The Closer, Season 7, Repeat Offender
“The King is dead, long live the Pope” sums up this episode. For a quick recap of the case for this week, a woman is found murdered while house sitting. The team turns their attention to the victim’s professor, who had been having a relationship with another student. But he was innocent the entire time, well not of cheating on his wife (the monitored conversation between him and his wife proved that) and it turns out the murder(s) were part of a high school thievery ring.
The case this week was lacking in physical action, but heavy on the emotional / backroom deals that will most likely fuel the core story of The Closer’s final season. It would have been nice to see some different breaks in the thematic content of the episode since it felt like one note rather than a well-conceived holistic episode (Iron Chef is really paying off here). But the episode did have some redeeming aspects to help save itself from falling into mediocrity.
The backroom deals that happened this week weren’t on a conspiracy level, but will have consequences in this season. Pope was made interim chief of police since Delk died from the aneurism that ruptured in the shocking ending from last week’s episode. Chief Jonson was shocked by Pope’s promotion, but she quickly asked him if the investigation that was started by Delk would continue, an investigation that could end her entire squads’ career. Of course Pope was interrupted just in time so he didn’t have to answer the question directly. Pope orders that Raydor continue her investigation and not tell Jonson that she is under direct order from Pope to finish her investigation. Raydor is stuck between a rock and a hard place and plays her role nicely with Jonson, telling her as much as she could. This episode helped Raydor come across more synthetic than previous episodes.
Ultimately, this week’s episode set the foundation for future conflicts that will emerge from Major Crimes and the relationship between Pope and Jonson, but the case fell flat.
Rating: Fans Only
Original Air Date: 7/18/2011
On TNT, Monday Nights 9/8c
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