rophy Girl
rophy Girl
When Tracy is given a three-day leave after shooting a perpetrator, Nick works alone on a grisly murder investigation. However, Tracy ignores her orders and goes undercover at an escort service, putting her right in the sights of the killer. While Nick enlists the help of an infamous serial killer to try and find the killer, Tracy just might be the next victim.
I hate to admit it, but I laughed out loud when Tracy shouted "Freeze!" at the guy she'd just shot and killed. It just seemed so like her.
Too much of this episode was very standard run-of-the-mill stuff, with the same old things happening. Tracy sees a particularly gruesome corpse and can barely handle it. Nick consults with Natalie about the murder and asks for possible clues on the murderer. The captain complains about how he's seen a lot of things in his time, and how he can't understand the "perverted sickness" necessary to commit such crimes. Later on, he whines about how he gets all the dirty work, like telling Tracy's parents that she's missing. Vachon does something stupid and gets Tracy angry. Was this a new episode, or just a rehashing of some old ones?
Tracy's refusal to accept her three days of desk duty (and the way she views it as a suspension) was weird. She feels the need to prove she can "hack it here", yet she won't do what she's told? And then she brusquely brushes aside Nick and Nat's attempts at lending her a shoulder. This doesn't quite match the way she would spill her various and sundry troubles out to Nick in earlier episodes. Perhaps this can be attributed to shock after killing someone.
But still, for all this "she's a good cop" stuff (I still can't believe Nick said that to the captain), Tracy seems fairly weak as an officer. She goes off undercover without telling anyone? Not telling her partner, or even Vachon? This, immediately after she's alienated everyone over this suspension? Why would she even suspect that the killer was targeting women at the dating agency, when this was the first victim in the area, and they didn't yet know of any others? Okay, sure, so Nick also looked into the agency. And she did "save" Nick's life, even though she was so drugged she was hallucinating (not that he wouldn't have survived... but she didn't know that). But Nick's comment at the end that "I guess this is turning into a pretty good partnership" is totally ludicrous. What partnership?
Then there were some odd scenes, like when Vachon got rid of Tracy's setup date from the agency. With all the looks she gave him, and the way she insisted that she wanted to go with the other man, why did Vachon hypnotize the guy into leaving? Is he just jealous and feigning ignorance to get rid of potential competition? Surely he's not that clueless.
In Nick's flashback, he talks to Yselle in English, warning her to leave, that LaCroix is going to hurt her. But then she replies in French? LaCroix and Janette would occasionally switch languages in the middle of a conversation, but I wouldn't have thought a young mortal would do that, at a moment like that.
Sheer's suggestions and observations (as a fellow serial killer) didn't seem all that useful. Mentioning that the killer would be making "purchases you can track, if you know how" is both obvious and useless. Hints like "look for movements" are similarly empty. But as Nick is discovering the whereabouts of the killer, little tidbits of Sheer's statements go through his mind... that the killer's choices were "a matter of proximity", and that he would need somewhere quiet and alone. But the sequence of events that led Nick to Tracy was almost unbelievably lucky, and these comments did little to give me a sense that Sheer had any useful insights.
One last thought. Why didn't Nick tell Natalie who 'Rosebud' really was? She's met LaCroix, after all, and would probably be somewhat amused by the fact...
Episode rating (0 to 10): 2
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