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A maintenance worker at an apartment complex uses his master key to get into a young woman's apartment, hides in her spare bedroom. And then assaults and kills her after she goes to bed.

Sort of a terrifying event, it seems she was home for some time study with a boyfriend as her attacker waited. I cannot imagine what it would be like for the victim here.

Surprised I don't see more talk about this one on a search.

I dunno, I just kind of scrolled through the season I've picking off lately and hit play on one that stood out by highlight-reading the summary.

Story starts, nothing clicks yet; maybe one I haven't seen for a while. Woman calls the police to do a welfare check on her husband who's locked himself in the bedroom. Quick flashes of crime scene photos including one of a green liquid in plastic cup.

Anti-Free!

If you were a big collector of DVDs like I was, you probably wanted to get everything show and movie you liked in a format where you can watch it whenever you wanted.

The DVDs for Friends included with all of the usual DVD features and extras, Friends gave you longer edits of the episodes that wouldn't have fit for first-run network TV in the '90s. Edits for some of the episodes can make the episode go for almost 28 minutes, a couple minutes longer than a network timeslot to allow commercials and not the genuinely longer ones aired towards the end of the series.

Mostly these bits are a couple lines near the end of scene as a throwaway joke to end a serious moment with a laugh, some are in-character adlibs that couldn't be on TV. (The episode where Joey and Ross are fighting to date the same woman and each are calling out the other's mistakes while waiting for a table with her in a restaurant. Their antics get heated, she leaves and Joey and Ross are at a loss on what two do as Ross's table is called, Ross asks Joey if he'd want to have dinner and Joey responds with, "Does a bear s*** in the woods?" In character. Great, an obvious adlib that couldn't have been put on TV.

Another great Joey one put in the episode where Monica dates the guy at the diner who writes a poem about her.

It's a shame these cuts aren't avaliable on the streaming platforms we have now, as it stands they're only on the DVDs.

(When he returns to his car and walks right to his flat tire on the otherside of the car.)

I mean, to be fair, he probably saw that that corner of the car was lower than it should be.

Monica is filling out Rachel's ER form, learns Rachel doesn't have insurance and tells her that an ER visit can be expensive; Rachel asks how much it could cost? "I do not know, but X-Rays alone can be a couple hundred dollars!"

I laugh hard. I'm pretty sure $200 doesn't cover the co-pay for an ER visit on my insurance.

Some of the earliest seasons are from the late 90s and some of the episodes that cover events in the 90s are humorous to me when some aspect of the internet has to be explained to the viewer. This kind of results in them talking in simpler words, likening things to everyday tangible objects, or trying to help the viewer gets convinced and perceived on how "big" or how "much" something is in a similar way but since it's something of large size they get a little more over-the-top with it.

For example: 7x35 X-Marks The Spot the killer used an early internet mapping system to send someone a map to the body of the next victim. The police are able to hunt him down thanks to a hidden element on the map the Killer didn't know about. They got to him by finding out where/when that website was visited recently by someone in the era and who looked at that spot on the map.

Parts of it just kind of fun to watch as they do this, remembering how the internet was back then and doing it myself with people new to computers.

Today they probably would just say, "Yeah, he got on his phone, found the map, emailed to his printer back at home and then it spit out a full color map 2 seconds later."

Tonight I'm watching Time Chasers (probably one of my last experiences with the Roku app.) And I have couple questions I noticed in the first few minutes of the movie that doesn't make sense.

1. Before leaving the plane with Morty, Nick pulls a 5.25" floppy out of disk drive of the computer in the plane. We then see him outside the plane, securing the door, both his hands free of this disk. (If you want to argue that between cuts he stashed the disk into a pocket inside his coat I'll all allow that but counter argue doing that would damage the disk (and this movie hasn't bought enough suspension of disbelief yet to allow that.)

2. Why not use the story about his more efficient fuel injector to bring the newspaper over? Certainly a story about a local developing such a device would be more interesting than a sky diving mother one.

It seems like more often than not a suspect's (or potential suspect's) alibi can be dissolved pretty quickly.

Excluding times when the person has records or witnesses to show they were geographically too far away to be a suspect; most of the time it seems like those giving, and supporting, the alibi are straight-up lying and falsifiying evidence. (I recall one where a guy happened to have a movie ticket stub to show where he was. He had bought the ticket and removed the stub but there was no proof showing he was actually in the theater watching the movie.)

So, what do you think? Alibis, a valid avenue of defense or just another mechanism a criminal can manipulate to get away with it?

I can't seem to find it no matter how I describe it to search engines and AI.

It was about a child parents said was kidnapped for ransom but they eventually found that the parents killed the. (I want to say they were newlyweds in a second marriage and wanted to start a fresh life and saw the kid as an obstacle. But I may be thinking of another episode there.

Anyway, the "focal evidence" in this episode was a smudge of ink on a ransom note that matched a similar smudge on letters they sent out from their company. The smudge was created by a damaged roller in their printer.

Sound familiar to anyone?

I usually find these episodes just as interesting, if not kind of more so when they still employ genetic testing procedures.

I can think of handful of them, the magic bullet, the apple juice, the mold in the old house, the woman that fell down the steps, the kid with the raw hamburger.

It's sometimes a... "relief" to get a story where accidents, corporate negligence and just pure random chance (the magic bullet stands out here) are the cause and not some deranged person.