My TV Musings

“When a child goes missing, everyone knows that Priority Homicide runs the show” - it’s nice to see it’s clear who is in charge, unlike the ambiguity on a recent Standoff. They may be in charge, but they have to be careful not to mention the word homicide to the family as they look for the missing child.

Leaving Gabriel alone with the suspect was a bad decision but clearly Brenda had no idea that he was going to beat the guy up, in fact, Gabriel wasn’t aware that Provenza had the camera turned off so it is obvious that Gabriel was not thinking at all. If the beating had been on tape there would have been no saving his career.

Provenza and Gabriel put Brenda in quite a predicament: having to find some way to hold and charge the suspect other than using his admission that he had simply taken her to the park and left her there with money to call home.

When Daniels came up with the idea to ask Taylor to help, I wasn’t sure just what he would do, but he came to the rescue, at least when it came to explaining why Pope’s idea of showing the suspect’s picture to the press wasn’t a good idea right now.

Of course we all suspected that Taylor had beaten the suspect when we first saw him bloodied, asking for Brenda. Then Taylor said he had been put into the general population since he was not admitting to being a sexual predator, but that they had a policy to keep sexual predators isolated from the rest. How ingenious is that, to give incentive for someone to confess in order to be safer in jail!

Then Brenda started her interrogation, working her magic by pretending to understand his side. How she can keep from showing her disgust while this evil man is lying about seeing Ruby alive when he left her in the park is one thing that makes her so good at her job.

I don’t know if Taylor had been lying earlier or if County just has a different policy, but it was priceless at the end when the murderer realized that he might end up in general population after all once he gets handed off, and he said “you don’t understand what will happen to me there” and Brenda said, “but I do understand, I just don’t care.”

Excellent, thought-provoking episode - no wonder this is the highest rated cable show of all time!

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