beaujolais
Lab Technician
Re: Paul/Brass #2
Minority, maybe but alone, no. I don't know that I can say he did the right thing but I do think he did what he thought he had to do at the moment and that doesn't make me think any less of him. Brass is older than the rest of the CSIs (except DB). He's been doing the job a whole lot longer and I imagine he's seen a whole lot of bad in his lifetime. He's a very jaded cop so to him, getting someone like Haskell off the streets is a win, no matter how it comes about. And he wasn't about to let Ray go down for something like that. If it has been a different criminal, someone without Haskell's history, maybe Brass wouldn't have covered for Ray. But it was Haskell and to Brass, Haskell would have to come up several notches to even be considered scum.
What always seems to get brushed aside is Brass' guilt over Warrick's death. He said that he thought Warrick was guilty and felt that he didn't do anything to help him so if we can believe that continuity came into play (I swear I read something from CM about guilt over Warrick's death coming into play with the team's actions), this time around he wasn't going to do "nothing". I think he quickly assessed the situation and acted on his first instinct and to him, it wasn't about "protecting a murderer (Ray)"; it was about making sure Ray didn't go down for the death of a really sadistic murderer.
Do I think Brass is a bad cop? Not at all. Hiding cuffs to protect a team member doesn't equate to being a cop on the take or using his badge to get favors. He did what he thought he had to do and I can't fault him for that.
This probably had more to do with whatever was ailing PG at the time than it did with Brass changing. And PG didn't get over whatever that was until sometime in S11. But at the same time, Brass and Ray didn't have the same rapport that Brass and Grissom had, Catherine acted like she'd never met him before (of if she did, they were at odds with each other), and he had little to no contact with the team like he had in the past so honestly, I don't think the writers knew what to do with the character. I think being around DB, someone older and more like Grissom, will bring back Brass' wit and sarcasm. Already we saw glimpses of it if the first episode so I'm optimistic it'll be back.
Minority, maybe but alone, no. I don't know that I can say he did the right thing but I do think he did what he thought he had to do at the moment and that doesn't make me think any less of him. Brass is older than the rest of the CSIs (except DB). He's been doing the job a whole lot longer and I imagine he's seen a whole lot of bad in his lifetime. He's a very jaded cop so to him, getting someone like Haskell off the streets is a win, no matter how it comes about. And he wasn't about to let Ray go down for something like that. If it has been a different criminal, someone without Haskell's history, maybe Brass wouldn't have covered for Ray. But it was Haskell and to Brass, Haskell would have to come up several notches to even be considered scum.
What always seems to get brushed aside is Brass' guilt over Warrick's death. He said that he thought Warrick was guilty and felt that he didn't do anything to help him so if we can believe that continuity came into play (I swear I read something from CM about guilt over Warrick's death coming into play with the team's actions), this time around he wasn't going to do "nothing". I think he quickly assessed the situation and acted on his first instinct and to him, it wasn't about "protecting a murderer (Ray)"; it was about making sure Ray didn't go down for the death of a really sadistic murderer.
Do I think Brass is a bad cop? Not at all. Hiding cuffs to protect a team member doesn't equate to being a cop on the take or using his badge to get favors. He did what he thought he had to do and I can't fault him for that.
This probably had more to do with whatever was ailing PG at the time than it did with Brass changing. And PG didn't get over whatever that was until sometime in S11. But at the same time, Brass and Ray didn't have the same rapport that Brass and Grissom had, Catherine acted like she'd never met him before (of if she did, they were at odds with each other), and he had little to no contact with the team like he had in the past so honestly, I don't think the writers knew what to do with the character. I think being around DB, someone older and more like Grissom, will bring back Brass' wit and sarcasm. Already we saw glimpses of it if the first episode so I'm optimistic it'll be back.
