Off the Meter (7 Nov. 2006)

A favor for Ron gets very complicated for Jonas and Bob; back at home, Tiffy's guilt causes her to take responsibility for another's accident with potentially devastating consequences.

Director:

Alex Zakrzewski

Writers:

Eric L. Haney (book), David Mamet (creator),

Stars:

Dennis Haysbert, Regina Taylor, Robert Patrick

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Dennis Haysbert	...	Jonas Blane
Regina Taylor	...	Molly Blane
Robert Patrick	...	Colonel Tom Ryan
Audrey Marie Anderson	...	Kim Brown
Max Martini	...	Mack Gerhardt
Abby Brammell	...	Tiffy Gerhardt
Michael Irby	...	Charles Grey (credit only)
Demore Barnes	...	Hector Williams
Scott Foley	...	Bob Brown
Rebecca Pidgeon	...	Charlotte Ryan
Marlene Forte	...	Maritza Calderon (as Marlene Forté)
Jonathan Higgins	...	Detective Harley Krost
Brent Jennings	...	Detective Litsinger
David Meunier	...	Michael Angelli
Kyle Bornheimer	...	Officer Jones

Storyline

A favor for Ron gets very complicated for Jonas and Bob; back at home, Tiffy's guilt causes her to take responsibility for another's accident with potentially devastating consequences.

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Genres:

Action | Drama | Thriller | War

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Certificate:

TV-PG

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

7 November 2006 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Bay Kinescope, MiddKid Productions, 20th Century Fox Television

Technical Specs

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Quotes

Bob 'Cool Breeze' Brown: I'd rather have a sister in a whorehouse than a brother in the Navy.

User Reviews

Not One Of Their Finer Moments

One thing that is consistent - one of the few negatives in this fine TV show - is how often the women in here lie. They always, of course, have a rationalization for their lying and many times the show's writers seem to make it sound like it's okay...that the end justifies the means. Here, we see it early on as "Tiffy" (Abby Brammell) covers for the "Charlotte Ryan" (Rebecca Pidgeon), who nearly cracks her car up because she's out of it on morphine pills.

The "action" story involves Jonas doing a favor for an old friend, "Ron Cheals," whom we've met before, by going in and taking his daughter out of some cult. The wife of the friend is along to help with her daughter but loses her cool and kills the cult leader, creating a mess. In a nutshell, Cheals (Michael O'Neill) lies to the cops and, of course, more problems ensue.

This episode was filled with all these supposed honorable people - the men as well as the women - lying their butts off. The worst wound up being Colonel Ryan's wife who, up to this point in the show this year, had been shown as a good person. Her outlook on "the law" is despicable and sick. At least everyone had to sweat things out quite a bit for all their transgressions but a lot of stuff was left up in the air!.

Up until now this show, unlike the first year, had cleaned itself up, morals-wise, so I was sorry to see all this baloney. This left a bad taste, believe me. I hope this episode is an aberration for the second season. So far, it's the first bad one, so I'm not complaining.