'The Glades' Season Two Premiere 'Family Matters'

The Glades is a perfect summer series. Set in Florida, and imbued with Latin music and flair, each episode reminds you that the summer is here to be enjoyed.

Jim Longworth is a homicide cop who moved from Chicago to Florida to get away from big city tensions, enjoy the sun, and play a lot of golf. Unfortunately, people just keep turning up dead. How’s a guy to ever break par?

When he met Callie Cargill, a single mother of one son, Jeff, he had no idea their romance would be complicated by a devoted husband in prison. Things get even more complicated, as husband Ray is about to be released.

In Little Havana, the body of Olivia Garcia, daughter of notorious, presumed dead, Cuban mobster, Miguel Garcia, is found in an alley. Niece of Eduardo Garcia, current mob boss, Olivia had been clerking for a judge in Manhattan. So how did she end up dead in Florida? ME Carlos Sanchez brings Jim up to date on Garcia’s main mob rival, Alvaro Saldivar. It is believed that Saldivar killed Miguel Garcia 10 years earlier, but the body was never found. Eduardo took over the Family business, but there’s been bitterness between the two rival mob families since then.  

It seems that Olivia had been visiting Florida every weekend for the last year, but staying in an apartment far from the family, without their knowledge. When Jim and Detective Colleen Manus visit the apartment, they encounter Tim Ballard, of the Organized Crime Unit. He’s claiming the hit as his. All they find is a romantic table setting for two, and a bed covered in rose petals. Colleen says there’s no indication it was a mob hit, and she wants Ballard’s file on Olivia. Since Garcia has said he’d cooperate, Jim decides he’ll start there.

Although Garcia’s flunky, Rafael, tries to stop him, Jim probes Garcia for information, as Garcia plays with Olivia’s charm bracelet. Olivia lived with Garcia after the brother’s death, protected from ‘family’ business, and sent to a Connecticut boarding school. When the Saldivar family attempt to deliver flowers, a fist fight breaks out, and Garcia breaks it up. Garcia tells Jim that Olivia’s death is not police business, and then says Jim has three days to bring the killer to justice.

The ME has discovered two distinct skull injuries in Olivia’s post-mortem; although one is from a bullet, the other is not, and may have caused death. Assistant Daniel has found a record of nine local calls on Olivia’s phone records, to an untraceable cell phone, and when they find her cell, the name attached to the number is ‘Caro.’ They’ve also discovered that Olivia did pro bono work for a local lawyer’s walk in clinic. He says she did amazing work – everyone loved her. She also had a local boyfriend, whose identity she kept secret. And she was obsessed with finding out what happened to her father, to the extent of approaching the Saldivar family for information.

Connecticut Car Accident Lawyer Takes Back the Road

Now that the price of gas has finally come down, people are starting to drive more as it is becoming increasingly more affordable to get back on the road. People calling populous cities like NYC, Philly, & Boston home did not have to worry too much about the rising cost of gas because of the efficient public transportation. However for places like the Connecticut that has to rely on automobiles to get them to and from work is a whole other story. People in Connecticut have recently been carpooling and other means to cut on the cost of gas, but now that it is more affordable to get back on the road again, all of those hazards that come along with commuting are going to become more apparent than ever. People who commute from Connecticut to New York City are going to have to be carful as the roads come increasingly more crowded over the next couple of weeks. Connecticut car accident lawyers are urging drivers to track back and refresh their driving skills before hitting the roads. Especially now that fall is fading into winter, more driving hazards are going to be apparent on the road.

Connecticut car accident lawyers are urging people to get their cars checked out before hitting the pavement. With the winter months approaching this is a great time to put on those winter tires, get your breaks and power steering checked, as well as putting your winter driving tools in the trunk of your car. Refreshing your winter skills is not a hard thing to do, you can visit a number of websites online that will give you a check list of what you need to do and remember about driving during in the winter months. Connecticut car accident lawyer are seeing too many accidents that could have been preventive if the driver only took a couple of minutes to get their car in proper winter condition. Other things like making sure that your lights and blinkers are properly working are easy things to do to reduce the risk of getting into an auto accident. Connecticut car accident lawyers urge people as they take to the road to participate in these simple winter safety standards to the risk of getting into an auto accident.

If you have found yourself prepared adequately for the winter months you are putting yourself in the best position possible to avoid an auto accident. If however you have done all of your homework yet another individual hasn't which caused your auto accident, be sure to contact a Connecticut car accident lawyer as soon as possible. A Connecticut car accident lawyer has the experience and knowledge necessary to represent you in a court of law. They will do everything in their power to gain a fair and deserved settlement that would cover any medical expenses if an injury occurred due to the auto accident. Don't let the weather or others driving stop you from getting back on those Connecticut roads.

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