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Episode Name: Four Dreams (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)
Episode Number: 039 (3.01)
MED-039 Summary | All Episodes
Allison wants to talk to Scanlon about her dream but he is in a hurry so he had her drive with him to a crime scene. Guess which one? Thaaaat’s right. They found a minivan sitting upside down in a couple feet of water and think there may be some bodies in it.
On the drive to the scene, Scanlon is talking about leaping. Out of something? Into something? Oh, leaping into living with someone. So that’s what the key was all about.
Aside: Is it just me, or does the scrolling scenery outside the car window as they drive look incredibly fake?
At the scene, Allison tells Scanlon you can see where the SUV bashed into them and ran them off the road but he only gives her a “maybe.” She give him a dirty look back but he doesn’t see it.
Allison calls Joe on her cell phone: I feel like a walking carnival trick. … What is the point? Why show it to me if I can’t prevent it?
As usual, Joe is the voice of reason.
They think it was a spontaneous road trip but the occupants planned to be gone for a while. Clothes. Food. DVD’s. They find a Monkeyheads DVD in the player and Allison thinks this is GOOD news? I see grilling of Bridgette about her Monkeyheads dreams in the near future.
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Sure enough, the first thing she wants to do when she gets home is talk to Bridgette. Joe says she is in bed but fought him the whole way there. He doesn’t get it since the previous three nights she couldn’t wait to go to bed.
Joe: Now she acts like I’m sending her off to the electric chair.
Joe gets a cold flash and says he’s been getting them all night. Allison tells him he must be going through the change of life. Ha!
Bridgette is afraid to go to sleep because her dreams are scary. Allison says Monkeyhead are funny, not scary.
Bridgette: No, no they’re not. Not lately.
My god, Maria Lark delivered that line like a 40 year old trapped in a 9 year old’s body. Oh I hope she makes the transition from child actor to adult actor. I can’t wait to see what she’ll do with herself.
Bridgette tells Allison about her dream: Mama monkeyhead and baby monkeyhead were in their car and the bad monkeys ran them off the road and they were upside down and bleeding and bubbles came out of their mouths and then they turned into monkey angels and floated up to heaven.
Awwwww.
Allison tells her she is 99% sure the bad Monkeyhead dreams are over for good.
Bridgette: Well I hope so because it’s really tiring trying not to sleep.
Out of the mouths of babes.
Back out in the kitchen, Allison finally feels the same cold blast Joe has been feeling all night. Guess who? Damn that Clay Bicks is sexy!
Clay: You know what else I heard? That if I try hard enough..that if I want it bad enough, sometimes someone like me can be felt by someone like you.
DANG! Joe came in just as Clay was about to kiss Allison. Argh! Oh wait. I like Joe. I am on his side. I am so confused right now!
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Scanlon and DiNovi make a date but it has to be late because she is meeting an old friend for drinks. Scanlon then walks in on Devalos sitting in the conference room, upright yet asleep. Creepy and alarming yet Scanlon does not mention it.
The woman in the minivan was a schoolteacher and she and her son were over 200 miles from home when they were found. When Devalos asks if they are sure the minivan was pushed off the road, Scanlon says no and launches into a mini tirade about how other things could account for the damage Allison says was caused by the other vehicle.
Then Allison lets slip that her daughter dreamed about the same car accident and drowning, only in cartoon.
Devalos: No leads on the home invasion front. There are cartoon forces at work pushing vehicles off of thoroughfares. It’s’ a wonderful day to be the District Attorney.
Everyone is an ass today!
At home, it is Allison’s turn to be cranky as she blows up at Joe and rants at the dinner table in front of the kids before declaring she needs a bath and leaving her family sitting there wondering what the hell just happened.
Meanwhile, Devalos is in the men’s room on his cell phone telling his wife he knows it is dinner time but he is still at the doctor’s office because he is waiting for test results. Then he walks out and we find out he is really at a bar. Niiice.
Back at home, Allison takes a groovy bubble bath with candles and everything. Joe comes in to tell her the kids are getting ready for bed and she realizes she has been soaking there for quite some time. Joe says she’s entitled and he won’t let her drown.
Scanlon lies on his bed turning the lamp on and off in boredom as he waits for Dinovi. Meanwhile she is having dinner with people who tell her how “deft” she has been covering for the Mayor before suggesting she run for City Council.
Scanlon puts the key we saw earlier in a small gold box on the nightstand.
DiNovi’s dinner companions tell her it’s no problem, politically, if she has a boyfriend as long as he isn’t a civil servant. Hm…which will DiNovi choose: Scanlon or political office?
Back in Allison’s bathroom, Clay appears as Allison takes a bubble bath and there is much back and forth about how he likes it at her house and how inappropriate it is for him to be there. Oops, and here comes Joe to brush his teeth.
Joe: Wet becomes you, my darlin’ … You come over here and look at yourself in that water. And the candlelight. Sorry baby, it’s bigger than both of us.
Clay thinks Joe is a big goofball, Allison says cryptic things to get him to leave, Joe thinks she is talking to him, and it all goes to hell in a handbasket when Allison finally says “Clay, I need you to leave,” letting Joe know Clay is in the room, too.
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Another cartoon dream. Monkey Bandits break in and splatter daddy monkey brains all over the library. Monkey mama gets it in the back as she runs down the hall and we see a pool of cartoon blood widen around her body before the cute little Monkeyheads spell out “The End” with their cute little Monkeyhead bodies.
Bridgette wakes up screaming as Joe and Allison run around the kitchen fighting about Clay. (If Joe is this jealous now, it’s probably a good thing he cannot actually see Clay or hear his gravelly, take-me-to-bed-now, sexy voice.)
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DiNovi calls Scanlon from the restaurant and says they need to talk but Scanlon gets a call about the latest home invasion massacre so they will have to talk later.
Devalos gets a call, too. His wife answers but Devalos tells her he’ll have to call them back.
Devalos: Don’t be alarmed but I can’t see a damn thing.
Don’t be alarmed? Don’t be alarmed?
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Bridgette is bawling from the top bunk of her bed.
Allison gets a call from Scanlon from the latest massacre and she describes it to him before he call tell her what happened. When he asks her how she knows, she says her daughter told her.
Joe lies awake in bed thinking Clay is there and, when Allison tells him he isn’t, moaning about how Clay was there for two days and she didn’t know it so she can’t really be sure can she? Allison calls him an ass and storms off to sleep with Bridgette.
Allison: Holler if you see a ghost.
Joe: If you see a ghost, remember: you’re a married woman.
Allison runs into Clay in the hall. Blah blah blah I hate you, you need to leave blah blah blah I’m here for a reason.
Bridgette hears voices in the hall and opens the door to say she had a bad dream and engage in some classic role reversal:
Bridgette: Did you have a bad dream. Do you want to come in my bed and sleep with me? That might make it all better.
Allison: If you don’t mind.
Bridgette: Okay just this once as long as we don’t make a habit out of it.
Continue reading at Part 3
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