Chase TV Series

In tonight's 10th episode of NBC's Chase, Dallas finally got to play itself on TV. The opening scene showed our blonde heroine, crack U.S. Marshal Annie Frost, chasing a guy through the West End and the screen told us that she was, in fact, in Dallas. Never mind that the building through which she pursued the fugitive and jumped to a neighboring roof was the West End Marketplace, the same building they used for Annie's apartment in Houston a few weeks back. But what's with the show's strange oral fixation?

Last week's episode of Chase spent a lot of time in the Cedars neighborhood of Dallas. Tonight the show's location scouts were squarely focused on Deep Ellum. NBC's misleading promos for this latest episode, "The Longest Night," made it seem like Annie Frost was going to turn for some Silence of the Lambs-type help from an inmate she once busted, in order to track a serial killer. But what we got instead was an episode that taught us plenty of foolproof ways to avoid becoming victims ourselves. First lesson: beware the stranger bearing pocket change and transcendentalist quotes.

NBC gave Chase a break last week, so it's been too long since we've been able to come together to discuss the ongoing adventures of U.S. Marshal Annie Frost and her team. But fear not — it appears that we'll have plenty of chances to come. The network has picked the show up for a full season. This week's episode, entitled "The Posse," featured downtown Dallas and its environs more prominently than any installment of the series so far. Read on about how the Cedars neighborhood, the West End, and the city of Seagoville had the spotlight shined on them.

Romance is in the air, friends. The producers of Chase had the good sense to let the sexual tension between our heroic U.S. Marshal Annie Frost and bounty hunter Ben build for an entire week before letting us witness her cave in to his scampish charms. And what's this— young rookie Luke seems overly concerned for Daisy's well-being throughout the episode and then they make bedroom eyes at one another after downing a couple shots? Despite the fact that I've watched every episode of Chase, I couldn't have told you either Luke or Daisy's name before tonight. This was the first installment that gave the other members of Annie's U.S. marshals team a chance to shine, after she ended up in the hospital with ringing ears and a few scratches following her decision to run directly towards an exploding bomb to catch the bad guy. Follow the jump to find out how a blind man managed to successfully detonate a string of bombs throughout Houston, and to read about the pretend coffee shop in Deep Ellum and the convenience store in South Dallas that got in his path.

Attention, fugitives: If Annie Frost is on your tail, destroy your iPod immediately. This will spare the audience of Chase from having to watch yet another scene of our heroic U.S. Marshal jamming to the tunes left behind by her latest prey, for no actual purpose but to demonstrate how she’s working hard to get into the mind of the killer she seeks. This week’s bad guy, Adam Rothchild, is a ripped-from-the-headlines financial crook who defrauded pension investors out of hundreds of millions of dollars. He lives the high life, with expensive clothes and cars, high-priced pomade, and a beautiful wife and mistress by his side. (He keeps the mistress living well in a high-rise called “the Clifton” — which is actually the Azure in Uptown Dallas.) But Annie knows immediately that he’s hiding a secret past — Rothchild must have grown up poor. After all: why else would he have Damn Yankees and ZZ Top in his iTunes library?  These suspicions are confirmed beyond any doubt when an old home video shows Rothchild saying “I’m drunker than a boiled owl.”