Well, this series is certainly going out strong. The storyline in this one is strong but sad (well, it is about murder). A decorated Iraq and Afghanistan veteran now working as a private security guard is found dead of a shotgun blast to the head. The investigation itself is interesting and the young actress who plays the 16 year old vamp is excellent. The scene where she is being interrogated is almost frightening for the total lack of moral sensibility the girl exhibits. The side story of identifying the culprit who leaked sensitive departmental information is also very well done. Ditto for the scene where the person apologizes to his colleagues. All accept the apology but one. As to be expected, the best scene is the final one where Brenda is highly distraught and is agonizing over what her mother wanted to talk to her about. This could have been maudlin but was in fact heartbreaking. This was such a human "woulda, coulda, shoulda" response to pain and tragedy, one to which most of us can probably relate.
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Mostly good episode
amorehl-93-993382 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
Excellently written and acted episode as usual. That daughter was scary! I think Gabriel's apologies scene was well-done, and it was realistic that Julio would not accept his apology, at least, not right off the bat. However, I did not like that Brenda apologized to Gabriel for dropping the evil, murderous Tyrell Baylor at his home as he requested. He got what he deserved.
The state of California will provide for you
biorngm20 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers
There are three distinct parts to this story all showing the exceptional acting by the series' regulars.
There is a murder to be solved. An ex-GI security patrolman is fatally killed via shotgun to the head in front of a presumed empty foreclosed home. The immediate suspect is the young man tracked down through his abandoned cell phone. He is a suspect because he was in the house with his teenage girlfriend when the guard told them to leave. The guard had a key to the home, caught the two inside and shooed them off the premises. The girl ran home, lied to her father about the guard sexually attacking her. Her father reacted to the news shooting the security guard dead. An interview of the father brought forth his confession because he heard the guard raped his daughter. The daughter is interviewed after the father explaining her behavior. She could not tell her father about being in the house with the boyfriend, so she picked the guard instead. Now that her father has confessed she figures it is all right to stay in the house; wrong. She gets charged too, an accessory to the killing. No excuse given for the father and daughter, one killing and the other setting up the murder by lying to her father. Brenda to the rescue; DDA getting both family members convicted and jailed. DDA Baldwin is more than annoying in her role.
The leak was Gabriel's girlfriend and roommate who was feeding Goldman all the details after getting her school debt paid, a simple bribery from purposely hooking up with David in his church. Gabriel fell for the woman and in turn committed the sin of talking shop after hours on a continuum. Goldman never let up on the woman, pressing for information continuously, blackmailing her afterward. Her actions were totally rejected by Gabriel, requesting her to leave his home immediately. His argument with Brenda was how the Newton murder aftermath was handled with the gang member killed after the cops pulled away from the member's house. Brenda tells Gabriel it was all on her and he should not have considered it to be his decision. Flynn tells Gabriel to transfer divisions and Julio does not accept his apology.
The third story part is an epilogue to Brenda's mother passing away in the guest bedroom at the close of the prior episode. She is grieving at the end, a sadder point than the murder and Gabriel's lack of restraint with shop-talk after work.
Hindsight has one ponder why Gabriel did not question how Goldman would know case details before the LAPD. Also, why Captain Raydor was not savvy enough to research the leaker. Where she excelled in being annoying she faltered at playing a better detective. She obviously dealt only with occurrences past and had little investigative skills; between her and Gabriel the light should have dawned several episodes ago.
There is a murder to be solved. An ex-GI security patrolman is fatally killed via shotgun to the head in front of a presumed empty foreclosed home. The immediate suspect is the young man tracked down through his abandoned cell phone. He is a suspect because he was in the house with his teenage girlfriend when the guard told them to leave. The guard had a key to the home, caught the two inside and shooed them off the premises. The girl ran home, lied to her father about the guard sexually attacking her. Her father reacted to the news shooting the security guard dead. An interview of the father brought forth his confession because he heard the guard raped his daughter. The daughter is interviewed after the father explaining her behavior. She could not tell her father about being in the house with the boyfriend, so she picked the guard instead. Now that her father has confessed she figures it is all right to stay in the house; wrong. She gets charged too, an accessory to the killing. No excuse given for the father and daughter, one killing and the other setting up the murder by lying to her father. Brenda to the rescue; DDA getting both family members convicted and jailed. DDA Baldwin is more than annoying in her role.
The leak was Gabriel's girlfriend and roommate who was feeding Goldman all the details after getting her school debt paid, a simple bribery from purposely hooking up with David in his church. Gabriel fell for the woman and in turn committed the sin of talking shop after hours on a continuum. Goldman never let up on the woman, pressing for information continuously, blackmailing her afterward. Her actions were totally rejected by Gabriel, requesting her to leave his home immediately. His argument with Brenda was how the Newton murder aftermath was handled with the gang member killed after the cops pulled away from the member's house. Brenda tells Gabriel it was all on her and he should not have considered it to be his decision. Flynn tells Gabriel to transfer divisions and Julio does not accept his apology.
The third story part is an epilogue to Brenda's mother passing away in the guest bedroom at the close of the prior episode. She is grieving at the end, a sadder point than the murder and Gabriel's lack of restraint with shop-talk after work.
Hindsight has one ponder why Gabriel did not question how Goldman would know case details before the LAPD. Also, why Captain Raydor was not savvy enough to research the leaker. Where she excelled in being annoying she faltered at playing a better detective. She obviously dealt only with occurrences past and had little investigative skills; between her and Gabriel the light should have dawned several episodes ago.
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