Liveblogging The Whole Truth (MED-045)
Episode Name: The Whole Truth
Episode Number: 045 (3.07)
MED-045 Summary | All Episodes
The Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil. Love that song!
A man walks down a hall in the middle of the night and gets smothered with a sheet of plastic wrap as he walks through a door. Um, euw.
Allison wakes up choking, to find Joe coming out of the bathroom with a bad cold. She soothes his fevered brow and they both fall asleep. Awwww.
Back in the dream, the now-dead guy is dragged down a hall and hung with his PJ’s down at his ankles while a porn movie plays on his nearby laptop.
While showering in the morning, Allison hears someone yelling for help. But Joe doesn’t hear it. Hm.
Devalos takes Allison to the home of an Assemblyman Henry Reickhoff who has died in his sleep, or so his wife says.
Okay, the wife, the assistant and the lawyer are all there. How odd. Which one do you suppose did it? Or did they all do it together? What? You say it was suicide? Riiight.
The cops tells Devalos something is fishy. As he and Allison go upstairs to view the body, the lights go out (for Allison, anyway) and Allison sees the part of her dream where the dead guy was being dragged down the hall. When the lights come back up (for her), she sees the same carpeted hallway. Aha!
The wife says she found him and called the Assemblyman’s assistant, Casey, who describes the exact scene Allison saw in her dream, except for the part where he was murdered. He explains the porn, the asphyxiation, and the PJ’s around the ankles as a kinky sex act he inflicted on himself accidentally. The wife doesn’t want people to know he died that way after thirty-some years of public service. Oh, the publicity. Devalos says he will see what he can do.
Allison keeps waking up at night, hearing a boy’s voice yelling for help. Then she dreams of being at the bottom of a deep hole. She hears a train go by, very close, and sees a boy trying to climb up out of the hole. She tells Scanlon about her dream but he says he cannot mount a search until he has someone to search for, and there are no missing boys that match the description and approximate age.
Sidebar: Ariel has asked what “clubbing” is and when she will be old enough to do it. Gack!
This time in Allison’s dream, the cave glowed green. Ooh! A clue! Joe is up in the middle of the night, too, due to his miserable cold. She mentions all the glowing and he tells her about living caves. The railroad tracks narrow the search and she finds him! He tells her his name is Jimmy Nessler.
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But wait, the rescue crew find not a boy, but bones! Skeleton remains next to a rusted bicycle. Allison discovers it costs $1,700 for a rescue helicopter and four guys to land in the Arizona desert.
Back at the ranch, er office, it turns out the Assemblyman was taking a drug normally taken by registered sex offenders. The wife says he had “appetites.” Something happened, she knows not what, in the early nineties that caused him to cease his wandering ways and go into some sort of rehab. She assumed he got someone pregnant. Whatever it was, it bothered him a lot and bonded them together as a couple more than any real intimacy ever had.
Allison dreams of Jimmy Nessler, this time with the Assemblyman and Casey back in 1991! Jimmy wakes up naked. Euw. What did they do to that poor boy while he was unconscious. He gets his clothes together and leaves in a rush. The Assemblyman sends Casey after him, to “make sure he is all right.”
Gosh, Casey is barely older than Jimmy.
Allison tells Devalos about the connection between the Assemblyman and Jimmy and she gets to meet with Casey to find out if the Assemblyman actually knew Jimmy. Casey says he is sure the Assemblyman knew of him since the disappearance was big news and goes on and on with glowing praise for his former boss.
Yep. He. too, was sexually molested by the dear ole Assemblyman. That’s for sure.
Allison dreams of Jimmy on his bike out near the train…and the hole…after leaving the Assemblyman’s house. Casey follows him and, when Jimmy calls him a pervert and says he is going to tell his mom, the assistant throws his bike in the hole. Jimmy climbs in to get his bike but realizes it is way too deep and it was a dumb idea. He asks Casey for help, who does reach to help him but waits a bit too long trying to get Jimmy to say he won’t tell his mom what happened. Jimmy slips and falls to the bottom of the well. Casey looks genuinely horrified. Next he shows up at the Assemblyman’s house with Jimmy’s backpack saying Jimmy is dead and it was a horrible accident.
Only didn’t Allison hear Jimmy calling for help? Wasn’t he alive for quite some time down there? In one of her dreams, didn’t Jimmy hear someone out there at night, someone who knew he was down there? I think Casey went back to visit, to check to see if he was still alive. Pond scum.
Devalos and Allison meet with Casey and tell him they found his St. Christopher medal in the hole with Jimmy. He had the means, method, and motive to murder the Assemblyman, the latter being his seat in the Assembly. Casey says they can’t prove a thing about Jimmy or the Assemblyman and besides, why would he kill the Assemblyman when he was going to give him his seat next year anyway? Then he goes on to show what a slimeball he is by threatening to remember this day when he is up at the Capital and Devalos’ budget comes up for review.
Casey walks out and Devalos tells Allison he is right: they can’t prove a thing. Allison is frustrated they know who killed the Assemblyman (and Jimmy!) but cannot prove it. Argh!
That night, Allison dreams of the Assemblyman telling Casey he has decided he can’t give up politics just yet after all so he will be running for office again next year. Casey says he does not want to wait another four years to take over the Assemblyman’s seat. Casey says he knows things. The Assemblyman says those things involve Casey, too. Oh, and one more thing: the Assemblyman still has Jimmy’s book bag in his safe with Casey’s fingerprints all over it. Not enough to prove he killed Jimmy, perhaps, but certainly enough to torpedo his political career. He tells him to wait one more term saying, “Maybe I’ll die in office.”
Allison wakes up in the middle of the night and calls Devalos: “There is a safe you and I need to crack right now.”
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5 opinions for Liveblogging The Whole Truth (MED-045)
Holly
Jan 18, 2007 at 5:37 pm
This episode had both good and bad qualities in my opinion. A positive point that needs to be made about this episode–they finally re-touched upon Devalos’ health problems. In the first episode of the season we learned that our favorite D.A. had diabetes. Here, we see him all sweaty from a morning jog. He says that he’s afraid that if he doesn’t get in shape he thinks he will die ten years before he should. Besides that, a few nice lines, and The Rolling Stones’ Sympathy for the Devil, this show had no positives.
First off, did anyone but me miss three significant characters from this installment–namely Ariel, Bridgette, and Marie!!! Even though their names are in the opening credits, they never make an appearance. I look forward to seeing them, and when I didn’t, it made me mad. And, that of course meant there was no “B” story!!!
Then there was the crime. I must say, I had this one figured out pretty quickly–faster than usual for this show. I wish they could have maybe put in another plot twist, maybe that would have helped. After hearing the boy scream for help and just having them find the skeleton, that bothered me.
Another point that must be made with Allison find the skeleton in the “living caves.” Did anybody else feel like the whole scene with her looking for him and little strange for the show? They used some kind of yellow filer and just made the whole bit seem fake. This show is so good with the realism, why mess with a good thing and actually make me notice I am watching a television show?
Errg. This episode annoys me. What were the writers thinking? How could they think that leaving out the essential family story and giving us a substandard crime was alright? And don’t even start me with the ending… I would have given this episode a lower score, but since this show is usually awesome, I think I’ll give them a break.
Sheila
Jan 18, 2007 at 8:48 pm
Yeah, about the kids…remember the part where Allison came outside and told Joe all the kids were asleep except Ariel, who wanted to know what “clubbing” was and when she would be old enough to do it? It felt like the writers went, “Crap, we forgot the kids! Let’s have Allison mention them and maybe no one will notice.”
Next obvious maneuver: “How can we get Joe more involved? I know, let’s have him provide the big clue about the cave. But Allison always has her big revelations in the middle of the night. I know, let’s give Joe a cold so he will be awake in the middle of the night, too.”
As for the yellow light, I wonder if it was because it was on location out in the real world when just about everything else is shot in a studio.
The episode was written by Diane Ademu-John.
Holly
Jan 19, 2007 at 6:56 pm
I thought that the yellow light might have been because they shot it on location, but it all just seemed so fake to me. It just seems like they tried to get the family in with a few lines last minute, but it didn’t work. Lets just hope that this Diane Ademu-John dosn’t do another episode.
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Betty
May 27, 2008 at 11:07 am
One of my LEAST favorite episodes of the whole series. When I saw it was being shown, I decided not to watch. I was surprised that while Lifetime had been showing Season 4 eps along with NBC, now that NBC has yanked it off the schedule after the finale, Lifetime jumps in the middle of Season 3 eps to show. I think I just got whiplash!
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