Well, we have had out poll open since the first episode and the question that has been tugging at out minds for several months has been answered in last weeks episode.  Who Killed Sydney?

 SPOILER ALERT

If you have not caught up on your Tivo watching, then you may want to stop reading now, but otherwise, read on!

• Amanda contacts a former paramour in order to hack her way into confidential police records: "Damn it, Cheney, do as I say! Your Mistress commands! Or we'll never play 'Black Ops Ilsa' again!" She's looking for the mysterious item that Sydney posthumously hid last week, but she finds ... Michael Mancini!
• Ohhhh, Jonah is bare-chested! And hairy! Noooo. Anyway, in the course of a couple of days, he's gotten a job as an IT guy (!) for WPK (!!). Improbable? Of course! We'll soon see that it was a thinly disguised way to expose Ella's cowardly betrayal of Jonah with the dumb BoomKatszzzz video a while back.
• Anyway, Jonah comes to work and is shocked that none of the extras will speak to him! Well, duh, Jonah -- those extras would have to get paid more if they had ANY dialogue. And apparently, Human Resources is part of Ella's job portfolio. (This is known in TV Speak as a Necessary Shortcut. Why create a new role for a new actor when an existing one can provide all the necessary exposition?) Amanda quickly appraises him. "Make sure he signs a confidentiality agreement," she orders Ella. "And from now on, all male employees' pants must be leather!"
• There's a scene with Riley and Increasingly Vapid Violet. Do you need to know more? Really? Let's move on....
• Somehow, in all the streets of LA, Michael's car cuts off David's car. Accusations about Sydney fly, since Michael knows that David stole the necklace out of Michael's car. (The way Michael talks, though, makes me think that he's protecting someone else.) He implies that if David doesn't back off, Lauren's medical career could experience some hiccups. David finds it hard to believe that Michael would ruin the career of an innocent woman over this. Michael's reply: "Oh, I've done a LOT worse." Ha! That's for sure!
• FINALLY, we get the long-awaited reunion of Amanda and Michael. After a hug (and probably a frisk for weaponry), Michael asks her why she came back to LA, since she seemed settled in the tropics. She says, "I got bored... sun, sand, Peter." Yay! Name-checking the Bizarre Dr. Peter Burns! I love it. Michael is incredulous, though, when he learns that Amanda had been keeping in touch with Sydney. "Let me guess, the two of you met each other at a support group for Women Who Fake Their Own Deaths." That, by a large margin, is my favorite line of the season.
  

On January 13, Auggie and Violet will be leaving the show.  That is not new news to regular readers, BUT it seems that two new characters will be added to the cast list: Dr. Drew Pragin played by Nick Zano and Ben Brinkley played by Billy Campbell.

• Jonah & Riley's relationship in trouble? Pshaw! That was SO last week. They're busy celebrating the appearance of the Anton V jeans ads with Riley, "Your Ass is 100% Organic." No, really. That's what it says. What is an "organic" pair of jeans, anyway? One that disintegrates after 10 trips to a public restroom? Jonah buys every copy of the magazine at the newsstand, single-handedly saving the publishing industry. The CEOs of Time Warner, Condé Nast, and McGraw-Hill promptly come out to hug him.
• Boss Coop and Ella have a heated, anxiety-ridden discussion about Riley and the launch party for the jeans campaign. Suddenly, here comes The Mistress... Amanda herself! YAY! Apparently, the "W" in WPK does stand for Woodward! Sadly, Heather Locklear's face now contains more chemicals than Bobby Brown's bathroom. Her facial muscles may have difficulty twisting into a smile -- that pose in the photo above required 30 minutes and three Teamsters pulling on wires to set up -- so expect lots of grimacing from Amanda in the weeks to come.

After watching last nights episode, I have a new theory on who killed Sydney.  The clues were not subtle, but it is one that never crossed my mind until now.  They seem to be playing it up so that the viewer thinks that it is Michael, but I think that it is his wife, Vanessa.

She has had a pretty minor role so far in the show, but I have stated before that she must be pretty hard core to be married to Michael and bare his demon spawn!  She has likely had him tied down longer than any other woman has yet, assuming that they were married before Noah was born.

With David finding the bloody necklace in Michael's car the finger is definitely pointed in that direction, but it would be too simple to be Michael and besides I would like to see him stick around a bit more.

Hopefully we will get to see a bit more of Vanessa and get to know her more.  She has potential, that's for sure!