Newest episode featured guest star was multiple repeat offender Michael O’Keefe. I think his first L&O was playing a priest that had a murdering illegitimate son. Yesterday he played an arch bishop. Glad to see the church takes care of their own.
Baxter decided that cutting a plea deal with a murdered to recover some ugly-assed crown for the church was a good deal. Price was fumbling at the end to justify it to the victim’s family, when he should have just said “see that guy over there (Baxter)? Go tell him what you think.”
And Lt Columbo was working the case again. They should just make her the focus of the Law part, she’s much better than the two detectives.
Deals to return stolen art are common. Let us say instead of it being a religious item, it was The Concert by Johannes Vermeer. If a guard was killed during that robbery (which netted 13 major works, but afaik, no one was killed), yeah the DA would make a deal to get the art back.
What annoyed me about the episode was right at the beginning when the Archbishop insisted on accessing the crime scene in order to give a blessing over the victim, solely on the basis that he had been a devout Catholic. Then he started talking about how the recovery of the stolen crown should take precedence over solving the murder. This continued throughout the episode. I hadn’t realized that the Catholic Church had such power in New York to the point where an Archbishop could interfere with police investigations.
Newest episode reaches new lows. First of all, the Husband was right there, and no alibi, and a potential motive- AND the police always considers the Husband/SO first. Next the stalker didnt actually say he killed her- but it could be interpreted like that sure. Then you have the issue of asking everyone who works at the company whose logo was seen to take a DNA sample. Nope, I wouldnt do that, and who says that figure had to be working there? I have a couple logo jackets at places I dont work- and ex-employees often do also. Then the violent creep-they exclude him due to split second timing with a Uber receipt- but the time of the murder wasnt known within a few minutes- yes- within a short time, but…
Anyway, bad investigative work, bad work by the ADA and the idea of the DA to blame the victim was just horrific.
Agree on last week’s. I don’t think I could add anything more.
This week’s continues Baxter’s decent into becoming the worst DA, the one that Jack McCoy used to rally against. Convictions above all else, and damn the truth.
Maybe in real life i would feel different, but I believe the defendant’s story. One, he’s a former petty thief, where is he gong to pawn a half a million dollar necklace? Two, they never found the necklace. I doubt he had time to hide it, and his wife really seems sincere. Apparently, the key piece of evidence just…vanished? Maybe it did burn up in the fire*. Maybe the fire inspector stole it. No one knows, and no one cared to investigate.
I would really like to see the follow on where all these questionable cases get solved correctly, and Price is fired.
*remember the Wild Wild West episode where the villain used burning diamonds to make an elixir that sped up his metabolism? Look for someone moving real fast!
Yep, and they knew the Captions wife had been cheating on him- but they didnt even bother getting that guys name. Not to mention the marshal could have done it- That lawyer made some serious errors. And what sunk the defendant is the ADA bringing up the prior convictions, due to the Defendant saying no-one would believe him.. but a good answer would have been “Because I am hispanic”. Bad episode.
The beauty of L&O is they can rotate casts in and out and maintain interest.
The bad part is, they aren’t rotating the order players! I was surprised to see that Price and Sam have been there since S21. The robotic Serena lasted 4 seasons, the rest of the ADAs lasted like 2 each.
They already had Brady working cases with just Riley, and the back and forth just didnt work. But yeah Sam has to go and IRL she would have been gone and been disbarred by now.
Yesterday was the season ender, They tried to do a lot of political behind the scenes machinations, unstated but clearly trump’s “justice” system against liberal NYC justice. Probably just too much stuff for one hour episode.
But…it’s obvious that Wolf’s FBI not existing in a universe where Krazyeyes Patel is FBI director extends into the L&O world. On FBI, the asst director in charge is a Black man, and on L&O the same character is a Black woman. Too woke, to DEI for the reality we now have to live in.
(and they really should have used the same character and actor. The two shows share the same medical examiner, so they clearly exist in the same universe.)
And a bonus, in an episode involving the Navy, we get Goose as the presiding judge!
Shohini Sinha Named Assistant Director of the Victim Services Division
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has named Shohini Sinha as the assistant director of the Victim Services Division. Ms. Sinha most recently served as the special agent in charge of the Salt Lake City Field Office.
and
Director Christopher Wray has named Suzanne Turner as the assistant director of the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters in Washington.
Akil Davis was appointed Assistant Director in Charge of the Los Angeles Field Office
A woman of color, a woman, and a black man.
The various “assistant directors in charge” is not a political postition, like the Deputy Director.
However, this was a terrible episode. They had ZERO evidence vs the Admiral. No real motive (well, maybe the one admiral who was taking bribes (and then killed) was sharing them, or not). The video was weak and unclear, and thrown out and apparently all that was clear was a NAVY scarf- which anyone can buy on eBay and a lot of Navy guys own.
Then the set up at the start, with the other admiral (the one who was killed, who was apparently taking bribes), dealing with some crooked hard cases in the back room of a casino- but somehow that wasnt even part of the investigation at all- even tho that admiral threatened the hard case- big motive.
Who the hell wrote this crap? Did anyone see ANY evidence vs the charged Admiral?
What? Did the show run short and they needed filler? That added nothing to the investigation. It wasn’t a dead lead for the detectives, just for the audience.
And Brady showing up at Baxter’s campaign headquarters, and not saying anything relevant? More time wasters.
All this time I want Price fired, and the time I almost get it, I actually agree with him. Go figure.
Just that she donated to his campaign, which was unethical as NYPD officers are prohibited from expressing political views, supporting candidates, or participating in political activities while on duty or in uniform. She was on duty, it seems.
But I dont get the start set up, what the hell did that have to do with the case? And the NYPD knew about the $4000 and why- but then they didnt go after or even investigate the hard cases.
Especially as the two doofus sailors had nothing to do with the bribery. They were just…stupid. It has happened with the Navy since the days of Nelson. $4k is a lot for a couple of nobodies, even if you are getting $10K bribes, and sending in a fully armed contingent of the SP would make a lot better impression on the gangsters for future stupid sailors. Plus, cheaper!
