Episode 78
Forget Me Not (05-08-05)

Brief Synopsis: Nigel seeks Jordan's help in finding the person who kidnapped the daughter of his new soul mate; Lily is startled when the corpse of a homeless man suddenly awakens on the autopsy table.  

Nigel:  So today’s episode was 90% Nigel and 10% Jordan-Bug-Woody.  It was so nice to see Nigel happy at the beginning of the episode.  His interaction with Maddie (the little girl—which I’m assuming is short for Madison) was precious.  Nigel’s going to make a great father one day.  So we get to see him happy, but not for long.  He wakes up and his nightmare begins. 

He lets Jordan and Bug in on what is going on with the promise that they don’t tell anyone or go to the police.  Bug doesn’t keep his word (more on that later).  Jordan keeps her word.  It was nice to see her in the supportive role.  Nigel is always there for Jordan, going out on limbs, keeping things from Macy, helping Jordan out of jambs and taking blame for things.  I was proud of Jordan.  She was there for him the entire time and she kept her mouth shut.  And I like when she stuck up for Nigel when the ex-husband was accusing Nigel of taking his daughter.

Sarah played her part well.  She blamed Woody when things didn’t go as planned, making him feel responsible and then she tries to draw him into their plan in the end when he realizes what she’s done.  She dragged Nigel through the mud.  I hope he can get over her and not become too jaded because of the experience.  Nigel’s an all around good guy who didn’t deserve to be used by Sarah.

Clues: I had 90% of the case figured out before we were twenty minutes into the episode.   I had my suspicions about 5 minutes in.

Clue #1 – A very woozy Nigel heads towards the bedroom after being invited to stay the night and drops into the bed and is out cold. (NOT normal behavior for ANY guy)

Clue #2 – Nigel wakes up and the two of them are sleeping on their own side of the bed fully clothed not touching each other in the slightest.  (Again that’s just not normal, unless maybe you’ve been married for 30 something years…)

Clue #3 – Sarah tells us she’s in a custody battle with her very wealthy husband.  Suddenly a motive appeared for ‘who’ would want to take Maddie.

Clue #4 – Jordan finds hair that belongs to Beth.  Nigel makes a comment that it couldn’t be her because she and Sarah are the best of friends.  I already suspected Beth.  Nigel just reminded me that they were great friends.  That was my clue-in that Sarah was involved.

Clue #5 – The kidnapper wants Sarah to make the drop and has her pick up so no one hears the drop off location. The first thought that maybe Beth got jealous and wanted money and hence kidnapped the girl was nixed.  And my new belief that they were both involved was solidified.

Clue #6 – No body found.  When they went to the pick-up spot and found a gruesome scene but no body, I knew she was alive. 

Also the fact that Beth was a nurse provided an explanation for how all the blood was gathered and appeared.

That said…even though I pretty much guessed the outcome I did enjoy this episode.  Nigel was brilliant.  We got to see him happy, grief stricken, guilty, worried, mad…actually more like furious (something that doesn’t happen too often, Nigel’s got such an upbeat temperament), remorseful, and sad. 

Bug: Bug really screwed up.  Yes I can see why he went to the police.  This wasn’t some small problem that could be handled by Nigel alone.  To break a promise and a person’s trust in you is a big deal though.  Bug and Nigel were at a point where they were really getting along and now I think we’ll see some reservation in things Nigel tells Bug and maybe how he acts.  I think the one thing going for Bug is the fact that bringing Woody in on things in the long run did have a positive outcome.  However, not before Nigel had to go through immense worry, then grief at the thought that Maddie was dead because of him.  I’ve never before seen Nigel so upset as he was when he learned Bug had told Woody.

Lily and Garret: Lily’s getting much more forceful these days.  I think she’s taking lessons from Jordan.  Lily’s a refreshing character.  She sees things so differently from the rest of the staff.  A simple love letter has her off and running on a search trying to find the Delores from the love letter.  Garret’s starting to let her railroad him just like Jordan (I swear she’s taking lessons!)  So what IS going on between Garret and Lily.  That seems to be the million dollar question right now.

Garret and Seely definitely still have a male macho thing going.  It suddenly seems Garret’s protectiveness is taking on a whole new aspect.  Personally I think (and hope) Lily is over Garret, but Lily being Lily could turn back to Garret if he started to pursue her.  Does Garret really have feeling still? Or is he just under the belief that Lily can do better than Seely and is hence doing all he can to sabotage Seely’s chances with Lily.  Plus I swear there’s still something there between Garret and Walcott. 

Seely’s well aware of what Garret’s doing and he’s none too happy about it.  I can’t blame him.  As much as I think he’s a chauvinistic pig (to quote what Devan once called him) I like the interaction between him and Lily.  And Lily seems to pull out a few decent traits in him every now and then.  Personally I rather see something happen between Seely and Lily than her and Garret.  I think Seely and her would provide us with endless entertainment.

It would have been nice if Detective Seely had cleared Mr. Miessner’s name.  Granted I know we’re assume he’s innocent, but still, they introduce this reason to hold him further (which was pretty flimsy—if Seely had picked the guy up in the morning and there was a murder wouldn’t there have been other cops around.  And if it happened later in the day don’t you think he still would have heard about the going ons at the station??) so they should have cleared him for us. 

Random Fact: There were actually NO dead bodies portrayed in this episode.  That doesn’t happen often.  In fact I can think of an episode where this has happened before. (I’m not counting the dead bodies you find in the morgue – I’m counting main story line dead bodies.)

4 out of 5 Dead Bodies.  It was wonderful to see Nigel get to play the lead for once.  He did a marvelous job.