She finds it unconscionable - as always - that she’s forced to make deals with devils (read lawyers). Through clenched teeth, she promises him she will hound him, throwing all the LAPD resources at him until the day he dies. When she thinks she has her man and fears he might slip off the hook, she makes like a bulldog. In “Power of Attorney” (airing 9 February), Brenda and her team are chasing a rapist and murderer. Her parents press her to prioritize them for once, as does Fritz - leading to a series of scenes that readjust the usual rhythms of the series, however temporarily. But her old tactic of running to work whenever home gets too difficult fails here. Simmons) demanding a justification for the investigation and her parents in town begging for her attention, Brenda is all frazzled glory. Meanwhile, faced with usual distractions, like Chief Pope (J.K. With the uncooperative and manipulative pastor quoting Bible passages at her and sporting Jesus T-shirts, Brenda has to assess the sincerity of his faith. The dead man was a member of a non-denominational church that meets in an old roller rink (replete with “Skating for Jesus” signs). In “Good Faith” (airing 26 January), Brenda is confronted with an apparent suicide that the medical examiner insists is a murder. Her intensity and CIA-trained interrogation skills make her highly successful at getting murderers to confess.
Fixated on the minutiae of murder cases, she barely has time to adjust her glasses, much less deal with her fiancé, Fritz (Jon Tenney), frustrated parents (Frances Sternhagen and Barry Corbin), and biological clock. Previously, Brenda has obsessed about work, displacing her anxieties over personal concerns. Her famously silky affect is changing, the result of some hard experiences.
While Brenda calculatedly tries to win a killer’s confidence, she also amps up the threats.
In the first two episodes, she’s more brittle and aggressive than she has been before. The fourth season return of The Closer finds fresh ways to mine the tensions between work and private life endured by LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson (Kyra Sedgwick).
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