Captain Wagner

It's impossible to get out on your own, is what she says.

Meanwhile, Detective Basketball is at the precinct and tells Wagner, hey, so Paul actually was not at the detox for the whole time the detox was going on.

He left like 10 minutes after it started and didn't come back until 5 o'clock.

So his alibi does not check out.

I'm just here to visit my daughter's workplace.

She says, do consent decrees, get desks.

And that's when Wagner realizes, oh, you're Elizabeth's mother.

but it was so funny because it was kind of like

We'll talk about the new developments in Elizabeth's personal life as we go along the episode.

I have to say, I was happy to see some parts of Wagner's personal life in this episode.

Oh, yeah.

If going into Elizabeth's personal life takes us on a journey where we get Gloria Rubin in our lives, I will take it.

I'm just always looking for that, like, is there any kind of sly wink? Is there any hint of villainy in there? No, there's not.

She's fine.

For those that are new to our coverage, I thought, I was convinced that Claudia Wagner was going to end up being the big bad of season one.

She was not.