"Tell me you love me" during the audition? Good start.

It was lovely to see Hendricksen again (Malik Whitfield? Something like that?) but I was bummed he was a baddie.

I liked Agent Rice, even if she did put Neal's life at risk. She was cool, and attractive without fitting the cookie-cutter of television women. Although I missed Cruz. I can't see how Natalie Morales is getting a lot out of that role: they hardly ever give her anything to do.

Is is better to have such a small role on a middling-cable show, versus the lead on a tiny cable show?

Charles Malik Whitfield. It's weird that I have memories of him from Supernatural and The Guardian that totally don't overlap.

It looks like he was having fun as a baddie. I think White Collar's a good show to do that on. Pretty much everyone has to be an antagonist to the dynamic duo somehow. Agent Rice recovered pretty well. I was hating on her big time for a while.

Is is better to have such a small role on a middling-cable show, versus the lead on a tiny cable show?

It can't be.

I hear great things written about Natalie Morales but she's not been given any room to show it here. I prefer the original agent, but she seemed to have a personality beyond "No, I swear I'm not attracted." And even that we only got a little of.

Then again, we don't get much out of Jones either, but he's a charismatic support agent. Sharif seems to have more to do than Natalie.

she's not been given any room to show it here. I prefer the original agent, but she seemed to have a personality beyond "No, I swear I'm not attracted." And even that we only got a little of.

Yes, to all of this. Morales is great, but you have to give her something to work with other than a running bra. ::rolls eyes::

And as far as characters go (versus actors), you're right, the original probie had more, even though she only had the one episode.

I didn't like Rice, for the simple reason that she should have told Neal what was going on. It would have been one thing not to tell Peter, but to not even warn Neal, especially when he went around back where she knew that they didn't have surveillance was just stupid and unnecessarily risky.

Of course, we would have then been robbed of the dramatic call from Peter "You're the ransom"

Um, Leverage shout-out on Psych. Apparently this week's episode takes place last week...

I wasn't quite sure if that was a time slot or a guest star ref. Probably the both.

Rewatching "The Bottle Job" I again got curious about the Irish punk song. I found this quote from producer Amy Berg...

In the script, Chris Downey and I indicated our desire for a Pogues-slash-Flogging Molly type tune. Because purchasing source music (prerecorded songs from established artists) isn't in our budget, we left the task in the very capable hands of our talented composer Joe LoDuca. "Can't Go Home Again" is the song he created for us. At the moment, it's not available anywhere. Will let you know if/when that changes.

(I skipped hundreds of posts to get here so apologies if this has already been posted)

I wasn't quite sure if that was a time slot or a guest star ref. Probably the both.

Yeah, I was amused. And again wondering about the weird cross-promotion.