To quote a character from last week’s episode, “the volume on this thing just got turned way up.” After walking in on Vic’s visit to Amoya at the safe house, Kavanaugh now knows that Lem’s wire tap has been compromised. His solution? Bug the Strike Team’s “club house.” This, of course, comes with the some interesting results. Kavanaugh is now aware that 1) Vic has hired a lawyer (and a sexy one at that) to represent all four of them should IAD take the court, and 2) the Strike Team is striking a deal with a Russian drug lord that involves getting a cut of the profit.
Meanwhile, Dutch continues to flirt with Tina, who seems to tell her she’s doing a good job even during her biggest slip ups, and Claudette reveals to her partner that she has lupus. A bit strange, no? Well, actually, what’s even stranger is my roommate calling it out two weeks ago. And as Dutch and Claudette work on a murder case involving a mummified ex-boyfriend, Vic consoles Danny about her baby. Was it just me or did Danny pretty much tell him that it was his kid? I’m still not convinced it is, but it’s more likely just a ploy to trick the audience into thinking so.
As the night of the deal gets closer, Kavanaugh calls in Aceveda to help him plan a stakeout so that they’re ready to pounce on Vic as soon as he takes the dirty money. Here’s the kicker, and I’m pretty sure everybody knew this was coming: it was all a set-up. Turns out, Vic is a pretty clever guy, and while IAD has Vic pegged as the bad guy – believing him to have just shot an innocent man in cold blood – they really just botched a sting-in-progress that would have landed Russian Bad Guy #32 in the big house for a long time. Chalk this one up as a win for the Strike Team, because no matter how hard Kavanaugh tries to bust these guys now, he’ll have this charade to answer for. Kavanaugh doesn’t take things lightly either, and after discovering that Vic has pitched the bug in the club house, he proceeds to trash his motel room in fury. The lines have been drawn folks. This is about to get very interesting…
