As much as I like Original sin this always bothered me…

So, Clyde Phillips even in new blood is a careful writer he loves foreshadowing, Easter eggs, details and dynamics between characters, symbolism and parallels which he did a lot in season 4 and new blood

Now that being said I overestimated his character writing because OMG was Spencer’s motivation complete dogshit

Idk how you could mess up that bad they HAD the blueprint, we had a whole set up with one of my fav screens of the show of this tense scene where Spencer frames the cartel and uses this opportunity to shoot down all of them and still play victim, the cartel was also mentioned so many fucking times

In my head I was thinking…omg this is a good motivation he’s so twisted in his view of justice that it parallels Dexter, the cartel keep getting passed their authority and justice system keeps blocking his path to keeping the city safe in his own twisted way and this shootout was awesome and this plan could have been wild and the kids are his dark way of justifying what he’s doing for the sake of “the people”

BUT HIS REASON IS SOME DUDE FUCKED HIS WIFE 💀💀 that is the most wasted potential motivation and compeltely undoes this whole build up of the cartels role in this season for some lame and childish motivation of “she cheated on me wahhhh” and just had a temper tantrum instead that is so appalling I can’t get over it 🤦‍♂️ and just compeltely takes away from the stellar performance that Dempsey gave the whole season for this character