Yeah, the writers do seem to struggle to comprehend time, poor Flack has been a cop since he was about 10.
That's it! Flack was the child prodigy, Danny came from the family of cops and Hawkes is really from Montana. We've just been misunderstanding the back stories up until now.
y'all are killing me here :lol: Now it all makes sense... Yeah, ol' Doc Hawkes with a fishing rod, a bowie knife and a shotgun, I can see it...