I mean, we all wanted to beat that guy, and no one was sad about it, but that doesn't make it any less wrong.
Also? Interesting timing with this episode. Earlier today, I was watching an old episode of Without a Trace about a teenaged boy who disappears and the headmaster at his school is the main suspect. The whole episode has the team taking liberties in an effort to find the kid. Danny does an illegal search and then they can't use the evidence. Jack completes ignores the suspect's request for legal counsel.
In the last act, Jack is in a car with the suspect and has a conversation with him that is very similar to Brenda's with this guy. The sympathetic ear, "understanding" why he'd do it, talk about the victim wanting it. On WaT, it ended with them actually finding the boy alive. (Though the fallout lasted another two seasons.)
I think that the area, in these cases, becomes even more grey because it's not just about putting some bad guy behind bars. It's about finding a victim while there's still a chance they're alive. I can see how it might be easier to compromise on right and wrong if you think you're saving someone's life. You're less concerned about the legal ramifications.
I'm looking forward to seeing how The Closer handles their fallout.
PS -- I can't figure out what annoys me more. Treat Williams's hair or the fact that the Dabney Coleman character is actually a ghost.
Sigh. I am cursed to miss the last bit of this episode. When I was resetting the time etc on my vcrs post electrical outage, I noticed that the Closer was running long. But did I remember to set the vcr to tape 10 minutes longer?
Of course not!
So, I taped the repeat -- which was only an hour long and watched Kyle XY (since I'd missed most of that in it's earlier run) and then switched and watched the end of The Closer. I fell asleep sometime after Brenda said what she said and woke up just as Gabriel
left his badge on her desk.
What did I miss?
I'm looking forward to seeing how The Closer handles their fallout.
absolutely. I'm interested to see how Flynn and Provenza handle it. I mean, they are the type to have done that in the past, and they've always sort of resented Gabriel's choirboy image.
Sumi,
Gabriel came in to Brenda's office. He apologized, and she said that an apology wasn't good enough, and that he couldn't not be punished just because he was her favorite. She told him that she had asked Capt. Taylor to look into the matter and he had determined that Gabriel had used excessive force and recommended a 10 day suspension without pay. She told him that he could sign the report and take the suspension or call his union rep. He tossed the pen on the desk like he wasn't going to sign it, but then picked it up and signed the admission. He then gave her his gun and badge.
I think that's it.
In the last act, Jack is in a car with the suspect and has a conversation with him that is very similar to Brenda's with this guy. The sympathetic ear, "understanding" why he'd do it, talk about the victim wanting it. On WaT, it ended with them actually finding the boy alive.
Oh god, that was one of the creepiest things I've ever seen. In the car, with the rain, and the music. There's a L&O:SVU where Elliot gets all creepified, too, in the same scenario. Interesting to see a woman in there.
Oh god, that was one of the creepiest things I've ever seen. In the car, with the rain, and the music.
So. Creepy.
A detail that I'd forgotten in the years since I last saw this episode is that, after they find the boy and Spaulding asks for his promised 15 minutes, Jack throws up in the bushes. (Which made me think of Brenda in the ladies room after her interrogation.) It's such an amazingly disturbing episode.
Vigilante!Stabler is the only reason to watch that show.
Which sends a terrible message.
But it's still true.
Oh god, the 15 minutes. Shudder.
Also, I fake-saw Anthony Lapaglia driving in my neighborhood the other day. (Fake-saw because I'm pretty sure it wasn't actually him.)
Vigilante!Stabler is the only reason to watch that show. Which sends a terrible message. But it's still true.
Well, it's when he's at his most Keller...
I loved The Closer this week again. They really seem to be stepping it up this season. I loved how at the beginning of the episode they showed everyone working together so seemlessly, even with the FBI, because of the missing girl, and then things start to fall apart and we see how differently Brenda handles things from the rest of them. I'm interested in where they are going to take this, especially in light of Brenda's earlier disagreement with Gabriel. I also wonder if the rest of the team will turn on her because of this.
