Line #6 YMMV/TheCloser


1	* CompleteMonster: See [[Monster/TheCloser here]].
2	* DiagnosedByTheAudience: There are hints Brenda might be on the autism spectrum. Pope has commented that he has to make allowances for the fact that Brenda simply does not understand certain modes of human interaction.
3	** In-Universe, in "You Are Here," Brenda is reeling off a list of symptoms displayed by a high-functioning autistic she wants to interview. The detectives to whom she's talking all shoot each other knowing glances until Flynn comes right out and asks if he has a Georgia accent.
4	--->'''Brenda:''' Of course not, why would he— oh, very funny.
5	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Nobody InUniverse or outside of it expected Raydor to be popular, let alone popular enough to helm the spinoff series ''Major Crimes''.
6	* GrowingTheBeard: Brenda having to take responsibility for her less-than-professional actions with the lawsuit and the hunt for the leak within Major Crimes.
7	* HarsherInHindsight: In-universe. "Roadblock" is this to "Borderline". In the latter, earlier episode, Brenda leaves the scene of a minor fender bender, treats it like an annoying inconvenience to her admittedly more pressing murder case, and spends the episode ducking and dodging the Captain of the Traffic Divison, who finally breaks down to her that traffic/vehicle-related mishaps cause at least as many deaths in LA as regular homicides do and are every bit as traumatic to survivors of the victims. This brings us to the former episode, where [[spoiler: the LAPD commissioner's wife]] strikes and kills a young woman on a bicycle while heavily intoxicated, flees the scene, spends the episode trying to avoid any responsibility for her actions, and manages to show even ''less'' remorse for this than Brenda did for lightly tapping someone's bumper.
8	* HilariousInHindsight: Actor and politician Eric Garcetti, who portrayed Los Angeles Mayor Ramon Quintero on the show, would go on to be elected Mayor of LA in RealLife in 2013.
9	* LesYay: Now that they've (reluctantly) admitted admiration for each other, Brenda and Captain Raydor have been having moments. Especially in "Last Woman Standing", with Raydor giving Brenda pep talks and fashion hints (ItMakesSenseInContext). This only gets turned up to eleven during the seventh season, as Brenda and Raydor go from {{Worthy Opponent}}s to unlikely but extremely effective allies -- and, possibly, even friends. Suffice it to say the 2011 summer finale "Fresh Pursuit" left Brenda/Sharon fans hoarse from the {{squee}}.
10	* MagnificentBastard ("[[Recap/TheCloserS6E5HeartAttack Heart Attack]]"): [[VigilanteMan Dr. Luis Navarro]] is a brilliant transplant surgeon who [[PayEvilUntoEvil decides to take justice into his own hands]] when he barely saves a twelve-year-old girl from death after she was gang-raped and mutilated. Deducing that one of his free clinic's patients was the leader of the gang rape, Navarro drugs him into giving up the names of his accomplices, then kills the man and harvests his organs to use to save the life of another of his patients. Deciding to do even more "good", Navarro begins tracking down the gang rapists, killing them, and [[OrganTheft taking their organs]] to use in the hospital to save the lives of people on the donor list, then disposing of his victims' bodies in such a way that law enforcement believes it is the work of cartels to throw them off his scent. When Brenda and the team track him down, Navarro [[ShutUpKirk shuts down]] her attempts to paint him as a scumbag crook, instead focusing on the fact that he's genuinely helping people and rounding off his charming MotiveRant by agreeing to confess only if the heart of his latest murder victim is used to save the life of a young patient.
11	* NeverLiveItDown:
12	** Brenda's adulterous affair with Pope. Even though she has since married Fritz, he's not above mentioning her affair with Pope when he feels that she is putting her ex-lover before their marriage or her own career. But Fritz never questions Brenda's fidelity or integrity in the matter -- in fact, he believes that Pope still has feelings for ''her''.
13	** Fritz's drinking problem; besides nearly destroying his career, Fritz (prior to the start of the series) regularly drove while shitfaced drunk, to the point that he'd wake up in strange places with no memory of driving there. The last scene of Season 5 is him explaining why he turned down a promotion, then admitting that he never thought he'd ever be ''considered'' for a promotion again because of it.
14	** Captain-later Commander-later Deputy Chief Russel Taylor and him being a GloryHound {{Jerkass}}; every member of the squad, along with Fritz and Pope, dislike or outright despise him mainly due to his actions in Season 1 when he repeatedly acted as a recurring antagonist in Brenda's work life. His CharacterDevelopment is slow-burning throughout the series and he never totally stops being a SlaveToPR, but at least by the fifth season of ''Major Crimes'' he's redeemed himself enough that everyone legitimately [[spoiler: mourns his death.]]
15	** Sgt. Gabriel, who already gets next to no respect from anyone on the squad due to his willingness to assist Brenda from day one, which paints him as an outcast due to everyone else despising her being able to come into the LAPD as a Deputy Chief (and thus, their boss) without having to work her way up the ladder like everyone else. Even when they begin respecting her, they (mostly Flynn, Sanchez, and sometimes Provenza) treat him with marginal cordiality at best and this lasts throughout the entire series without any improvement. Once it's revealed that his new girlfriend Ann was the leak planted by Goldman to dig up information on them to use in a class action lawsuit against the LAPD, even that goes out the window, with Flynn going so far as demand that Gabriel put in for a transfer, although Brenda ultimately [[PetTheDog convinces him not to]].
16	* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/StephanieBeatriz as Camila Santiago in "The Life".
17	* TearJerker: This being a crime drama, there have been several of these involving the cast be it via their cases, their personal lives, or some combination of both. "Maternal Instincts" and "Last Rites" definitely [[DownerEnding stand out]].
18	** Speaking of "Last Rites" Brenda's mom's [[spoiler: [[DownerEnding death.]] [[WhamShot Oh God.]]]]
19	--->Brenda: [[spoiler: [[WhamLine Momma? Momma?]]]] ''[[spoiler:[[WhamLine MOMMA!]]]]'' [[spoiler: [[WhamLine FRITZ! FRITZ!]]]] ''[[spoiler:[[WhamLine FRITZ!]]]]''
20	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Brenda herself suffers this throughout the series but it really comes to the forefront following the conclusion of the "Shootin' Newton" murders. To recap, she initally was trying to solve the murders of two soldiers, one of whom had a twin brother name Tyrell Baylor who was a gang member. Tyrell had shot a store owner and his eight-year old grandson -the "Newtons"-- and since the store was gang-protected property, his fellow gang members were after him for some street justice and shot his brother and the soldier he was with due to MistakenIdentity. Tyrell offered this info up to Brenda to close her case on the soldiers' murders under the condition that he receive immunity for any role he had in the store murders, then after the deal was signed, confessed to those shootings. Brenda being [[KnightTemplar Brenda]], she decided to take justice into her own hands--by [[IGaveMyWord honoring said immunity agreement]]...and [[ExactWords releasing]] Baylor back into his neighborhood and knowingly into the waiting hands of his former fellow gang members. If you watch the series, you know what happened next; if you don't, you can probably guess. The "Unsympathetic" part comes when Baylor's family, now having lost ''both'' of their sons, make themselves known and file a class action lawsuit against Brenda and the entire LAPD. As their attorney Peter Goldman would go on to [[JerkassHasAPoint point out]], Tyrell might have been an unrepentant murderer but that didn't give Brenda the right to play judge, jury, and executioner with his life just to satisfy what she felt was justice.

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