#gilloto

Gillodec or Gilloto?

’Cause I can see both of them happening right about now.

why am I getting 911-esque other-shoe-dropping vibes

and what the hell was that song

ooh Morgan in all blue, cute and potentially symbolic

and Oz is also in all blue hmm (#ozdillory)

Morgan Gillory phone prankster, this I can believe

nice little slightly-different infodump

why did that little interaction sound more sibling-dynamic than romance-coded

more signs of neurodivergent Morgan

uh oh (to use a colloquial term I heard on SVU) hello rat squad

as the montage proves her wrong

Karadec seems to have a similar gift to Morgan just with interpersonal interactions

and of course his Hermione-Granger-ass helped create the course

finally an actual sergeant

and hello Wagner in all his barely-audible glory

ok why does he want to try and step into Morgan's role other than just to get dominant over Soto

and you could cut the tension between Karadec and Wagner with a knife (and I'm wondering how many people, if any revelations of bad-guy!Wagner take a while, are going to use this episode to see his wanting to step into Morgan's role as some kind of weird kismesis-y him-going-both-ways-and-trying-to-move-in-on-Karadec)

so he does have a bit of a sense of humor

ten metaphorical bucks says this stuff she's learning is going to be relevant

and I didn't mean just something that soon/small but Morgan's never met a rule she can't flout

phone prank happens again right in front of both of them

why is everything weirdly blue

Wagner kinda feeling like a creepier Agent Booth

whoa dude don't run roughshod over the fucking squad

I saw Oz giving a Look

feeling kinda 911 vibes off some of this backstory stuff

and of course "detective school" has shitty cafeteria food

thankfully Karadec's here with the save and the takeout (another little family-coded moment despite how monogamous-shippers of them might focus too entirely on that shoulder touch)

moral alignments becoming clear

this feels like a little bit of parallel-the-b-plot stuff

Morgan's rubbing off on Karadec

and here's where Morgan gets to absolutely show the fuck off

nice little pseudo-meta with the this feels staged

should we really be breaking the rules this loud

Oz in one of those shirts again and kinda symbolic how the palette changed when Morgan's not there and this is interesting Wagner actually wanting Morgan to help

uh oh busted

anyone think of the DCU when Cadmus mentioned

and anyone else think the PSTD thing might have been personal for Wagner

why does this feel like another case-that-could-foreshadow-Wagner's-game

Morgan's got another little game of her own afoot

why aren't we texting this

what, did that come straight from the elevator pitch

what's IAB guy's beef (wonder if it's anything like it iirc was on the French show iykwim)

fake-me-out once you can't fool me again this ain't even the mid-season finale never mind season finale so I don't have to angst over

team realizing how much they need her

why is his speech pattern sounding a little like Morgan's

Soto finally gets to speak her mind

"moves that you're making", huh, moves, chess, hint

Soto defending Morgan's honor in a way that should make the shippers happy

and Morgan and Daphne "finishing each other's sandwiches"

I saw that look from Oz

Morgan talking about the show a little here?

they're all not okay

and Oz also in whatever holster thingie I said looked like bondage gear when Karadec was wearing it last time

and Morgan just figured out blue's clues

ok-what-the-all-three-doing-the-infodump

feels like the kind of murder you'd see on Elsbeth

okay the kind of late-night thing you'd usually see with Morgadec with them this time

and now Soto being a little chaotic and is this some kind of enemy mine

a little bit of backstory that gives a little clue to Wagner's motives but not all of it just like Brilliant Minds with Charlie (but even if Wagner isn't a bad-guy-proper it's gonna take a lot more to make me sympathetic towards him)

and let's play will the without-Morgan-there's-no-show of it all mean [whatever we should call the High Potential fandom] cools it with any sort of cop-ethics-discourse about the photos I'm wondering how Soto got

so does this mean we aren't going to get anything with Solomon and Karadec as the equivalent of that one storyline on the French show because Soto's gonna somehow get him fired beforehand or is dude just that cliche about the most repressed in normal life people being the least repressed between the sheets and dude's a lot more Buck-1.0-but-if-he'd-always-known-the-bi-thing with his love life than the impression he gives off makes it seem

well ain't that just the most Gilloto way to end an episode never mind the full-circle of it all (seriously, this felt like it should have been a season finale almost) and how no kids made it feel like a date but what the hell was the song playing in that scene? It was fucking beautiful but based on the snippets of lyrics I was able to catch ("I was a fallen tree" "I was a breaking wave, you were solid ground" and something about a new kind of light or something) I couldn't find what the hell song it was

To help the fandom cope with this being the first Tuesday of the annoyingly-long midseason "High-atus" I made the kind of Disney theme mix (figured appropriate because ABC, I might make a general-non-Disney-Broadway one but that's gonna take me longer as more songs to pick from) people used to make on 8tracks god around a decade ago holy shit and make into YouTube videos with song clips and DeviantArt fanart or screenshots or w/e a decade before that. I've got a song for every major character I felt like I had enough to go on to give me one and one for every individual ship-link in polycrimes (Edit, added a better one for Wagner and ship themes for pairings with him)

Key

Morgan

Karadec

Soto

Daphne

Oz (and no, this isn't just because of a certain previous role of that actor's though that is what helped me break what-felt-like-a-tie-in-terms-of-fitting-him between this song and Stand Out from A Goofy Movie)

Wagner (changed his from what it originally was now that we've seen the whole picture (or at least whole picture so far #WagnerLives))

Ludo (I was half-tempted to give him the Work Song from Cinderella but then told myself no that's the kind of slightly-fitting-but-meme-y pick that people would make in the era of character theme song YouTube videos (like how you could tell a Homestuck character themes thing was being taken seriously by its creator if they didn't give Jane Crocker "Cooking By The Book" from LazyTown) and the one I ended up with for him fits his actual character, also friendly reminder if you want him back boycott NBC sitcom Stumble premiering on the 7th, let's tank its ratings so it's axed so he doesn't have that conflict)

Ava

Morgan/Karadec (because those two do have Certain Parallels to this Disney couple in their story-so-far)

Morgan/Soto

Morgan/Daphne

Morgan/Oz

Morgan/Wagner

Karadec/Soto (idk why I just felt this fit)

Karadec/Daphne

Oz/Karadec (flipped name order as the other way turns into the percentage sign and no I didn't just pick this for Ozdec because it would have been for Morgadec if I hadn't seen the parallel I saw)

Karadec/Wagner

Soto/Daphne

Soto/Oz (best Disney song I could find about loving someone seemingly out of your league as I imagine (be it as part of the whole polycrimes situation or just looking at this as a monosexual rarepair) anything between them would likely involve, say, Oz trying to bite off more than he can chew in some aspect of his work or w/e (even down to life in danger again) to prove himself "worthy" enough that his feelings for her don't give him imposter syndrome)

Soto/Wagner (even thinking about if-they-could-become-a-thing like I was doing for the pairings that haven't had anything that could be taken as a canon shiptease they were hard but I felt this worked for a very-different-people-coming-together-but-not-enemies-to-lovers thing)

Daphne/Oz (because of course a song this adorable (when taken as out of context as one must to assign a Disney song to characters/pairings from other works) could only fit this particular link of the squad)

Daphne/Wagner (if you know some of my headcanons about Daphne...)

Oz/Wagner (that's where I put the Goofy Movie song)

True in general for both fiction and reality but specifically regarding High Potential Lt. Soto mentioning an ex-husband and people thinking that means Morgan/Soto ain't gonna happen. Friendly reminder we now know she has an ex but still don't know why they divorced, for all we know High Potential is sorta-kinda-even-if-not-on-purpose ripping off 911 and we're basically seeing the other side of a Michael Grant situation as maybe different-gender-socializations meant Hector wasn't trying to paper-clip-and-chewing-gum some semblance of a family together and the split (which perhaps also meant him splitting, insert part of what fuels eventual Gilloto even if just in a fic being the promise of stability that both severely need) was a lot sooner after the coming-out (and it's also script-flipping enough that we're not gonna lose our lieutenant).