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It was almost too cringe to watch. She was worse than Michael Scott when she insisted on paying for lunch so she could pretend they were friends.

Ellie is the new Maddie.

He had told Severide that he was one of his instructors at the Academy. Severide didn't remember him and asked what class he'd taught that Damon took. Damon got the answer wrong so Severide knew he lied.

Two complaints. One, Olivia refers to the gun being unregistered, but Chicago doesn't require gun registration. I know the show is graphic but there was no reason to show the used tampon that the girl forgot. Why would they require consent from the parents for a pelvic exam when it was literally life and death?

That scene with Daniel sending the other psychiatrist away was bizarre. The guy is scheduled to testify in court. His supervisor fixed it so he can't go and Dr Charles goes instead and lies and says there was an emergency. Jackie's husband knows they have a relationship, which is why his lawyer asks Charles about it, but he's still allowed to testify. He then admits her perjured himself. Charles just put himself in the Choi/Manning/Olivia Benson trope where it's entirely ok to break the rules because you're the one doing it. Everyone else has to be by the book but not you because you're a justice seeking crusader. I really hated him this episode.

I think Margaret knows it's not Jamie, that was the point of the camera showing her "Margaret Visioning" him. She's also very calm and not challenging any of his demands like not seeing his dad and sister. She does not act like her long lost son has just returned. I also think the initial idea of Sir's kidnapping was what he did by identifying the book found with the buried body. He helps her by giving the perspective of a criminal mind and this keeps him alive. He solves cases to avoid being killed but he also wants to work with her. Unfortunately, the writing for the show wasn't strong enough to sustain it.

Law and Order SVU has twice done episodes where an imposter kid "returns" to a family. In both cases the actual kid had been killed by a relative who knew the imposter was a fraud but kept quiet to avoid revealing the murder.

Remember back in the day when someone walked in the door, any of the detectives would take it? Now Captain Benson purposefully strides through the office and takes the case. Plus the incessant nodding and whispering. I can't with that anymore.

Gabi assured the two men that it's a judgement free zone and Dhan proceeds to yell at them. The dads tell the M&A team that TJs happy place is a comic book store in Silver Spring. Then Gabi wonders why he'd go to Maryland. Sometimes I want to scream like it's "Rocky Horror". "They told you ten minutes ago his happy place is a comic book store in Maryland." You wouldn't buy a bus ticket from DC to Silver Spring. The DC Metro buses would go there. You could literally walk depending on where in DC you started. Doesn't Gabi ever lock her door? How the heck is Christian just waltzing in and leaving notes? This happens on a lot of prime time cop shows, but why is there always street cam footage of the whole city except where a random crime happened. Shouldn't there be a traffic can that shows Heather getting shot? If she's in her car, she wouldn't hear him talking. How would they know she was shot with Trent's gun? TJ sure hugged a lot for a neurodivergent kid.

I definitely called it when she complained about how bad the pensions were and sneered about how Trudy's might be better because she's a sergeant. I found the whole thing just flat. It was too formulaic for my tastes. Main character in peril is never nerve-wracking because you know they'll be saved. It had the requisite outtakes for romantic relationships. It had the often used "new and experimental medical procedure that works." It had Fire leadership lead the troops into battle. It also had some ridiculous necessary suspension of disbelief. The 11 year old kid just happens to have her robot with her and she knows a bit of Morse code. I challenge everyone to find one kid under 21 who even knows what Morse code is, and is proficient enough to know Duffy lied.

This was probably the worst episode of the series.. The Coast Guard is not going to call in a professor and a random FBI agent. It's obviously going to have its own investigators. It's never clear what Mr Mercer does that he's important enough to direct the investigation. Amazing how Vietnamese slaves speak English. Marisa could just instantly tell it was Fentanyl. How? Wouldn't Andrews have been under some sort of security guard, given the situation?

The worst part was him pointing a gun at the bomber who was standing in a large crowd. Nobody trained in gun use would do that.

Who else thought Benson was going to adopt Anthony?

I thought this had potential to be as good as any OG episode. It had a lot of OG feel with the idea that you still have to prosecute sympathetic defendents but justice can be tempered with mercy. There was a lot of need for backstory. It felt like a longer episode that was too aggressively edited. For instance, in every episode of the franchise for decades, the defense has been shown providing a notice of intent to seek an affirmative defense, here they just suddenly broke it out mid trial. Every time an undercover cop has revealed him or herself to the other detectives, they ask to be arrested to keep their cover. Vanessa just said to arrest her but for no real reason. From a racial perspective, if I didn't know Dick Wolfe was a liberal, I'd think this was written by a massive racist. Vanessa was entirely unsympathetic; she literally laughed off the idea that as a cop she should be solving crimes. She seemed to think that fixing a broken system just means gaming it for their benefit instead of white peoples. She assumed Shaw would side with her because he was black. She ultimately blames Shaw for her refusal to do her job and for her choice to purjure herself. She (and the defense attorney) also highlighted that the defendent was such a good dad and it wasn't fair to his kids to imprison him; it came off less about race and more about how he was a "good" minority. Some lazy writing: Shaw and Riley ask Vanessa her name after they've spoken to her commanding officer. How did they verify she was a cop and not learn her name? I think they also should have done more with his wife's attempts to stop the prosecution. This would show it's not really about race, but class. Both victim and murderer were black, so why not show how the wealthy and powerful get treated differently? It would have also been more interesting to show the daughter's relationship with Wes. Presumably, dad didn't think she was getting free rent and money from Wes because he was a good guy. I thought they should have made this a two part episode or crossover. It could have highlighted the intersection of race and social status. Plenty of black men with money and power have gotten away with crimes. OJ is the most notorious, but there's also Ray Lewis and Michael Vick. They could have shown more of her throwing her weight around with Baxter.

I think she's just a righteous crusader type. Her work is more about promoting her own sense of self than it's about helping others. She's wrapped up in her own belief that whatever she does is right and just. She has also surrounded herself with a like minded crew. Everyone on the M&A team has two things in common; they're all mentally unstable and they're all convinced that Gabi is a queen. She needs that total fealty; she won't function in a collaborative environment, or one where there's an interdependence.