"Crisis Ground" concerns a crime you would not normally associate with the duties of the FBI. However, the killing apparently occurred on US government land, so investigating it falls into the lap of the Bureau.
The story begins with a young punk-like guy spending time in town...and generally making a nuisance of himself. After groping a waitress in a bar, the woman is found dead...and the townsfolk automatically assume the punk did it. Now many of the locals are sporting for a fight with residents of Camp New Start....a halfway house where the punk lives. The big problem is that although he's a jerk, this man DIDN'T kill the waitress...and the locals are developing a mob mentality. Can Erskine and the FBI solve this before things get out of hand?
This is a fair episode...only fair. This is because the show just seemed unrealistic to me. Folks became so angry and so violent so quickly...it just didn't make a lot of sense. I really think some subtlety would have helped a lot! This one lacks this and believability.
By the way, Robert Drivas played the accused punk. I wondered why I hadn't seen him on TV in several decades and checked his IMDB bio. Apparently he died of AIDS back in the mid-1980s. What a loss.
The story begins with a young punk-like guy spending time in town...and generally making a nuisance of himself. After groping a waitress in a bar, the woman is found dead...and the townsfolk automatically assume the punk did it. Now many of the locals are sporting for a fight with residents of Camp New Start....a halfway house where the punk lives. The big problem is that although he's a jerk, this man DIDN'T kill the waitress...and the locals are developing a mob mentality. Can Erskine and the FBI solve this before things get out of hand?
This is a fair episode...only fair. This is because the show just seemed unrealistic to me. Folks became so angry and so violent so quickly...it just didn't make a lot of sense. I really think some subtlety would have helped a lot! This one lacks this and believability.
By the way, Robert Drivas played the accused punk. I wondered why I hadn't seen him on TV in several decades and checked his IMDB bio. Apparently he died of AIDS back in the mid-1980s. What a loss.