Finally writing up my thoughts.
It was a good episode but a lot of it felt kind of rushed.
For starters, Sheldon still manages to have barely any relevance or screen time despite him being the rat. His reason for selling out the unit was ridiculous. His dad had bad gambling debts? The he just ends up dead... It was like they had little to no interest and just needed a quick way to get rid of them and create a cliffhanger. Both PD and Fire cliffhangers were so lazily executed.
Secondly, Jay is sort of exhausting with his ~seasoned cop routine towards Ruzek and now Atwater. He literally joined the unit a month before Ruzek. I didn't appreciate him talking down Atwater either. I did love his scenes with Erin and the two of them can say a lot without saying anything. I'm hoping next season we get more backstory on him.
Burgess and Ruzek... I feel like I missed something where they're concerned. I don't think they're any sort great match. I think they're cute but I feel like it's mostly a rebound on Adam's part. I don't have much sympathy for Burgess when it comes to not making Intelligence because I think it was incredibly naive of her to think her very obvious crush on Adam wouldn't factor into things. I don't feel she was hard done by either because Voight is pretty strict on this stuff for good reason and instead of going about trying to prove herself she just seemed to throw a dig or two about it being Ruzek's fault but then continue texting him.. and now they're hooking up. I think she was more ambitious about Atwater when it came to getting the promotion and she proved she's almost ready but the fickle reason it slipped through her hands is on her. It's not on Atwater and it's not on Ruzek either so I don't feel anyone owes her an apology.
I hope Atwater gets a chance to shine next season. He and Jin have been so ignored this season. I hope they don't kill him off next season or something.
Antonio's wife leaving him is so obviously just so Jon Seda can have some hookups next season
. I hope that they work it out.
I'm glad Erin got everything sorted and Charlie is out of the picture for now.
Are Olinksy and his wife back together then according to the message she left for him?