The butcher of Kiev is a character actor I first loved on Highlander.

The guy Elliot fought in the kitchen was the stuntmaster on several episodes of Highlander, and was Mac's opponent in the maze duel in "Duende".

The younger brother, Brad, on The Mentalist, played Michael, "Two queens. Right," in the Something Wicked ep of S1 Supernatural, and his dad was the same actor who played the suburban pipe-smoking, fruitcake-stomping, pliers-wielding pagan god (oh the irony) in the Very Supernatural Christmas episode.

Actor bingo--it's not just Canadian.

You know what show I really liked this week? "Law & Order" Did anyone here watch it? I thought it was well done, suspenseful and well-acted.

I highly recommend the ep if anyone gets a chance to see it on rerun.

On that SVU, also, in that one scene with the kid doing math stuff on the blackboard, I think the set people just picked a few random pages from several different math books and copied stuff onto the board. Most of the diagrams were from topological graph theory (which does have very pretty pictures), but there was also one from knot theory, and a lot of the writing looked like differential equations, and there were a few other topics, too, and there's really absolutely nothing that links those topics together.

Most of us writers, not so much about the math.

I agree, le nubian. One of the best of the last few seasons, I thought.

What was the crime again?

well, the show involved at least one murder, a class action lawsuit around a plane crash.

Huh. I recorded that. I must have watched it, but don't remember. More details?

The ADA and the class action suit lawyer have a conflict.

this is a pretty memorable ep - you sure you watched it?

I may have to chalk it up to an Ambien loss.