Yeah, I'm not too fond of the whole gay panic thing he has going on, but sometimes I get the impression that he's the only one doing some actual detecting while Ani and Velcoro just drive around and talk to people (which, yes, I know, is part of police work), then they come back and he's like "Hey, I've made actual…

When they were walking up to the building I was already dreading a foot chase (usually hate those, get bored by them, with few exceptions). Like, they go in, sort-of secure the building, then the guy they want runs away, yada yada yada.

Very nice of you to write out my thoughts so succinctly, saves me some typing.

You know, whenever a man has panic about being unmanly due to being attracted to other males, I'm reminded of a line from Layer Cake:

That moment when Cromwell mentions that name to Exley and Exley gets that facial expression of "Holy shit!" is probably one of my favourite moments in cinema.

No, that's red sturgeon, as in caviar, I believe.

Yeah, the Mexicans being the ultimate bad guys would just feel kinda anticlimactic to me. My thought is that they're tied to the whole mess, but they're not the ones pulling the strings.

The investigation with Ani, Velcoro and Paul is a special detail and she's assigned as a special investigator to it. Also, as her boss(?) said, she's not suspended, she's on departmental leave, whatever that is.

I had to laugh at the conversation between Ani and her sister:

Have to say, I had a huge smile on my face when watching the carnage in the shootout, and I'm not even sure why. So many questions though: Why the fuck were the protesters completely unaware and seemingly mentally unprepared when there were gunshots and an explosion so nearby? And why didn't they hit the deck as soon…

40-50 pounds… oof, that's not nothing. I think ours was about 25 pounds with the plates (just front and back plates, none on the side, no groin protection). Wearing comfort was actually pretty okay if I recall correctly, once you got used to the weight, which took maybe a month or so for me of wearing it daily. I'm of…

Yeah, that sounds about right with what we were taught. The vest he was shooting at was our standard issue one (Swiss army, that is, I was an infantry Lt, not that that is that big of an achievement :D ), but without the plates (which should hold about two to three shots from a 5.56x45mm according to what we were…

I'm only 30 and not hidiously ugly (I think :D ), but if somebody came up to me and offered me the chance to look like Dalton in his current state (naturally, with the beard), I cannot guarantee with absolute certainty that I would say No.

Well, I think in his mind (possibly) klling Proteus was an act of mercy, trying to spare him the suffering Caliban had suffered up to that point. So while it was a horrible deed, it might not have been outright malevolence, but more of a mercy killing from Clare's POV. Not that that makes it okay, but I just thought…

Yeah, I can sorta-slightly-maybe see how shooting Lily made sense in his drugged-up scary mind (wiping the creature he brought into this world from existence, or something like that, and I'm not saying that that would make it okay, especially because at that point he wasn't really aware of Lily's true evil intentions…

Well, it's never precisely been shown or laid out what Victor does to his subjects, and what exactly their capabilities are. If he's improved his process over time, Brona might even significantly differ from Caliban.

I had such a huge smile on my face and had to rewind several times to rewatch the scene right then and there.

Yeah, I think that's a pretty good explanation, and more or less what I have been thinking as well. Once the devil realised Vanessa wasn't going to break, the Nighties had essentially failed their mission and thus he no longer had any reason to support them.

Apparently nobody ever taught her not to play with her food.

Dorian's "You'll have to do better than that, sport.", and Victor's look of terror is probably one of my favourite moments of TV, ever.