Ah, you say - starting your “Ah” shit again - but he just learned Lisa betrayed him! Hello, McFly, Ben was a con-man! He was just using her! Ben is already busted and will go to jail. Yes it is a twist, but I’m not sure why it matters. Moss says he is going to call his client - Lisa. Moss says Peter was perfectly healthy and also very wealthy aside from Lisa’s dough.īen takes a swing at Moss, but Moss conks him on the noggin with his pistol. Ben says it was a heart attack - after all, Lisa said he had a bum ticker. 3 seconds after he himself just entered the same unlocked door. And BTW, what sumptuous Taj Mahal spotlighted in Architectural Architectual Architectural Digest has giant double doors like these on the shitter?īlah blah blog. Really? Unnecessarily ruining the carpet, causing thousands of dollars of structural damage, and pissing off his neighbors? Ah, you say. But wait, why then does Ben close the bathroom doors and bedroom doors if he is just going to go back in and turn off the water? Ah, you say, he is going to leave the water running until it overflows and his downstairs neighbor calls the cops. Ah, you say, if Peter had a heart attack as Ben wants the police to believe, then the tub would have to be full because Peter could not turn off the faucet after his heart attack - so Ben is just allowing the tub to fill. Why? There was already enough water to drown Peter. There is a little episode-padding as he dawdles around and spends more time in that bathroom than I would if it were Charlize Theron in the tub.įinally he emerges, but leaves the water running. He turns on the water and drowns the limp Peter unconscious Peter. He then undresses Peter and drags him into the bathtub. Ben knocks him out with a single punch to the kisser. Peter says he must be joking (when actually he is foreshadowing). Ben suggests that Peter just married Lisa for her money. Ben says he is going to pay Peter a visit tomorrow. Ben breaks the mood when he says he needs $10,000 to meet the payroll at his silver mine which is no gold mine. So I guess the emphasis is on Investigator, not Private.ĭespite being adults, they take the car out for a make-out session which seems to be on the planet Vulcan. He tells “Ben” his client is paying him a cool $40/day to keep an eye on him. He “bleeds widows, blackmails married dames.” Moss says some of them take sleeping pills, or watch this episode. Moss says Fred Sheldon is wanted for bigamy in Miami. Whaddaya gonna do? Only 5 people had more appearances on AHP and two of them were named Hitchcock. The only constant is that his characters are old but he was born in 1897 and didn’t start showing up on TV until he was 50. We’ve seen him play a prisoner, a bum, a used car lot owner, a bitter old geezer, a nice old guy, and now a confident - and for a change - well-groomed, energetic, smiling PI. But every time I see Russell Collins, I never know what to expect. De Niro is such a drooling imbecile, it is impossible to take him seriously. When I see Jack Nicholson in a movie, come on, he’s never not Jack Nicholson. The man is Private Investigator Alvin Moss, played by Russell Collins.Ĭollins might be the greatest actor of all time. Let me pause here for a shout-out, and not just to wake myself up. In the building’s lobby, Ben is stopped by a man who knows him as Ben Conan aka Fred Sheldon aka Terry Lord. In some of the most boring exposition in this series, Ben tells Lisa that he never married because managing his silver mine keeps him busy, and Lisa tells him she inherited a business from her father which Peter is running into the ground (which might be OK if it were a mine). Just the way a man should be.” Then they kiss. Lisa tells Ben, “You are kind, steady, dependable. Lisa asks Ben how a man could change so much in just 2 years, “He seemed so strong, so capable.” To be fair, Peter is now 23 years older than his wife. Peter chugs some booze - inexplicably a penalty for losing - and passes out. No, wait, that’s a short film I saw earlier tonight two and a half times. Ben says Peter can pay off the debt by watching as Ben plows Lisa like the North 40. Peter’s wife Lisa reminds him that Ben has beaten him at cards, billiards, and golf - and that Peter still owes him $50. Handsome young Ben Conan is playing cards with Peter Talbot who puts the old into cuckold.
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