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Cyndi Glass: A Johnny Depp biography I bought says that when TPTB made Hanson light the cross, Depp decided that he would never let them make Hanson do anything that he (Depp) personally disagreed with ever again. Knowing that when I saw this the first time, I could see Hanson’s guilt at what he was doing, but I could also see Depp’s, along with a flash of determination and anger, and I can believe it. Booker’s arrival definitely shook things up. This was one of the Season 3’s I hadn’t seen - I wasn’t aware Booker was originally IAD. He left me a little uneasy. I wasn’t really paying attention to him the first time around (summer 97) and after seeing seasons 4, 5, 1 and 2, I was a little used to the dynamic of the other seasons - everyone trusted each other for the most part. In Season 1, everyone had their walls up, and then they were slowly being let down, and the five of them had become a team and shown vulnerability to each other. And now that Booker’s there, it’s no longer "safe" for them to do so.

I liked that Hanson went to Fuller with everything - they have had their difficulties prior to this, and it showed that Hanson knew that in all this multi-layered complexity, he could trust Fuller to do the right thing. That was nice. I liked it, as well, that based on what he knew and didn’t know, he *did* have enough evidence to logically think Booker had done it - it wasn’t entirely personal - just like at the end of Season 3, Booker logically thinks Hanson has killed the cop. I like it that Hanson goes to Penhall with his suspicions and Penhall says "You DO got him" - it makes it clear that it’s not just Hanson’s paranoia or personal dislike - even a semi-objective outsider might think so, too. They also give us some foreshadowing - just as in the Season 3 closer, Hanson illegally commits burglary to gather evidence - finding papers in Booker’s apartment that prove he’s working for Internal Affairs to investigate the Jump Street program.

I do like the way Booker started out, and I think by the end of his character’s run - a year here and a year on "Booker" - he had truly evolved as a person - we see him here "burning" everyone and not seeing much value in teamwork. I also think that Booker should have been treated as a regular character and added to the opening theme. I think he got more airtime in one year than Ioki did in four. I’m enjoying Blakeney’s writing, too - he seems to write episodes that put Hanson in bad situations and give him a hard time - gives Depp a lot to work with. It’s a shame that they didn’t reveal Booker’s background sooner - it might have given him and Hanson something in common (living without a father). (In the last episode of the series "Booker," it was revealed that Booker’s father had not actually abandoned the family, he had been placed in the Witness Protection Program).

John DeCarli: Watch for some ad-libbed lines that Hanson delivers to Penhall, while Penhall is looking through the telescope. "Nice digs, Doug, you dog, dig ‘em." I think the "foofy" line was improvised too; would Eric Blakeney really write something like that? We know that Depp read this script since he has detailed very specific objections to it - this episode is mentioned in an interview Depp gave in which he felt the racism aspects were badly handled and thought the idea of "building an electric chair" in shop class was ridiculous. But I like it. It’s the first time Hanson has ever had to deal with the consequences of being wrong about something he was so sure of. He admits this to the girl who was assaulted. I did get a little disoriented to the new exterior shots of the chapel. Did they build a new ground level entrance over the summer? And when Hanson and Hoffs confront each other ("I don’t roll around in the bushes"), where is that exactly taking place? I think you’re absolutely right about Booker disrupting the trust that the other officers had developed. Especially in the last 10 episodes or so in Season 2, there really was a "family feel" which was only captured intermittently in Seasons 3 and 4. Scenes where everyone would gather around the conference table and just talk became scarce. I did notice that both Hanson and Booker have saxophones in their apartments - any significance? Another picky point: in #30 "Champagne High," South Central kids are being bused into "glamourous Westside High," and in this episode, Hanson is clearly seen leaving Westside High before running into Booker before the opening credits. These are only 6 episodes apart - but at least they’re in different seasons and the school is never actually mentioned in this episode. Strange.

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