Medium – ReCap – Season 5, Episode 6 – Apocalypse … Now? - air date 8/04/09. This episode is about an all too real apocalyptic dream that Allison has – one that is followed upon waking by a very real earthquake!

Allison is called to Chandler to help with an investigation. There are rooms with blood and blood spatter, but no bodies. Presumed killed are a husband and wife, their son and their daughter. On the way home, Allison stops to purchase disaster supplies, and gets into a conversation with the store owner, who believes that everyone needs to be prepared for the worst – including owning a gun!

That night, Allison talks to her husband about getting a gun – which he firmly refuses to consider, largely because of their children. Later she has a dream, where she sees a young girl in a bunker, with a man entering in a biohazard suit. It appears that they are the only two people living – that everyone else has dies. The man – who is the owner of the disaster supply store – tells the young girl that they will “repopulate” the world.

As Allison watches a suspect in the murder of the family being interrogated, she gets an image of a body being buried on a hillside. A body is found – but it is not one of the family members. It is the young girl from her dreams. It turns out that she was a runaway three years before.

The detectives find what turns out to be the bodies of the family that was murdered. They are in a large sink, in an abandoned restaurant, and have had acid poured over them.

Allison has another dream, where she sees the girl that was buried, only she is back in the bunker. The whole place is on fire, but she manages to get out. Once she gets out, she discovers that there is no apocalypse, that no one is dead. She goes into the nearest house, looking for help. The house belongs to the man from the disaster... Read More

Ghost Whisperer - ReCap - Season 4, Episode 14 – Slow Burn – air date 7/31/09. In this episode Melinda deals with the ghost of a domineering mother (Mrs. Marks) who wants to keep an older boy (Tim) away from her high school age daughter. Mrs. Marks appears to Melinda at a school dance that she, Delia and Sam are chaperoning. Melinda and Delia observe a young girl having problems with her date. Before they can intervene, an older boy (Tim Dwight) comes in and takes the girl away.

The ghost (Mrs. Marks) appears to Melinda as she and Sam come home from the dance (cutting short her evening with Sam). The ghost will not say anything other than that Melinda must keep her daughter away from Tim (the boy that rescued her daughter at the dance). Melinda thinks that the ghost must have died in a fire, as every time she appears Melinda see fire or ashes.

Melinda visits the father to talk to him about his daughter and the ghost of his wife. The father denies that there was a fire, or any kind of break in. He insists that his wife’s death was an accident. However, again Melinda is getting visions of a fire in the fireplace, and of the fireplace poker. She thinks that perhaps Mrs. Marks was killed with the poker.

Delia’s son, Ned, goes to talk to Kristy Marks (the girl from the dance). She tells him that she believes her mother and Tim were having an affair. Her mother was a lawyer who specialized in rescuing youth at risk, and Tim was one of the youth that she rescued.

Melinda goes to talk to Tim, who denies any kind of personal relationship with Mrs. Marks. He drives away in anger. Tim’s roommate tells Melinda that Mr. Marks came to the apartment and got into an argument with Tim. He felt that the business trip that Tim had taken with his wife was much more of a personal trip. The roommate says that it was... Read More

The Mentalist – ReCap – Season 1, Episode 9 – Flame Red – air date 7/30/09. In this episode Jane and the CBI team investigate murder by arson. The solving of this crime exposes a much older crime, a given vengeance (and the masks that we wear) a whole new name.

One of the first things that Jane notes when they visit the crime scene – and the widow – is that the Police Chief (Trey Piller) and the victim (Richard Garcia) served in the same National Guard unit. He also talks to the victim’s daughter – and finds out that the daughter and her mother are not on good terms. There is an incident involving a developmentally disabled young man (Tommy Olds) that her mother, where the daughter yells at the mother to stop lying and just call the young man developmentally disabled.

Before leaving the house, Jane and Lisbon meet Ben Machado, a local real estate person. From the daughter, Jane learns that her father used to have his military mementoes housed in a glass case, but that he put them away, and she does not know why. Part of the reason that the daughter, Maddy, is bitter towards her mother is that she suspects that she had an affair.

Rigsby and Van Pelt visit Mitchell Reese, the man that Richard Garcia was supposed to meet on the night that he was killed. They find him working on a car, and note sever burns on both arms, that have healed. Reese also mentions that two men from the same National Guard unit died by fire – the recent victim, Rich Garcia, and a man who died three years ago, Dave Martin.

Just then the CBI team gets a call to another fire – at the home of Police Chief Trey Piller. Rigsby hears screaming, and races into the house to carry Piller out, sustaining burns to one arm himself. It is determined that the two fires have the same MO, and theat the... Read More

The Medium – ReCap – Season 5, Episode 2 – Things To Do In Phoenix When You Are Dead – air date 7/28/09. This weeks episode starts out with Allison dreaming about an encounter gone wrong between a man and a woman, where he unintentionally strangles her. He then tosses her body over an embankment, and throws a large stone down on her when he realizes that she is still alive. This is all observed by a dead man.

Allison goes to the scene of the murder, where she verifies that the victim is the same person that she saw in her dream. She looks into the crowd and see a man – the same man that was observing the killing. She goes over to talk to him, but he does not respond – and then he disappears! Something else is strange – all of the victim’s fingernails have been torn off!

After checking on the Internet, and not being able to find who the dead man at the crime scene was, Allison goes to the hospital and talks a nurse into looking it up for her. As she leaves the hospital, she sees the man sitting on a bench, watching a woman and children play. She tries to talk to him, and he ignores her. Finally he starts talking – he is alive, not dead! He tells Allison to leave him and his family alone.

Allison has another dream, where the person who committed the crime receives a blackmail call at work. He is instructed to open an envelope on his deck, which contains one of the missing fingernails! Allison sees the woman making the call clearly – and see the man from the crime scene – the doctor – in the background. To top it off, the man appears in Allison’s home at night, and is seen by her oldest daughter, Ariel.

She goes to the hospital to talk to him. He admits that he has a fatal illness, and that he found out about it by leaving his body, and then returning. To pay off his school loans, so that his wife is not burdened, he and another doctor... Read More

Ghost Whisperer – ReCap – Season 4, Episode 13 – Body of Water – air date 7/24/09. In this episode a mass grave is found in a local lake – the town is haunted by bodies that refuse to cross over. Melinda is haunted by her own worst fear – Nicole and Sam have been spending a lot of time together – so much so that she takes a week off from work, and asks Melinda if she can stay with her to be near Sam.

Meanwhile, a group of teenagers are camping in the woods, and one of the girls decided to go swimming in the lake. She sense the presence of a spirit, and becomes frightened. Melinda and Eli go to the lake, because they believe that there may be spirits there. They meet a troubled spirit – Ed Hathaway. Hathaway is angry – and tells Melissa and Eli to leave the spirits at the lake alone.

Sam is beginning to remember – but what he remembers is a memory of Jim’s – that he wanted children. Eli, who has been counseling Sam, tells him that perhaps there was someone besides Nicole.

Melinda and Eli go back to the lake – where the body count is rising! The spirits were dumped in the lake, and don’t know why. They are all carrying anger, and they don’t want to burden their families. Melinda is told that there will be a price to pay for what she can do.

Eli goes to Edwin Hathaway’s house, and tells her ab out her father’s ghost. She says that is not possible – and shows him the urn with her father’s remains on her mantle. Melinda goes to the funeral home during the night. Edwin Hathaway is there, and very angry, because he does not want his family to suffer his death all over again. He says that he was unfinished business. Melinda asks him what business is unfunished, and he says it is a who, not a what.

Melinda goes to visit Carl Seccic, the owner of the funeral home. His wife tells Melinda... Read More

The Mentalist – ReCap – Season 1, Episode 8 – The Thin Red Line – aired 7/23/09. Jane and the CBI team are called to investigate the murder of a State’s witness in a drug trial. The victim is found in a motel room, with a second body, that of a young woman (Patrice Madigan), at his side. A very young policeman is the first person on the scene.

A nice sub-plot to this episode is that the local police and the CBI must work together. The local police are working with the premise that the drug dealer that the victim was going to testify against (Rick Carass) did the shooting. One of the two local policemen is a very arrogant, aggressive man who is very easy to dislike! The other one is the father of the young policeman that answered the call.

Jane seems to think that the girl (Patrice) may have actually been the intended victim, as she was only there to deliver some food, and she had left her baby in her car. This pits him directly against Mr. Arrogant Policeman!

Using the address found on a magazine in the female victims car, Jane pays a visit. Her roommate is home, and tells Jane that the Patrice did not work, but that she always had money. She went on to describe a man that came to see the Patrice, and the car that he drove. When asked why she did not offer to take care of the child the night before, she stated that she had been drinking, and the Patrice did not feel that her child would be safe with her. She said that Patrice was a very good mother.

Both teams act on information about the whereabouts of Rick Carass’ hideout. Jane, in the background, places a cement block in front of a gate so that it will not open. Carass runs into the gate hard enough to be knocked back onto the ground. At the end of the interrogation Jane and Teresa come to the conclusion... Read More

Ghost Whisperer - ReCap - Season 4, Episode 10 – Ball & Chain – air date 7/17/09. In this episode Melinda helps a ghost (Tammy) come to terms with her death, and her marriage, so that she can cross over. Sam (the man that Melinda’s husband Jim entered rather than crossing over) discovers that he has an engagement ring in his possession – and has no memory at all of the woman.

Melinda meets a ghost (Tammy) at the Farmer’s Market – a woman who seems perfectly normal, but does not realize that she has died. She has this urge to go home to her family – husband and children. When Melinda goes to the woman’s (former) home, she meets her husband (or the person that she thinks is the ghost’s husband). His story is that his wife was bi-polar, and used to disappear for several days at a time. He reported her missing, and has since remarried.

There is quite an interesting scene where the ghost wife goes to the cleaners to pick up her husband’s shirt. They can’t see or hear her, so she is ignored. In retribution, she sets the mechanism that brings the cloths around on super-fast! Melinda catches her and makes her stop.

Meanwhile, Melinda’s friend searches the area that Tammy last remembers being. He finds her body in a car, with a hose attached to the pipe. It appears that she committed suicide – but what about the rope burns on the ghost’s (Tammy’s) wrists?

Tammy appears in Melinda’s living room – wanting to know a bout herself, and her family. Melinda tells her that often spirits are afraid of remembering their physical life.

It appears that Tammy also has another identity – a husband and children that she supposedly left six years ago. Her husband believes that she had an affair with the electrician and left with him.

Melinda goes to see Roger (Tammy’s second... Read More

The Listener – ReCap – Season 1, Episode 107 – Iris – air date 7/16/09. In this episode Toby comes across a young faith healer by the name of Iris – they are called to the scene of an accident – a baby falling out of a window. As they make their way through the crowd to the baby, Toby and Oz see a young girl walk over to the baby, hold her hands over it, and then walk away. What Toby sees (that Oz doesn’t) is the golden aura emanating from Iris’ hands and surrounding the baby. Taken to the hospital to be checked out, the baby is fine.

Prior to this Toby and Oz were called to the scene of a jumper – a homeless man teetering on the precipice of a tall building. It turns out that Toby and Oz know the man, and that all he wants is a bed and some food for a few days. They get him admitted to the hospital.

Toby goes to talk to Iris, because he feels that she may be someone that has abilities similar to his, and he wants to know her. When he asks her what she does, and how she does it, she tells him that she holds her hands over people and allows God to work through her. She takes no credit – she feels that she is there to be a channel for the energy of Spirit.

Iris’ Uncle come up and hustles her away from Toby. (Her parents are dead, and her Uncle is her guardian.) Toby gets a flash of someone wanting to kill Iris. He goes back and talks to the Uncle, who basically blows him off.

Back at the hospital, the homeless man has been diagnosed with acute liver problems.

Toby does some checking on Iris and her Uncle, and... Read More

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... Read More

The Mentalist – Recap - Season 1, Episode 5 – Redwood. In this episode, Jane and the CBI team investigate the case of two missing women – Kara Palmer and Nicole Gilbert. They were last seen at Nicole’s engagement party, which took place at a tavern named Sullivan’s. Kara’s car has been found abandoned, and the team is at the site, along with the local sheriff, one of his deputies, and a search dog. Given the scent, the dog will not move from the car. Jane asks if anyone has checked under the car. It turns out they have not! Under the car they find Kara, who has been beaten and stabbed to death.

This is not a city scene – the community is a small logging community, and the car is found abandoned on a country road. Nicole is out in the woods somewhere – and they don’t know if she is alive or dead. What Jane does notice in the car is a bloody MP3 player – plugged in – and a purse filled with Earth Pure cosmetics.

Jane goes to speak with Kara’s family. They speak well of Nicole, who has been friends with their daughter since grade school. (Did I mention that Kara is the classic “good girl” and Nicole is the classic “bad girl”?) However, Kara did not approve of Nicole’s fiancé.

Jane then interviews the search team – as he is convinced that Nicole is either dead or being held captive somewhere, and that the person who did it is on the search team. He gets no results.

Nicole is then found in a psychotic state, covered in blood and holding a bloody knife in her hand (which may be the murder weapon). At the hospital, after Nicole has been seen by a physician (who advises them not to shock her by telling her that Kara is dead), Jane blurts out that Kara is dead. Nicole gets very upset, and insists that she still can remember nothing about that night.... Read More

The Listener Recap – Lisa Says – Season 1 Episode 5 - air date 7-2-09. In this episode, Toby and Oz (more Toby than Oz, of course!) try to intervene in the case of Daniel a young street boy that they think may be involved in a series of drugstore burglaries. Daniel is staying with an older street-wise individual that Toby thinks may be influencing him.

To add a little interest, Toby becomes concerned about Lisa, a young runaway that is staying in a youth homeless shelter. He thinks that she may have some to some harm. The woman that runs the shelter finally admits that, against her own house rules, she paid Lisa’s bus fare back home. This sets Toby off on a journey of telephone calls to try and locate Lisa’s parents, and see if she has made it home. He finally locates her mother, and no, she has not made it home!

Meanwhile, Oz is out there trying on caps, jackets, and tennis shoes, in an effort to look “cool”. It seems he has saved the life of a musician (rapper?), and wants to be like him. He even has his own demo CD’s made.

Toby’s contact in the police force is visiting a known drug dealer, who seems not to have been in trouble for over a year. This makes her think that perhaps he is having other people do the stealing for him (i.e. Danny).

Meanwhile, Lisa’s mother hits town. She wants to know where her daughter is. Toby’s police contact tries to keep him from telling the mother that he thinks Lisa may be dead. Toby, his contact and the mother go to visit Danny, just in case he knows something about Lisa that he might not be telling. Hold on to your hat – Danny IS Lisa! Lisa/Danny’s mother is in denial, but Danny insists that he has known from the age of six that he was really male.

Danny takes off from the apartment, and is yanked into a car by the drug dealer and the individual whose apartment he is living... Read More

Mentalist Recap – Red Tide – Season 1, Episode 3 – air date June 30^th, 2009. The main storyline for this show is the CBI investigation of the drowning death of a teenage girl. The program starts out with Jane being Jane – he has Grace hide the keys to the van, and he attempts to find them (which he does, of course!). Then the team gets the call about the drowning victim, and they head out to the beach, with an ongoing discussion going on between Jane, Rigsby and Cho about the finding of the keys.

At the beach, there is a memorial going on with friends of the victim (Christine) holding a memorial, and throwing leis into the water. Jane talks to the group of friends, and then decides to stay on the beach (yes – in his suit!). He ends up borrowing a plastic bucket from a young girl and building a very large scale medieval castle – which, needless to say, attracts a crowd!

Back at the station, the rest of the team is looking into the background of Christine’s friends. They visit an old friend of Christine who is in jail on drug charges – she tells them the story of an older man – that Christine refers to as “Pops” – that Christine is having an affair with. And he likes 50’s music. But that is all she knows.

Detectives Lisbon and Van Pelt visit Christine’s home to talk to her father. It turns out that after her mother’s death several years before, Christine took over responsibility for her younger siblings, as her father turned to alcohol. Her father tells them about her old friend, who is now is jail, and that her new surfer friends are all from a better background, and that they are good for her. He mentions a new friend – Flipper.

Flipper turns out to have a history of violence, so they decide to go visit him. His domicile is a... Read More

Melinda’s husband, Jim, was killed in an automobile accident. She “sees” him enter the body of another victim, who is pronounced dead, and then comes back to life. When the victim, Sam, regains consciousness, he has no memory.

Melinda is being pursued by a ghost of the driver that caused the accident. He is angry, and accusing Melinda and Jim of “stealing” Sam’s life.

Melinda locates Sam’s sister, who comes to his bedside. Sam recognizes the scent of his sister’s shampoo, but not his sister. Sam’s parents arrive, determined to take their son home with them. (The back-story here is that Sam’s parents do not have a good relationship with either of their children, as they have tried to manage their lives for them.)

Instead of going with his parents, Sam goes back to the hospital, and locates Melinda through the Antique shop that Melinda and her best friend Delia run. Melinda goes to the park to talk to Sam, where we see a flashback of Melinda and Jim in the same park.

Melinda offers Sam a place to live in her garage, and work to do. His parents find out about this, and come to visit Melinda, demanding that they let their son go with them. Sam chooses not to go with them, but to take off on his own.

Segue to Delia and her son, Ned. Melinda has been packing Jim’s things, so be given away. Ned asks for Jim’s basketball, as he and Jim used to play together. Delia assures Ned that it was fine that he bonded with Jim as a father, and allows him to keep the basketball.

After Sam leaves, Delia goes to the basketball court, looking for Ned (which is where he is supposed to be every Monday – doing a shooting practice). Ned isn’t there, and has to admit to his mother (over the phone) that Monday’s he used to play basketball with Jim. Delia turns around, and there is Sam, shooting... Read More

Toby and Oz are out at a nightclub – with Oz trying to get Toby to use his powers to see what girls are thinking about him. Oz has a crush on a bartender that Toby realizes finds him boring. He takes the high road and tells Oz that the woman has too much baggage.

Toby then meets a girl named Nina (who is wearing the greatest dress that I have seen lately!), and goes home with her. It gets a little strange, as he is using his camera to film her as she is talking. It is also a very expensive apartment, which should have given him pause! At any rate, her ex-boyfriend shows up, and Toby leaves.

The next day Toby and Oz are called to Nina’s address on an EMT call. Nina is dead. Segue to Toby and Oz walking through a park, and coming upon a young lady in a basic black dress that is having trouble breathing. They realize that she is having an allergic reaction (to peanuts, it turns out), and Oz treats her. He sees her again later at the hospital, where she gives him her number.

Small world – it turns out that Nina worked at the same hospital as a pathologist in the morgue. (This is the same hospital where Toby’s ex girlfriend, the physician, works.) Toby goes back to the club, and gets the last name of Nina’s ex-boyfriend. He calls this in to the police, and they go out to pick him up. Of course he runs, and of course he gets hit by a car. Doesn’t get killed, though. It also turns out that he is not much of a suspect.

Oz’s new friends shows up with oranges and music CD’s as a thank you for saving her (she is new to the area, and very high up in a music company).

Nina’s boss suggests that she may have died not of a deliberate injury, but from a pre-existing condition. Upon autopsy, it is found that this is true. Something to do with her carotid artery.

Toby is meanwhile having a few issues with his female... Read More

All I can say is – the Cartoon Network is nothing like I thought it would be! I just got done watching “Othersiders” for the first time – what a show! Definitely not a cartoon. The premise of this show is that a team of teenagers goes out each week to explore a site known to have paranormal activity. They job to to try and prove (or disprove) that such activity is going on.

This is a very well organized team, each with their own function. KC is the case manager, and has the final decision on which site they will be investigating. Riley is the lead investigator. Zack is the tech manager (and a very good one!). Jackie is in charge of research (so they know what they are walking into, and if it is worth spending time on). Sam is the web master – at the end of each show the results of the investigation are posted on the show’s website.

The aim of the team is to choose the most credible site to investigate each week. This week they investigated the Lincoln Heights Jail – a building that has been abandoned for over fifty years. The first thing that the team does is to create a base camp – a safe place that is central to all reported paranormal activity. Cameras are set up in places where paranormal activity has been reported.

Part of the activity that has been reported is doors opening and closing by themselves. The area of solitary confinement is the first place that they investigate. One of the techniques that they use to check for activity is “call and response” – they ask a simple question, and wait for any type of response from energies in the area.

One of the interesting things that happened was that a chair moved – on its own. It moved one time, and then remained stationary. Another happening was the flash of a person running down the hall that... Read More

What a great show! Famous politician shot three times. Jane talks bystander into handing over valet parking ticket belonging to the victim – a bystander in full Marilyn Monroe getup! Drugs found in the victims car – wife denies that they could be his. Wife is an actress, by the way!

Hmmm It seems that the dead man wanted to withdraw his financial support from a movie that his wife was starring in. The director of the movie is someone who has had his own issues in the past, and needs this movie to do well to resurrect his career. Said director is also quite a control freak – and has his own drug issues. Or … do the drugs actually belong to the director’s manager.

Whatever the case, the manager does give up the name of the drug source. I do not have anything good to say about drug use – but the character of the drug source here was incredibly well played! He seemed like a well balanced business person!

It seems as if both the wife of the dead man and his daughter are working in the film thathe wanted to withdraw his support of. The wife in a starring role, the daughter in a supporting role. While interviewing the wife and daughter, two things happen. Jane remarks that the dead husband does not seem the type of man that the wife would be attracted to – that she is more the “bad boy” type. And … a picture of a “bad boy” type falls out of the daughter’s purse. Hmmmmm …

The drug dealer is busted – and his client is the daughter! It seems that her boyfriend has introduced her to drugs. It also seems that her father was very upset about her drug use. The drugs found in his car actually belonged to his daughter.

Jane feels that the errant boyfriend (who has disappeared) will be showing up at the mother and stepdaughter’s house. A stakeout is instituted,... Read More

I have been so looking forward to seeing the premier of The Listener – it ran last night, and it was great! Originating with our neighbors in Canada, the show focuses on a twenty-something paramedic who has amazing telepathic abilities. Backstory – he was raised in foster homes, and has little memory of his mother.

Many of the situations that Toby (Craig Olejnik, the lead character) find himself in are due to the fact that no one knows about his abilities except his old counselor/conifdant, Dr. Ray Mercer. This lack of knowledge acted as the crux of issues in this particular episode between Toby and his partner (Osman “Oz” Bey, played by Ennis Esmer), and between Toby and an ex-girlfriend doctor that he is interested in (Dr. Olivia Fawcett, played by Mylene Dinh-Robic)who may have secrets of her own.

The show begins with Toby and his partner walking down the street – and coming upon a crime (what appears to be a newsstand owner being beaten by a homeless, mentally unstable man). While his partner tends to the victim, Toby tries to calm down the homeless man. Lookikng into his eyes, Toby sees a young girl locked up somewhere, against her will, pleading for help.

The homeless man gets away, but Toby sees a poster of the girl that he saw in the man’s mind. He looks up the girl’s address, and visits her mother to get more information about her.

In the meantime, his partner is talking to their boss about a “friend” of his that spaces out and says tings that make no sense. The boss calls in a shrink to evaluate him – because he thinks the partner is referring to himself! When he gets the report back, their boss talks to Toby’s partner, claiming that he, the boss, was the cause of the partner’s anxieties (which were really not his – they were Toby’s!). What (I think) was supposed to be humerous was really not.

Back with Toby –... Read More

Tonight’s show starts out with the group receiving a message – that at specific co-ordinates, at a specific time – there would be a death of a very rich, arrogant person. The co-ordinates lead the group into the desert – where there is no death. Oh – wait – a body falls out of the air – the body is dead! Okay, the message was real.

The dead body is that of the head of Human Resources for a super-company that is on a retreat. Rich, arrogant – they intent to continue with their retreat! Was it murder? Well, the parachute was tampered with. Small problem – the chutes are used at random, so the murder was random.

A suspect is arrested. He is a former employee of a company that the super-company bought out. In the buy out, he was denied a $50,000 bonus that had been promised by his company. He fights for it – and gets fired. He also gets released – there is no proof to hold him on.

Then the (arrogant) CEO of the super-company has a bomb placed under his bed. Hmmm – Jane finds the bomb, but it never goes off. The first suspect comes back under suspicion – and heads (literally) for the hills!

Then, during a paint bomb exercise, another company employee is killed. The bullet is a special bullet – it belongs to the ranch foreman, who won it in a contest. However, he didn’t do it. The super-company CEO did it all! He needed to kill t he female employee, because she was going to take a job with anther company, and bring a sexual... Read More