Pretty poor midseason finale that tried to cover it up with a shocking death. The most major thing that happened last week (other cop taking off) was resolved before the title sequence and didn't impact the plot at all. Most of it was kicking around, talking. Carol didn't even get a line (wouldn't she have been pretty surprised to see Beth?). And the whole hospital plot line ended up being pointless, except to wrap up the Beth storyline which, after the first few excellent episodes this season, nobody really cared about going back to anyways. Very much an Andrea style death, relief that we can move on from this poor character/plot line. Hopefully the second half gets off to a better start.
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