Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 7 Review: USA Today

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Payback is a bitch.


On Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 7, Erin had loads of motive to imagine Kim was assigning a low-level drug possession case to her as revenge.


But when she turned out to be flawed, did she make the suitable determination about the DA race?

Closed Out / Tall - Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 7


Although this was certainly one of Erin’s extra compelling storylines, it did not fairly make sense.


For one factor, why would Erin assume that Kim wished to get her again for contemplating a DA run?


On Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 6, Erin insisted on re-opening the case that Kim had stored quiet about for a lifetime. So if Kim have been looking for vengeance, would not it extra seemingly be for that entire debacle?


Besides, Kim being so petty would not be technique to maintain Erin from making an attempt to get her job. It may simply make Erin twice as decided to win the Manhattan DA race.

Desperate Measures - Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 7


I’m undecided I imagine that Kim respects Erin and considers her the very best ADA, both.


If that was the case, Kim may simply have defined to Erin that she had a hunch there was extra to this case than meets the attention, and that is why she wished Erin to deal with it.

Erin: This is a misdemeanor drug cost.
Kim: I notice it is beneath your pay grade.
Erin: It’s beneath this workplace’s pay grade.


Instead, she let Erin assume she was being given a case far beneath her skills. It would not have been logical for Erin to imagine something OTHER than foul play right here.

Stonewalled At Every Turn - Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 7


Kim’s declare that Erin was her greatest worker appeared manipulative, too. If she DID know Erin was contemplating a DA run, she may need thrown that in there to make Erin really feel too responsible to maneuver ahead.

Frank: Pop, am I lacking one thing?
Henry: I’m completely at the hours of darkness.
Erin: It’s an extended story without a degree.
Frank: I really like lengthy tales without a degree.
Erin: I simply do not wish to [run for DA]. Can’t that be sufficient?
Frank: If that is actually how you’re feeling, it may be.
Erin: Well, it’s.
Frank: My two cents.
Erin: I ought to have recognized that would not be that.
Danny: That’s by no means that.
Frank: Sometimes an emphatic NO is the final step earlier than leaping in with two ft. Something to contemplate.


I’m with Frank: we have not heard the final of this. Not by an extended shot.


Speaking of Frank, was anybody else disenchanted that he transferred Detective Reddick BECAUSE she did such good work?

A Close-Knit Community - Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 7


Reddick made an thrilling addition to the crew. Had she stayed on board, there most likely would have been loads of extra head-butting between her and Sid, which might have made for some compelling drama.


The remainder of the crew wasn’t completely satisfied to work with Reddick, however Sid was overtly hostile, and I’d have loved continued sparring between the 2 of them.


Frank employed Reddick as a result of she wasn’t afraid to be direct (even when she did must be pushed to share her opinion within the assembly!), and he or she provided a contemporary, totally different perspective from the extra old-school workers. And then, simply as I used to be starting to get pleasure from the brand new dynamic, Frank despatched her away.

Will He Talk? - Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 7


I hope this is not the final we have seen of her!


Of course, nearly all of the hour was devoted to Danny and Baez’s investigation right into a theft at a Vietnamese bodega. And to the truth that Baez has by no means eaten a pickle in her life.


I do not assume I can forget that since Danny introduced it up each likelihood he received.


Anyway, this case wasn’t as a lot about Danny making an attempt to get the locals to belief him because it was about discovering the suitable suspect when the one informant he had was a gang chief who did not at all times get it proper.

A Challenging Case - Blue Bloods Season 12 Episode 7


The idea of the Vietnamese locals not wanting to speak to cops — notably to white cops — may have been fascinating, nevertheless it was given brief shrift.


Instead, Danny and Baez spent a lot of the hour leaping from one suspect to a different without a lot success.


The ending appeared tacked on, too, without any logical motive for Danny to develop into suspicious of the child on the stoop who had initially tried to assist them out.


Supposedly, he put issues collectively throughout Erin’s go to to the station, however Blue Bloods did not clarify precisely what clue had tipped him off.

(*7*)


Blue Bloods is often higher than that!


Yes, the circumstances are typically predictable, and the thriller is rarely the purpose.


But typically, the sequence provides logical tales during which police work leads Danny and Baez to the unhealthy guys, not a string of irrelevant suspects, after which Danny magically determining the reply with just a few minutes left to go.


Maybe I missed one thing, and there have been important clues making this another logical, nevertheless it appeared just like the reveal that the child was Bal’s son got here out of nowhere.


In retrospect, the child’s willingness to assist the cops may need been suspicious.


No one else wished to even admit to talking English round them, and the boy was a bit too forthcoming about how the entire neighborhood is terrified of Sonny and his Born within the USA gang.


It was straightforward to throw suspicion on a recognized gang member, and Danny rapidly took the bait, not less than till he realized Sonny was harmless.


That in itself ought to have been a clue that one thing was flawed, however the place have been the indications that the child was Bal’s son who had a motive to steal the money?


Maybe the case wasn’t the purpose. Perhaps Danny establishing a relationship with Sonny was. Sonny tried in his personal method to assist, and Danny provided him the prospect to work collectively sooner or later, so that is seemingly not the final time we’ll cross paths with this specific gang chief.


Blue Bloods spent an excessive amount of time on this, although, leaving solely two minutes on the finish for the household dinner. And the place the heck have been Jamie and Eddie?


They had no storyline and no scenes besides on the uber rushed Sunday dinner on the finish. This was an issue in earlier seasons, however the lacking Jamie difficulty appeared to have been solved in recent times.


Let’s hope this was a one-off and that we’re not returning to this sample of overfocus on Danny and underfocus on Jamie.


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Blue Bloods airs on CBS on Fridays at 10 PM EST/PST. The subsequent new episode airs on December 3, 2021.

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