After a long and I mean to the point of overdone, long
season opener we return once again to Harrison and Parker to check in on our favorite
little body snatcher on Drop Dead Diva.
This week seemed to be more of a filler episode but had a few excellent
little dollops of entertainment. I think
the director just really needed a bridge to bring back Kim and get rid of
Belinda quickly.
So let’s get into this week’s cases, shall we? First there is Belinda’s client, the lead
singer of a famous rock band called “The Black Petals,” who finds himself in
hot water after trashing a hotel room.
After Owen orders Belinda to take Jane with her, Belinda starts to show
her true colors and that picture isn’t pretty.
It’s clear that Belinda is more about using her “ass”-ets to propel her
forward any way they can including but not limited to buttering up Owen. So, when Jane uses her clearly elevated negotiation
skills to get our troubled rocker off, the claws come out and the fur prepares
to fly. The real strikes however, come
from the rocker’s own fist as he knocks out a paparazzi after being served with
termination papers.
In the office of Grayson Kent, we find case number 2, a
lovely young woman who is trying to save her low income apartment building from
becoming another upper middle class condo park by a greedy developer. The guy is a total slime wad to a T; I don’t
think they could get more stereotypical if they tried. Thankfully, Grayson finds a loop in the form
of a famous graffiti artist. I imagine
they are trying to replicate the Banksy tradition of an anonymous tagger
creating huge works.
In the less-legal world, Jane decides (with a push from
Stacy) to ask out Grayson for their “first date.” Unfortunately, the legal world always finds a
way to interrupt Jane’s attempt at a normal life as Grayson has been jailed for
the evening due to a demonstration by the mystery tagger in the courtroom. Armed with a cake and good conversation, Jane
helps Grayson put together a defense from the visiting room of the jail. This would have been a good jump off point
for the two of them but, Grayson holds back with a peck on the cheek. To a woman, this is an ultimate friend zone
move and it devastates Jane’s confidence.
Back in the battle royal that has become the rocker’s
wrongful termination suit, Jane notices a shaky hand and decides to order a
toxicology report that sends Belinda through the roof. It falls on Owen to break up the cat fight
and restore order to the female combatants.
When the findings are all negative Belinda goes to work on Owen and Jane
is left more aggravated than in the days of Kim. So now, it’s clear that she needs to get Kim’s
but back in to office pronto. Bet you
never would have thought that Jane would want to get Kim back to work.
Both cases suffer devastating blows, like they always do
that spins into unlikely solutions. The
whole process is becoming very A+B=C. In
the end Grayson save the building and finds that the artist has been there the
whole time and Jane helps a supposed troubled rock star uncover a horrible
medical secret to get the treatment he needs and lose a manager he doesn’t. The best part though? The bands back together as Belinda takes off
in order to get Kim back from maternity leave!
So where does that leave our lovers? I totally thought that this romance had
frozen, but it would appear that the writers were going more for a slow
build. In the end I have to check for
cavities as Grayson’s sweetness may have rotted my teeth as he called her just
to say good night. YUea I watched my
phone after the episode for a few minutes before I remembered that no one calls
me… Still the preview look promising for this slow cooking season, so let’s
hope we can keep it going.
