“Melissa”
As I'm still recovering from my vacation (in a good way) I wasn't able to catch up on last week's episode so I won't comment on it. But I really enjoyed tonight's episode. I think this show can be a little uneven, but I liked tonight's tone. Parts of the story seemed a little far-fetched but I thought the guest stars did a great job. I welled up a few times. I'm a big crybaby though so I expect nothing less of myself.
One aspect of this show I really appreciate is how seamlessly Cobb and Boulet (usually) tie the case back to Katrina. There are so many things still going on in New Orleans that I can't even fathom. It didn't even occur to me that children were separated from their parents during the storm. I think we all heard about the shelters that took stray animals in but somehow I never heard about lost children. And that lost child, now known as Claire, is taken in by a couple that had been looking to adopt for a year. But before I talk about the case of the week let's spend some time with Cobb and Boulet.
Boulet's wife is out of town caring for her sick father so Boulet's on kid patrol. He tries to solve the case at the crime scene so he can pick his daughter up from school on time. The only problem is the crime scene provides some good leads that don't exactly fit in with Boulet's theories. The murder victim, Dr. Schmidt, has 50K on him when he was killed. Boulet and Cobb figure a bribery angle but Love Tap and Glue boy quickly rule out one of the doc's dissatisfied clients after a brief (and kind of funny) visit.
Their next theory has to do with Luke Sherman, Claire's biological father. He left New Orleans right after the storm when he thought his wife and daughter had been killed. Through a relief website he was able to track his daughter down. Luke goes to meet with Dr. Schmidt but is kidnapped before he can make the meeting. Things are further complicated when his glasses and his blood show up at the crime scene. D.A. Swann practically has Luke confessing to a crime he swears he didn't commit. The evidence is overwhelming but Boulet sees something in Luke that no one else seems to. He can't let Luke take the fall for this crime and miss out on seeing his daughter grow up.
So in the end Pete Taylor, the case worker from the adoption agency, is responsible for all of it. He knew the doctor's wife Kathy in high school and when she came to him worried about her rights concerning Claire he somehow saw it as his chance. All he had to do was get rid of Kathy's husband and Claire's biological father and he'd have his chance to be with Kathy. The only problem is she never thought he'd take things that far. That and she was never interested in him romantically. Boulet appeals to Kathy's sense of decency and gets her to do the right thing in the end.
I really liked seeing Boulet spend some quality time with his daughter. I loved when Boulet confiscated that stuffed dog from those kids. Too bad she wasn't interested in it. And how about her finger painting all up and down Boulet's walls? Hey, if the best Boulet could do was a stuffed dog and a stuffed dragon I don't really blame Tawni for creating her very unique drawings. I wouldn't be too happy with her if those were my walls though.
A new term I find very educational is FEMAplasty. It's good to know relief money is being used for the hurricane victims to better themselves. If nothing else, the government needs to take a closer look at where this money is going. I'm all for people feeling better about themselves but shouldn't they worry about getting a roof over their heads and food on their table before worrying about their physical appearance?
What did you think? Did you enjoy seeing more of Tawni? Did you think the case was resolved in a realistic way?
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