Some shows just kind of fade away, worn and tired. Not this one. It ends dramatically and logically - her stint with Major Crimes and the unexpected death of her mother had left Brenda pretty burned out. Brenda announces that she has accepted a position with the LA District Attorney's Office. Maybe Brenda will make a guest appearance on some future Major Crimes episode. But maybe not and that's okay because we have seven years worth of often outstanding and always interesting shows. In this episode, the team is investigating a series of vicious murders of young women. In a store video surveillance tape Brenda insists that the man in the tape chatting up the latest victim is Philip Stroh even though she can only see him from behind. Stroh is one of those criminals "who got away with it" and he and Brenda had tangled before. Given her emotional fragility, Stroh coming back into her life was too much - watching Brenda on the verge of snapping and then indeed snapping was amazing. The scene where she jumps on the elevator just before the doors close and punches Stroh was as riveting as it was shocking. What an actress Kyra Sedgwick is. The whole cast, as ever, was excellent especially Mary McDonnell (her sadness at Brenda's break-down is so touching) and Billy Burke as Philip Stroh.
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