'Failure Drill' features one of the series' finest shootouts (not that the show relies on them), chiefly because it makes exceptional use of the show's documentary style camera-work; ad it's Lydia in full hero cop mode. Prior to that, she and Josie are saddled with a case of a murdered mother and the broken home she leaves behind. It's decent material, but tends to drag on.
What really makes this episode hard to stomach is its portrait of Officer Cooper spiraling out. The man's literally useless, zonked out on painkillers with his trainee left to handle the day's watch. It's hard to fathom his situation getting any worse - it will - but it's not easy to watch his life heading towards certain doom.
Yet it's undeniably engrossing.
9/10
What really makes this episode hard to stomach is its portrait of Officer Cooper spiraling out. The man's literally useless, zonked out on painkillers with his trainee left to handle the day's watch. It's hard to fathom his situation getting any worse - it will - but it's not easy to watch his life heading towards certain doom.
Yet it's undeniably engrossing.
9/10
