5x20 S.T.R.

Rather than Smitty, Flula Borg's Skiptracer Randy is the real entertaining dummy of this show. He's charming and inoffensive in pretty much every meaning of the word.

But good grief the nonsense in this episode. First of all I feel like making a broken arrow joke. I don't know what's worse. That they just casually have a headless limbless body or that it happens so often they have a name for it. That's ridiculous. Then there's the central point that inspite of the fact that Randy clearly isn't behind the crimes every cop is perfectly willing to arrest him for it. Except our cops who have hearts of gold. There's no motive, reason or logic but they're like "nah this is gonna be the easiest collar". There's a real problem with policing and it starts with cops keeping score. The job is vital and essential you don't keep score on something like that. That's like doctors keeping score on how many patients they keep alive. But copaganda has taught us to not see this as the same. Hey if cops are competing to close cases that's probably a good thing right? Nevermind how many corners are cut because of it. Nevermind how many innocent people get locked away because it "closes the case fast" nah this is a common trope in TV Cops that actually makes them MORE honorable. Even their competitive nature helps to "lock away bad guys". Nevermind that in the rush to close a get a put another notch on the metaphorical bedpost they don't even bother to get the name correct. He's german. He's covered in blood. we call him Dieter and whatever.