Another great episode! They've fully recovered from episode 2. There's a lot to look forward to with the series becoming less procedural and more story focused. The growth of Cat and Vincent is getting really interesting as they help each other to heal. Muirfield continues to heat up and there is still lots of story to tell there. Anyone scared away by episode 2 is really missing out.

This episode Tess is getting really suspicious about how Cat is getting her mysterious leads. At first she thinks it must be Evan and Cat in a secret relationship but by the end of the episode she realizes that's not it. Tess will have to find out more soon or later and it will be interesting to see how that plays out.

At least she'll react a lot better than JT has so far. JT is like the ultimate jealous wife. After living with someone for so long it's normal to become close and JT has the added influence of being Vincent's protector. We've seen his constant efforts to keep Cat away and blame her for anything going wrong. This episode they finally have to work together to rescue Vincent. The development of this relationship should prove to be really interesting too. I do think I'm right about Evan not being used as the third point of the love triangle, that spot is taken by JT.

This episode was a home run and sets the stage nicely for a lot of great character development. I can't wait for Cat's Dad to appear and find out how he is involved with her Mom and Muirfield. Also finding out how Silver Fox survived and see him get more involved with Cat and Vincent. This season is turning out really solid.

Beauty and the Beast episode 4 Basic Instinct asks Cat "How brave is your love?" She flinches and then doles out two to Muirfield for making her flinch. Well it's more like four, four dead agents. Go team Beauty, Beast and the Geek!

This episode had it all. It had great parallelism between the case of the week and the developing relationships between characters (we talk about this alot in the podcast). Fantastic fight scenes: where Cat kicks some serious ass and dishes out one hell of a throat punch, JT kills a dude witha  bat and helps the Vin Man dispose of the bodies and Vincent in full on Beast mode causing explosions and choking out some fool! You've heard the expression "Give them enough rope to hang themselves." Well Vincent's motto is, "Give me enough chain and I'll choke you to death with it." They also tease us with a photo of Cat's mom at the Muirfield headquarters! What? So it is true she was working for Muirfield! Now I want to meet Cat's Father even more and find out what he knows.

Take away all that awesomeness and Basic Instinct was simply about going with your gut and having faith in good people. Early on in the episode Tess tells Cat she's "over thinking it" when it comes to playing baseball, but it was also good advice for what would come.

Muirfield drops some sobering facts about Vincent on Cat; he allegedly killed 500 people in an unsanctioned strike on an Afghan village. Th