BOSS Episode 10 Review
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iariaEpisode 10
Wow, this episode. It was excellent. The beginning was so hilarious and then it quickly went serious with sudden conspiracies and police misconduct and it was very unexpected. I never sensed any of this hidden conspiracy/police bad guy stuff in the previous episodes, there was no build to it, so it kind of came out of nowhere. I like it though. There was a lot of tension happening in this episode. Unfortunately a significant portion of it was due to me increasingly freaking out about the possibility that Nodate could be one of the bad guys as the episode went on. This episode was kind of an emotional roller coaster for me.
• Nodate! I love Nodate. The fact that he did turn out to be a bad guy, the head bad guy at that, made me go ‘Noooooooo! I don’t want him to be bad!’ I want him to always be Eriko’s best friend and to forever have her back and be his usual self. I don’t like this. If I thought this was heading in the direction of him being this big bad guy and him and Eriko ending up having a nemesis type relationship I would be all over that. That is totally one of my main kinks! I love friends turned enemies! It could end up being very Xavier/Magneto. I see a lot of possibility there and I could find this a very intriguing twist if that’s where I thought the canon was going. I think bad Nodate vs Eriko could be very hot. It actually makes me ship them even more. But I don’t think that’s where it’s going. There is only one more episode left and undoubtedly Nodate is either going to be captured and put away, or he’ll be killed. Either way, it’s going to leave me sad. I keep clinging to the idea that there is something else going on and that he’s not really a bad guy but I think that’s just grasping at straws.
• I’m having a huge issue with Nodate’s decision to have Eriko head this new cover department he created if he really is corrupt. He’s known her for many years and he knows what a great detective she is so why would he take the risk? Why not put someone in his payroll, or someone who is just a bad or lazy cop? If it was to distract other people equal or higher than him from the truth, and they certainly seemed distracted by her, couldn’t that have been achieved some other way? Then there is the final scene of the episode where as he’s being driven off with the Superintendant he and Eriko meet each other’s eyes and Nodate acknowledges her with two fingers in a salute. He was as good as confirming himself as a bad guy. This can only mean that not only does he have no intention of continue to be a police officer but that he doesn’t care if everyone knows he’s a bad guy. Why?!
• Other questions I have is that supposedly this money laundering (which is basically what it was yes?) involved multiple high ups so where are they and how are they involved? Nodate is only an Assistant Counsellor – wouldn’t there have to be someone higher involved? Why kidnap the Superintendant? Does this mean then that Nodate is connected to the Black Moon terrorist group, and thus had a part in the bombing all those years ago? There are just all these questions and inconsistencies.
• The beginning of this episode was the funniest this series has been yet and had me laughing out loud multiple times, mainly having to do with Eriko’s ‘interrogations’. Moments that made me laugh/giggle:
- “I hate this investigation already.” – Ippei. Heee.
- “This is your graduation test. If you can make a tough criminal like her spit it out, you’ll be an adult, right?” – Mami
“Understood. ... What if she glares at me?” – Ippei
- “Hey! Not yet?! For the time being I’m a suspect aren’t I? Well then, get off your butts and interrogate me! I’ll respond to your interrogation like the suspect that I am!” – Eriko
“We’re being threatened by the suspect.” – Ippei. LOL. I ♥ Eriko so much.
- Eriko looking through the one way glass in the interrogation room and seemingly meeting Mami’s eyes causing Mami to go all wide-eyed and freaked out: “She looked straight at me!” and then Eriko looks at Ippei and he’s all ‘ahhhh’ too. LMAO.
- “Because... if you hate trash cans that much, then you might want to blow some up in revenge. Or something like that... Anyhow! If you do this, your mother will cry.” – Ippei. Hahahahahaha. That was hilarious. I loved Mami’s incredulous look when he laid out his trash can theory. The last sentence was just the icing on top. I wish we could have seen Eriko’s expression.
• I loved Eriko telling Ippei to sit down (which he does immediately) and then lecturing him on how to interrogate people properly.
• “I wasn’t able to handle her. She’s impossible. A monster.” – Ippei. It will never stop being funny and awesome the way everyone is so scared of Eriko.
• Two Eriko/Mami moments:
1) After someone is killed in the third explosion Mami enters the interrogation room and is completely serious, straight-forward and stern in her dealing with Eriko... and Eriko complements her on it.
2) Mami watching Eriko’s goodbye with Hiroshi, and then watching Eriko watch him walk away. The first thing that came to mind was that now Mami sees with her own eyes that Eriko does indeed hurt. (And after the end of the episode she’s going to have even more chances to see it.) I also liked how in charge and decisive Mami was this episode, she even figured something out before Eriko, and when you compare her to the girl in the first episode you can really see the changes Eriko’s mentorship have wrought.
• Eriko is apparently very much a “Do as I Do” type person because she’s always said not to let emotions and personal attachments get in the way of doing your job, most noticeably to Ippei in the last episode, and proves in this episode she applies that just as strongly to herself. The beginning of that interrogation was pretty awkward.
• Hiroshi seems to imply during their last conversation that he thinks that Eriko started dating him in order to study/watch his brother in the first place and Eriko doesn’t actually say anything about that. Yet that’s not how I thought that went at all – I thought they were dating, then the arrest happened, and then she was sent away. I mean he even asks ‘you were transferred because of me’ and if he could think that was true then how does that equal their relationship starting so she could get information on his brother? In that case she was just doing her job. Unless the explosion happening was considered a failure on her part? Eh. I think they were a real relationship, not an assignment. I hope it’s cleared up but I really don’t care about him.
• Would Eriko be allowed to interrogate her boyfriend? The laws of this show seem so weird to me – she gets demoted and transferred out of the country because her boyfriend’s brother is a terrorist, and yet she’s still able to interrogate her boyfriend? One of those things is far more of an issue in my eyes.
Wow, this episode. It was excellent. The beginning was so hilarious and then it quickly went serious with sudden conspiracies and police misconduct and it was very unexpected. I never sensed any of this hidden conspiracy/police bad guy stuff in the previous episodes, there was no build to it, so it kind of came out of nowhere. I like it though. There was a lot of tension happening in this episode. Unfortunately a significant portion of it was due to me increasingly freaking out about the possibility that Nodate could be one of the bad guys as the episode went on. This episode was kind of an emotional roller coaster for me.
• Nodate! I love Nodate. The fact that he did turn out to be a bad guy, the head bad guy at that, made me go ‘Noooooooo! I don’t want him to be bad!’ I want him to always be Eriko’s best friend and to forever have her back and be his usual self. I don’t like this. If I thought this was heading in the direction of him being this big bad guy and him and Eriko ending up having a nemesis type relationship I would be all over that. That is totally one of my main kinks! I love friends turned enemies! It could end up being very Xavier/Magneto. I see a lot of possibility there and I could find this a very intriguing twist if that’s where I thought the canon was going. I think bad Nodate vs Eriko could be very hot. It actually makes me ship them even more. But I don’t think that’s where it’s going. There is only one more episode left and undoubtedly Nodate is either going to be captured and put away, or he’ll be killed. Either way, it’s going to leave me sad. I keep clinging to the idea that there is something else going on and that he’s not really a bad guy but I think that’s just grasping at straws.
• I’m having a huge issue with Nodate’s decision to have Eriko head this new cover department he created if he really is corrupt. He’s known her for many years and he knows what a great detective she is so why would he take the risk? Why not put someone in his payroll, or someone who is just a bad or lazy cop? If it was to distract other people equal or higher than him from the truth, and they certainly seemed distracted by her, couldn’t that have been achieved some other way? Then there is the final scene of the episode where as he’s being driven off with the Superintendant he and Eriko meet each other’s eyes and Nodate acknowledges her with two fingers in a salute. He was as good as confirming himself as a bad guy. This can only mean that not only does he have no intention of continue to be a police officer but that he doesn’t care if everyone knows he’s a bad guy. Why?!
• Other questions I have is that supposedly this money laundering (which is basically what it was yes?) involved multiple high ups so where are they and how are they involved? Nodate is only an Assistant Counsellor – wouldn’t there have to be someone higher involved? Why kidnap the Superintendant? Does this mean then that Nodate is connected to the Black Moon terrorist group, and thus had a part in the bombing all those years ago? There are just all these questions and inconsistencies.
• The beginning of this episode was the funniest this series has been yet and had me laughing out loud multiple times, mainly having to do with Eriko’s ‘interrogations’. Moments that made me laugh/giggle:
- “I hate this investigation already.” – Ippei. Heee.
- “This is your graduation test. If you can make a tough criminal like her spit it out, you’ll be an adult, right?” – Mami
“Understood. ... What if she glares at me?” – Ippei
- “Hey! Not yet?! For the time being I’m a suspect aren’t I? Well then, get off your butts and interrogate me! I’ll respond to your interrogation like the suspect that I am!” – Eriko
“We’re being threatened by the suspect.” – Ippei. LOL. I ♥ Eriko so much.
- Eriko looking through the one way glass in the interrogation room and seemingly meeting Mami’s eyes causing Mami to go all wide-eyed and freaked out: “She looked straight at me!” and then Eriko looks at Ippei and he’s all ‘ahhhh’ too. LMAO.
- “Because... if you hate trash cans that much, then you might want to blow some up in revenge. Or something like that... Anyhow! If you do this, your mother will cry.” – Ippei. Hahahahahaha. That was hilarious. I loved Mami’s incredulous look when he laid out his trash can theory. The last sentence was just the icing on top. I wish we could have seen Eriko’s expression.
• I loved Eriko telling Ippei to sit down (which he does immediately) and then lecturing him on how to interrogate people properly.
• “I wasn’t able to handle her. She’s impossible. A monster.” – Ippei. It will never stop being funny and awesome the way everyone is so scared of Eriko.
• Two Eriko/Mami moments:
1) After someone is killed in the third explosion Mami enters the interrogation room and is completely serious, straight-forward and stern in her dealing with Eriko... and Eriko complements her on it.
2) Mami watching Eriko’s goodbye with Hiroshi, and then watching Eriko watch him walk away. The first thing that came to mind was that now Mami sees with her own eyes that Eriko does indeed hurt. (And after the end of the episode she’s going to have even more chances to see it.) I also liked how in charge and decisive Mami was this episode, she even figured something out before Eriko, and when you compare her to the girl in the first episode you can really see the changes Eriko’s mentorship have wrought.
• Eriko is apparently very much a “Do as I Do” type person because she’s always said not to let emotions and personal attachments get in the way of doing your job, most noticeably to Ippei in the last episode, and proves in this episode she applies that just as strongly to herself. The beginning of that interrogation was pretty awkward.
• Hiroshi seems to imply during their last conversation that he thinks that Eriko started dating him in order to study/watch his brother in the first place and Eriko doesn’t actually say anything about that. Yet that’s not how I thought that went at all – I thought they were dating, then the arrest happened, and then she was sent away. I mean he even asks ‘you were transferred because of me’ and if he could think that was true then how does that equal their relationship starting so she could get information on his brother? In that case she was just doing her job. Unless the explosion happening was considered a failure on her part? Eh. I think they were a real relationship, not an assignment. I hope it’s cleared up but I really don’t care about him.
• Would Eriko be allowed to interrogate her boyfriend? The laws of this show seem so weird to me – she gets demoted and transferred out of the country because her boyfriend’s brother is a terrorist, and yet she’s still able to interrogate her boyfriend? One of those things is far more of an issue in my eyes.
