Season 3, Episode 3 “Bottom Bitch”
Air date: 3-23-04
Holy Jebus, looking at the alley scene where Vic basically orally rapes the hooker "Farrah" with his pistol, breaking her down like a pimp- you'd think that Vic Mackey must be the evilest bastard alive.
Perhaps he is. However, the scene is everything but what it might appear in that way. Vic's not getting any gratification out of breaking her down. He at least thinks that he's helping her, scaring her straight. "I just saved her life." That's how he explained it to Lem- and not entirely without logic. Of course, that only works if she WANTS her life saved.
Vic explained to her during that little pistol fellatio exercise that she was his "bottom bitch," the last one on the pecking order under him. Yet she played him the whole show, and he knew it. She went over his head to get his boss to MAKE him help bust her old pimp.
She ruthlessly played every emotional card, beating at him with the memory of Connie, the dead hooker from the first two seasons. Note how she poked and prodded different ways with her story, trying to guilty Vic in to what she wants now.
Then of course, she had her grand invention of the supposed 13 year old sister turned out by Smooth, the pimp she was using Vic to get back at. She got further on that story with Claudette than Vic, that's for sure. Like Fox Muldar with his X-Files, Claudette wants to believe.
Indeed, after all the nonsense and drama, Farrah finds her a new pimp, and success. "Thanks for helping make me the queen" she tells Vic.
Article comments
1 - Billybones
Do you know the title of the song that sounds at very moment she's telling Vic she's the queen?? Ive been trying to guess which one is but i couldn't find it out, thnks