Life“Badge Bunny”
Original Air Date: Nov 19, 2008
Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com
Everyone seems to have groupies: rock stars, athletes, anyone who’s everyone, and now cops. One of these ‘cop groupies’ is now dead, across from the body of a known drug dealer. Cops don’t much like drug dealers, so guess who Crews and Reese have high on their suspect list this week? Needless to say, they’re not gonna be hanging out at the cool kids’ table.
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Original Air Date: Nov 19, 2008
Brittany Wells – TwoCents Reviewer
brittanyw@twocentscorp.com
Everyone seems to have groupies: rock stars, athletes, anyone who’s everyone, and now cops. One of these ‘cop groupies’ is now dead, across from the body of a known drug dealer. Cops don’t much like drug dealers, so guess who Crews and Reese have high on their suspect list this week? Needless to say, they’re not gonna be hanging out at the cool kids’ table.
The dead woman is elementary school teacher Kendall Shea, who’s got three bullets in the back and a whole lot of cocaine up her nose, but of course nobody has ever seen her near coke or the dead drug dealer. Charlie and Dani do find the badge numbers of all the cops she’s dated, and go to round them up at the local bar, where they’re all a little too eager to help in the investigation of her death. The other so-called ‘badge bunnies’ are the exact opposite, and exactly what you’d think with a nickname like that: airheaded, attitude-bearing women with no particular regard for much of anything. Especially not Reese, since she happens to be a successful female cop.
First, talk turns to Kendall’s crush, a cop named Sean, who just so happens to be married. So Crews and Reese investigate him, and then his bitter probably soon-to-be-ex-wife, and the other woman who was horning in on him too. However nothing really gets figured out, there’s just a lot of catfighting. Charlie, meanwhile, gets picked up by not one, not two, but three of the hangers-on…one of whom, in one of the most hilarious reveals ever, happens to be Bobby Starks’ sister! Brent Sexton never really grabbed my attention before, but he was hilarious in this scene. So was Adam Arkin (“Charlie? There are naked women in the pool…”).
In fact, most of this episode was more funny than serious. Including the long-expected kiss between Reese and Tidwell. We’ve all known this was coming for the whole season, and I’ll admit I didn’t see them working. But they’re slowly growing on me and I’ll give it time. However, that kiss leads to one of the funniest moments I’ve seen on this show: as they prepare to raid the house of the drug dealer’s boss, Charlie realizes the gun Reese is holding isn’t hers, but Tidwell’s. And as the two make one very awkward exchange of firearms, the expression on Charlie’s face is priceless. (And because this is Charlie, he proceeds to rib them about it subtly for the rest of the episode.)
Things get dicey when Sean’s wife admits that she was crying on Sean’s partner’s shoulder for awhile, and as it turns out, so was Kendall Shea. Reese, in interviewing the partner, realizes from experience that the partner is a cokehead. (Which leads to one of the coolest fade-outs ever involving Sarah Shahi and what may or may not be sugar.) Which explains the coke on Kendall, not to mention how she’s got a perfect shot cluster in her back.
Unfortunately, none of this can be proven in court, not at least until in typical Life fashion, Charlie does something unorthodox. He goes to the bar where Sean and his partner are hanging out and oh so casually drops the bomb about the partner hanging out with Sean’s wife. This ticks off Sean royally and everything comes out in one nice heated argument. People really do have a hard time keeping their mouth shut when they find out you were coming on to their wife and their girlfriend. Who’d have thought?
If I didn’t find all of the guest characters so annoying, I probably would have liked this episode a lot better. However, it had a great confrontation at the end and some very cute moments. The only disappointments were not resolving the big question from last week (one mention of Jennifer, but no mention of the fact Charlie slept with her, and nothing on Rachel either), and too little Ted (although we do see his crush Olivia make a surprise appearance mostly just to tell him she wants him at her wedding to Charlie’s father). What do you think? Will Reese and Tidwell actually seriously get together? Will Charlie ever figure out what the heck he wants? And when will Ted catch a break? Sound off below.