Do they think we're wet behind the ears?
Why?
Why do writers think that this isn't going to annoy people?
Why do they think that the sudden appearance of characters that are vitally important to the series arc plot, which then plays out in the same episode is a good idea?
We get the big reveal on Henry's adversary this week and....
It's no-one who's been in the series so far.
So why be secretive,why be circumspect?
Well that was dull.
An uninteresting man, getting married to a boring woman, is killed in a tedious way.
He's wearing some clothes and they lead to a chain of events that include 40 minutes of nothing very interesting happening and the viewer getting restless for the end titles.
Thankfully, right at the end something arc related does occur, but it can't save this episode from being pretty much the worst of the season so far.
If music be the food of love...
Then throttling someone to death in their car with a double bass string and then torching the car and victim would be what exactly ?
The connection is a song.
The titular 6 A.M. a famous Jazz track that made the fortunes of a few, and being Jazz, probably bemused almost everyone else in the world, and will have prompted the age old question about this particular style of music...
"Is it supposed to sound like that?"
Well it's not up there with Game Of Thrones but it's certainly novel to have a dominatrix fitting a ball gag to a willing masochist less than 5 minutes into the program.
You can tell it's going to end well can't you?
Sure enough it's body dumped in the street time and off to Henry's autopsy slab.
Whoever marked his card marked the body...a lot. Whip scars, ligature marks, gag marks, its an MP's wet dream...
Some people eh?
You're born to a billionaire family, become a self-impoverished philanthropist doctor treating the poor of New York.
You end up receiving an award and it goes straight to your head.
Through the skull and into the brain in fact.
No misconceptions here, no trying to hide that it's a murder.
Thankfully I do not appear to be a psychopath.
Henry is called to investigate a package seeping blood onto Det Martinez's partner's desk (more of him later), it's a human heart, expertly removed, while the victim was alive.
The victim and circumstances to her death are basically a copycat Jack the Ripper killing, with Henry having a strong suspicion that his long-lived nemesis Adam is Jack, and is now starting again.
Welcome back to the 80's.
The 1880's.
And, strangely the 1980's.
Both of these decades are mentioned in this episode, one as cover (the 1980's) for Henry to mask that he's talking about the other.
Take one hammer.
I learned something from this episode.
OK - the pilot is out of the way and we have a series.
We don't need quite so much of the hard sell, we've got the origin out of the way, and we can settle down on the exposition.
A young woman boards a taxi in a panic, she is soon falling from a bridge to her death in the river. The police assume that it's a clear cut suicide. Henry thinks not.