199. Release


Addresses the mystery surrounding the death of Doggett's son.


b: 05-May-02 pc: 9ABX16

How could the FBI cadet have passed any psychological exams that would he would probably have had to take?

Even better question - how did the United States' best and brightest in law enforcement manage to overlook the fact that an applicant to the academy had died in 1978? Any standard background check done by a daycare center on applicants would have picked up what the FBI missed...

yeah. I'm with you a hundred percent. It's totally unbelieveable that that cadet could to have lied to so obviously and not gotten noticed. I mean there are people that can't get into the FBI because they get a little confused on numeric details on questions of thier lie detecter tests. How someone could be so obviously nuts and make it far enough to be in classes and and stuff like that is just too far fetched.

I dunno about this show.

First, it was good that Doggett got some closure as to the death of his son. I also felt it was a nice portrayal of his ex-wife. The story told by Regali did make some sense, and I liked how it was not paranormal nor specifically directed against Doggett. It captured the shocking meaningless of those kinds of cases perfectly,

Secondly, sooo Regali is a psycho that kills women? I didn't quite get that from his characterization. That plot should have been trimmed up a bit or deleted.

Agent Hayes bugged me immensely. Was there a better way to do this episode? Yep.

I did not enjoy having Follmer on the take (although I didn't mind him shooting Regali at the end). The scene with Doggett and Follmer talking was painful because Doggett is so intent on finding out the truth that he talks seriously and without any deception to Follmer. I thought it was a nice touch having Follmer act sympathetic--I don't think he should have been a crook though.

Regali's confession (?) at the end was sort of convenient, but he did have that slick I'm Good attitude that made me believe he would do such a thing. Especially when he didn't skip a beat when he met Doggett in the bar the first time.

In happier news, Brad Fullmer (or is it Follmer?) has apparently cleaned up his act, and won a World Series ring with the Anaheim Angels. Nice to see that murderous, on-the-take FBI heads can still play a little ball.

Fullmer.

Actually, it's Follmer. (check the official site)

Yeah, but the baseball player is Fullmer.

I find doggetts behaviour a little bit strange: when reyes confronts follmer in his office with her story of how he was bribed, he counters by saying he has evidence for his story, which she hasn't and produces the files for the cadet. Why does dogget then believe that reyes was wrong and follmer right? He should know what kind of guy follmer is, and he should trust monica even without proof.

When follmer meets with regali so quickly afterwards, I hoped that doggett believed monica, the arrest of the cadet was a ruse, and that he had follmer watched or bugged. But no such clever thinking of doggett.

So a person who admitts himself voluntarily to a psychatric hospital to get himself healed will always be considered crazy, even after he's released? This prejudice from educated people is hard.

So why does follmer risk his career by shooting regali? Its nice to save doggett who was on the brink of doing it himself, but there's still the videotape. Or was he afraid when he saw regali and doggett together, that regali would come forward as witness about his bribe, and decided to risk the video rather than a direct confession?

I wondered why the killing of the women, too, but the cadet says that the 2nd woman picked up the wrong guy in a bar, so maybe they just saw sth. about regali they shouldn't see (like luke) and had to be killed. It was, after all, a professional killing, no deranged serial or sexual murder.

Killing luke shows how one-dimensional regali thinks, and how little regard he has for life: luke has only seen him as business man. He could have also posed as saviour and rescued luke, or said sth. about getting help, and call police anonymously. But he only knew one solution to the problem of being seen.

Oh no, Brad Fullmer got released! Will he return to his murderous ways?