Thugs who look like Yuppies

Okay, I jumped the gun on Uncle Pete, should have learned, in this show above all others, a character's not dead until you see him laid into the ground and maybe not then. Pete turns out to be comatose in the hospital, which helps move the plot a little farther and clarifies a bit more, as Patti talks to him, tears in her eyes, and memories of her childhood with an alcoholic father and Pete, though a ne'er do well, taking caare of her. More important, a new character (Mike?) shows up, beats up one of Pete's collectors, learns Pete's in the hospital and - now I'm pretty sure - kills him by messing with his IV. New character apparently was involved in the botched attack on Ellen, and worries Pete will talk. FBI, with Ellen, has bugged the hospital room, so they know something's up, but Ellen can't make the guy and he leaves the hospital without anyone's seeing him. Meanwhile, Frobisher forced out of the case, threatened by the bookish-looking rogue detective he'd paid to kill Ellen's fiance, David. Hm. Posted yesterday that Marge thinks the detective too cute to be a killer, but to me that makes him scarier. Strikes me that never in any show have I ever seen such wimpy-looking bad guys. The thug who just killed Peter, for example - looks like a gust of wind could blow him away. Pete, too - he makes Tony's uncle (The Sopranos) look like an NFL tackle. And especially the killers going after Ellen and Katy, every one of them looks like a boarding-school kid. Good idea to have one thug look wimpish (e.g., Brother what's his name on the Wire). But when they all do, you have to wonder who does the casting for these shows?