Ok, I was finally able to watch the show this afternoon. I wont go through the blow by blow today, mainly just the most important ( to me anyway) highlights.

I want to start with the fact that this episode was really very good. I was happy to see it gripped me, and I became more involved than before.

Some of my views:

1. Eric and Jake at the hospital:

What I saw was what I would expect, a scary ops team coming in, shooting those that they decided were of no use, or were too sick and therefor a liability, and like the locusts they acted like, they came, killed and took.

That Jake was able to keep his head, and get the situation with the one good guy soldier was played very well. I felt it was truthful, not over acted. And I liked that they discussed the fact that Levaquion is a more potent drug in some situations than cipro. I know this to be true from experience.  I was actually sad when the poor soldier chose to keep the bad at bay while Eric and Jake got away.  That was a true soldier, even if he did do wrong initially.

2. I loved that Heather recalled how to make ice, and either tonight or tomorrow after classes I will be looking that info up, that is a great peice of life saving information to know.

3.The house to house preformed by Gray, priceless. Here we see a man who before the bombs was feeling as he were the “only” person fit to run the town, and he is the perfect example of how some will begin to act. We saw it implied that he killed that man in the mines, and we will see more  behavior changes in him in the future I am sure. There is a name for that kind of behavior, I think it is called Machiavellian behaviors. I could be wrong here, any Psych majors reading????

I am liking Hawkins more and more, only because of how his child is acting. I have 6 teens, and I know that they do not like adult liars, and will not act in a relaxed manner if they do not trust you. Since she has become more relaxed with him, I see that I am to trust him. Maybe he was involved in what ever happened, or knew about it a bit too late, I dont know. I just feel that there is so much more to him than I had originally believed.

Now, when one views the countdown video on the CBS website, we see that this feeling of mine might be correct. I only saw this countdown once before, last week after the episode. If I missed more, some one let me know.

I am going to ask that you view that count down video from this episdoe, and then if you are concerned about what you see ( or not) come back here and comment. I am , after having searched this info out and finding it to be in fact true, very upset.

I will say now, that the thought of some other government having their soldiers here on my soil and the fact that they were in fact attached to the Department of Homeland security, makes me wonder allot about what is really happening here in my country. I do not care that they were in a capacity of private protection, they were from a non American government, period!
I can tell you now, that I thought I had watched all the news reports on CNN and some on MSNCB before, during and after Katrina for the first two weeks. I saw much that upset me believe me. But never once did I see what I see on this count down video. Maybe I was not paying close enough attention.
I wonder if there was a reason this video was posted by the writers, and to be honest with you, I had originally thought that it was simply for the show, and not real. Wrong, and the few posts and news articles I have found mentioning these organizations from 2005 are in my links section.

Bottom line ~
I loved the episode, it was wonderful and I hope that the rest go as well. The writers are living up to my hopes and expectations I had at the beginning of the show.

Big thanks to the writers for adding the countdown video, it has informed me and others of things we needed to see.

your views?????