The worse episode….??
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christianturba4 — 12 years ago(September 27, 2013 01:31 AM)
Apart form One Fall and partially Dead Heat, don't agree with the others
The worst thing in late Returns is to see Lilly, the champion of justice, simply accepting the "official truth" (along with Stillman), and sort of "isolating" Scotty who really wanted to discover the real truth..we can clearly see frustration on his face when they bring Abby away..
Apart form this, I did like all the "anticipated "references to Clinton, polls, etc.very politically incorrect!
One Small Step is one of the best episodes of eason 6, of course it's very similar to Sleepover but as I had pointed out in another thread there are some differences concerning the killer's motives and the integration of the " outcast" in the group..both episodes are relaly good
The red and the blue is quite good, yes they could have avoided all the tricks about Nord and Sud but it ends up being funny with Charlene and Big daddy.. -
sheilagermaro — 13 years ago(May 21, 2012 05:15 PM)
The Dealer-such a horrible ending and no one really got what they had coming in the end.
Late Returns-Ditto
Blood on the Tracks-Love the Big Chill, hate this episode. So boring and I hated how it took place in '81 yet had a '60s feel to it and the Bob Dylan soundtrack did nothing for me. The only thing that saved it was Jamie Bamber.
Spiders-I can live with the racial element, but what got me is how no one stood up for that poor little girl, not even that novice lawyer of hers. Why wasn't she made a ward of the state?
The Red and The Blue-awful. Country music stinks and the politico theme to the episode made it hard to keep up with.
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fell-ashlyn — 13 years ago(June 08, 2012 08:15 AM)
Not sure the name, but its the episode where Rush's sister is kidnapped and the case has a girl who gets killed by these teenagers in a car. The killer was a kid of a cop on the force and covered it up. That episode was rather flat and boring to me
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angelosdaughter — 13 years ago(June 13, 2012 09:22 PM)
"Disco Inferno" Although I don't condone the father's actions, I could understand his frustration with a son who wanted to make such a trivial thing as disco his whole life. The atmosphere of that club was so seedy.
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meerschweinchen_freunde — 13 years ago(July 18, 2012 08:24 AM)
My least favorite episode was "Ghost of My Child". A well off couple desperate for a child would not kidnap a baby, set fire to a place and try to pass the kid off as theirs. They would try to adopt or hire a surrogate mother. Especially a doctor and his wife.
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angelosdaughter — 13 years ago(August 04, 2012 08:52 PM)
If it's the episode I am thinking of the child's mother was a drug addict named Priscilla who cleaned up so she could keep her baby with whom she fell in love at birth. No one would help her, but she was determined to keep her baby and give him a good life.
The social worker involved with the case wanted a child and her husband, who worked in a hospital, got the corpse of an abused child and stole Priscilla's baby, leaving the corpse in his place, then set her house on fire while she had stepped out (I forgot why) for a moment. They then raised Priscilla's little boy as theirs until they were discovered by the Cold Case team. At the end, Valens drives up with the little guy to the flower market where the mother now works. Of course the boy hardly remembers her, but the hope in her face as she reaches out to him offering a brightly colored flower is so poignant.
I like this episode.
It reminds me of another episode of which I don't remember the title in which an ex-convict vows that he will become someone his son(who has rejected him and shows signs of going down the same path) does not have to be ashamed of and keeps that promise
going undercover to thwart the robbery of an armoured car and is betrayed at the last minute by a crooked cop who kills him
. It reminds us that sometimes although some people have made bad choices, love for their children inspires them to strive to be better.Both of these episodes are heartbreakers. -
meerschweinchen_freunde — 13 years ago(August 05, 2012 05:14 AM)
Well then this episode is even more unrealistic since a social worker who would be desperate for a child would more likely than not know the consequences of doing something like that and getting caught would probably happen sooner or later.
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angelosdaughter — 13 years ago(August 05, 2012 11:03 AM)
The series itself is unrealistic,(in real life, the dead really don't appear at the successful solution to a case) so that doesn't matter, and actually people who are desperate for a child in some cases don't care about consequences. If you think about it, it was a perfect crime. An infant's unidentifiable corpse was found in the fire ravaged apartment. I am sure the social worker and her husband never expected to be discovered.
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meerschweinchen_freunde — 13 years ago(August 05, 2012 01:59 PM)
Yes people who are desperate for a child will do things and not care about the consequences but usually a doctor and a social worker who want a child would either try to adopt or hire a surrogate and more likely than not have the resources to afford it. I can suspend disbelief for certain things on these shows but not that.
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galostgirl — 12 years ago(June 12, 2013 03:16 AM)
To them, they didn't do anything wrong. The dead baby was a John Doe and no one would miss him. "Mom" was a social worker, she'd seen how kids with drug addicted parents grow up and figured they'd save the little boy from a mother that loved her drugs more than her kid (which obviously wasn't true). This way they saved their money and saved the child's life, in their minds.
One thing about rich people is that they do not want to part with a dime if they don't absolutely have to.
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meerschweinchen_freunde — 12 years ago(June 18, 2013 08:27 AM)
I'm sorry but I still do not buy it because in the real world even rich people know better than to do that because the child's birth would have to be registered with the authorities and I don't think that the authorities could be bribed to look the other way. A rich person can afford to bribe the authorities but not hire a surrogate? Give me a break.
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angelosdaughter — 12 years ago(June 28, 2013 05:24 AM)
But, this is a TV series with a fantastic element: the dead don't really make an appearance in the real world when their cases are solved. In fact, a lot of what goes on in these police procedurals doesn't exist in the real world, including some of the technology they have to help solve cases.
The audience just usually suspends disbelief.
"..sure you won't change your mind? Why, is there something wrong with the one I have?"