For most of the episode, I just took that to mean that he'd hallucinated before (as in "before the shooting"), and the partner was used to his slightly cracky behaviour. And that it hadn't happened for a few years, but was showing up again now, for whatever reason (other than being dramatically convenient for the pilot, that is).
Then the ending confirms that yeah, he's been hallucinating before Sandy, but possibly only since the shooting, and I smack myself upside the head for not cottoning on sooner. (Probably because on Haunted, the hallucinating (ex-)detective's black former partner - that the detective goes to for help during the case - wasn't also a hallucination himself, and I forgot which show I was watching...)
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Date: 2007-03-18 06:02 pm (UTC)Then the ending confirms that yeah, he's been hallucinating before Sandy, but possibly only since the shooting, and I smack myself upside the head for not cottoning on sooner. (Probably because on Haunted, the hallucinating (ex-)detective's black former partner - that the detective goes to for help during the case - wasn't also a hallucination himself, and I forgot which show I was watching...)