Queen Mantis Episode 4

The Cops Are Useless

A flashback shows that the cops witnessed a man beating his wife in public and did NOTHING. He was one of Mantis's victims. She stepped in because the cops are too dumb/lazy to do their job apparently. Then the present time cops finally get around to thinking of the first and most obvious question to find the killer. Who would know about the original killings? Of course they don't actually investigate it, they just ask Mantis "who she remembers" from back then. Stupid, but whatever. We finally get an interesting character in the boy next door. They do not take him in for questioning until they get into a physical altercation after illegally trespassing on his property without a warrant. Oh, and when they do take him in, they do not rid him of the weapons he's keeping on his person. He can just casually bring them out of his pocket during an interrogation. Meanwhile the other criminal who's hospitalized after being shot in the head is able to take out the cop watching him and escape with no real issue. She had no defense against a slightly agitated recent coma patient. And the Mantis also escapes, in a very silly Hannibal Lector scene, where the only cop on duty to guard that entire house jail gets tricked into taking her secretly attained poison. Because no one was ever checking her space and no backup or medical people are available to call. What does Mama Mantis want? Still no clue. Maybe she'll get her daughter-in-law to realize just how shit the cops are at helping anyone. Is ML gonna make it all about him again? Yeah probably. So it's a mixed bag. Boy next door is an actually compelling character, and with Mama Mantis on the loose, maybe she'll finally do something interesting. But yeah, literally all of these cops are completely useless. They suck at their job.

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