*headdesk*
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serafina20Okay, you can't nitpick something if you don't know anything about it.
Does anyone else think this is a good rule? Because, right now, everyone at TheWitlessOafPeople is whining about how Michael told Mahone that DNA leeches into the soil. Because they've never heard about it on any other crime/forensic show before.
And yet, oddly enough, if you Google "dna soil", you get all sorts of interesting (and incomprehensible) links about doing just that. And, really? Common sense tells you that it should be possible. If your body is buried in the ground and decomposes, it doesn't disappear. Part of it becomes part of the soil.
The original question was why they didn't think of that for Steadman. I think that answer would be a. it appears to, right now, be an inexact process, something the PTB may have jumped the gun on (like LLI) and b. Steadman was given a proper funeral; Shales was not. The Company was doing it's damned best to stop it. They replaced the dudes teeth; do you think it's possible they'd forge results on the off chance Veronica (not so bright a crayon herself) did think of it?
Oh! And while on an important manhunt, being blackmailed by the Company, coerced to to things that make you soul-sick, after a heavy intense phone (sex) call with the man you're chasing, if you don't act 100% rational, then it doesn't make sense. Because, apparently, Mahone digging up Shales body to make sure it was still there negates Michael's "the DNA leeches into the soil" thing.
WHY? Why do I keep going there?
Oh, yeah. Boredom.
Does anyone else think this is a good rule? Because, right now, everyone at TheWitlessOafPeople is whining about how Michael told Mahone that DNA leeches into the soil. Because they've never heard about it on any other crime/forensic show before.
And yet, oddly enough, if you Google "dna soil", you get all sorts of interesting (and incomprehensible) links about doing just that. And, really? Common sense tells you that it should be possible. If your body is buried in the ground and decomposes, it doesn't disappear. Part of it becomes part of the soil.
The original question was why they didn't think of that for Steadman. I think that answer would be a. it appears to, right now, be an inexact process, something the PTB may have jumped the gun on (like LLI) and b. Steadman was given a proper funeral; Shales was not. The Company was doing it's damned best to stop it. They replaced the dudes teeth; do you think it's possible they'd forge results on the off chance Veronica (not so bright a crayon herself) did think of it?
Oh! And while on an important manhunt, being blackmailed by the Company, coerced to to things that make you soul-sick, after a heavy intense phone (sex) call with the man you're chasing, if you don't act 100% rational, then it doesn't make sense. Because, apparently, Mahone digging up Shales body to make sure it was still there negates Michael's "the DNA leeches into the soil" thing.
WHY? Why do I keep going there?
Oh, yeah. Boredom.
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Date: 2006-11-05 06:35 pm (UTC)You know what my big irritation is? "It's dumb to move the body!" Um, there's a difference between moving the body and just checking to make sure it's still there (since he's no doubt wondering *how* Michael figured it all out). He stopped digging once he found the body and then just kind of chilled for a few minutes. He pretty obviously *wasn't* moving it. Also? His yard has a big picket fence around it (check the screencaps from Otis, Subdivision and this week's episode). It's unlikely anyone could see what he was doing unless they opened the fence and walked into the yard.
Alex is smart enough to know what he can and can't get away with *at his own house*. If he felt comfortable digging during the day, that's probably because he *knew he couldn't be seen just by someone walking down the street*.
Oh, speaking of screencaps (and a little info for your series if you need it): according to one of the articles Michael found during his research, Alex had been with the FBI for eleven years at the time he was assigned to the Shales case (that certainly explains why Pam's so familiar with the background vetting process; he was with the FBI for practically the entirety of their marriage). This means it's *unlikely* the Company put him into the FBI (some people were speculating that was a possibility after Sullins' interrogation of him because large chunks of his personnel record are redacted), but rather, that he made his way into the Bureau and rose through its ranks on his own merits.
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Date: 2006-11-07 02:00 am (UTC)And I *completely* completely agree that it was a phone (sex) call. :-D