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This happens at least once a season, but with only seven episodes left, I have no patience for Danny’s guest partner.
Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 12 sees Bates out, replaced by a snobbish British investigator who insists that Danny work with him to catch an arms smuggler, whom Jamie meets for a while The stupidest case of all time.
However, Frank and Eileen once again prove that they take their jobs seriously and their integrity more than makes up for the silliness elsewhere.
Danny’s guest co-star in Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 12 is one of the most annoying extras in Blue Bloods history
I’ve never been a fan of these guest partner episodes, which tend to follow the pattern of Baez being sidelined in favor of someone Danny finds annoying, only for the two to build mutual respect before the case is over.
The Lyle Lovett ones were okay, and that time Danny was forced to pair with Anthony was pure gold. Anthony is actually a family, and his exchange with Danny is both an act of love and an act of hate.
On the other hand, when time is running out, it can feel like a waste of time.
I don’t like stereotypical British people who think they are superior to Americans and put them down every chance they get.
I think there are people like that on both sides of the pond because I see a lot of stereotypical Americans on shows in the UK and Australia.
Still, the ridiculous Americans in “Neighbors” are nowhere near as annoying as the British who thumbed their noses at everything in another American writer.
Granger treats Danny badly from the moment he shows up at the crime scene, and it doesn’t get better as time goes on.
Danny: Do you think this Hughes guy had anything to do with our victim’s death?
Granger: We gave you a perfect language, but for some reason you refuse to use it.
The only person who could pull off this kind of humor without pissing me off was the late Christopher Hewitt, who delivered a lot of vitriol as Mr. Belvedere in the late 1980s speech.
Granger falls far short of that standard.
As he criticized Danny’s grammar, I was distractedly recalling Blue Bloods Season 10 Episode 9, when Danny told a criminal that his use of double negatives meant he was admitting guilt by denying it.
(Ironically, this was Mayor Chase’s first episode, and his attitude annoyed me this time around, but his story didn’t.)
Granger did end up saving Danny’s life while also ending his hatred of Archie Hughes, so that’s a point in his favour.
However, if Danny had to have a partner in a case involving arms smuggling, I hope it would be Elliot Stabler from Law & Order: Organized Crime.
I know this would only happen in fan fiction because the two shows are not set in the same setting and are not on the same network.
Still, the bond between these two hot-headed cops who lose their wives in a mob attack makes for a strong and compelling drama.
Crawford makes me wish Erin hadn’t given up on her DA campaign, but her comeuppance makes it all worth it
One of the reasons Granger is so hard to swallow is that he appears in the same episode as Crawford, one of my least favorite characters.
Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 12 made me spend time with two characters that I couldn’t stand, and that’s not cool. However, Crawford’s story gave Erin a chance to shine that would not have been possible without Crawford.
Crawford’s insistence on prosecuting a police officer who was most likely just doing his job is infuriating.
Police officers who abuse their power should be held accountable, but the solution to the public perception that they are not abusing their power is not to prosecute police officers who are doing their jobs correctly.
Additionally, Erin was recently acquitted of false accusations of jury tampering, so what makes Crawford think that Erin would come up with something she believes is complete nonsense in order to influence a grand jury indictment?
Erin would make a better prosecutor than Crawford and her arrogance. Unlike Crawford, she’s actually committed to justice, and she proves that this time by dealing with Crawford’s bullshit.
Erin argued the case she wanted to argue in front of the grand jury, ignoring the dirty look Crawford gave her.
The grand jury’s decision to deny indictment was pleasant enough, but then Erin fired back hard at Crawford’s complaints about it.
CRAWFORD: You put your finger on the scale.
Erin: I did exactly what you asked, except I used different fingers.
Crawford should know by now that she won’t manipulate or bully Erin into anything.
Crawford realized that Erin was more like Frank. She does what she thinks is right and won’t sacrifice her morals to please her boss.
Frank had a similar fight with Erin in Blue Bloods Season 14 Episode 12
The problem between Erin and Crawford is somewhat similar to the problem between Frank and Mayor Chase.
It’s infuriating that Chase believes he was right to force the arresting officer to drop the charges against the ex-cop, but even more infuriating is that he thinks Frank would do the same if one of the Dream Team got into trouble matter.
If Chase thinks that, he knows nothing about the history of the Blue Bloods.
In Blue Bloods Season 8 Episode 4, Garrett deals with a SWAT team that is responding to a fake distress call at his home, only to have no more empathy for Frank or be willing to do much Things feel frustrating and disappointing.
Just nine episodes ago, Frank had refused to give the late Lenny Ross’ daughter a pass for illicit behavior, and he’d punished Jamie and Joe for a similar fight outside a bar that was far from over. Much less violence than the one Cooper had in Blue Bloods Season 14.
Chase’s argument doesn’t hold water. The two men were completely different when it came to giving people a pass, and it’s not like we didn’t know that.
Frank’s integrity is a given, and equally unsurprisingly, Sid is clearly on Cooper’s side.
What I remember most is that when Frank was blaming himself after Cooper was seriously injured in a road rage incident, he was able to express so much compassion and grace to Mayor Chase at the end.
After Frank relays the fact that Cooper was badly injured and the next person he used a gun on, Chase blames himself, realizing that this incident would never have happened if he had allowed Cooper to get into trouble.
Frank could have agreed or pointed out his mistake in trying to make Chase see him, but that would be out of character. Instead, he assures Chase that hindsight is 20/20 and that the main person responsible is the ex-cop who kept pulling his gun when he shouldn’t have.
I consider myself a compassionate person, but I don’t know if I could be as kind and compassionate as Frank was to Chase.
This is a part of Frank’s character that isn’t discussed much. He was notoriously upright and unmanageable, and people constantly talked about how intimidating he was, but he was also empathetic, even to those with whom he was in conflict.
This point should be talked about more. Sympathy and empathy, all too rare in modern society, soften Frank’s edges but are not what people think of when they think of him.
What on earth was going on with Henry trying to wake up while he was still alive?
I’m excited for the dinner scene to appear in the middle of the episode, but what exactly is it?
I’ve been worried since before the final season began that Blue Bloods would go down the disappointing and depressing path of Henry’s death, and now he’s talking about how he hopes to be honored while he’s still here.
Part of me thinks they made it too obvious that Henry would die, which was a big misdirection, but then I wonder if that’s just me in denial.
I don’t want Blue Bloods to end, but since it has to, can we avoid Henry’s death?
Of course, the dinner discussion could also serve as foreshadowing for a prequel about Henry’s time as commissioner, but still, we don’t need all these references to Henry’s death, and we definitely don’t need it to become reality!
Clearly those stupid guys are wasting Jamie’s time
Jamie’s case is too stupid to be worth spending much time on. He could do better undercover missions than this!
The final scene has him proving that it was the fool’s kids betting on their account, and if it ties into his and Addison’s plan to have a baby, it’s worth it.
Instead, it’s just…there. He spends so much time trying to get the attention of his “victims” so he can investigate their cases, only to end up in a stupid way.
I’ve never objected to Jamie being on my screen, but this is definitely not his best case scenario.
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