Welcome back, Rookies! Happy Marriage Equality day!
We last left 15 Division in the midst of chaos. Marlo found out she was pregnant with Swarek’s baby, Nick met a pretty redhead. As for our resident lesbians, both had bombs to drop: Gail was attempting to adopt a child here in Canada, and Holly got a job offer in California. Oh, then a literal bomb went off in the evidence room. But that was less devastating, to be honest.
This recap is going to be on the shorter side since Gail wasn’t in it too much, but the other ladies are badass and beautiful, and Nick’s mystery girl made out with Anna Silk on the show Being Erica, so the episode is worth recapping. Plus, the story wasn’t wrapped up neat and tidy, so it warrants discussion.
We start three weeks after the bomb went off. We know this because Andy is playing hide and seek because she doesn’t want her dreamy vacation with Swarek to end.
Let’s check in on the other ladies one by one. Not really in any particular order that makes sense to anyone but me. Just go with it.
Chloe is working out with Nick, who she thinks is her only friend, which is unfortunate since he’s considering leaving for ETF (which I have Googled for you and it means Emergency Task Force, which maybe I think I once knew but I forgot). This workout leaves her too sore to move, so she gets put on desk duty with the new gal (who we’ll chat about later) and gives her an earful of anything and everything because she’s Chloe and when she’s in the room with another human it’s like when you put two Furbys together except one Furby’s voice box is broken so she just keeps talking and babbling and rambling. I think I used to find it annoying but now I find it rather endearing, and so does the new girl.
Marlo is working with Dov to try to figure out who blew up their evidence room, but also Dov is trying to convince her to tell Swarek she’s pregnant with his baby. She eventually does, saying she doesn’t want money or anything from him, she just thought he should know. Her doctors told her she can stay on her bipolar meds while she’s pregnant, so she’s going to be just fine on her own. This sends Swarek into a bit of a tailspin, but he resolves to tell Andy by the end of the episode.
Juliet Ward is the newest police officer in 15 Division, and also happens to be Nick’s mystery girl from last season. They flirt a bit, both before and after she spends the day getting an earful from Chloe, which Juliet didn’t mind because she appreciates that Chloe’s a genuine person. However, by the end of the episode, we learn that Juliet might NOT be a genuine person, and she likely enjoyed Chloe’s company because she barely had to poke to get information out of her, information she was apparently sent there to get, because she gets in the car with a man who asks her about her day and she says she’ll “brief” him later. Which means she’s likely an undercover agent for some other department sent to investigate 15 Division for one reason or another. Or I guess it’s possible she’s infiltrating from some kind of ex-cop mafia, but the first seems somewhat more likely, especially since Marlo is starting to think the bomb in the evidence room was an inside job.
Andy is housesitting for Traci when she gets attacked, which leads us to the Crime De Jour. A man is running around, stalking girls, sending them flowers, then sneaking through their open windows and raping them. So they dive into the investigation, interrogating Traci’s barista and neighbors to get to the bottom of things. A detective from the sex crimes unit tries to take over, but 15 Division isn’t one to sit on their hands, so they take to the streets and start warning people about a rapist on the loose, and also use a local flower shop to try to figure out who the attacker’s next victim might be. They save a girl from a potential attack, but in doing so may have scared off the perp, which does not make Detective Sex Crimes very happy AT ALL.
Swarek does eventually tell Andy that Marlo is pregnant with his likely-very-grumpy baby, and between that and scaring off the rapist, she’s just having a terrible, horrible, no-good, very bad first day back from vacation.
I’m ending with Gail because even though she didn’t really have a storyline, lezbehonest, she’s why we’re all here so I saved the best for last. The only scene of note of Gail’s is when she gets a call from her social worker, asking her to make an application video for the adoption agency. Diaz (who, side note, is sleeping with an ex-coke addict from his NA meeting – a no-no – who happens to be married to his boss’s boss’s boss – a no-no-oh-dear-god-no) tells her to just be herself, but she doesn’t imagine standing in front of a swing set and saying she’s a single, homosexual police officer was going to go over very well. The “single” part stung, but it was nice to remind everyone right off the bat that Gail is capital G Gay and so stop shipping her with Nick or anyone else of the male persuasion. I’m hoping she gets to date someone new this season, and that her storyline isn’t 100% around adopting Sophie, though I do hope we get to see her be a mama bear, too. Mostly, as long as she doesn’t get shot and die, we’ll do just fine.
I’m excited this show is back, and interested to see where they go with it, since there are TWO unsolved cases floating about, while usually a case is open and shut by the time the episode is over, plus the usual amount of 15 Division drama.
What did you think of “Open Windows”?
Friendly reminder to our Canadian friends, we here in the US are going to be a few episodes behind you again this year, so please only refer to events of this or past episodes in the comments. This is also why I won’t be collecting tweets for these recaps, because it will be too difficult to sort out which tweets belong to each episode, but please tweet along with me (@PunkyStarshine) and join the RB Party by using the hashtag #GailPlusOne!
