This one is about a cop who hires Joe to investigate the circumstances behind a tip he received about a cop killer.
This is a dreadful episode that uses a story line that has been seen many times before, where someone is set up as a patsy to take the fall in some elaborate scheme to kill someone. Usually Joe is the patsy, but in this case it's his client.
There are lots of plot holes, like how did Joe know Deedrich had a gun in his drawer and how did Deedrich know Joe had been fired? And I haven't gotten to the ending yet, where even more plot holes are exposed.
Another problem is the extended scene with the dog, which was obviously used as filler since the writers didn't have enough of a script to fill a complete episode. They should have eliminated the scene with the dog and used that time to fill in some of the plot holes and loose ends.
Victor Millan makes his one and only appearance as Lt. Mendez.
Julie Parrish makes a return appearance. She played the stripper in The Lost Art of Dying from last season.
Fred Beir makes his third appearance. He most recently was in the excellent What Happened to Sunday episode from last season. Unfortunately this episode is not up to those standards or anywhere near it.
Charlie Picerni makes another appearance. Sometimes he's a stuntman and sometimes he plays regular characters. In this case, he's a regular character but unfortunately for him he plays Danny, who gets rubbed out in the opening scene.
The total body count is four.
As often happens with this show, everything collapses at the end when the plot is explained and it doesn't make any sense. Why was Deedrich blackmailed and why did he pay blackmail when he didn't do anything to be blackmailed over?? Then Greer says Deedrich wanted to "back out". Back out of what?? This was never explained. It's also unrealistic that the syndicate would go to such elaborate lengths and expose themselves like this if they wanted to kill someone. They would just have one of their own soldiers do it in secret and then dispose of the body where it will never be found, so this whole scheme is implausible.
There isn't a lot of action and when you combine that with all of the plot problems, this is a terrible episode and certainly not one that I would recommend.
This is a dreadful episode that uses a story line that has been seen many times before, where someone is set up as a patsy to take the fall in some elaborate scheme to kill someone. Usually Joe is the patsy, but in this case it's his client.
There are lots of plot holes, like how did Joe know Deedrich had a gun in his drawer and how did Deedrich know Joe had been fired? And I haven't gotten to the ending yet, where even more plot holes are exposed.
Another problem is the extended scene with the dog, which was obviously used as filler since the writers didn't have enough of a script to fill a complete episode. They should have eliminated the scene with the dog and used that time to fill in some of the plot holes and loose ends.
Victor Millan makes his one and only appearance as Lt. Mendez.
Julie Parrish makes a return appearance. She played the stripper in The Lost Art of Dying from last season.
Fred Beir makes his third appearance. He most recently was in the excellent What Happened to Sunday episode from last season. Unfortunately this episode is not up to those standards or anywhere near it.
Charlie Picerni makes another appearance. Sometimes he's a stuntman and sometimes he plays regular characters. In this case, he's a regular character but unfortunately for him he plays Danny, who gets rubbed out in the opening scene.
The total body count is four.
As often happens with this show, everything collapses at the end when the plot is explained and it doesn't make any sense. Why was Deedrich blackmailed and why did he pay blackmail when he didn't do anything to be blackmailed over?? Then Greer says Deedrich wanted to "back out". Back out of what?? This was never explained. It's also unrealistic that the syndicate would go to such elaborate lengths and expose themselves like this if they wanted to kill someone. They would just have one of their own soldiers do it in secret and then dispose of the body where it will never be found, so this whole scheme is implausible.
There isn't a lot of action and when you combine that with all of the plot problems, this is a terrible episode and certainly not one that I would recommend.