His sense of whimsy is… endearing.

Unlucky for you! There are, in fact, 2 Moynihan characters based off mangling current events. Drunk Uncle, and Anthony Crispino. This has been an unfun fact.

But terrible for Bruno Kirby's.

To misquote the real John Cochran (or perhaps quote that other John Cochran), If the glove fits, you must not acquit.

Seconded, indeed. It's becoming all too predictable, anytime anything is set in the Old West, we're assaulted with more shades of off-brown than a sewage treatment place. All I'm asking for is a smidgen of color. Or perhaps stop filtering cameras through these bland shades. There's no fresh stylistic point to be made…

I'm willing to eat crow on this if I'm wrong, but to me, Cochran just… isn't that strong of a strategic player. At least, certainly not matching up to his self-proclaimed mastermind status. Every move he's made, has been seemingly handed to him by another player. From Jim swinging people around to removing Elyse, to…

Norm is married at the beginning of the series, yes, but him and Vera separate for a short time… I think for about half of season 2, if I recall correctly, before being brought together in this episode.

Although it's based on something only the audience is privilege to, and thus the benefit of extreme hindsight, I'd say Cochran made the wrong move. Though he has no way of knowing it.

… Yeah, I'm not buying it. Coming from a guy who actively reduced a girl to tears simply because he couldn't reconcile feeling all tingly south of the border, I find it hard to see him as redeemed by him saying "Don't be a big bad mean bully!" Comes across as more than a little false to me.