[Eternal Flame]

by shinystar

JAMIE FARREL APPRECIATION THREAD

Jamie Farrel comes from a wealthy family, but he flees, and often gets into trouble. He finds Mike Olshansky, who often helps him and offers him a job as a taxi driver.
He has a bad relationship with his mother and father, and lost his brother.

Episodes with Jamie Farrel (Season 2):

• See No Evil
  Starting out fresh, Mike puts some distance between himself and Marcellus, grieves over Grizz's transfer to New Orleans, and moves into a new house, where he meets his energetic new neighbor, Liz Garza, who turns out to be an ex-nun turned probation officer; Jamie Farrell, a young man with a troubled past who isn't quite what he seems, enlists Mike's help after he witnesses a quadruple murder and is pursued by the D.E.A. agents who committed the crime; Mike seeks out Marcellus for information, and is warned to steer clear; risking his career, Marcellus saves Mike and Jaime from certain death at the hand of the agents; faced with a serious illness, Marcellus reaches out for Mike's friendship.
  
• Hidden Agenda
  Mike and Marcellus work together to free an innocent man caught up in the nightmare of being falsely accused of terrorism by an F.B.I. agent who runs amok under the cover of the so-called "Patriot" Act when bombs go off at the Criminal Justice Center; in a misguided attempt to help, Jaime uses Mike's computer to hack into the F.B.I.'s database, which only leads to landing Mike in custody as well; Mike uses his time in custody to figure out that the bombings might be personal rather than institutional attacks, and gives Jaime the opportunity to redeem himself by having him hack into the PPD's database to find the link between the victims, who ends up being an ex-con out to destroy the people responsible for putting him behind bars; Mike and Marcellus track the bomber down just in time to prevent him from harming the next victim on his list, his probation officer, who turns out to be Mike's neighbor Liz.
  
• Presumed Guilty
  Bettina's client Brian is released on a technicality after being accused of murder, and he seeks Mike's help in finding out who actually committed the crime so that his name and reputation can be restored; Marcellus undergoes surgery and gets good news from his doctor and a rebuke from Deborah for keeping his condition hidden; Liz helps Brian find a job and place to live when his employer and his wife abandon him; Jamie uses his street skills and some fast talking to provide Mike with an impressive vehicle in his search for information to support Brian's story; when he unearths information about the victim which reveals that she and her family were not who they appeared to be, Mike traps the murderer and clears Brian's name; as Mike arrives to take him home from the hospital, Marcellus is shot by a man posing as an orderly.
  
• Collateral Damage
• My Fare Lady
  Mike helps an amnesiac regain her memory to uncover who has marked her for murder; Jamie helps Mike reveal her unsavory past, but not before Mike falls for her; Jamie pretends to be Marcellus to impress a girl he meets online, and Marcellus goes along with it, in exchange for Jamie's painting his kitchen.
  
• The Looking Glass
  On the anniversary of his brother Rick's death, Jamie decides to meet with his father, Richard Farrel, in an attempt at reconciliation and instead discovers his affair with a young woman named Cate Rawlings, who is later found murdered; at Jaime's request, Mike attempts to find out what evidence Marcellus has on the murder without revealing Richard's affair with Cate; after Jamie breaks into Cate's apartment to remove evidence implicating his father, he's arrested and unwittingly gives Marcellus the information he needs to charge Richard with the crime; even though Marcellus is angry that Mike deceived him about Richard, the former partners work together to uncover the evidence that clears Richard of the crime; Jaime is devastated when Richard rejects his efforts at reconciliation once his name is cleared.
  
• Blind Faith
  A young girl who witnessed a murder seeks Mike's help in helping her evade the corrupt police officer who has been paid off to cover up the crime and silence her; Marcellus takes up residence on Mike's sofa as his marital problems continue.
  
• To Have and Have Not
  While Mike is more than willing to assist Jamie in turning a teenage friend away from prostitution, Liz is much less sympathetic to her plight until Jamie convinces her that the privileged upbringing he and the girl shared is no protection against pain; continuing to mentor Cal, Marcellus strikes a bargain with a loan shark to arrest his competition on the street in exchange for his releasing Cal from his crew; Mike walks on eggshells in the face of Liz's anger; after Liz manages to get Cal out of the shelter and into a foster home, Deborah agrees to let him stay at the Washington house until his foster placement goes through even though things are very much strained between her and Marcellus; Mike, Marcellus and Liz use their individual talents to get Jamie's friend out of the hands of her pimp and into the arms of her parents.
  
• Dial 'O' for Murder
  After Liz asks Mike to look into the death of the girlfriend of her fireman friend Nick, Mike comes into conflict with Nick's boss, who's an old nemesis; Marcellus works the case from a pattern-killing angle, linking it to a similar murder 2 years ago, and discovers that the otherwise unconnected victims had the same locksmith; Mike discovers that a fire that Nick's squad recently fought was in a building that housed a methadone lab where $112,600 disappeared, and suspicion points to the squad.
• Gone
  Olshansky is frantically trying to locate his son and is stuck in the middle of feuding mafia families. Marcellus informs Olshansky that Zachery, a hired hit man whom Olshansky shares a past history with, has kidnapped Mike Jr. and is holding him for ransom. Now, Marcellus and Olshansky team up to locate Mike Jr. unharmed.
  
• Double Exposure
  After Jamie and his friend Wilson are jumped by gay-bashing thugs and the beat cops are reluctant to take the crime seriously, Mike enlists Marcellus's help in obtaining reports of other assaults in the area to determine if the cops are failing to report hate crimes properly; Marcellus becomes concerned about the future of his marriage when he learns that Deborah has been seeing another man; Wilson is murdered after he recognizes one of his attackers, and Mike finally uncovers why the beat cops were reluctant to file complete reports that could point out patterns in the gay-bashings in their district.
  
• The Reckoning
  When a drug dealer framed by Mike and Marcellus after they were unable to arrest him legitimately is released from prison, he begins to wield a path of destruction through Mike's life, endangering Liz and Jamie; Mike and Liz decide to move their relationship forward.
  

[Nin@!!!]

Sorry Karen..that I have to rub it in your face again..but Matt was so awesome in the last ep=D (the one with his best friend's sister of 16 being a hooker) ... his acting was amazing, and there were a lot of jamie scenes..

[Eternal Flame]

mean!!!

the last ep I saw of Hack with Matt in it was the one where his father was being the main suspect for murder.. I loved that ep too.. It also had lots of jamie scenes and it somehow reminded me of Logan.. that strained relationship with his family

[Eternal Flame]

I saw a new episode of Matt in Hack.. and this time he had a gun.. I wish he didn't because his face got hurt once again.. Really Hack isn't a good show for Matt's face.. How often has he been beaten up already?! 3 or 4 times?!

[Nin@!!!]

Wow...Matt in Hack yesterday...sooo amazing!!! stupid tvguide, they said it would be another episode, a Mattless episode, I almost didn't watch!!!

Haha Karen, yes I agree, like always, pretty much in every episode we watched he got beaten up in the episodes I watched alone (without our textmessage-marathon) he didn't get beaten.....it must be you

[Eternal Flame]

Now you're blaming it on me?! Isn't that nice

Though I felt sorry for Jamie when the shop owner got shot with his gun.. Matt expressed it really well that he felt guilty...

But now he has to pee in a potty? Did I get that right at the end of the episode?

[Nin@!!!]

Huh?? Okay I totally missed that last part Karen

Well the not being nice part, that's what you get for wanting me to get all stubble-y...

[Eternal Flame]

Did Matt have stubbles on Hack btw?!

The whole potty thing when he talked to his next door neighbour.. You didn't see that part?

[Nin@!!!]

I did...but I wasn't always paying too much attention on what he was saying...damn why is the potty-part lost

Nope...Matt is stubbleless on Hack

[Eternal Flame]

Perhaps you didn't want to see Matt/Jamie with a potty

I do like Jamie's character.. You really sympathize for him... He does things wrong but he learns from it, the hard way unfortunately.. But I like the character..

[Nin@!!!]

Yeah, I love Jamie Farrel Man I really want to DL Hack Matt is only in 11 episodes though...or something like that..but the ones I've seen with him were great!!

[Eternal Flame]

yeah they were great.. I'd like to see the episode where he was introduced to the show.. I'm curious to see how they got Jamie into the series..

[Nin@!!!]

Yeah me too he played in Hack during 2003/2004...hopefully there were torrentmakers then

[Eternal Flame]

I wonder if they'll rerun the series if they series finale has aired here... Skip season 1 I'd say and start with season 2 again...
Though I'm not seeing that happening anytime soon

[Nin@!!!]

Well maybe there's even a dvdbox for s2 Hack has pretty good ratings here (thanks to Matt ofcourse)