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I just loved this one! A lot of it was the return of Pino; it was great see him brought back, even if the storyline did end up making him a killer. It was kind of cool seeing a character we knew--albeit briefly--go to the dark side. I really enjoyed that.
Loved Sid, Hawkes and Danny in this episode, with their various reactions to Pino's plight. Robert Joy was awesome and shows why Sid is a terrific character capable of great range. I love his quirks, but it was nice to see him more serious, too.
I loved seeing Hawkes defend his friend, forgetting about science for a minute and just being concerned about his former colleague. Danny's shock at Pino's actions highlight what I like best about the character: his inherent faith in the goodness of those around him. Poor Danno gets disappointed time and again.
I'm split on Danny's rush into the warehouse. On one hand, I agree with those who said they didn't see what else he would do. Danny didn't get to be the show's damsel-in-distress by waiting around, wringing his hands and fretting--he earned the title by impulsively rushing into dangerous situations and then finding himself in trouble. His knight-in-shining-armor, Flack, isn't on the scene quickly enough this time, so Danny has to save himself with a really lucky shot.
Still, with a new wife and a baby on the way, it was reckless. And of course, Danny doesn't tell Lindsay what he's done--he just brushes past it by telling her everything is the same. He still isn't able to open up to her in the way he can to Flack and Mac, which doesn't bode well for their marriage. Why not just tell her he was impulsive and feels scared and bad about his decision? Because Lindsay would yell at him and get angry, rather than talking about it rationally with him. Just more evidence of the way these two are a terrible mismatch.
But as much as I love Stella, her tricking somebody into a container and then shipping them off to Greece is hilariously weirdly out of character imo. i was so out of it the entire time because i simply couldn't imagine stella to decide to do any of that. I mean, he simply shoved you down a staircase. over reacting, much? i would have assumed it was all part and parcel of being a law enforcer.
I think it speaks of Stella's history more than anything else...don't forget, Stella was attacked pretty brutally by Frankie in "All Access." I can definitely see her reacting badly to a physical attack and wanting to revenge herself on her attacker.
Was anyone else waiting for Danny to knock his wedding ring down the drain and spend several fruitless, frantic hours trying to get it back?
It sure would have been symbolic...though I wonder if blood on the wedding ring was symbolic anyway. Brand new ring and it's already bloody?
I enjoyed this episode insofar as I was entertained by it, but I found myself utterly disinterested in anyone except Sid and the deceased Anabel Pino. Sid clearly had a deep attachment to the Pinos, as evinced by his inability to perform Anabel's autopsy and his sudden appearance at the warehouse. I suspect that he held himself at least partially responsible for Anabel's death and Marty's precipitous decline. What if he hadn't introduced Anabel and Marty? What if he'd never fired Marty for falsifying overtime sheets? Maybe Anabel would still be alive. All of that was clearly on his mind when he turned up at the warehouse, as is the question of just how many junkies Marty murdered to make his drugs. That question is never explicitly answered, but Marty's refusal to answer is an answer unto itself. Dozens, perhaps, and Sid was disgusted, heartbroken, and horrified. As he told Mac in the autopsy suite filled with fifteen exhumed bodies. He was my friend. He and Anabel came for dinner every Sunday, and he did all this." It raises the haunting question of how well we know the people in our lives.
Yeah, I thought that came across really well. Joy was awesome, and you could really tell how affected Sid was by the ordeal, and by Anabel's sad fate.
And why wasn't Mac losing his mind on Danny for disobeying a direct order and engaging in a shootout with a suspect when he had no vest? Even if Mac didn't care about the potential effects of Danny's stupidity on Lindsay and Bump, he should've been apoplectic because Danny disobeyed a direct order. Early spoilers indicated that Flack would read him the riot act, but that never materialized.
I would have liked to see that, too. Mac and Flack are both very protective of Danny, and both have chewed him out before for being reckless. Even without the kid on the way, Danny put himself in pretty dire danger and both men had cause to take him to task for it. I wish we'd seen that.
And on a petty note, can we get Danny a better "wedding ring"? It doesn't have to be gold, but something that doesn't look like an angry welder molested a tin can with a soldering iron would be nice. I've seen better jewelery at my local open-air craft fair.
Symbolic of the quality of the union, perhaps? :lol:
