1.8. Closure
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Episode Information:
 

Episode Number

8

First Aired

January 8, 2004

Production Code

108

Writer

Jon Harmon Feldman

Director

David Solomon

 

Guest Stars:

  • Ryan Kwanten (as Jake)
  • Mary Elizabeth Winstead (as Bridget)
  • Garwin Sanford (as Mr. Elkins)

Notes:
 
  • A.J. Cook doesn't appear in this episode.

 
Goofs:
 

·          There's only one listing for Elkins in the entire New York metropolitan area?

·          Considering the seriousness of Jake's condition, no one seems to have been in any great hurry to get him into surgery when he finally reached the hospital.

·          How did the MPs find Jake? No one except for him (and Tru, eventually) knew where he was headed when he left, much less where he would end up afterwards. He wasn't even in the same vehicle. So did Jake have a tracking implant or what?

·          Wouldn't the desk guard know when visiting hours are and just not let in visitors, rather than leave it to the nurses to turn away people wandering the halls? Otherwise, what's the point of having a guard at the front desk?

·          When Tru's talking to Luc in the new timeline, she has an umbrella and it's raining. Then she gets to the military hospital and the sun is shining through the windows and her umbrella is nowhere to be seen - do they have an umbrella parking area?

·          Where'd Tru get the car from? It could be Davis', but given all the running she's had to do in the past and the occasional plot devices about her needing to borrow Harrison's car, it seems odd she just shows up in one here without any mention.

·          It's kinda convenient that the magical online database that Tru uses to find the one and only Elkin listing in New York City doesn't have the new address.

·          When Jake put on his uniform in the hospital his name-tag was on the left-hand side, but later when they haul him away in the jeep at Bridget's house it's on the right-hand side.

·          At the end Jake doesn't have a monitor in the room keeping track of him - it'd be SOP for someone in such condition awaiting surgery.

·          The "Dad only calls every 5 years" thing doesn't make much sense, since Tru mother's apparently died 10 years ago. Particularly since they imply that's the only time they talk to him or had any contact. How did he get invited to Tru's graduation, for instance? And who raised them? The way they make it sound here, the mother died, and poof, they only hear from him 5 years later and 10 years later (today).

·          So why didn't Jake get Bridget's letters? They explain that her father intercepted his letters to her, but how'd he (presumably) stop her letters to Jake?

·          In this day and age does anybody really use telegrams? In the military, overseas soldiers have contact with people in the U.S. via e-mail and telephones - telegrams are pretty darn rare.

·          Once again Tru is at the morgue in the middle of the day, even though they went to great pains to originally establish she works the night shift.

·          In the first timeline Davis comes back from lunch with Meredith and as he's telling Tru how it went, Luc calls Tru and where he's at, it's night. Did it take Davis six hours to come back from lunch, or is Luc somewhere 4+ timezones away?

·          In the original timeline, Davis reads the medical report on Jake and it says the Army gave him a clean bill of health. Which totally ignores the fact he'd been diagnosed with his lethal problem, which is the reason Jake tried to leave and got shot in the first place. Or did the Army just not send the morgue up-to-date medical records?

·          No nurse in their right mind would ask another nurse for a "second opinion" on basic treatment for a patient, at least in front of that patient. Even doctors don't do that, and nurses aren't knowing for giving "first" or "second" opinions on medical treatments.

·          Even allowing for plot exposition purposes, that's one chatty doctor - he tells Tru (a nurse he's never seen before) everything about Jake's medical history with almost no provocation on her part.

·          Jake says he knows he's dying but isn't going back to the hospital until he finds Bridget. But...when Tru finds him he's just sitting on the empty house's porch, doing nothing. Considering how desperate he is to find her, he seems awfully lackadaiscal here.

·          It's a little iffy, but essentially most professional magazine companies won't give out someone's address over the phone - in fact, they'd ask the caller to confirm their identity by giving their address.

·          Wouldn't Jake's autopsy be done by the army/military (whatever he was a part of)?

·          Um... 1) Jake was in a hospital. Hospital's have their own morgues. 2) Jake was in the military. They also have their own morgues. So... WHY exactly was this military officer, who was in a military hospital, who died of a medical procedure performed by a military doctor, sent to a public morgue??