The Shaw interview did strike me as manipulative. If that was the head of her program giving her a performance review, he had no business making a psychiatric evaluation - especially one he planned to use to throw her out of the program - based on his interpretation of observing her in one high-stress situation. Especially since it's not likely that they had a psychiatric professional supervising interns. All I could think of watching that was that unless Shaw gave up without a fight, there would have been a lawsuit under the ADA, and she would have won.

I'm having a little trouble accepting this episode. I thought there were some really good performances. I still felt as if the Carter who took down HR would never have been in that alley without a vest, and in this episode she was remembered and mourned less as a woman than as a touchstone for everyone else's personal growth.

In a way, I was less disturbed by Reese's response, because after all the "You saved me," he made it really clear in this episode that he may have really wanted to be a better person for Carter (or maybe in Carter's eyes), but with Carter gone he was not just willing but eager to revert.

I'm not flouncing, but I'm really worried about the coming Machine arc, because the end of this one seemed a little hamhanded to me.