Cop Killer

[hoosier]

I was also glad of the happy ending. *sigh* a sucker for romance!
Krause did get off too easily with 'early retirement' but if it had come out think of everyone and everything caught in the fallout. And Tunney's not too thinly veiled threat to Jim. Something to make out favorite detective toe the line!

[bjobsessed]

Hope another one is in the works for sometime in the future. Always hate to see a story end.

[maggiethecat]

Did Krause get off "too easy?" Maybe not. Even crooked cops love being cops, and for a man like Krause -- devested of his identity and power -- just being off the job is a kind of punishment (see Terry Jansen). And really, how else could the department have handled the situation? Had the particulars of Krause's misdeeds been made public, that would have put in question every collar he'd ever made. That's hundreds of possible appeals, and the courts are backed up enough as it is.

This was such a tight, well-crafted piece of fiction, and I, for one, loved the realistic ambiguities.

[krissie]

I want to add my slightly belated thank you to everyone else's. I really enjoyed this one.

While I was hoping to see Krause thrown in jail and the key tossed somewhere far out to sea, I actually prefer your ending to the one I was hoping to see. Like Maggie, I liked the ambiguities.

For one thing, they make the ending seem more like an episode, leaving something for you to build on with your next story, rather than wrapping up everything in a neat little happy every after.

For another, you balance the difficult work ending with the happier 'let's go home' ending. If both had been resolved in an easy black and white fashion, I think the story would have felt flatter and been the poorer for it.

I think I just might have to give you some karma, mlm.

Thanks.

Krissie

[matilda]

Cheers to Maggie and Krissie - my thoughts exactly - life/workplaces/bureaucracies and their cultures aren't black and white, therefore ambiguous nature of ending so very realistic and thought-provoking. What would each of us do in the situation? The BJ TV show was full of these type of dilemmas - one of the reasons I liked it so it's nice to have this reinforced, for me.

And as for Jim/Christie - I actually liked her at the end of this. Her husband makes an assumption about what information is best for her to have and doesn't give her capacity to make an independent choice, and he wasn't honest. She jacks up, but doesn't give in to grumpy elitist sister and goes home to give it another go - the kind of choice most people deal with. So very good mlm!

Thanks yet again

Matilda