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I don’t imagine Ronnie to be much of a romantic. In fact, I can’t imagine Ronnie containing a single romantic bone in his body. But revenge? Ronnie has that in spades and since Raquel decided to kill the woman Ronnie was … hanging out(?) with, I wonder what is going to happen next. You cannot convince me that Ronnie and Juliana ever bumped uglies, as they say, but I don’t even think that’s at stake here. The principle of Raquel taking something from him is more likely to rule the day than anything.
Other than that, Ronnie had a pretty quiet week. He didn’t kill anybody, went out to a club to not drink and played a big brother role for Kanan by putting in a good word with the woman from the Department of Social Services who is itching to put Kanan in jail. It looks like it worked, too; it doesn’t seem like she’ll ever be a problem again!
On to more pressing matters: Gerald is helping the police make a case against Marvin, and now Gerald must go. This is only unfortunate because Gerald has two little girls who seemingly have no place else to go. If they did, there’s no WAY they’d be in the custody of Gerald, who sends his kids outside to sit in a car while he shoots up heroin in the living room as he did in the last episode. Gerald, under the guise of doing this piece on Jukebox, started asking Marvin questions that Marvin didn’t like, and well, we see where this is going, which is going to present a moral dilemma for Marvin. You see, this is the price that all of this work is going to cost him in the long run: while Marvin is busy trying to be a better human, his line of work requires a certain detached coldness. When it’s time to kill Gerald, will he be able to do it? I wonder. Because that time is coming, my friend, it is coming.
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