135 - Driven
Summary
Connor Banes, a tow-truck driver disappears. He’d recently saved a boy’s life and become hooked on the feeling of doing good, which landed him in a bad situation with a kid he was trying to help who turned out to be involved with drugs. He got hurt when he was trying to help while hopelessly naive.
Rating
Boring missing person story, and we’re still stuck in the lame Jack storyline. The the Sam-baby-daddy storyline comes to a sudden halt, leaving me wondering what the point of it was.
Discussion
This was definitely one of the more boring missing person stories the writers have come up with. A tow truck driver goes missing. Was it a because someone whose car he repossessed came after him? Did the father of his old girlfriend kill him because he blames Connor for the fire that killed his daughter and grandson? Was it a former co-worker who is a scummy skeezebag on parole for rape? Did Connor return to his former heroin days for some reason (like, perhaps, the stress of all of the above)?
Nope. Connor got “hooked” on the rush of doing good, and ended up helping a kid who got him shot. Our intrepid agents find him and he lives.
Meanwhile, the rogue-Jack storyline continues to torture us. Jack has to see a psychologist, as mandated by OPR. He’s basically cooperative. I can’t find myself actually caring, though.
And Brian, Sam’s baby-daddy, is disposed of. Jack gives Sam info on Brian’s past, about the sexual assault of a minor. Sam confronts Brian. He says charges were dropped. The girl got drunk, Brian told her to go away, she accused him of trying to rape her. Police figured out she was lying. Wouldn’t all this have been in the report that Jack dug up? Why did she have to confront him, except to give him reason to throw a hissy fit (not entirely unjustified), storm off, and be out of the show? So what was the purpose of having him there at all? What a pointless storyline. So Brian waives paternity rights, and Sam is pissed at Jack. I don’t get that. Okay, Jack butted in, but why didn’t Sam deal with it appropriately, like find out what actually happened, rather than just accuse Brian?
Notes
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Quotes
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