The writers finally deviated from the formula to create a compelling episode that revealed a lot of backstory and really solidified the team dynamic. Unfortunately, it's the season finale and the writers could have done an episode like this much earlier and deviated even slightly from the usual undercover and arrest thing which had incarnations revolving around drugs, white gangsters, black gangsters, or Korean gangsters. Now all they need is a Mexican on their team to add another group they can infiltrate. These past few weeks, I have been predicting the demise of Dark Blue in regard to the ratings. If the show has any chance of surviving, this was the week to prove it. Without Leverage as a lead-in, Dark Blue has to maintain similar numbers to the previous weeks in order to stay alive.
After Carter calls off chasing a drug dealer, he goes to meet with the dealer while Dean, Ty, and Jaimie spy on him. The man gets shot, most likely by Carter. The team rushes over, but the man is already dead and Carter will deal with him. It turns out the man was a DEA agent and now they are investigating. The agent in charge is Julia Harris played by Sasha Alexander. She did an excellent job in this episode and I was disappointed when she departed from NCIS though Cote de Pablo filled in nicely.
Carter lies through his teeth telling her some guy in a blue car pulled up and shot at them. Carter returned fire and hit the DEA agent in the process. Obviously this did not happen and Carter will have to live with the lie. Dean, Ty, and Jaimie do some investigating and discover that the guys the DEA sold to never got busted and he was working on a heroin case, not a cocaine one. I liked the uneasiness throughout the whole episode. In the back of my mind, I knew Carter had a good reason since he of course is the main character and can do no wrong, but he still shot someone for mostly unknown reasons and was trying to cover it up.
Dean talks with Carter who tells him the DEA agent was clean. This means Carter has no reason to kill the DEA agent. Looking back, it's evident the DEA agent was guilty, but as I watched, the wasn't sure exactly what Carter was doing. Then Harris asks Carter about his ex-wife. Apparently they had been married for 8 years and divorced 2 years ago. The kicker: she was engaged to the DEA agent. Now we have a motive and no forensics to back up Carter. Harris interviews his ex-wife and we learn some details. Carter went undercover for 2 years and lived (!) with another family the whole time. I know, it's probably the most ridiculous thing you've ever heard, but it a great reason for leaving someone.
The rest of the episode deals with the rest of the team deciding what to do. Carter doesn't want them to do anything, but Dean has a clear loyalty to him and pushes the others to corroborate his story. In the end, they fabricate the evidence and lie to save Carter. They're safe for now, but this will come back to bite them in the ass.
There is more Jaimie/Scott silliness which has been the worst part about this show and has increased in the last few episodes. This time, Scott gets an offer to work at a San Francisco firm and wants Jaimie to go with him. Eventually Jaimie tells him her real name, and he is clearly unhappy. The episode ends with their fate up in the air, but if I were to guess, it's over.
The ratings were released between the time I started this review and right now. The 18-49 demo stayed identical to last week's, but the viewership dropped below 2 million to 1.6 million which is horrendous. It had a weak lead-in with the movie Con Air (cool film btw) instead of Leverage, so I'd say Dark Blue's position hasn't changed. Do I hope the show gets renewed? Definitely. Do I think it will get renewed? Realistically, no.
Score: 9.3/10
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