That was my biggest criticism of this episode. After all the hinting, i was hoping for something a little more surprising the way it went down. We still might not know the full story, but so far, like you said, it's what you'd expect - Dick feels responsible, but he didn't murder Jericho and Slade killed Jericho, but he didn't mean to. Wow, same with Garth - how good an assassin is he -
he seems to miss a lot more than you'd expect. And did it seem almost comical to anyone else the way they staged Garth almost jumping to the side to accidentally get in the way of that bullet?
I also agree that the kid who played Jericho did a great job. As the emotional core of this storyline, he pulled it off.