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"Redwood"

Season 1 Episode 11: “Redwood”

“An unscheduled visit by the vice president of the United States puts the station on high alert; the Secret Service tasks Nolan and Bishop with checking out a possible threat while the rest of the team tries to keep the streets safe for his visit”

Original Air Date: January 22, 2019

Written By: Ally Seibert, Liz Apler

Directed By: Sylvain White

Happy Sunday! Do we like that I post these on Sundays? I am just trying to gauge when people are hyper active on Tumblr and the first blog drop seemed to be a success on Sunday early night- but I don’t seem to be getting the same response on the rest of the drops as much as I did the first one. Either way, it is not going to stop me from doing these!!!

I am excited to get into another one, let’s Get in the Shop, shall we!

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The cold open, a classic riot, I have gathered that whatever the opening scene is, really has nothing to do with the storyline of the rest of the episode, but I think that is the point of them. It brings a bit of banter, comedy, tragedy, all at the same time or individually. Nothing like an elderly woman bringing in pistols and land mines into a police station!

The episode begins with John talking to Ben about the tragedy of his past life- his old house that he shared with his ex-wife is being listed on the market, and he’s being nostalgic about it; but like Ben says, Sarah (John’s ex-wife) is moving in and living in the present and so should he.

The station is packed full with every officer- the Vice President is coming into town and everyone is now on high demand. Everyones gear bags are stacked to the brim with extra weapons and precautions.

John and Talia get assigned to a special task force- a “Level 2” on the presidents watch list- a person who has made and posted numerous times online threatening the vice president. Talia is a bit more positive this episode and John notices and points it out to her; she is trying to approach every day a bit differently than the last.Stanley, the man they were tasked to watch- ends up running with a bag full of flares; enough evidence to lock his ass up. Back at the station, John is still hung up over his old house, he can’t quite seem to let it go, but everyone else around him is telling him he should. When Grey assigns them a new task, Talia is more than cheerful to accept it and even Grey notices that Talia is acting strange, why is she so chipper and happy. They get tasked to be the “Gofers” of every other cops that are on VP cleaning duty: whatever the other cops need, Talia and John are there to help and support them. While walking through the streets, a road rage incident turns deadly when a tractor trailer driver takes out his shotgun to scare the other driver but in doing so, shoots a women who was in her car behind him in the chest, and she dies within seconds.

In trying to decompress from the events that just happened, Talia tells John that the reason she has been more positive is because her therapist told her to. John admires how brave Talia is by sharing that she is going to therapy, especially because it is looked down upon by the “men in blue”. I feel like therapy should be the first thing police officers would want to do every day after being on the job. The stuff that they witness and experience can be traumatizing, and therapy would only help them work through it. John gives his kudos to Talia. Who John and Talia have to clean out a whole new street for the VP to get a sandwich, they are sweep the streets and get a peak at a some dirty happenings going down in a shady street…a robbery is about to happen at a dispensary. With no back up on the way because of all the road closures, its just them and I have to say, Talia is super impressive in this moment. She knows what to do and exactly how to do handle this situation. The guys come out of the dispensary and shots are immediately fired. Angela and Jackson come to help John and Talia, and take the driver of the getaway car to the hospital as he was shot in the neck by one of the stray bullets. At the end of the day, John thanks Talia for talking to him about his worrying over the selling of his old house and she jokes around that, “she’ll send him the bill”.

How long has it been since we have seen Tim and Lucy in the same scene together for more than 5 seconds? Oh yeah too long! We start right off the bat, with Lucy looking forward to being called in on her day off, as that means overtime and more money. All Lucy is thinking about is fixing the air conditioning in her car, but her eagerness quickly fades away as Tim shuts her down real quick, “Air conditioning makes you soft. You gotta get comfortable with being uncomfortable”. I think we have officially been introduced to the Grumpy/Sunshine trope of Tim and Lucy and I am appreciating it.

With having too clear out majority of the streets of LA for the VP, Tim and Lucy end up going to a street occupied by all homeless people to inform them of just that. When Lucy breaks up a fight between two of the homeless women, she gets thrown in between them and knocked down. When Tim comes over to help her, he’s immediately serious. They both look down and Lucy is stabbed by a very used and very old hypodermic needle. When Tim pulls the needle out, there is blood on the tip. I think this is the first time that Lucy’s life is at risk while on the job, Who knows how many people syringe went through and with whatever drugs was pushed through it as well and now it ended up in Lucy’s body. Her panic is setting in quick and fast. Tim and Lucy get to the hospital for Lucy to get examined- the on call nurse tries to have Lucy to sit down and fill out paperwork, and because Lucy doesn’t know any better, she starts to do just that, but that doesn’t work for Tim. Lucy is an on-duty officer with a utility belt loaded with armed weapons who just got STABBED by a dirty needle- the paperwork be damed, she is getting put into a room with a doctor immediately. My words aren’t doing justice to how Tim stood up for Lucy. This needle got Lucy, but this also affects Tim as well. You saw it in his face when he was the one who spotted the needle in her. He became soft again, worried. If something tragic happens to Lucy, in hindsight it’s going to happen to him too.

When Tim goes into Lucy’s room after her blood test is done, she is anything but calm. Tim grabs her phone, and Lucy is down the WebMD rabbit hole of HP-V and Hep-C, among anything else that she could potentially get from a dirty needle. Lucy is spiraling and Tim picks up on it. Lucy is thinking of every single worse case scenario is this results come back positive and what that means for her future as a cop as well as Tim’s. The Lucy we saw excited to be working OT is long gone in this exam room. You can see her quivering, trying to hold back her tears; In no surprise though, Tim is being exactly who Lucy needs to be around right now and saying everything that she needs to hear. No matter what she things or googles, none of that is going to change whatever the results say. Tim is being his full sincere self in trying to get Lucy through this and she sees it.

While Lucy is putting herself back together in the bathroom, she talks to a distraught women who is more than upset over her brother, who was just in a car accident. When she leaves, Lucy looks behind her and sees a bottle of bleach on the floor of the stall that she just came out of. Lucy follows her into her brothers room and she has a syringe filled with bleach aimed at her brothers neck. I mean to kick one when they’re down is putting it lightly. Lucy just went through her own hell with a needle, now she has to come face to face with another needle in an entirely different situation all while not even being over her own ordeal. Its too much for her to handle on her own, and she radios for TIm. Lucy tries to be empathetic towards this woman, and talk her out of doing it, but it’s no use, as the woman has made her decision. SHe inserts the needle directly into his neck, but doesn’t have enough time to push the plunger as Lucy tases her. Tim has to go back to the station, but lets Lucy know that she should stay at the hospital and wait for her results. As he’s leaving, she stops him and thanks him, with Tim immediately responding, “For what? Doing my Job”. Lucy would still be in a completely different head space if it weren’t for Tim. He knew what to do the second Lucy was stabbed and didn’t even bat an eye. They have been riding together for 4 months t this point, and some type of friendship has been established between them, its very evident.

Lucy’s results are in and with Jackson by her side, the doctor informs her that she is negative for any diseases such as HIV and Hepatitis, but she does have a staph infection, and needs to start IV antibiotics. You can literally see the weight being lifted off of Lucy’s shoulders when she gets her results. Pure relief. Without even asking Jackson tells Lucy that he will call Tim for her so he can be there when she gets out. Its a nice gesture on Jackson’s part and one that he doesn’t even have to do.

Jackson starts the episode being distracted with his cell and continues to be distracted with it. Commander Grey doesn’t like it and neither does Angela. Distractions call for trouble. Angela and Jackson respond to protesters outside of a hotel and inform them that they need to move or get cuffed. Yeah, nobody budged. Jackson and Angela are going through an apartment complex to have the residents remove obscene flags in everybody’s windows. They have gotten though to everyone and when they get to the last apartment, something is not right. Jackson kicks down the door so he and Angela can get in and come face to face with an elderly women tied up to her wheelchair. She tells Angela that her son, Luke, did it to her and when he comes back in Jackson is on edge and ready to throw some nasty words. Maybe it has something to do with the fact he has been pre-occupied by his phone all day with his mom. Angela and Jackson arrest Luke, the son, for elder abuse.

Jackson finally lets Angela in on why he’s been so distracted, his mom. They haven’t been talking since before he entered the academy and on his first day off in a while, aka today, he was going to meet her for lunch to talk. So with being called into work, plans got thwarted and he’s been trying to smooth them over all day. Angela thanks him for letting her in, but like she said, “being distracted on the job will get you killed”. Jackson and Angela hear the call from John and Talia and are told that they can’t leave the complex, but were talking about Angela here. They come to John and Talias rescue. The road closures make it harder to get the GSW victim to the hospital, but Angela and Jackson get him there and in time for surgery. While cleaning himself up, Jackson spots Lucy sitting in the waiting room, and Lucy tells him what is going on with her. Nobody knows what happened with her except for Tim and with Tim gone, Jackson waits and sits with her. I think the friendship between Jackson and Lucy is starting to form and grow into something special. Jackson starts to open up to Lucy about his family and what he went through right before entering the academy, and in doing so, we find out why Jackson and his mom haven’t talked, because of his decisions of choosing the academy over his own family. Angela finds Jackson at the hospital and tells him how far he’s come in his training.

The episode ends with John, Lucy and Jackson all hanging out together at Ben/John’s house and we finally see John signing the papers and relinquishing his old house and you can tell that it is bittersweet for John, but in ones Ben with a package and its a doorjamb from Henrys room at the house, and its a nice closure gift for John.

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Honorable Mention: Ben. He isn't a major character, but when he is on-screen, he gives us everything.

Episode Peak: Soft Tim

Episode Pit: Injured Lucy

Quote of the Episode: “I thought air-conditioning made me soft”~ Lucy Chen

Episode Rating: 8/10. I liked this episode. It gave us some of the more iconic Chenford scenes and it showed us the early stages of the forming friendships of Jackson and Lucy and even Tim and Lucy. Before this episode, al we have seen is T.O Tim and Rookie Lucy, but this episode we saw some real foundations of their friendship/relationship starting. We got a little bit more of everyones personal life as well! I can’t wait for more!

Thanks for reading along for another one guys, whether you just look at the pics, skimming through or giving e a like for the hell of it, I really do appreciate it all!

Until next time on, “Get in the Shop”…

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