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Now there's a coincidence... Or is it?
Dec. 13th, 2012 05:12 pmI've been watching the series Elementary on Sky, the US attempt to update Sherlock Holmes. It's no patch on the BBC's Sherlock, more of a carbon copy of all the other US shows involving a quirky, eccentric, or down-right anti-social but brilliant detective who helps the police with their enquires.
This week, the guest star was Lisa Edelstein, best know for playing Dr. Cuddy on House.
She was the murderer, or course. It seems to be the case that where there is a well-known guest star in shows like these, they turn out to be the culprit.
The plot involved a bomb going off in an office air-conditioning vent, killing two people. Holmes shows that the bomb was actually planted four years previously, in 2008, when the office was occupied by a PR company run by Edelstein's character.
Turns out her character worked as a high-class prostitute to pay her way through business school but a new employee in 2008 was one of her ex-clients and was blackmailing her. When her bomb failed to go off, she murdered him the old-fashioned way by shooting him and hiding the body in the wall of his house where even his wife didn't know he was until Holmes found him.
Now, when House started, I did the normal checking on the IMDb for "What else have they been in?" and I discovered Edelstein was a regular character in the first season of The West Wing, a favourite programme of mine. I went back and checked. She played a young woman who worked as a high-class prostitute to pay her way through law school. In the pilot episode of The West Wing, Sam Seaborn, the Rob Lowe character, meets a woman in a bar and ends up sleeping with her. (Must have been her night off.) He only discovers her other occupation when their pagers get mixed up.
And in this episode of Elementary, the bomb was detonated by a pager. (It failed to go off because the pager company didn't have a transmission tower near the office. When one was built, in only required one wrong number, and it was one digit different to a pizza delivery company. Is that lack of coverage likely in New York in 2008. When buying a pager, wouldn't you check it worked in the area you wanted?)
This week, the guest star was Lisa Edelstein, best know for playing Dr. Cuddy on House.
She was the murderer, or course. It seems to be the case that where there is a well-known guest star in shows like these, they turn out to be the culprit.
The plot involved a bomb going off in an office air-conditioning vent, killing two people. Holmes shows that the bomb was actually planted four years previously, in 2008, when the office was occupied by a PR company run by Edelstein's character.
Turns out her character worked as a high-class prostitute to pay her way through business school but a new employee in 2008 was one of her ex-clients and was blackmailing her. When her bomb failed to go off, she murdered him the old-fashioned way by shooting him and hiding the body in the wall of his house where even his wife didn't know he was until Holmes found him.
Now, when House started, I did the normal checking on the IMDb for "What else have they been in?" and I discovered Edelstein was a regular character in the first season of The West Wing, a favourite programme of mine. I went back and checked. She played a young woman who worked as a high-class prostitute to pay her way through law school. In the pilot episode of The West Wing, Sam Seaborn, the Rob Lowe character, meets a woman in a bar and ends up sleeping with her. (Must have been her night off.) He only discovers her other occupation when their pagers get mixed up.
And in this episode of Elementary, the bomb was detonated by a pager. (It failed to go off because the pager company didn't have a transmission tower near the office. When one was built, in only required one wrong number, and it was one digit different to a pizza delivery company. Is that lack of coverage likely in New York in 2008. When buying a pager, wouldn't you check it worked in the area you wanted?)
