Episode 8, Season 4
Title: Fire From the Sky

Written by: Tim Kring and Scott Williams
Directed by: Allan Arkush
Original Air Date: 14 November 2004


Description:

Jordan fills in for Devan at them morgue during the graveyard shift only to arrive and find the entire place full of action as they prepare for the victims of a plane crash. At the crash site Macy, Bug and Nigel scramble to find any remains before they are completely burned up from the airplane fuel fire.  

Guest Stars:

Denise Crosby (Carla Moran), Christine Ebersole (), Zach Grenier (), Eric Pierpoint (), Kristin Bauer (), Patti Yasutake (), Kasha Kropinski (Kimmy Moran), Cayden Boyd (Kyle Moran), June Kyoko Lu (Mrs. Matsui), David Paul Francis (Motel Manager), Cyndi Martino (Loved One), Anne Thomas (Darla Channing)

Random Facts:

- This episode's development title was "Fire & Rain". 

- Devan Maguire (Jennifer Finnigan’s character) dies in this episode. 

- Devan is speaking in French in the beginning.  She says:

Arrête de m'appeler. Non, je veux pas parler, je m'en vais. Laisse moi en paix. (Translation: Stop calling me.  No I don’t want to talk.  I’m leaving.  Leave me alone.)

- It has been debated whether Devan really died in this episode.  The Answer: Yes, she's dead.  Allan was kind enough to explain the thought process and reasoning behind her death and the reason she's speaking French in the beginning of the episode.

"This line of dialogue was put there in French to let you know that Devan had a non-American boyfriend. It was going to be a clue to a follow-up episode where in we find out that the boyfriend is an international arms dealer. They had just broken up & he had lied to her about his past. Which explains her anger she wanted to be done with him once & for all. We toyed with this plot as a way of making Devan go off into witness protection after she gives info on the boyfriend, We would find out afterwards that Devan never got on the flight, she went off with the CIA, by happenstance the plane crashes & the FBI agent in the episode plants her phone in the rubble. We even went so far as to shoot that scene of the phone, to be used as a flashback.

Well...it was ultimately decided that Devan was better off dead (to us) So this story idea morphed into the episode A Stranger Among Us. Just substitute Devan for the woman who goes to our people for help & make it about arms not drugs. We thought her reappearance in Jordan's office at night would be a big wow, BUT... to what end, Jennifer was busy with her series & the writers could never lick the story. "Stranger " is not a very good episode full of plot holes, this sometimes happens when you are doing about 40 or 50 stories a season, (usually 2 per episode sometimes 3)."

Poem: A PARABLE OF IMMORTALITY by Henry Van Dyke

Goofs:

Music:

Not Alone, Patty Griffin
After The Gold Rush, k.d. lang

Quotes:

Bug: How weird is this. Coming to a crash site before the crash.

Sidney: You know she always called me new guy. Just to mess with me cause she always thought she was so funny.

(Jordan opening desk)
Sydney: Isn’t that Devan’s desk? Should you be doing that?
Jordan: Report me.

Garret: Woody’s out there searching for the kid.
Jordan: Yeah I know he sounds possessed.

Devan’s mother: That sounds just like her. Always sticking her nose where it didn’t belong.

Kyle: Why are you crying?
Woody: I lost someone on the plane too.
Kyle: And they died?
Woody nods head.

(Devan calling Jordan from DC)
Devan: I need a favor.
Jordan: Are you bleeding?
Devan: What?
Jordan: Maimed in some way?
Devan: No.
Jordan: Then forget it, I’m asleep

Bug: Plane crash.
Jordan: What? Where?
Bug: We don’t know…hasn’t happened yet.
Jordan: What’s that suppose to mean?

NTSB Guy: Their dead Macy, they can wait. You’ll be lucky to find some teeth.
Garret: Teeth will do. I’ve made ID’s on less.

(Woody walks into the morgue in the middle of the night)
Woody: Hey, what are you guys doin’ here?
Jordan: Boy, I could ask the same to you.
Woody: Uh, Devan likes the Mushu from Yang Chows
Jordan: Oh does she now.

(Jordan’s trying to pick the lock on Devan’s desk)
Sydney: Isn’t that Devan’s desk? Should you be doin’ that?
Jordan: Report me!

(Bug walking into the temporary morgue at the site of the crash)
Bug: What happened to you getting 10 minutes of shuteye?
Nigel: Ah, you know…idle minds…
Jordan (over the speaker): …are a terrible thing to waste.

Bug (talking to the camera): No keeping you away is there…Madam Oz.

(At the site of the crash)
Garret (reading a poem): As I stand on a mountain top as the great bird approaches, she is small on my sight but grows larger on approach until I am blessed with the full sight of her graceful wings, proud countenance, and good company. All too quickly she grows small again on the horizon and disappears from view, and I call out…”there, she’s gone.” But there are other mountain tops beyond me. And at the precise moment when I note the great bird’s departure from my view, I know there are new eyes taking up the sight of her, and fresh voices calling out…”here she comes.”
 

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