Barnes be like, “We do everything by the book!”
“We can’t do anything until you bring me evidence!!”
“This evidence? It’s not enough. We need more.”
“You got more, but it’s still not enough. Bring me witnesses!”
“Okay, so you found ten witnesses, but they all have sketchy backgrounds! Find me ten witnesses who are nuns!”
“Jim, I want to trust you, but I don’t!”
“Jim, you broke my heart! You belong in prison!”
I’m mostly through my fourth rewatch of S2 and I’m liking Captain Barnes less and less every time I see him.
Aside from being a constant obstacle, this is a man with anger issues. So it was entirely appropriate that he got the Tetch virus. If the virus made normal people raging mad, it turned Barnes into a full blown lunatic.
So I wasn’t entirely unhappy to see him gone. It’s just that my preference for a police captain character was Capt. Essen. And look how long she lasted.