Friday, January 30, 2009

Eleventh Hour - Recap & Review - Eternal

Eleventh Hour
"Eternal"

Original Air Date: Jan 29, 2009

Nicola – TwoCents Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

Monticello Hills Country Club in La Jolla looks like heaven on earth for "real" housewives and golfers. At least until a car crashes into heaven, or more specifically heaven's pool.

The housewives are in a flutter as a women swims from the car in the pool, crying for someone to save her husband. A scantily-clad cabana boy dive to his rescue, but it's too late for Lowell.

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  1. Eleventh Hour
    "Eternal"

    Original Air Date: Jan 29, 2009

    Nicola – TwoCents Staff Writer
    nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

    Monticello Hills Country Club in La Jolla looks like heaven on earth for "real" housewives and golfers. At least until a car crashes into heaven, or more specifically heaven's pool.

    The housewives are in a flutter as a women swims from the car in the pool, crying for someone to save her husband. A scantily-clad cabana boy dive to his rescue, but it's too late for Lowell.

    An autopsy is performed on the pool driver and something surprising is discovered: even though he looks forty, he's fiftey-six. And something else, of course, warrants Jacob's attention. Lowell Parks had a heart condition - two hearts! Perhaps this is what killed him.

    Lowell's grieving widow throws a swinging shindig to remember her husband and Jacob and Rachel gate crash. She claims to not know about Lowell's second heart. Jacob and Rachel are curious about his lifestyle, so they visit his favorite country club. There they find some pills in Lowell's locker with an unusual label prescribed by a fellow country club goer – Dr. Bruce Templeton. It seems that Templeton was giving Lowell HGH – human growth hormone. This would improve Lowell's quality of life before he died, since he wasn't eligible for a heart transplant since he was a drinker and a smoker. However, that wouldn't grow a second heart.

    In what seems like a completely different episode, a young woman by the name of Grace argues with her brother Bryan about fights he's been getting in with other high school students. They hop in the car to go home, or at least Bryan does, when he realizes that Grace isn't in the car. She's collapsed next to it. While this seems completely random, we're sure Jacob will connect it all.

    Meanwhile, Jacob is testing the HGH to make sure that's what it is and that it wouldn't cause the double heart. That's not the cause, but he discovers something even more unusual about the heart. He's been keeping it alive and testing it, and he finds out it contains DNA from fifteen different people and counting! A hybrid heart!

    Jacob kills the heart and counts the DNA – nineteen different people. The only explanation is stem cells. It seems stem cells were injected into the heart to create new cardiac tissue and cure the sick cells. The stem cells would also cure all the damaged cells in the rest of his body, which is why he looked so good when he died. But the stem cells also caused the second heart, which is what killed him.

    Back to Bryan and Grace – Grace is in the hospital, very sick. She's counting on her stem cells to save her, just as Bryan's saved him.

    And now the connection! Bryan's stem cells were some of the ones found in Lowell's heart. He was diagnosed with leukemia and cured by his stem cells. Unfortunately, Grace had leukemia as well, and her stem cells are missing. It looks like there's been a massive theft of stem cells. Grace isn't going to make it without her stem cells, so Jacob's promised to find whoever it is who stole the stem cells and get them back.

    Jacob and Rachel go to the Davison Stem Cell Center to investigate and find out that Dr. Davison is at a "fundraiser" at the Monticello Hills County Club. They go to find him and tell him about the theft. He claims to know nothing about the theft or Lowell's stem cell-induced second heart. They head to his lab to check on his stem cell stock. It seems like it's all there, but Jacob wants all the samples tested. He's right to do it – the supposed cord blood is actually pig's blood, which replaced a third of the inventory in the theft.

    Meanwhile, the grieving widow Angie Parks is turning to her husband's drug of choice to give herself a bit of a touch up.

    Jacob goes back to talk to Grace and Bryan. It turns out their father left them after their mother left. We delve a bit more into Jacob's psyche when he talks about how he reacted when his wife died. But Jacob suggests they try to find their dad in case he's a bone marrow match for Grace.

    Jacob's not giving up on the cord blood, though. He decides to track down the pig used for the fake blood. It's a Mangalitsa pig, which has a specific type of blood. This is how they can track down the thief – find where the pig was bought, find the buyer.

    But for now, the pigs can wait. Angie Park is dead – suffocated from the stem cells she injected in her face. She went too deep with the stem cells and gave herself tumors. Just like her husband, she died for vanity, as it looks like Lowell didn't really care about his heart but rather his looks. Hood waxes righteous and claims that those who steal the stem cells are murderers by denying the people who need the stem cells (and I agree, frankly).

    Jacob does the right thing and goes after Grace and Bryan's father, who agrees to donate bone marrow for Grace. Unfortunately, he's not a match for Grace.

    Rachel heads to the pig factory to find out about the blood. Most of it is used in cat food but some of it is bought by the country club for food. She and Jacob head to the country club to find out who has access to it, and the only person is the country club manager Isabelle , who promptly locks them in the freezer. Rachel shoots their way out and they head after Isabelle.

    Isabelle used to work at a cord blood center in Brazil, which is where Davison has a sister company. Coincidence? Not so much. She goes to alert Davison and they run for it. Jacob and Rachel track Isabelle's company car as they head for the Mexican border. They set up a roadblock as she hurtles towards them, but she swings around and heads the other way. Isabelle and Rachel play chicken and Rachel wins when Davison chickens out and turns the wheel. Davison and Isabelle surrender and Jacob finds the stem cells in the car.

    Reunited with her stem cells, Grace looks like she's going to make a full recovery. Once again Jacob saves the innocent and puts away the guilty, all with a valuable life lesson about growing old gracefully.

    A charming episode, we didn't get much insight into Jacob or Rachel's psyche, but a happy ending goes a long way anyway. It seems like Jacob is full of wisdom of his own, despite not being very old.

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  2. This show mentioned Mangalitsa pigs. I imported the Mangalitsa pigs to America. You can read about them at http://woolypigs.com or my blog at http://woolypigs.blogspot.com

    I think it is really funny that they used my photos in this show. They contacted me a while ago to license them for the show, so I knew this show was on the way.

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