Episode 19, Season 5
Title: Mysterious Ways

Written by: Lawrence Meyers 
Directed by: Miguel Ferrer
Original Air Date: April 23, 2006


Description:    (full synopsis)

Jordan investigates the mysterious murder of a woman believed to be a miracle worker and living saint. Meanwhile, Bug investigates the death of man who he believes was trying to change his life around. Macy helps Lily re-evaluate her relationship with Brandau and her career.

Guest Stars:

Tovah Feldshuh (Elaine Brandau),  Michelle Nolden (Dr. Amy Bowen),  Ethan Sandler (Jeffrey Brandau)  Christian Clemenson (Father Edward Klausner),  Larry Poindexter (Mr. O'Reilly),  Douglas Smith (VI) (Stephen Reynolds),  J.P. Manoux (Andrew Sorenson),  Michael Welch (Josh Winters)

Random Facts:

- Early Title: Seek the Truth

- The Priest in this episode says he's a Postulator.  A Postulator is in the Roman Catholic Church a church official who presents a plea for canonization or beatification.

How does someone become a Saint? --> The process by which someone becomes a saint is called canonization. According to the Catholic church, the pope does not make someone a saint -- the designation of sainthood only recognizes what God has already done. For centuries, saints were chosen through public opinion. In the 10th century, Pope John XV developed an official canonization process.  There are five steps to the canonization process:

  • A local bishop investigates the candidate's life and writings for evidence of heroic virtue. The information uncovered by the bishop is sent to the Vatican.
  • A panel of theologians and the cardinals of the Congregation for Cause of Saints evaluate the candidate's life.
  • If the panel approves, the pope proclaims that the candidate is venerable, which means that the person is a role model of Catholic virtues.
  • The next step toward sainthood is beatification. Beatification allows a person to be honored by a particular group or region. In order to beatify a candidate, it must be shown that the person is responsible for a posthumous miracle. Martyrs, those who died for their religious cause, can be beatified without evidence of a miracle.
  • In order for the candidate to be considered a saint, there must be proof of a second posthumous miracle. If there is, the person is canonized.
  • Goofs:

    Music:

    Pale Blue Eyes, Joe Henry


    Quotes:

    Lily: ok, how adorable is he? He’s smart, he’s funny, I mean, he’s just perfect, you know.
    Jordan: Yeah, I’d be careful with that, I mean perfect is kind of hard to live up too.
    Lily: Oh, I mean perfect for me

    Peterson: Nobody’s close to her, she’s not like us.
    Woody: She have enemy’s?
    Peterson: No, she was touched by God; she was a living saint…

    Jordan: She had at least one enemy.
    Peterson: No, you don’t understand, she was, she could perform miracles, she could raise the dead.

    Garret: I can buy healing the sick, raising the dead I am a little dubious about.
    Jordan: Well, according to the story, about six months ago a teenage boy was hit by a car. Isabelle Haley was near by; she cradled the kid until the EMT’s showed up and pronounced him dead. Said prays over him, made the sign of the cross on his forehead…
    Garret: Then his eyes popped open and he rose and walked.
    Jordan: Yeah, at least after a couple of weeks in the hospital.

    Bug: So where’s the body?
    Lu: Outside.
    Bug: There are no balcony’s on this building.

    Lu: Luckily he was wearing a safety harness.
    Bug: How’s that lucky? He’s still dead.
    Lu: I meant for us, we won’t have to scrape him off the pavement.

    Bug: As needed for symptoms of vertigo?!
    Lu: Wow, bad career choice.
    Bug: Well, he died with his boots on.

    Lily: Love, well, guess that makes all the difference, doesn’t it?
    Brandau: What was that about?
    Bug: Dunno, but if I were you, I would go find out.

    Lily: How was Pittsburgh?
    Brandau: Well, I wouldn’t want to live there, but…

    Lily: …You weren’t with a slinky brunette, who couldn’t keep her hands off you?
    Brandau: No, it’s not some slinky brunette, it’s my mother, but I’ll tell her that you called her that, it’ll make her day.
    Lily: Why wouldn’t you just tell me she was in town? Why would you lie?
    Brandau: Because then you would want to meet her.
    Lily: And that would be bad because?
    Brandau: Because you’re not Jewish.
    Lily: You’re kidding.
    Brandau: No, why? Are you Jewish? Because you put mayonnaise on your…
    Lily: You’re not allowed to date outside your faith?
    Brandau: What my mother doesn’t know can’t hurt me.
    Lily: Oh my God, I’m dating a 32 year old mommas boy.
    Brandau: No, wait, you do not know this woman, ten seconds with her can make you just sweat guilt.
    Lily: Mmm, maybe I should change my name to Goldberg.
    Brandau: Would you?
    Lily: No.
    Brandau: I was kidding.

    Nigel: Why did Isabelle Haley call the police? What murder did she want to talk about? The answer has to lie there.
    Jordan: Probably.

    Jordan: So, what is it?
    Woody: Why are you being this way?
    Jordan: What way?

    Woody: I don’t know, all professional, like this is the first time that we’re working together.
    Jordan: What are you looking for? Jokes? Ok, this guy comes home and he’s got this chicken under. his arm, sees his wife, she says…
    Woody: I just want things to be the way they were.
    Jordan: The way they were when? At what point in our dysfunctional relationship would you like to revisit.
    Woody: I’m sorry, okay.
    Jordan: An apology usually works best when the other person has some clue what you’re sorry about.
    Woody: Me and Lu, I’m sorry you’re not alright with it.
    Jordan: I’m fine.
    Woody: It’s confusing, Lu says that anyone would have issues with it.
    Jordan: Lu’s wrong… I’ll tell you the rest of the joke at the house.

    Dr. Bowen: …The most charming man that ever lived, every word out of his mouth was a lie.

    Dr. Bowen: …When the breadwinner is a thief, there are some financial ups and downs.

    Nigel: Mumbo jumbo, I believe X, you believe Y, neither one of us has a shred of evidence to back it up, but we are willing to kill each other over it.
    Woody: What’s he yammering on about now?
    Jordan: Science versus mystery and mumbo jumbo.

    Woody: …Hands where I can see them father, move toward me, slowly, slowly, stop. Woah, woah, please, please, please don’t make me shoot a priest.

    Klausner: …I’m a postulator.
    Woody: I’m sorry, I’m Catholic, I have no idea what you are talking about.

    Nigel: It’s all coming together quite nicely now, isn’t it?
    Jordan & Woody: What?
    Nigel: What are the chances that Isabelle Haley actually performed miracles? Less than zero? So alive she’s a problem, but dead and martyred to boot, then she becomes an asset. So, subsuming to the mythology of sainthood, she becomes…
    Woody: Do you ever listen to yourself?

    Woody: Stop, ok, because the padre’s got diplomatic immunity, so lets just say ‘somebody’ killed her…

    Jordan: If you wanted to get a body out of here, which door would you choose?
    Woody: My guess will be the one to the parking lot.

    Lu: Hey, did you find cause of death?
    Bug: Heart attack.
    Lu: Ok, well, file closed.
    Bug: I guess.
    Lu: What?

    Lu: So, this daughter? I guess she would be about 30.
    Bug: Mm um.
    Lu: How good looking is she?... That good looking? Interesting…

    Mr. O’Reilly: God sucks.

    Garret: Am I invisible?

    Amy: We?
    Bug: Well if he won’t sell, I can hold him down while you steel the ball.

     

    Sorenson: I would love to put this ball back in the hands of the kid who caught it, for five grand.
    Bug: What? You mind telling us what you paid for it?
    Sorenson: 150 bucks.
    Bug: That’s quite a profit margin.
    Sorenson: Well, I am a greedy son of a bitch.
    Bug: This ball, is one of the last connections to her childhood. Her father, who died recently, he moved heaven and earth to get Eddie Cannero to sign this for her. Do you know what that meant to a little girl who loved baseball?
    Sorenson: Well, I didn’t think of that… ten grand!

    Elaine: …Am I making you uncomfortable?
    Lily: Not at all.
    Elaine: Good, because Jeffery needs someone who is calm, who doesn’t mind his odd little quirks and twitches. You know, like when he goes to bed his slippers have to lined up exactly even with the leg of the night stand… His father thinks he’s gay.

    Lily: Elaine?
    Elaine: Yes?
    Lily: If you object to my dating Jeffery…
    Elaine: Not at all, I just wouldn’t want it to get serious… Because you’re all wrong for him.
    Lily: Forgive me, but I think that’s Jeffery’s decision not yours.
    Elaine: If he really cared about you dear, he would have said that instead of leaving you twisting in. the wind, all by yourself… cheers.

    Nigel: I found a scientific explanation why Josh Winter died and then lived.
    Garret: On morgue time?
    Nigel: I get breaks.

    Nigel: Yeah, my point exactly, he wasn’t killed. How’s that possible Nigel? I’ll tell you doctor Macy…

    Jordan: Hey, Lu.
    Lu: Hey.
    Jordan: Woody tells me that you think I’m supposed to have some kind of problem with you and him. I want you to know, I don’t, everything’s fine.
    Lu: It’s not healthy to avoid how you feel about things, it’s hard to get past issues unless you face up to them.
    Jordan: … (kisses Woody)… (kisses Lu)… No problems, no issues, all friends.

    Nigel: I didn’t know Josh was behind me, I feel terrible.
    Jordan: For what? Destroying his entire belief system.
    Nigel: Yeah, it makes me seem so…
    Jordan: Presumptuous, officious, cruel?
    Nigel: Don’t hold back

    Woody: I know you love Father Klausner as a suspect because of your crazy theories, but I got an alternative.
    Jordan: Less whined up, more pitch.

    Woody: …Guess where he is?
    Jordan: I’m going to say, Boston?
    Woody: Point Cavanaugh.

    Jordan: I know you don’t want to hear it, but Klausner’s a suspect too.
    Woody: But he didn’t have any motive, unless you believe Nigel’s crack pot riff on the Vatican.

    Sorenson: You son of a bitch.
    Bug: But not a greedy one, all I want is that baseball.

    Jordan: A watched pot never boils.
    Woody: Sometimes it does.

    Lily: I don’t think it’s a touch of burnout, I don’t like my job anymore.
    Garret: Are we talking vacation, leave of absence? What?
    Lily: I’m giving you my notice.
    Garret: How much time off do you need?
    Lily: I’m sorry, I’m quitting, I can’t do this anymore. I’ll give you time to find a replacement.
    Garret: What are your plans?
    Lily: I don’t know, I guess it’s not just the job. I love everybody here, I just, it’s not enough.
    Garret: Is this… Is this about that ADA?
    Lily: I don’t know, maybe.
    Garret: You guys getting serious?
    Lily: It’s complicated.
    Garret: Do you think he’s the one?
    Lily: How do you know?
    Garret: You don’t, it’s too bigger question, there are too many variables, sometimes you miss the boat entirely. How do you feel when you are with him?
    Lily: Great, I mean not lately, most of the time.
    Garret: How do you feel when you are not with him?... Do you love this guy?

    Amy: So, does the ME’s office always go the extra mile like this?
    Bug: No.
    Amy: I leave for the Sudan in three weeks, so I was thinking…
    Bug: Yes, sounds good.
    Amy: You didn’t let me finish.
    Bug: I filled in the blank with what I wanted to hear.

    Bug: How badly did you screw up?
    Brandau: Oh, you have no idea.

    Brandau: …I had it out with my mother, I was oozing fear the whole time, but I did it. I told her it was my life and I told her, I told her I love you, and if she had a problem with that then it’s too damn bad.
    Lily: How did she take it?
    Brandau: I don’t care, you’re the most amazing woman I have ever met, and I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me?... It’s my turn to twist in the wind.
    Lily: …Yes…

    Woody: It looks like Nigel was right, blind faith, not so good.
    Jordan: Nigel’s always right, just ask him. See ya… Monday.
    Woody: Jordan, I’m glad you are ok about ah… you know… I just wish that you and I… I feel like lately we’ve grown apart, and I don’t like it.
    Jordan: I don’t think its so much we’ve grown apart, it’s just… I don’t know how to say this.
    Woody: One word at a time.
    Jordan: I just think we’re a little out of sync right now. Over the last year I’ve grown up a lot.
    Woody: And I haven’t?

     

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