The closer season 1

missing ep 1-pilot

The fun thing about Brenda is how she sings ‘thank youuuu’ to dismiss a person or an argument :-p I like that, I’d like to learn that trick/skill :-p

Fav ep: 12

2-About face

Brenda couldn’t find the right road to go to the crime scene, so she follows the first police car she sees :-p Heather, a model, is dead, and everyone thinks she slipped in the shower but Brenda thinks it’s a homocide because she can’t find the woman’s razor.

Lt Provenza finds her city map in her bag so Sgt Gabriel offers to drive her but she refuses, so she arrives late for the autopsy. She calls her ‘FBI friend’ for help :-p

She gets angry when Pope lets Sanchez start interviewing the husband without her. Brenda and captain Taylor complain to Pope: she’s unhappy about her squad, so Taylor says he’ll give her one of his best man :p Flynn, and he knows Brenda already (from ep 1??)

Brenda and Gabriel can’t talk to the husband anymore because he’s an actor protected by his lawyers, so they go where Heather used to go: hairdresser, boutique, make up.. all very expensive, and also the restaurant where they meet the actor’s new girl. 

Brenda dines with Fritz, tells him she can’t afford to always look like that :-p and also complains to him about how can women fall for that man’s act, and he tells her that it’s exactly what happened to her : “ain’t that what you did with Will Pope? You had an affair with him in Washington, told you he loved you, wanted to divorce his wife, marry you, then he dumped you, left his wife for somebody else, now you’re in LA and you’re working for him”. 

Fritz is not drinking anymore and helps her by giving her her test results much faster. 

Flynn is openly against her; she tells him to arrest the movie star so Flynn and Taylor go talking to Pope who sides with them.. only Sgt Gabriel informs her and follows her and helps her.

She does not believe that the actor killed his wife anymore, but needs people to believe it and also needs him to give her the names of the women who thought they’d live happily ever after with him if his wife was out of the picture. Brenda arrests the hairdresser and plays her easily. 

Ending: Brenda packs up all the expensive things she’s going to return, but keeps the cream because her dad on the phone tells her she looked younger on tv, and keeps the red dress because her birthday is next month so he’ll send her some money :-p well, she did look good in that dress :-p

3-The big picture

Brenda is looking for a body at the morgue and has Gabriel help her. She ‘accuses’ Taylor’s team of having done nothing with the case: a prostitute whose client book recently popped up making her case more important :-/

Fritz comes to her house early so she hides everything she has around in drawers and wardrobes :-p She also has little sweets everywhere :-p

A likely suspect, Nick, has an alibi, he was with the FBI at the moment :-/  ( I kinda liked the way the guy talked. Not what he said, just the way the actor talked)

Brenda’s usually tough but now she hugs Zoya’s friend Nadja to comfort her :-)

The FBI comes in to take everything they have on Zoya, but they make no word about the other victims, so Brenda keeps investigating :-)

The murderer is killed very soon because of Brenda, but she doesn’t care about him. She wants to buy the pretty house where the girl was killed. 

4-Show yourself

Provenza calls her ‘Scarlet O’Hara’ :-p

Three gang members are shot in a park by a sniper. A colonel says his son is the shooter, that he wants to kill the gang members that killed his wife some time before. Brenda asks for captain Taylor’s help, and Pope is angry at her for not telling him about the colonel: he accuses her of becoming all weak in front of a military figure like her father was. 

Brenda calls Fritz to help her follow the colonel and she hides in his car. He makes a joke about that not being what he had in mind when he imagined her in his back seat :-p

At least she runs with running shoes and not heels!! Good!

At the end they stop the shooter but someone shoots him, maybe the colonel, but who was it? Where’s the colonel now? I missed something here. Was the shooter really his son? Why did he kill him?  Well, the guy had another gun so it was not going to end well anyway.

5-Flashpoint

A doctor is killed, a psychiatrist. Brenda is late because she had her phone on mute and didn’t hear it (as it always happens in tv-shows! *rolling-eyes* How absurd and stupid, ringtones are useful!)

We learn that Brenda went through an Ethics Enquiry in Atlanta. Flynn speaks about her to Chief Pope, and Pope asks him to keep the information on the inquiry between the two of them, but Flynn tells all the others. He also mails another article on Brenda to a friend reporter: “police captain caught in sex scandal”, and the reporter writes a new article “charges of misconduct resurface against new LAPD Deputy Chief”. She’s angry about that. Obviously. Gabriel is upset too, he knows very well that Flynn is behind it; Pope tells her he has no idea on how it happened, but then he complaints to Flynn about splitting the squad and leaking to the press…

The cofounder and director of a drug company is John DeLancie.

Brenda forgot she had a date with Fritz, but when he starts saying that he doesn’t want to pressure her and that they can just be friends she kisses him to clear things up :-p but then Gabriel comes to pick her up for work. 

The doctor’s colleague killed him because he had found out he was sleeping with a sixteen-year-old girl. Brenda wears a wire to bust him and then she forgets she has it still on while she talks to Fritz about her past scandal. Provenza listens to every word: her crazy ex-husband reported her to her superiors and she got investigated for sex scandal but the charges were dropped. They start kissing but fortunately she realizes she still has a wire and takes it off :-p

Flynn was a real jerk here.

6-Fantasy date

Carla, daughter of a former DA, is murdered. Investigating her home, Brenda is assaulted; she tries to fight and finally she manages to get hold of her weapon so she can stop him. 

The man had seen an online ad from Carla asking for S&M rape. Another guy did rape her, thinking she wanted it, but afterwards she attacked him, they fought and she died. She fought back because she never posted anything of the sort, it was her ex-boyfriend, he put it online, and it was real shit listening to that guy saying “it was only supposed to be rape..” it made me sick, how would he like it I wonder huh???

After the attack Brenda calls Fritz without really saying anything but he goes to her immediately and then spends the night on the couch.

At the end, she calls him to have breakfast together: he names a place and she asks for “really good directions” :lol: she’s as bad as me in this :-p

7-You are here

Brenda and Fritz are kissing in his car when she gets a work call: a judge is dead. His autistic son is missing, and later he’s found in the trunk of a car. He keeps saying a series of numbers and the words “where am I?” . When Brenda touches him he gives her a black eye. After this, when she describes his character and temper, Flynn makes a joke : “does he have a Georgian accent?” which was rather funny :lol: 

She’s not yet told anyone about her and Fritz, but later she will announce it from an interrogation room, while handing him the high-jacker/murderer. 

She takes Keith in for a while; his numbers were latitude and longitude of where he was taken to. The judge’s ex-wife had paid a man who had already threatened him, to kill him because he took away her son from her. 

8-Batter up

Taylor’s case is given to Brenda because of politics and pressure. A man walked into a gay bar with his boyfriend in his arms, both covered in blood. The poor guy was robbed and beaten to death. Brenda comes to the crime scene with a sick cat, that is not even her cat, just living in her house :-p and she gives it to an officer to take it to the vet. It turns out that it wasn’t sick, just very pregnant: six kittens :-D

Flynn gives an important piece of information to Taylor instead of Brenda, so while she’s explaining how carefully she plans her arrests Taylor goes and arrests the suspect Blade. He admits to robbing gay people but not to murder. Soon everybody learns what Andy did :-/

Fritz has turned up tickets to a game to go out with Brenda but she has to go to see Pope for a drink, and he gives her earrings. Brenda tells him the case is not closed yet, so Pope gives her suspect to Taylor who’s very happy to get him for murder too, even taking advantage of his conditions to get a forced confession. Blade is an addict and is feeling very sick and clearly he would say anything to get some help. While looking for evidence, Provenza and Buzz find Blade an alibi for the murder. 

Solution: the usual, old motives love&money: he was cheating on his boyfriend and wanted to leave him; his boyfriend killed him so he wouldn’t leave him and wouldn’t take with him half his assets.

At the end there’s a face-to-face Brenda/Taylor “it’s not the Department you’ve been treating like crap, it’s me” & “I don’t want an apology from you, I want an acknowledgement of my rank, I want an understanding that you are beneath me in the chain of command and I want you to be officially warned that if you make any further attempt to undermine my investigations Chief Pope will recommend an inquiry by Internal Affairs, which is I believe the established procedure when investigating an insubordinate officer” and Pope at that: “I see nothing improper in that request” at which Taylor makes such a face!! like he was being betrayed, and a moment later we learn why when he tells Pope he “got the confession that you ordered me to get!” & Pope: “on the other hand we may have accomplished more than I expected” because the squad is more close now :-)

There are seven kittens now in Brenda’s house, and Fritz comes to her door and says he understands how difficult it is to give the kittens away because “they’re so cute” :-) Fritz is lovely, Pope is a jerk. I so don’t like him (the character of course. I do like the actor)

9-Good housekeeping

A young girl is found dead in a river. Now, I like the doc (James Avery) but I have to disagree with him: he said “no sign of torture” after he said that she had been raped!!! and that she was a virgin before that!! THAT is torture, people, That is TORTURE!

A boy identifies a suspect but when they go to him he shoots himself. This ‘registered sex offender’ only took pictures of flowers and stuff and did not murder the poor girl. The boy who accused him escapes to Mexico with his mother, while his father confesses to the murder to give him time to get away. Brenda has Fritz take her to Mexico, and tells the little shit how long mom and dad will stay in prison for helping him escape but he’s not too touched. He confesses thinking he’s got nothing to be afraid of; he refuses to leave, very arrogantly, so she shows her last card: Martha was Mexican, not American, and Mexicans “don’t take too kindly to their citizens being murdered no matter where in the world it happens” so he’ll be tried there for his crime, and she replies “it’s too late” when he shouts to take him with her. The little shit who was so arrogant before now is calling for his mom, all frightened!

Brenda is feeling very low so Fritz suggests staying the night there. Brenda asks detective Gabriel to take care of the cats at her house :-p Fritz was right, they’re so cute :-D

Brenda has Flynn transferred to robbery/homicide 

10-The butler did it

Brenda drives to the crime scene but can’t park and hits a police car. Since nobody can quickly figure out the gate’s code, she climbs up helping herself with the patrol car:p she stands on it and climbs over. “I don’t climb” says Provenza :-p

Inside the house they find a hanged man. He was Albert the butler, and a defendant on a murder case trial. Albert was accused of murdering a woman, Angelina. The DA comes to Brenda’s house to talk to her about the case: she’s washing dishes, the kitchen is a mess, she doesn’t know where to put the dishes :p she’s worse than I am :p He helps her dry the dishes while he speaks to her about the case. It seems suicide, as if Albert hanged himself, but he doesn’t believe it because he believes he was innocent, so Brenda has the doctor call it a homicide. 

She has the rich owners of the house arrested, so she can talk to them :p Daniels arrests the sister for possession, an undercover Julio arrests Devlin for solicitation, while DA Yates arrested Dennis. 

Devlin keeps hitting on Julio during the interview, and given his temper he acted very well :-) 

“Uncle James” the family lawyer provides answers and alibis for the brothers and Brenda lets them go, remaining just with him. He took Diana’s drugs, he could move money on the accounts, he knew the gate’s code. Angelina was their stepmother and she wanted to fire him. He killed both Angelina and Albert. 

Dennis has the face to hit on Brenda afterwards :-/

Very sorry it wasn’t him, after seeing the pictures of his ex-girlfriend, beaten to death :-/ Despicable guy.

11-L.A. woman

Gabriel is driving Brenda to the crime scene, and she’s being her usual annoying self :-p and so Gabriel buys her sunglasses :-D

An Iranian guy and his driver were murdered, and the wife (Marina Sirtis) says the Government is behind it… her son won’t let her speak to Fritz because women can’t talk to men :-/ (how absurd, are they so afraid of women? thinking and speaking freely? ) but at least she insists on talking to Brenda.  

Two FBI men approach “we’re not gonna get in anybody’s way, trust me” - “I stopped believing boys who said trust me when I was 16” :-p She asks Provenza to escort them outside the crime scene but they won’t move, and give him the smallest chest-to-chest push, and Provenza puts up a little ‘pretending’ : he sort of falls backwards saying he broke something, and Brenda: “I am shocked! that you would assault an old man without provocation!” :-p

The FBI threatens to stop any cooperation, damaging six of Taylor’s cases, so Pope makes peace with a sort of joined-operation. Fritz is the liaison officer :-p While she investigates the murder he’s actually trying to retrieve the missing two million dollars that the FBI gave the guy. (they both say out loud that they have strong feelings for each other :-D nice)

Brenda wants Gabriel to check ‘a lot’ of cars, and tells him to ask for someone in Taylor’s team: Flynn of course. Flynn then tries to cause turmoil between Gabriel and Brenda :-p but later she calls him “one of the best cop she’s ever worked with” during the interview with the wife. She and dr Graham were not stranger witnesses, he had treated her daughter’s ashma and they had started an affair. Her husband wanted to send her back to Iran, a sort of prison she couldn’t accept anymore. They were in it together, the doctor shoot them to free her, to save her. Brenda would have been a bit more sympathetic if they hadn’t also killed the innocent bodyguard. 

The FBI takes over and arrests them both. 

At the end, Brenda and Fritz go out together, to dinner. 

12-Fatal retraction

A man was convicted three years ago for burning to death a woman, Lisa, who is found dead of overdose now. Brenda works that old case again now, to find out who she was, the girl that was killed back then and believed to be Lisa. She asks Fritz’s help in identifying the victim, and they finally identify her. Flynn and the shrink worked her case too, when she was raped, and when she disappeared they thought she had killed herself because of it.

Brenda keeps eating sweets :-D She has an interview with Crowley, the creep that was convicted for her murder, and since she’s just his type she tries to use that while talking to him but he’s not falling for that.  Crowley is set free, and Taylor keeps complaining about her to Pope, for treating Flynn and everyone who worked the case the first time like they were the criminals. Once free, Crowley starts intimidating Flynn and the doctors that testified against him, then he shows up at Brenda’s house, on the porch. 

When they start suspecting that the poor girl (Samantha Jones) really did commit suicide and that ‘someone’ (meaning Flynn) might have planted evidence to frame Crowley who had walked free from another murder trial, Taylor suggests Internal Affairs should look into it, but Brenda wants to talk to him first. He tells her “you must be so happy now, can’t wait to see me ripped apart”; she asks him if he planted Lisa’s driver license, tampering with the evidence to get a promotion. He says no and she believes him. She’s never easy to deal with but honestly it’s him who’s always given her a hard time!

It turns out that the psychiatrist killed Samantha! and planted the evidence. 

After this ‘betrayal’ Flynn applies to “permanent transfer to her squad” :-)

This was a good episode, I liked it :-D

13-Standards and practices

A man is found dead, naked in his little pool. He was a film producer. His abused wife’s father  killed him and his wife helped him with the alibi. He confesses to have done it all by himself. 

Provenza mimicking Brenda’s accent and way of speaking was hilarious :lol:

Pope talks to Taylor about a complaint against Brenda he found on his desk, but Taylor doesn’t take it back. “unbecoming conduct” :-/ When the squad learns about it they turn to look at Flynn :lol: but he says he had thought about it time ago, but he backed out. 

Gabriel tells Taylor that he’ll say to Internal Affairs that he thinks “the charges against her are small-minded, petty and malicious” and that he is “ashamed of whoever may have filed them”.

Pope tells Brenda that she could just apologize to the DA’s office and the FBI and promise to be more cooperative, and it would all be fine. She asks Gabriel if she’s been a difficult boss :lol: (where to start? :-P still, not a bad one) than she tells the squad they’re all good people and she liked working with them. She talks about it to Fritz (she still hasn’t told her parents about him) and he tells her that if she wants to resign he has some money put away and they could move in together to cut expenses… 

 Brenda sort-of-apologizes, but in a sort of disagreeable way :-p sort of ‘I’m I had to point out the mess you made’… she couldn’t help herself, she doesn’t believe she did wrong.

Every single member of her squad files resignation papers if she’s transferred or put on leave because of the “anonymous” complaint. Pope offers Taylor a promotion to make it all go away, only one rank below Brenda. :-/

Brenda throws away their resignation papers in front of them; she’s most surprised about Lt Flynn’s paper, saying he never said a nice thing to her ever, so he tells her “you have really nice legs” :lol: then she smiles, she thanks them all, then she goes into her office and eats a little cake from her drawer :-p