People never call the police (or the fire department) in PV, LuvWinnie - they'd rather solve the crimes, save the people, put out the fires, and generally save the day, on their own! That's why Aidan and Tad wind up catching more criminals than Derek does! (Or the Chandlers' ever-present "men", whom they always "put on the case", but Tad winds up solving it before they do!) The PV police department is totally ineffective, anyway - I can't remember the last time they actually arrested the RIGHT person - they're constantly jailing innocent people and letting go of the ones who deserve to be there!
I have to admit that the Jonathan and Lily storyline is really growing on me. I KNOW that he's way too old for her (unless they continue to age her and stress that she is "almost 18"........then, that would sort of make it OK, I guess), but they are just so sweet together! And although I miss Leven, Portia is doing a really nice job as her "understudy". I loved those scenes in the tree house, yesterday!
And Erin and Aidan are finally starting to grow on me, too. At first, I felt as though he was "betraying" Anita, becoming interested in someone else the second that she came back to town, but after they had that "closure" conversation, I guess it's all right! And now that they're finally giving Erin a little more to do than whine about how her brother is innocent, we're finally getting to see a bit of her character / motivation, which is nice.
It was nice to have a break from the Erica-Josh-Greg / Kendall-Zach-Ryan storylines, yesterday. I really hope that they don't drag this Janet thing out forever, though, as you all were saying!
Maybe Tad IS doing a play, off Broadway, or something - I'll keep my eyes open in the local magazines and papers. I remember when the actor who used to play Derek was also in a play - and he showed up on AMC with these crazy 70's-like side burns, all of a sudden (but they were for his character in the play)!