http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/18/LIFE----What-They-Saw.aspx LIFE’s quickly becoming my favorite new drama on television.  I love the fact that Charlie Crews (Damian Lewis) is both a good guy cop with a heart of gold & a complete and total insane jerk when it comes to investigating his own case, on his own time.  Oh duality, how you give a character the actual perspective they need to actually seem real and relatable!  Let’s get down to brass taxes, Crews & Dani Reese (Sarah Shahi) show up to a murder scene in a super rich and elite Los Angeles neighborhood.  A gay man has been shot in the head and his blood and brains are splattered all over his bedroom.  Crews uses his third eye to detect someone in the shadows, below the property line.  WELL IF IT ISN’T A CRAZY VAGRANT, Holt Easley (William Sanderson), THAT SAW EVERYTHING GO DOWN.  I guess being a crazy homeless dude means you also don’t tell the whole truth as Easley slowly gives bits and pieces of what he saw happen to Crews & Reese.  Initially, Easley tells the detectives he saw the dead man’s gay lover, James, come into the bedroom and shoot the dead man point blank in the head.  Then he says that James went outside and threw his lover’s wedding ring into some weeds where he fished it out of.  Easley’s story doesn’t have exact continuity to it, but neither does anyone else’s.  Crews keeps Easley in lockup until he can finish interviewing the neighbors.  The neighbor across the street, Gina Borns, says she saw her husband, Drew, emerge from the house immediately after she heard a gunshot.  She says she suspects her husband was the dead man’s gay lover, but never said anything because he treated her right and loved her.  Although she indicates she is not ok with her husband being a murderer.  She then tells detectives that she wants to help them and if she can do anything in her power she will. en-US Critics Rant info@criticsrant.com Subtext Version 1.9.4.0 http://www.criticsrant.com/images/default_gravatar_bullhorn.png http://www.criticsrant.com/archive/2007/10/18/LIFE----What-They-Saw.aspx 77 60