Dark Blue

If this show is to succeed the writing has to get much better than this. The gun-runner doesn’t kill Ty outright, even though he is suspicious of him, because he is in need of fifty thousand dollars immediately? He must be the only gun-runner with A-grade merchandise in all of the world, who has only one client, and even then it is an undercover cop. Even then, he must be so unable to manage his funds, he has got to be the worst gun-runner in history (so much so that I wonder why the team would have gone after him), as he has no assets at all to liquidate quickly to make the money he needs to get himself out of trouble. The cops themselves managed to get 70 grand with 5 minutes work, and he couldn’t scare up 50, with his only option being to put his hope, and life, on an undercover cop turning out to be what the cops says he is, even against his own suspicions. It’s a wonder this guy didn’t get taken-out long ago. As if this isn’t bad enough, then, let’s not mention his henchmen; is stupidity a part of the henchmen job description? I thought I was watching an old Adam West Batman episode. Maybe this gun-runner borrows his henchmen from the Joker. The last straw for me, in bad writing was in the last scenes, with Carter telling Dean, “...as long as the end is on the right side of the line’, referring to the 30 grand Dean showed up with to help save Ty. Carter, earlier led a raid on a drug house, beat up people in the house â€"who may have been innocent despite being there (they were playing Monopoly after all)- and stole 70 thousand dollars. I ask where exactly is this line he is talking about, ‘cos if they are prepared to do that to get money in a pinch (perhaps even rob banks if it was easier, as Carter implied he was prepared to do) then Dean has nothing to worry about. The le-way he has before he crosses this “lineâ€� must be huge. Writers, get you act together, or this show will bomb.

Definitely better than the pilot, I liked the whole interaction between all the characters. Ty made a terrible mistake (as well as Jaimie), it was understandable that he wanted to be with his wife, but that got him in danger. However, I enjoyed seeing the whole team working together against time, making their own mistakes to save his butt.



There was a lot of tension between Jaimie and Dean, the kind you find between two young competitive people. Carter defending his team and confronting the Captain shows how much he cares for the team and will do anything to keep them safe and together.