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Silk Stalkings – Powder Burn

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  • Title: Silk Stalkings – Powder Burn
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“Powder Burn” brings back Christopher Mayer as Rita’s (Mitzi Kapture) short-term fling earlier in the season in “Hardcopy.” Back in town, Tyler wants to pick up where the pair left off, but it takes him the entire episode, including asking Chris (Rob Estes) for advice, to win himself a second shot. Given the time devoted to the subplot it seems likely there were plans to use Mayer as a recurring character in fleshing out a long term romance for Rita, but, for whatever reason, this is his final appearance on the show.

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NCIS: Origins – The Edge

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Dedicated to David McCallum, the actor who played Ducky on NCIS For more than 450 episodes, “The Edge” guest-stars Adam Campbell (who also played the younger version of the character on NCIS) as Ducky is sent to NIS to discover if the West Coast branch needs its own full-time medical examiner. Met initially with anger and suspicion, based largely on the baggage characters are already carrying around this season and due to the rumors that Ducky is a spy sent to judge whether or not they should be shut down, the good doctor wins over members of the team one by one. As for Gibbs (Austin Stowell), who Ducky met years earlier and who the doctor credits with helping changing his life, he also leaves an important gift in which another key component aspect of the show’s main character is unlocked.

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Murder in a Small Town – Strangers Among Us

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  • Title: Murder in a Small Town – Strangers Among Us
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Although the mystery of the week is relatively simple in “Strangers Among Us,” surrounding a shooting, there are quite a few pieces at play in the episode including a bullied teenager (Jaden Rain) who winds up with the murder weapon leading to child (Roman Kinsella) in a standoff with the police, an unsolved homicide, relationship drama for Laila (Bethany Brown), the resources of the department being stretched thin, and Cassandra (Kristin Kreuk) uncovering a possible connection that might reveal a larger mystery to be delved into later in the season.

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Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Buried at C

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  • Title: Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Buried at C
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Haunted Harmony Mysteries: Buried at C offers another mystery for music teacher turned amateur sleuth Gethsemane Brown (Tamera Mowry-Housley) to solve. Of course she’s got an unfair advantge with the help of her ghostly pal Eamon (Risteard Cooper), who can witness and overhear things she cannot, and being able to talk directly to the first murder victim in a sea captain (Gerry O’Brien) killed at sea. The mystery also involves the death of the captain’s murderer (a ghost Gethsemane doesn’t communicate with, likely because the case would be solved immediately), a long lost violin, and revenge.

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Watson – Back from the Dead

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  • Title: Watson – Back from the Dead
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Despite the rather huge twist at the end of the series premiere, “Back From the Dead” turns out to be a rather standard episode of Watson with the clinic working on an unusual case that might involve plague buried since before the Ice Age. The difference here is the story is told through flashbacks, by Watson (Morris Chestnut) to Sherlock Holmes (Robert Carlyle).

The return of Holmes isn’t quite what I was hoping for, as it doesn’t appear the character will be incorporated into the show week to week, but at least it’s not what I was dreading as we confirm Holmes did indeed return (and it isn’t a dream or hallucination of his best friend either tied to the issues from the First Season or as a result from the latest case). Holmes is alive and well in the Watson universe, but likely only available for sweeps.

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