I am so thoroughly glad that all was not well between Mac and Flack tonight, and I think that it is safe to assume that the writers have dropped COTP from the continuity. After all, wouldn't a man saving your life with a shoelace give you reason to trust him? Still, it's good to see the fallout from "Consequences" wasn't all smoothed over.
Mac was absolutely right when he told Flack that Truby was the person with whom he should he should be angry, but for a cop, he's pretty clueless about interpersonal cop dynamics. As much as Flack loves and protects his nerds, he is still one of the boys, still wants to be, and it clearly wounds him that his fellow officers don't trust him and may even view him as a snitch. He's guy that would light himself on fire and throw himself in front of a speeding truck for a fellow officer, and because of Truby, that loyalty has been thrown into doubt.
Mac should know this, and I think that on some level, he does know, but in Macworld, rectitude renders anguish irrelevant. It was right to bust Truby(it was); therefore, Flack should not be hurt by his fellow officers' distrust(that's just...the mind, it boggles.). Mac is conflating Flack's emotional response to his psychological dislocation from his precinct to a questioning of the rightness of his action, and that confusion is just begging for trouble.
On a related note, I'm getting tired of the blatant double-standard for Mac and Stella as opposed to everyone else on the team. At least when Mac demanded Flack's notebook, he had considerable evidence to support him, but Mac asks Flack to hold off on collaring a kid in spite of a mountain of evidence because the boy was allegedly abused by his father. That's it. At the time he asks Flack for "one hour", he has not one shred of exculpatory evidence. He...just wants the time. Well, okay, Mac, if you say so. ::eyeroll:: Because God knows your gut is infallible.
Honestly, what does being abused have to do with guilt or innocence? I'm sure plenty of murderers, rapists, and child molesters were abused, but according to the reasoning Mac gave Flack, none of them could have done it because they were abused. The writers could've come up with a better reason for Mac's inexplicable insistence on Jesse's innocence.
On the B-Case front, wow, Mrs. Asherton brought some serious bitter crazy to the yard. I can only assume from her tirade that she married into money and then was unprepared for the hidden demands and pitfalls of that lifestyle. "They can't always have what they want. They can't. They can't," implies that she didn't get what she wanted growing up and thought that when she married money, it would be her turn. Unfortunately for her, she got stuck playing hostess, while hubby boned his daughter's teenage friends and her daughter got all the toys. Well, she fixed that red wagon, didn't she?
