second chances

beyond evil is so delicious to me because in a group filled with cops and detectives, none of them suspected Jinmuk for years. except for his daughter. except for Minjeong, who was seen as someone always running away and rebellious, who was so loved by this group and who loved them too but never told her suspicion to any of them. they're all family but what is family if you can't say the truth that is drowning you. they're all there for each other but how do you rely on each other if you won't let someone in fully. it's the perfect dinner table, loud and full, but everyone's a little hungry all the time.

every single time Eddie has spoken up against something in s9 has been a topic he is personally affected by. the misuse of faith, the treatment of migrants, chain of command, and then there's homophobia ('our' kind). everything else is connected to Eddie, as proven already. which implies, quite directly, that the homophobia also does. and just as a bonus, it's connected to how he is perceived with Buck.

no because I feel so much about Shirley Crain. she is her father's daughter, she didn't understand her mother's way of seeing the world but she loved her so much that she tried filling her void, she tried to care for a litter of kittens when she was a kid and no matter what she did it wasn't enough to save them and then they took the last kitten away from her because they didn't think she could even try to keep that alive. and she never got a chance to keep her youngest sibling alive because nothing she did was what others seemed to need. and she didn't know if she could be what they actually needed because she was better with strangers and cadavers and pasting a better picture over the rot than letting her own rot sit with others. she couldn't fix her way out of the house that took her mother, her sister, her father, or her kittens. but she still had to leave and she still had to be Shirley. she couldn't be anyone else.