Aside from solving a murder, the conversation between Brenda and Det. Sanchez regarding the Turell Baylor case has a needed perspective. Det. Sanchez delineates the subject perfectly. Turell came looking for protection from his gang members when they wanted retribution after they learned he killed the convenience store owner and his grandson. These gang members would not be satisfied until their justice was completed, killing Turell for the murder of innocent people in their hood. Sanchez emphatically states that if for reasons undefined the gang failed to eliminate Turell, some day in the future the LAPD would be encountering another murder by Turell. It was manifest destiny for Turell to commit future heinous crimes. Sanchez says it plain as day that when the time came the LAPD encountered the next person or persons Turell murders, the question would arise throughout the city, how do we explain to family members how we let a confessed murderer out in the street? We'd probably get sued for that too. Gaps? Chief, no gaps.
A mother comes to L.A. in response to her daughter Sedona's death, suspected of drug overdosing. The mother, a Phoenix PD-Narcotics officer, is there to clear her daughter's name of being a drug user. The daughter's husband is an addict, a loser, while the daughter was going to college and working part-time as an escort for an agency run by a woman. The woman, Linda Prall, said the estranged husband was getting paid by Sedona to stay away; why would he kill her? She gives the name of his associate that Det. Ortega recognized from arresting him twice in Phoenix.
Major Crime Division goes to the husband's last known location to ask about his estranged-wife. A shootout ensues, all residents are killed, no police harmed in the melee; the husband was killed not enabling Major Crimes to solve Sedona's murder.
Sedona was looking for her biological family members, her biological-brother, same father. He has her killed by the hand of her estranged husband. He was not about to share any inheritance with her. The step-brother admits to his guilt and hauled away in cuffs.
There is a murder to solve while Raydor works to convince Brenda a leak exists. Brenda solves the murder and Raydor convinces Brenda the plaintiff's attorney knows how a question was answered from someone obviously in Major Crimes leaking private conversations. It will take until episode twenty until the person leaking information is known and announced by Raydor.
Closing conversation between Captain Raydor and Chief Johnson in Brenda's office is also very pertinent to the continuing storyline through episode fifteen, when Attorney Goldman is gone forever with his last appearance in the series; good riddance.
This episode is rated A because the story informs the viewer of two things: how well the cast solves the crime at hand and sheds light on how the prevailing suit is viewed from the detective point of view. Raydor does her best to convince Brenda someone is telling Goldman everything before she learns the details. Det. Gabriel asked you the twenty-million-dollar question. How does the plaintiff's attorney know how you answered it? Brenda ponders, what are you thinking? Somewhere in your division Chief Johnson, you have a leak.
A mother comes to L.A. in response to her daughter Sedona's death, suspected of drug overdosing. The mother, a Phoenix PD-Narcotics officer, is there to clear her daughter's name of being a drug user. The daughter's husband is an addict, a loser, while the daughter was going to college and working part-time as an escort for an agency run by a woman. The woman, Linda Prall, said the estranged husband was getting paid by Sedona to stay away; why would he kill her? She gives the name of his associate that Det. Ortega recognized from arresting him twice in Phoenix.
Major Crime Division goes to the husband's last known location to ask about his estranged-wife. A shootout ensues, all residents are killed, no police harmed in the melee; the husband was killed not enabling Major Crimes to solve Sedona's murder.
Sedona was looking for her biological family members, her biological-brother, same father. He has her killed by the hand of her estranged husband. He was not about to share any inheritance with her. The step-brother admits to his guilt and hauled away in cuffs.
There is a murder to solve while Raydor works to convince Brenda a leak exists. Brenda solves the murder and Raydor convinces Brenda the plaintiff's attorney knows how a question was answered from someone obviously in Major Crimes leaking private conversations. It will take until episode twenty until the person leaking information is known and announced by Raydor.
Closing conversation between Captain Raydor and Chief Johnson in Brenda's office is also very pertinent to the continuing storyline through episode fifteen, when Attorney Goldman is gone forever with his last appearance in the series; good riddance.
This episode is rated A because the story informs the viewer of two things: how well the cast solves the crime at hand and sheds light on how the prevailing suit is viewed from the detective point of view. Raydor does her best to convince Brenda someone is telling Goldman everything before she learns the details. Det. Gabriel asked you the twenty-million-dollar question. How does the plaintiff's attorney know how you answered it? Brenda ponders, what are you thinking? Somewhere in your division Chief Johnson, you have a leak.
