Episode 37
Wild Card (02-10-03)
Brief Synopsis: Jordan suspects
a detective played a role in the murder of a police witness; Garret and Winslow
investigate a makeshift hospital being run out of a warehouse.
First off—they finally dealt with
Elaine’s death. Not that two episodes is a long time to wait to deal with it,
but last week they were all gathered together to solve an unsolved crime from
1964 and it seemed almost as if they’d completely forgotten the event had even
happened.
Peter was most deeply affected, and
probably rightly so. He’s the new guy on the block, and his first experience
with Elaine is her helping to save his life. So I can see how he has the
strongest reaction. He has a few outbursts along the way which open up the
others eyes to the fact that everyone is avoiding the issue.
The rest of the staff doesn’t know how
to grieve for her. They’re saddened by her death, but they didn’t really ‘know’
her. That easy camaraderie that the others share was missing. ‘Standoffish’ I
believe was the term to used when talking about Elaine. Bug says: “She looks
like the Mona Lisa…happy, sad, who can tell.” I think that sums everything up
beautifully. A side note—Jordan did grieve at the end of the episode (Perfect
Storm). She was crying over Elaine’s body.
On to the main story line—The theme of
this week’s episode: Moral issues. Taking the high road or the low road…which
will it be?
The first was with Jordan and Detective
Eric Brazil. They deal with the murder of a 14 year old witness. Detective
Brazil is set on convicting a man, no matter what he has to do, which includes
planting evidence. This irks Jordan and sets her off. She thinks Brazil is a
dirty cop. She tries to convince Brazil’s partner to turn him in. In the end
it turned out to be O’Dea (his partner) who was the guilt party.
Jordan and Brazil have choices to make,
and though both of them make some questionable decisions. (Jordan breaking into
his apartment and Brazil returning the favor and giving a Jordan a fright in her
own apartment) Brazil also planted the knife used in the killing. In the end
Brazil comes to Jordan’s rescue and gives up his chance at convicting ‘his’
criminal for this particular crime (And O’Dea, the true guilty party pays.) And
Jordan manages to take the high road and apologizes to Brazil for some of her
earlier comments. I liked the interaction between Brazil and Jordan. There was
some good tension there.
Garret and Peter’s storyline I found
much more interesting. I don’t like Peter and this episode didn’t help further
my opinion of him. He was very insubordinate to Garret. And Peter has a big
attitude problem. He’s got to work on that. Garret and Peter find an illegal
hospital being ran out of a warehouse. Peter is gun-ho on reporting it to the
authorities, as is Garret at first. But he realizes the good being done and
even offers some of his time. And Peter surprised me by actually keeping quiet
about it. I was sure he’d go squeal. I was glad to learn Peter didn’t spill
the beans. Again it was a moral choice they had to make. Some will argue they
acted wrong while others will defend their actions. That I leave up to you to
debate.
An okay episode. It left me a little
flat and wanting a little more.
2 out of 5 Dead Bodies. They dealt with
Elaine’s death (enough to satisfy us) And for our characters choosing the high
road.
Lara's Review -
Wild Card
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