Episode Report Card Sars: B- | 32 USERS: C+ YOU GRADE IT Comings And Goings
By Sars | Season 1 | Episode 7 | Aired on 2006.11.06
Downtown, Ted gets his mug shot taken while Clea glowers in the foreground. A series of flashbulb cuts brings us closer to Ted, who has a mark on his neck.
Cut to Matt examining a similar mark on his own shoulder. It's two short parallel lines, like an equals sign (or the "pause" symbol). Enter Tommy, who recaps Matt's investigative day and calls him "buddy" a bunch of times while congratulating him. Matt demurs modestly, but his partner tells him that his "FBI girlfriend" (hell yeah) put in a request for Matt to retake the detective's exam as a series of interviews: "Can't blame it on the dyslexia this time." God, this poor actor, having to puke up these big chunks of background info; couldn't we have gotten this exposition in the form of dialogue delivered by Clea herself? Anyway, Matt didn't know interviews were an option, but Tommy says that Clea "pulled some strings," and that he knows Matt will pass it no problem. Matt is thrilled, they high-five, and then Tommy makes the mistake of echoily thinking to himself, "Loser. I'm nailing your wife, and she is so fine." I don't think this is actually how people who are boinking their colleagues' spouses think to themselves about it, but okay. Tommy finishes his thought with a sleazy "nyeh heh heh heh heh." Nice. Comprehension dawns as Matt slowly turns to Tommy and makes a "you dickhead" face. Tommy: "Hey, still wanna grab that drink?" Matt's fist: "Not really." Tommy's face: "[Crrrrunch!]" Matt yells that Tommy's a son of a bitch, and six other policemen hold him back as he slavers at Tommy, who's holding his face all "WTF?"