Thanks, BeardMoney - whether it actually was the same guard or not, I'm going to adopt that reading to give some explanation to Clay's actions. Clay has always seemed too calculating to overreact like that without some reason.

Patriot Games was my first really long novel.  I skipped over a lot of the technical parts, but hey, I was 10. 

So, a neo-nazi gang was selling automatic weapons to a hispanic street gang? That's the story Jax thinks will fly?

"Rachel McAdams with less grit."  That just made me remember her in Red Eye, which I always thought was a nice little action movie.

Has it ever been revealed what his big epiphany in the orthodontist's office was?

I agree completely - how great was he on the bridge? I kept waiting for him to have a line, but they didn't give him anything to say, so he just had to play sheer terror for, like, twenty minutes, which is tough to do.

Yeah, he said "slide over" to her like he was going to drive them away. 

My thought was that Lee doesn't have enough power to deal with Clay - he has enough power to keep Clay in protective custody for a time, but the cooperation agreement was something he typed up himself without authority.

I'm especially skeptical of a master plan that relies on, as one of its key elements, Tate being able to make Ruiz's wife fall for him, which doesn't even happen if Ruiz doesn't sleep with Annabeth Gish (a development that, as far as we know, Tate had no part in, although who knows).

My question as to the Lauren subplot is why, exactly, Briggs needed to plant the GPS on her car? If it was just to trump up a case against her to get her bounced from Graceland, well… wasn't her (1) disobeying a direct order [assuming Briggs is in charge of her in some way], (2) lying to her superiors, (3) as a result…

Good point - I wasn't really thinking I would watch this show, but as I was flipping channels and saw him on it, I thought maybe I'd give it a shot.

That's why a lot of writers write, notrejardin.

I agree that it was a a bit of cutting the corners on the dialogue so they could make this joke work, but I can let that slide.

Quinn gave up so quickly I could have sworn that (1) they had already captured Nazir and were trying to hide it from everybody, or (2) he just remembered he had half a Chipotle burrito at home in his fridge, and got really excited.

Quinn gave up so quickly I could have sworn that (1) they had already captured Nazir and were trying to hide it from everybody, or (2) he just remembered he had half a Chipotle burrito at home in his fridge, and got really excited.

Everybody knows that SWAT rifles are coded solely for its user's palm print… I can't remember where I learned that, though.

Everybody knows that SWAT rifles are coded solely for its user's palm print… I can't remember where I learned that, though.

The best line of the night was easily from Jimmy Smits -

The best line of the night was easily from Jimmy Smits -

Not sure if that's a character that needs more to do, though.