Monday, April 23, 2012

Whitechapel Episode 4

What do the Marquis De Sade and S & M club goers have in common?  Murder

The elusive poison has been identified.  It is something called Spanish fly which is rumored to be an aphrodisiac, but really it's just a poison.  It makes the victim's feel like they are burning up inside.  This is the same poison the Marquis De Sade used back in the day to kill several women.  It is a very rare poison that can be created by crushing a particular kind of beetle.  They find a firm that specializes in love potions and they trace an order to an S&M club.

Undercover clubbing and vampires

The team decides to go undercover to the S&M club.  It was funny to watch each cop dress up in their S&M club clothing.  Apparently, DI Chandler thinks S&M equals preppy.  Nothing says S&M like a sweater and dress shirt.  While undercover DI Norroy gets rufied by a wanna be vampire who knew the victims.  It turns out he just likes to rufie victims so he can suck their blood.  Creepy yes, but not a murderer.

How many personalities does it take to be a serial killer . . . three

Since the S&M lead led nowhere the team now believes the killer could have multiple personalities.  One of those personalities is a woman that poison's the victims and the other is a man that dismembers the bodies.  In order to find the killer they need to find a common link among the victims.  DS Miles wants to go back and investigate the missing girl who's body they thought they had identified but the DNA didn't match.  DI Norroy wants to give the public a profile of the murderer.  DI Chandler is forced to choose and chooses Miles.  This does not sit well with Norroy who looks down on Miles and apparently all sergeants.  She shows her true colors and Chandler realizes she is not the girl for him.  I think Chandler needs someone who isn't so snobby or so similar in personalities.  Two people with OCD would not make a good couple.  While following up on Miles's lead they find the missing girl.  It turns out she was being stalked by her former employer.  So they find the boss having dinner with yet another potential victim.  Because he has more than one personality he didn't know he had killed anyone.  His brain had created these personalities to cope with the rejection from his former employee.  The violent male personality takes over and injects himself with the poison.  I think there are better ways to cope with rejection.  I find ice cream or horror movies to work well.  Or buying yourself something new, like shoes.  Case solved.

White Chapel Episode 3

Look what's floating down the river

This episode finds our detectives searching for the identity of a young woman whose arm, torso, and left foot have been found near the Thames. Without a head or fingerprints they can't identify the victim. So they decide to follow the fox that nibbled on the arm that was found. They find the fox is nibbling on another body part, a left foot. So now they have two left feet which means they have another victim. That's where they stumble upon a house of crap. This house would win the award for best hoarding. Not only was it filled with junk, but that junk was also boobie trapped. Among that junk was not only the crazy woman that owned the house but also her husband, or to be more specific, his mummified body. I'm pretty sure hoarding falls under some psychiatric disease so they weren't able to get anything useful out of the crazy wife. They were eliminated as possible murder suspects. The team has concluded that a couple is behind the murders. Poison is a woman's murder weapon but the hacking of body parts is a man's murder style.

Love is in the air, maybe

So the female detective DI Mina Norroy seems to be a perfect match for DI Chandler. They both seem OCD and have similar personalities. Could this mean that Chandler has finally found love? He needs something else in his life besides his work. It might even help him with his OCD.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

White Chapel Episode 2

Do you know what's in your walls?

So creepy Salter from last week's episode turns out be just that, creepy but innocent. It turns out the prison guard let him out because Salter freaked him out with all of his talk. Now to the real killer, Sly Driscoll. Apparently we should all become super paranoid of any construction workers that do any work on our houses because you never know when one of them is crazy and decides to build himself a secret space in your house and live with you. It gave me flashbacks to the super creepy movie "The people under the stairs". I can only images those flashes of someone crawling on the roof were meant to show us how he was crawling around the walls, ceilings, and floors of his victims. Sly was intent on revenge against spoiled women because a female friend of his caused an accident where Sly lost his leg and his best friend, but because the girl also died in the accident she never had to feel remorse for hurting her friends.

Side note on the personal lives of cops

It was funny to see Joe react to his date with Lizzie. His OCD could not let him get past her incredibly messy apartment. However, it did lead him to figure out where Driscoll was hiding. He just needs to find a girl who is a neat freak. So it turns out that Miles's wife does not have cancer growing inside of her but a baby instead. That was a nice light note on which to end the episode on.