Just
when I predict a forthcoming Dee-case Elly-case format, they throw me a
curveball. Technically, one of the cases
today is still Elly’s, but she’s not on the usual end of it. While Dee tails a potentially-philandering
wife in London, Elly asks Larry to look into her ex-husband Max. He’s recently reappeared in her life, and
despite her better judgment, there’s a part of her that believes him when he
says he’s changed.
Naturally,
this means that we see Larry going undercover again. Why merely follow someone in your car or
plant an external bug outside their home when you can pose as a repairman and
show up at their office? Despite Larry’s
repeated assurances that he doesn’t miss taking cases of his own, I think he
really enjoyed, and still enjoys, the
thrill of the work. The more blazon, the
better – he likes interacting with the people he’s fooling, likes to let them
see him.
And
point of order, Larry most definitely has a thing for Elly. It’s kind of adorable in a really gruff,
antisocial way. They’re both such
closed-off people – Elly’s marriage obviously banged her up emotionally, and we
keep getting hints that Larry’s not as unbreakable as he’d have people think –
and it’s interesting to watch them cautiously circle each other. There’s an especially good scene when Elly
first approaches him to ask whether one can be friends with an ex (a “client”
was wondering.) Both of them keep their
guard up for the entire conversation, but they both have the P.I. instincts to
catch what the other is leaving unsaid.
Dee’s
husband still isn’t doing much to endear himself to me. In this episode, the two run into a conflict
over the issue of who should stay home when their daughter is sick. Dee’s suggestion that they take turns is
immediately disintegrated – he can’t possibly drop everything with no notice,
he has a schedule to keep, it’s important, and after all, they have to give priority to the main
breadwinner. Further proof that his
ostensible objections to her work are perhaps a bit too convenient.
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