Week three kicks off with some of the usual sass that we saw in the first two episodes, and there is nothing wrong with a bit of the sass going on between Kennex and Dorian in fact it is down right funny. After John uses Dorian’s suggestion to use olive oil on his leg he is late to work and there is a spat involving coffee and a finger in the coffee. The banter between these two really is fantastic and well scripted, although one has to ask how much might be some off the cuff ad libs between the actors.
Things do not stay regular morning drive to work as you might expect when the boys get called to a building that is having a hostage situation. It seems at first to be a straight up situation of some bad guys taking over a building with some hostages to a very complex plot line. There are bad guys and they want something but the question becomes what? That gets even more intense when after a fire fight with some of the bad guys John and Dorian find out that they are wearing a kind of tech that changes their faces. These people are not just bad guys but they are bad guys pretending to be other bad guys. Then there is another problem, Dorian has been shot and John’s attempt to fix him knocks him out. Luckily some re-chewed gum and talking confession time giving one of the hostage’s his middle name (Reginald, his Dad liked Elton John) Dorian is ready to go if a little bit sticky.
Things thicken even more when it turns out that the group does not want the tech that they asked for and they mentioned another team. Dorian and John find out by some very good working together thought that the whole hostage situation is a diversion and the job is really a heist for some precious metal. Things get worse again when they find out there is a light bomb and the bad guys plan on killing the hostages outright. Dorian pulls a really cool run up the elevator shaft and ends up getting shot nearly to the end of things, when John ever the faithful partner shows up in one of the masks. End result, bad guys down good guys win and John keeps his promise to get Paige her sister and the other hostages out alive, getting him a hug.
The verdict from this reviewer is another success. The show has everything you want to see, the cop dynamic, the fun banter between the partners that is a must have for relationships, action and deep story lines with complex plots that have a lot of layers and yet can be worked through in a good manner. Bring on next week.
