What did I just watch?? Frank & Luella aren't the brightest pair of P. I.s but in this episode they were downright stupid! Maybe I'm too used to watching other cop or detective shows, I don't know. This pair is not attentive, inquizitive or forceful but they are gullible.
They can be on the right track but when they question their suspects they seem to believe whatever they are told. They don't fully interrogate, they just accept what they're told without question. A private eye isn't going to get very far like that!
The scene where they were staking out the ransom drop was basically laughable, altho I wasn't laughing, I was expressing my frustration to the TV! They were not paying any attention at all! Luella was looking thru her binoculars in the beginning, she did watch Sebastian drop the money bag in to the garbage but after that I guess it wasn't important. Fifty people could've came along & retrieved that bag & she & Frank would've been none the wiser! They were too busy looking at pictures of the missing dog on a tablet! To make matters worse they didn't even notice the police sirens getting closer & closer & then the park behind them filling up with police cars! Still not noticing even as all the cops were getting out of their vehicles, shouting & slamming car doors! Luella & Frank just sat there, in the car, not even looking in the rear view mirror!! This was farcical! And they call themselves P. I.s?? They didn't even park the car facing the drop point!
Even DI Marlowe had ridiculous lines. After finding out it was Frank & Luella who had put the bag in the garbage & it contained money, she admonishes them for not reporting it. Report it?! There's no law they had to report it, it's a dognapping case! It's not their fault someone called to report a suspicious package & the cops brought their bomb robot out. Marlowe saying she should charge them for wasting police time was a ludicrous line! No comedy here. The rest of the show seemed to go downhill from there.
After the trainer found the note from the kidnappers stuck on the bushes they all gathered to see if it really was Tim buried there. With only the vet viewing the dog & Mr. Gonzalo over acting that he couldn't look, told me that the two of them must be in it together. When the funeral guys, Baxter & helper, wrapped the dog to take it away & it showed the paw, I could tell that it probably wasn't Tim b'c the paw looked different. Frank noticed too but said nothing. Also, the way that Baxter said the dog would get the 'very best treatment money could buy' suggested to me he was involved in the dognapping too. When Frank asked if the vet could do a post-mortem, Gonzalo cut right in saying there will be no post-mortem! So many hints thru out the show pointing to who did it but still Frank & Luella had no clue.
When they do start to figure it out they search the rescue center for Tim. Luella finds one of the dogs toys in an empty kennel & when she asks why is it there, the vet gives a reason, which is false & very easy to check but the two PI's just accept her answer, again. Since this is almost at the episodes end, I'll stop critizing it now. I sure hope they gain some brain cells in the next episode or else they'll need to re-classify this as a comedy series & actually write in some comedy.
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