Right off the bat, I have to
say that I thoroughly enjoyed this episode, and I’ve really missed Major Crimes
since its last episode (Zoo Story) aired back in August. As far as I’m
concerned, when it comes to crime shows, it’s very important that the cases of
the week be interesting and engaging, otherwise the show definitely suffers as
a whole. Admittedly, I didn’t like the episode “Zoo Story” all that much as a
whole because I thought that the case they were working on that episode was
kind of boring, but I loved the subplot with Rusty’s mom being in jail and
wanting Rusty’s help to get out of jail. While I found that episode rather
disappointing for the most part, the last scene of the episode where Raydor
visits Rusty’s mom in prison and tells her about the “deal” that she had
arranged for her was truly awesome. I can’t even count how many times I’ve
watched that scene at this point. Fortunately, when it comes to this episode, I
found the case of the week very interesting. I thought it was full of twists
and turns, and it definitely had some genuinely sad elements to it as well.
The team found a dead
woman’s body in the sewer at the beginning of the episode, and after Dr.
Morales examined her body, he discovered that she had recently given birth, and
things only got more complicated from there. It turns out that she had been
trying to pull off a big surrogacy scam on three different couples by leading
them to believe that she was pregnant with their baby. One couple was
apparently very wealthy, there was another couple involved and it was clear
that the whole scam had put a major emotional and financial strain on their
marriage. The other couple was gay a couple (Two men), and being bisexual
myself, I think it’s always nice to see LGBT characters on TV.
However, the gay couple is a
part of one of the few things that bugged me about this episode, which I’ll get
to in a moment. Once the team found out that the baby was with the wealthy
couple that she had been scamming, they had to determine which couple the baby
belonged to, meaning that they had to do a paternity test. This brings me to
one of my only complaints that I have with this episode. The gay couple
apparently didn’t know which one of them was supposed to be the father since
they had apparently wanted the doctors to randomly choose which one of them
would be the father. Personally, I think the whole idea of two men having a
child together, but not wanting to know which one of them is the father is
something that I feel is a bit cliché when it comes to TV these days. However,
it didn’t bug me nearly as much here, because all of the other times that I’ve
seen TV shows do this, they’ve been comedies, namely Glee and most recently
Marry Me, that have both used this idea as the basis of a joke by having the
child be white when one of the two possible biological fathers is African
American. Thankfully, the writers didn’t try to work that joke into the
episode, which is why it didn’t bother me nearly as much here. The whole issue
of the baby’s paternity became even more complicated when the team found out
that the woman had a boyfriend in the picture, and Raydor realized that he
could possibly be the baby’s father.
