Terriers is really hitting its stride as it moves away from the Lindus story thread and has started to focus on more one-off episodes. I don't believe the Lindus thing is over (well, it might be over if Terriers doesn't get a second season),but for now the one-offs are great. In Missing Persons we are introduced to what every great PI show needs and what Terriers had been missing up until this episode, colorful underworld informants, characters that for whatever reason are on the outs with society but are able to give our heroes important information when needed. In this episode we met Doc Johnson, an ex-pharmacist who now works a ice cream cart, and a group of tech kids I'll call the Winnebago Nerds, since we weren't given their names and they run their operation out of a Winnebago on the beach. It's characters like these, sprinkled throughout the show, that add depth to the storylines and help make the weekly mysteries more interesting. I look forward to more dealings with the Winnebago Nerds. I feel like there is a whole episode somewhere with their names on it.
Even though the episode's main story line was a self contained mystery, it was far from insignificant as far as the main character development goes. One can't help but feel bad for Britt, who finally lashed out at Hank about their very one sided partnership. He senses something is wrong with Katie, his partner keeps pulling him into sticky situations that he wants nothing to do with, things are not working out for him. And now we have to wait to see if Hank spent Britt's half of the bonds to put his sister into assisted living. That could very well be the last straw for Britt. Hank has that special gift of being able to talk his way out of everything, of smoothing over whatever issue you may have with him, but spending Britt's money, money Britt told him he wanted and needed, might be to big a crime to forget.
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