By Sabrina Cognata
Despite the fact that this weeks episode of LIFE was sort of a boring let down I continue to campaign in the favor of this show, probably because the Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis) is really super cute to me. Also, I guess the storyline is pretty good also. Charlie & Dani (Sarah Shahi) are sent to investigate a murder that occurred during a car jacking. The case itself seems super simple from the get go. A husband and wife are car jacked while at a gas station, the wife is shot and subsequently killed. The husband is devastated, but seemingly incapable of identifying a suspect. Charlie and Dani find this to be odd so they start to investigate further.
In the meantime, Charlie gets more and more involved in the minutia of his own closed case. He takes it into his own hands to violate the terms of his settlement and visit the retired detective that worked the case. Charlie shows up at the bar the detective frequents and tells him that he’s sure the victim’s daughter was in the house during the murder. Charlie is sort of going insane and acting the fool and I like his character even more for it. Regular people lose their marbles when they’re wrongly imprisoned for 12 years thank god the brains behind this show realize this.
Charlie and Dani visit the gas station the hijacked couple was at before the incident occurred. By speaking to the attendant on duty they get information and a video ID of a GIANT “Hispanic man” later identified as a Samoan fellow with a lengthy criminal record. They visit a garage where Charlie finds a super hot ride to replace the Bentley destroyed by a tractor two episodes ago. Having killed two birds with one stone Dani & Charlie apprehend the Samoan and take him into custody. After bringing in the widower they still cannot get him to positively identify the Samoan as the hijacker/killer. Something is rotten in Denmark.
While trying to crack the reasons behind the husbands inability to point the finger at the shooter Charlie keeps himself busy by obsessing over his own case. Driving his super hot new car he catches his ex-wife while she is on an afternoon drive with her new husband. In what can only be describes as narcissistic rage (HOTTNESS!!!!) Charlie pulls over their car, gets the driver (his ex’s husband) out of the car & gets in it himself. After a bunch of passive aggressive banter with his ex he asks her what happened to the young girl. His ex tells Charlie to leave the girl alone, confirming she is indeed alive. Then Charlie kisses his ex-wife and it is sort of sexy and forced and I might need a cold shower. CHARLIE IS NOT ALWAYS A GOOD GUY. HE BREAKS THE RULES AND USES SOME PRISON JUSTICE. SUPER HOT!
It turns out that the husband told the Samoan gentleman that he had TEN THOUSAND in cash in his house & he’d take him there to give it to him if he didn’t harm himself or his wife. Well, that was just too little too late cause the Samoan shot and killed his wife anyways, but now the husband is worried the Samoan or one of his associates will show up at his house for the cash and harm himself or his daughter to get to that money. After realizing this complication with the case Charlie and Dani set the Samoan up to brag about executing the victim to his friend that is wearing a wire.