Republic of Doyle - He Sleeps with the Chips, S01E09

Republic of Doyle always has a clever title, regardless of whether the case is clever or not. I couldn't really get into the epic search of a Chip truck, that somehow ended up with some involvement with drug dealing Russian Mafiosas, but I suppose that private detectives in Newfoundland have to take on the cases they can get.

We did get to play a little bit with the emotions of our characters though, which ends up being more important in the long run than the case.

Malachy (Sean McGinley) showed us exactly where his son gets it. It didn't matter that he knew Martin (Nicholas Campbell) was trying to get him angry enough to fight, the man was making inappropriate comments about his grand daughter. I can't imagine a Doyle sitting calm through all that. It's more like that the reason Mal doesn't seem so hot-headed most of the time is that Jake (Allan Hawco) gets riled up enough for the both of them, so Mal can take a step back and be reasonable.

I also liked discovering that the moment that Nikki (Rachel Wilson) really believed Jake was serious about their marriage was when he offered her his mother's ring. It makes me very sad to have them actually be divorced - Jake may not actually be the marrying kind, but he wanted to be with her. And I'm just not sure that he has the kind of chemistry with Leslie (Krystin Pellerin) to make it work.

Still, for a Canadian show, this one is excellent. I'm very excited to see how the season will conclude over the last few episodes.