I thought there were a lot of good parts of the show, so I'm not disliking the whole thing by any means, overall I liked it.

However, I really didn't get the whole suspense scene where they are trying to arrest the suspected kidnapper/rapist. Plot holes/problems:

• I know it's a small town police department, but they are hunting for presumably a very dangerous person who won't want to be caught, for Mare to be working off book without a gun, is just weird. She could CCW a personal firearm cause being on leave only takes away your on duty gun.
• Mare sees the exact car being described as what the kidnapper used in front of the guys house, which is not a super common car, and doesn't immediately go and call for backup. She just treats it like Zable's lone gun is going to somehow protect them, when in reality any cop knows that in a potential shootout on unknown ground you need to have the advantage.
• They let the suspect just suspiciously leave the room to "turn off the music". That's a dangerous thing for a cop to allow someone to do, especially since cops who are looking for someone are usually looking for any chance to be nosy and look for evidence, they would have followed him into the bar area, thus preventing him from secretly grabbing a gun.
  
• Zable starts off being portrayed as this competent and professional guy, and then over time you find out that he is a bit naive, and maybe not the best investigator (got help to solve his only real case). This was actually interesting character development, but then they tilted even harder to the point he started just being a bit stupid. He sees a pipe moving back and forth like a foot and just stares off into space thinking "yeah this checks out, " until Mare tells him to do something.
• Detectives have to do a few years of uniformed police work before being a detective, and I know it's a small town (or in Zable's case a small county) with a presumably low crime rate, but for him to start to draw his gun, and see the other guy reaching (for presumably a gun)...and just not react at all, is really weird. In any real situation you draw while trying to move to cover, behind a wall, get low, etc. you don't just stand there like a statue.

Maybe I missed something or I've watched too many cop shows, curious to hear what other people thought during this scene.

I'm sensitive to lazy writing, and this scene felt like a lazy way to build suspense.