Just as Mario is about to kill Lee in a belated rage over her admission about seeing her former lover yet again, Jim shows off his impeccable timing and bursts in the room, blasting Mario in the chest and leaving him presumably dead.
The title’s green-eyed monster is a Shakespearean reference to jealousy, which has been the beating heart of the Jim-Lee-Mario triangle that came to a bloody head tonight.
The problem is, the weapon Mario was going to use on Lee was dropped into water and will probably go undetected, along with Jim’s chances of getting out of this cleanly.
Jim and Mario had words several times, with Jim forcing blood tests on the doctor to try to detect the Tetch virus he’s suspected of having, and it was one of GCPD’s finest who got the last word in this testosterone-oozing stand-off.