This one was more about the effects of losing one of their own has on the entire team, rather than catching the bad guys, though that was top of Cho's (Tim Kang) agenda since he wanted payback. As soon as you knew Wylie (Joe Adler) got the courage to ask Vega (Josie Loren) out and she agreed that things would go pear shaped. A group of robbers steal from the armoured van and make their getaway. There were three involved and one of the guards was beaten. Patrick (Simon Baker) and Lisbon (Robin Tunney) have decided to go away for the weekend and she's thinking something more where they put mints on the pillow and he wanted more rustic. As soon as Patrick gets inside the bank, he knows it was an inside job. As he shakes hands with all of the staff, he finds that one of them in particular, Fletcher (Ben Begley) was nervous and sweating. Also his hand is shaking and he keeps tapping the side of his pocket, giving himself away, Cho tells him to take out what's in his pocket and reveals it's a burner phone.
He's arrested but he refuses to give anyone up, let alone confess to his involvement and his lawyer speaks for him. Abbott (Rockmond Dunbar) tells him he can get a good deal cos he's not well and wouldn't do well in prison. He won't give anyone up until they're actually caught. Wylie asks Abbot about Vega and where he should take her. He thinks somewhere with table cloths but they don't have to be white. Also that the hard part is over cos she already said yes. Abbot lets Cho take over the case and he takes Vega on a canvas of the area where the robbers could have frequented.
Lisbon watches the video footage of the robbers and Patrick brings her mints for her pillow. He thinks a nice hotel of her choice would be good and she worries it won't be to his liking. They watch the footage and he notices that one of the men has problems walking also the other one has a similar walk, so most likely they're brothers. The third one's more ruthless and is probably a newcomer, that's why the big gun and how he watches the other man cos he doesn't trust them.
Vega asks Cho if he's excited about running his own team cos that's all he wanted to do since he can remember. She thinks he should be more happy. His new rule would be rookies should be seen and not heard, which is what he got. Well I wanted that too. Vega didn't really fit in and now we know she was just that token extra who was going to be killed off, should've been sooner rather than later. As they enter the cafe the woman doesn't recognize the bank teller but Vega notices one of the robbers is at the table cos one of his shoe heels is higher than the other heel. Cho approaches them and Ace (AJ Buckley) pulls a gun on them, he asks where the third man, Steve Sellers (William Gregory Lee) is and he appears from the back and there's a shoot out. Cho chases Tommy (Alex Weed) and shoots him, as shots are fired behind him. They escape and he sees Vega on the floor. She asks if she messed up.
Patrick and Lisbon see Vega in the hospital but she's already dead. Wylie is upset and a Detective Portis (Alex Fernandez) asks him if he's okay and apologizes for his loss. He's here to investigate the shooting and Abbott tells him he can have the collar but the men are theirs. Cho breaks the news to her aunt.. There have been sightings of the robbers on the road near a pharmacy and Patrick thinks it's better if they go to them, so they stake out twelve of the pharmacies in the area. Ace finally shows up and a police car goes in with sirens blazing when Cho specifically said no sirens. He panics, takes a woman hostage and drives to her house. Patricks' plan is to drive a wedge between them and he gives the reporter a story to read about an unofficial source helping the FBI. Steve thinks it's Ace but he denies it. Cho delivers them pizza and there's a camera and microphone inside the box.
The old woman is diabetic and they probably don't know that. Cho tells the robber he can have a doctor for his brother when he gives himself up. Cho is restless and thinks it's better if they go in now. He scoped the inside of the place and they can take the robbers. Abbott thinks they should do that and Lisbon is going in too. Patrick tells her she can't do that, but she refuses to stay out, it's her job. Instead of letting her go in, Patrick exchanges himself for the male hostage. Then makes the woman think she's having symptoms of her diabetes. Ace takes her out and he mentions there was $800K in the van. Steve says there was only $600K and he's wrong. Ace returns and they both find him counting the money. Each one thinks the other took it and Steve shoots Ace, as Cho shoots Steve. Well that was payback for him, as said. I didn't have any qualms about Vega being killed off, I didn't like her to begin with, as anyone whose read my reviews knows, she was just a loose end to me.
After the funeral, Lisbon doesn't think they should go away and he agrees. Patrick tells her he can't do this anymore, it could've been her in there, instead of Vega. But she knows it's risky and he can't save her from the train all the time. Then she adds he went in and he could've been killed. He replies he did it for her. Cos it doesn't matter if he 's gone cos he won't feel the pain. That's selfish Patty, cos Lisbon and everyone else would feel the pain and how right and fair is it for him to get himself killed, but for him to keep saving Lisbon like that. This ep just demonstrates what Patrick has been saying the last three eps about losing Lisbon and not being able to handle it. His point being proven when Vega is shot. But he forgets that Lisbon's been doing this a long time and even before he arrived on the scene. He says he's leaving and she can come with him or not. That was an ultimatum and a selfish one at that, if ever there was one. If he felt that way he shouldn't have brought her here and should've left her in that sleepy town. Once again, how will he manage to walk away from the FBI and his deal with them?
They've done the inside man bank job before in this and also the hostage takers turning on each other before, so that added nothing new to this ep. At least we got to see Patty sporting a different pinstripe suit this time round, he should go back to wearing black!
AJ Buckley playing a bad guy here, moving right away from his good guy image as lovable lab rat Adam in CSI:NY, what would Mac have said? Ha. Also William Gregory Lee, who played Zack in Dark Angel, well he wasn't the good guy per se, but his heart was in the right place, until he died and they replaced Max's heart with his.
The ep title is from a Robert Frost poem, at least I'm thinking it refers to this: though it does seem to be fitting under the circumstances, not only for Vega, but also for Patrick and his immensely strong feelings and emotions for Lisbon. He's been through the grief before and isn't strong enough to face it again. Even Lisbon said it to him, that this isn't new for him. SO it's understandable he wants to move on.
Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.
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