Things seem set to go boom on tonight's episode of The Closer--its summer finale, I may add, giving everyone a break before the series wraps up its season later in the year--and perhaps for bigger reasons.

Detail one: the MCD investigate the murder of a woman who was apparently stabbed by a person wearing a ninja outfit, which in itself already sounds weird.  Of course, that means the crime is bigger than it actually is--sounds like a method of sorts--and turns out that it is.  As the team investigates, a detective all the way from Texas, who's tackled a similar case in El Paso, comes by and helps in the investigation, but with a different motive: to bring the killer back to Texas and have that chap face the death penalty.

Detail two: the home front isn't looking better for Brenda, either.  Her not-so-wonderful (but not-so-hostile) relationship with her father Clay turns another page when he returns to pick up her niece Charlie--and take her back home to Atlanta.  With a lot of things already going for Brenda, there's the question of whether she'd be able to cope with a slightly quiet home life--and I mean the word "slightly".

Xander Berkeley guest stars as that Texan detective bent on the death penalty, on tonight's episode of The Closer, from 9pm tonight on TNT.


- Henrik Batallones, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
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