Well, after suspecting the other teacher (her mentor), the security guard, the Latino bad boy, the Good Boy who brought the case to the attention of the Cold Case crew.

1. Latino boy was caught with drugs in his back pack - this was observed by Darnell who was staying after to help the teacher.

2. He insisted that they weren't his and further suggested that Darnell's sick crush on the teacher led to her murder.

3. The questioned Darnell.

4. They discovered (after whathisname - the big guy bribed the clerk with dinner and a show - that the gun was one that had belonged to the father of a student and had been confiscated by the security guard.

5. The security guard admitted that he had leant the gun to the mentor teacher.

6. Mentor teacher confessed that she requested the gun because she'd been beaten up by some former students and no longer felt safe. And that her purse had been stolen from the teacher's lounge.

7. Raymondo was accused of stealing the purse. But he didn't.

8. Because guess who had a cocaine habit and left the school rather than being fired?

9. That's right. Teacher 3. Laura confronted him and gave him an ultimatum. He pulled the gun on her and she ran away. Then he shot her right where Raymondo could see him.

10. Ends up with Darnell doing the newspaper project with his class, Security Guard still drinking in his car, and Raymondo studying for his GED.

Man, Life is really sharp tonight.

I love Damian Lewis.

I loved his hallucination!

Life has one more episode before I stop overlooking this apparently network-influenced horrible writing.

I've always handwaved the plots because of the more important relationships and how the cases are used to examine Charlie's internal life in a (sometimes) subtle fashion, but this is getting ridiculous. I don't think I've rolled my eyes or groaned so much over one episode. Or even the whole first season. Painful.

Wow.

I also really liked the episode.

For me, Life is very much not a show that I watch for the procedure, but for the characters. So it was easy for me to handwave the "Charlie made the corpse fall apart" thing.

But I can see how it would get frustrating. They seem to be playing it even more fast and loose this season than last.

(Incidentally, though [spoiler for Heroes] did NBC get a two-for-one discount on frozen person shattering effects or what?)

Ailleann - I was thinking something similar about your white font!

How long before it shows up on Chuck?

(Didn't Alias do something similar? Maybe it will show up on the new spy show!)

Ailleann,

I cosign your white font comment. Damn. You'd think it was a theme week.

I've been noticing it across networks too. Like, Life had the thing with people in trunks, and then I thought I saw a commercial for Without A Trace that involved people in trunks!