Disappearing Act

Another Sentinel episode looms on the horizon. Plenty of spoilers and mindless rambles about how wonder Jim and Blair look.

Sometimes an episode has a convoluted plot and it takes a while to get to the end. This episode is one of those, with lots of scene changes and twists. It gets tiring sometimes, but here goes.

The first scene is at a flower shop. A women is helping a customer and a man is lurking outside the window. Jim and Blair pull up (of course!) and walk down the street. Jim has on the most non-nondescript clothing in this episode. (sigh) The damned ugly brown pants, a plain brownish-looking coat and a not-so-attractive brown plaid shirt over a black henley.

Blair is wearing his red and green plaid over-shirt, a denim shirt over a black t-shirt, and brown plants.

Blair is explaining that he owes the Evil!Sam a birthday gift and he's almost at the end of his “48 hour window”. Jim is confused so Blair explains that when you miss an important date, i.e., birthday, anniversary, etc. the giver has 48 hours to make up the mistake, but the gift can't be flowers, as Jim suggests, but something to make up for the transgression -- something expensive. Can Blair afford something expensive? I sure hope Jim doesn't lend him money for a gift for that woman.

Jim is looking across the street at the flower shop. He takes off at a run, doing this little “dance” in the middle of the street when he almost gets hit. Blair follows, quipping about how he doesn't wants flowers, but he soon realizes that something's up. They race down an alley but a car almost runs them down. Jim pushes Blair out of the way, thereby accidentally (yeah, right) landing right on his little guppy. When they stand, Jim zooms in on the license place.

Back at the bullpen we discover that Jim's seen a dead man, Gordon Abbott. Apparently Abbott was stupid enough to get involved with a crime family as a low-level accountant thinking the job was legit. When it was discovered that it wasn't, the law closed in. Abbott was nabbed and agreed to testify. The feds took over and things got ugly. Abbott's wife, Eliseand kid were killed in a car bomb, and Abbott was killed in prison right after he testified. Jim blames himself for the big mess. Now he's shocked to have seen Abbott.

The bad guy is the local federal prosecutor, Dan Singleton. In a long, involved mess, he helps the mob family, Prosky, because he wants to be governor. Suffice it to say he's not a nice man.

Jim and Blair to go see Singleton, who is none too contrite about Abbott and the family being knocked off. Singleton is not too happy to find out Abbott may still be alive either. He thinks if all the mess comes out, his chances at governor will disappear.

The gist is Jim feels guilty because he promised to protect Abbott, but didn't tell Abbott that the feds would more than likely take over and it would be out of his hands. Blair sympathizes of course.

We find out that the mob family runs a junk yard and Singleton calls Prosky to help him find Abbott and get rid of him. Jim and Blair track the license plate from Abbott's car and find am empty hotel room with a video tape in the machine. It's stopped at a frame of a hockey game.

This is where the Evil!Sam comes in. The boys are at the bullpen and they need a better picture. Oh, Jim is wearing a non-nondescript dark shirt and pants. Blair has on a paid shirt over a gray t-shirt and jeans. Jim takes the tape into the lab where Sam is working. Blair, meanwhile, doesn't have the required gift and hides behind the candy machine. Sam fixes the pic for Jim and follows him out, knowing that Blair is hiding and telling him that the window is now closed for gift-giving. Why Blair likes this woman is beyond me.

Anyway, surprise! The picture shows a lady and a kid, Abbott's family, and they aren't dead after all. Abbott thought they were dead and now he wants his family back. There's a murder of one of Abbott's friends by the Prosky bunch and they track the wife and kid. At the crime scene, Jim smells something sweet and perfumy. He finds a flower petal, which leads us back to Sam's lab.

Jim is wearing a brown cable knit sweater over a gray turtleneck and dark pants. Blair is wearing a brown coat and an ugly sweater with a white band around the chest. He brings the gift to Sam while she examines the flower petal. She refuses the gift, saying it was given out of guilt, so Blair takes it away with him.

Finally, Jim tracks down Elize, Abbott's wife. He's wearing a brown bomber-type coat, brown sweater and brown pants. Give the man some color!!! Geez. She pretends she still thinks her husband is dead, but we know better. She also denies that she was in on Singleton's plan to tell her husband the kid and her were dead. Confusing, I know. <sigh>

Anyway, the mother refuses Jim's help. She goes to pick up her kid and he's snatched before her eyes. Luckily, Jim and Blair were following. They chase the bad guys who finally dump the kid. I love that during the car chase, while going around a hard corner, Jim throws his arms across Blair's chest even though Blair has on his seat belt. Jim is very protective of his guide.

They find the kid and return him to his mother. Elisefinally agreed to police protection. She sets up a meet with her husband, but before they can get to him, the bad guys hear about it through a bug in the house. There's a cute scene in the house with Blair. He offers to play games with the kid to keep him occupied while Jim talks to Elize. Elisementions how Blair is good with kids, and Jim responds Blair's not that far removed from being a kid. Very cute.

The Evil!Sam makes an appearance, debugging the house. Blair is nice enough to offer to carry her stuff to the car. She accepts, then shuts the door in his face. Blair is a smart aleck when he says it looks like they'll just be friends. Run, Blair, run!!

There's also a scene in the bullpen where Abbott is offered police protection. Singleton shows up and threatens to kill the wife, whom he's now snatched. Abbott refuses police protection and takes off. Jim is wearing a long-sleeved blue shirt over a black t-shirt and brown pants (sigh) in this scene.

To make a long story short, Jim and Blair are following Abbott. When Abbott meets with Singleton, Jim arrests him for all sorts of things and handcuffs him to a dumpster. Very appropriate. They know that the bad guys have Elise(the kid was taken to a safe house earlier) at Prosky's junk yard. The three of them hightail it there. Abbott goes in to get his wife while Jim and Blair watch and wait for backup. When backup doesn't come quick enough, the boys launch into action.

Jim is in a firefight with two or three bad guys. One of them goes to the crane that moves wrecks and tried to smash Jim with a car. Blair sneaks over, climbed the crane, and with a two foot wrench, dispatches the bad guy with a whack on the head. Jim looks at him like, what the hell was that? Blair just raises his hands and shrugs. Good Blair.

Jim finally nails the other bad guys, but Prosky tried to escape. Our hero, Blair, operates the crane very nicely. He snags Prosky's car in the crane's claws and dangles it over the junk yard. When Simon arrives, I think he's impressed at Blair's abilities. Go, Blair!

The tag is okay. Gordon Abbott forgives Jim for what happened. Jim is wearing a nicely tight gray t-shirt. It's about time!!! Blair has on a long-sleeves blue shirt with black diamonds down the side, over a white t-shirt. A bit of his chest hair peeks out and he's wearing his necklace. He is so beautiful! <thud> The Evil!Sam shows up, they kiss (ick), and she now wants her gift. Blair lies, er, obfuscates, telling Sam he'll grab it and meet her in her office.

Panicking, Blair tries to buy the gift back from Henri, but H says he's in the final two hours of his 48 hour window. Blair races from the bullpen to buy another gift. Simon looks puzzled, but when Jim tells Simon that Blair inhabits a strange world, Simon agrees he doesn't want to go there. Very cute.

Okay. There is it. Disappearing Act. An all right episode. The boys are together and Jim uses his senses a bit.

The End.

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