A few extra thoughts after hearing this episode again for the first time in a few years:

- Teri Keane's "Kitty" gets pretty steamed recalling to the detective how mummified cats were shipped from Egypt to England to use as fertilizer.

I "googled" that and, sho' 'nuff, in 1888 at Beni Hasan, Egypt...

- Speaking of that sequence, I noticed a few times here that whoever was handling the music was a bit quick on the draw...it would start a bit before the end of a key sentence, normally the time when the music "sounders" would be played.

- Great use of music in this one nonetheless. I don't have the time stamps right now, but there was a kalimba/electronic keyboard sounding interlude played at each time when either the detective or the professor saw the "cat shrine" in the girls' apartment. This is the same unnerving music bed used in perhaps the all-time most disturbing RMT, "Star Sapphire", whenever Fred Gwynne's character was hypnotizing his adopted daughter with his sapphire ring.

- Now, not much was made of how Kitty's sister knew the attacker (and may have spent some, er, "intimate" time with him) whom she gouged the eye of. What was up with that? Was Kitty controlling her or was that lil' sis' own doing?

- Another thing...not saying it's never happened, but it's not every day, I'm guessing, that a girl at the local strip club is the daughter of an apparently respected professor of Egyptian studies as Miss Methune was. Nothing inexcusable, just an unusual element on this one.

- Going back to Horton and Kaliban and their similar voices - it seemed on second listening that for the most part the director of this show made a careful effort to have one, the other or both in a "character" voice whenever they were in the same scene. The one time they both talked normally (as the two detectives who were friends and partners on the police force) I found myself having to concentrate on determining who was who.

- Of all the RMTs I've listened to Kaliban probably had better, or at least more, vocal "characters" than Horton (loved listening to them both - Kaliban after the RMT had a career doing voices on secular children's programming - he was with former RMT player Robert Morse in the musical "How to succeed in business without really trying" so I'm guessing he had some good musical talents as well).

With that in mind, I got a kick out of his audio Al Jolson impersonation as the porter at show's end.

- Speaking on a personal note with that final train scene in mind. We had our schnoodle dog before we adopted both our cats. Indeed, both cats were very suspicious of the dog at first, constantly hissing at him with our male cat (or kitten, as he was then) Mordecai raising all the hair on his back whenever our dog Shadow came in sight.

Now, though, Mordecai and Shadow are like brothers. When I take Shadow for a walk if he's outside Mordecai always follows us to our destination and back. So does Nicolette, the female "kitty", whom Shadow seems to look out for as an older brother. If a cat menaces her I unleash him from his collar, he chases away the culprit, and sister walks away next to brother. (Sometimes she likes to sprint right in front of him like "Hey, don't forget me", like a kid sister will do, I'm guessing.)

Amazing what animals put in a family can be like. Now, I wouldn't dare try to adopt a hamster with this crew, but that's a different story.