What More In The Name of Love — Law [Eddie]
“Oh, she ain’t half bad. I’d take her out for coffee…”
Well, the prelude to this is it’s five years later and they were thisclose to having coffee in the season opener (if you count the ME’s offices)… and it was still coffee interruptus.
The interesting question of how and why Claire looks like she’s been rolled in the hay (without locating a brush or a scrunchie) aside… they’re not out with whatever relationship they have, and they probably don’t go that many places for coffee or anything else, unless it’s in one of their classic “threesomes” with Lennie Briscoe.
This episode also has a very notable habit of people describing what’s going on, or what has happened or is going to happen.
“Got a lot of attention from married guys… they’d like to pretend they was coming onto a woman. Soon as you get ‘em alone, they’d go straight for the cookies...”
While this is backwards with Eddie (who’s drinking tea) dressed as a guy and Logan needing to pat him down as well as pretending in his head (and it’s a cisgender, self-identified woman there), he does have the t-shirt that’s the exact shade of the statue’s photograph as well as similar leather accessories. And poor Eddie, who’s an experienced hooker, does not have a clue what’s going on with the homicide cop (he can’t tell what it’s supposed to be, but he knows it’s not a real come-on), or he’d look a bit more self-assured.
What is going on in his head…? The episode even provides a rare “Double Claire” behind Mike as he sits alone with the coffee (five years later, and they’re still doing that), and as he neatly slides in between Eddie and the one behind him (who is together with a guy with dark hair and a leather coat)… between what he wants — and what’s there. It’s all a way of explaining why he sits with and looks at (and honestly, holds) Eddie more intimately than… anybody else in five years.
Mikey, however, certainly has one hell of a thing for skinny little brunettes.
