Re: overnights. Doesn't the increase in viewership over the lead-in mean anything?

ita -- what do you think Danny would have done?

Because they didn't know when they paged her that the body was hers.

But once you've seen "Where's that person?? We have a corpse to deal with!! Page again!!!" it's easier to guess that the pager's going to BE INSIDE THE HOUSE.

what do you think Danny would have done?

I think Danny would have been a lot more hostile, right there, and agitated against her afterwards too. Paul's Mr. Understanding Guy.

Actually, I like to imagine Danny disarming her and stopping just short of an actual counterattack.

I'll suspend disbelief for both that, and Marg's stiletto heeled investigatory fuck me boots on CSI.

I would like to mention that, when they went into the morgue, Rebecca pulled her hair back. I was stupidly pleased by that.

Our law enforcement training teaches us to enter rooms with guns at "low ready" -- pointing down at 45 degrees.

But oddly enough, the West Coast FBI doesn't seem to. Apparently, there's some weird thing East Coast/West Coast schism. The East Coasters enter with their guns low. The West Coasters do not. </Without a Trace DVD Commentary>

Dana, how did you guess that the victim was the missing Alvarez? Because they didn't know when they paged her that the body was hers.

Because I'm conditioned to see it that way. Same way I knew that when Rebecca got on the train alone, she'd run into the real killer. I didn't immediately see that Web had used her as bait, so props to Tim for that.

But once you've seen "Where's that person?? We have a corpse to deal with!! Page again!!!" it's easier to guess that the pager's going to BE INSIDE THE HOUSE.

There wasn't time for them to pull a "page again." The scene may have been similar to something on E.R., but it was anything but predictable. At least it made me go, whoa.

Didn't Webb get who it was before the pager went off?

Didn't Webb get who it was before the pager went off?

Even the audience did. The pager was more of a coda than a reveal.

Didn't Webb get who it was before the pager went off?

Yeah. I thought it was the tattoo that tipped him off. Or the fact that he was the one inspecting the body and saw (what was left of) the face.

ITA with David M about the shooting. That wasn't like Scully murdering an unarmed Pfaster in cold blood in Orison. Rebecca was being threatened and abducted by Simon, and Simon wasn't under anyone's control at the time. Warnings really aren't required in situations like that. Web was just, er, being coldly pragmatic about things.

I'm delurking myself to say I liked the ep, and thought it was a strong pilot. I don't have love yet for Rebecca, but I didn't have love for Buffy at first, either, and I trust Tim to develop her into someone I will care for. Having suffered through serial killer hell all the way back to Red Dragon (the novel, not that vapid movie), I'm hoping that we don't have to deal with it every single week, but the show seems strong enough to keep me interested even if that's the case. I also hope we're not going to see SID (Scully-In-Danger) eps all the time, 'cause that gets old. Thanks for the new show, Tim. Lately my television viewing has been confined to History Channel and Science Channel reruns. As others have already said, it's great to see your name up there on the screen again.

Is that Howard Gordon guy ubiquitous, or what?