Oops, my mistake; I missed the first 20 minutes of the show and was confused as to which character was named Zoe Morgan. Irene Adler is the character from Sherlock Holmes, played by Rachel McAdams; for some reason she came up when I searched Zoe Morgan. So, to sum up, scratch Irene Adler as an answer, and if there was a girl in the first 20 minutes of the show, I don’t know who that was.
This show is starting to grow on me - I like that each episode gets us to know a bit more of the characters and how they will eventually work together (or not).
What is with Caveziel’s face? It seems so “shiny”, like he has had varnish put over his face lift or something. I am expecting to see the reflection of the cameraman in his cheekbone.
My guess is the makeup artist uses dewy foundation to enhance his angular face. They use the same technique on the Desperate Housewives actresses.
I just did an image search on Jim Caveziel to look at this (I know what you mean, DMark), and I think you’re right - he does have a very angular face with cheekbones like blades.
He is also very, very good-looking - I can see why I can’t stop looking at him onscreen. 
Yeah, he oozes x-factor. And I really liked how he smiled for just a second during this episode. ::swoon::
Well, crap. I just watched last night’s episode on my DVR, and was very disappointed. I sure hope it was the worst episode of the season, and not the usual result of front-loading the best writing before settling down into mediocrity.
I’m willing to suspend disbelief on a lot of the stuff, but this plot was just too full of holes.
It’s fine for it to be revealed that the “victim” is really a bad guy with five minutes to go, but
a) everybody in the Russian gang seemed to know Elias by sight, and yet he’s still working as a teacher to their kids???
b) he really WOULD have been killed by the hit team if JC hadn’t saved him. He was just sitting there making tea, with no weapons, no bodyguards, and, judging by how easily JC got into his place, not even a good lock on his door, let alone an alarm system. When he knows the Russians are coming for him, what kind of Mafia kingpin would be that vulnerable?
His reaction on seeing JC in his apartment was all wrong, too, in the sense that it was exactly right for an innocent teacher, but ridiculous for a ruthless mobster.
In other words, the writers cheated. It could have been a very interesting episode the writers had been dropping little hints, having the guy doing subtle things out of character for a teacher all the way through, and JC slowly putting it together that he was the bad guy. Instead, the guy really is an innocent teacher for 55 minutes, and then suddenly is Keyser Soze, and JC is completely blindsided. He has to have the Russian thug tell him who he is. And did I mention that if the Russian thugs knew who he was, he couldn’t be teaching their kids?
And another relatively minor quibble: JC says he’ll take him to a detective he can trust, so I assume he’s talking about the Black Chick. But no, he’s talking about Beefy ?!?! So we are to believe that Beefy is now perfectly trustworthy to JC based on what, he’s gone a week or two without trying to get him killed?
This show had some good will built up from the first several weeks, but that has been used up now. Another clunker like this, and I guess it’s back to reruns of old Westerns for me.
I’m still watching, I like it quite a bit.
Paige Turco was on the excellent show American Gothic. Had to pause the show to IMDB her and figure out where I’d seen her.