Friday, March 13, 2009

Eleventh Hour - Recap & Review - Olfactus

Eleventh Hour
"Olfactus"

Original Air Date: March 12th, 2009

Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

Manhattan - The red carpet is in full swing, with plenty of drooling photographers and other weirdos. One photographer seems into one of the models, Hailey Vaughn, for more than just her looks - her scent seems to send him into a frenzy. He starts to attack her when her agent, Robert Beltram, steps in to protect her. The photographer stabs him in the neck for his troubles. Meanwhile, on the catwalk, a bouncer seems to smell the same alluring odor and hops up onto the catwalk to attack one of the models. He snaps her spine and kills her.

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  1. Eleventh Hour
    "Olfactus"

    Original Air Date: March 12th, 2009

    Nicola – Associate Staff Writer
    nicola@thetwocentscorp.com

    Manhattan - The red carpet is in full swing, with plenty of drooling photographers and other weirdos. One photographer seems into one of the models, Hailey Vaughn, for more than just her looks - her scent seems to send him into a frenzy. He starts to attack her when her agent, Robert Beltram, steps in to protect her. The photographer stabs him in the neck for his troubles. Meanwhile, on the catwalk, a bouncer seems to smell the same alluring odor and hops up onto the catwalk to attack one of the models. He snaps her spine and kills her.

    Wait, is this CSI? Everyone has a coat... no, wait, there's Jacob, Rachel, and Felix. Felix says there's no relationship between the crimes other than they both happened to models in fashion week. Jacob automatically thinks toxins, but what kind? Felix and Rachel start testing things, but no substances seem to match between the two crimes.

    Felix questions the bouncer who attacked the model, but he has no idea why he attacked her. He tries to get the bouncer to tell him something, but all he says is that from what he could remember, he just felt like he had a connection with that model. Rachel interviews Hailey about her agent and the photographer, but she says she wasn't involved with either of them. Neither of them say they had anything unusual to eat or drink that evening.

    A nerdy girl, Gretchen Morris, at the front desk of Robert Beltram's office, has a conversation on the voice mail of someone she likes. Rachel and Jacob interview Robert's wife, Ms. Delgado, who also happens to be his partner, about his death. Jacob thinks she's hiding something so they go to talk to her assistant, Gretchen. Gretchen tells Rachel and Jacob that Robert had been seeing Hailey a lot before he died and they might have been having an affair.

    Hailey is having some trouble at her apartment when the doorman forces his way through her door, claiming her perfume is "the best." Rachel and Jacob go to talk to Hailey and find her dead, the doorman crying out on the fire escape with bloody hangs. He jumps from the fire escape to his death!

    Hood finds a couple of marks on Hailey wrists and Rachel finds a promotional box of Touchan perfume. It looks like maybe the marks on Hailey's wrists were from the perfume. Meanwhile, back at the agency, Gretchen receives Ms. Delgado's mail and talks to her crush, Rex.

    Rachel and Jacob go to a perfume lab to talk to some experts. Jacob riles a perfume fanboy by the name of Christopher up by talking about the de-regulation of perfume, meaning that its ingredients don't have to be reported. They talk about Fervor, a promotional perfume sent out to select models. It's the perfume that Hailey and the other model were wearing. Christopher agrees to test the perfume again. He goes and talks to the perfume's creator, Rennie, who says he already did all the tests that Christopher asked. There's definitely some bad blood between them.

    Christopher decides to do some tests of his own and hires a hooker to wear the perfume. He is observing his own reactions to the scent, and he goes berserk. She shoots and kills him in self-defence. Looks like he was innocent. Which leaves the trail pointing towards Rennie.

    Now that they have a whole bottle of perfume, they can test it! It looks like Rennie was using a neurotransmitter as a pheromone, aiming for an aphrodisiac but ending up with some violent side effects. The team begins to round up the samples of the perfume that were sent out. Felix examines video footage and finds out that Rennie is heading for the last night of Fashion Week.

    One of those samples, intended for Ms. Delgado, ends up in Gretchen's hands as she gets ready for a date with Rex. She uses a copious amount and hops into a cab. The cabbie is obviously affected by it. When Hood and Rachel find out that it must have fallen into Gretchen's hands, Rachel tries to call Gretchen, but Gretchen won't answer. They track her cell phone through GPS and Jacob gets Felix on picking up some antidote to the neurotransmitter.

    Meanwhile, Rennie is preparing for his showdown at the fashion show. Jacob and Felix track him down as he's dousing models with perfume and watching them get mauled by onlookers. Rachel sets some hounds out to track down the scent when she finds Gretchen's cell phone in an empty cab. They track her and pull the cabbie off, saving Gretchen from something violent. Jacob and Felix manage to pour the antidote into some smoke jets at the fashion show and drench everyone in it. It seems that Rennie held a bit of a grudge towards his company for never giving him any credit. Well, he'll be getting credit for this perfume.

    Is it just me or was this episode a little... simplistic? I mean, we've all seen the whole crazy-perfume thing before, right? And the smoke jets at the end... I don't think anyone didn't see that one coming. I just felt like this scientific mystery was a bit beneath Jacob and the gang. Any other thoughts?

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  2. I kind of would have liked to see Hood's reaction if he got a whif of the perfume, but of course somone to hold him back from hurting anyone. Just to put him out of his element.

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