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I'm not sure but he wanted to be back home with his family

He was filming the last don at the time I believe.

Indeed!... Thanks bro

He choose not to regret letting her go. It's not a crack. Frasier wouldn't survive without his morality, it's a cherished artifact of a lifelong creed he's nothing without. He'd wither into a husk if he became an outlaw. He even begs to wear the red outfit on the show because he wants to remind himself that loving is part of the duty - it's why he insists on the red instead of the standard uniform. Going after Victoria Metcalf was the road to true understanding, she's the white whale of a truly moral person. Benton's mother lived to be wild and he knew what it meant - it meant she would be cursed to be misunderstood, neglected and unappreciated. The conversation in front of the cantina says it all, listen to it very carefully. He knew what chasing after Victoria meant. But it's a long, long road to true outlaw. The trick is if you pay very close attention to Victoria's character, she's not an outlaw either. That's what makes it so star-gazingly messed up. Reconciling duty and love is impossible, and he knows it, but he'll keep trying because the trying is all you get. Love is a savage thing. That's how it was for his parents before him - a never ending battle of reconciliation. His father gave his mother a traffic ticket while in the car with her. *and she wanted him to* You watch this enough times you really see the truth in it. Victoria is forced into being a getaway driver by the bank robbers - this makes her an accessory to a felony. Benton forces her to be brought in, because she tries to run - but the circumstances of that are dubious. She gets on a plane with bank robbers and money, but they've been shown to be violent and prone to surprise attacks in cars. The bank robber, when they meet again says, "Come to your senses have you" meaning he's glad to see her back in the drivers seat - he's totally unaware she intends to kill him this time. He thinks the sensible thing to do is be his driver. When she discusses the murder with Benton he asks her to lie subtly - say it was self defense. It's technically true she felt imminent danger but she also knows that's not the letter of the law. Victoria refuses to compromise, she wants to tell the truth - she doesn't take the cowards way and play dumb and innocent. When the law comes for her before, for the bank robbery charge, she hired an expensive lawyer - but it fails, because the other robbers are caught and they implicate her. What Victoria Metcalf is guilty of is running from violence and *not getting away from it*. Ethically speaking, she's a wild mess of unfortunate circumstances mixed with a slow building disdain for running. She fakes her death, but only because she can no longer "live" in any kind of normal life. She takes the money to Benton's cabin, but he's not there. She buries it there, but then burns it down, because she can't reconcile what happened with her feelings - but incidentally, she's also burning the money. She can't bring herself to spend it. They don't track her using it, but they track Benton - but subtly, she only uses it to ensnare Benton. The other criminal has followed her there and he has his part of the original stash of the money - he's spreading it around, but it's attributed to Victoria during the investigation scenes as, "Money spread around the area". Given how clever she is, it doesn't fit her MO to be leaving a trail - but the criminal feathers the prospect that she was spending the money. She frames benton for the same crimes she was incarcerated for - being an accessory to felonies. The diamond deal is obviously messed up, but forcing him to be a mule is exactly what got her into trouble in the first place. She forces him by implicating his friends legally - but he could've just said "no". Did Victoria's sister die in a car wreck randomly? Burned into oblivion randomly? Or was she killed, because the bank robbers extorted her now, as they did in the past, to manipulate Victoria? Someone trying to force a car to stop can cause car crashes especially if the person driving *has no idea who's chasing them* or *knows exactly how dangerous the people chasing her are*. Meanwhile how exactly does Victoria know where to find Diamonds in chicago? Was her sister a victim or something else? ... and round and round it goes. The police arrived and confused Victoria, she might not have even lied - they totally believed it was Victoria because they wanted her to crash and burn. Can you imagine that moment? It paints an ugly picture if you hear men talking about being glad that you're dead and burned and then be asked to identify the body. Can you imagine the scorn they must have brought to not identify the bodies correctly? But Benton knows, he really does, that she's a good person deep, deep down. That's because his mother was much the same way... and the relationship with his father highlighted this. He sees it. He can't explain it in entirety, but the ambiguity is there. Dief's a special case. Dief doesn't like guns. We've seen him attack people with guns before on the show. Meanwhile Victoria knows the other bank robber is close. He's literally in eyeshot. She needs the gun. Dief barks first, and growls - and presumably attacks. He doesn't like guns and will attack if he sees them being wielded. She raises the gun, he reacts, she shoots him - self defense. He is a wolf after all. But Benton knows this, he hasn't inferred it - he likely thinks it was the bank robbers first but then slowly comes to realize the truth of the matter. ... what Benton is chasing isn't just Victoria and love, it's also morality. "I should have let you go". He's not just saying that because he's in love, he's saying that because he knows it's true. She needs to run. She can't be here, she can't live here, and she can't explain away her circumstances. Ethically speaking she was totally screwed before she even makes an appearance on the show. She can't, and won't, apologize for her life - it's why she knows, by heart, a poem about freedom. Victoria despite it all is actually entirely a victim of circumstance - running, staying and fighting, it doesn't matter. She gets caught anytime she stays still, she gets caught when she runs - and her sister gets caught too. You have to really, truly, put yourself in Victoria Metcalf's shoes to figure it all out, but the show doesn't explain it all. They give you the facts but you have to play detective here - her path doesn't make sense unless you really let the hurt, horror and circumstance play out. But Benton does. He sees it clear as day. He breaks a few laws himself in the pursuit of this (kicking down a door, grabbing a taxi driver) because he's feeling the frustration in it. She made him see it. His urge to chase her is as strong as her need to flee - and they're both right to.

The moment Victoria starts screaming, "That's not my bag" she's not lying. She is trying to get rid of that bag by giving it to a police officer. Sure, she's somewhat framed Ray, but she *knows* Benton can find that key if he really cares about her, and he does. He sees it because she feels the same way about Snow that he does. He's not always a genius detective - he just couldn't resist staring at the snow in the globe. She's returning the money. ... and by doing so, she's lost *her* pack. This begins a spiral because she's feeling as she did before, except this time she's without her pack. She takes a shot at the police in the train hallway, and yes, that's illegal as can be - but that's because there's no reconciling her circumstances at this point. She's accepted being an outlaw but this is 10+ years after the system has ground her down and she nearly died in the wilderness trying to run. She ran so far, so fast, she nearly outran Benton in the wild, it was so bad he lost his pack trying to chase her. Can you IMAGINE how far she had to go to outrun that man so much he lost his pack in the canadian bush? His home turf? I'm not gonna make excuses for taking two wild shots at officers in uniform, that'd be ridiculous, but highlight that this is the first major crime she's committed and it's out of sheer terror, because it can't be that Benton both found the key AND is coming to send her back to jail again. She's also been attacked several times in the last weeks, PTSD is a hell of a thing - not forgiving or making excuses, but adding context. She's in total shock, because not only did Benton switch the keys, conceal it, and call the police - but he also found that key, which means he absolutely thinks about *HER* the same way she thinks about him. We see this from Benton's perspective but from Victoria's, the love / hate turnaround here is shocking. We've seen montages of them in the snow, but all from Benton's perspective - that snow globe is the embodiment of her seeing that too. Then not only did she get through to him and he's conducted an illegal diamond trade... but he also has the gall to stick to his morality and is showing, unequivocally, he's sick and tired of the same games. He's planted evidence here, which isn't clean, but he's also returning a key to someone who lost it at a friends house. This isn't him cracking. This is him almost figuring it all out. Slowly methodically unraveling the horror. Trying to be someone just rather than someone who hides behind ethics. That's a HARD thing, but morals and ethics will always be at odds with humans. That churn is always dark. You also can't reconcile love and duty, his father and mother show that - but you can, for a while, manage to live with it. Victoria is the only criminal he can't catch because she's *not* a criminal. She doesn't think like just a criminal or act like one - she's just not ever going to fit ethically because the world sucks. The system cannot handle Victoria Metcalf, who refuses to bow before it - and in that way she's not an outlaw. And there's no way to fix that - but Benton's gonna try until it kills him because it's *worth it*. What Victoria Metcalf represents is far more than Benton's greatest love or an Irene Addler clone or a femme fatale. She represents someone super moral trying to reconcile life from the other side of morality. Somebody who society isn't built for and can't reconcile. When she was dying in the snow she recited a poem about freedom, it was going to be her last breath - the right to be proud. So be careful judging Benton here. He was after something "more". The trail went cold while he was in the hospital but he'd never stop. If you want the real subtlety, examine the conversation at the cantina again and pay close attention. Benton's father brings a coat despite it being almost summer. He laughs about it. Why did his ghost bring the coat? Because Benton, in the past, staked a lean-to to keep him and Victoria alive. He took off... his uniform... and used his gun to keep them both warm enough to survive. His father is bringing Benton a coat, because it's going to get colder - and because he's going to bleed out on a train station ramp in a few short hours. Benton takes a sturdier coat than his uniform to the meetup with Victoria, which is useful when he has to jump out a window and when his partner puts a bullet through him and he falls off a train onto pavement. And his father shows up on the line, in uniform without the coat. Message sent, message received. His father nods to Benton very slightly and keeps his hand on his heart. When benton describes his mother, paraphrasing he says these things. "Angry, Frightened, Brave, Petty". His father says, "She was a brave woman, she deserved better" and Benton retorts "No, she deserved YOU". If there was ever a woman that needed a policeman who believed in her it was Victoria Metcalf. It's even in her name. A metcalf is, "a calf fattened up for eating". She was innocent, she's losing her mind, and she needed help. More than anyone Benton's ever met or will ever meet. She's not a victim anymore, she's become the aggressor, but he sees why. Right down the line he sees why. Where was he at her hearing? Her trial? Her internment? He couldn't face her then, he said so himself. He didn't fight for her and he didn't get her appeals. Did he ever even ask if she did it and why? He's too afraid to ask that and so he goes to a priest instead. In his mind she was guilty but we never truly *know* why she did any of it. She asked him how he could do it to her and he doesn't reply - but instead he grabs her then, but he can't explain "why" he does what he does any better than she can. When Benton's having fries and talking to his father, Benton explains that Victoria's situation was desperate - she lived with the bank robber and the conflict was embroiled. The father says not to judge, that's the judges job, just bring her in - but also, his father says, "It's your fault". He makes a crack about it being about his hat, which is clipped, but it also is getting him thinking - it's symbolic. He didn't finish the job and thus, his father isn't talking with a complete hat. The wheels turning. He shouldn't have brought her in - because by doing so, it robbed her of any opportunity for her to turn herself in or to fix her situation before doing so. Why'd she keep the money? Likely because her sister was in danger. Once she's in the system, it was over for her. "The police didn't even know her name" Benton says. Benton was the only one who knew who she was and instead of helping her, he put her in prison. In the snow, Benton says he lost his pack. When he tells the story, he says, "We found it". If he couldn't find it before, he only found it because Victoria COULD find it when he couldn't... or that it took both of them. ... they would've found a way together. That's "Fortitude pass" for you. That's where they meet. ... and when Ray's bullet went through Benton, she couldn't face Benton the way Benton couldn't face her in prison. She can't face him because she nearly got him killed twice. She stays away this time because she loves him. This wasn't a crack.

Benton's coming together for the first time in his life and he was never more focused on doing the right thing - it's just oh so much harder when it's also the best kind of love you'll ever find. He couldn't believe in it because the best things in life are brutally difficult to just, "let happen". He was afraid of her. He was afraid of what she represented, which made his life's work seem feeble by comparison to how big life can be. It's why he's reciting her poem even bloody, broken and betrayed. It's how he can remember it with a bullet through him. She's right. It's better to be free. They're the same. He finally sees it upon the doorstep of dying. You can't reconcile love and duty - they will never be the same. Is it to love dutifully or is it dutiful to love? They might be both beautiful things but they'll never meet wholly. Just flirt. Like a bird on the wind. Is the bird flying or is the wind carrying it? Does it matter? That's the freedom. Love and Duty are the same, they aren't different. He finally accepts that. His father isn't wearing his hat when he's with him. He's taken it off out of respect. Benton's right this time. Just nobody else knows it. Not even *us*. Not unless we're looking as closely as he is. He really does know her - right down to where she keeps her keys and how someone who praises hawks might miss a sleight of hand that obvious. Keep your eyes open on this one, it's not easy to see but it's there. It's easy to default on the idea of justice and forget it is meant to serve people - and people are wonderfully complex. If you're willing to really truly "see" it's there. If you read the poem, note, "O my Chevalier". That's a french term for a knight - which is as close as can be to Benton. She was talking about *him* the first time - and the 2nd time, he's fitting the last stanza. "Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermillion". She tried to warn him and he finally realized it... because she didn't want *him* to die out there because of her. She was warning him then that while this display of chivalry is glorious it will fall and gash him. And now that he's finally there, he's realizing *why* she said it. That virtue was always there but he couldn't see it then - he chased it, but he hadn't found it until he was bleeding out on that train platform. He didn't regret it. She was right. Even there bleeding out - it was the right thing. You chase after morality, you never truly achieve it - that's the dream. It's no less glorious when you crash upon the rocks of it... and she loved him even then. He really sees it now. It's hard for us to, but you have to look very carefully at it. But it's there. It doesn't draw attention to itself or apologize or spell it out - but it's there. If you're looking. Just like a falcon. An unassuming glory hiding right up in the sky to be seen by anyone looking up, not down. ... such a great show.

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