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Sunday, June 13, 2010

THE CASE I WANT TO SEE ON TELEVISION

Steve Cole writes:

A six-episode two-night mini-series event.

EPISODE ONE: Detective Beckett and writer Rick Castle are summoned to the scene of a murder. There, precinct cop Sipowicz explains that the victim has been identified as Dana Walsh, an employee of a government counter-terrorist unit. CSI New York investigates the crime scene, and finds that the bullet came from a pistol issued to a Federal agent, Jack Bauer. Beckett tries to contact him, but gets stonewalled by CTU.

EPISODE TWO: Beckett contacts her old friends, disgraced detectives Mike Logan and Robert Goren, who try to find Bauer (working off the books) but are also blocked by the Feds. They do, however, find out about the murder of Rene Walker, and the unusual trail of dead bodies left behind wherever Jack Bauer goes.

EPISODE THREE: The case leads Beckett and Castle to Los Angeles, where Bauer used to live and work, and is rumored to be now. While there, clues lead them to a crime scene on the docks, where Bauer was reportedly involved in a shootout. LAPD detective John Ford and his sidekick Miles are standing over another dead body. The detectives try to stay on friendly terms (this is an LAPD case but may produce information that solves the New York case) but things get complicated when NCIS detectives show up (the deceased is a Marine officer who had once worked for the counter-terrorist unit) and start arguing with California Bureau of Investigation Agent Lisbon and Consultant Patrick Jane. Patrick Jane and Rick Castle engage in a running battle of wits and unusual observations. Beckett asks Lisbon how long she's been sleeping with Jane. About the only actual information produced is that the Marine was not killed by Jack Bauer's gun, but that shell casings from Jack Bauer's gun (and the Marine's gun) are all over the place.

EPISODE FOUR: The plot thickens when Rick Castle finds a clue which indicates that the Marine office was involved in a smuggling operation based in Miami. It is unclear if the Marine was acting illegally, or was undercover as part of an NCIS sting. Arriving in Miami, Detective Beckett crosses horns with CSI chief Horatio Caine when she asks Callie how long she's been sleeping with Horatio. Because the CSI team has all of the evidence locked up, Rick Castle reaches out to an old friend, Michael Weston, who is able to track down a witness who is hiding out in fear for his life.

EPISODE FIVE: Information from the witness sends Beckett and Castle to Washington DC and a rogue FBI agent who had been investigating the counter-terrorist unit and the links to the Marine smuggling case. The agent is not at home; his body has just been discovered in the storm drain under a Chinese restaurant. The badly decomposed skeleton has been taken to the Jeffersonian where it is being studied by Doctor Temperance Brennan and FBI Agent Seeley Booth. As Beckett argues for access to the evidence (and gets thrown out of the lab when she asks Temperance how long she's been sleeping with Booth), NCIS agents arrive with their own Federal warrant. They agree to conduct a joint investigation, bringing their own expert, Abby Sciuto, into the Jeffersonian, where she and Doctor Hodgins flirt. This flirting annoys the heck out of artist Angela, who sneaks the evidence out the back door to the fuming Detective Beckett.

EPISODE SIX: Beckett returns to New York with Rick Castle and confronts CTU Director Chloe O'Brien, demanding that she turn over Jack Bauer, and accusing her of sleeping with Bauer. Chloe seems to concede, and says she will arrange for Beckett, but not civilian writer Rick Castle, to meet Jack Bauer. Castle throws a fit at being left out, but Beckett agrees, and is taken away in a black helicopter to an Air Force base where Jack Bauer is supposedly being held. But it's not Bauer who is waiting for her there, but President Allison Taylor, who says "Thank you for all of your hard work, but this is now a Federal matter, and I have to ask you to stand down and stay out of it." Beckett is fuming mad. She wants Bauer in her precinct jail, and she wants him bad. She tells Castle that "people in high places" are trying to protect Bauer. While the case is never solved, Castle writes a book (which becomes a movie) in which Detective Nikki Heat brings down the president after sleeping with Jack Bauer.