Brenda isn’t exactly known for being decisive in her personal life, so it wasn’t exactly shocking to see that she’s been carrying around her Police Chief application for the past week or so– or that she hadn’t even bothered to tell Fritz about the job. The poor guy had to find out by being interrogated by the LAPD about his drinking problem.
Fritz, of course, thinks she should go for the job (he especially likes the part about the position coming with bodyguards). But safety isn’t his only concern. He also tells Brenda that getting a little emotional distance from her cases may be a good thing. Considering that by the end of the episode, she’s putting grandparents in prison, he may be onto something.
I’m not terribly invested in this storyline. It’s interesting, but I haven’t been able to see a real narrative reason to have Brenda take over Chief Pope’s job. That dude’s job seems boring. It’s a lot of bitching at people and trying to please the mayor. Plus, Chief Pope doesn’t get sweet confessions out of people like Brenda does. The show is called The Closer, after all. Not The Administrator.
However, Fritz’s comment at the end of the episode about Brenda looking outside of the department for her replacement, certainly brings up some interesting possibilities. With the exception of Captain Raydor, we haven’t really had any new characters introduced on this show, so adding a brand-new series regular would be a big shake-up.
Personally, I’m all for it. I love The Closer, but in its sixth season, you need to shake things up a bit. Every episode shouldn’t end with Brenda staring someone down as they tearfully cry, “I did it!” I’d love to see someone new in the department every day– but I still can’t figure out how they’ll make Brenda’s new job interesting.
What do you think? Is Brenda going to turn in her application? Does The Closer need some new blood?
Clacked by Kona Gallagher 
on Jul 27, 2010 @ 21:06 EST5EDT
“The Administrator”
Classic :)