I started watching Major
Crimes this season, and while I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the entire season,
this is definitely my favorite episode of the season. While most of the
episodes have been pretty dramatic and intense this season, this was definitely
the most lighthearted episode of the season. That was definitely one of the
things that made me enjoy it so much. It was definitely different from a lot of
the episodes of Major Crimes that I’ve seen at this point, but I think it was
different in a good way.
The case that the team was
working on this week involved the murder of a woman named Zelda Lambert, the
long-time stalker of a famous TV star, Jonny Worth, who was played by Luke
Perry. Right off the bat, I have to say that one of the greatest strengths of
this episode was definitely Luke Perry’s portrayal of Jonny. Jonny was
incredibly vain, shallow and self-absorbed, and Perry played that quite well. TVLine
gave Luke Perry an honorable mention for his performance in this week’s
“Performers of the Week” column (Lizzy Caplan & Michael Sheen: Performance in Masters of Sex ‘Fight’ Episode | TVLine), and I definitely think that it was well
deserved. Whether he was taking a selfie next to a picture of himself as he was
standing next to a picture of himself that was hanging on what he referred to
as “the murder board”, which was the board that the team was hanging all of the
evidence and writing all the facts pertaining to the case on, or interacting
with Rusty, who he initially believed was someone who worked undercover for the
bureau, Perry stole every scene he was in.
Due to the fact that Jonny
is a famous actor, the team had to be careful with how they handled the
situation, otherwise he could “lawyer up” as Raydor explained to Rusty at one
point in the episode. Fortunately for Jonny, he was ruled out as a suspect
pretty early on in the episode and helped the team as they worked on the case
throughout the rest of the episode. One of the many recurring bits in the
episode was Provenza’s repeated insistence that Zelda’s husband had to be the
person that killed her, saying that “It’s always the husband”. Provenza’s
repeated insistence that Zelda’s husband had to be her killer really seemed to
annoy everybody, and Raydor pointed out that if he always guessed that it was
the husband who killed their wives, he was bound to be right every now and
then.
Things didn’t look good for
Jonny at first though due to the fact that he apparently had a long history of
being stalked by Zelda to the point where he had to file multiple restraining
orders against her and Zelda’s dead body was found in a storage container that
belonged to him. It was quickly established that Zelda had apparently had a lot
of psychological issues though, and she even had spent some time at a
psychiatric facility at one point in her life. Due to Zelda’s psychiatric
issues, her husband didn’t even bother reporting the fact that she had supposedly
gone missing for several days, mainly because she apparently had a history of
going off on her own for days at a time, only to come back. This is something
that only served to fuel Provenza’s repeated insistence that Zelda’s husband was
the one who killed her.
