The Listener – Recap – Season 1 Episode 6 – Foggy Notion – Air date 7/09/09. In this episode Toby helps Kim Chu, a blind violinist, solve her brother’s murder. (Her brother was murdered, in front of her, along with several other people, in the Chinatown district.)

Kim Chu and her brother are very traditional people. In one scene, we see the shrine that Kim Chu has set up to honor her brother, and to help him on his way into the afterworld. She seems to not want Toby’s help in solving her brother’s murder, and claims to know nothing about it.

However, someone is after her, and he won’t give up. And then we have a big-time player in Chinatown who keeps saying that he knows nothing. However, he seems to eb the person that sent someone after Kim Chu.

In a big scene towards the end of the show we see the bad guy breaking into Kim Chu’s apartment. She keeps saying that she does not know what he wants, but finally gets scared enough to tell him that the paper he wants is in her violin. He walks over, smashes the violin, and takes out the paper.

Just about this time Toby shows up. The bad guy attacks Kim Chu, who stabs him with a kitchen knife. The paper contains a shipping container number – a container that houses illegal immigrants. The container has to be found immediately – the weather has been very hot, and the illegal immigrants have very little chance of survival.

They do find the container, and the immigrants are alive – dehydrated, but alive. And there is enough evidence to indict the big-time player!

Kim Chu takes her brother’s ashes back to their home country, to be placed next to those of their parents. She is not going to return to Canada.

This show is very well written, and addresses topics that are current and meaningful, without becoming pedantic. (Now – can anyone see either Toby or Oz becoming pedantic!) In this particular show I was entranced by Kim Chu’s apartment, and the lovely oriental features. Just the right touch!