When a celebrated journalist is killed, Cosgrove and Shaw explore an unpublished report involving a prominent politician. Price and Maroun fight an uphill battle when their only credible wit... Read allWhen a celebrated journalist is killed, Cosgrove and Shaw explore an unpublished report involving a prominent politician. Price and Maroun fight an uphill battle when their only credible witness is currently awaiting trial for another heinous crime.When a celebrated journalist is killed, Cosgrove and Shaw explore an unpublished report involving a prominent politician. Price and Maroun fight an uphill battle when their only credible witness is currently awaiting trial for another heinous crime.
- Jacob Ackerman
- (as Alex Michael Shafer)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaIn the previous episode, Fear and Loathing (2023), Detective Jalen Shaw received an administrative punishment of a week's suspension without pay, because he did not comply with an order given by a policeman, which in turn was a reprisal for Jalen's insistence for involving Internal Affairs.
- GoofsGoodwill does not give people receipts for their donations, not unless it is something worth enough money to be used as a tax write-off, which a jacket certainly would not be.
- Quotes
Lamar Cordell: Ackerman would weaponize his lies to get the cops to come after me.
[SCOFFS]
Lamar Cordell: Mm-mm-mm. This is America, y'all, in 2023, where the free-thinkers who've red-pilled themselves from the sheep, well...
Detective Frank Cosgrove: Will you just answer the question? Did you threaten Jacob Ackerman's life?
Lamar Cordell: I am the victim here. Look, Ackerman and his tribe are trying to stop people from learning the unsanctioned truth of what they've done to us, my brother.
Detective Jalen Shaw: Oh, no. I am not your brother in this, OK? Your brand of crazy, that's all you
Detective Frank Cosgrove: I hate to break the news to you, buddy, but when it comes to being a victim, Ackerman's definitely got you beat.
Lamar Cordell: How's that?
Detective Jalen Shaw: He was murdered this morning. And you happened to threaten to do that to him three days ago, brother.
Lamar Cordell: Well, I didn't mean it literally. Look, I wasn't gonna kill him. I was I was saying I was gonna make him a martyr for his cause.
Detective Frank Cosgrove: Well, that clears that up.
Lamar Cordell: Look, the more he and I fought, the more people paid attention. More attention brings in clicks, and more clicks, more money.Look, I don't believe half the things I say. But that's how the game is played.
Detective Frank Cosgrove: Oh, so you're saying you two were friends?
Lamar Cordell: No, I needed him. Like I stated, he's good for business.
Detective Jalen Shaw: OK. Where were you 6:00 a.m. this morning?
Lamar Cordell: Here, like every other day.
From there, the story takes the usual turns. GASP - the twerp turns out to have an alibi, sending Derp and Lurch to question another twerp, this one working in tech and media. Aha! Anti-Semitism may not be at the heart of the crime at all. Meanwhile, Manhands does the usual growling and glowering. The severe looking computer tech looks severe. Sam Wasterston does his Sam the Eagle impersonation with yet another hallway and doorway conference, respectively, so, I guess, Waterston doesn't even need to sit down. Meanwhile, AOC and the Garden Gnome act stunned when the defense tries to suppress evidence. THEY ALWAYS TRY TO SUPPRESS EVIDENCE. And when the phrase "fruit of the poisonous tree" is uttered for, what, the 5,000th time in the show's history, THE MUSIC GETS LOUDLY OMINOUS.
This is another paint by numbers episode of the reboot, with little mystery or tension. It goes through the expected motions, which maybe if you're new to the series you don't realize have been done far better before. I won't comment on other reviewers, though that seems to be de rigueur these days, but I'll say if you're easily amused, you'll want to give this 10 overenthusiastic stars! It gets two.
I just wish the Law and Order franchise would spend as much time looking at bigotry for other groups, too. It seems we get examinations specific to a few groups but the rest are ignored -- and this has been going on for decades. For shame Dicky Wolfe, for shame.
Lastly, I'll say again that AOC is really the only thing good about the reboot, but the writers are making her character increasingly more stupid as the episodes go on.
- bkkaz
- Mar 30, 2023