Touch (Season 1-Episode 4)

Sunday is a family day at the boarding facility and Jake gets to go out with his dad. Martin brought a red kite for Jake. He had plans to go to his wife’s grave but was having second thoughts. The case worker, Clea, convinces him that Jake deserves to know that his dad is missing his mom. So, they head off to the cemetery.

Martin finds a stranger at his wife’s grave. Just as he is about to question the man, Jake runs off after his kite and Martin has no choice but to follow him.

Jake leads Martin a good way and ends up at a door. Turns out, it’s the man’s apartment who was in the cemetery. Martin finds out that he was a friend of Sarah in her last summer. She tutored him in math and helped him pass his GED and get a promotion. Now, Bobby had been feeling guilty all these years because he felt that he had to repay Sarah’s debt. He ends up saving Jake’s life, thus relieving himself of his guilt.

The lottery winner, Randall, is another guilty one. He has to live with the knowledge that he may have left behind Sarah Bohm alive, only because he couldn’t carry her any further. He ends up landing at a church, seeking answers. As fate would have it, the Father leaves the church to him and heads off to live his own life.

In Iraq, we see Abdul once again. He is trying to give an audition in front of the American soldiers there. The friendly one of the troops has her own problems as she and another are ambushed and run for their lives. They get saved in the end, and she turns out to be the girl that the Father leaves his church for.

Earlier, Bobby had told Martin that Sarah had not been wearing her wedding ring. Martin is crushed to say the least. He had already been told officially that he would not be receiving any remains of his dead wife. When he comes back home in the evening, he finds Sarah’s datebook and sees that she had an appointment on September, 5^th with a jewelry store. He goes there to find out that she had given her wedding ring for engraving. The store had kept it all these years. Martin looks to see that the ring is engraved with “1+1=3”. Sarah had told Martin this when their son had been born, because they had become a family. Martin takes the ring home, finally holding onto a piece of his wife.

Community (Season 3-Episode 14)

We had a civil war ensuing on the campus of Greendale Community College. The episode was documentary-style, and hilarious to say the least. The narration, sound effects, stills capturing the scene of the battle, everything amounted to an excellent episode.

We had Troy and Abed leading their respective armies. There was Annie, playing the nurse on the battlefield. The role of war photographer fell to Britta, with dire consequences. Jeff was giving motivational addresses in both camps. Anything to get out of classes, right? Then there was Pierce who turned himself into a human pillow. Quite literally! And Shirley wasn’t to be left behind. Her shot, swinging pillows in both hands, was epic.

It all ended well enough. Troy and Abed making up, Jeff being the moderator of all people. Yet it was the style in which the episode was presented that stood out. Loved every second of it!  

Grey’s Anatomy (Season 8-Episode 18)

There is a lion on the loose in Seattle. Turns out, it is a pet! Yes, one lady was crazy enough to have a lion in her two-room apartment. Both she and her date end up in the hospital after an attack by the big cat. Richard Webber ends up adding a lion’s tooth to his collection of strange materials extracted from patients’ bodies.

Derek and Meredith’s ‘dream house’ is inching closer to completion. Derek, like from the start, is sweating over every tile, door and window. While Meredith is only interested in having a big ‘reveal’ when the house is done.

Mark and Julia are going to move in together. This leads to Lexie confiding in her ‘big brother’, Derek, that she still might have feelings for Mark. Derek, in turn, tells her to only go back to Mark if she wants him, and not just because he is with somebody else.

Callie is agitated when she learns that Arizona has quite a few past dates right there in the hospital.

Alex finally decides to do something about Morgan and volunteers himself off the service of Arizona.

Teddy comes to terms with the fact that she needs to grieve, and the first step is acceptance of the fact that she is now a widow.

And Christina is literally growing a new heart. Both, in the lab for stem cell research, and personally, as she tries to deal with a husband who’s cheated on her.