Three Men and Adena is a masterpiece. Tense, gripping and realistic, it's a pivotal moment in the series: rookie Tim Bayliss (Kyle Secor, an excellent and underrated actor I'd like to see even now that his glorious Homicide days are behind) and his partner Frank Pembleton (charismatic Andre Braugher) interrogate Risley Tucker (Moses Gunn, in a brilliantly understated performance), the main suspect of the murder of young Adena Watson, Bayliss' first case. The whole episode focuses on the psychological duel between the two cops and the suspect.
At first, the detectives' cooperation is ineffective. Each of them is basically conducting his own interrogation, with different methods, and hindering the other; Tucker is uncomfortable and subdued, but quiet.
Then, Bayliss and Pembleton find the right chemistry and, in a mesmerizing duet, have the suspect in a corner.
But, at the end, the seemingly simple-minded Tucker turns the table on them.
Writing is superb. There are moments in which you believe they got the wrong man, and others in which you are sure Tucker committed the heinous crime.
Performances are fabulous. Braugher and Secor have an amazing chemistry; Gunn is memorably enigmatic as Tucker.
Sheer brilliance, one of the finest hours of television ever.
10/10
At first, the detectives' cooperation is ineffective. Each of them is basically conducting his own interrogation, with different methods, and hindering the other; Tucker is uncomfortable and subdued, but quiet.
Then, Bayliss and Pembleton find the right chemistry and, in a mesmerizing duet, have the suspect in a corner.
But, at the end, the seemingly simple-minded Tucker turns the table on them.
Writing is superb. There are moments in which you believe they got the wrong man, and others in which you are sure Tucker committed the heinous crime.
Performances are fabulous. Braugher and Secor have an amazing chemistry; Gunn is memorably enigmatic as Tucker.
Sheer brilliance, one of the finest hours of television ever.
10/10