One with dumb cop#1 - he ran out of bullets, the other guy “gang pointed” his weapon at him, Blond Detective (former CSI) shoots him. Dumb cop pick up gun to remove from vicintiy of (now dead) bad guy…Gun is later to be found to have one round left, but that round is jammed due to another bullet having stricken the gun. Witnesses now claim that gun was planted on the “giving up” bad guy.
Alley Shooting #2… bad guy starts to jump fence, cop calls him down… bad guy has hands raised (empty - no gun)… brass comes around corner, distracts officer, when officer turns around, the bad guy has gun in (still raised) hands… cop shoots bad guy… that gun is empty… was kicked away by brass as they handcuff the (now dead) bad guy. Witnesses now claim this guy was surrendering.
Gun has markings/stuff on it that make it appear to have been tossed out of a moving vehicle.
Point of view people.
As for the spanish… i couldn’t keep up on a good day… “cops bad” “why you kill my boy” was the general gist…
That’s what I thought happened, then I got confused somewhere along the line–probably because I was distracted by that thing on Nick’s face. Thanks, guys!
Well, it’s not helping but they are doing the IA interviews, and even the officers involved can’t remember every detail… They just need to rewind the tape to the first 5 minutes and it’s all clear…
As for who shot Bell? I’m betting it’s a guy in a Buick… not a cop, but the whomever (could be a rouge cop, I guess) that want to make sure this turns into a whole “us vs. them” scenario… A cop ‘had’ to die for that to happen.
Rouge cops get blanket parties. I saw it on The Shield.
I’m all for Nick keeping the weasly moustache, so long as Warrick continues to call him “Moustache boy.” In fact, I think this would be a great story arc – from here on out, everyone should start treating Nick with increasing contempt (mostly without specific reference to that thing on his lip,) until his career is totally in the toilet, he’s messed up on booze or crank, depressed as all get-out, and addicted to pornography. Finally, after six months of this, he hangs himself in the break-room when he realizes that nobody’s ever going to trust him with anything other than shit detail again – but he never has a clue that he was brought low because of the moustache.
Anyway, one thing that nobody’s mentioned is how shot up the patrol car was – but the baddies were careful to aim low. I don’t think anyone (except the kid on the bike) was supposed to get shot in the “for show” gun battle – but Brass and Bell showed up unexpectedly and screwed things up.
(I know it’s a bit silly that one additional patrol car appearing during a mile-long gun battle would be an unexpected contingency, but it is CSI, after all.)
A weak joke based on the misspelling of “rogue.”. (In The Shield, our heros thew a “blanket party” for a colleague when they found out that he was gay – that is, they threw a blanket over his head and beat the hell of him.)
They mentioned that, and if I understood them correctly, a cop does not have to assume that a gun is empty. You pull out a gun the cop can shoot you. It doesn’t matter if the gun is unloaded or not.
Well, Thank you, one and all. I’ll be able to watch the second half without too much confusion.
Someone just might want to remind me on Wednesday the next day is Thursday. I’m having a hectic life. (sick Hubby)
The Buick the cops were pulling over is the key. The fact that the cops car had bullets almost entirely in the hood and grill is interesting, too, and yeah, does go towards the point Larry Mudd made that it is a possible bait and switch with the cops.
I’m going to put forth that it was a drug-related thing, probably coordinated with dirty cops (and perhaps the dead kids businessman father) that was suposed to be a big, impressive thing where ultimately no one got caught and the Buick, heavily laden with drugs or something, gets away.
Now, the wrinkle- the rookie. He wasn’t in on it and when things went south, he had to be removed from the picture. Tough break, kiddo. The gun with the scrapes was most certainly a plant by the cops, and a safe one to give the bad guys since the cops knew it was jammed.
Thanks, but I can’t take credit for it. We Dopers will go off on tangents, many of which turn out to be highly interesting, and the title of the thread came from the title of the episode.
So help me, I yelled “Reno Nine One One!” at the TV.
A tangential question: standard procedure for this show is that the interval between episode airings in real life equals the “CSI” universe time between beginnings of casefiles. This episode aired one week after the previous episode, in which Nick was sans philtrum filter. So could Nick have really grown his sub-septum brush in no more than a week? Never having cultured a 'stache myself, I’d appreciate relevant info from fellow Dopers.
I missed bits and pieces of it, but if I gather correctly, CSI was able to reconcile the witnesses’ reports of the suspect surrendering with the cops’ reports of the suspect holding a gun.
We don’t know who shot the 4th suspect, right? The one that was shot by a sniper?
Nick still has that dirt on his upper lip. He really needs to take a shower.
And yes, at the end, I got something in my eye. I didn’t think Brass had tear ducts. I’m glad Mrs. Bell did what she did at the wake, in front of all the other cops. After all, if the widow doesn’t blame him, how can they blame him? True cop’s wife, if you ask me. It must be very hard to be married to a cop, and to rise above the friendly fire incident is very noble. I’m sure Brass will be torn up about it for the rest of his life. I also thought it was very brave of him to show up, knowing the other cops would cut him and the widow might have a screaming fit and throw him out of the house.
Ivylass, there must have been something in the air. I too had something in my eye at the conclusion. No wait, it must have been my allergies. Yeah, allergies…that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
I agree that what the widow did was very noble especially since she knew what the other cops were expecting her to do.
If moustache-boy hasn’t gotten rid of that nasty thing by the next episode I am going to throw a fit and allergies be damned, I will be crying real tears at the fact that Nick still looks like a child-molester.
