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In this case, no. That was a short line road switcher, and the train had just taken a switch. No conceivable way that movement would have been going more than 15 MPH, on what appears to be yard trackage. It also depends on where and how the impact occurred. A straight-up T-bone and yeah, there's be a lot of dead kids if it was in fact going at a good clip. A glancing blow and yes, it could be pushed off the right of way easily enough. Now if instead of a local road switcher that was a Class 1 railroad at 60 MPH with 10,000 feet of train, fuggedaboudit. Sadly shit like that happens IRL too frequently, and there's generally not a whole lot left of what got hit, human or machine.

I think it was said that the accusing sergeant was with a bunch of his friends, so a lot of corroboration of his side of things. But like the bosses in the precinct wouldn't make it crystal clear that the people they're messing with are the two personal advisors to the Commissioner? It would be made quite clear that to pursue that course of action would not in his best interest. I mean, even if Baker got a rip for it, in BlueBloodsWorld™, Frank would have the guy walking a midnight foot post in the Rockaways for the rest of his career, or shoveling out horse crap from the Mounted Unit's barn in Central Park. And no precinct boss would want to be in the crosshairs of 1PP either. That whole story was utterly stupid. Tired of the DA crap. Just go away, storyline. One way or the other. Liked Tweedle-dee and Tweedle-dum's case with Bugs. Regarding Creepy Stalker Guy. If she's that scared, file for an order of protection and make an official complaint. Bullshit they couldn't act on those accusations. At least kick it up to the detective division to investigate.

I figure Manny will either join the Billionaires Fire Club or else get killed off one way or the other. Bode will make parole and become the new Manny. Prolonging his sentence another year/TV-season would be tedious and drag the plot down even further--and strain credulity beyond even where it is. I mean, with all the saves he's pulled off, the good he's done, and the pull he now has with CalFire, violating him back to fire camp would be ridiculous at this point. Plus correct me if I'm wrong, but in the first episode didn't they deny him parole after 2 or 3 years of a 5 year bit? If they keep him much longer he'd just serve out his sentence and that'd be that. Why would there be four, and only four, 55-gallon drums of Jet-A unsecured in a rail car? And why all the secrecy? It's not a restricted substance and you can move it freely in small quantities like this. The drums were secured to a pallet, and the pallet was in a boxcar. Only thing they'd have needed was a placard. Whoop-de-doo. Not to mention that 220 gallons of Jet-A wouldn't be enough to get a private jet off the ground. Plus unlike garden-variety good ol' gasoline, you can put a match out in kerosene; it needs to be aerosolized or vaporized first. A few sparks a couple of hundred feet away probably wouldn't set it off. And not just that, how was one of those drums even leaking? Something would have needed to pierce the side of the rail car and the drum! If that train was still upright that wouldn't have happened. They should have made it gasoline, propane, or better still and to keep abreast of current events, a few pallets of gray (black) market Lithium Ion Phosphate batteries. Propane probably would have been best, though. That is nasty shit to mess with; it's heavier than air and goes boom if you look at it funny. Why weren't they cooling the steel pole off with water as they were cutting it with the sawzall? Why not cut it with the Hurst Tool? A hollow 2" tube would take two seconds to cut through. The train was shown to still on the tracks after the collision. Drain the air off the cars, uncouple them from the engine and let the cars roll back a few car lengths. Then someone wrap a handbrake on it to stop it rolling. Nice dramatic TV footage of Bode riding 5 or 6 runaways. Incidentally, the person operating the train is the Locomotive Engineer, not the conductor. As a former RR conductor/brakeman I laughed my ass off at that entire premise. I'd have bought a leaking tank car, but not four clandestine drums of fuel. BTW, 55 gallons of jet fuel weighs about 370 pounds, plus the weight of the barrel. 5 or burly firefighters could have removed four barrels in a few minutes.

Considering he's a serial arsonist, I doubt the legality of his truck registration was high on his priorities list. The firefighting scenes were just horrible. Like every other damned firefighting show, they can't seem to grasp the fact that you need to use water when you can. Inside the PTSD man's room the CGI'd water stream on the CGI fire was just laughable. Fog pattern, move the nozzle around and that little amount of fire is out in under 10 seconds. Probie struggling to throw at ladder solo was also ridiculous. Take any offered help when there's entrapment. Saving five seconds may save the victim's life. Jake would have been back in the big house right along with him.

He was high as a kite, so he probably was.

No line of dialog could conceivably handwave that idiotic storyline. Cameras are literally everywhere in the theater district. Not just that, but in the after-theater hours when the assault happened the number of non-New Yorkers probably outnumbers natives 10 to 1, most of whom are video recording their vacation and who would turn over video to the NYPD is a heartbeat. The whole story was about racial bias in policing and there are 100000 ways to tell that story plausibly. They just couldn't be bothered to try a better approach.

I get whey they might have been on the call. It's a higher-than-normal profile case (tourist in the theater district beaten within an inch of his life). But yes, between privately-owned cameras on businesses and cellphone gawkers that would have been plenty. But the military-grade NYPD-owned surveillance cameras on every block in that part of midtown would have put paid to Frat Boy's assault within a couple of hours.

Getting witnesses to testify against guys who brazenly go around killing people they don't like isn't easy. And the ones they do get, you gotta wonder how reliable they are or how skeevy they might appear to juries. Also, unlike a lot of criminals this clown had enough functional brain cells to shut his phone off or leave it somewhere before going off to (allegedly) whack someone. It did seem like a bit of a sloppy investigation to me, though sometimes you just can't catch a break no matter how hard you try.

Just like a good BBQ rub, this episode was a nice mix of sweet and heat. I really found it enjoyable, especially Yenko and the Italian lady—I really like what his character has matured into. I'm glad that he mentioned his wife was waiting for him, though. Part of me was afraid the writers were prepared to forget about her completely. Like others, I figured it would have been one of the brothers, especially the younger one at first, but as they interviewed him in the box, I really wasn't feeling it at all. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the restaurant interiors were shot at Hometown BBQ in Red Hook. I'm a barbecue fanatic (especially brisket); I was only at Hometown once but man was that good stuff. I rarely find any restaurant barbecue that's better than what I turn out of my own smoker :) :) But pro-tip, you put briskets on at 7pm, not 7am! Show me one Q joint that doesn't have its smokers running overnight and I'll show you a crap Q joint. And when they came for the mother, they could have at least taken that food to-go!

Loved that the family was named Beaudelaire. I guess you could say that Dim fell victim to A Series Of Unfortunate Events. I actually kinda like semi-comedic episodes of this nature if they aren't overused. Once a season is enough. With all the Elijah BS going on, I'll take something lighthearted from this gang as a change of pace. As for the painting, it wasn't burned or run through a shredder, it was slashed in three places. An easy to fix by a skilled restorer.

Re bathrooms, etc, Essex County, NJ does it that way. I've sat on three criminal juries since moving here and there is only one set of washrooms per floor, and if you weren't court staff or law enforcement, that's where you went. Jurors also eat in the same cafeteria as lawyers, witnesses, cops, guards, etc. We are firmly admonished by the judge not to speak with anybody concerning the matter before the court, and that it is our duty to report any contact to the judge immediately. What got me was the jury box in this trial. On each criminal jury I've been a member of there are either 14 or 16 empaneled jurors. Just prior to deliberations the court clerk has a bingo cage and pulls two (or four) numbers out, and those unlucky jurors don't get to participate in deliberations, but are held in a separate room, in complete silence, for days at a time. I was one of four under such a sequester for two and a half full days of deliberation in a grisly homicide case...and it sucked. But I did get a lot of reading done. Guy (rightfully) got 60 years, so it worked out in the end. Why were there no alternates in the court? With deliberations starting it would have been easy to simply "randomly" select the threatened juror as an alternate. But beyond even that, let's say Voight never tweaked to the kidnapping, and the juror holds out. The accused wouldn't have been acquitted; a mistrial would be declared. It takes a unanimous verdict to acquit OR to convict. If they remain hopelessly deadlocked and a mistrial occurred it would be up to the prosecutor's office to determine if a retrial would likely result in a conviction, which for this guy it would be extremely likely.

Last Friday (2/26/23) was up a lot over last week: 0.38 in the target demo. Half if Idle American, but better than everybody else. A marked decrease after The Equalizer, however.

Yes he is, and no we don't.

Remind me again, why is Tracy/FelonyBarbie™ headlining this show? Why is she getting the A plots while Marina gets the B stories or a supporting role most of the time? If there was ever any doubt whatsoever as to who is the best actor in the series it was settled tonight (and half a dozen times in the last few years to boot).

That got me too. California-based writers have no sense of winter. ONE inch of ice accretion (i.e. clear ice, from freezing rain) would bring down a huge percentage of the grid in the city. TWO inches would be Chicago's "Katrina." No electricity for weeks or perhaps over a month since thousands of primary and secondary power lines would be down, no cable, no copper telephone wires, most fuel stations would be unable to pump gas to refuel vehicles and generators, and extreme difficulty moving food and water where needed. As opposed to 10 inches of snow in Chicago, which is called "Tuesday."

A 0.26 in the target demo doesn't make a favorable decision any easier. Those are not good numbers, in fact ENY is the lowest of the big four networks in the 9pm timeslot, with Idle American trouncing it by more than double, and Magnum P.I. beating it solidly. Even a cartoon show on Fox is beating it. That can't be a good sign.

How much you wanna bet that in a future "Very Special Episode," OR 2.0 is going to have its "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that" moment and put paid to the entire storyline (and invariably a Very Special Patient). Every time I see the title of this episode I can't help but think about an oboe, which is often described as an ill wind that nobody blows good.

Is Frank retiring to spend more time with Grandpa Teeth?

Too bad Ghosts is a CBS show. That could have been much more fun. But if things had gone south, imagine spending eternity in a dingy Chicago storefront building? Shudder. So the guy in charge of rigging on a Heavy Rescue can't tie a bow in a ribbon. That's encouraging.

There was, what, a couple of inches of snow on the ground when the MRAP came upon the scene of the MVA on the bridge, and there were no other vehicles out? I dunno about Chicago but out this way it would have been the exact opposite, roads jammed with cars. They could have had their pick. And why were they cold in the vehicle after the crash? It couldn't move, but the engine would still have been able to run to keep them warm. And the national guardsman had a radio to call for assistance. He can't have been the only ING vehicle in the city.

It was confusing. Pictures of people we, the audience, have no idea about up on the Murder Board and a twisty story made it hard to follow who's who, and why things went down how they did. Chapman was OK, and I was kind of intrigued with the 'why' of her dalliance with her witness. Are they trying to get something going between her and Voight? They didn't have much of a spark but two deeply flawed characters could become an interesting pairing if they're written intelligently. Then again, when is anything written intelligently on this show.

Golds are still being fished this year if I recall, so maybe that's what the show will have to focus on? Maybe cod, too. I'd still love to see the Norwegian story playing out, though. I really loved that series!

It runs on electricity for heaven's sake, and I doubt there's a direct connection from a pole pig on site, and if there is, there'd be a disconnect right after the transformer. So odds are they bring their own power from site to site. "SOMEONE KILL THE GENERATOR--NOW!" The end.

Yep. That was a 300 pound Acme Anvil. But the doctor screwed up. he hand wrote his notes. Get a sample of his handwriting and it's game over. And NO killer is so perfect at his craft as to not leave some form of trace evidence, not appear on someone's video recording, forget to leave a cell phone behind, and so on. He might be able to sneak his way into the loony bin instead of a PMITA state prison, though, but premeditation was obvious, and the note to the newspaper would be proof of sanity and cunning. He's toast. Yeah that was crazy. But a question for those familiar with criminal procedure in the state of New York: Is it possible to present the case to a Grand Jury a second time if new evidence has been discovered? Double Jeopardy would obviously apply to an acquittal at trial, but I don't think that's the case for a Grand Jury appearance. Erin had more than enough to get an indictment, IMHO, but you never know. If Jack is that hot of a criminal defense attorney, he likely works at a big Manhattan law firm or would at least have a couple of partners in a small office. Why not just get another lawyer from the firm to represent her?

Dafne should not have been in the final, plain and simple. Not because she's not talented--far from it. Her plating and creativity are absolutely off the charts. But those aren't the skills needed to run the line in a restaurant where creativity isn't a big thing. The winning chef has to be someone who can ensure his brigade will put out consistently perfect food from a pre-defined menu, mainly for old people in a city that's arguably one of the worst places in the entire country. It absolutely should have been Alex vs Alejandro in the final battle, and I would have been fine with either one. I have zero doubt that Alejandro will be running a high-end kitchen sooner rather than later, with or without Gordo's help. Dafne and Sommer both deserve to train under well-respected chefs to refine their palates and techniques, and get a bit more experience under their belts before taking the big step into becoming a head chef somewhere. I don't think they're ready yet, but when they are, I can see either or both of them earning Michelin Stars. Alejandro too, for that matter. But Alex was definitely the better of the two in the finale and I know he'll thrive running the line.