Reconstructing Alice

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“Reconstructing Alice”
Raines episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 3
Guest stars	Laurie Metcalf Cheryl White T. James Lynde Steve Hytner Mike Genovese Jim Parrack Alejandro Furth Christopher Shea
Written by	Fred Golan
Directed by	Peter Werner
Production no.	1x07
Original airdate	March 30, 2007
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Reconstructing Alice is the third episode of the American detective-series Raines. It was the first show of the series to air in the regular Friday night 9:00pm timeslot, on March 30, 2007.

[edit] Plot synopsis

Raines pontificates on the nature of sleep before being called to the scene of a homeless woman's murder, Alice Brody. Following the victim's trail, Raines discovers various stocks and investments in Alice Brody's name. When he interviews Mickey Russo, one of Brody's ex-boyfriends, he learns that Brody lost a husband and a son in Denver. More research reveals that Brody's investments were related to a technician on the financial advice show Crazy Money, Jason Kitman. When Raines gets a visit from a Denver deputy, he discovers the truth about Brody's family, and when Kitman turns up dead, Raines returns to the homeless shelter where Alice met Mickey to find their killers. Meanwhile, Dr. Kohl treats Raines by having him engage with his hallucinations during therapy.

[edit] Trivia

• Raines mentions The Big Sleep during his monologue about sleep, theorizing that Raymond Chandler may have been an insomniac.
• In a vivid hallucination, Raines recreates the Mad Tea-Party from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
• The "Mad Tea-Party" scene serves to clarify the nature of Raines' delusions: he can see the illusory victims interact with physical objects that they otherwise shouldn't be able to (doors, plates, etc.) because those objects become part of the hallucination. While Raines sees Alice manipulate his tea-set, the tea-set is not actually in use; similarly, when Raines saw Sandy open his passenger-side car door in the pilot, his car door did not actually open, but instead it simply became part of the hallucination.
• Malik Yoba (Charlie Lincoln) does not appear in this episode.