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Lt. Brogan (Ted Shackelford) and Officer Haldane (Rob Youngblood) have drug pusher Nissim's (Nickolas Grace) apartment under investigation - and yet he (as well as several of his men) is brutally murdered by some kind of monster that has since disappeared. Only nobody but a pizza delivery guy (Idris Elba) has gone in and out, and when investigating the place, Brogan and Haldane find Nissim's girlfriend Aleesha (Lana Citron) still alive who has apparently escaped the monster attack by hiding behind the curtains. Brogan figures Aleesha might be a good informer while Haldane takes a more private interest in her - but in a weird twist of events, all drugpushers that the two investigate soon turn up dead, killed by the same elusive monster that has killed Nissim. Eventually, Brogan and Haldane manage to capture the pizza guy, but he proves to be only a pawn in the game who has been used as a drug mule without his knowledge. Eventually, the monster turns out to be Aleesha, who used the two cops to get close to the drug pushers, but she's shot in the finale when she turns on Brogan and Haldane.

The B-plot of this episode involves a bag lady (Matyelok Gibbs), who claims to be a queen from outer space, but everybody at the precinct thinks she's delusional - until she's picked up by her majestic space ship. There's also a C-plot about Brogan's son (Nick Klein) that teaches Brogan to not judge a book by its cover, which is somehow woven into the main plot but still comes across as rather forced.

Like with all the series, one can't marvel at all the practical creature and miniature effects, but they just can't hide the very feeble story of this episodes, not helped by the two subplots, neither of which seem to have an actual narrative arc let alone a satisfying finale of their own. So for all the cool visuals - and a cool monster that grows out of Aleesha's back - this episode is rather a letdown.

review © by Mike Haberfelner

 

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