Standards and Practices - Recap

As per usual, Brenda and Co. have yet another homicide to solve - this time it's the one about the producer drowning in the hot tub.

But that's nothing compared to what's going on in-house. Apparently Capt. Taylor won't rest until he gets his revenge on Brenda, and this time he might just have it...in the form of an "anonymous" complaint for Conduct Unbecoming an officer, filed against her. It's all Pope can do to try and "make it go away."

Brenda's now the one sitting in the hot seat...and her team does everything in their power to come to her aid. Sgt. Gabriel not only confronts Capt. Taylor about his underhanded ploy to oust Brenda, he effectively severs all ties with him, personally and professionally. Lt. Provenza, who originally was the first to warm to Brenda's quirky style, and Lt. Flynn - the last to change his opinion about her - join forces to start a campaign of their own to save Brenda.

As for Capt. Taylor?

He gets an "apology" from Brenda - as do the FBI's Agent Jackson and the DA's office - in which she apologizes to Capt. Taylor for "not being born in Los Angeles" but still becoming an arrogant mouth in the process. She also states that there is no "fair and reasonable system in which I would not outrank you," which of course has been his chief complaint all season.

When he decides to push the issue and start a formal inquiry into Brenda's actions, he is rudely awakened to the lengths to which the PHD will go to save her; each member of the squad has turned in his or her resignation, becoming effective in the case of Chief Johnson's dismissal. As Pope notes, "...it looks pretty bad when the people you handpicked to make up this squad all resign" because of Capt. Taylor's machinations. Unfortunately, Pope also kind of buys him off with a promotion if he drops the complaint, to which Capt. Taylor agrees.

On a more personal note, Fritz broaches the idea of moving in with Brenda, noting that she "never come(s) over to my apartment anyway." It leaves us wondering if she'll consider it.

As for that case, it turns out the victim's father-in-law was the culprit.

The motive?

The victim had been physically abusing his wife, and her father wasn't going to have it. Being a concert pianist, he created an alibi using a piano-playing program, an unsuspecting student / dinner guest and his wife's help to manage to sneak over to his daughter's house and drown his abhorrent son-in-law. When confronted with the evidence (and the threat of his wife's imprisonment for her involvement), the culprit confessed.





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