Medium Liveblogging: Four Dreams (Part 3 of 3)

Episode Name: Four Dreams (Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3)
Episode Number: 039 (3.01)
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Devalos is in the hospital, where the doctor shines a bright light in his eyes and tells him he has diabetic retinopathy.

Hey, did Devalos call his wife “Lily?” I don’t think we’ve heard her name before.

The doctor asks him when he last saw a doctor and he fesses up that he can’t remember. Bet Lily is pissed now that she knows he wasn’t really at the doctor when he called her earlier. I would be, too.

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The Monkeyheads again. It’s the same dream Bridgette had before where mama and baby Monkeyhead get run off the road. Only this time, she and Allison have the same cartoon dream and wake up together in Bridgette’s bed.

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Devalos wakes to Allison asleep in the chair next to his hospital bed and is happy he can see. Allison asks him what happened.

Devalos: The dentist, the doctor, flying: those are my three big demons.

His mother ignored a little pain under her arm until her employer made her see someone and six weeks later she died.

Allison tells him the same people behind the home invasion massacres are the ones that ran the schoolteacher and her son off the road. He gives her permission to see where they lived then asks her to gaze into her crystal ball and give him some hope about his own situation.

Allison says it doesn’t work that way but she does know his wife loves him.

Allison: We passed in the hall… It just poured off her: I love this man. I am so angry at this man. I love this man – I am so angry at this man.

At the schoolteacher’s house, Allison thinks the paintings the schoolteacher was working on look familiar. They do! They look just like the Armand Vartanian from the first murder scene. Of course neither Allison nor Scanlon make this connection. Not yet.

Back home, Joe arrives with the girls and goes to change his clothes before heading to the food court at the mall, where the girls want to go for dinner. In the bedroom, he feels that cold blast again.

Joe: Hello? (pause) She is my wife, you know. Mine. I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, what am I gonna do, kill you? I don’t know what I’m gonna do but I will figure something out. I am going to make your death more miserable than your life.

He pulls his trousers off as he says this adding, “She’s mine.”

The window blinds make a sudden movement as if in response and Joe jumps off the bed, pulls his trousers back on, and goes to get Ariel to look around the room. Of course he doesn’t tell her she is looking for a ghost and she thinks he is a little nutty. The blinds move again and she tells him it is the wind, with a look on her face that reinforces the “you’re nutty dad” thing.

Joe decides not to change after all and rushes everyone out of the house. As he passed out through the hallway, we see Clay leaning nonchalantly in a corner. Trickster!

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Commercial. Geez I’m tired. Aren’t you people tired? Almost there! Who did it? Who did it?

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Scanlon awaits DiNovi at a restaurant and fondles the little gold box that holds the key to his heart, er…home, as he waits. They kiss when she arrives, right there in public, but then he jokingly asks her if she could have picked a more obscure restaurant. Hm, is DiNovi playing politics already, hiding her civil servant from public view?

DiNovi tells him they want her to run for City Council. He is ecstatic and supportive. When she jokes about sneaking from his apartment to her car at 6:30 in the morning two days a week, Scanlon says he wants to talk to her about that and reaches for the gold box but she says, no, it’s okay.

DiNovi: I realized something. I like what we have, the way we have it. I wasn’t sure at first. I’ve never been with someone who didn’t want to come home with me to my folks at Christmas but it’s okay. It’s actually good. One of the things these people said to me was, I guess a lot of the Union agreements … are coming up next year and the last thing they wanted to hear was that I’m…whatever you call this thing we have…with a civil servant.

Scanlon: They don’t want you sleeping with the help.

He gets a call and has to leave for yet another massacre crime scene so he tosses off a crack about being just a civil servant.

DiNovi: Are you hurt? You don’t even let me leave a toothbrush at your place and you’re hurt?

He says he isn’t hurt and he will vote for her, then leaves, but forgets to take the key with him. The waiter moves it from the booth seat to the table and DiNovi eyes it.

Oh, I hope they address the fallout from that in a future episode!

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Scanlon calls Allison to tell her the bad guys have struck again but this time the homeowner blew them all away. And that she had to come down and help him interrogate the homeowner because her boss (Devalos) is still in the hospital. (Really! She is just a consultant. Don’t they have real D.A. people for that sort of thing?)

The homeowner turns out to be Al Gardner, a balding pasty white guy who is an art dealer and just about the last person in the world you would think could blow someone’s head off much less three heavily armed people. Turns out he locked himself in his panic room but came out when they shot his Schnauzer Keesy and blew them away with a rifle he keeps for skeet shooting.

Euw! Allison just flashed on three Monkeyheads getting blown to bits. Lots of cartoon blood. Ick.

After Al describes what happened he goes to throw up. (Does anyone else think he is the mastermind? No? You’re probably right.)

In bed, Allison tells Joe the Monkeyhead bad guys are dead and she thinks it is finally over. Joe tells her he had a talk with (at) Clay and he thinks he is gone. Meanwhile, Allison is looking right at Clay sitting in a chair across the room.

Allison dreams one last time of Monkeyheads. It is the dream about the schoolteacher driving off with baby monkeyhead in the van but this time the monkey bandits don’t follow her. Instead, they steal the paintings she had been working on. Then a cartoon Clay peels up the edge of the screen and asks Allison if she’s figured it out yet ‘cuz he’s gotta go.

At the office, Allison tells Scanlon she thinks the schoolteacher was trying to learn how to paint the Armand Vartanian, to which he replies, isn’t that nice but what does it have to do with the other home invasions including those in two other states?

Of course she doesn’t know. Scanlon gets a call from DiNovi, which he doesn’t answer, then says to Allison, “Someone is in a mood.” Actually, I kind of thought he was but Allison apologizes, saying a friend of hers who was visiting left suddenly and she wanted to say goodbye more than she realized.

Scanlon: Yeah, goodbye’s are a bitch, aren’t they?

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Devalos tells the doctor he feels great and wants to get back to work.

Doctor: Well that’s what’s gonna kill you, you know, how good you feel? You have diabetes, Mr. District Attorney. I think that you’ve probably had it for years but you just didn’t know. It’s a sneaky little bastard. If you’re not checking for it, it doesn’t let you know it’s there until it is good and ready to give you a stroke or a heart attack, make you impotent, or strike you blind.

In short, she scares the crap out of him. Let’s hope he listens.

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As Allison drives out to the art dealer’s house to get his professional opinion on the Armand Vartanian, she calls Joe on her cell phone to tell her what she’s doing and asks him what he said to Clay last night.

Before he can answer, the phone loses signal and Clay shows up in the rear view mirror. He tells her Joe said everything she would want him to say if some numbskull showed up on her doorstep thinking he could have her back.

Joe calls back to say he can’t remember what he said exactly and it doesn’t really matter.

Joe: I don’t know what I was getting so worked up about. I mean, I’m here.

Allison: ‘Til death do us part.

Joe: Yes. And who knows, maybe longer.

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Al Gardner, the art dealer, arrives at the D.A. office to process paperwork about his valiant slaying of those evil home invaders.

Allison explains her theory about someone painting near perfect copies of modern masterpieces, going into a home, massacring everyone who lives there, replacing the authentic painting with a fake, and making buckets of money selling the original to wealthy collectors overseas.

For her theory to stand up, the Armand Vartanian she brought him yesterday would have to be a fake but he signs an affidavit saying it is an original. And in fact it is. It is not, however, the same painting Allison brought him yesterday. Clay had her mark that painting and the mark is not on the painting Al Gardner returned to her.

Pasty white guy is the mastermind! I knew it! He had his team of home invaders hit his own house and he shot them in the back. His own dog, too, the bastard.

Oh hey, Devalos mentioned having to give himself an insulin shot so he must have listened to the doctor. Yay!

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And it ends as it began. Allison provides voiceover as we see:

• Bridgette sleeping with a smile on her face;
• Devalos and Lily have a sweet moment as they prepare for sleep;
• Scanlon is wakened by a call from DiNovi that he answers but then hangs up on when the woman sleeping in bed next to him asks who it is. WHAT? Oh no, Lee, say it ain’t so. Not rebound sex. You haven’t even officially broken up with DiNovi yet!
• Allison wakes to have Clay kiss her…but then he turns into Joe. Was it Clay or was it only Joe the whole time? I am just not sure.

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