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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?

Those last seven words were not necessary.

That's the implication. So how much were his med school bills, his malpractice insurance, etc and the income tax on that? Whatever's left would barely be enough for a part of the down payment if the property is in a semi-respectable part of town. I'm guessing after all the obligations were paid off he'd have a couple of hundred thousand dollars at most.

Amen. The only real requirement is that you need to be in peak physical shape and able to pass minimum standards. Stamina is far more important here than brute strength. Can you go to work with 70 pounds of bunker gear and SCBA, doing tough physical labor in extreme heat (and cold) for extended periods of time? Can you roll fifty foot lengths of hose after working a physically taxing fire? Can you lift and accurately operate extrication tools, force doors, cut through steel rollups with a K12 or vent a roof with a chainsaw? An average person in great physical shape, male or female, can do the job. Firefighters IRL prize themselves on keeping in shape, and most houses have extensive weight rooms, and I'm frankly surprised the show doesn't feature that as part of their off-duty lives (that is, whenever they're not boinking each other).

Yes, and yes. Having just watched the latest episodes of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel it was jarring. Hell of an episode. Enjoyed it thoroughly. The actor playing Anna is amazing. She owns that character and as I've said in an earlier thread, she could easily carry a lead dramatic role. Just too bad that as an ex-con Anna can't be police or else she'd probably be promoted to a series lead. And Voight...damn. Jason pulled out all the stops in this one. I thought he was going to talk the kid down. Even the camera angles they were using looked like it was going to de-escalate until that very last second. So kudos to the crew and the director for acing that scene, and its aftermath. Voight really needs to up his home security game. The one guy I felt really sorry for was the murder victim, Joshua. Imagine the Permsmirk being the last thing you saw before you shuffle off this mortal coil. Jeez. I hope he gets wings and a harp pronto after that.

Damnit writers, the fire was on the Delta side, not Bravo. Sheesh. So the engine crew humped a charged 2-1/2 up three flights but didn't open up the nozzle the instant they made entry? Your guys need more training there Hermann. At least Tuesday got some bacon outta this. Me? I'd have grabbed as much as I could stuff into my pockets on the way out. Save the Bacon! Still trying to figure out what's up with Segar's storyline. Don't care about Hot Paramedic Chief and Violet, don't care about Javi beyond wanting to see him in a stable situation, but we know One Chicago's playbook with lead characters adopting strays, and it's tedious.

Best I can figure, if Taylor Kinney gets too expensive to hang onto full-time they can reduce his episode count by moving him to OFI, or who knows, another spinoff if they think it could be financially successful? Unlikely but not impossible either. What may be worth considering is OFI as a mid-season series that runs when One Chicago proper is on hiatus? Just spitballin' here. Loved Upload S1 and will start into S2 this week. Very well done show.

Also called a Queenslander <grin ::ducks::>. I'd consider it Strian for redneck, but as mean-spirited.