the mayor is alive and hasn't killed himself, Nikki has just met potter and rake just now finds out about it. chrono'logically' this episode belongs somewhere around five and a half maybe ? Not episode thirteen. I'm sure there's other major problems with his job, secretary, ex-wife's boyfriend ... but I was too put off about mayor Lazarus to pay attention. otherwise it was an alright episode, nothing great though, there's been better episodes. the young Sherlock was pretty cool, but they seemed to drop his character kind of in mid dialog, he was in the middle of threatening, Keegan had (as far as he knew) stolen nineteen thousand dollars from him, and then they were done with him. odd
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Mitch-418 March 2019
Warning: Spoilers
As another reviewer notes,.this episode clearly must have been planned for release/broadcast considerably earlier in the series. There are plot elements we have seen in the released main sequence of episodes that are not in place yet in this one -- notably the death of (the first) Mayor Barzmann. Also the state of relationships like Ben & Scarlet or Mikki & Harry-sorry-David.
And in consequence, it was really disappointing. The episode now listed as 12, "Man's Best Friend", leaves several lines of plot and character at a low point, and is quite a downer as a season (or it turns out, series) finale. So I played this episode 13 in the expectation it would be a followup to some of those down sides, and would give us a little relief and redemption.
But No! This was the random skipped episode from earlier, and nothing is going to relieve the gloom of the remaining ending.
It also doesn't speak to the coherence of the series plotting that this episode could be excised from the earlier lines of development without much fuss. E.g. this one finishes off the storyline of Keegan's tax case in Bill Cobbs' court, but we hardly felt the loss of that mysteriously disappearing.
And in consequence, it was really disappointing. The episode now listed as 12, "Man's Best Friend", leaves several lines of plot and character at a low point, and is quite a downer as a season (or it turns out, series) finale. So I played this episode 13 in the expectation it would be a followup to some of those down sides, and would give us a little relief and redemption.
But No! This was the random skipped episode from earlier, and nothing is going to relieve the gloom of the remaining ending.
It also doesn't speak to the coherence of the series plotting that this episode could be excised from the earlier lines of development without much fuss. E.g. this one finishes off the storyline of Keegan's tax case in Bill Cobbs' court, but we hardly felt the loss of that mysteriously disappearing.
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