Crossing Jordan

I think I like this episode because of the human factor.

Elaine die and they seem to be trying not to deal with it, when Peter comes back, he makes them see it.



In fact the didn't know much about Elaine. The things they found out were from the autopsy, she liked hockey, she painted her hair, she was playing guitar Wednesdays and she had a son, Jonathan, who dies six years before her.

We get a look on Elaine's life.



That makes me thing that we don't know people, even if we spend the day with then, working or doing anything else, we don't know them.



Everyone has got secrets.



And that cop, after all the work he didn't got the guy.

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.