Case Histories Episode 5 - "When Will There Be Good News? part 1"

Jackson Brodie (Jason Isaacs) is on a job - taking photos of a cheating wife, somewhere along the Scottish coast. On his way back to the office, he stops to piss along the side of the road, and when he gets back into continue on, the car won't start. He calls DI Munroe (Amanda Abbington) and asks her in a round about way to send a squad car to help him, but she just hangs up on him.
At some point Brodie figures out that help is not on the way and starts walking. He is nearly run over by an old woman who swerves off the road after she passes him and crashes down an embankment on to the train tracks. He tries to get her out of the car, but a train is coming and hits the car and he is hurt quite badly.
Some man sneaks off the train and upon seeing Brodie on the side of the tracks, steals his wallet and his mobile phone, leaving his own wallet, or at the very least the one he was carrying. We see Brodie's perspective and he's walking along in the high grass near the sea and sees his sister all grown up and tells her that he is so very tired. She tells him to go ahead an lay down, that she'll call him when it's time to go. But soon he starts convulsing and we hear counting as the scene switches over to a girl, Reggie (Gwyneth Keyworth), performing CPR on him. Reggie is a friend of the old woman who was in the car.
Brodie comes to in the hospital and thinks Reggie is his sister at first and tells her that he thinks he's a cop. Reggie goes off to get someone and the next time Brodie wakes, Munroe is sitting there, but he thinks it is his sister, whom he tells is beautiful and that he loves her. Munroe is very confused and leaves.
Brodie checks himself out of the hospital against the doctor's wishes, the doctor who happens to be the new guy that Munroe is dating.
Reggie ends up convincing him to look for her boss, the woman she nanny's for, who is suddenly gone with the baby but without having taken anything for the baby or even packing any clothes.
Brodie also follows up on the case he was working on at the beginning of the show, finding the cheating wife who had gone missing while he was in the hospital and discovers it's the jealous husband she's running from and agrees not divulge where she's at once she convinces him that the husband was lying.
After tracking down the lies that the husband of Reggie's boss had told her, Reggie and Brodie are driving back when he get pulled over and severely beaten by the cops who think he is Andrew Jones - the man who switched wallets with him at the accident.
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"My name is Reggie, well, actually it's Regina, but I never go by that because people just say that it rhymes with vagina, which in fact it does..." Reggie is awesome. She keeps asking him why his daughter is in NZ and when he's not forthcoming asks him if she is down there making The Hobbit. The writer's have to know how much us nerds love having references like that thrown in.
Speaking of which, when Munroe is having her new guy over to meet the kid, he and the son finally hit it off by talking about Sunny Day Real Estate. I have to think that I'm one of about twelve people that got this reference and six of them were writers and producers for the show. Again, it's that whole thing about how us nerds love to be pandered to.
In reality, I'm sure anyone who is paying attention and cares enough to think about what is being said could get the first reference. Maybe not so many on the second one, but still lots, I suspect. I mean if a BBC show, filmed in Scotland with a Scottish writer is making references that some dude in Oregon is getting, they must be broader than my ego would like to think they are. Secretly though, I think maybe only a few thousand people out of the millions of viewers would have got the reference to The Hobbit without help from the internet, okay maybe as high as ten thousand because Peter Jackson is pretty famous. And for the Sunny Day Real Estate remark not more than a couple dozen of us actually are familiar with the band and maybe all of us have seen the band perform, but the hipster in me demands that I claim that I am likely the only one, okay maybe one other out of the millions of viewers of this program, that saw the band before they got big and lost members to the Foo Fighters. That's right bitches, I knew them when!