Clip of the Day, April 20, 2011 (219, 220)

Todd frantically trying to escape the police car. Jessica and C.J. checking each other's well-being...so cute.

LOL, woman on the police intercom: "guys, are you horsing around here or what?...give me a break, over." LOVE noticing little details like this.

Todd manages to escape the car...the door swung open awfully easy after he'd been struggling mightily before...but hey, he's Todd.

Even though he's just a character...you just have to wonder...what is he THINKING right now? It's a gift from God...that's the only way to put it. Then again, Todd told Rebecca about him being able to "sense" they were never gonna catch him while they were on the run, so I guess he always sensed some sort of higher power (in this case, Griffith and Malone, LOL) guiding him.

"Officer Manning" has arrived, as he has announced himself. What you are about to see is the simple fact that Todd would make a better cop than any of the cops in the Llanview police department. It's ironic, yet awesome.

As he's saying his tongue-in-cheek "thanks," you can just SENSE something big is about to happen. This isn't like the other times he got away, even though it starts out as such. You just sense, at this point...this is going to be a little different. At this point in the story, they weren't going to do the same thing all over again with him "slipping through their grasp," in the words of Bo.

And sure enough, here it is! One of the officers is injured but still alive and his life depends on Todd. Todd's conscience is put to the test here, and we see an official confirmation of everything we'd seen in Todd since 1994 began.

The dark humor is still there, too ("Sid took an early retirement").

The car gradually sliding off the cliff adds a lovely element of terror. Plus, Jessica is losing consciousness. All these years later and I'm STILL on the edge of my seat.



I LOVE this moment where Todd stands there, pondering his next move, as his conscience is no doubt sounding alarms in his head. The music perfectly enhances the scene. Sheer brilliance.

And so it starts.

Here's Todd getting to do yet ANOTHER voice. RH must have felt like Dana Carvey in those days.

"Todd Manning is dead." This character used to be quite intelligent. I guess we forgot about that when St. Jawn took over the character name several years ago.

Have I said how much I LOVE the music from these scenes? I LOVE this music. And thankfully, we'll be hearing plenty more of it in many scenes to come.

This moment. Oh. My. God. To this day, I question whether Marty wouldn't have first suspected she was hallucinating. I mean, what are the ODDS?

Here comes another pivotal moment for Todd.

Bo won't be fooled again into underestimating Todd. FINALLY "Bozo" is growing a brain.

And there it is. Gets me every time. Roger is in full flight in these scenes. In his words, comparing acting to softball, I think it was...you either hit the ball or you don't. In this case, he hits it to the moon.

Every line...every reaction. Are you sure this isn't really happening?

Oh, maybe I spoke too soon earlier. Come on, Bo, don't give Nora a false sense of security.


FAIL: None. This is probably the incident in Todd's history where you have to suspend your disbelief the most...the odds are BEYOND astronomical of this kind of coincidental incident occurring...but it is fiction, after all. And it's fantastic.