The dog confuses me...

Wasn't there a puppy in the second movie? I thought I remember there being a puppy at some point. He gave the victim's dog to the girl, but by the end of the second movie had finally gotten himself a new dog. Not a small puppy, but obviously a young dog. That's the dog I though this was.

Vic Mackey: "God creates all men equal. Out of the womb, he starts playing favorites."

The dog in the "prequel" was a bloodhound named "Boomer", who Jesse says he "raised from a pup". When the dog becomes terminally ill (from kidney failure) he talks his friend the pediatrician-cum-medical examiner into administering a lethal injection. He acquires what looks like a golden retriever from the first victim of a serial killer, but fails to name it. In getting to know a young rape victim, she asks what the dog is called and when (in typical Jesse style) he replies "what do you THINK he's called", she replies "Reggie". From that point onwards, Reggie is his name. Jessie is playing mind games with the serial killer(s), knowing that they'll have to keep on killing people (or trying to) before there's enough evidence to prosecute, he plants the idea of "himself as victim" in their minds. But they're smart enough to realise that killing a cop is simply another way to commit suicide - so they decide to go after someone close to Jesse instead. Aside from his ex-wife (who the killers don't know about) and girlfriend (who they've already shot) there ISN'T anyone "close" to Jesse. So he needs to OFFER them a target, and settles on the rape victim. He uses "giving her a dog" as part of his entrapment scheme. He doesn't intend to give her the dog... he just needs material from the rape victim and her mother on his tape recorder, so that when the killers arrive, they (think that they) can HEAR their intended victim in a heated argument. Kind of like the goat bleating in a tiger trap. Jesse "giving the dog to the girl" was just play-acting for the benefit of the killers.

The Dog Reggie was used to set up the serial killers, by Jesse pretending to give it to the rape victim. he never actually did give it.

SPOILER


I've not read the books but would like to. Anyway, at the end of Stone Cold when the killers come in to the house where the girl lives, the family is talking about taking Reggie on the tape but the dad didn't want them to have a dog. The girl wanted the dog but maybe the tape was truth as well as the distraction for the killers. Hence, the girl couldn't take the dog. Yep, Bommer was the dog in Night Passage. His kidneys were failing and Jesse had the doctor, not the vet, put Boomer down.

I don't believe Jesse ever "gave" the dog to the girl. He asked her if she would take care of him. I believe he did this to give her something to do that would take her mind away from what she was going through. She never took Reggie from Jesse and took him home. It's never clear whether her folks would let her have the dog, or whether Jesse intended to give away his dog, I think she needed to be involved in someone's life in a positive way.

A smart dog :P

They actually touch on it in No Remorse about how Jesse doesn't really treat the dog like his pet more like an unwanted visitor. So the dog may not care that much. I realise that's a bit of a weird explanation. It could be that it was frightened as it will have already seen one master killed in front of it.

As soon as that scene happened I could not believe the dog did not go ballistic. My 12 year old springer still barks as soon as he hears anything or anyone approach the front door. When he walks outside at the end he should of laid into useless Reggie.