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Old 04-18-11, 02:13 PM
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The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

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Vice President Jarvis (Bill Smitrovich) vocalizes his lack of faith in President Martinez's (Blair Underwood) leadership and agrees to meet with an adversary. Senator Catherine Lewis (guest star Virginia Madsen, "Sideways") reports the findings of her surreptitious blood testing of the White House staff only to find one holdout, someone very close to the President. Sophia (Laura Innes) pushes forward in her search for a super weapon. And, after witnessing injustices within the Sleeper community, Leila (Sarah Roemer) begins to question where she belongs. Elsewhere, Sean (Jason Ritter) and Vicky (Taylor Cole) find whom they've been hunting for, but it may be too late.


Episode 17 of 22

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I follow Ian Anthony Dale (Simon) on Twitter and he said they just started production of episode 22 today.
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

Yay! Another character does something completely random! Bet he won't do that again!

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So was he the latest in a long line of sentinels (like the Knights Templar), or was he keeping himself alive artificially for the past three millennia? I was starting to get the impression he was many centuries old. Guess we'll never know now
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

I did not like this show much last fall and with the long break thought it would be dead for the second half. Since the show came back, it has been much more interesting.
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can't even do cpr right
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

Not sure why I care, but......

I was thinking about the plotlines on this show, and I can't remember a lot of it. So was it the Sentinels who were forcing whatever his name is (Leila's Dad, "Michael"?) to crash the plane into the president at the beginning of the series? Then Sophia created or Thomas created the portal that took the plane to Arizona, or wherever?

By the way, I'm looking forward to a show in which a main character is shot when someone orders the main character to be killed (instead of a slow but easily rescuable demise like a house on fire) and I'm looking forward to a main character torturing someone who really knew nothing about the secret, nefarious plot. Keep in mind I have never seen 24, or the Wire, so maybe these things happen in other shows.....
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

I'm really enjoying this show since it came back, but am disappointed to see there's not much buzz about it anymore. I hope it doesn't die a slow death...

Speaking of which...

So the Sentinel orders Vicky killed, and in response his minions handcuff her to a table in a huge chateau and burn the entire building to the ground to kill her? I think if I were the mastermind villain, I'd have to have a talk with my minions about the efficiency of their clean-up methods.
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

iirc Thomas was behind the stuff because, the potus was going to out the aliens?


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when i watch these new crop of shows it just makes me appreciate the 24s and LOSTs of the recent past even more

THEY were actually ENTERTAINING, you'd be watching and wishing the hour lasted longer.. and you ACTUALLY LOOKED FORWARD TO THE NEXT EPISODE IN ANTICIPATION... many times you'd rewatch the shows in between eps cuz they were sooo go

when i watch these shits i be like... damn we're only 20 min in? seems like this shit been dragging on for hours... there is NO rewatchability factor and i'm not even a bit interested in the next episode... i'll watch if it is on, but i couldn't care less

just my 2cents
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

"I don't know where I'm at?!"

Are not GPS apps readily available for smartphones?
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

Originally Posted by wishbone
"I don't know where I'm at?!"

Are not GPS apps readily available for smartphones?
Did not the 911 operator state that her gps in her phone was disabled.
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

Originally Posted by JuryDuty
So the Sentinel orders Vicky killed, and in response his minions handcuff her to a table in a huge chateau and burn the entire building to the ground to kill her? I think if I were the mastermind villain, I'd have to have a talk with my minions about the efficiency of their clean-up methods.
This is because it was more meant to flush out Sean as a test to see if he really is as important as they suspected.
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Originally Posted by ATX
can't even do cpr right
I know, right?

Yeah, He was feeling her up! Stupid show.
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

Originally Posted by wishbone
"I don't know where I'm at?!"

Are not GPS apps readily available for smartphones?
Like any character on this show is smart enough to operate a smartphone...

And why wouldn't someone on a security detail have their phone locked?
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

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This is because it was more meant to flush out Sean as a test to see if he really is as important as they suspected.
But he said "kill her" to his henchman, and the guy left the room with her. Not, let me tell you what I have in mind for her, then cut away as they discuss the plan.
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

Originally Posted by Jason
But he said "kill her" to his henchman, and the guy left the room with her. Not, let me tell you what I have in mind for her, then cut away as they discuss the plan.
Perhaps he was already in on the plan. Not every scene needs to be spelled out and telegraphed for what's going to happen next.
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

Right, he could have said that so Vicky would think it.

Hal Holbrook had Michael fly the plane at the Miami compound because it wasn't time to reveal the aliens' existence and Thomas is the one who teleported the plane and infected the passengers.

Pretty good episode, love how matter of fact it was with the Sentinel shooting himself; Virginia Madsen looked very good.
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

i see Lane Garrison is out of prison.
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

Originally Posted by Kevin M. Dean
Did not the 911 operator state that her gps in her phone was disabled.
I did not hear the operator say that -- and with that...
Originally Posted by Jason
Like any character on this show is smart enough to operate a smartphone...

And why wouldn't someone on a security detail have their phone locked?
Makes more sense to lock the phone than to disable the GPS. Television writing is in a sad state these days.
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

Originally Posted by Deftones
i see Lane Garrison is out of prison.
Who was Lane Garrison on the show? I didn't recognize him.

So the First Lady's story about her parents was BS, right? She will turn out to be a non-terrestrial...That's how they made it seem to me at least.
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

Originally Posted by windom
Who was Lane Garrison on the show? I didn't recognize him.
he was in the scene where Sofia was talking at the table in the house to all her underlings. he was there and had one or two lines.
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Re: The Event -- "Cut Off The Head" -- 4/18/11

Yeah, I noticed him as well and thought the same thing... I guess he's out now.

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