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S1/E4: "Callisto" - A Few Notes - Spoiler Alert

posted 8 years ago by NewBeginnings16
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Apologies (I'll go back through after re-watching and add the names I've missed)

Cold Open:

* Women runs into a OR where docs & nurses are trying to save the life of the woman on the table and losing. She "stabs" a drug into her upper body. She stabilizes.

Teaser:

* Benny & Marissa explain to Cable & Chunk what Callisto is. He overhears from the other side of all those screens.

* She's not being charged. Wanted to give the drug (which she developed) away. A big wig (Vandemere) says she doesn't have the right.

* Let's go to Texas (with Carrie, the drug developer woman). Not Cable. She needs him on the outside.

* Stereotype - pickup truck with American & US flags cruising through town. Music blaring.

* Meryl picks them up. Calls Bull "JB".
Another woman drives by and SHE knows Bull too.

ACT I:

* The team HQ is in a barn.
Chunk looks like he's never seen a chicken before - maybe he hasn't.

* Wouldn't it be easy to prove YOU developed the drug since you'd know the details.

* Bull gives Carrie hope - they just need to get the good folks of Callisto to love them more than they love the other side.

* Waitress is really former FBI - menu's are really dossiers on potential jurors.

* Meryl is actually an attorney. No trial experience but the town loves him.
Bull still hates lawyers.

* Judge has an hourglass on his bench. Weather moving in.

* W: Jesse Stern
D: Dennis Smith

* Picking the juror.

* Tornado siren going off. Judge picks jurors. (is that even legal?)

* Bailiff recognizes Chunk from his football playing days.

* Bull charms prosecuting attorney, Diana - he knows her. He lost the last case he was involved with when he was in Callisto before.

* Vandemere experimented on Carrie's little sister in the late 1990. Marissa tells Bull that Carrie is a liar. Broken wings.

ACT II:

* Vandemere had Carrie sign a non-disclosure. She used some of his research together with hers. He never put them together.
(To be honest, I didn't understand much of the science either)

* Just saw on Twitter (Jesse Stern) that the street scene was all CGI)

* Me thinks Diana informed the judge that the mirror jurors were what they are - he kicked them out.

* Love the analogy by Meryl. Person in pickup is driving around. Sees garden hose. Thinks put them together and then drives around putting out fires. What's that person called? Hero. Right.

* Jury looks bored out of their skulls at the science when a scientist is on the stand. Meryl wisely chooses not to question him.

* Jury in bar having lunch - taking about the case even though they're not suppose to.

* Bull knows they have to figure out how to use the system against itself.

* Who was Vandemere? I know I know him from somewhere!
Meryl more down to earth in his questioning.
Why didn't he put things together if he could?

* Right now jury prefers Diana. They need to stop thinking of her as the enemy.
Cable (Danny) found a photo of bull with a Fumanchu (sp) - he cuts her off before she can comment further.

* Diana joins the team at their table.
What happened between Bull & Diana? He started dating Benny's sister shortly after the case where the 2 of them met.

* A walk in a field.
The loss in that case was a 1st for him.
She sang at church - with the entire jury in the congregation. She won the case.

* Meryl being brought home (HQ Barn) in a wheelbarrow.
UH OH! HQ broken into. Papers everywhere. Laptops missing. Bull not answering.

* Wakes up in field - with a cow - no pants.
Was he drugged? (I actually hope so).

ACT III:

* HAH! Bull expected Diana's actions. Nothing in those notes was real.

* Bull showed up at the pub/restaurant sans pants. Chunk got some for him.

* Glasses for Carrie with technology built in?

* Benny working on the science to make it easy to understand.

* Grinning! Kids as jurors - using the breakfast burrito as an example.

* Carrie on the stand. She uses the burrito making as her example instead of science.

* Jury still split after Carrie & Vandemere have a bit of a shouting match.

* Seems Bull has figured out a way to win.

ACT IV:

* Bull has Diana fooled.
Carrie knows what to do.

* Bailiff and judge get phone calls.
Meryl looks baffled.
Tornado siren.
Basement for [almost]all. Bull outside.

* LOL! CGI from TAC. Danny Cable.

* Carrie & Vandmere having a "private" conversation.
She tells him "all".
Of course they're being overheard through a duct by the jury.

* Back in court. Plaintiff drops suit.
Why? How?

* Home. Bull disappointed he didn't actually get a win.

* Bull looked for people he could trust after his 1st visit to Callisto. It's never been about the money.
"You can't take on the world alone".

* Danny Cable did an obvious photo shop of Bull in a field with a cow wearing white boxer shorts with red hearts all over them. Smiles all around - including Bull.

Dr Jason Bull: Don't give up on people, they're all we've got.

[–] pchrp 8 years ago

Vandmere = Sam MacMurray?

[–] InfiniteMonkeysTyping 8 years ago

Vandmere = Sam MacMurray?

Yes. "Windemere" was Sam McMurray, who is known for...well... lots of things, including being a regular on the Tracy Ullman Show and (a little more recently) had a recurring role on The King of Queens

...And, as I said, lots of other things.

[–] mlaiuppa 8 years ago

It was apple strudel, not a breakfast burrito.

[–] seldon913 8 years ago

Lot of notes on this one, NB. Getting close to the length of the Obs. 

Typical Hollywood on the administration of the drug. Even if she had stuck the needle directly into the aorta, the effect would not be that fast. It would at least take a couple of minutes.

Disappointed at no Hudson Leick. They could have at least found somewhere to put her.

Hope we see that waitress/FBI alum again. Looked like Benny hopes so too.

On the topic of Benny, 4 episodes in and he always says, "my sister". I'd think he'd use her actual name at some point. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if he gets a phone call from her, and the phone lights up with the ID reading "My Sister".

* Back in court. Plaintiff drops suit.
Why? How?

I don't think it was explained. The best idea I have is that when Carrie explained her process to him, we heard him say that he never would have thought of her approach. Assuming he doesn't know the jury heard that, it could just be that he's not as evil as everyone said and was willing to admit that he was wrong.

I think Meryl/Bull's team missed one important question for Carrie: she should have been asked how much her research cost her. Considering Vandermere was saying the research wasn't cost effective, I'd say that was very relevant.

[–] eel2178 8 years ago

* Me thinks Diana informed the judge that the mirror jurors were what they are - he kicked them out.

In a town of 25,000, can you really come up with an identical mirror jury?

[–] eel2178 8 years ago

Nothing in those notes was real.

Was it really necessary to steal Bull's notes? Isn't Merle required to provide her with a witness list, or is that only in criminal trials?

[–] NewBeginnings16 8 years ago

Had nothing to do with who the defense was going to call as witnesses. The [phony] book was about strategy. What Meryl was going to argue (THAT'S never shared with the other side).

Dr Jason Bull: Don't give up on people, they're all we've got.

[–] eel2178 8 years ago

Of course they're being overheard through a duct by the jury.

How was that not jury tampering?

[–] seldon913 8 years ago

There was blatant cheating on both sides. The lady lawyer had the judge on her side, so if the discussion in the shelter had been attempted in the courtroom she would only have needed to nod at the judge and he would have stopped the discussion. Bull just arranged for it to take place where she couldn't stop it.

[–] tdickson 8 years ago

Did you catch the moment when Bull's notebook was open and the page was labeled in block letters "BULL'S HIT LIST" ?

[–] brimfin 8 years ago

Yes. It didn't have the apostrophe and was in all caps. Since it was revealed to be a book with bogus names of people he never intended to call that made it a "Bulls**t list" (I was going to submit it to Trivia but I waited too long. Someone else commented on it but only said it was a play on words. I would have said it was a PG swear-word sneaked in craftily.)