Mystery

The Mentalist – Grey Water

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The Mentalist - Grey Water

As Jane (Simon Baker) and Fischer (Emily Swallow) investigate a murder at a fracking site, Van Pelt (Amanda Righetti) and Rigsby (Owain Yeoman) become official consultants of the FBI following the murders of Oscar Ardiles (David Norona) and LaRoche (Pruitt Taylor Vince) and an attempt on Rigsby’s life in their home. On Jane’s recommendation the group narrows their suspect list to a select few including Richard Haibach (William Mapother), Linus Wagner (Zeljko Ivanek), and John Hutton (Paul Schulze).

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Hawaii Five-0 – Ma lalo o ka ‘ili

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Hawaii Five-0 - Ma lalo o ka 'ili

What appears to be a simple murder-kidnapping becomes far more interesting as Five-0 discovers the young man (Booboo Stewart) with a criminal record who committed the crimes is actually the young woman’s (Moanie Hara) boyfriend who she is with of her own free will. Discovering a history of abuse between the woman and her father, Five-0 begins to piece together what really went down on the night her father was killed, but they have to scrap all their theories when Kono‘s (Grace Park) digging into the proof of the young woman’s abuse proves that it was all recently fabricated.

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Elementary – The Hound of the Cancer Cells

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Elementary - The Hound of the Cancer Cells

Once you get past the horrific title, “The Hound of the Cancer Cells” (really?) is another solid mystery that also completes an ongoing storyline as Marcus Bell (Jon Michael Hill) makes it all the back to full-time detective from the shooting which sidelined him for months. While taking a look at the apparent suicide of a medical researcher on the cusp of breakthrough cancer research, Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) discovers some discrepancies that lead him to believe the man was murdered. At first Holmes and Watson (Lucy Liu) focus on the company’s competitors and an anonymous online zealot who debunked the man’s work as fraud. However, the truth is far more complicated.

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Psych – A Touch of Sweevil

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Psych - A Touch of Sweevil

After being denied entry to paranormal consultant convention for years, Shawn (James Roday) is ecstatic to finally have made the cut, but when the host drops dead midway through introductions Lassiter‘s (Timothy Omundson) seizes the opportunity to use Shawn and Gus (Dulé Hill), along with a witch (Yvette Nicole Brown) and ghost whisperer (Tom Arnold) to try and drive his new head detective out of the SBPD.

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2004 – Spartan

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“Where’s the girl?”

Spartan

Ten years ago today David Mamet‘s thriller Spartan opened in theaters starring Val Kilmer (in one of his best roles) and a relatively unknown actress (Kristen Bell) only months away from her career breakthrough as a spunky teen detective. Although my favorite Mamet scripts are his satires (State and Main, Wag the Dog), Spartan is an underrated gem that received neither the box office nor critical success it deserved.

Kilmer stars as a member of Delta Force tasked with finding the President’s daughter (Bell) before anyone realizes the young woman is missing. As with other Mamet thrillers, the plot offers twists and turns in a slowly unraveling mystery involving white slavery, kidnapping, family secrets, and questionable orders that costs several good people their lives and careers.

As you would expect from a Mamet film, the supporting cast is top-notch including Derek Luke as Kilmer’s junior partner, Clark Gregg, William H. Macy, Tia Texada, and Ed O’Neill.

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