Review of Whiplash

Law & Order: Whiplash (2001)
Season 11, Episode 19
9/10
People are willing to believe the worst about lawyers. Especially personal injury lawyers.
8 November 2017
A couple went outside a restaurant to have a smoke break. They noticed a dead body by the garbage, calling 911 right away. The victim had severe bruises on his chest and he turn out to be an illegal resident. Thanks to a local priest, detectives managed to locate his poor family: he was a family man from El Salvador and he is survived by his wife (Adriana Sevahn Nichols) and two little children. He worked at a building company that paid him just 50 bucks a day; anyway 250 bucks were found in his pocket, so he had to do something more on the side. His new employer (a moving company entrepreneur) is part of a car accident scam: the businessman provide car and people who staged the accident and a doctor makes the referral; there must be someone else who pull the strings and draw up papers to fraud the insurance. Anyway the real poor victims are not willing to testify because they're afraid of being deported, maybe the hustlers manage to get away with it....

Nice episode that shows us the life out of the spotlight. A lot of immigrants struggle to survive; they live in dirty flat and stand in the street corner waiting for a daily job for few bucks. I don't think in their country home life can be any worse than this.
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