The answer to that lies in the previews… would you like it in spoiler form?
ETA, I mean as opposed to just not answering and leave speculation up to those who choose not to watch the previews.
No, not Brother Sam! I like that guy
Well at least he’s not DOA according to the preview.
I have the sense that starting with this episode, Michael C. Hall was getting pretty sick during filming. His voice was a lot lower, he was standing sort of hunched and lethargic during his scenes, and the writers gave him the world’s least actiony attack on the bad guy (and even then, he looked to be slumped in the back seat more than sitting).
It’s good to know that he made it through everything, but hopefully his illness doesn’t pull down the rest of the season. I’m not sure I’d enjoy watching someone straining to play his part. Either that, or perhaps they’ll make it a Deb-centric season and put Dex into the background, like they seemed to this episode.
I haven’t heard anything about him being out of remission (or being sick in any other way for that matter), but as far as being slumped over, that was so he couldn’t be seen in the rear view mirror.
Not that this is unusual for television, but … [Morbo]HACKING DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY![/Morbo]
He deleted it from the Internet. Deleted it. From the Internet. There is so much fail in that. Plus, can someone tell me where I can send mail to every television writer in existence? I’m going to send them a link to Wikipedia’s entry on Firewalls. Then I’m going to slap them until they learn what the word does and does not mean. (At least he didn’t say he hacked their encryption.)
Unfortunately I think this is just one example of the overall decline in quality of the show, albeit one that really gets my goat.
Thats not what he said, he said he “erased any trace of the sale from the internet”.
I’m thinking that if he could pierce ebay’s firewall to somehow delete records of the sale, he could have found ID information on the buyer. And I can’t see what he could have erased at all if he couldn’t pierce ebay’s firewall.
They were also in HHGTTG together.
Maybe he just hacked blond interns account and hid the sale from there? But in any case, I’m not saying it made sense, just that it wasn’t as nonsensical as “I deleted it from the Internet”.
Is this some kind of DNA sequence?
What does the buyer matter? He was able to ID the SELLER before the auction finished.
He wanted to get the arm back. He wasn’t able to find the buyer to retrieve it.
HHGTTG is not comprised of ATCG.
Hithchhikers Guide to the Galaxy starred Mos Def as Ford Prefect and Alan Rickman as Marvin.
Yes but when he first discovered his intern was selling it, he attempted a bid. Which means she hadn’t shipped it yet. Why bother trying to get it from the buyer if you know who the seller is and that she still has it in her possession?
The writers are getting sloppy. That’s why Deb now seems to know that the Ice Truck Killer was Dex’s brother.
I suppose Vince didn’t just threatened her with arrest if she didn’t return the arm because he was afraid she knew too many unsavory things about him.
I didn’t recall the exact wording, which is why I didn’t use quotation marks. Do you think that “erased” and “deleted” have different meanings in this context? Is “erased any trace of the sale from the Internet” somehow less silly than “deleted it from the Internet”?
Boyo Jim - exactly! This guy apparently can break into the site that listed the auction and erase data at will. We must assume he can also hack into Google and delete any Google Cache of the page, or any other cache or mirror that might exist. Then delete any links or descriptions of the auction on any sites that might have mentioned it, regardless of how many different servers these sites may be on. (The auction had multiple bidders. It’s likely that at least one of them posted on his / her blog: “Wow! Ice Truck Killer memorabilia for sale at this link”, or something similar.) If we take his words literally, he should also have deleted any emails (in any account on any server) that mention the auction, as I would consider them traces of the auction on the Internet - but I won’t be that anal.
In any case, the point is that he can do all of this at a moment’s notice but can’t find any information on the buyer of the auction because of a “firewall”. Well, shit! It’s a shame all those other sites he presumably just hacked hadn’t heard of this “firewall” technology.
Vince was stupidly making sexual comments to the female intern. She didn’t object at the time, but I’ll bet that she would have made a stink about it if he had her arrested.
He knows who has the arm- the intern. Couldn’t he just get it back from her with a “give it back voluntarily or I’ll have you arrested” threat? She really doesn’t have anything to blackmail him with: he didn’t touch or fondle her inappropriately and it wasn’t that big a no-no to let an intern around evidence on a closed case.
True, but the fact she was making them about a man trying to have her arrested for stealing evidence- which it’s easily proven she did- would short circuit that, especially since she didn’t make the report when she alleged he harassed her but only after she was accused of a felony.
I dunno – they had some conversation before he discovered the theft which suggested to me that maybe more had happened between them than we saw on camera, though I can’t recall any specific quotes to back this up.
Also, lets not forget that they had gone out on a date and set up a second date. ISTM there should be some leeway for sexually charged comments…shouldn’t there be?
Nah, I take that back, that’s probably still harassment. I had a hypothetical written up about a husband and wife working together and the husband making some sort of lewd comment to the wife in her office, but I could see her still being about to report it and him still getting written up since it would still be seen as inappropriate.
I think the problem here is that if she would report it, Vince needs to worry about other females (and males) coming forward. He’d probably lose his job over it.