Cop Tim is found dead two days after his death. Detective Daniels had dated him for a few months. He was off duty, and now all his division is angry at Brenda for how she’s handling the matter.
It turns out the detective’s long-time partner shot Tim after finding out that Tim was the real father of his son but that he still cared more about hiding the truth than taking a test to help the child who has cancer :-/
Brenda has now a sugarless-snacks policy for her team :p She gave it up too and eats oranges now in her office :p yeah right :p then when she’s too nervous before an interview Tao gives her candies :p
Fritz wants to move in together but she stalls “what if you stopped liking me?” :p Fritz asks her if her reluctance has anything to do with Pope getting a divorce... he’s jealous and he thinks that Pope will ask her out again now. Sure enough Pope does ask her out but she says no because she’s dating Fritz and they’re moving in together :-) Good.
2- Mom duty
Fritz moves in; Brenda sort of has to deal with an important case. A big trial against an Armenian mob guy keeps being delayed, a juror dies of a heart attack and Flynn is the one wanting to look into it, saying jurors have been threatened before, and he swears to Brenda that he’s right about this, so she investigates.
Brenda wants a mis-trial to be able to talk to the other jurors. It turns out the man’s son set the fire that killed a person, and killed someone to stop the first trial and tried to kill juror 4 in the second trial but juror 9 died first. After being shot by Flynn, Brenda lets him think that he’s about to die and records his confession, so his dad’s trial is over and Brenda can finally investigate juror 9’s death. She was killed by her mother-in-law.
Brenda’s mom is coming to LA for a funeral and Brenda doesn’t want her to know about Fritz, but this upsets him and he tells her that either she tells her mother or they’re done. Her mom’s never been to her house before, and she also visits her workplace :) Had she stayed home she would have made her new curtains :p Provenza takes her to the funeral since Brenda can’t, but he tells Brenda not to worry because he doesn’t date women over 35, 40 if he’s drunk... *rollingeyes*
At dinner time, Fritz meets Brenda’s mom :)
3- Slippin’
Brenda was supposed to have a day off; she was showing her mom the city with Fritz, but she has to leave them to go to a crime scene. Two black 19-year-old died in a shooting. Everybody assumed they were a couple, but actually the kid’s girlfriend was the white girl Teresa now in a hospital. Wesley was in no gang.
Brenda’s mom has been cleaning her house, and when Brenda comes home with Gabriel she tells him not to talk about Fritz or politics or religion or vegetarians, and eventually tells him to just ‘smile and wave’ :lol: Brenda goes out to dinner with her mother and Fritz, to the same restaurant Wesley’s parents went on the night of the shooting, to check their alibi. They were there, but while they were eating their car was used in a gang shooting, and because of that Wesley and the girl were killed out of revenge. After a week Brenda’s mother goes home. WillyRae knew about Fritz’s stuff being in a truck outside, about them living together, but she won’t tell her husband :-)
Brenda tells her “I thought you’d stay longer, I promised to show you stars that aren’t dead” - “guests are like fish, after three days you’d better throw them out” - “you’ve been here a week!” :lol:
but there’s payback :-p when mom asks her why she felt she had to keep her relationship a secret Brenda said “I didn’t want to disappoint you” which is kinda stupid of course, you know, and mom says “Brenda Lee, it’s much too late for that” :lol: then they smile.
Taylor thanks her for clearing the boy’s name :-)
4- Aftertaste
Karen, the wife of chef Paul Bivas, was murdered in the restaurant kitchen. While listing the people who worked there, Flynn can’t say the French word and Provenza puts up his ‘I can’t believe this’-face :p he pronounces every word the English way, he even says ‘somme-liar’ :lol:
Brenda receives a huge basket of flowers for her birthday :p by Fritz :)
Dennis Dutton, the guy who beat his ex to death with a golf club, is one of the restaurant investors. Brenda: “why is it that you’re always one or two steps away from a murdered woman?”.
His alibi is a critic played by John Billingsley. Chef Paul goes to chef Walter’s restaurant shouting that he killed his wife. Provenza has him drop the knife and Flynn knocks down Walter when he attacks him in return :p Walter had an affair with Karen, four years before, when she worked there.
While Brenda is in her office, Pope brings her dinner as well as a birthday gift. She has to work though so cmdr Taylor eats it.
She walks around with the flowers, saying “no-one touches these flowers ok?” - Provenza reads the card: she’s 40 now.
Karen slept with Walter to have him hire Paul, then with Dennis so he would invest money in Paul’s restaurant, and she slept with the critic so he’d write a wonderful review, and the critic killed her because (he said that) he loved her and she didn’t.
She loved her husband, and everything she did was for him. So once again Dennis is free :-/ and he leaves a set of knives for Brenda as a gift, with a card :-/
The squad and Fritz give her a cake, and she uses the knives to cut it :) She takes the first slice to Fritz :)
Provenza: “I guess she didn’t get her wish” - Flynn:”how do you know?” - “because you’re still here” :lol:
Fritz tells her that turning 40 is not so bad and that it all depends if she sees the glass half full or half empty, and she says “what glass?” - “that’s my girl”, they kiss then he takes the flowers to the car while she eats a bit of cake, then she takes it with her - she did not open Pope’s gift.
5- To protect and to serve
Provenza and Flynn are late for a game, when they find a dead woman in Provenza’s garage. Provenza convinces Flynn to not call it in just yet, because she’ll still be dead when they get back from the game... so they go but Flynn’s ‘car’ breaks down on the way so they have to go back, and the body’s not there anymore! The body is found elsewhere and Flynn uses Brenda’s name to take charge of the investigation.
Pope is angry at her when he learns about this but she does not rat them out :-D Then, she storms off his office really mad and starts yelling at her squad ‘where are Flynn and Provenza?’ when they arrive. Now they tell her everything. They’re worried she might fire them and look at her with puppy eyes :lol: She tells Provenza “just go home” - “is that how you say you’re fired in the South?” :p - “your garage is a crime scene; Lt Provenza go home and wait for me there!” then she asks Tao, Julio and Daniels to help them. The victim was the woman who lived at Provenza’s place before him.
Taylor is still investigating, while Brenda’s team does it in secret because they know it’s not a ‘robbery homicide’ case, and most of all Taylor doesn’t know where she was murdered.
Brenda also has to interfere in Taylor’s investigation, because Kathy(?)’s boyfriend found her dead and moved the body cutting her open to retrieve drugs (I think) but they don’t want him to say ‘where’ he found her, so Brenda ruins an interview and then Flynn makes a call: there’s a bomb threat and everybody must get out so he can’t close any deal.
Finally Fritz comes to take Taylor’s suspect away :p Kathy Landon was an addict and four years before she had been a surrogate mother. A couple had the baby but there was no legal contract. Now that she wanted the baby back, the father first tried to take her to the police knowing that she was carrying drugs, but when she fought he killed her.
Brenda gives him time to surrender and he won’t say anything about the garage.
Flynn and Provenza are safe, but Brenda gives them a list of gifts for the squad who helped them - Opium perfume for Daniels, flat tv for Sanchez, a Macbook Pro for Tao’s son, Mets tickets for Fritz... :lol:
6- Out of focus
Pope says about Brenda: “she sometimes forgets there are other people in the world” .
A ‘paparazzi’ is dead, and Provenza is the only one who rightly says ‘paparazzo’. Thank you.
They throw dummies off the balcony to try find out how it happened, and Provenza named them with his ex-wives names (so, Heather is the fourth, Liz is the one who always corrected his grammar; Sharon the one who always had to be right..). A very famous actor, Whit, is involved. The paparazzo took pictures of him cheating on his wife with José Diaz, but he didn’t kill him. His ex-wife did, maybe for the money - she sold the picture for 300.000$ - or maybe because he didn’t love her anymore.
Brenda hears the message that a woman left for Fritz and is jealous. I didn’t like how in this episode they kept implying that there might be some affair between Brenda and Pope: at the beginning, when they meet at the hotel and enter a room together, and then it turns out to be a crime scene; at the end, when Pope asks her out to dinner and we don’t hear her answer because the episode ends. Come on stop it please.
7- Head over heels
Gabriel and Brenda are at a diner, he tells her he’s now dating Daniels, when a man tells them that ‘somebody’s head is in my dumpster’. Brenda falls inside while taking a look: “of for Heaven’s sake, it is a head!” :-p and feet also. The dead man was a porn star. His wife worked with him once but now only stays with her two children; she didn’t even know that he was HIV positive. Not even Chris knew that he was positive, and when he found out he went to his producer (Oscar and his mother own Opulence Production), and attacked him, and Oscar killed him. His mother had found out some time ago that Chris was HIV positive and paid a man at the clinic to fake the results. She had also hired girls from Brazil ‘because they were cheaper’ :-/ and didn’t have them tested to save time. Because of her conduct Chris infected his wife and at least twelve women, that they know of, but many haven’t been found and tested, so Brenda charges her with that.
Brenda is nervous because she thinks she might be pregnant, and she tells Pope but not Fritz. Pope tells her that he can’t have this private conversation since she made it clear she wants to have only a professional relationship. Of course she’s not pregnant. Fritz would like to have kids but she doesn’t look ready at all.
Oscar’s mother is played by the actress who played Zelda in Sabrina.
8- Critical missing
Brenda is still not comfortable with Gabriel and Daniels dating. Tao is Chinese, his wife is Japanese.
Two bodies are found, a mother and a daughter. Yumi and Aiko Takahashi. Paul Andrews was Yumi’s husband. He’s British, not a US citizen. Paul’s first wife disappeared and was never found, his second wife and child are dead and his girlfriend and her son are living with him. He killed them, and eventually makes a deal. It’s not enough for Brenda, and she talks about it to Fritz who helps her - she looked good in jeans and red jacket :-)
She finds the body of his first wife so he’ll get much more than that deal.
9- Heroic measures
A woman at a hospital yells that her son - who came in for a test and died in the operation room - has been murdered. Daniels accepts her words enough to call Brenda, who comes in a fancy dress because she was at dinner with Fritz. Seeing them together the man in charge there ‘just assumes’ that Fritz is the boss - “talk to the lady” he says - then the hospital administrator thinks he can simply bully her around! Brenda calls him a jerk and rightly so! He even tries to threaten Pope, and Pope threatens Grand Jury at them.
Mother Melissa’s boyfriend, mad at Provenza, says “screw you!” - Provenza: “if that’s an offer you might be a little friendlier about it” :lol:
The mother proves the doctors’ negligence by performing an autopsy on him at a medical lab after the body had been released. She has one of them admitting to malpractice and the other that he let the boy die, making a life and death decision. They will not be prosecuted though. The mother shoots the doctor who let him die.
10- The other woman
Brenda is testifying in Pope’s divorce case - deposition at his custody hearing, for his kids, when his wife’s lawyer brings up a letter she wrote to him when they were lovers during his other marriage, implying that he promoted her because she was his mistress. She leaves to go to a crime scene.
The dead woman might be an identity thief so Fritz comes to help.
MaryAnn stole Jennifer’s identity and was staying at her house, where Jennifer’s brother killed her believing he was killing his sister.
Brenda has a lawyer help her with the deposition :) He took the gift Pope gave her, looked at it and didn’t tell her what it was :-/
She was very worried that everybody would find out about their past affair because of what they might get out of it - maybe think that she got promoted because of it or maybe also that that’s the reason why she always gets her way...
11- Borderline
Brenda wastes her coffee breakfast, breaks her phone and hits a car while driving en reverse with a stained rear window - she could have just cleaned it though - and finally she gets to the crime scene.
There’s a rule: “any officer involved in a vehicular accident while on duty must remain with their vehicle at the scene of said accident until a traffic officer completes a thorough investigation”= department policy. Pope tells her that she was wrong, even if she thinks she’s right, and takes her car keys for the investigation. She’s angry, she talks to Fritz about it so now he has to drive her around. She doesn’t fill in the reports upsetting the traffic officer investigating the accident. She doesn’t want to ‘dignify’ this accusations ‘by responding to it’: she’s very stubborn and unreasonable. This whole thing was so annoying, laws and rules should be for everybody, even for her :-/
Tao is on vacation to Hawaii with his kids.
Two coyotes who drives illegal people to America are found dead, and the injured guy is one too. They were responsible for other people’s deaths. The son of two people they left to die shot the three of them. He confessed because Julio whispered to him that if he got arrested he would end up in the same jail as the third coyote...
Pope and Taylor give a commendation to the traffic officer on Brenda’s request to get it over with, and she also got back her car...
12- No good deed
A 16-year-old kid is murdered. He gave a deposition on Curtis’ case, not against the man in death row, but in his defense. A schoolgirl was in love with Curtis and believed him innocent. She forwarded his mail to his partner so he could kill the boy. They’re both guilty, Curtis and his partner.
... I missed something here, it doesn’t make sense...
Brenda lost her purse and is going crazy without it and her purse : “I’m losing my ability to function” :-p Pope got custody of his kids. Pope’s ex-wife comes in accusing her in front of everybody of wanting to continue her affair with Pope : “if I find out that you are sleeping with Will again I will reopen this custody issue and I am not kidding!”
Everyone’s shocked. Flynn wants to talk about it but Brenda doesn’t. Provenza: “did you go deaf all of a sudden? She said no”. She’s shocked too and she tells Pope: “I may have just lost the respect of everyone who works here”
Fritz is angry because he thinks that Estelle acted like that because she knows how Pope feels and what he wants (meaning Brenda). Fritz tells her that he loves her and then she throws away her memories with Pope and leaves him a note: “Dear Fritz, I love you too! P.s. please cancel all my credit cards today...” :-p
Well, she takes the bag to her office, doesn’t really throw it away... until the end of the episode, when she does, with just a bit of regret I’d say. She also finds out that she had left her purse in Pope’s office
Taylor was made come in and support her in front of everybody.
13- Overkill
Brenda’s cat gets out and she goes crazy :-p She asks her mother for a picture of “Kitty” :-p At home she cries for Kitty.
An FB I agent and the wife of a man in protective custody are shot dead. It’s a mob thing, and ex-mob DeLuca is a witness against the Delamonte family. DeLuca’s wife had an abortion and he didn’t forgive her and he planned the whole thing and killed his wife. After knowing that the FBI agent helped her, DeLuca shoots him right there in the department with Provenza’s gun, and holds him prisoner until Sanchez shoots him. It was an emotional ending, I liked it.
14- Serving the king: part 1
Brenda is upset because she’s on paid leave, the shooting of the last episode is being investigated, and all her squad has been reassigned for the time being, and she’s worried for her career. Gabriel and Flynn work with Taylor. Young Malik is found dead and they don’t like how the others work, so they’re sent away to another case.
Brenda has a meeting with Pope and a man she knows, CIA Andrew Smith, who can make the investigation go away if she does a job for him. He says that Taylor lacks important info to solve Malik’s murder, and that there is a breach in the agency security so the cia reached out to retired personnel like Andrew and Brenda ( !! ). She must find the murderer and save the intended victim: “I want my job back but I’m a criminal investigator Andrew. Find whoever killed Malik, that’s my profession, handing over potential defectors to the cia without knowing why or what you’re gonna do with them, I don’t do that anymore” - He tells her that this ‘Army of Allah’ (same people, different book: I like this line, so true) may be creating an atomic bomb. She meets Provenza and tells him almost everything. He’s sure he’ll be put into retirement. Brenda: “I won’t let them” - “don’t make promises you can’t keep”.
She goes to the crime-scene at night with Provenza and Flynn. She bases the investigation at her home, and Gabriel joins them, while Fritz is in the other room sleeping. She doesn’t tell Flynn and Gabriel everything she’s told Provenza, though.
Brenda meets Elaine, former cia, while Provenza listens to everything from a van nearby. Elaine wants her job back too...
Brenda finds Malik’s killer, Russian ex-KGB officer Voitski, already dead, and tells Andrew that she wants her team back, intact, or she walks away :-)
Brenda throws away her plants :( poor plants...
15- Serving the king: part 2
Brenda and her whole team get back to their office, and Taylor and his men have to go away...
Brenda thinks she should step back from the investigation because they might use her, follow her to kill someone, like they did before. Andrew: “Brenda, do you remember what to do when you discover you’re under surveillance?” - “never acknowledge you’re being watched unless you can drive some technical advantage” therefore he can’t replace her...
She goes on, and Elaine helps her. Brenda leads the operation, finds the CIA mole (Fritz takes hold of him) and uses Malik’s father to retrieve the Uranium, then the CIA takes him.
Before going home, Provenza comes to take Brenda out for breakfast, before coming back and hanging her huge picture that keeps falling off the wall.. :-D
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