who's had her cat stolen? Isn't he in homicide or something? Though I love him sending her over to Huey and Gardino. :) "No, no, ma'am. The pleasure's all mine." :D
--Love Fraser catching the toy basketball with his hat!!
--And I love Fraser going to ask Ray for his help and Ray *immediately* says "I'm your man." (Well, after ascertaining that it had nothing to do with domestic animals).
--Because sassyinkpen wanted pretty pictures of Ray... I really like this one! Because he's talking, and Ray's always talking, and I like the angle of his head. :)
--I love Fraser recognizing the the RCMP watch that the boat captain is wearing!! Yay, Fraser!!
--Ray: "You know, I was thinking of going to Maui, but now that I've seen this place I'm reconsidering."
--This show has the most *awesome* incidental characters. This guy who runs the hotel is *great* with his mangy pigeon (I guess that's a pigeon) and just *automatically* holding his hand up so that Ray can put money in it without even looking! Heee!!
--Hotel Guy: "We live here 24 hours of the day. I sleep here. I eat here. I know every face that comes in here." Ray: "So is he in?" Hotel Guy: "I have no idea."
--Fraser's *so* certain that Frobisher knows they're coming! Awesome!
--Gosh, Fraser's so concerned about Frobisher and so pretty! I love the way he handles people--takes them at face value but then pushes just that little bit, ever so gently, to get them to move out of whatever comfortable lies they're telling themselves or him.
--Ouch! Man, what did Fraser do to Frobiser to deserve this. Frobisher: "Look, I'm Buck Frobisher, you little pissant. I've taken more men down than you've ever met. The day I take help from a boy like you the day I'll put this to my own head." Love the way Fraser takes it though.
--So were Frobisher and Bob Fraser partners? I kind of got the impression that Bob Fraser and Gerrard were partners.
--Oh man, I love the excerpt from Bob Fraser's journal: "Riding like that, completely helpless, slung over Buck's shoulder and staring down his back I came to understand two things. One, at a certain point in life a man's hips spread and there's nothing you can do about it and two there's a very easy way to define friendship. A friend is someone who won't stop until he finds you and brings you home." Heeee!
--I love Fraser's smile as he's reading it too. :)
--Oh, I *love* that it was Ray knocking on Fraser's door!! Ray: "I think I know who's after the old man. It came in over the wires so as usual I decided to drop my life and bring it on over."
--Damn!! I paused for a second for another reason and just caught *this* by accident! Sweet!
--One more, just because I love the lighting on Fraser's face. And he's just *gorgeous*!
--Ray: "God, I hate tourists." :) Heeee!! (And Ray's actually sitting on the stairs in Fraser's slum?? That's brave.)
--Love Fraser in those jeans!! ::stares for a bit::
--I love Fraser's scene with Frobisher here. Sometimes he's gently implacable and sometimes he's just forceful. Fraser: "You're Buck Frobisher. And you know exactly who you are. The only question is how long can you keep running from that."
--So far they really *are* drawing on Neilsen's dramatic acting ability.
--Hee, the hooker leaning agianst the massage therapy sign.
--Okay, I think it's really *very* cute that Fraser will sit on the bed to read, but for sleeping he goes for the bedroll on the floor. (And I wonder if he makes the bed so tight he can bounce a looney off of it every single day, even though only Dief's using it.)
--Apparently Fraser's never gotten the electric hooked up at his apartment, because he keeps using the kerosene lamp.
--The horses galloping down the streets of Chicago are *such* a bizarre little touch. I'm not sure what I think about it.
--Okay, I suppose I'm supposed to be going *nodnod* magical realism *nodnod* and looking all literary and knowing here. And I'm really *not* supposed to read anything into the fact that Fraser won't break discipline for Ray or for a case that Ray's *helping* Fraser on, but he will for Frobisher. Or am I?
--Love the dialogue though. Buck: "Hop on son. We have a villain to catch." Fraser: "You ran away, but you brought your dress uniform with you?" Frobisher: "No, I rented it. If we don't catch him by Tuesday, I have to pay extra."
--*nodnodnod* Magical Realism *nodnod* Yes, yes. I'm trying. *grits teeth* Don't like Buck falling off the horse. I know it's just a joke but...it's just such an off note...
--I love that Frobisher's just as polite and courtly with Elaine as Fraser is. :)
--Other woman: "Now there's a country that knows what to export." Elaine: "Absolutely." Heee!
--God I love Ray!! Ray: "Okay. This is going to take some team work so listen up. Here's how it's going to be. I go to the front door, you stay in the car. I go into the bar, you stay in the car. I'll question the locals of the whereabouts of a Walter Ho, you stay in the car. When I get back, where do I find you guys?" Fraser: "In the car?" Ray: "Exactly." Heee!! So does he really *expect* that Fraser and Frobisher are going to stay in the car?? ::hugs Ray::
--So now why does Fraser expect that *Dief* will wait in the car when he doesn't? :)
--Hey, it's like a revisit of the scene in the Pilot. :) Except Fraser's learned that this isn't an effective approach here and is trying to warn Frobisher away from it. :)
--Frobisher: "We're prepared to overlook the firearms infractions, it being hunting season and all. [knife thunks into wall next to him] No, no, sir, you keep that." ROTFL!!
--Fraser: "You see, it's usually at this point they start shooting, so might I suggest we take cover behind that small wall there?"
--Frobisher: "Very nice people these Americans. You hear these stories but..."
--Ray: "Okay, I'll get the shovel. You handle the interrogation." I *love* Ray!!
--Love love love Fraser realizing that there's something wrong because of the absence of the guy behind the desk!! So *wonderful!! (And so beautiful. I totally want to kiss him.)
--I do love Fraser going after the bad guy--even though this guy kills every cop he comes in contact with.
--Wibble!! He stabbed Fraser!! Oook and ook and ook again!! ::pets Fraser:: Any doctors out there know how bad an injury a deep (all the way to the hilt!) stab right in the meaty part of the thigh would be? At least assuming Geiger missed the femoral artery and Fraser didn't bleed out.
--Yay for ActionHero!Dief, though! (Doesn't screencap well, alas--in most of the frames he's a pale wolf-shaped blur--but I tried.)
--Okay, it's really embarrassing how appealing I find injured Fraser! But just look...
--OMG, Ray running through the hospital to Fraser!! And he's *so* upset!! ::collapses on slashy happy place fainting couch:: Okay, sassyinkpen, I'm totally convinced that Ray adores Fraser! I'll just have to deal with the angst when it comes.
--Ray: "You know I can't believe it. I mean like...it's like Fraser was invincible. I mean..."
--Love Ray hustling the nurse out of the hospital room so he can be alone with Fraser. :) And then staring at his bare leg...and staring...and staring.
--Fraser: "They tried to cut off my boots." Vecchio: "No!" Fraser: "Right up the side. I wouldn't let them." Vecchio: "Well I don't blame you. Lose a leg sure, but a good pair of boots isn't easy to replace." ::swoons!!::
--Okay, so Frobisher's saying that Fraser's leg will heal better if he stays off it for a little while. Which is undoubtedly true. (At least I assume so.) He admits that he didn't stay off it and we know from the rest of the episode that Fraser doesn't either. So do we ever see any repercussions of this injury?? Almost certainly not in canon, I'd assume. What about in fanfic??
--I love Fraser learning from Frobisher that his Dad had used a wallet that he made for him and even wen out of his way to find it after it got lost! All these little hints he gets of his dad are so great, touching and bittersweet.
--Man, this Geiger guy just has a serious hate on for any and all men in vaguely-cop-ish uniforms doesn't he. Police, FBI, RCMP, Border Guards, Hospital Rent-a-cops.
--Love love love Ray bringing Fraser flowers. But not just cut flowers, he's bringing him a potted plant. :) That's so wonderful! And you know Fraser would like a live plant better than cut flowers. I know Ray drops this plant when he realizes that Geiger's around, but can't you just picture the scene when Ray bringing over another little potted mum for Fraser--to brighten up his apartment a little. And Fraser caring for it so diligently. *swoon*
--Oooh!! Fraser getting himself out of bed because he hears the fight between Geiger and Frobisher!! Jesus!! It's not actually all that easy to yank one of those IV's out and it hurts like a *bitch*.
--Love Ray's face when he figures out that something's wrong with the elevator.
--Okay, ActionHero!Ray is damned fine!
--Eeeeeee!! Fraser asking Ray to hold his hospital gown closed in the back and Ray doing it!! ::dies of squee::
--Ray: "We got half the police department after this guy, but is he going to worry about it? No, he's got two limping Mounties on his tail." LOL!
--Love Fraser pushing through the obvious pain. Though, really, it's not a good idea.
--And he just rips the ID bracelet off his wrist!! Wow! That's also not as easy as it looks.
--Okay, so Geiger, who has killed almost everyone he's encountered so far, just pulled the guy out of his car and didn't hurt him. It really is a hate on for the uniforms, or the cops, apparently.
--Ray: "Oh no! You're tasting things again? Oh that is the grossest thing I have ever seen."
--So why has Geiger brought in five men as backup? Apparently, he really is that scared of two limping Mounties. :D
--Love the profile!!
--Fraser: "Oh, one thing. If we should happen to feel he stole something from us..." Frobisher: "Well, you can come too."
--Okay, so why did I not like the horses but I love the canoe?
--Ray: "I'm in a canoe with two wounded Mounties and I'm being humiliated by rats."
--Okay, so Geiger deliberately left the trail of clues for Frobisher and Fraser. Huh. That actually speaks to a certain amount of disrespect. I think they give Geiger much more credit than he's giving them.
--Love Ray forcing the aspirin on Fraser!! Love, love!! God, this show is doing rather nicely on the hurt/comfort. At least within its own idiom. Heeee!!
--Love all this sneaking around and fighting!
--Hey, Ray's got something that looks a lot like a .38 in an ankle holster just like Jim Ellison. :D Eeee!
--Geiger's wicked with a knife but he can't shoot worth a damn, because he *totally* should have had Frobisher there. Like half a dozen times over.
--Oooo, Wounded!Heroic!Fraser's turning my crank like *woah* here!!
--His "Thank God" when he finally drops the gorilla he's basically wrecked himself fighting is so great!! Eee!
--Oooh, torn between helping Ray and helping Frobisher, Fraser goes to help Ray even though Ray's *younger*, *fitter* and not fighting the uber-Cop Killing Bad Guy!! EEee!!
--Ray: "Thanks." Fraser: "No problem."
--That's a damned mean looking knife that Geiger's wielding--kind of serrated and sharp and just *nasty* looking.
--Pretty Fraser!!
--Frobisher: "If you get a chance, shoot him."
--So was Fraser the one that Frobisher's daughter was in love with or not? I kind of like the ambiguity here.
--Cute Ray!!
--Because of this episode I am now *completely* convinced that Ray is absolutely *smitten* with Fraser. Fascinated, infatuated, and entranced.
--I'm not sure that I see that from Fraser, however. From Fraser I see a lot of friendship, deep caring and affection. But I'm not sure I see the same level of enchantment. I want to. For Ray's sake, I hope I do.
--And please, please tell me that someone has written the post-ep hurt/comfort stories. Ray taking care of Fraser in his apartment, Fraser being hard to take care of because he won't stay off his leg. Or Ray taking Fraser to the Vecchio house where Ma Vecchio takes a hand in caring for him and Ray's having to fight Frannie off. Links please, these stories must exist. :) Or, someone, please adopt my poor orphan bunnies and write me these stories!
All screencaps are my own. Feel free to use them however you like.
due South Episode Notes
Pilot
Free Willie