Major Crimes - Hindsight Part 5 - Review: "All Tied Up"

As with the other episodes this season we pick up exactly where we left off. Anyone that expected the confrontation between the Price brothers to get us all of the answers we’ve been waiting on would have been mistaken. The conversation clears both Price brothers of the current deaths. It leaves Reverend Cop Killer devastated. It also gets Raydor’s wheels turning.

Raydor has finally started putting the pieces of the Tamika Weaver murder case together. Each time another interviewee offers up another nugget of information, that ‘wheels turning’ expression of hers intensifies. You know the one…it gets more intent as she moves from determining which pieces are relevant to which pieces will prove her theory correct.

By the time Sanchez and Dunn find the heroin in the Ice Cream Truck Price uses for distribution, Raydor’s got her plan set and all the pieces of her plan in place.

As Sanchez and Dunn track down a taco truck used to move Price’s heroin, we discover that they slept together. Sanchez left his gloves at her place. She loans him some gloves lined with cornstarch, the substance found all over the heroin. The moment he realizes this he knows she’s dirty.

The writers had begun to woo me. I was suspicious of her from the moment she claimed a desk in the squad room. But last week, when Sanchez set up dinner date, I finally believed that her presence didn’t mean she was the guilty person, but that Sanchez was going have a romance story. The moment he indicated that he’d slept with her, I knew the writers had fooled me. The next moment he snapped that glove, and I knew he’d just seen through her lies as well. My heart broke for the guy.

Dunn and Sanchez return to the squad room and get the run down on Raydor’s fake story. They bring out the kid from the season opener, Little Wheezy, and have him look at Mrs. Hickman on a monitor. The kid doesn’t recognize Sherry Hickman. He does, however, identify Stephanie Dunn. (I chuckled at her attempt to hide her face by studying a file.) It doesn’t take long for her to break and confess. Little Weezy entire ID was a performance. Tao wasn’t lying earlier when he said they had no witnesses. The kid beams when Provenza congratulates him on a nice start to an acting career.

All of the other threads were tied up nicely (or mostly so). Sykes was busted for talking with Hickman. It was nice to see that Francine had her back. She stepped up to tell Raydor it was her suggestion that Sykes seek out Hickman. Sykes didn’t get punished which seemed a little odd to me. Sykes’ later comment to Hickman about him being a good guy underneath it all seemed just a touch out of character for me. She’s never seemed quite that naïve about people to me before.

Rusty had not always handled situations in the best way possible (usually in his personal life) but he has proven that he needs to learn a lesson only once. When Sharon suggested that Rusty be the one to confront Gary, Rusty verified that it was okay. Sharon explains to Rusty that because Gary is representing himself it will be okay for Rusty, as Sharon’s son, to speak with Gary and Rusty doesn’t even have take a recorder. The county’s system will do all of that for Rusty.

When Rusty sat down to talk with Gary I was wondering if Gary would try to convince Rusty that he was wrong about his mother never leaving him. Gary’s offer to ‘agree to disagree’ was…interesting. In the same way that Dennis Price did, Gary comes up with several reasons it wasn’t his fault that he got caught. He was pissed that, sober, she refused to sell herself for him. It’s too bad that sobriety didn’t make her smart enough not to go back to the guy in the first place. I did love the triumphant expression on Rusty’s face as he realized he had everything he needed to put the guy away.

I am really bummed Julio doesn’t have a romance to ride off into the sunset with. I think he deserves a little happiness, but I’m hoping that having found out the truth about his wife’s death, he can begin to heal. Maybe once that happens he can move on.

The final moments of this season was watching Provenza get married at City Hall like Patrice wanted! Loved Buzz fighting dirty with Provenza. He used logic! That is never a fair tactic. The Mayor performed the ceremony – which seems like a nice compromise between the understated legal wedding Patrice wanted and the special event that Provenza wanted. Awesome.

So we’re finished for a few more months. I found this season to be very satisfying. When I realized this was a 5 episode, 1 case story, I wasn’t sure how the character stuff would work. But I shouldn’t have been concerned. These writers were up to the job. The pacing felt right all the way through and all of the loose ends were tied up satisfyingly.

What did you guys think of the episode and this part of the season 4?

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