burntcopper | Sentinel and other stuff

:pokes fic: plot, dammit!

Work today... in for just under an hour, serving ye olde clients, Steve asks if I've got a minute once I've finished serving customer. Course, I think it's either 'I want some heavy lifting done' or possibly bad. nope. Is 'Your mission should you choose to accept it is to go over to the Basingstoke store as they're short staffed'. Okies.... Basingstoke fairly quiet, nice people, bloody big store - you could fit our floor space in there 2-3 times over. Got to grips with the concept of an in-store machine. No dependence on Kodak. I waaaaannnnnt. Also, they decided not to give me lunch and let me off at 4 cos I had to get home as well. Heh.

Sentinel. I am currently squeaking in disbelief in concert with

celiaka even though I knew this was going to happen. End of Season 3, Sentinel Too, where another Sentinel turns up in the form of Jeri Ryan. 'We are Sentinel of the Borg. You will be assimilated.' Blair helps her with senses, Jim gets insanely territorial because of another Sentinel on his patch, complete with visions. To the point of throwing Blair out and having tantrums in the station because other cops are touching his desk. Oh, not to mention arguments about trust issues between him and Blair - in the station, in front of the rest of Major Crimes. And the other cops asking Blair what's going on between him and Jim and Blair saying that they're having problems.

:long, hard look: Jim, if you don't want the whole of Major Crimes (and not just Megan Connor and possibly Simon) to think that you and Blair are lovers, do not indulge in this sort of behaviour. Really.

Sentinel of Nine turns out to be psycho thief, steals nerve gas, ambushes Jim, then Jim gets the 'wolfdead and turns into Blair' vision from earlier in ep and races off to find Blair. They're sprinting through the quad to his office when they spot Blair's body floating in the fountain. And, um, meep? Jim goes absolutely frantic, and he and Simon try to revive Blair until the paramedics get there while Megan, Rafe and H stand around looking very, very shocked. Paramedic declare there's nothing they can do after trying their part, Jim refuses to believe and tries to revive Blair again, going hysterical until they pull him off. End on Blair still apparently dead and Jim still hysterical.

Dear God. Damn good ep dialogue and editing and acting-wise, also no horndog Blair - seriously, he doesn't even notice Sentinel of Nine as anything beyond research subject and later scary psycho. Am sitting here squeaking, even though I know he's going to be revived next ep.

Which I will not see until it takes the age to get round to Sundays, since I'm going straight from work to Newcastle tomorrow - funeral's thursday 12:30, followed by wake and coming back Friday night to work through til next day off.