In part two of the two-part season finale, Laura and the gang not only deal with the death of a fellow officer but also the murderer who did it and a moment of truth as someone speaks about her love for him.
This episode was emotional from the start, reviewing the event that occurred at the time of the shooting. We see Laura lying there with Santiani in shock and sadness. Soon, Laura gets to Santiani's son's school to inform him.
As everyone at the station is still in shock, Max isn't showing any emotions. Jake puts Santiani on the board as the only victim. The team pulls together and starts digging into who could have done it.
They all thought that it was Chung, the drug lord, that they busted in Part 1. He did threaten Laura before being taken away, and Laura thought that the shot was for her. Even though Chung wasn't in jail, he was later ruled out as a suspect.
That's when they move in on the ex-husband of Santiani. Laura got word that Nancy's son had disappeared. She and Jake look around the kid's room to find any clues. Laura finds an envelope with a plane ticket to the Cape Canaveral.
She shows Jake the ticket, drops him off at the station, and heads home. Jake sees a shop about to go out of business and heads over to buy a ring for Jen. He plans to propose to Jen. Jake tells Billy about and questions the man's motives.
In the meantime, Laura wakes and sees her boys all quiet and behaving right under Lucy's care. When talking to Lucy, she gets a flashback of Santiani and her tracker on her son's phone. They had to race towards the station and get Meredith to hack into Santiani's computer. Go figure that she is the only one using the past given password they track and find Santiani's son as he's with his father. After taking the father in for questions and a polygraph test, Laura suspects he knows who killed Santiani and will go with the plan., which is to take the money that he and the kid were to have when Santiani dies. It's about money.
The team gets set, and Laura sees the playing field. As the drop goes down, they need a confession from them, and they do, and the hounds are after them. After Meredith and Billy get one, Jake takes one down from the top and jumps on him.
After the capture and watching the son walk out with his grandmother and father, the team gathers around and listens to the call of Santiani as a salute. Every cop in New York City was silent as her name was being called. That was such an emotional scene.
After that, Laura hugs Max, who hasn't shown any emotion after Santiani's death. Soon, Jake leaves. Billy tells Laura what Jake is about to do, and she heads home. Laura is emotional, and Lucy tells her to go after them. She races like no other and heads to where Jake and Jen are having dinner. She asks him for a minute to talk, and she tells him that she still has feelings for him. She tells him to throw the ring out and come home with her to be with the boys, but that's until Jen comes in and shows the ring on her finger.
This episode was so good. I am emotional from beginning to end, and I still want to see more. Messing gives her best performance, showing both comedic and dramatic. I love the scene where Debby and Debra talk near the end, and Debby tells her to go after him. That was so good. And the moment they honored Santaini, I thought that was such a beautiful sendoff and what the NYPD does when an officer has died.
Overall, I loved this season and gave it an 8.5/10. I want to see Laura back. Please bring it back in the same amount of episodes; that's fine. This is such a great mystery show and a show that a family can watch together. It has a great cast and excellent writing; I don't want to wait the 11th and a half hour to hear that they've been renewed. Renewed them now, NBC!!!
Overall, I give this episode a 9.5/10. It was just so good, more dramatic, and a little comedy.
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