That’s almost directly lifted from Sherlock Holmes A Study in Scarlet, where a German word written in blood is mistaken for the start of an English name.
Agatha Christie also had a couple of occasions (notably Murder on the Orient Express) where a clue hinged on the letters being Cyrillic, not English.
And, in keeping with the “that never really happens” idea, that particular clue turns out to be fake, put there by the murderer to mislead the police.
That is worse.
Some one tried to compliment me by saying I looked like Jack Black… but then they said no, they meant Kyle Gass. Needless to say, not really a compliment.
When our hero is faced with several bad guys that want to fight, the bad guys are suddenly overwhelmed with a sense of decency and take their turns getting their asses kicked instead of all attacking at once.
Medical drama shows use defibrillators a lot more often than I suspect they are used in real life. I suppose that’s because it’s dramatic, what with someone calling out “Clear!”, rubbing the paddles together and then shocking the patient.
Also, how often do doctors hop on top of people on gurneys and straddle them doing CPR as they are wheeled down the hall?
Ya done good. Except for this. Zulu as Kono was in seven more episodes.
This episode was of course called The Ninety Second War.
RACHE, which is German for “revenge”, not, as Holmes notes, an unfinished Rachel. But in Sherlock A Study in Pink, it is an unfinished RACHEL and not a German word for revenge.
Yeah, I realized it wasn’t his last this afternoon. He was in today’s episode as well. I guess he lasted through to the end of the fourth season.
Matin Crane, Frasier’s dad, spent years trying to work out why a victim would write HELP in her last moments. Solving that led him to the killer.
I’ve been thinking about this and if I were dying in a pool of my own blood I’d probably tell my husband hello.
H-E-L-
“Clearly the victim was signaling for help.”
Really these situations are difficult to navigate without misunderstandings.
It was a Saint short story first.
I have to comment on this, because I’ve never seen anyone else do so.
A Study in Scarlet, which was the first Sherlock Holmes story, first appeared (as Holmes fans know all to well) in Beeton’s Christmas Annual in 1887, and in book form a year later. It has the incident of “Rache” being found written on the wall. As the perpetrator explains at the end of the book
I have absolutely no doubt that Doyle got this idea from ----- Mark Twain.
In A Tramp Abroad, Twain’s account of travels through Germany, published in 1880 (seven years before A Study in Scarlet), Twain remarks on the scribblings on the wall of a German prison cell:
In some editions there’s even an illustration showing someone writing this on the wall, just as there are illustrations in some editions of A Study in Scarlet showing “Rache” on the wall.
Yet I don’t recall any of the annotated editions of Sherlock Holmes that call attention to this obvious borrowing. It took me by complete surprise when I read A Tramp Abroad.
They’re very often used in TV and movies to start a heart that has stopped, which is completely wrong. Hence the name ‘defibrillator’, they’re used to stop fibrillation by temporarily stopping the heart. Then it restarts, hopefully with a normal rhythm. It’s like a reboot. You can’t use a device that’s meant to stop the heart to start an already stopped heart.
Cool!
On cop/investigator shows, the detectives get a tip that a group of bad guys is having a meeting. For some reason, the crooks conveniently choose a parking lot out in the open, with no concerns that passersby will overhear their conversations, and plenty of cars in the parking lot for the detectives to hide behind.
Granted, it gives more space for the inevitable shootouts that ensue, but the tone of the episode is that these bad guys are already paranoid and secretive and would want to cloak any suspicious activity. Stay in one lane (so to speak), cop show people!
Unfortunately, even the otherwise-mostly-accurate Emergency! does this far too often. It is, however, very dramatic, which is what they were going for.
IKR? I was mainly bemused - I really do look like Stephen King; but I don’t think either of us looks like Gary Busey - but also a tiny bit offended.
A few years ago, that and the flappy paddles were (apparently*) done to me on the way out of the elevator from the ER to the cath lab. I later overheard my attending cardiologist describe me to his residents as “a bad Scrubs cliché”.
When the ER doc and nurses came to visit me in the ICU later, I said “I know you do this a couple of times a day, but thank you”. He replied, as a specialist in cardiac arrest, that he saw a case like mine every few years.
* I wasn’t exactly “there” at the time
Let me guess; it was done in a simulator, not with a real plane.
Auto-landings have been done in the past, on a test basis, but I am not sure if any of the current planes can do that.
Depends on the gun. Some had massive muzzle climb, such as the Thompson. Many years ago I saw some very second-rate gangster biopic where the hero fired two Tommy guns simultaneously, with a sound more appropriate to an arcade game.