The show “Murder in Small Town X” is not very convincing. If I were one of the contestants at a daily “case briefing”, here are a few questions I would ask Sergeant Fredo, but which none of those ninnies seems to have thought of / cared about:
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“Excuse me Sergeant…how did we ever get a Search Warrant for the scary veteran guy’s house, based on what we saw when we broke in illegally? I mean, you can’t use illegally obtained evidence for probable cause, can you? Oh, wait…is that how your colleagues do things in L.A.? Sorry.”
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“Uh, Sergeant…why don’t we just eliminate the scary veteran guy as a suspect right now, since he was arrested today and he’ll presumably be sitting in jail when the ‘killer’ bumps off one of us tonight?”
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Hi, Whoever.
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“Sergeant…don’t mean to bug you again, but the killer seems to be doing video surveillance of us in our headquarters. What else can he do? Do you think we should sweep this place for bugs? How’s the security in this building?”
AND THE KICKER…
- “Sarge…I know we’re supposed to play the killer’s game by sending two of us, alone and unarmed, to the rendez-vous points…but, uh, how’s the killer going to know if we covertly follow our man and surround the place? I mean, there’s enough of us here to do it. Then when the killer makes his move, we can swoop down and swarm him. Oh…yeah, I know this is just a game and we have to eliminate one person per week, but shouldn’t it at least look realistic?”
But don’t get me wrong, I love the show! 