I Give Up. You Win.

And if we don’t live forever Maybe one day we’ll trade places

It's not about being tough on crime, because the absolute toughest most brutal measure you could take against "crime" as a social problem is to alleviate poverty, and increase access to education, healthcare and social mobility.

It's about performing "tough on crime" as an aesthetic by enacting violence against a prop, i.e. minorities and the impoverished, who are fetishized and objectified to represent "crime." They are brutalized as punishment for crime, but never with the purpose of alleviating the problem of crime.

💜 @nine-one-wanton

Immediately thought of Tommy teaching Buck Muy Thai... except while Buck doesn't know Muy Thai... he's actually a really decent boxer. So he takes Tommy by surprise the first time and manages to pin him to the mat ;)

Tommy is very shocked but then incredibly turned on. "I forfeit."

XD omg I love this!!

In true 911 fashion, the LAFD put on a Murder mystery event on Halloween, and the 118 are all off and attend.

They're all dressed up and it's a well attended event, but then Buck runs into Tommy at the bar and cue them having a romantic talk out on the balcony before they...obscond into the night for an hour.

While they're gone, and in even truer 118 fashion, there is of course, an actual murder.

Athena gets to go full detective, dressed as a detective (BP for someone like Sam Spade because that's hot af) at a fake murder and Bobby and Tommy make so many Clue jokes that Buck's a little lost.

Someone tries to accuse Tommy of being the murderer, but Bucks like, "No, it wasn't him, he has an alibi. Trust."

Eddie frowns at him, "Do I want to know."

Hen just holds a hand up, "Edmundo you shut your mouth. We all know where Tommy was."

Eventually the real suspect is found and Ravi pouts that there was no treasure involved this time either.

Athena just gets another glass of wine while shaking her head; "Can't take you idiots anywhere."

Buck counts the night as a win either way, dead body aside. "Well we just spent seven hours solving a murder, want to come back to mine and spend seven minutes in heaven?"