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Episode: 01x17
Title: Life is a Rock
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: N/A
First Aired: Apr. 01, 2009

Season 1 » Episode #17 - Life is a Rock

Summary: Sam receives an offer to return to 2008 from a mystery caller, but he finds himself confused over a certain set of circumstances which makes him wonder if he even wants to do this.

Who appeared in this episode?

Annie Norris

Guest Stars:

Detective Sam Tyler	played by Jason O'Mara
Detective Ray Carling	played by Michael Imperioli
Detective Chris Skelton	played by Jonathan Murphy
Lieutenant Gene Hunt	played by Harvey Keitel
Detective Maya Daniels	played by Lisa Bonet
Rose Tyler	played by Jennifer Ferrin
Windy	played by Tanya Fischer
Agent Frank Morgan	played by Peter Gerety
Vic Tyler	played by Dean Winters

	Season 1 / Episode 17: - Life is a Rock Lieutenant Gene Hunt: Tyler, Come here. I need you. Lieutenant Gene Hunt: [laughing] I know. I think I'm gonna miss you most of all, scarecrow.
	Season 1 / Episode 17: - Life is a Rock Detective Sam Tyler: David Bowie. Why does it always come back to David Bowie?

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: SPOILER: In the Finale, during the scene where Sam is looking for his younger self on the boat, the rifle he's carrying switches back and forth from a Ruger Mini-14/Mini-30 type to an AK/SKS type with a gas tube over the barrel. Neither of these rifles is appropriate to the time since the 70's portion of the series takes place in 1973 and the Mini-14 wasn't introduced until 1974. AK's and SKS variants would have also been extremely difficult to find in the US back in the 1970's and unlikely to be in the hands of a civilian. However, the finale established that both the 1973 and 2008 time-lines were computer simulations so the computer may have simply chosen a rifle that was in its memory to create the scenario Sam was going through.
CONT: In the series finale as Sam is searching the boat for his father armed with a rifle, the rifle changes from a Ruger Mini-14, to a Kalasnikov (AK-47) type rifle in one quick closeup shot. The next shot then shows him still holding the original rifle. This is noticeable because of the distinctive gas tube over the barrel on an AK unlike the bare barrel of a Mini-14.

TRIVIA

The title is from the 1974 song "Life Is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me)" written by Paul DiFranco and Norman Dolph.
Last show of the series.

Episode Screenshots (From Season 1)

Season 1, Episode 01

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