In the last episode's conclusion we had Tim and Lucy fighting about a conversation in which Lucy blamed him for all of her anxiety and negativity while also saying he undermined her. Tim was desperately trying to say and do the right thing for Lucy who was constantly freaking out about her test but at every turn was thwarted by Lucy. At the very end she blows up on him and he simply removes himself because what she's accusing him of is the opposite of everything he's tried to do for her today.
Flash forward to this episode where things are still on the rocks for these two until midway through the episode Tim sets up a polygraph for Lucy to grill him with. Things are going fine until she asks him if he's ok with her becoming a detective to which the machine lights up like a Christmas tree signaling that Tim is lying. There's many problems with this but one of the biggest being that Tim himself didn't even know that he was lying. Now I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure if the person in the machine doesn't know it's a lie that the polygraph won't detect it which is one reason why they're not some silver bullet truth teller that Hollywood likes to portray. Not only that but in no way was Tim doing the things she accused him of last episode and it's even mentioned "maybe you're projecting some because of your own issues Lucy?" But no apparently he's the problem even though it was very much self inflicted and not Tim's fault.
The reason the writers have done this is seemingly to set up some epiphany moment where Tim gets over the baggage he's carrying from Isabell. They weren't subtle and you're beaten over the head with this idea multiple times. I understand wanting to show and do this idea but the way it was approached was done very poorly. I really dislike how she went after him for nothing that he did when all he was doing was trying to support whatever path she chose. Instead we make it Tim's fault subconsciously in a major reach by the writers. The rest of the episode was good sans Celina going off on her own to save some drug mule and getting captured, but this Tim and Lucy plot felt egregious.
Flash forward to this episode where things are still on the rocks for these two until midway through the episode Tim sets up a polygraph for Lucy to grill him with. Things are going fine until she asks him if he's ok with her becoming a detective to which the machine lights up like a Christmas tree signaling that Tim is lying. There's many problems with this but one of the biggest being that Tim himself didn't even know that he was lying. Now I'm not an expert but I'm pretty sure if the person in the machine doesn't know it's a lie that the polygraph won't detect it which is one reason why they're not some silver bullet truth teller that Hollywood likes to portray. Not only that but in no way was Tim doing the things she accused him of last episode and it's even mentioned "maybe you're projecting some because of your own issues Lucy?" But no apparently he's the problem even though it was very much self inflicted and not Tim's fault.
The reason the writers have done this is seemingly to set up some epiphany moment where Tim gets over the baggage he's carrying from Isabell. They weren't subtle and you're beaten over the head with this idea multiple times. I understand wanting to show and do this idea but the way it was approached was done very poorly. I really dislike how she went after him for nothing that he did when all he was doing was trying to support whatever path she chose. Instead we make it Tim's fault subconsciously in a major reach by the writers. The rest of the episode was good sans Celina going off on her own to save some drug mule and getting captured, but this Tim and Lucy plot felt egregious.
