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<blockquote data-quote="Snarky Oracle!" data-source="post: 82335" data-attributes="member: 57984"><p>In <strong>'Glitter with a Bullet', </strong>a volatile glam-rock star (John Rubinstein) sees one of his bandmates in The Chromium Skateboard keel over of an overdose during a recording session. His death is suspicious, so Pepper poses as an east coast Rolling Stone-style reporter and interviews Rubinstein on his lush L.A. estate where a Hilton or a Colby might look appropriate.</p><p></p><p>But have no fear -- on the inside of the mansion they're all back in the Columbia studio set with the curved staircase and the paneled living room we see almost every week, with precious little attempt to disguise it or redress it.</p><p></p><p>She attempts to seem knowledgeable and hip by convincing the pop idol that she recognizes the classic jazz number he's playing on the saxophone -- or was it a tuba? -- and that she also knows whose 1948 version of the piece he's reprising. But the moment just doesn't work; she could have pulled it off easily in Season 1, but with the new suppression of her focused and knowing purr, she stumbles through the line like an Angel that Charlie might later hire.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWglitter1_zpswaoffun4.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 773px" /></p><p></p><p>Rubinstein doesn't like Pepper's intimations that he's being taken advantage of by his entourage and dumps her in a canyon leaving her to saunter back to civilization in high heels, but as his peers keep getting knocked off, it becomes abundantly clear that his manager and his girlfriend (Frank Gorshin, Robbie Lee) have an agenda -- one that involves cutting Pepper's brake lines when she starts asking too many questions, causing Pepper to overturn in virtual slow motion (because she's driving so leisurely any speed bump could stop the car).</p><p></p><p>Only bruised up, Pepper joins Crowley to bust the culprits, but while he goes looking upstairs at Pop Star High Rise, Pepper discovers the slimy agent and even slimier girlfriend in the recording studio downstairs trying to coerce a strung-out Rubinstein to sign some papers you know he shouldn't be signing.</p><p></p><p>Since Pepper is now a canary in the criminal mine instead of an actual police officer, she nervously picks up the phone in the studio's control center fully in view of the creeps in the sound booth. Does she duck down while calling Crowley upstairs so she won't be seen? Does she actually make the bust <strong><em>herself</em></strong>? Not hardly. She just sits there tapping her fingers, mumbling for Crowley to answer the phone, and hoping Gorshin's peripheral vision won't be operative for another few minutes. Of course, Gorshin sees her within seconds of Crowley taking the call<strong>, </strong>and the crooked agent forces her at gunpoint to join them in the sound booth. Pepper lamely demands the music man to stop singing those papers, Crowley soon arrives and busts the baddies, and Rubinstein has a drug fueled seizure and collapses.</p><p></p><p>Surviving his medical emergency, Rubinstein lounges on his lawn playing a lazy sax, while Pepper gives him tips about how to handle a musical instrument and to manage his career. And all is well.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWglitter2_zpsii7goi5y.jpg~original" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 788px" /></p><p></p><p>---------</p><p></p><p><strong>"The Purge"</strong></p><p></p><p>Crowley and the team try busting a truck heisting operation, but it's a dry run. Perturbed they've been outsmarted by the crooks in the very first scene of the episode, Crowley goes sniffing around the premises and gets assaulted in a darkened lavatory by a tall assailant with an unusually wide stance, but when the sergeant fights back with the butt of his revolver, the lights go on and there's the lifeless body of a little 15-year old boy on the tile floor.</p><p></p><p>Yeah, yeah, we've all heard <strong>that </strong>story before.</p><p></p><p>Once again, this seems like a prime opportunity for Angie to drive an 18 wheeler like she claims the producers never forgave her for refusing to do. Or was that earlier in "Pawns of Power" about secret traveling casinos, or perhaps back in Season 1 in "Bloody Nose" about truck hijackings? Or maybe an entire episode they never made? We just don't know.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/angieonwheels.jpg~original" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 697px" /></p><p></p><p>The dead boy turns out to be the nephew of the mobster bastard named Basterie (Rick Jason) whom they're investigating, and Internal Affairs gives Crowley a hard time, especially because the bust was fruitless. Unwilling to sit by passively, Crowley gets caught staking out the kingpin and promptly gets suspended.</p><p></p><p>Pepper's efforts to obtain a warrant against the mafia don fail when a pompous judge turns her request down, and she wonders why she always thinks she's so much smarter than everybody else in a speech to Royster one wonders might be the brass editorializing about Angie Dickinson and not Pepper about Pepper. (Since when does Pepper think she's smarter than everybody else??) So I guess those producers <em><strong>really </strong></em>wanted Angie to drive that truck!</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWpurge1_zpsxeqkpgim.jpg~original" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 775px" /></p><p></p><p>So she approaches an experienced fence (David Huddleston) who wants his old partner sprung from the slammer in exchange for his setting up a sting to prove that the unit's actions against Basterie were valid and that they'd had reason to be there the night the innocent boy died, and thus clear Crowley of suspension and even possible charges.</p><p></p><p>It works, the bust goes down, and everybody's happy that Crowley got his little badge back. But Bill confesses on his apartment balcony to Pepper that his accidental killing of that teenaged boy has changed his view of his job and his own life permanently.</p><p></p><p>Pepper gives him one of those silent gazes which might be soulfully sympathetic or could just mean she hopes he'll shut up.</p><p></p><p><img src="http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWpurge2_zpsztqjjffj.jpg~original" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="width: 781px" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Snarky Oracle!, post: 82335, member: 57984"] In [B]'Glitter with a Bullet', [/B]a volatile glam-rock star (John Rubinstein) sees one of his bandmates in The Chromium Skateboard keel over of an overdose during a recording session. His death is suspicious, so Pepper poses as an east coast Rolling Stone-style reporter and interviews Rubinstein on his lush L.A. estate where a Hilton or a Colby might look appropriate. But have no fear -- on the inside of the mansion they're all back in the Columbia studio set with the curved staircase and the paneled living room we see almost every week, with precious little attempt to disguise it or redress it. She attempts to seem knowledgeable and hip by convincing the pop idol that she recognizes the classic jazz number he's playing on the saxophone -- or was it a tuba? -- and that she also knows whose 1948 version of the piece he's reprising. But the moment just doesn't work; she could have pulled it off easily in Season 1, but with the new suppression of her focused and knowing purr, she stumbles through the line like an Angel that Charlie might later hire. [IMG width="773px"]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWglitter1_zpswaoffun4.jpg[/IMG] Rubinstein doesn't like Pepper's intimations that he's being taken advantage of by his entourage and dumps her in a canyon leaving her to saunter back to civilization in high heels, but as his peers keep getting knocked off, it becomes abundantly clear that his manager and his girlfriend (Frank Gorshin, Robbie Lee) have an agenda -- one that involves cutting Pepper's brake lines when she starts asking too many questions, causing Pepper to overturn in virtual slow motion (because she's driving so leisurely any speed bump could stop the car). Only bruised up, Pepper joins Crowley to bust the culprits, but while he goes looking upstairs at Pop Star High Rise, Pepper discovers the slimy agent and even slimier girlfriend in the recording studio downstairs trying to coerce a strung-out Rubinstein to sign some papers you know he shouldn't be signing. Since Pepper is now a canary in the criminal mine instead of an actual police officer, she nervously picks up the phone in the studio's control center fully in view of the creeps in the sound booth. Does she duck down while calling Crowley upstairs so she won't be seen? Does she actually make the bust [B][I]herself[/I][/B]? Not hardly. She just sits there tapping her fingers, mumbling for Crowley to answer the phone, and hoping Gorshin's peripheral vision won't be operative for another few minutes. Of course, Gorshin sees her within seconds of Crowley taking the call[B], [/B]and the crooked agent forces her at gunpoint to join them in the sound booth. Pepper lamely demands the music man to stop singing those papers, Crowley soon arrives and busts the baddies, and Rubinstein has a drug fueled seizure and collapses. Surviving his medical emergency, Rubinstein lounges on his lawn playing a lazy sax, while Pepper gives him tips about how to handle a musical instrument and to manage his career. And all is well. [IMG width="788px"]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWglitter2_zpsii7goi5y.jpg~original[/IMG] --------- [B]"The Purge"[/B] Crowley and the team try busting a truck heisting operation, but it's a dry run. Perturbed they've been outsmarted by the crooks in the very first scene of the episode, Crowley goes sniffing around the premises and gets assaulted in a darkened lavatory by a tall assailant with an unusually wide stance, but when the sergeant fights back with the butt of his revolver, the lights go on and there's the lifeless body of a little 15-year old boy on the tile floor. Yeah, yeah, we've all heard [B]that [/B]story before. Once again, this seems like a prime opportunity for Angie to drive an 18 wheeler like she claims the producers never forgave her for refusing to do. Or was that earlier in "Pawns of Power" about secret traveling casinos, or perhaps back in Season 1 in "Bloody Nose" about truck hijackings? Or maybe an entire episode they never made? We just don't know. [IMG width="697px"]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/angieonwheels.jpg~original[/IMG] The dead boy turns out to be the nephew of the mobster bastard named Basterie (Rick Jason) whom they're investigating, and Internal Affairs gives Crowley a hard time, especially because the bust was fruitless. Unwilling to sit by passively, Crowley gets caught staking out the kingpin and promptly gets suspended. Pepper's efforts to obtain a warrant against the mafia don fail when a pompous judge turns her request down, and she wonders why she always thinks she's so much smarter than everybody else in a speech to Royster one wonders might be the brass editorializing about Angie Dickinson and not Pepper about Pepper. (Since when does Pepper think she's smarter than everybody else??) So I guess those producers [I][B]really [/B][/I]wanted Angie to drive that truck! [IMG width="775px"]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWpurge1_zpsxeqkpgim.jpg~original[/IMG] So she approaches an experienced fence (David Huddleston) who wants his old partner sprung from the slammer in exchange for his setting up a sting to prove that the unit's actions against Basterie were valid and that they'd had reason to be there the night the innocent boy died, and thus clear Crowley of suspension and even possible charges. It works, the bust goes down, and everybody's happy that Crowley got his little badge back. But Bill confesses on his apartment balcony to Pepper that his accidental killing of that teenaged boy has changed his view of his job and his own life permanently. Pepper gives him one of those silent gazes which might be soulfully sympathetic or could just mean she hopes he'll shut up. [IMG width="781px"]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b78/Marky888/PWpurge2_zpsztqjjffj.jpg~original[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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