Weird, wild stuff people. Wee-Bey (Hassan Johnson) was the fiercest of Avon supporters, right-hand man to the king. Chris (Gbenga Akinnagbe) was Marlo’s enforcer; no grunt, but certainly not a top officer. A bit off the traditional chain of command, since he and Snoop ran their own arm of the operation.
But, hop to a new show, and all hell breaks loose. All of a sudden, Chris (here playing Dante) is bossing Wee-Bey (Bobby) around. It was one of those things that made my mind hit a wall, as processing that type of wild course-change was a lot to handle, when all I was doing in the first place was sitting down to watch some Dark Blue.
Good episode, by the way, although the Carter mystery has only been dug deeper, and more zigzagged. I spent the entire hour trying to figure out why he really was so blindly pursuing the kidnap victim. Maybe something to do with the wife that’s no longer a piece of his life? But, of course it had to do with redeeming himself from the last time. Because it’s all about the work, right?
Which is a bit of a cheap out. Because all that does is reinforce the one thing we know about him, without allowing for the opportunity to learn something new. Maybe that’s the point — maybe we’re never meant to learn anything about Carter, even if this show airs 200 episodes. But I still want to know, and dangling some clues that are then just shuffled into the same old deck is frustrating.
And yet it was nice to see Carter a bit more, and especially to get him in on one of these undercover assignments. Yes, it was because Ty essentially called him out for risking the team’s lives while he sat back behind a desk, or in the front seat of a car, but still. Speaking of: it’s about time a cop on surveillance got caught staring through binoculars at something. It never occurred to me before that they hadn’t, but seeing those two guys catching Carter in the act made me realize that I’d never seen it before, which, now that I think about it, can’t be that likely.
The inevitable fallout from Jaimie and Dean’s fling comes in the form of work-related tensions. Interestingly, while I think Dean had the feelings, or more of them, I think it’s she who’s reacting worse — she’s convinced he’s pissed at her, when all he’s doing is advising Carter on how best to utilize the team, as always. Because, yes, her pale skin would stand out in a black, gang-infested neighborhood. How is that anything other than a smart call?
And then there’s Ty. He did have a very valid point that Carter was pushing too hard, maybe risking their lives too brashly. But, at the same time, he spends a lot of his time now talking about what’s too much, or what he can’t do without stopping by to see his wife first. So he just got out of jail after a week; so what? The assignment called for him to follow-up immediately. So, no, there wasn’t an hour for him to swing by home. Is Ty’s heart in this thing anymore?
I think it’s an issue he, and we, need to face, so I hope the writers don’t feel as if they’ve covered it in the episode where he’s followed to his house from a few weeks ago. That uncovered the problem, but we’ve by no means seen a resolution.
Clacked by Aryeh S.
on Aug 14, 2009 @ 11:00 EST5EDT
