The summer-season finale. I guess you get more advertising dollars if it's a finale, thus SciFi's decision to start having two season finale's per year…what's next, a semi-annual Lincoln's Birthday sale at the mall?

One case tonight centers around ghost video of a civil war soldier shot in Indiana. I'm not sure if that means the video or the soldier was shot in Indiana; though, since we're talking a supposed ghost, then I assume both might be true.

The second case revolves around an all-time favorite…cattle mutilations. And from the previews, the cuts are surgical so we have to be dealing with aliens. No earth technology exists to make surgical cuts. But then, given some of the issues in the past, we're not really sure what the term "surgical" means to these folks; especially when the concepts of "head lights" and "ask directions before you declare 'this is the exact spot'" seem quite foreign to this team.

Keep an eye out for wardrobe in the opening scene, the very brief shot I saw indicated a change of clothing. Although, it WAS a very brief shot and the guy with the telltale purple shirt wasn't shown. It may also have been footage from the "explaining how we overlooked everything" segment.

Six episodes and I know only two and a half of these folks by name when I see them. The and a half comes from the fact that I get Ben mixed up sometimes. No character development and no attachment to these folks. I guess the "no character development" comes from the fact that they can't think of anything else to make up about these guys and gals.

But, I digress again. I think the case I'll be more interested in tonight is the one about the Civil War ghost. It looks like they break out the ATVs and Night Vision again in an effort to make good TV (which usually results in a &@%*-Poor investigation) I've had no luck finding the alleged video of the ghost yet.

Corydon in 1863…VERY southern tip of Indiana. A raid by Morgan which resulted in a Union loss.

It was the only thing that got me through last night's episode! Those darned "parrots" Barry kept referring to were getting to me with all that squawking about crackers and I had to turn to something to ease the pain of watching. Actually it wasn't rum but it had similar properties…

Far as I know, this skirmish was the only action in Indiana of note. The video appears to be a ball of light of some sort. Hope it's not another car. What I've seen is so fragmented, though, that I can't be certain that it's not from their own investigation. You know, the part where they give up trying to figure out a normal cause and break out the Geiger counters and gas detection units.

Revenant said:

I think this is the video that they're going to use for the cattle mutilations:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uY9zcjpZvTU&feature=related

There's just no denying that evidence! That one is open and shut, 6-second investigation tops. In fact, it's so compelling I wonder why they'd even have to go out of the studio to check it out?

Revenant said:

I eagerly await Nosfer's review…

Have it about finished…if Judy thought there was bashing before, it's because of the sheer, absolute, unbelievable INCOMPETENCE of the investigators on this show which was only reinforced about a hundred-fold last night.

The second…I am still NOT convinced that Austin is NOT a spider.

I think it would have been funny as all get out if Austin had done this wearing a cape and a helmet with lightning bolts on it…his own version of a "super hero" :)

Yes, slow the darn video down, go frame by frame, basic debunking skills. Okay, I'm going to go there…my "spidey senses" were tingling when I saw the full-speed video and it just kinda jumped right out at me, pausing the footage was the coup de grace. I didn't mention this in the review, but at one point during the episode, they actually DO pause the footage. It's…it's…it's…I just can't fathom their thought process!