User Reviews

I thought this was a really great episode! It definitely depicts an uncomfortable issue, but a very real issue. How we treat one another is a HUMAN issue NOT a POLITICAL issue. Police brutality does exists and something needs to be done. Unlike another reviewer I didn't see the narrative that all police were bad, just a broken system that needs to be fixed. The people who want to deny these issues are the problem not "Hollywood ".

I like this this show but keep the the current events OUT!!! We've heard enough of bad bad police on black stories. We don't want injustice of ANYONE and we dont need it for our entertainment! The way the characters lines were framed "but your police". The white guy is the bad guy AGAIN. I turned this off.

This episode started out as a very interesting "who done it" premise with Nancy and other people trapped in the police station by a mysterious person. And one or more of the other people locked in with Nancy murdered someone years ago. Now it's up to Nancy to figure out who is the guilty party with them in the room with her.

However soon what could have been a good murder mystery story soon turns heavily political. As it's revealed that the person who died was of course a black woman. Nick naturally doesn't miss a opportunity to jump up on a soapbox and preach about it.

And in the end guess what it's revealed that it was two police officer who killed her due to racism. One of the other suspects even shouts, IT WAS THE POLICE IT WAS THE POLICE. And finally Detective Tamura is being interviewed by a reporter and gives the tired old "racism will not be tolerate and we have alot of work to do" speech which completely ignores the fact that in the previous season there was a black female detective and a native American as the chief. But no now this police department is super racist and needs to do better.

Really the only reason to watch this episode is to see what George, Ace and Bess are doing with George's dead great aunt who possess Ace.

This show should stick to doing what it's good at, solving supernatural mysteries and murder cases that aren't politically agenda driven.

George gets some depth while Nancy, Nick and Ryan get stuck in a cringe political subplot.

In an attempt to coexist with her "bodymate", George with the help of Ace and Bess contact one of George's dead relative to help them find Odette's one true love in the afterlife.

This part of the episode was perfectly in line with the concept of the show and on par with the usual quality you would expect from the series. George got some nice character development, Bess was Bess and Alex Saxon(Ace) got to goof around with an old lady's glasses.

The rest of the episode involved the others being trapped in the police station until they solve the case of a black woman that disappeared 6 years prior. Nancy bullied her way trough the case, while Nick and Ryan's role in the event was acting affronted and crying a lot respectively. In the end, half the room was guilty of racism while the other half was acting offended regardless of their characters personalities and history. There was no supernatural elements to this plot, only the expected "cops are bad" narrative.

This was very obviously a rushed plotline added late in the writing process of the season, that got shoved in whatever spot was convenient. The story was uninteresting, the characters cliché, the dialogs lazy and the acting subpar. The entire sequence looked like it was shot in an afternoon between 2 set changes, with actors failing at making terrible dialogs sound believable. This entire plot brought no character development and didn't progress the overall story in any way.

If the race subplot was done competently and in a way that actually fits the show, this episode might have been good. Unfortunately they wasted most of an episode shoving in a politically charged story and they did a terrible job at it.