By LillyKat
PTR Senior Staff Writer
Any time Silas Weir Mitchell (a.k.a. James Hogan, one of Detective Lilly Rush’s best good bad guys) shows up on a show as a guest star, I’m in.
When he shows up on The Closer, even better.
And when ol’ Prioirty Homicide looks to be on the ropes, dead in the water, BJ potentially out of job … whaaaat?
The Case
When the bodies of two Tijuana police officers are found in the back of a stolen pickup truck, it seems like an FBI informant is to blame (hence Fritzy’s joining of the case). But when it is revealed that the very drug cartel the FBI informant decided to fight against (and of whom puts a price on his head) sends its own “insider” Tijuana IA dude to do the dirty work, well … things get interesting - especially when BJ sends said Tijuana IA low-life to jail as the FBI informant given the actual informant turned out to be the good guy. It was the only way to insure he would be able to live in anonymity given the cartel had a $50,000 price tag on his head and would not rest until he was dead.
The Blurring of the Line
Brenda has often blurred the lines in the course of her investigations. Sometimes good, sometimes bad. I have to count this one in the “good” (or, perhaps I should say “acceptable”) column. Yes, she essentially sent IA dude to his death, but I can’t say it was undeserved. He brought it on himself, and it really did serve him right. Not to mention she saved the life of an innocent man in the process. I would have a far worse time accepting the fact that an innocent man would be wrongly murdered, whilst the corrupt IA agent got away with murder. OJ Simpson anyone?
Or, maybe it's just that I can more easily accept the eye-for-an-eye kinda justice that BJ sometimes dishes out.
The Roundabout Promotion
So, Chief Pope was just a little peeved at our not-so-favorite reporter’s story on Priority Homicide, eh? And BJ, too. Man, I thought she was going to be out of a job. But, after some quick department reshuffling (read: back pedaling PR management by Pope and Commander Taylor out of fear of Ricardo Ramos “part two” exposé on the LAPD’s Priority Homicide Division), looks like BJ is now going to be in charge of the aptly renamed Major Crimes Division – which includes not only homicides, but fraud, rapes, kidnapping.
With Taylor reporting directly to her.
Alas, her kingdom remains happily in tact.
Yay!
The CC Connection
If I had a dollar for every time there has been a Cold Case cross over connection, I’d have some serious lunch money by now.
Latest: Silas Weir Mitchell.
We here at PTR loved him as James Hogan of on CC. Cripes, now that I think about it, he’s still in prison over there. I think it’s time for Lil’ to re-visit him.
Anyhooo, seeing him as the protective priest, providing safe haven for the endangered FBI agent, was totally different.
And fun.
He’s really good no matter what role he’s in.
The summer season finale of The Closer airs next Monday at 9 p.m. on TNT. You can also watch full episodes of the show anytime over on the show’s official Web site.
2 comments:
This was one of my favorite episodes of the season. So well done! It was great to see Silas Weir Mitchell. He's one of my fave guest actors. I'm currently watching Dexter season 2, and he just popped up on an episode over there as well. He never disappoints. CC should definitely revive that storyline.
I had mixed feelings about Brenda's blurring of the line. While I was happy to see the innocent man spared and the guilty one pay (ultimately) for his crimes, I'm not sure I could have done the same thing. Sure, I would have arrested the Comandante, but I couldn't have done it under the wrong name. Now, that doesn't mean I wasn't cheering her on, though. Especially after he attacked her.
A very well done episode. I'm looking forward to next week's finale. It looks intense!
Brenda is a great investigator, but a lousy human being.
She arranged the murder of the corrupt Tijuana cop. Yes, he was a murderer as well, but we don’t employee the police to be murderers and it is very dangerous to say they can arrange for the murder of anyone they want if they (in their unquestioned opinion) feel it is justified. She really isn’t that much better than any other murderer – they all have reasons why their murders were justified.
On a smaller note, she helps create a problem for the police and her protector, Pope, and while they are trying to defuse the situation, which would have still have had her in charge of a major bureau, pun intended, she screws Pope and any number of other police officers who suddenly lost areas of responsibility to her empire building.
This was not a unique behavior by her. Last season there was an episode where the police (and the whole city government, I think) were under severe budget constraints. She flies a private plane at department expense to some city a few hours away because it was more expedient. City governments do have finite resources and she has the same obligation as any other department head to live within her budget constraints. The money she spent came from somewhere, i.e. someone else’s budget.
I respect her abilities, but I wouldn’t want to be anywhere near her. Her priority isn’t homicide, it is doing whatever she wants, whenever she wants and the devil take anyone who gets in her way.
She is not unique in this on TV (and real life for that matter). The cop, or doctor (House comes to mind), or lawyer who doesn’t follow the rules is a staple of TV and movies. If done well, and The Closer is, it can make for entertaining TV, but it also is very annoying.
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