Love
And Guns
This is an okay episode from the standpoint that GM does a good job of
being "in love". This is a bad episode because Blair is in love with a
ditz, and Jim and Blair are apart for most of the scenes.
The first scene is great. Blair is driving the Corvair. He and Jim are
going to lunch and when Jim suggests pizza or Mexican. Blair says those
kinds of foods will kill you. Blair had better remember that fact when
Blind Man's Bluff comes along. There is road construction and while
they are stopped, Jim glances back and forth and sees that there is a
crime going down. Guns blaze and Jim pushed Blair down out of harm's
way. They manage to get out of the car and it is promptly filled with
bullet holes.
Jim tells Blair to get his butt off the street and call for back up.
While the gun battle is going on, Blair sneaks around behind the gunmen
and turns the fire hose on them. He is smart and brave, as usual. This
halts the gunfight. When the shooting stops, Blair is kind of running
around all excited. I love the way he's bouncing around on the street.
Then he runs to his car. He is a bit upset when he finds it full of
bullet holes. Good line when he asks Jim if his insurance company will
consider that an act of God.
The next good scene is when Jim sees Blair sitting quietly on the hood
of his car. Jim comes over to console Blair for being frightened. Blair
surprises Jim by telling Jim he is wired and ready for action. Blair
says to him, I know what it's like to be you, without the enhanced
senses, of course. Jim pats Blair's leg and knees and grabs his arm,
telling Blair that he needs to be taken home. Jim calls him Conan and
escorts him out of the mess. This is a very cute scene. Jim just can't
manage to keep his hands off of Blair, can he?
When we see Jim at the station, he is wearing a nice grey t shirt
and blue jeans. He has on his shoulder holster right now. This switches
to his belt holster and then back again. I guess he couldn't decide
just how he wanted to wear his gun in this episode. When Jim and Simon
go to question Carasco, Jim is chewing gum, a habit I find exceedingly
annoying. I like that he's smelling the dirt and scoping out the place
while playing Mr. Cool asking questions of the bad guy.
Then we have the scene when Jim asks Blair to check out the BOTW, Maya.
Good heavens, but we really didn't need her at all. But anyway, she's
here so we'll deal with it. At first Blair doesn't want to go along,
saying Jim needs to use his energy in a better manner. But Jim points
her out to Blair after he protests about questioning some hapless
exchange student. Blair decided she looks good enough to bother with,
so he follows her. The rest is history.
Oh, no, here comes the other BOTW. The good thing with this one is that
she doesn't put the moves on Jim, thank heavens. The bad thing is that
she has an attitude. Very cute scene when Jim is sitting on the floor
with his arm up the candy machine trying to retrieve his "lunch". Our
Jimmy lies and says he doesn't know where Ellison is. Jim! Like Simon
wouldn't get the two of them together anyway.
The scene in Blair's "office" is sweet, as far as it goes. Blair looks
exceedingly yummie in a black long sleeve shirt and black jeans. His
office is a disaster and Maya reluctantly agrees to help him. But by
the next scene, Maya is sitting around looking supposedly desirous and
reading Blair's research. Blair and her have an exchange about Blair's
work and she is impressed, of course.
Our ATF female agent, Drennon, causes Jim's snitch to get killed and
Jim is none too happy with her. He tries to cut her out of the next
part of the assignment but she manages to find out where's going anyway
on her own. Jim saves her life and she repays him by telling Simon
she's filing charges against Jim for interfering with her job.
In the meantime, Jim is lurking at the school when he sees Blair and
Maya kissing. When Blair introduces Maya, Jim doesn't say a word, not
one syllable. He just nods when Maya says hello, and nods when Maya
says it was nice to meet him. Jim is not happy Blair and Maya are
kissing, apparently. Jim warns Blair that Maya's father is a criminal
and that perhaps Maya is involved. Blair jumps to her defense and tells
Jim to back off. Jim admits that he doesn't want Blair hurt, but Blair
is hearing none of it.
The dinner scene in Blair's office is sweet if you like this kind of
thing. At first things are going along really well, but then Maya is
making Blair more and more uncomfortable. He starts asking questions
and fidgets around a lot. After they kiss, Maya admits that she's never
"done it" before. Blair feels trapped because he's playing both sides
here and he bolts. Thank goodness.
The guns are found and Jim appears on tv. This tips Maya off to who Jim
really is and she confronts Blair. Blair admits he was helping Jim but
that everything between then was real. Maya stalks off telling Blair
they can't work out this mess. Blair looks good in this scene with his
hair a bit mussed up.
A very nice scene when Jim calls Blair to check up on him. Jim tells
Blair that they're closing in on Carasco. Blair admits to Jim that he's
in love with Maya. Great look on Jim's face. You can tell Jim is
unhappy about how this whole thing is going down. Jim is a bit upset
either because he feels bad he put Blair in the middle or other
reasons. Ha.
Anyway, time for Blair to do something stupid. He goes to Carasco's
house to try and see Maya. He sneaks around back when the maid refuses
to let him in and overhears Carasco and his goon planning the evening's
drop of guns. Blair tries to get away but the goon is lying in wait and
whacks our poor Blair. Luckily Maya sees this from an upstairs window
and finally uses her pea brain to call Jim and tell him what's going on
about the guns and that Blair is in trouble. Jim tells Maya to hide,
but I give her some credit here because Maya at least goes to the green
house to try and rescue Blair. She manages to untie his feet when the
goon comes in and whacks her a good one.
When the goon tries to kill Maya, Blair makes a valiant attempt to ram
the guy over, but this guy must weigh at least 300 pounds. All Blair
gets for his trouble is another smack in the face. The goon goes after
Maya. Jim and Drennon finally arrive and our hero, Jim, crashes through
the glass, grapples with the bad guy, and they both go flying through
the glass. For a split second, we don't know who is killed when the gun
is fired, but finally poor Jimmy manages to open his eyes. He's a bit
battered but alive.
Oh, let me say something about the touching speech Jim gives Drennon
about her partner who was killed last year, which is the reason she's a
bit testy. Jim gives this nice story about how things will be okay and
that it wasn't her fault just like it wasn't his when his partner was
killed. How it is better to learn and move on. Jim is lying through
his teeth. There is no one with a greater guilt complex than Jim. He
does a good job of telling a tall tale here. After all, Jim is the one
who represses his senses every time there is a problem and blames
everything on himself.
Anyway, the last scene is cute with Jim cooking (again). Nothing like a
man in the kitchen. Maya shows up to give Blair the heave ho. She is
one stupid woman, let me tell you. GM does an excellent job of being a
man with a broken heart. Blair is teary eyed with that huge bruise on
his face. How she could look at that face and leave is beyond me. I
guess she was written that way. Anyway, Jim is grinning like a fool
when Maya leaves. He is so happy she's gone, but he valiantly tries to
cover it up with some silly story about MSG and noodles. He tries to
feed Blair but Blair is too upset right now. Jim just smiles and
leaves. He is a sneaky fellow, our Jim. The last fade is good, Blair
lying on his bed, upset.
There you go. Love and Guns. And if you loved Maya, she's baaccckkk
again later in Second Chance.
The End.
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