Mallory Rubin

I think you're right that we shouldn't be surprised at this point to see her pull a gun on Dex.

But when she was just sort of—and again, they're trying to help other people.

They're helping the detainees escape.

It was a dire circumstance.

But the very, like, I'm on the ground firing guns and firing bullets into people and then I move on and don't think about it again felt to me removed from a key aspect of Karen's life.

interrogation of what it means to be that violent and the way that her character has struggled with that over the years her flashback yeah the flashback episode yeah so like you know we have seen Karen in a number of different states and the way that Karen and wigs and wigs Powell coming over and being like holy shit it's Karen fucking Paige

Yeah, and, like, they've obviously brought the other, you know, guy back to be like, what?

What are you doing, pal?

That, like, even someone else who has made the choice to participate in this task force could be, like, appalled by the way he's behaving.

I think this show continues to really struggle with these, like, attempts to, in quick beats of story and dialogue or character choice, ask us to accept that this is how these people would behave.

And I think it is then

particularly challenging, not just as a character like Karen, but a relationship like Matt's and Karen's, which is the thing we are most deeply rooted in in the history of the show at this point.

R.I.P.

Foggy.

So it's like it would have been like Matt and Karen, Matt and Foggy number one, Matt and Karen.

Father Lantum.

Father Lantum gone.

Remember what this fucker did?

Yeah, you were too busy looking at the chest hair, which I understand, honestly.

She did.