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Re caulking Casey's injury. OMFG. I can't even. Jason Patton is a YouTuber who's a firefighter/paramedic based in Florida. He's absolutely hilarious, single-handedly poking fun at the foibles of the job, but his best work is skewering the idiocy in first responder shows. He took on this exact scene in this video. And dear, sweet ghu, Read the comments! Check out his channel as well if you want some seriously good belly laughs.

Exactly. Early TV shows had on-air talent wearing fine stripes that made TVs go nuts. Less of a thing now with HD, I guess.

There should be no difference. Even though cannabis is legal in New York State, it's still an intoxicant and if it's proven that you were under the influence of it you can get the same penalties as if you were drunk. One of the big arguments about legalization is that there's no equivalent of a breathalyzer to quickly determine if a driver is high when pulled over for a traffic infraction. Now in this case, the department still forbids having any THC in the blood, rightly or wrongly, but not booze or tobacco. I don't know if that's real-world (I'm betting it very much is), but in the Reagan Police Department it's very much in force. Why this wasn't the default story here I don't know. Dosing a cop would not be taken lightly by anybody, either higher-ups or cops in his command. One that doesn't cause a horrible moire pattern on a viewer's TV screen. Solid colors, wide stripes, etc, are better than fine repeating patterns.

As far as the new guy, in terms of both the actor and the character, my issue is that Chicago PD (the show) has a diversity problem. I'm not someone who generally cares about such things—just tell me a good story with the best actors—but Intelligence is usually operating in rough neighborhoods, and the criminals they're investigating are mostly African-American and Hispanic.. But the Intel bureau detectives, with the exception of Atwater, are not. From a police story perspective they need a few more cops who look like the perps to make gang infiltrations more believable to the audience. This character would go a long way in that regard. He's talented, moody (seemingly a must today), has a good back-story, and I guess good looking enough to hold down a leading actor's spot. Anna's character also makes a lot of sense, and hopefully they'll find a way to keep her around permanently (although I doubt she makes it out of this season alive). I'm hoping this was an attempt to see how the audience of this expensive-to-produce show, which caters to an older ratings demographic, reacts to the new character. I wouldn't mind seeing him come in as a lead character, but the One Chicago franchise always seems to default to safe Middle-America-Friendly characters straight out of central casting.

I don't mind Asher, and proving herself to a skeptical supervisor after what's come before is legit. I'm betting on things getting patched up and then the inevitable relapse will occur. The one I'm done with is Archer. He was an interesting character when introduced but now he's just an annoying dick who has no business treating patients. He'd be better off twirling a moustache and tying vulnerable patients to railroad tracks or something. Ditto Choi. Or at least Old Choi. I do not buy into his 180° personality inversion. Yes, I seem to recall reading that the actor chose to leave.

Ahh. For some reason I thought he was the one responsible for that abominable T81 pursuit scene last season or the year before.

Assuming an early morning shift start (i.e. bacon and pancakes), fire up the smoker at 11 or 12 and it's done by 7 or 8 if you push the temps a bit and commit the cardinal sin of not resting it for an hour or two. But this is firemen we're talking about. Basically walking stomachs. Six pounds of point meat? Christ on a cracker, after trimming and shrinkage during the cook they'd be lucky to get 3 or 4 pounds to serve. That's enough for 6 normal people, or two firefighters. For the whole house? Start with an 18 pound full packer and maybe everybody will get some.

Agreed. He got a gift sentence of 11 months and he was whinging about it, when being an accomplice in an armed robbery should have gotten him 5-10 years. He should have kept his head down, his mouth shut, did his time and got on with his life. I can see him fleeing custody when the opportunity presented itself, but as portrayed in the episode, he wasn't violent by nature initially. But if he had ready access to a firearm in the brief time he was on the lam, and chose to take it, then I would strongly dispute the non-violent thing anyway. Once it became a hostage situation with an unstable EDP perp, SWAT had multiple clear shots to end it, and that's what they should have done.

Rick Eid, IIRC he's one of the showrunners of the whole One Chicago thing.

I like this guy. A lot. Only question now is who's leaving at the end of the year? No way this kid's one-and-done. And I'm calling it now, Anna gets whacked before the end of the season. Maybe she and Torres hook up or something, she gets popped and he catches the killer and becomes the New Guy. Then maybe we can get rid of at least one member of the Crimestead Family (preferably FelonyBarbie™).

They had a clear shot half the time he was holed up in there. One sniper round and that's that. Lawyer was right about one thing: Causation. If someone dies in the commission of a violent felony, in most jurisdictions (I'm sure Illinois is one but IANAL) then he takes the full ride for felony murder. And a dozen counts of kidnapping and forcible confinement wouldn't be two years either. Although in modern-day Woke Chicago it might very well be, so who really knows. And since urban markets have video cameras, there's enough evidence to convince even a sympathetic jury that he needs to be buried under the prison. Gaah. Yes. Tonight it was Chicago MedPolice, Chicage FirePolice, and an uncharacteristally good Chicago PD. ENOUGH WITH EID'S POLICE FETISH, FFS. I miss the rescue calls the most. Their fires are just so fake that it takes me right out of the story, but they do a decent job on MVAs/pins, unusual events, high-angle rescues, etc. Not to mention the entire house deciding to roll out to offer moral support. Glad I wasn't three blocks in the other direction with my house on fire, or me having a coronary event, etc. WTAF. Every supermarket I know of has employee entrances, loading bay doors for deliveries that come in all day and night, etc. Lazy writing there too. Six pound point, at that. Where you find a separate point cut is beyond me. Flats, yes, but point? I've never seen them sold separately. Best part of the whole damned cow if it's cooked right, but six pounds would be about 8 hours low and slow or about 3 hours hot-and-fast, so not unreasonable. I've done 14 pound full packers in 4-5 hours (starting at 400° and dropping down to 275 after about 2 hours). And best Texas-style rub would have been Lawry's Season Salt, 16 mesh coarse black pepper, and granulated garlic (ugh--I hate garlic). Cumin works in small doses, but add in some Cayenne and ancho chile powders, celery seed (makes for a killer smoke ring), and a couple of teaspoons of espresso grind coffee. Wonder how much the show got paid by Weber for that promotional shout-out?

We're in a suburb of NYC, and my wife had to go to the ER a month ago in acute pain. There were exactly TWO doctors to cover 53 patients at the time. The wait was about 4-1/2 hours. After 2am, we were told that there's only one attending in the ER. This particular hospital is not a teaching hospital like others in the area so there are no residents, PAs or anything else. It was the closest, however. Since PPTH---er---St. Bone is a teaching hospital yes, they should have had a slew of folks onboard.

The residents of the Ridge would have no clue, of course, but at least one of Claire, Brianna, and/or Roger should definitely have remembered and discussed it with Jaime. "Ye willnae hear of it for weeks, but the first shots in the war will have started tonight in Massachusetts. <Kosh>And so, it begins </Kosh>." I hope the start of the war becomes the central theme of these last two episodes and that the nonsense with Claire is wrapped up far faster than it was in the buik. I find these melodramatic Dire Perils Of Our Heroes™ to be tiring by now, and it takes away from the overall storytelling. I do wish they'd move the pace along a bit faster. Just as Lady Stoneheart was cut from Game of Thrones, Malva and Tom Christie could just as easily have been dropped completely from the story, especially since the war starting is a complete game changer overall, and nothing except Tom Christie's interactions with Jaime at Ardsmuir really adds to the characters' stories in my view. And as much as we all loathe Tom Christie, the actor portraying him, Mark Lewis Jones, is doing so brilliantly. I'd love to see him on stage. He knows how to command a scene.

I have one major quibble and it's far more substantial than the goings on on the Ridge. The Letter that Tom Christie was writing when Claire came around was dated January 27, 1775. January in the mountains of western North Carolina is usually a Real Winter with a ton of snow and freezing temperatures. But that's not the quibble. A short while after that, "A few months later" appears on screen, and it appears to be during spring. Well something rather remarkable happened on April 18th of that year, that I think either Claire, Bree, or Roger Mac would have (or should have) remembered: The Shot Heard 'Round The World. The battles of Lexington and Concord, that actually kicked off the War For Independence. I'm no historian but even I remember that from grade school!

Timely comment, since just this week the real-world NYPD updated the patrol guide to require supervisor-subordinate relationships to end with one of them needing to transfer. https://nypost.com/2022/04/06/new-nypd-policy-sets-cop-romance-regulations-police-sources-said/ As for the Marine, there are some departments that would welcome his street smarts. IIRC from The First 48, New Orleans and Atlanta have hired detectives who were not originally in patrol but were otherwise qualified. Maybe Erin could get him an interview as a DA's office investigator.

That entire storyline made no sense to me in the context of what this show is. This is the type of show where nothing really happens to the main cast, with only a couple of notable exceptions. It's mostly episodic in nature rather than truly serialized, so I just don't see him going anywhere. Besides, even if he takes the job there's not really anything political about it, it's just head of a security detail. Maybe the mayor would want to bring him into the NYSP if he got elected governor or something, but otherwise I'm seeing this as a nothingburger.

Garrett the Deputy Commissioner of Public Information (DCPI). But he's also a civilian.

I can most certainly think of one specific piece that has its roots in an old English drinking song that was somewhat...repurposed, shall we say.

Not a bad episode, but one thing jumped out at me. Frank stated that the PC's job is a civilian position, which it actually is IRL. So then why does he have dress blues, and why are MoS saluting him, etc? I figured having the Commissioner being a sworn police officer was just simply to allow for the various storylines needed.

Long ago I used to follow the TV Tropes site and one that remained in my mind was called Break the Cutie. Basically, any sweet, carefree good-natured happy young woman will be continuously broken down over the course of the story until she's a shell of her former self. I read that long before CPD premiered, but it might as well have been written for Kim, unfortunately.

I think any character would lose their happy/fun persona after being beaten half to death, shot twice, and raped. A real person would almost certainly damaged beyond repair after the first one of those incidents, let alone three or four of them. Add in the horrors she's witnessed in dealing with the worst of the worst in the underworld. If they start writing her as a happy, cheery person again it would be far beyond the realm of believability. Now with that said, I do miss that Kim and I wish they'd have kept her that way but here we are.

I'm a bit bummed that next season will be the last, because there's one iconic '60s NYC comic who desperately needed to be included in this show. Carlin. Could you imagine Midge and George Carlin riffing?

Depends on the circumstance. I forget that episode specifically, but I've seen it done in a number of other cases, from different departments. If they know that Joe Blow was the guy but just can't prove it, or need corroboration, they can show the witness a single picture and ask "Who's this? What do you know him as?" etc. "Oh, that's my ex, L'il Joe." Cross-reference in the database and boom. It could definitely give a defense lawyer something to work with, but if the detectives don't have anything else concrete it's worth a try, I guess. Or at least one extra piece of evidence in the folder that can add up to a solid case if they can prove other elements of the crime.

Depends on the case for me. If you have an irredeemable predator who just happens to be 17 years and 11 months old I have no sympathy, but an impressionable 15 YO who falls in with the wrong crowd and ends up doing 30 years for taking part in something stupid after an interview, yeah, that would haunt me. To me, I think the best tactics are to ask things like "You were arrested in 2015, so we have your fingerprints and DNA on file. You're going to need to explain how your fingerprints were found on the car" (even if in fact they weren't). Ask a lot of leading questions rather than neutral: "So after you left the gray Chevy on Smith Street who did you go to see" vs "Were you in a gray Chevy the other night?" Or if you're not going to do that, one very effective sales tool is to ask a bunch of simple easy things where the answer is always 'yes.' Get friendly and ask them interspersed with other chatter. Then land a bigger question that isn't "did you shoot Fred Smith?" but rather "Were you on Pine Street with Dan Jones the other night?"

Not just Tulsa. And a number of them they seem to phrase their on-scene witness questions poorly as well. "You didn't happen to hear gunshots last night did you?" Instead of "What time did you hear gunshots last night," or "how many shots did you hear?" If they have a shooting suspect in for questioning within a couple of hours why aren't they administering GSR tests first thing on arrival? Or maybe that's something they don't like showing for some reason? Then assuming they test positive you have a valid line of questioning. Or you can totally bulls#!+ the suspect. I remember one detective I met a long time ago would say that the perp "failed the GSR test, and from the sample our CSI people took, we matched it to the scene. Can you explain how the gunpowder residue on your hands exactly matches the powder taken from the dead body and the empty shell casings?" I'd bet less than 50% would laugh in the cops' faces when asked that. For that matter, I'm frankly surprised that they don't out and out trick suspects a lot more. Maybe that's a northeast tactic more than it is down south?