TK celebrates his one-year sobriety before he learns Gwyn plans to move back to New York; after making a snap judgment call, Carlos works a case with Gabriel.
Tropes featured in the episode:
- Awesome by Analysis: After finding TK’s sobriety chip on the ground in the parking lot, Carlos recognizes the van from Gabriel’s current case and figures out what really went down between the 126 paramedics and the bank robbers from the blood inside the vehicle, including the place to use in lieu of a hospital— the Sun & Salt, Charles’ closed-down restaurant.
- Calling the Old Man Out: Carlos does this with Gabriel after, despite the former’s story being proven right by the bomber’s testimony and identification of the two bank robbers, the latter neglects to acknowledge this or apologize for doubting him.
- At the beginning, TK does this with Gwyn after she admits that she’s moving back to New York, wondering if he himself wasn’t enough reason for her and Owen to stay together.
- Cliffhanger: At the end of the episode, Judd and Grace take a drive to Stuart’s house, and end up swerving off a bridge into the river to avoid an erratic driver. The two are last seen treading water inside the truck.
- Doting Parent: When TK is recovering at the hospital, Owen and Gwyn start arguing about their methods to make him feel better bordering on overbearing, much to their son’s fond exasperation.
- The Ghost: Enzo is mentioned one more time, with TK recalling the former stepping in as a paternal figure when Gwyn and Owen got divorced.
- Internal Reveal: Gwyn tells TK that she’s moving back to New York, and that Enzo, not Owen, is his brother’s baby daddy.
- Open-Minded Parent: After TK is transported into an ambulance, Gabriel allows Carlos to ride with TK, much to his son’s shock. Turns out, he and Andrea figured out that TK and Carlos were a couple after the encounter in “Friends with Benefits”— and they’re happy for him finding a good man to love.
- Signature Item Clue: As he, Tommy, and Nancy are forced to wheel the wounded robber out of the garage, TK secretly drops his sobriety chip on the ground a few feet away from the van. When Owen and Carlos drive down to look for them, they find it and correctly assume TK left it behind to indicate he was there.
- Take Me Instead: When the wounded bank robber points at Nancy to be their hostage, Tommy immediately stands between them and tells him this point-blank.
- Tap on the Head: Averted. After one of the bank robbers pistol-whips TK in the head to prevent him from activating a fire alarm, he is visibly incapacitated for the rest of the captivity. It doesn’t stop him from helping Nancy and Tommy fight where he can, but he’s still immediately hospitalized as soon as the three of them are rescued.
- That's an Order!: When Carlos calls in the van and the location of the bank robbers to his father, Gabriel orders him and Owen to stay at the parking lot. He decides not to anyway.
- To Be Lawful or Good: Carlos faces this dilemma after he lets Enrique, a terrified man strapped with a bomb, flee the alleyway under threat of being killed if he didn’t cooperate with a group of robbers or come back to the bank they were hitting. Gabriel takes an aggressively skeptical approach to Carlos’ testimony about the man’s fear (regardless if he’d been genuine or not) and his son’s choice potentially furthering the robbers’ plan or getting the man killed; Owen, on the other hand, empathizes with Carlos’ situation and thinks that he did what he thought was the kinder and humane option by believing the man instead of arresting him.
- "Well Done, Son" Guy: Carlos ends up feeling like he’s become this when Gabriel harshly questions his instinct and judgment in letting Enrique escape, and later doesn’t (at least directly) acknowledge that he’s proud and relieved about this clearing his name. It apparently isn’t the first time this happened either, since Carlos mentions to Owen that Gabriel actually didn’t approve of his choice to become a police officer, or (seemingly) his sexuality after his coming-out.
- Wounded Gazelle Gambit: After one of the robbers is injured from shrapnel in the apartment explosion, his girlfriend fakes a pregnancy in order to get him medical care and takes Tommy’s group hostage when they arrive.
