A Trouble Friendship: Chicago PD "Payback"

When a robbery turns into a homicide, the intelligence unit will investigate to find out that the suspect is someone close.

When Ruzek and Atwater meet up with Ruzek's CI, Ray, who happens to be a former cop, trying to get information. They get a call of an apartment robbery that also turned homicide when a little boy got shot in the head while just laying on the couch.

The investigation lead to a Latin gangs, but it seems that the Intel that Ruzek and Atwater got was false and questioned Ray about it. But the investigation lead to another way that all of this could be connected to a dirty cop, who happens to be in the narcotics unit, who's had records of making connections to gang members. But it turns out that the cop happens to be set up after she realized that she let her Intel use her place a couple of times. That Intel happens to be Ray. 

Ruzek and Atwater try to stop him as Ray was packing up at his boat but Ruzek crashes his party and the two meet face to face as he tries to get Ruzek to shoot him. But that wasn't going to happen as Ray was bluffing to Ruzek about having a gun thanks to Atwater tough tackles.

Meanwhile, it seems that Al's luck isn't going the way that he or Voight was hoping for as Voight got inside information about the witness who saw Al and Erin dumping that body. Al remembers him, who was trying to break into his car that night, and wants to see him. But Voight won't let that happen as he doesn't want him to jeopardize this.

Voight meets with the witness, who thinks that he was selling drugs but was just lending some money from a friend and not to mention spotted him at an addiction group meeting. Al gets worried and tries to call their bluff by filling out his retirement papers, but later on Al battles with demons as he plants drugs in the witness' car and gets busted for it. But word gets to Trudy and Voight that Al's pension has been on hold.

"Payback" was a good episode from start to finish. It may not be one of the best episodes this season but it sure was entertaining and satisfying to watch. I find the character development between Ray and Ruzek okay as there wasn't much to go on but just that it seems that they were former partners but never really give why Ray was like this to Ruzek. Overall, I give this episode 8/10.


You can catch Chicago PD Wednesdays at 10/9c on NBC. 

Bold Decisions and Shocking Revelations: Chicago Med "Devil in Disguise"

From a bold surgical procedure to two bold medical cases and even a bold decision that could help someone's career. Here's a recap of this week's Chicago Med.

When conjoined twins comes in, a couple weeks early before their separation surgery, for a heart issue, the team thinks that the best way is to move ahead the separation and to save one over the other. But Rhodes thinks there's a better way to save both and it divides both him and Bekker of their opinions on the situation. With the team informs the parents of the first procedure without informing them about Rhodes' plan.

But Rhodes gets the final word as he sneaks and talks to the parents about how he could save both and they agreed with his plan. With the team pissed, mostly the pediatrician, Rhodes performs with some complications at first but goes smooth and the twins are safe and ready for their separation in the weeks to come.

Meanwhile, Halstead tries to help a father, who might be suffering from a misdiagnosis, but when they learn of what he has the only thing that he's concern is the payment. This was due to the father's decision of getting a cheaper insurance so his son could go to college with the money he tried to save. He gave Halstead an earful of why couldn't he let him die. It's given Halstead another week of trying to help a patient even if they don't want it. He tries to talk to Natalie about it but she tries to avoid him at all cost after she wanted a break. But it gave us a nice Halstead-Rhodes bromance at the bar but leaves with that pediatrician sitting next to Halstead and ordered him a drink. Looks like that break with Natalie might be soon break up.

Talking about medical cases, Charles and Reese tries to diagnosis a patient, who's mother thinks she's possessed by the devil. But the father, otherwise thinks it has to due with her mother trapping her at her home and gives some bad vibes from Reese, who's kind of reliving what she sees in her relationship with her father. But when Charles and Reese tries to talk with the patient, she was talking gibberish and wetting the bed, which lead to Charles to talk with the parents and asked them about a certain book that he figured out she was saying.

Once he read the book, the patient was freaking out and even talking in words, for which the mother figured out why she was scared of the book. The father has done bad things to her when she was a little girl and as soon as he had enough, he walks out but Reese gives him a earful til Charles orders her to stop. 

Also Maggie could be facing termination from last week's doing but she gets word that if she had her EMT licence with an updated card, she would be safe. But wasn't the case as her card had expired two weeks ago and goes beyond to Barry for help to get a card renewed before her hearing. But as she got her card and headed up to the hearing, the heating was cancelled due to the family sticking up for her for saving their daughter.

And Ethan accepts his sister to stay with him for a couple of weeks. But when April finds out that she disobeyed his order of not having anyone over, she gives her a chance.

"Devil in Disguise" was amazing episode that kept me intrigue for the whole hour with some of the most interesting stories and character developments, mainly Charles and Reese's patient (which was  my favorite storyline of the episode), Halstead's third encounter with another patient that doesn't want help and trying to get Natalie's opinion. The Rhodes' story was good, there wasn't much doing between Bekker and him that I thought there was going to be. I was worried that Maggie would be the one to go, but glad she's staying. I would assume that her and Barry are okay with how things went while back. I'm not liking the last scene with Halstead and the pediatrician getting equated with drinks. Wouldn't that make the break move into break up with Manning?

Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch Chicago Med Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

Beauty is Within the Items Itself: Life in Pieces "Pageant Bike Animals Jerky"

From a toddler rising to star beauty pageants to a musical about keeping your stuffed animals, this week's episode of Life in Pieces was another hit episode.

"Pageant Bike Animals Jerky" was a nonstop laughing episode of fun humor and outstanding performances. From Colleen getting Lark into the beauty pageant by dressing up, shaking her padded butt, and dancing like she was about to be on Toddlers and Tiaras to trying to get Joan's bike back after it was stolen, finding it on Craigslist and take it back with the help from Greg, Matt, and Tim.

But the one amazingly brilliant story was the musical story of how Sophia should keep her stuffed animals even though Heather doesn't think she's using them anymore. It was catchy, witty, and caught what I believe was the emotion of the connection between child and their toys that means that most.

The last story wasn't as much as the other three, but it still was funny enough to be a little story.

It was a brilliant episode, and after it aired, it should be renewed for a fourth season. If the other shows on CBS's Thursday Night all be renewed, why not this one? The writing seemed to be good, and the performance from Giselle Eisenberg, Hanks, Brandt, Angelique Cabral, and Wiest. Overall, I give this episode an 8.5/10.

You can catch Life in Pieces on Thursdays at 9:30/8:30 on CBS.

Playing the Favorites: Champions "My Fair Uncle"

Just as questions are being asked about how Vince and Matthew are taking care of Michael, until an unexpected guest makes his a visit.

Questioning how Vince takes care of Michael, the school has him and Matthew read Michael's paper about his daily morning that describes his father gets to sleep with a ton of women. Matthew tries to get Vince to hold off on dating for awhile, but when an attractive woman comes up to Vince about wanting to go out with him, he turns her down.

But that would change when Michael's uncle makes a visit and asked to hang out with him and take him around New York. At first it didn't seem right to see how an uncle treats his son better than he can but when Vince gets a message from that girl earlier, he accepts the offer.

Just as Michael is having a great time with his uncle, Matthew jealous calls Priya about it and learns that her brother is a user of drugs. He stops Vince and the get going to get Michael back just in time as Michael was asked to pee in a cup for his uncle.

Later on Vince apologies to Michael about the way that he has been around him since living with him and Matthew and will hold off dating for a while. But at the end when Dana comes in with the new plunger, there were something between them that could spell out romance.

"My Fair Uncle" was another strong episode that had good character development and down right hilarious moments. So much mentioning of the Broadway show Mean Girls, for which if Tina Fey sings at the end: I want to go to there and see. I really thought this was such a good episode and performance for Andy Favreau as Matthew. Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Champions Thursdays at 9:30/8:30c on NBC.

Crying on My Mind: A. P. Bio "Rosemary's Boyfriend"

When Jack gets a knock at his door, he doesn't expect to see who will be reputation there. At the same time, the students face the life of caring for babies that aren't like any other babies. Here's a recap!

Just as Jack starts his morning off, he gets a knock at the door with a surprise to him: his mother's boyfriend. Brandon comes with gifts of flowers and condoms and hopes his mother will be there, but sadly, he doesn't get the memo of her death. All of this pisses off Jack, and even to make things worst for him, Brandon asks if they could both be at her grave and have a good cry moment.

Jack takes his issues to his students, who are dealing with the crisis of being parents with loud artificial babies. Trying to get some ideas from them, he separates them into two groups to reduce the noise. But Sarika finds Brandon's daughter, Sadie, a lawyer, and Jack visits her to talk about her dad, but soon has sex.

The next day, Jack brags about his one night with Sadie and tries to use it on Brandon, hoping that would piss him off. But it doesn't, and it just grows him closer and more pleasant, for which Jack tries to sucker punch him but fails and gets taken down.

The following day, Jack returns to class and talks to the students about what had happened. He suddenly snapped and took every baby in the school and had them go for a swim, which got those babies quiet and made him think that Brandon wasn't such a wrong person.

Meanwhile, Stef gets asked out by the janitor, who turns him down and tells him that her friend Mary has a crush on him. He confronts her about it and turns her down, but she isn't going to take it. He tries to get him to fall for her but instead gets the other janitor to fall in love with her. She then turns the tables on him about how her friend Stef has a crush on him.

"Rosemary's Boyfriend" was a much better episode than last week. It had good humor and wit, not to mention good character development. I couldn't get enough of watching how Jack deals with his students dealing with their artificial babies. Michael Gross was excellent, not Emmy award-worthy, but still good. All in all, I give this episode an 8/10.

You can catch A.P. Bio on Thursdays at 8:30/7:30 on NBC.

Serious Circumstances: Chicago Med "Lock It Down"

When a baby is missing at Med, the place goes on lockdown, which leads to severe circumstances.

As Halstead treats a baby and is about to send him up for more tests, it turns out that the baby has gone missing, and leads Goodwin to lockdown Med til the baby is found. Goodwin gets Dr. Charles and Reese to help understand who would take the baby and where they would take it. As they search the hospital, Charles and Reese express their opinion that the person could be a mother who had lost her child before, and searching for records leads to one person who happens to be caught on camera dressed as a nurse.

She thought that she went to the newly built OB/pediatrics ward, but it turns out that she was in the old building holding the baby. Charles tries to reason with her, but Reese not only reasons with her but lies to her when she takes the baby, and the CPD takes her.

With the lockdown in effect, it doesn't do well when a trauma patient needs a cardiologist, but instead gets Ethan and April trying to fix the guy's heart. They face-time Rhodes and Bekker, who are at a banquet. While it's not going well from Rhodes's end, he heads to Med as Bekker instructs  Ethan on working the patient's heart; Rhodes sneaks into the building in an old passage that leads him to the hospital and performs a successful job on the patient.

But it didn't end there when Noah's patient couldn't breathe, and he wasn't around, let alone any other doctor. It leads Maggie to make the unthinkable but rational decision to help first, trying to tube the patient but couldn't, and that leads to placing a tract in her throat. It doesn't go well when the patient has suffered from a stroke due to the lack of oxygen. It doesn't look good for Maggie, as she's suspended for a week.

But it could get worse for #Manstead fans as both seem to be coming into good terms, and planning to talk about what had happened in the last couple of weeks turns worse for them. When they treat a patient suffering from respiratory issues, they learn that their cancer has grown and that there isn't much they can do. But when Natalie tells Will that there is an experimental drug to help shrink the tumor and thinks it's the best treatment, Will shoots her idea down.

Natalie pursues the idea with the patient and wife and gets the treatment going, but later, the patient goes into cardiac arrest and dies. Later, Goodwin learns about what happened and the experimental drug used, and Halstead blames Manning for it. It pissed off Natalie that he did it, and when the test results showed that the drug didn't kill their patient but helped shrink the tumor down. Will tries to give the credit to Natalie, but Natalie doesn't want it and tells him that she wants to be respected as a doctor and not be protected, even if they are in a relationship. But it put their relationship on a break for now (I hope).

"Lock It Down" was another intense episode that put the doctors and nurses of Med in tough decisions and circumstances. The character development was good, along with the writing. I thought Maggie and her decision as a nurse to put a tract for the patient was fantastic storytelling and should start a discussion: why can't nurses tube or tract a patient? Also, not to mention the storyline of Dr. Charles and Reese, as she learned that Charles talked with her father as a patient and wouldn't tell her. It also opened that she could or couldn't be like her father after she lied so well to the mother who stole the baby. And the #Manstead storyline takes a dramatic turn as their relationship takes a break. Not only does it hurt as a fan, but I also understand where Natalie is coming from, seeing how Will has protected her in the work area. Hopefully, he will change. And not to mention Rhodes and Bekker, as Rhodes still has a thing for her. But what the hell was that look between Rhodes's father and Bekker that seems very questionable?

Overall, I give this episode a 9/10.

You can catch Chicago Med Tuesdays at 10/9c on NBC.

Search and Get: The Blacklist "The Capricorn Killer (No. 19)

With ever so close to catching Tom's killer, Liz gets called to a cold case from her past that has reopened.

After the death of the detective that was helping Liz in the case, an eye witness has come forward and identified the man who did it as Ian. It's just one step close for Liz to bring that man to justice for Tom. But instead of bring the witness back to D.C., she gets assigned to a cold case that asked for her personally to help on.

Known as The Capricorn Killer, it's one of Liz cold case that she has yet to solve and dives back in thinking the the killer has returned. But looking at the evidence of the sword and where it was made, gave that they are messing with a copycat.

As they got close to the suspect, but escapes, Liz believes that the copycat is a former officer and gets help from Red on getting documents of former officers. That would lead to one officer and has Liz follow him til he spotted her and taken her to a cabin in the woods where she meets with her own therapist. She tells Liz how she's been trying to find a way to get her into her side of things, in a way like Reddingotn. But that quite ended when the FBI showed up and she escapes with Liz following her. But Liz let her get away and in hopes that they would work together as part of her network team (like father, like daughter, right?).

In the meantime, Red tries to get to Ian to make an exchange waver, for which Ian wants Red to stop the witness to make it to D.C. Red did that as Aram transfers the man but gets ambushed and taken. Aram feels terrible and tells Liz that he's working to find him til she tells him that the witness is already dead, but really isn't as Red still has him for control over Ian, but mark his words that soon things will get small for him and when he figures out who Ian is, he'll strike.

Of course, with the witness gone Liz is upset and mad at what happen and when she talked to Red about it, she asked him if had anything to do with it. We all know that he did and that soon, maybe in the next episode that she'll figure out and the boiling point between them will go another high point.

This episode was another good one with it building up to where Red and Liz's relationship will go again after this episode but also even though it might be far now, but closer to Ian as well. Anyone thinking that Ian could be a long lost brother of Raymond or Liz's mother? He must be someone that's high on the crime rate to try to take down Reddington. But that scene with Aram and Ian was not only intense but when Aram tells him to back the hell off I jumped off my seat screaming "hell yeah!" Overall, I give this episode a 8.5/10.

You can catch The Blacklist Wednesdays at 8/7c on NBC.