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I was looking through an old architecture book, published in 1928, called Mediterranean Domestic Architecture in the United States by Rexford Newcomb. I found a single photo and plan of a small home by Walter De Garmo. I’ve seen many very large homes like 42 Star Island designed by him but this more modest example is unusual. It’s still beautifully detailed considering it’s small size.

Absolutely. Good choices. Sometimes, it depends on my mood. Maybe it's the plot that attracts me, or the cinematography. Many times, it's the music. But most of all, it's the acting that brings me back time and time again. Forgive Us Our Debts comes to mind. That ending with Crockett's shocked face, always puts a lump in my throat. And Milk Run with Jan Hammer's "Rain", also has an ending that grips me every time I see it.

This police warehouse is a tough nut. The appearance is like a big police station including warehouse and parking lots directly at the front. I scanned the whole complex around the PreTrial Detention Center but no match. The sign above the entrance "South Beach Quartermaster Store Room" is not much help for several reasons: 1. It could all be fake. The question is just how much effort they wanted to take for these two short scenes to travel and to decorate (one exterior when C&T go to the car, one interior when they question the quartermaster). Upon closer look, the sign above the door, as the "police parking only" signs could be fake, the storage could be a garden variety storage with just 10 M16s and a few handguns placed close to the camera just for this scene (there is no other clue in the scene that this is really a police storage) . What really baffles me is that the police cars outside are really marked as "South Beach Police" cars - did they really go that far to re-decorate several police vehicles for a 5 second scene on TV?. Although South Beach is a familiar term used by locals for South Miami Beach, there was -up to my knowledge - never a real "South Beach Police" unit but only "Miami Beach Police" - in this episode, the River unit of Dominguez is called "South Beach Special Ops" and Castillo mentions that the "River has always been South Beach jurisdiction", but this makes no sense as the Miami River is part of Miami and a long way from Miami Beach, a different city. 2. I searched for all Miami Police quartermaster, property or other police related compounds I could find. Of course, they will not publish the addresses for obvious reasons! But I checked one site in Doral, the other Police locations in the series (NW 2Ave, the training center in One way ticket, ....), but no fitting building. The distinctive clue in the scene is the parking close to the building with at least two entrances and the windows in the front facade. Even if the building facade was changed, these key elements would be still likely the same. Currently, I am stumped. I thought this would be easy. Location logistics would have said the short jail scenes and the police warehouse must be the same location or close.

That one about "first shoot" puzzles me every time I re-watch "Heart of Night" (btw an ep I really enjoy: nice story, nice plot, good action, and the last scene is ridiculously beautiful and poetic). Funny is that that line brings me not only "The Dutch Oven" back, but also "Give a Little, Take a Little". On GLTL Trudy fires in a most assertive manner at Cinco ! That in particular makes me think the whole idea behind "The Dutch Oven" is not that solid anyway (a continuity issue, too?). Already on S1 Trudy seemed to be prepared for nearly everything. Anyway, though I do like inter-episodes continuity, nowadays I guess TV shows have been taken over by it. One issue that comes with that package is that sometimes the series finale has to fix everything hundreds of previous eps couldn't, sometimes badly. There could be some fine TV shows with no continuous plots today. I just love a new ep that starts from scratch. Start Trek has always amused me with that (usually relaxed) "Captains Log" atmosphere. MV was a little different: it was so cool when the ep would start right in the middle of an operation. I think that MM once said -- perhaps on MV 2006 running commentary -- that he did it on purpose, he wanted the viewer to feel they caught the story and the action right in the middle. That narrative technique to me seemed to increase the feeling of "hey, there's new stuff going on ".

Morgan Ritcher's channel is very small, little views but she's a huge fan of the show. Her reviews are short and concise, she uploads twice a week and provides some good input. This is her latest video! https://youtu.be/uEHbyA0bTc4

Has that Art Deco motif, makes you think it was from the 30s or 40s.

In 1987 DJAngel took photos of the Bushido bath house on Ocean Drive at 14th St. You can see a sign on the wall for Penrod's, which we see in "God's Work". I don't understand why the sign was here, because Penrod's was down at 10th St.

That's a really good point.

And at long last...

Wow, they still have the exact same mirror as we see in the ep.

“European on your shoes” Jimmy Borgeus. Prodigal Son.

Smugglers Blues definitely has to be included! So is the 2-part Hit List & Calderone’s Demise (later titled Calderone’s Return Pts. 1&2 in syndication), as well as No Exit and Death and the Lady! There’s so many, though!

Hi, everyone! I hope no one minds me jumping in, but someone on Twitter tipped me off to this board. Thank you for the nice words about my series! I'm glad everyone seems to be enjoying it thus far. I'm having a great deal of fun doing it, so I'm planning on keeping it going.