S24.E07: Truth and Consequences

[paigow]

When tragedy strikes the family of a prominent judge, Brady must determine if the murder is connected to any of the judge's rulings; Baxter steps in when a key witness refuses to testify; Maroun tries to protect another witness's privacy.

Air Date: Nov 14 / 24

[ML89]

On 11/9/2024 at 9:12 AM, paigow said:

Maroun tries to protect another witness's privacy.

Uh oh, is this the Ben Stone Exit?

[Xeliou66]

Thanks for getting the thread started for this week’s episode. It sounds interesting. Glad it appears Baxter will get a heavy role. Not looking forward to more of Brady being hands on though - she’s really unlikable and I’m sick of her being shoved on to us. 

[marc20]

okay, I thought this was a complex and compelling episode, my favorite of the reboot so far...I don't always like the ripped from the headlines ones but this was well done

couple notes about one of my passions, pointing out repeat appearances of guest stars/roles, first in the original series, then people who have been in the original and now the reboot

the new Mayor of NYC was in the original multiple times I believe...which brings me to the defendant...this was the kid in the original series who was kidnapped and then molested by a creep and then the defendant killed the young kid the creep brought in to molest...I think I have that right, but if not, correct me...thing is I don't recognize him from anything else but these L&O roles though I'm sure he's worked elsewhere...still looks young now many years later, playing a student...I believe he does go down as the first person to be a defendant and killer in the original and the reboot

Edited 7 hours ago by marc20

[txhorns79]

1 hour ago, marc20 said:

thing is I don't recognize him from anything else but these L&O roles though I'm sure he's worked elsewhere

The biggest thing I know him from is he played Susan Sarandon's magic loving son in the movie Stepmom. 

This was an interesting episode.  Given how shady the wife/Judge was throughout the episode, I honestly thought we'd find out that she was having an affair with the guy who murdered her husband.  I was surprised that her big secret was being a drug addict. 

I also thought they saw the watermelon sweatshirt through one of windows in the tent, perhaps raising a plain sight exception, but I am not familiar enough with criminal law to know how that works in this type of situation, and they didn't raise it with the Judge at the suppression hearing. 

Edited 6 hours ago by txhorns79

[Raja]

As soon as he went into his tent I said to  my partner that these detectives need to watch more Law & Order.

[buckboard]

You can find what episodes of L&O the actor was in as well as his other performances from IMDB.  Couldn't watch TV without it.

[paigow]

2 hours ago, marc20 said:

the new Mayor of NYC was in the original multiple times I believe...

Most notably - He married into the Masucci crime family  and ended up murdered during the Greevey Logan era

[Xeliou66]

Disgusting pile of trash propaganda episode - I can’t even say what I would like to say about this episode because of the no politics rule on the site. I’ll keep it to this - it’s clear Dick Wolf has hate towards people who don’t agree with him on Israel/Palestine, and he’s using his tv shows as a pulpit. Shame on him. 

Oh and screw Maroun as well, once again feeling sorry for a killer, once again acting as an activist more than a lawyer, and being all around annoying. She drives me nuts and reminds me of Saint Olivia Benson too much.

Only positive thing I have to say about this is that Brady wasn’t annoying for once, and it was nice continuity to see Mayor Payne again, I’m wondering if they are going somewhere with that character - maybe he’s the new Shalvoy. But Baxter was wrong to make a deal, I got why he did it but he was letting political pressure cloud his judgment IMO. Baxter was the one the brother should’ve called a sellout, not Nolan. 

Disgusting episode, on par with Dignity from season 20 as being complete propaganda and poorly written dreck. This season hasn’t been up to the standards of L&O, and tonight’s episode was the worst.