Did anyone else watch “Third Watch” last night? Did anyone else see the season finale? Anyone?

I have no idea how I came to be so enamoured with this show. Police, firefighters, it happens all the time. But when I have (wait, had) nothing else to do at 10p every night, here’s this show - and here I am.

The characters are brilliantly flawed. Maybe that’s one reason why I like it. They’re either loveable or hateable but they have flaws that show they’re human, too. Maybe it’s that the director and the writers have fleshed out each character so well you’d think they lived next door to you.

Maybe it’s the fact that Molly Price, who plays police officer Faith Yokas, is so brilliant in the character. Or that the actors portray such a depth of emotion - or lack thereof, in some cases - all of which are true to life. (I know this, believe me.)

The season finale was … gripping. Repulsively gripping. I laughed, I cried, I grossed out. Really.

The thing that made me the most upset it that I truly couldn’t stand this new chica sargeant that Bosco’d taken up with. She was hell-bent on taking down a drug dealer who “killed” (read: supplied) her sister. Everything she was doing was unethical, immoral, and sometimes illegal, and it’s unfortunate it took so long for Bosco to figure her out.

She was the reason for the massive carnage that ensued.

The most unbelievable part of it all followed the ugly, dangerous multi-car pileup that the dipshit sergeant left behind. Alex Taylor, girl fireman, was helping out an old couple stuck in a car. Flames hit some sort of explosive material, and BOOM. Big bad explosion, flames shoot through the air, ugly ugly.

Even uglier is the next scene. Alex comes flying back down from the sky, and you see her land with a thud. A really big thud. Then silence. Pause. Pause. Then you see her legs land next to her, feet at her head. With a big thud. And she’s just laying there, awake.

“How’m I doin’, guys?” she asks. Several of her co-workers run up to her, horrified. Carlos doesn’t even bother to do anything, and that’s when she knows it’s over. “It’ll be okay, Alex,” he says gently - and he’s not the king of sensitivity at the best of times. She wells up with tears. “Tell my mom I love her.” And she’s gone.

And I’m crying and trying not to puke as the scene ends with a dramatic move of the camera, backing from a close-up shot of Alex to a wider shot, where you can see her body lodged under a car, and her legs sticking out at about an 80-degree angle away from her, upwards.

Of course, then at the end of the show my two favorite cops have a gun on the stupid bitch sargeant, and it fades to black as you hear gunfire.

Dammit. I have to wait two more weeks for the answers to the questions.

So, did anyone else see this episode? Am I all alone here?

Wow,

michelle