That episode was so bad, that it has inspired me to resort to a life of crime. Who wants to be my Bonnie?
Since I'm a scrawny little bitch, a complete coward and possess no useful skills whatsoever, I should probably reconsider that new career path. While I do so, let's count the ways/reasons why that episode sucked more than your lame-ass version of the Harlem Shake on YouTube.
1. Practically everyone on this show has already been kidnapped. Peter was. Elizabeth was. I didn't need to see it again. It was a bit different with them being captured together, but still. Hell, even the characters themselves even joked about this in the episode. This is only Season 4, let's enter some different terrain and not re-hash the same old tropes.
2. Could that Bonnie and Clyde duo have been any more incompetent? It took all of two minutes for Bonnie to spill past transgressions to Elizabeth. They let both Peter and Liz out of their handcuffs and GAVE ELIZABETH A KNIFE. I understand that they weren't supposed to be experienced criminals or anything, but c'mon.
3. Peter and Liz screwed up too. Mr. Burke was sloppy as hell when fumbling for the gun and getting himself caught. And they just left his badge out in the open. And Mrs. Burke, you are an idiot for putting the gun down on the table and racing after Bonnie. KEEP THE GUN! Call me crazy, but when I steal a gun from the person holding me hostage, I typically don't just set it down on the table and give someone a chance to kill me. But that's just me.
4. That was a really good speech by Peter, he should be a hostage negotiator. I'm serious. But that doesn't change the fact that that scene was incredibly lame. This episode was an abomination.
5. All Bonnie got for those crimes was PROBATION!? Are you kidding. Armed robbery. Kidnapping a fed. And probation. What. A. Joke.
The only things saving this episode from an F- was Mozzie making me laugh and Liz telling Peter that she forced Neal to lie. I'm glad that Peter knows that now.
I, however, am not glad I watched that episode.
QUOTES OF NOTE:
--NEAL: "No need, I'll use the one under the fake rock in your flower bed."
--MOZZIE: "Seriously, boxed wine? We gotta get out of here."
--MOZZIE: "You know, it's not too late to hide that micro-cam."
--JONES: "Didn't you respond with a form letter?"
--NEAL: "Only after the carpel tunnel."
--SARA: "It's not like I'm running away to an island or something."
--NEAL: "I may have exaggerated a little bit, it would have turned into dust in another billion years."
RANDOM RAMBLINGS:
--I demand more Alex Hunter. Where are you, Gloria Votsis?
--Shouldn't Bonnie and Clyde have googled Peter and Elizabeth? I know they couldn't have imagined one of them was a Fed, but still. Every time I kidnap someone, I immediately check their IDs and google it. Actually, that's not true. I use Bing.
--Holy crap, Diana's hair is crazy.
--I don't use Bing.
THE GRADE: D-