Season 10: Goodbye, Adam Schiff!

[Xeliou66]

46 minutes ago, FozzyBear said:

It’s a really good episode. I do wish that they had tied it to Ellen Pompey’s first role in Law & Order when she hired her boyfriend to kill her mom over pretty much nothing and let her dad almost go to prison. At the end we see her arrested but not what happened after that. I think it could have been an interesting twist if we find out her dad had gotten her a good lawyer and she either got off or was sentenced to minimum time as a juvenile. She gets out her and the Dad move, change their names to get a fresh start. The Dad remarries and then this case is about her and her psycho boyfriend killing her stepsister. We find out that she’s the real instigator behind it all and is still just the same ruthless, shallow, greedy bitch she was as a teenager.

That would’ve been an interesting twist, but it’s doubtful that she could’ve gotten out that quickly - she would probably be tried as an adult for her role in her mother’s and brother’s deaths. But it would’ve been an interesting concept for an episode. 

[andromeda331]

I've only watched that episode once because the murderers freak me out. I'm glad they ended up going to jail. Also, it was pulled from a real case in Canada. How no one noticed they or the real life couple were psychopaths I don't know. 

Edited December 29, 2023 by andromeda331

[Xeliou66]

Season 10 is on Sundance today - I love this season, all 6 of the main cast are great and there are many stellar episodes.

Surrender Dorothy is one of my favorites from this season, it was on a little while ago - the psychiatrist who drove his daughter in law to suicide with his controlling, manipulative behavior was such a ghoul, and then he smugly thought he could beat the manslaughter charge by claiming he murdered her. What a piece of shit. Jack was awesome in this episode, I loved him telling the defense lawyer that he wasn’t going to back down, and his closing was awesome - laying out for the jury how it was clear Dorothy was driven to kill herself by the defendant’s manipulative behavior, and laying out all of the facts (the suicide note, the forensic evidence, the victim’s behavior, the defendant’s daughter’s testimony) to get the jury to see that it was suicide and the defendant drove her to it and was more concerned with protecting his reputation than anything else. The doc seemed stunned when they found him guilty, he really thought he could get away with his despicable behavior. 
I liked that his son/the victim’s husband immediately turned on his dad when he realized what had happened, I felt for him, he had been living under his dad’s thumb his whole life and his marriage was basically set up by his dad to be a test case for his “surrendered spouse” theory. The sister was kind of sympathetic as well, she shouldn’t have helped cover things up but she was screwed up by her dad’s manipulative behavior and I was glad she saw him for what he was and testified against him. 
Skoda was great as well, explaining how bad the doc’s behavior was and how he manipulated things, and helping the daughter see who her dad truly was. 
Lennie had some awesome quips in it, and the investigation was very good as usual for a Briscoe/Green episode. All in all a terrific episode. 

Narcosis is finishing up now, this is a pretty good one as well, a lot of twists and turns in it with the victim being one of the more unsympathetic ones in L&O’s history given her involvement in human trafficking and other illegal activity. I loved the rage Lennie and Ed had when they found the trafficked girls living in the storage container - Lennie rarely showed anger but he looked like he was about to punch the guy who was guarding the containers. Then it turns out the actual killer is the dad of the kid who was addicted to the porn site the victim was running. The judge shouldn’t have allowed the jury to convict on a lesser charge, I felt like the judge was letting her personal feelings get in the way of her judgment. She basically allowed a compromised verdict, just because the defendant was more sympathetic than the victim. The victim was a bad person and the defendant was somewhat sympathetic, but he still deserved to be convicted of murder. There was a lot crammed in to this episode because of all of the unsavory activities the victim was involved in, so it was kind of all over the place, but it’s a good episode.

High & Low is starting now, then Stiff and Vaya Con Dios, very good finish to season 10. The first 2 episodes of season 11 finish up tonight’s marathon. 

[GHScorpiosRule]

Y'all Remember "Loco Parentis"? I'm fuzzy on whether the dad (Robert Clohesy) was indeed found guilty and sent to the slammer along with his murdering son, but life imitates art!

Just read that the parents of the kid who killed and injured classmates in the 2021 Oxford murders, both got 10-15 years each. The murdering son got life.

 

[buttersister]

Parents found guilty of manslaughter.
 

So not Jack’s depraved indifference murder. Someone at court mentioned that 10-15 was a lot at their age. More life/art.