The Step Up and Downfall: Wednesday Night Drama

The Mysteries of Laura "The Mystery of the Crooked Clubber"

This week's episode takes Laura and the gang in searching for the murder of a young man that was part of a robbery of the rich and famous. This case really took everyone for a ride.

Laura and Billy examine the dead victim and when there was a clue of substance in the victim's shoe, Laura had some idea where that might have lead to. Laura discusses to Jake about going to this club that the rich people or kiddies go to. But when discussing it, Frankie wanted to go and as they get there both Frankie and Laura dressed up as 80's teens that are about to go to a party.

But as Laura when looking, Frankie saw the bartender give something to someone so she investigated that by asking him for a drink and a good time. The guy soon gave her her water but soon admitted that he put something in it and soon Frankie was a totally different person. Laura soon put her in jail for a night so Jake wouldn't find out.

The case when left and right at times but when they figure out when was the next bank robbery, they got in front of it and had Frankie and Meredith working the jewelry shop. The two robbers showed up and both Frankie and Meredith couldn't do anything due to a hostage. But Laura came in with a plan and drove the van into the building having both of them arrested.

The two robbers turn out to be were questioned until they didn't want to talk. Which gave Billy and Jake the perfect time to go get lunch. Billy brought a Subway lunch to one of the robbers and left them alone. Soon they were arguing about confessing until Frankie showed up and asked for the robber's cell phone.

That almost ruin the whole thing until it really didn't. It gave Laura on who did it which turned out to be the victim's own brother that killed him. The brother was ashamed as his brother for what he was doing, going to parties and dressing up weird.  

I thought that this episode was pretty good. We did get to see Frankie and Laura together in this episode and Frankie who is was Wisconsin, wants to show Laura that she can be a better detective than we all assume.

All in all I give it a 7/10 this week. There was a lot of humor, twist and hunger with that Subway.

You can catch The Mysteries of Laura Wednesday nights at 8/7c on NBC

Chicago PD "There's My Girl"

After the events of last week's episode, it's hard to come to terms of a lost of a member of the team. 

This week's episode deals with a bombing in a neighborhood, the CPD went to investigate it and found nothing much, but Jay knows a witness that seen it all but she's only 12. 

The teams learns that the bomb was made out of same material as was the bomb used at the Boston Bombing. They soon get a suspect. As they went to the suspect's apartment, both Erin and Jay see the suspect and chase after him. 

After chasing him for a good mile and one hell of a joy ride I would love to have been in, they caught the guy. Atwater and Dawson interviewed him. As Dawson left, Atwater talked to him and soon left to give him time to think it over. 

It was until Voight goes in and sees the suspect had cut his throat with a soda can that Atwater left in there. This isn't looking good for Atwater at all. 

Later on, Mouse found out that someone had planned it and it turns out to be the guy who was looking for his wife at the time but later on in the episode his wife died. The team learned the guy's history on how his first wife died in a car accident that he set up. So Voight had him in the cage and boy did he give him one heck of a talk. But the guy confess of doing it.

Throughout this episode, Trudy has been trying and waiting to get an accepted order for Nadia's memorial stone. When she got word that the department is going to allow it. Boy did she showed her temper but also emotion as well. She really and I mean really left the Chief had it but the guy said no. 

She talked to Voight and had Roman and Burgess go get a file for him at a warehouse, which had information on the Captain and one of it was his little special time with a showgirl. Well, that turned it around and Nadia got her memorial stone. 

But I think the main part of this episode was about Erin and her dealing with the lost of her best friend that she had saved. She acts tough, she's sad but acts tough about it. She even let Halstead drive the car because Nadia told her that she should let him drive. 

After the case and after the memorial, she was invited to go to Molly's with Jay and them but she didn't go there at all. She went to her mom's bar, talked to her and started having shots. She admits to her mother that she was the one that got Nadia killed. Oh she's in a very dark place and this is what Voight was talking to her about back at the house. 

She's not even suppose to be near her mother at all. Erin is going into a deep dark place. She's going to be thinking about what she's going do next: be a cop or leave? 

All in all, I loved this episode. This was such an emotional episode of the aftermath of Nadia's death. I think it was Trudy that kind of stole the emotional scenes. Just seeing her act like that was something you don't think or see of her at all. I give this episode 9/10 overall.

You can catch Chicago PD Wednesday nights at 10/9c on NBC