The Future is Now!

So last time the future caught up to the present. Or should that be the other way around?

Anyway, we're live and in technicolour. What will happen to our hero next?

Chapter 8

Mitch is in his cell and the detective comes and tells him that he's free to go. His lawyer has been working hard to get him out. Lawyer? Mitch has a lawyer? what now?

When Mitch's belongings are returned, his briefcase (left behind at the hotel) is also given back to him. The Document is still in the pocket of the bag... hmmmm.

Exiting to the lobby we see Andrew and know that he was Mitch's lawyer. Andrew is brought home with the McDeere's to brainstorm about the case. They don't let him in on the document though.

Sniffle's boss is meeting with Tricia Helfer and Andrew enters to advise on the McDeere situation and what they know. After Andrew leaves, the bossman and bosslady discuss how to deal with our hero Mitch. They know he has the document, how to spin it and what line of BS to feed him is the question.

The McDeere's are talking about what to do next, stay or run. Mitch thinks it all comes back to Sarah Holt. Abby wants him to confront her, but Mitch wants more puzzle pieces first.

The case of the week cannot be put off. Mitch has to go in person to request a delay. On his way out the door he is blocked in by his friendly neighbourhood witsec agent. He found out that Mitch was in jail and is checking in to be sure the girls are alright and see if he can help in anyway. Mitch says no, he can handle it himself.

Case of the Week: The power of an idea

The judge won't delay the hearing for Mitch's personal issues. Everyone is dealing with issues and the judge proceeds to make everyone uncomfortable talking about his personal problems and potential need for adult diapers.

Mitch is on one side of an intellectual property dispute. His scientist is claiming that his girlfriend's company stole his research and she dated him to get to the info.

Mitch wins the case and Madam Pharma is ordered to cease all trials surrounding the doctor's research. After the verdict, she announces that she'll just have to buy his company and make the research hers.

Mitch takes his doctor to meet with one of the large stakeholders (Blake) in his little company and convinces him to stick it out. That the principal and the future prospects are better than the money coming from the sale. There is a TTC bus in the background before Mitch and Client enter the building. It's blurred out so I can't tell what route it is, but it's probably a Bay St bus based on where this show films and that all other routes in the core are streetcars.

Mitch's client loses his company the next day. Mitch confronts Blake when their paths magically cross on the street after hearing this news. Mitch berates Blake for selling out and Blake leaves Mitch with some paperwork and a parting shot about "eat that". Turns out Blake voted "no" to the sale. How did Pharma Lady get the company then?

Mitch shows up at Dr. Client's house to confront about selling his company and lying to Mitch about it. Pharma Lady comes in and tells him to just tell it all, it's confidential since Mitch is his lawyer. Doctor's tests were not working well. He needed more time to develop his drug therapy but his shareholders wanted results. Pharma Lady started running tests to help him find the answer, with her resources they could figure it out. Client's shareholders found out about Pharma Lady's tests and wanted justice. They never expected Mitch to win the case. The only answer was for her to buy the company and help him save his research.

Why would she do this at such a great cost to her company? Love!!!! Awwwww.....

Conspiracy Case

The family is reviewing all the Holt case info trying to discover what is so important about this case to land Mitch in jail and have Sniffles leap to his death.

Mitch confronts Sarah in an interrogation-ish room and shows her the shredder puzzle. Her response is to clam up and try to run. "I'm sorry I got you into this" is all she gives him.

Ray visits the hotel to try and get the security footage from the incident and try to identify the players. He can't access the computers in a timely manner (Tammy seems to be a little more computer savvy than Ray) so we see him enter a service elevator with the entire PC tower in tow like a large briefcase.

We see the exterior of Mitch's office. It's at Yonge and College in Toronto, right above the W Burger Bar (good food). Inside Abby and Tammy are poking at the numbers again and when Tammy needs access to something and can't remember the password, Abby says it's their tax ID# and then it dawns on her, all the numbers on The Document are tax IDs. All of them are Nobel subsidiary companies. Finally a break!!!!!! Now if only we knew why.

Ray contacts and old buddy from prison and calls in a favour to get access to the security footage. The hacker finds that all the images that would be important have been erased. All he can find is a sliver of a guys back on the side of a frame. We know it's the right guy because there is a suspicious bulge at his lower back that is probably a guy. Hacker boy is able to zoom in impossibly close to a reflection on an SUV's window and isolate a tiny tatoo from the guy's neck.

Andrew tries to be a good guy. He tells Tricia that he wants no one to get hurt. He doesn't want to be a part of this anymore. She goes alpha on him and indicates that her control of the situation is slipping and if he want's it to stay with no one getting hurt, Andrew needs to tow the line as she sets out for him. Bring in Mitch!

Mitch is introduced again to Mr. Sniffles' boss and he, with Tricia at his side, spin a load of BS toward Mitch about Sniffles being a coke head and embezzling funds from Nobel subsidiaries. He claims that the guys chasing Mitch were investigators and that they have been talked to about their inappropriate actions with regards to Mitch. He apologizes and calls the whole thing closed.

Mitch and family discuss the load of crap from Nobel Boss and in looking up one of the numbers again they realize that The Document has been switched and that's why it came back to him. We also see Nobel Boss and Tricia playing back a portion of the conversation that they got because the briefcase was also bugged. The Boss' are not impressed.

Time Jump: 5 weeks later

We're now introduced to a new future scape. A new climax if you will. It seems we'll be working the story in chunks and playing catch up to the future only to have the future bar set further forward each time we reach the finish without actually solving anything.

Mitch is woken up by a phone call in the middle of the night. Andrew tells him he has 90seconds to get out of the house and to look outside his window. There is a black SUV on the street and a couple of thug-ish looking guys in black are headed from the car to the house. Andrew's voice ends the episode:

"You just couldn't let it go, could you?"

I don't plan on letting it go. I'm having fun on this roller coaster ride. Until next time....