Out of the Past




Out of the Past is our next episode. I like this episode even though there are too many Angie/Jim scenes. But we can't have everything, now can we? Plenty of spoilers and useless ramblings about Jim and Blair follow, of course.

This episode resolves around Angie Ferris, a singer, and her obsessed "fan" Ray Weston. Seems Ray has broken out of the slammer and is heading for Angie. The first scene with our guys is in the bullpen when Simon explains what is going on. Jim looks good as usual and he's wearing jeans for a change. Blair has on a red henley shirt. Red is a good color for Blair. Actually, come to think of it, any color is a good color for Blair.

I like the scene when the guys are talking music and Simon launches into this musical outburst. Blair looks very amused and makes a smart remark about how he enjoys it when the "older" generation digs music. Heavens, sometimes they write Blair's lines like he's a teenager instead of a 26-year-old man. We find out that Jim likes Santana and Aretha Franklin.

On to the very plush digs of Angie. Blair is wearing black leather. God, but I love him in black leather. Jim has on this kind of ratty brown coat that I don't like much. Does nothing for him. I like the scene when they're walking down the hall and the music coming from Angie's apartment is very loud. Blair is groovin' but the noise hurts Jim's ears. Blair is all excited to meet Angie. He's grinning like crazy. Jim is unimpressed.

Angie is not a smart woman. We find this out several times during the course of this episode. The first thing she does is immediately refuse Jim's help. I like that Jim uses his senses a good bit in this episode. When Angie answers the phone, he hears the echo of the music playing in the receiver outside. He goes onto the balcony and zooms in on a vehicle about ten stories down where the cd cover with her pic and the cell phone are sitting on the dashboard. Oh, Blair's hair is kind of short in this episode and I like that it is flying everywhere. He leaves it loose until the last scene actually. I like when those curls are blowing in the wind like they are on the balcony. He is just too cute.

This is where Jim gets the crap kicked out of him, poor baby. He goes downstairs and gets the drop on the notorious Ray, but Ray turns the tables. Jim drops his gun (surprise! BTW, I'm keeping track this time through, we're up to five times so far) and ole Ray drop kicks Jim through a plate glass window. Ray steals Jim's gun, a fact that is never mentioned in spite of this being a big no-no for a cop. Jim has a gun in the rest of the episode, also a 9 mm. He must have a backup. (And we know Jim's backup is a .38. I was smartin' off.) Ray does use the 9 mm later also so we know he still has Jim's gun.

Back to our unconscious hero. Jim wakes up with pieces of glass everywhere and a beat up face and bloody nose. He looks quite disgusted with himself when he realizes the bad guy has gotten away.

I think the scene when Blair is helping the little girl, Pam, with her homework is priceless. He looks so sweet in those glasses telling her stories about being in the Amazon. Jim ends up going off to try and catch the bad guy on a tip. The only good thing about this scene is Jim in Kevlar. While Jim is off saving the world, the stupid BOTW tricks Blair into listening to her music with headphones so she and her kid can take off for a safer destination.

I like the scene when Blair has Jim use his sense of touch to run it over the paper next to the phone so they can figure out where Angie has gone. Personally, I would have just gone home and thought of something else to do together, but since the script is written differently, that will have to wait until later. They drive out to an isolated house in a bad storm. This brings up to one of the funniest scenes. I love this. Jim says he's going up to the house to check things out and tells Blair to stay with the truck. Jim says to Blair, if you see anything, call me. Blair looks a bit confused, on what? he says. Jim looks at him like, duh, Blair, I'm a Sentinel! Jim says, just call me. Blair finally get it, nods and says, oh, right, right. Damn, that is cute.

Let's skip to the part where Jim is sitting with his shirt off in a grey muscle t-shirt. The stupid woman has accidentally shot him thinking he was Ray, so now Jim has a bullet wound on his arm. Let's see, a banged up face, a fat lip, bruised ribs (he was holding his side after the plate glass encounter earlier) and now a bullet hole. Jim is doing very well. But he does manage to look wonderful in that t-shirt.

This is where we find out that not only is Angie stupid, she is a liar. Ray is her ex-lover and she's the one who sent him up the river. He's not an obsessed fan, he's a pissed off murderer. I like when Jim uses his hearing to overhear Angie telling the kid about Ray. Jim is so angry that his jaw muscle twitches. You can always tell when Jim is all tense. He looks so good all irritated. He gives me goosebumps.

Then we are treated to an especially yummie Blair walking through the living room from the bedroom all sleepy-eyed. He heard Jim prowling around and comes to investigate. This is when we have a very important thing happen. Jim says his arm is hurting badly. Blair figures his senses were open and alert when he was shot, causing unusual pain. Then we have the extremely good scene when Blair tells Jim to sit down and relax so he can help Jim control the pain. Jim has absolutely no patience for Blair's deep breathing and calming instructions. This is when Blair says a very "famous" TS line to Jim, "You've got the attention span of a gerbil."

Jim finally acquiesces to Blair's requests. Blair's suggestion is to picture a dial and to adjust the pain. The look on Jim's face as he controls the pain is priceless. He goes from uncomfortable to peaceful. Such a look! I'm sure he has this look after Blair... Oh, wait. Not canon. Anyway, Blair is thrilled when Jim tells him it works. Good Blair.

But the problem is now that Jim is all relaxed, he falls asleep. This is where we're led to believe that Ray calls the kid and instructs the kid to remove the bullets from Jim's gun. Jim never wakes up and a ten-year old girl knows how to unload a 9 mm, including unchambering the round. But the vision of Jim fast asleep makes up for the silly idea. He looks good enough to eat when he's sound asleep. Such a sweetie.

There is a scene with Angie where she says something about she's been taking care of herself for so long that she is used to it and never let's anybody close to her. Jim says, neither do I. I would like to add the words, until Blair, to the end of that statement. Blair is the only person Jim has ever let into his life the way he's let Blair in.

Well, we have the usual confrontation scene. Ray grabs the little girl. Blair hears the commotion and comes out of the bedroom with a candle (all the power is out, BTW). He can't see what's going on. Ray hides behind the door and whacks Blair a good one when Blair walks by. Jim comes and confronts Ray, but soon finds out the pistol he has is empty. Ray threatens to kill the kid. Blair wakes up and grabs Ray's arm, but Ray whacks him again! Poor Blair, twice in one night.

There is another fight between Jim and Ray that Ray is obviously winning. This just isn't Jim's good day. Some roofing material falls over and Jim is toast. The woman makes a scene and distracts Ray long enough for Jim to scrape himself up and give old Ray a shove into an electrical wire, which promptly makes Ray toast instead. Good Jim, finally!!

The final scene shows our Jimmy a perfect (and I mean perfect) mess. Only JE could look so good and so bad at the same time. His head is all scabbed up, his face is black and blue and his lip is still swollen, he has that bullet wound on his arm, and oh yes, his hand is bandaged. But he looks great in that black t-shirt. Blair looks a bit better with only the usual butterfly on his forehead. I like the black and white plaid shirt he is wearing. And there is a very cute exchange between Blair and Simon when Blair asks Simon is it's okay if he uses his first name. Simon says no, so Blair calls him sir. They go off to listen to Angie's latest tape together.

All in all, not a bad episode and the all-important dials are discovered. Very useful to the Sentinel and the Guide in many fanfiction stories.

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