Day 13 of favorite female characters
Dani Reese got lost once, really lost. Pieces of her from before are never going to fit who she is now, but she's still a good cop.
Dani drinks for oblivion. She uses men for sex in the same way. She keeps her personal boundaries up high because she doesn't trust people.
She gets a new partner; no one else wants him. Instead of ratting him out for his line-crossing behavior, she keeps working with him. She does this first because he's her partner, and later because she recognizes that he's a good cop, too.
Here's the thing: even though she's (generally) a by-the-book detective and her new partner is not, she isn't stuck in the role of genius-wrangler. Both Charlie Crews and Dani Reese have moments of brilliance and comprehension at their jobs, and they're effective at solving homicide cases.
Sarah Shahi plays the role of Dani Reese. Shahi is petite and gorgeous. So is Dani Reese, but the first thing I thought when I saw her was, "She's scary." And she is. She knows exactly what she's up against in a job where most of her colleagues are male. She also knows that with her history of drug addiction, she's always one step away from a steep drop, both professionally and personally. But Dani Reese is tenacious.
I like it that she's the stoic, and Crews is the emotional one. Also, Dani drives the car. And digs the holes.
Some of my favorite moments with her:
Her partner is fighting underwater with a murder suspect and she can't get a clear shot, so she takes a stun baton, charges it and sticks it in the water. That ends the fight really fast.
She sees her partner use a knife as a way to menace a suspect, and she makes him give her the knife, because she wants him to remember that he's a cop, not a con. (Later she gives it back to him, which is also awesome.)
That first really weird fruit that Crews had: she stares at it, and tries so hard to resist asking about it, but finally she has to know what it is. Heh.
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Dani drinks for oblivion. She uses men for sex in the same way. She keeps her personal boundaries up high because she doesn't trust people.
She gets a new partner; no one else wants him. Instead of ratting him out for his line-crossing behavior, she keeps working with him. She does this first because he's her partner, and later because she recognizes that he's a good cop, too.
Here's the thing: even though she's (generally) a by-the-book detective and her new partner is not, she isn't stuck in the role of genius-wrangler. Both Charlie Crews and Dani Reese have moments of brilliance and comprehension at their jobs, and they're effective at solving homicide cases.
Sarah Shahi plays the role of Dani Reese. Shahi is petite and gorgeous. So is Dani Reese, but the first thing I thought when I saw her was, "She's scary." And she is. She knows exactly what she's up against in a job where most of her colleagues are male. She also knows that with her history of drug addiction, she's always one step away from a steep drop, both professionally and personally. But Dani Reese is tenacious.
I like it that she's the stoic, and Crews is the emotional one. Also, Dani drives the car. And digs the holes.
Some of my favorite moments with her:
Her partner is fighting underwater with a murder suspect and she can't get a clear shot, so she takes a stun baton, charges it and sticks it in the water. That ends the fight really fast.
She sees her partner use a knife as a way to menace a suspect, and she makes him give her the knife, because she wants him to remember that he's a cop, not a con. (Later she gives it back to him, which is also awesome.)
That first really weird fruit that Crews had: she stares at it, and tries so hard to resist asking about it, but finally she has to know what it is. Heh.
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