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This was kind of a weak episode. The beef between Frank and Erin about his coming to see her about that car was so jacked up for no reason. She should have just said thanks for letting me know, I'll take care of it. Voodoo story, just weird. Looks like Baez will date the new detective. Good for her. The school discrimination story was also weak. The captain was ready to enroll her daughter in the school if she got accepted even though it would have been improper! I have heard of anti police sentiment in these circumstances, so it probably exists. The school principal was such a moron too. As soon as she heard the person was a cop she shuts down the interview instead of continuing so she doesn't tip anyone off.

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I had that problem this week with my Roku. I had to come back later to watch.

I did not go back and watch the argument--only the search. That's where they made the comment about the trash. I think the hammer was just in a wastebasket, but who knows. In NYC there is not actually a danger of ubiquitous cockroaches these days, although I lived in some apartments and college dorm rooms in the 70s that had that problem. I do keep ordinary wastebaskets for paper garbage without covers! Of course, the food garbage containers have covers. As for the timing of the argument, I think it was a pretrial motion to exclude the evidence. The timing on TV trials is so off kilter, because TV court has trials start days after the arrest--ha! Also in Law and Order world they never prepare for trial in advance--they start investigating new theories in the middle of trials. Sigh.

I went back and replayed the scene because I was curious. They actually did a good job of setting up the legal question. When they started looking around they made a point of asking if anyone else lived there, and they were told no. They were told the extra room was for an office. We jokingly call this type of conundrum a law school exam question. Professors throw in a lot of points in a "fact pattern" that could make the decision go one way or another. When you take the exam you have to point out all the arguments going both ways. You then have to pick an answer and justify it. There's really no one right answer. You get a higher grade on the exam just for having spotted more issues. In the same way, there's no right answer when you go before the judge and you have facts that can go both ways. You present your side and the other side presents theirs. The judge picks the answer and you have to live with it, unless you would appeal for some reason. That doesn't happen in these trial shows. Appeal would come later. The "right" answer comes when you get to the highest appeals court if that happens. If they had found the hammer in the garbage in the street it would have been a slam dunk for no expectation of privacy.

It would have been a fun cameo if they had Retta’s husband from Good Girls arrest her. He was a cop on that show and also on Mike and Molly.

I want a dollar for every time Benson says “it’s not your fault.” I’d be as rich as Moneybags.

I was shocked when Benson said call the hostage negotiating team. Then she restored my faith in my predictive skills by doing the negotiation herself. I love Carisi but would he really be in the hospital room to report that the parents took their kid off life support? Please no more Noah drama. Ugh. This torture the perp plot is sick! As sick as the perp is

I’m not questioning the husband’s prioritizing getting the baby. It would seem the dead wife would have wanted that. Question: what happened to the scammy lawyer? I missed that when not watching every minute. I’m confused on the hammer: did they find it just lying openly in the crime scene? Then why the expectation of privacy? Again, I wasn’t paying close attention. The judge did say it was a close call, but I thought a wrong call. Then they kept talking about the hammer anyway. How was that allowed? I guess because she changed her plea . . .

Geez where is this going? Also, what did Alison Janney mean when she said (paraphrasing) "that's not what the Rolodex is for." ?? I'm dense.

She did mention having a job in a call center, which is probably remote work. But it was confusing because she seemed to be too sick to work at all at times. Just more of the confusing editing on this episode.

It was a terrible episode and very boring and dragged out. Yet very sad. I FF'd through a lot. I had missed the live chat. Two theories: 1) they have to fill air time so they can't just scrap a bad episode, or 2) they want a cautionary tale to show what happens when someone is so mentally damaged that she cannot even think of undergoing therapy--she'd rather eat the comfort food. I wish, however, they had some way to explain the gaps in information, at least with title cards. This is actually the only episode I can remember where Dr. Now wanted therapy to start at the beginning! He recognized the extreme need. But she didn't accept it and missed all the appointments. She will be dead at 30, as others suggested.

Everyone just abandoned her. Why no explanation. How was she paying for that hotel? She was so depressed. Sad. There’s no snark for this episode.

I don’t know if anyone else posted but Kaia is a cast member in Kristen’s Palm Royale show.

I was looking her up and I found the Katy Keene show. is it worth watching? We used to read Katy Keene comics when I was a kid in the 60s! I just loved this episode and I think everyone has listed all the great moments. Maybe drag queen lawyer was a fave. Stop him Bob Bon. And the nice uncle and the dogs. Bon Bon had will and Angie’s number. So funny. Oh yeah and the uncle was dyslexic.

That's because he is not fluent in English either.

I think it actually was Portuguese. I went back to look just now. He seems to have said Voce casar comigo. Casar is also the verb for marry in Spanish. Conmigo means with me in Spanish. Voce seems to mean you in Portuguese. So he seems to have said "You marry with me" like a cave man. Which would be no surprise.

Thanks for posting. These are scary wackadoodles.

I just made a page.

A topic for info not shown in episodes.

this escaped me too, but I was not paying close attention to that couple.

Wow next week a shocker! Ick has picked up a Muslim girl. While the Muslim couple can’t get anyone.

Also every time I see his dumbass chest in a tank top.

Garrick: important that I spend time with her. Translation it’s important that I bang her.

Ick is drooling now