#trigger warning death

This episode opens with Trudy putting face paint on, which is a good way to signal this will be a Trudy-centric episode. After this, she and Sonny chase down a drug dealer. The show makes it clear Trudy does not like how fast Sonny is driving without directly saying that. Miami Vice does do a good job of showing instead of telling how characters feel.

Sonny and Trudy corner the guy in an alley, and everyone opens fire. Trudy kills the guy. Sonny is shocked. Once they get back to the police station, Castillo tells her she will need to talk to Internal Affairs and advises she take some time off. Trudy tearfully asks if she did something wrong. Trudy is understandably very upset over what's she just done. Castillo says no; that she just needs some time to adjust to the knowledge she killed another person. Gina, Zito, and Swietk ask Trudy if she's okay. Trudy replies she's fine, and she's going to just go home and sleep.

This is a lie. Next scene, the audience sees Trudy crying in a club. This conveys that Trudy wants her coworkers to think she is fine. Why? Previous episodes have shown her and Gina as close. Previous episodes have shown she trusts Zito and Swietk. Is Trudy trying to convince herself she is fine?

This seems the most likely explanation. Noticing her tears, her ex David comes over to ask what is wrong. She responds she just can't listen to certain sad songs anymore. He is very sympathetic, and he says he can't play certain songs anymore. After they go back to his place and sleep together, Trudy says she just wants someone to hold her. He complies. They get back together.

After making a morally complicated decision, Trudy ditched her friends to get back together with her ex. The back to back nature of this episode with Season 2 Episode 6 Buddies paint Sonny-Trudy parallels. This suggests Trudy has the same self-destructive streak Sonny has.

Unlike Sonny, Trudy seems to be slightly (slightly being the key word) better at romantic relationships. Trudy's rekindled relationship with her ex is going well. However, this is Miami Vice, so nothing good can last. David takes Trudy to a party where people are doing cocaine, and one of his friends is a drug dealer. Trudy tells her new boyfriend she wants to bust the people doing cocaine. He replies she's off the clock. Trudy agrees not to bust them, but insists they must leave. The core of this episode is the tension between Trudy's personal life and being a cop. The entire episode Trudy is torn between her personal life and being a cop. Killing a man was the catalyst to make her reflect on her job.

The next scene is Sonny and Trudy on Sonny's boat. Trudy says she's not sure what to do about David's friends dealing. She is conflicted between her personal life and being a cop. They go to the police station. Rico and Gina do some detective work and discover Adonis, David's drug dealing friend is moving up in the criminal world. Adonis could possibly inform on a major time drug lord. Sonny and Rico say they could use her connection or try another way to arrest Adonis. Trudy decides she is going to use her connections to Adonis to arrest him because it is "a lock". Trudy has a moody reflection sequence set to a power ballad, another Sonny parallel. After the reflection scene, Internal Affairs clears her of wrong-doing over the shooting. She goes to Adonis and pretends to be interested in dealing cocaine to Sonny.

During the cocaine deal, Adonis keeps hitting on her, but she's not interested. She can't directly say no because he's a dangerous man who might react poorly to this but her body language shows she doesn't like him. Unwanted advances from dangerous men isn't something the male characters have to deal with. In this way, the show displays what a female undercover cop would have to deal with.

Adonis takes the bait, and he sets up a drug deal in a bar. She goes to arrest him with pointing a gun at him. An unarmed Adonis decides to charge her while shouting "lady cop!" I don't think a criminal would assume a man would not shoot them. This is a way of showing that bad people behave poorly towards women because they think they can.

TIME FOR A LORE DUMP!!!!!!

Introducing.....

Zic and Aria

Oliver's (deceased) parents.

Zic: A strong and head on alpha of the pack and was over the moon to have a son.

Was unfortunately shot and later passed from smoke inhalation from the fire.

Aria: A kind and caring soul would hurt a fly.

Was trapped under a fallen tree whilst trying to escape from the fire with Oliver and later passed from injuries.

Hey!! It is exciting. From Lemonade and Palaces, I get the feeling that HDIGH might not be as much my cup of tea in the same way FITF was. It doesn’t feel as guitar-driven, and I tend to gravitate more toward albums with that sound. But I’m still genuinely excited to listen to the full album.

So, if looey hung himself do we think the balloon head would detach from his body and his body would fall, would a string be connected, would it be to tight and pop him?? would he have rope burns if he doesn't die?? OMG IS THAT WHY HE WEARS THE SHIRT HE WEARS??

Part 5 of twisted kill methods! This time the commons! Probably the most boring group of twisteds but yknow

Boxten: This twisted prefers to attack targets who are already wounded, as the process of hunting toons is quite an arduous task due to its limited vision. If a toon is weakened enough, Boxten picks them up using the arms sprouted from its head and forces them inside, which then contorts, dissolves, and consumes them.

Brusha: One of the smartest twisteds, though by twisted standards, that really only means it knows how to use a weapon. Brusha is quick and efficient, stabbing into a toon's throat with the handle of its paintbrush and wriggling it around to ensure the toon's death. Brusha has also been observed using the ichor of its kills to paint the walls.

Cosmo: This twisted seems unwilling during its attacks, and only really knows how to do one thing, that being a swipe with its massive claw. Cosmo is quite clumsy, however, so its scratches only tends to kill those who are already injured, or those who let him attack an important artery.

Looey: Another clumsy twisted, though a little bit more deadly than Cosmo. Looey first hits the target in the head to try and disorient them, before wrapping its arms them and biting the toon's face off. Thankfully, Looey's bite is quite weak, and can easily be fended off by a healthy toon.

Poppy: While barely aware of its surroundings, Poppy seems to have a consistent method of murder, that being strangulation. Poppy wraps its hands around the toon's neck, applying a surprising amount of force to choke them out, or in rare circumstances, rip the head right off its body.

Shrimpo: Compared to its toon counterpart, this Shrimpo is considerably more effective with physical violence. Shrimpo tackles a toon to the ground before laying into them with many, many punches, beating them to death against the floor.

Tisha: Like its former friend, Tisha is also intelligent enough to carry a weapon. Unlike Brusha, however, Tisha despises the idea of making a mess. After hitting a toon with the dried up, prickly side of its duster, Tisha shoves the handle down a toon's throat, asphyxiating them and causing some internal bleeding.

Yatta: Perhaps the most straightforward kill, Yatta stabs her claws into the target and manically bites them all over, ripping out chunks of their body and spitting them out.

- Ganon