Wasn't it good?

I wondered about the SWAT team stuff -- I believe that this is the only show where I've ever seen the SWAT team treated like it wasn't elite. I can imagine that Priority Homicide considers itself pretty important too.

I loved that family dinner vibe at the end where Brenda blurts out that she and Fritz are engaged.

Man, that was good Closer! The elevator scene was awesome, I loved Brenda's parents, Chad (Chip?) and Roy were adorable, and once again I laughed as much as I was tense. Awesome.

SA I like the voice overs too.

The Closer was great, not just stuff like the Brenda in the elevator, but little things too. Like when they are watchng the tape and it shows Pope rushing in all upset and the it shows Pope's reaction to the video. Also when Gabriel, Pope, and the security gaurd were watching Brenda and Pope clarified to the guard what the don't have.

I also love the great reaction shot from Gabriel when Brenda said "my partner, my friend " I don't think that he had realized how she thought of him. Especially in light of the recent issues.

I finally watched the episode where Provenza and Flynn screw up with the dead body. The main reason I can think of that they didn't written up and Gabriel did is that with the dead body Brenda was able to keep it in her squad and didn't have to go to outside help. But with Gabriel she had to look to Taylor for help and once he knew she couldn't (or felt she couldn't) keep it hidden.

Also, beating up a prisoner is such a huge deal. Provenza and Flynn was more of a Keystone cops issue. If she had reported them, it would have gotten them a reprimand and her squad would have looked bad, no positive outcome.

Also when Gabriel, Pope, and the security gaurd were watching Brenda and Pope clarified to the guard what the don't have.

Oh, yes, totally. That "no, we don't have that." "No, that doesn't exist." Brilliance.

The main reason I can think of that they didn't written up and Gabriel did is that with the dead body Brenda was able to keep it in her squad and didn't have to go to outside help. But with Gabriel she had to look to Taylor for help and once he knew she couldn't (or felt she couldn't) keep it hidden.

Well, and the context of both misdemeanors. With Flynn and Provenza, it was kind of a victimless thing--they *were* going to report it, just after the funeral took place--and was so comedic that having them brought up on charges would have been ridiculous, given the situation, and the fact that the widow had no interest in pursuing anything related to her husband's murder.

With Gabriel, he was incited to violence by a crazy racist serial killer, but it was *on tape* *in the police station* and had an obvious, if unsympathetic, victim. I'm not sure the two scenarios can really be compared, because while F & P were in the doghouse for the duration of the case, they didn't actually hurt anybody. Gabriel did, and I think that's what Brenda reacted to the most. The fact that her partner, her friend, hurt someone under the aegis of his badge. To her, that's such a desecration of their duty.

SA said it better, but I said it first t /kindergarten

And I think that there is the fact that she trusted Gabriel implicitly and I'm not sure that's how she felt about Flynn and Provenza.

Definitely. She knew that Flynn and Provenza are kind of old-school cops, playing by different rules than she was--rules she held Gabriel too as well.