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This is a serious, even tragic episode, focusing on the disintegration of a personality under conflicting pressures. I usually favor the lighter shows (and I have to tell you that Shelley Long has a true star turn as a mystery writer with writer's block in a hilarious episode). But this is one etched into my memory. Joe Penny is riveting as Barry Van Dyke's volatile partner on the police force. And Barry Van Dyke may have been the best he ever was playing off Joe Penny's intensity.

I don't want to give any of the main plot away. I don't want to spoil it for the next viewer. So I will vsay no more about this episode itself.

Patrick Macnee brings his unique energy to Hawaii as Sherlock Holmes, and brilliantly plays off a confused and understated John Hillerman as Higgins. What a brilliant story for these two cagy actors to bring to life! They are more than up to the challenge. This is my very favorite episode, quite an accolade given the number of creative scripts and big name guest stars - the biggest being Frank Sinatra in a touchingly dramatic role. But I favor the lighter comedies: I, Witness, Legend of the Lost Art, the Luther Gillis episodes, and of course Carol Burnett as the hapless Sue. But my heart remains true to Holmes ... and Watson!

It's a horrifying subject but an inspiring film about one man's obsession with finding and freeing trafficked children. One DHS agent, tired of nailing pedophiles but never finding the children, goes on a mission that takes him far from home into the jungles of Columbia. He pursues one little girl as she's sold from one trafficker to the next. Because one little girl is important. And one man can make a big difference. It's a look into a world most of us recoil from: supplying children to the adult sex trade. But it turns out there is big money to be made snatching the children of the poor. Because, as a character in the movie says, you can sell a bag of cocaine only once, but you can sell a child over and over.