# The Closer returns!
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [January 26, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145 "2009-01-26T23:23:47Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [January 26, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145/1 "2009-01-26T23:23:47Z")
TNT, 9pm Eastern. Will Sanchez survive? Will Brenda actually marry Fritz (and she’s a fool if she doesn’t because one, he’s very yummy, two, he puts up with her crap, and three, he’s very VERY yummy.)
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### Author:  [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145/2 "2009-01-27T00:55:31Z")
I can’t wait! And I concur with the yumminess of Fritz.
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### Author:  [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145/3 "2009-01-27T03:23:27Z")
Good first episode of the new season. I did not see the ending coming at all. Brenda Lee rules! 😃
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### Author:  [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145/4 "2009-01-27T03:56:36Z")
Why does she look like she was sprayed in face by a nuclear skunk?
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### Author:  [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145/5 "2009-01-27T14:58:23Z")
Not a bad episode. Flynn and Provenza had the best stuff, as usual. Brenda trying on the wedding dresses was pretty funny. I didn’t remember that she had been married before.
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### Author:  [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145/6 "2009-01-27T16:03:09Z")
> [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](#):
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> Brenda trying on the wedding dresses was pretty funny. I didn’t remember that she had been married before.
Yeah, I had forgotten about that myself.
A refresher, from Wikipedia"]Wikipedia:
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> Next, Brenda was a Captain with the Atlanta Police Department.[5] Brenda’s then-husband made false allegations, which resulted in an ethics investigation while she was a member of the Atlanta Police Department. He accused her of having an affair with a younger police officer. Brenda believes that her husband did this because he was jealous of the time she dedicated to her work. They divorced soon after. The marriage was a difficult one[6]:
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> “ If I liked being called a bitch to my face, I’d still be married. ”
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> After being cleared of the ethics violation, Brenda decided to seek a new job. Brenda was offered a job with Homeland Security, but decided to decline the offer so that she could head the LAPD’s new Priority Homicide Division.
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### Author:  [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145/7 "2009-01-27T17:22:27Z")
I would have liked this episode a lot better if TNT had not shown a clip of Brenda shoving the murderer against the blood-spattered wall before it happened in the show. When I saw that, I knew who the damn murderer was, and it took away any mystery. And it was an episode where there were multiple viable suspects!
I was quite surprised with how they handled Sanchez. Seemed a bit of a let-down after the incredibly dramatic cliffhanger. I hope they tease that storyline out a bit more.
And where the hell was Gabriel?
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145/8 "2009-01-27T18:13:14Z")
He’s in the next episode, but they never mentioned where he was. If the actor couldn’t do the premier, shouldn’t they have explained it with “he’s on vacation” or “he’s testifying in court?”
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### Author:  [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145/9 "2009-01-27T18:17:47Z")
> [@ivylass](#):
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> TNT, 9pm Eastern. Will Sanchez survive? Will Brenda actually marry Fritz (and she’s a fool if she doesn’t because one, he’s very yummy, two, he puts up with her crap, and three, he’s very VERY yummy.)
I’m capable of appreciating both male and female yumminess, and she’s as yummy as he, thankyouverymuch.
I came into it about 1/3rd of the way through the episode and thought it was enjoyable. One question, though. I get that Brenda was suspicious about Sanchez’s medical status, but what exactly was her hugging him about? Was she truly looking for evidence of physical weakness on his part, or was it just pent-up emotion? (She’s clearly not comfortable with discussing her feelings in any genuine fashion.)
ETA: also, does anyone know who played the dead man’s girlfriend? She seemed quite familiar, but I can’t place the face somehow.
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### Author:  [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145/10 "2009-01-27T18:26:04Z")
I think she was trying to see if he had really physically healed, since she would have felt him flinching in pain.
I found it interesting that it didn’t occur to her the reason Provenza was stalling her was because he hasn’t been cleared _mentally_. I’m waiting for an episode where he freezes up and something bad happens as a result.
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### Author:  [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145/11 "2009-01-27T18:28:40Z")
I really thought there was going to be a hospital bedside wedding.
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### Author:  [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-closer-returns/483145/12 "2009-01-27T19:15:24Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#):
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> Why does she look like she was sprayed in face by a nuclear skunk?
Not nuclear ,but she and hubby were sprayed by Madoff.