Heaven and Earth and Frannie

 
Sometimes I just love Due South to pieces. It has car chases and cop drama and supernatural elements with ghosts and Dief and goddamn mediums and it's like goofy one second and then entirely engaging and grounded the next with just a straight up care about it's characters. Season 1 plays everyone real while also having them like talk to ghosts or canoe in sewers or Fraser smell chili powder. I love it!

So I was rewatching Heaven & Earth and you know how there is the question of what the hell Fraser was doing telling Ray about Frannie's actions in The Deal and then... well not. Was he trying to get her to stop making advances? Oh yes. Was he manipulative? In a sense. Why wouldn't he just say he didn't sleep with her? As Elaine says his Grandmas' code of chivalry is ...yeah no.

I think I get him though. He goes to Ray to explain and get it to stop, in his manipulative way, and then finds out she's not talking to Ray and feels like he can't call her out about being very um shall we say forward to her brother and as the episode goes on he's more sorry he can't be upfront with Ray or Frannie cause it's an emotional minefield for Fraser to discuss wants and desires and relationships, and also so this is why you chase me when he listens in at the end and so he's so polite and invites Frannie to walk her home because he wants to show yeah a "guy like him" he cares, he notices. He just doesn't reciprocate. Cause F/V Frannie, like woah, the vibes be strong this episode. "That's very generous of you Ray?' WTF does that mean? Or closet convos 2.0. Or Ray's stay away speech and yes Frannie is basically calling Ray out to pursue something *cough Fraser* like they are rivals. There be subtext.

But, seriously, I'm more like "Frannie, what the hell are you doing girl?" Why is she telling what she did in The Deal to the precinct? Why??? Did she somehow find out about Fraser's interactions with the lady from Invitation to Romance? How did Fraser know she was coming to tell Ray and the precinct? Did she tell him she would? Does she think this whole thing makes her look good or like he wants her or is she looking for advice or just WTH Frannie?

Someone bounce thoughts with me.