Major spoilers for the ep "Folie a deux." From the Reelblog, don't know what their sources are:

Hi, you should add 8x03 on your title

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Story details from upcoming CI episode 'Folie a Deux', scheduled to air Friday, November 21 at 9PM on USA Network.

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[Based on the Madeleine McCann story]

Based From a Wikipedia:

Folie à deux (literally, 'a madness shared by two') is a rare psychiatric syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis (particularly a paranoid or delusional belief) is transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie à famille or even folie à plusieurs (madness of many). Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as shared psychotic disorder (DSM-IV) (297.3) and induced delusional disorder (folie à deux) (F.24) in the ICD-10, although the research literature largely uses the original name.

D'oh!

I don't know how to edit thread titles. Can you?

I can't. You are the starter of this thread. Just click 'EDIT' on your bottom right, and you still can change it.

Could it be Eames' sister and her husband that have a folie a deux or the parents of the missing child? hhhhhmmmmm

News from Ausiello:

Question: When is Law & Order: CI returning? Got scoop?

Ausiello: L&O: CI kicks off its new season on USA on Nov. 7 at 9 p.m., and here's a little casting nugget to tide you over: Lynn Redgrave will guest-star in a late-November episode as a wealthy, formidable, and elegant woman coming to grips with her impending death. Piper Perabo also appears in the episode.

Guest Star:

Lynn Redgrave

I could be both.

Sometimes, the title of the episode refers to two different storylines...

8x03 "Folie a Deux" will be the third episode of season 8; and it stars Goren and Eames as well guest starring Lynn Redgrave, (here's her bio: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynn_Redgrave), and here are some interesting spoilers for the episode.

Click here for The cast reel at scribd.com

Click here for The story details at .:theReelblog:. site

Judging by the info three huge factors of the episode: the case is ripped from the headlines from the Madeleine McCann case, Lynn Redgrave will play the missing child's great aunt, and the first appearance of Eames's sister, Liz.

The title is interesting because Folie a Deux as I understand is "a madness shared by two" or a rare psychiatric syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis (particularly a paranoid or delusional belief) is transmitted from one individual to another; and judging the spoilers its the parents who will be sharing the syndrome.

**Here is my version of the synopsis:

When a child is missing, Goren and Eames investigate the child's dysfunctional parents about their and their child's whereabouts, even when the couple's friends and the child's great aunt are somehow involved. However the detectives must force to realize the child may not be alive. Meanwhile, Eames gets reacquainted with her sister, Liz.



Edited to show episode sequence and air date.

News from Ausiello:

Question: When is Law & Order: CI returning? Got scoop?

Ausiello: L&O: CI kicks off its new season on USA on Nov. 7 at 9 p.m., and here's a little casting nugget to tide you over: Lynn Redgrave will guest-star in a late-November episode as a wealthy, formidable, and elegant woman coming to grips with her impending death. Piper Perabo also appears in the episode.

Guest Star:

Lynn Redgrave

Can't wait to see this

I tried to search for it, and I didn't see it. To me I felt this one is easier, becuase you have both the casting reel and the story details at the same thread. And as well the meaning of the episode.

I wonder....if the sister that Alex is meeting is the same sister she was a surrogate for....could her sister be asking her to do it again for a little brother or sister for Alex's nephew? Just a thought... It would be my wildest dream come true if Alex talked to her sister about "feelings" she has for her partner. I keep remembering Dec saying she cares deeply for Bobby (or words to that effect).

I'm sure I'm wildly conjecturing something that will never, ever happen, in both instances, but...who knows???!!!

in the casting doesn't it say she was the surogate for this sister?

too bad we don't have administration to merge the two, this one is better worded in the title.

Any thoughts who will play the role as Eames' sister?

Whoever played the principal at the nursery school in Please Note...would be perfect! I thought they looked a lot alike!

Good insights, Firefall. I don't think Eames and her sister will be reacquainted, though. That suggests they have lost touch and I don't see not seeing her nephew. Maybe Eames gets really upset about the missing child and goes to see her nephew. When she talks to her sister, she realizes things aren't that peachy.

We don't know weather or not they've been in touch. Maybe it was harder for her to give up her nephew than the show has let on. The times she talks about, and the few times she's mentioned pictures, she could have gotten them through another member of her family. And they've never said the nephew she talks about is infact the one she gave up. Maybe it has just been too hard for her to see him a reminder of the family she doesn't have. Who knows maybe their getting reay for Eames to start thinking about having a baby by herself and that's what she going to see her sister for, a little sisterly advice.

I don't get it. First, they killed off Bobby's family, and now we're into Alex's family? They are not planning to make Alex miserable, too, are they?

She was having Thanksgiving with them when she was called away at the beginning of "The War at Home Episode".
I don't think that they are estranged.

Maybe her sister is ill and wants to know if Eames will take care of her son if anything ever happens to her and her husband couldn't (or wouldn't). This would open a whole new set of issues with Eames regarding motherhood. It could be a great out if KE ever wanted to leave the show.

Maybe the husband is in trouble and she needs Eames' help.

We could go on and on and on (I'm sure we will).

If Kyra Sedgwick wasn't so busy with 'The Closer', she could play the part as Eames' sister!



Their eyes are look-alike, jmo

Hi, you should add 8x03 on your title

[/quote]

Story details from upcoming CI episode 'Folie a Deux', scheduled to air Friday, November 21 at 9PM on USA Network.

*************************************************
[Based on the Madeleine McCann story]

Based From a Wikipedia:

Folie à deux (literally, 'a madness shared by two') is a rare psychiatric syndrome in which a symptom of psychosis (particularly a paranoid or delusional belief) is transmitted from one individual to another. The same syndrome shared by more than two people may be called folie à trois, folie à quatre, folie à famille or even folie à plusieurs (madness of many). Recent psychiatric classifications refer to the syndrome as shared psychotic disorder (DSM-IV) (297.3) and induced delusional disorder (folie à deux) (F.24) in the ICD-10, although the research literature largely uses the original name.

If Kyra Sedgwick wasn't so busy with 'The Closer', she could play the part as Eames' sister!



Their eyes are look-alike, jmo

That's a good point, but as for the Thanksgiving scene in "The War At Home" all we know is she was with her family. They've never said how many brothers and sisters she has. I come from a large family and I know from experience that when it comes to parents and holidays, everyone will call a truce for a few hours.

I still think they need to deal with the emotional issues of being a suggrogate, they never did that. We all know Erbe can play dramatic very well, she proved it in "Amends", they need to give her something to work with and that's a good heartbreaking topic. Towards the end last season all they did was keep her mad at Bobby, and that's just wrong, (we're all gonna side with hiim anyway, so what's the point??)

They definitely look alike!

I hate the fact that they killed off all Bobby's family, now they bring in Eames' family. Doesn't make sense.

I hope we're not running into Wheeler's family next

Alex is my favorite character after Bobby, so I am excited that we get to learn a little more about her!!

to bring to first page.

Relationships are a two way street. Maybe this time we will see Goren going to the captain asking him to ease up on Eames a little.

That's weird, there's an X-Files episode with this same title. Another one of my favorite shows.

Will Donnie be in this episode?

I didn't remember Xfiles names like I do CI names, CI is the only show I remember the name of episodes.

I remember both.

I am more curious of this episode than the first

I want to know more about what and why Eames is talkign to her sister. I think that it could be interesting, although I think that Iwould be disappointed if it were nothing. Like if they were just having coffee or something.

Can't wait for next year!

I'm on a mission.

I'm going to bump all the Season 8 Episode Threads that have fallen off the first few pages of the board.

Many of these threads were started when we were given a Nov 08, 2008 start date and have not really served their purpose.

I'm hoping this process will collect them all in one place and keep people from starting another 8 or more duplicate threads.

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Here's what I have pasted into MS-Word for 8.03 Folie a Deux

8.03/158. Folie A Deux [G/E episode] -
Breakdown

I'm on a mission.

I'm going to bump all the Season 8 Episode Threads that have fallen off the first few pages of the board.

Many of these threads were started when we were given a Nov 08, 2008 start date and have not really served their purpose.

I'm hoping this process will collect them all in one place and keep people from starting another 8 or more duplicate threads.

Do I have to change Amy's name now?

I'm worried about the heart-to-heart thing too.
Right now i'm in sensory overload.
I shouldn't have read this.

Oh, my! I've been so sick I've not been on for a few days. Now that I'm having my respiratory care from a hospital bed, this is great! I cannot WAIT until April! Lorry

oh man, I hope you feel better soon!

Love the siggy pic and the avvie!! sO COOl! (soory capps key is going crazy right now)

Hi. I don't think anyone has suggested this, yet, but it could be that the (or an)other "Folie à Deux" that the episode title refers to is the partnership between Goren and Eames. If Eames has a heart-to-heart with her sister about the tough year she and Bobby have had, this could clarify what she's feeling about the craziness that she followed him through all last year. In a way, all relationships are a kind of madness - an irrational devotion to another person.

Certainly, the relationship between Goren and Eames has, in the last few seasons, been characterized by an irrational devotion or dependency on each other. Goren's distress over Eames's kidnapping, Eames's defense of Goren to Ross throughout his mother's illness, the tension between them throughout Season 7 - up to and including "Frame". What used to be a more classic cop partnership has obviously developed into something more intense, and perhaps more destructive for Eames. I'm not saying that this is a romantic relationship, but the sheer emotional intensity between them has increased exponentially, and Eames might take the opportunity to talk to her sister about just how she feels about the way things have been between her and Bobby, about the "madness" of their blind devotion to each other and what it's doing for her or to her.

This is kind of what I'm hoping for - some insight into how Eames is feeling about her life as Goren's partner.

Welcome to the forum! Great observations. I would love to hear from Eames how she is feeling about everything that has happened to and between them in the last couple of years.

Welcome, thisisayellow! Love your thoughts, thanks for sharing. It's possible, since they used the title, "Betrayed" for both Ross' betrayal and Eames' "betrayal." The reason their relationship is so hard to figure out is because we don't know exactly what they're feeilng, and neither do they. Hopefully, they give us something to what Alex is thinking, like In the Wee Small Hours, and see if her feelings have stayed or changed since then. (By the way, I like how you said "blind devotion" , it matches.)

Thinking about this, and listening to "How To Save A Life" on my way home from the library, it occured to me that Eames's family might be attempting some sort of intervention--I read somewhere that Eames's sister tries to convince her to quit the force. Bobby might be a large part of her family's concern. Is this a crazy idea?

No not really.

Same thing happened in my story.

Lol.

I did have that happen.

MOARK.

Bumping this Thread, as its Airing Time should come up within the next month or so.

Bumping This, as it should come up for Airing within the next few weeks.

(Note, this is the 2nd thread I've bumped for this Episode; please use those we already have for discussion/commentary; don't start any more. Thanks)

Thanks for bringing back to the first page, L'2!