Worst coppers indeed!
And it just goes on and on doesn't it? I swear, by the end of Series 2 (by the 160th episode) it was hard not to agree with the Super Dunne about how off the rails the whole Red Rock operation was!
Dunne was supposed to be the slithering Super who was the "enemy." But he was right. Gosh, when a Super is coming down on your characters, the viewer it seems is supposed to "hate" the Super and think he's a jerk--not agree with him! :-)
I mean, how many of the Red Rock crew actually are involved or tangentially related to a bloody murder?
They commit GBH (two of them). Fraud and arson. Hide evidence for their girlfriend. Pedophilia. Skulking about in a hoodie holding a cosh and stalking another officer to beat him to death with it (thank goodness there was a change of mind at the last minute). Approve the purchase of heroin for months as some crackpot treatment scheme, then actually drive your druggie spawn to a street dealer to buy more. Sleep with a younger cop in your chain of command.
The only copper who so far has come out innocent and a sympathetic character has been Kosos. Because he was injured in the line of duty and his erratic and unlikeable behaviors were 100% medically caused! And he's gone now, so other than the new Johnno--who as yet has not committed a class one felony like the others--Kosos was the only copper other than McKay who was a law abiding person and not an embarrassment to the uniform!
But let's give Johnno time. Gosh, he'll probably turn out to be a bigamist or somethin'. And cheating on a disabled wife with Patricia. Stay tuned.
Even McKay had his moment at the end when he bent the rules a bit--but it all was for a good cause because he knew he had a mole or snitch in the station so he had to work outside it. There was a valid reason he didn't follow the rules.
HA!
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