The murder of a programmer at a hi-tech company leads Goren and Eames to a rival company and one of its programmers.The murder of a programmer at a hi-tech company leads Goren and Eames to a rival company and one of its programmers.The murder of a programmer at a hi-tech company leads Goren and Eames to a rival company and one of its programmers.
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- TriviaDamian Young has played three different characters over the course of the series:
- Episode 8.12 Passion (2009) - Mr. Wetherly
- Episode 5.9 Scared Crazy (2005) - Boaz
- Episode 1.19 Maledictus (2002) - George Tate
- GoofsIt's discovered that Dr. Pynchon used to be in the Army Medical Corps and worked in the SERE (Survive Evade Resist Escape) program. Goren and Eames go to interview one of her former colleges from when she was stationed at Guantanamo Bay, who is a physician that said she was in the Army and only treated Army personnel. However Guantanamo Bay was a Naval base, only U.S. Navy sailors and U.S. Marine Corps soldiers were stationed there. Now sometimes other members of the military and civilian contractors came in on special assignment, but there would not have been any permanently stationed Army personnel at GITMO for her to treat, only sailors and Marines. In fact the doctor that Goren and Eames interview is even wearing a Marine Corps insignia lapel pin.
- Quotes
Detective Robert Goren: You just sidestepped our question.
Dr. Katrina Pynchon: [smiles] I thought it was more polite than saying, "It's none of your business."
Featured review
overt politics ruins good suspense
Far too often during the GWB years the writers of Dick Wolf's franchise Law-and-Order shows allowed their personal political views, and their animus against GWB, to intrude on their scripts, to the detriment of the show's quality and the viewer's enjoyment. That is the unfortunate case in this episode, a story that begins well with a high-tech mystery but quickly degenerates into political sermonizing about the evils of torture.
Even at the time the events were happening--during the Iraq War and its immediate aftermath, 2003-11--there was plenty of room for vigorous debate about the place, or non-place, of torture in the military toolbox of a nation like the USA supposedly committed to ethics and morality. So the appearance in this episode of the issue of torture is not the problem. It's the one-sided nature of the dialogue. There is no discussion, no debate. The message is clear--the policy of the GWB administration, and military, is wrong, and even "evil." No other POV is tolerated or allowed. No discussion is permitted.
How the plot winds its way to this final conclusion will be left to the viewer to navigate. The episode contains the usual healthy helping of twists and turns, questions and non-answers, that keep Detectives Goren and Eames hopping and forced to apply their best skills toward a final solution. But their articulation of that solution seems stilted and wooden, not police-like at all. And that's b/c it came from the writers pushing their political agendas. Dick Wolf should've dialed the overt political statements back a notch or two.
Even at the time the events were happening--during the Iraq War and its immediate aftermath, 2003-11--there was plenty of room for vigorous debate about the place, or non-place, of torture in the military toolbox of a nation like the USA supposedly committed to ethics and morality. So the appearance in this episode of the issue of torture is not the problem. It's the one-sided nature of the dialogue. There is no discussion, no debate. The message is clear--the policy of the GWB administration, and military, is wrong, and even "evil." No other POV is tolerated or allowed. No discussion is permitted.
How the plot winds its way to this final conclusion will be left to the viewer to navigate. The episode contains the usual healthy helping of twists and turns, questions and non-answers, that keep Detectives Goren and Eames hopping and forced to apply their best skills toward a final solution. But their articulation of that solution seems stilted and wooden, not police-like at all. And that's b/c it came from the writers pushing their political agendas. Dick Wolf should've dialed the overt political statements back a notch or two.
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- mttiro
- Jun 15, 2020
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