I'm worried that Stephanie's character is now being used merely for stand-alone jokes/lines. Didn't feel as this week's ep did any good to her, character development-wise.

Oh, I was broken at the end of the ep. I am honestly feeling upset for these characters. I am feeling pain about them

Yeah. Until now, it was a fun, good, no strings attached kind of a show. Now it's abusing me emotionally.

Yep, definitely a Minear show.

Stephanie is the sister?

Yeah, that was quite a turn at the end. Rough.

sumi, yes.

I'm worried that Stephanie's character is now being used merely for stand-alone jokes/lines. Didn't feel as this week's ep did any good to her, character development-wise.

I don't really see the point of her being there, unless it's for another obstacle that Hank needs to overcome, or maybe as "exposition girl" since she has mental issues and can be excused for saying whatever.

Also, why has Hank not called the hospital?

Maybe he doesn't like the hospital.

She's there to know that the soil report is bs. Other than that, we'll see.

I vaguely remember Hank saying something about contacting the hospital when she first showed up, that she had been there voluntarily? Something about she wouldn't take her meds there but she would if he let her stay in his attic. I might be making that up.

Minor point: as a non-lawyer, I'm pretty sure than Lindus's death was legally homicide of some sort. If you kidnap someone and they die trying to escape, I'm pretty sure you are legally responsible for the death. Especially if they die while you are trying to recapture them.

If you kidnap someone and they die trying to escape, I'm pretty sure you are legally responsible for the death.

yes, technically it's felony murder. If someone dies during the commission of a felony, then the perpetrators of said felony can be charged with felony murder, even if the perpetrators had nothing to do with the death, or the death was an accident (i.e. a victim has a heart attack and dies during a robbery)

The question is whether they were really kidnapping him. Yes, they were taking him against his will, but he was trying to flee the jurisdiction at the time. I think that an argument could be made that it was not a kidnapping, but a citizen's arrest.

Now, it's not a good argument, but it can be made.

But once you take the kidnap victim to your home rather than a police station, doesn't "citizen's arrest" move from bad argument to argument the judge won't let you present to the jury?

But once you take the kidnap victim to your home rather than a police station, doesn't "citizen's arrest" move from bad argument to argument the judge won't let you present to the jury?

yes, but an argument could be made that the injury changed things. Like I said, they're boned, but arguments could be made.