Christ, Ellison's loud. And what the hell does he think we're supposed to do with a dead body anyway? Paint a picture of it? I have to take photos.
Man, I will never give Sandburg crap about losing it at a crime scene again. How does he do it? Ellison's in his face but Sandburg's not budging. Jesus, he's almost as loud as Ellison. Guess he'd have to be, in order to get through to the guy. And he's finally succeeded in getting the detective to pay attention, so I guess Sandburg yelled loudly enough to be heard today.
But I know I'd be moving away fast if Ellison came at me yelling in that tone of voice. Especially with that look on his face—the one that says he'd like to tear someone limb from limb. But Sandburg's still there, in the other man's space.
That has got to hurt. Ellison's got Sandburg by the arms, shaking him; not hard enough to loosen anything vital, but plenty hard all the same. Sandburg's hands are up, supplicating, soothing; his head is nodding—but he's only got so much patience. I swear, he's said Ellison's name about twenty times, trying to get the man to pay attention.
What is it with Ellison? It's like he's completely lost it. Sure, there's a dead body in his living room, but who is this guy? And why is he important enough to make the coldest man in Major Crimes go ballistic at a crime scene? Actually, make that the iciest man in the entire police department. This man does not let anyone near him. Not even his ex-wife, according to departmental scuttlebutt.
The exception to that law being, interestingly enough, Blair Sandburg.
There are all sorts of rumors that fly around the station about those two—one of the more prominent ones being that they're lovers. As my eight-year-old daughter would say, whatever. Like Banks would let them work together any more if they were.
I do wonder though, why it is that the grumpiest captain in the PD allows a doctoral student tag along with Ellison. Not that all of us who have to work with Ellison don't appreciate Sandburg, because whatever he did to loosen Ellison up, it worked. Well, it works most of the time. Now would not be one of those times.
Although, you know what? For all that Ellison is pushing Sandburg around and yelling at the top of his lungs, Sandburg's pushing back just as hard. You'd think Ellison would probably deck anyone that tried to do that to him, but he takes it from Sandburg. Probably because Sandburg is the only one with guts enough to push back.
And boy, does that man ever have guts! You'd think that Sandburg would have run the other way after all the terrible things that have happened to him since starting to hang around Ellison, but he takes a licking and keeps on ticking. The man's a frigging Timex.
Hunh. Talk about deceptive packaging. You know, Sandburg comes off as being this gentle, non-confrontational, "sensitive" man (God knows he's got most of the ladies at the station fooled), but he really isn't. He's got a wiry sort of toughness; different and less obvious from his partner's strength, but it's there. I've seen it when he's confronted by the less enlightened at the station—the ones that give him shit about the earrings, or the long hair. Things just seem to bounce off him.
He's yelling louder than Ellison was now. And Ellison—here's the amazing part—Ellison's actually listening to him.
What the hell is this stuff about a tribe and—what was it?—the sentinel? And a forest in the sky? Ok, now I know there's something weird going on here. But you know what? I don't think I really want to know what it is.
Simon? Sandburg calls Banks Simon? Wow, he's got definitely got brass cojones. Nobody gets away with that for long, but somehow, Sandburg has wormed his way into the world of the Major Crimes department, without anyone being able to figure out how to stop him.
Sandburg's pushing Ellison out of the door to the apartment. Didn't think I'd ever see that, for all the Ellison mostly does what Sandburg tells him to do, at least from what I've seen. He gets no end of flack from the uniforms since he seems so much smaller than most of the men around the department, but he's a lot stronger than he appears. Ellison sure moved pretty quickly when Sandburg shoved.
Ellison's lucky to have such a great friend. Sandburg, too, for that matter. You should have seen Ellison's face when we got to the warehouse after Lash had nabbed Sandburg. Lash is lucky he only got shot. Ellison looked like he was ready to dismember the guy if he could have gotten close enough to use his hands.
They'd just really started working together when that happened, but for some reason, it strengthened their partnership. I think that's the only time I've ever seen Ellison so completely shaken that his stoic face actually showed the terror he felt. Of course, the kid didn't look too calm after that incident either.
Kid. Yeah, right. He looks young, but this guy has been all over the world, to places I've never even heard of. You should hear some of the stories he tells in the break room. And for all that everybody says, "No way, you couldn't have seen that!" I don't think he's making most of it up. Sure, he tells his stories in an off-hand manner, making it seem as if he's enlarging upon the actual details of the events he's describing, but they've all got that ring of truth to them which you can hear if you listen really closely.
"Man, I don't envy Sandburg, having to put up with that." Paul's jaw is slightly dropped and he's stopped what he was doing—unfolding the body bag—to watch the two men go at it. He gives Sandburg crap from time to time, teasing him about playing cops and robbers. Paul appears to be only half-serious most of the time, but, like the rest of us, he's got to be wondering why the hell Sandburg's been around for two years. Guess he just found out.
"No kidding," says Sarah. She's still kneeling at the foot of the dead man, her eyes wide as she looks out the door, trying to see where the guys are going.
"Hey, Barry? You ever figure Sandburg for such a pushy bastard?" Paul asks.
"Do you really think he managed to survive not being chewed up and spit out by Ellison this long by not being pushy?" I reply. "Not likely."
Ever have a scene in an ep make you go "Man, I wonder what the Joe Schmoes on the side are thinking?" Warriors did it to me, so here's my guess. *g*
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