The Closer: Season 7, Episode 7 “A Family Affair” (B+)
If not for the credit at the start of the episode, I might not have recognized Roxann Dawson from her half-Klingon days as B’Elanna Torres on “Star Trek: Voyager” as Captain Ortega. Dawson has been behind the scenes on this and many other shows in the past decade, directing four episodes, including the religion-centric episode from two weeks ago. On camera, Dawson does just fine, adding a tragic personal touch to a murder investigation and humanizing Sedona in a way that made the case all the more memorable, mainly because we barely got a chance to see her actual murderer before he was killed. Flat-out lying to a suspect to get him to confess doesn’t seem like a terribly smart idea for Brenda and Sanchez in the midst of this whole investigation, but I guess he did still order someone’s murder, so it’s not as if he’ll garner much sympathy and launch another lawsuit against the department. Having Fritz there to make the threat of the FBI coming in if the suspect didn’t cooperate with Major Crimes was cool, and I’m glad to see them cooperating rather smoothly. Captain Raydor stepping into the investigation to get Sanchez to cooperate seemed to signal a desperation of sorts on her part, but that final scene revealed that she’s actually on Brenda’s side and they both have a far larger problem on their hands. I can’t imagine that someone on Brenda’s squad has actually turned against her, and if I had to guess, I’d peg Commander Taylor or an accidentally-overheard Flynn or Provenza.
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