Journeyman"Blowback"
Original Airdate 11/26/07
Jeff L - TwoCents Staff Writer
Well folks, rumors are circulating. I’ve heard from various sources around the web that NBC is pulling the plug on Journeyman. According to some sources the show will end with episode 12, which means there’s only two episodes left. NBC is crying poor ratings and the no-end-in-sight writer’s strike as the reasons not to bring Journeyman back for more. Does nobody watch television at 10:00 pm on Mondays anymore? If the show does get cancelled it will mark the 3rd straight failure in that time slot. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Black Donnellys and Journeyman will all have failed in the Monday at 10:00 pm slot. What happened to networks moving shows around to try to find their audience? I guess that idea went out with Scrubs (which is also not coming back after this season).
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Original Airdate 11/26/07
Jeff L - TwoCents Staff Writer
Well folks, rumors are circulating. I’ve heard from various sources around the web that NBC is pulling the plug on Journeyman. According to some sources the show will end with episode 12, which means there’s only two episodes left. NBC is crying poor ratings and the no-end-in-sight writer’s strike as the reasons not to bring Journeyman back for more. Does nobody watch television at 10:00 pm on Mondays anymore? If the show does get cancelled it will mark the 3rd straight failure in that time slot. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, Black Donnellys and Journeyman will all have failed in the Monday at 10:00 pm slot. What happened to networks moving shows around to try to find their audience? I guess that idea went out with Scrubs (which is also not coming back after this season).
Remember Aaden Bennett from last week? Well he remembers Dan Vasser especially since he’s thought about him everyday of the six years he’s been in prison thanks to Dan.
Katie and Zack take off for work and school respectively. Dan hangs around the house, just long enough to get shot by Bennett. Bennett is one of those shoot first, look for the missing body later kind of guys. Dan and his bleeding bullet hole are back in 1980.
Dan wakes up outside a house where he tries to get help, but whomever is inside won’t let him in. He flags down a jeep and gets to a hospital. They want to operate, but Dan is being weird about them contacting his wife and Livia shows up and says she’s his wife.
Dan admits he should have listened to Livia and stayed away from Bennett.
Back in the future, Jack Vasser is talking to Dan’s boss. He’s asking about the FBI agent who’s been all up in Dan’s business lately. The editor tells him that he’s been checking around and that the FBI isn’t investigating Dan so any investigation must be by someone who’s gone off the reservation. So agent Garrity is a rogue agent.
At the hospital, they patch Dan up and give him some crappy 1980 antibiotics and he realizes that he must get back to the house where he woke up or else he’ll be a rogue agent himself. He can’t go off on his own anymore or he hasn’t “seen anything yet” according to Livia. Dan borrows some cab money and heads back to the house.
At the house, there’s someone inside, but they won’t open the door (word of advice don’t try to shoulder a door open with a gunshot wound) so he kicks it in.
Back in present day, Bennett is searching everywhere, but Dan is nowhere to be found. He sees some stuff on the family calendar and poses as a plumber who’s scheduled to come in the next day. He calls Katie and asks her to come to the house to “let him in.”
Back in 1980 and inside the mysterious house, we meet a 10 year-old boy. He’s been abused by his father and he’s very jumpy when Dan tries to question him. He won’t even give up his name. Dan offers to fix him some food, but the only thing they have is bread and ketchup so he makes a “pizza sandwich” for the boy. He starts talking about calling in Social Services and the boy locks himself in his room. Dan, who’s really done a nice job opening up all his stitches on that front door, is bleeding out but still trying to talk to the boy. Eventually the boy opens the door and agrees to let Dan help him, but just then his abusive cop father comes home and Dan has to hide. While he’s hiding he finds some mail addressed to “The Parents of Aaden Bennett” and realizes that the boy is the same man who shot him 27 years in the future.
Bennett poses as a plumber when Katie shows up to let him into the house, but he’s already been inside and when Katie sees Dan’s blood on the floor, Bennett pulls a gun on her. He is going to hold her hostage until Dan comes out from wherever he’s hiding. Bennett makes Katie put on an apron and go all Donna Reed and fix him something to eat. His mother used to make him food, before she left him with his abusive father when he was a boy.
Jack tracks down the FBI agent and Garrity shows him all the research he’s been compiling on Dan. He’s got every search Dan’s done on his home and work computers (and if you remember from any of the past recaps, Dan loves him some Google.) The searches have led agent Garrity to some interesting conclusions. He’s even got photos of Dan from when he helped that woman give birth on the plane in 1975 and from when he was at the airport in 2007 when he disappeared from the plane. Dan was wearing the exact same clothes in both photos so Garrity knows Dan is traveling in time. It’s not his first encounter with a time traveler either, but I doubt we’ll get to explore any of that subplot since the show is probably not going to be around much longer. Anyway, long story short, Garrity is after Dan for money – the kind of money one could make by doing something such as buying up all the shares of Microsoft when the company first got off the ground.
Bennett’s father gets a call on his police radio, and Aaden helps Dan to clean up his wound. He gives him one of his dad’s shirt to wear and Dan tries to leave but passes out. Livia shows up and loads Dan into an ambulance. They talk about Dan’s family and Livia thinks that perhaps her mission (remember she’s a time traveler too, but she’s from the past) was to get Dan and Katie together back in present day. The ambulance doesn’t make it to the hospital though before both Livia and Dan leap.
Livia ends up at the paper where she sees Jack talking to Dan’s boss about the FBI agent. Jack says the agent was rouge and that investigation has been called off. Jack spots Livia and it’s like he’s just seen a ghost – literally. He follows her onto an elevator where she tells him Dan is somewhere in the city and he’s been shot and he needs to be found.
Back home, Katie is making some Bennett some food and telling her about how Dan took six years of his life and if he can’t take those years back he’s going to take someone he loves. The doorbell rings and it’s agent Garrity who lets himself in and gets himself shot by Bennett.
Dan has found his way to a hospital and they patch him up again and give him some good 2007 antibiotics, those others they gave him in 1980 wouldn’t work at all according to the nurse. Jack finds him at the hospital and they hightail it over to Dan’s house to save Katie. On the way they call the house and Bennett says he’s going to kill Katie if he doesn’t come out from wherever he’s hiding. Dan gets Bennett to give Katie the phone and Dan tells her to ask him if he wants a pizza sandwich. Bennett freaks out when he remembers helping that wounded man when he was a kid – the one who made him a pizza sandwich. Dan shows up and Bennett flips out about going to prison. He said he was just taking those girls to give them a better home (yeah right, locked up in some crawlspace doesn’t sound like a better home to me). Dan talks him down and Jack doesn’t get the chance to shoot him like he wanted to. Bennett surrenders.
Well things were really starting to get interesting. Now that Jack is in on the whole time travel thing and agent Garrity isn’t around to poke his nose where it doesn’t belong. Too bad we only have two episodes left before this show goes dark forever (if the rumors are true). The idea of sending bottles of aspirin to NBC (remember Dan gets those headaches before he leaps) has been bandied about a la the Jericho-peanut-campaign. Who’s up for it?