Episode 48
'Til Death Do Us Part (03-14-04)
Brief Synopsis: Jordan reunites
with her high-school boyfriend during a murder probe; Macy investigates a widow
who has lost five husbands in a little more than 10 years.
My, my, was Woody feeling a little
jealous in this episode? He was so adorably jealous though. I have to love his
comments to Jordan. I know some would consider them a bit petty and childish,
but they were so perfect for those two. They were able to pull it off. And it
only reinforced the fact that Woody likes Jordan. And of course Jordan likes
Woody, but Jordan…not to sound like a broken record, cause I’m sure I’ve said
this a thousand times and will probably say it a thousand more times—has
commitment issues. Yet it’s so obvious she wants to go out with him—be with
him. Bringing him breakfast, doing things together…you’d swear they were a
couple. Poor Woody. Someone really needs to give Jordan a talking too. Maybe
if we handcuffed her to him…
Okay so on to the two stories. Both had
to deal with marriage and the catholic belief that divorce is unacceptable.
Garrets story was entertaining. Jordan’s story was a bit more serious.
Garret gets to deal with the body of a
man who fell from the later and broke his neck. The wife is just sitting there
demurely watching her dead husband. Garret wonders how…why she takes it as well
as she is. She replies this is her 5th husband; she’s kind of used
to it now. Now if that doesn’t send up red flags then I don’t know what will.
Garret spends the whole episode trying to prove that the wife, Mrs. Francis
Pritchard, killed her husbands. What baffles him is he can’t figure out why she
would want to kill them. Only one left her with money and she in turn left that
to a cat shelter (or something of the sort). In the end we learn that she
killed them because they weren’t ‘perfect’ or the perfect she was looking for.
She couldn’t divorce them. She didn’t believe in that, yet she could be free of
them once the ‘passed’ on—i.e. died—so she helped them along. The freakish,
scary part of all this is that she honestly believed she was doing them a better
fate than by divorcing them. Even freakier though is the reason she killed
them…leaving the top off the toothpaste?!?! The gal has some major issues.
Though it does give strength to the argument that toothpaste caps should all be
‘snap on’. Sorry, I had to be just a little sarcastic. This whole story was
just a little too weird.
Jordan’s case goes a bit deeper. She
arrives at the scene of the crime and runs into Paul. A boy she dated for two
years in high school, and then he dumped her and went into the priesthood.
Okay, let’s get it out of the way… Everyone say it with me…Ouch. Anyway, Paul
knows something, but he won’t tell Jordan. He has to keep mum because what he
was told was during confession.
The lady, Sandra, who was killed was
having issues with her husband. Being a good catholic and not believing in
divorce (as was the theme with Garret’s case) she sought comfort from someone
other than her husband. This someone we guess was a priest (we’re led to
believe it was Paul, but it turns out to be the elder priest). Touchy topic for
them to take on. I thought they handle it okay, though I’m sure there were a
few Catholics out there that didn’t take to the whole storyline.
Jordan and Max continue to have an
unstable (I think that’s the best word for it) relationship. They love each
other. And they’ve only ever had each other (basically). But the two of them
even when they’re getting along seem to be at odds. It’s an abnormal
relationship.
Note: The whole scene with Woody
shooting the husband bothered me because of his reaction—or lack of—after the
shooting occurred. Yes he was a little more sullen than he typically is, but I
think—especially Woody of all people—would show more emotion over the fact that
they just shot someone.
Okay, so I think that’s about all I have
to say on this episode.
3 1/2 out of 5 Dead Bodies. Good
episode. Intriguing story line with Garret and some entertaining Jordan-Woody
moments.
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