A schizophrenic chemistry student is on trial for killing a former school janitor, but a professor claims that he is part of one of his drug studies and that his sickness is under control.A schizophrenic chemistry student is on trial for killing a former school janitor, but a professor claims that he is part of one of his drug studies and that his sickness is under control.A schizophrenic chemistry student is on trial for killing a former school janitor, but a professor claims that he is part of one of his drug studies and that his sickness is under control.
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- TriviaMercury fulminate is highly sensitive to heat and friction, which is what causes it to detonate on impact with objects. Throughout the 19th and mid-20th centuries it was used as the explosive component of black-powder firearm caps as well as rifle and pistol cartridges and shotgun shell primers. The primer is the component of a cartridge that is responsible for initiating the combustion of the primary explosive charge (the gunpowder) in the cartridge. When the primer is struck by a firearm's hammer, the friction caused by the impact causes the mercury fulminate to undergo a exothermic reaction (detonation), and the combustion then in turn ignites the gunpowder. Mercury fulminate was replaced as the main component of primers in the late 20th century because it tended to degrade over time: it would break down into its constituent elements, and the mercury in it would react with the brass in the cartridge weakening its structural integrity. It was replaced with less toxic and more stable chemicals like lead azide, lead styphnate, and tetrazene.
- GoofsDuring her visit to Fred Sawyer's home in Baltimore, Jamie Ross tells Sawyer that, as a lawyer, he should know that "the law requires him to report a lost or stolen weapon", and Sawyer says he knows the law. In fact, the state of Maryland has no such law.
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Det. Lennie Briscoe: [Looking through the list of people who had mail-ordered an assassination handbook] If you see one of my exes in there, let me know.
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"Double Blind" has a very interesting subject that was quite different for 'Law and Order' at that time and at this early stage of its run. It is one of those subjects that could go either way in execution, of all the diverse subjects explored in Season 7 that for "Double Blind" is one of the more difficult ones. Either it could have been very thought-provoking and remarkably educational, raising interesting psychological and ethical questions. Or it could have been executed in a too bizarre and confused manner.
On the most part, "Double Blind" is one of the episodes in the former category. Up to this still early point of Season 7, the season had not had a bad episode with two thirds being above great and the weakest still being good. While not quite one of the best episodes of Season 7, bang in the middle when it comes to ranking the six episodes up to this stage of the season and a step down from the brilliant previous two episodes, "Double Blind" is still excellent and has a lot to recommend.
There is very, very little to dislike here, it doesn't quite have the same amount of complexity and tension that the previous two episodes and "I. D." did.
So much though is truly great. While all the regulars are typically excellent, especially in the legal scenes, "Double Blind" is an example of a couple of the supporting actors being even better. Mark Bateman's powerful, tortured turn is a major highlight here and John Patrick Lloyd is skin-crawling. Both characters fascinate, and another case of the perpetrator not being the person one hates by the end of the episode but instead the person that made him come to be the way he did.
As usual for 'Law and Order' and its spin offs, the production values are solid and the intimacy of the photography doesn't get static or too filmed play-like. The music when used is not too over-emphatic and has a melancholic edge that is quite haunting. The direction is accomodating yet also alert.
Furthermore, the script is very intelligently crafted and has intensity and gritty edge while handling the topic sensitively too, didn't find anything ham-handed or one-sided about how the topic was dealt with. The story has still not lost the ability to shock and its uncompromising approach to difficult material is neither overboard strange or confusing despite being complicated for those not in that field. The ending has always stayed with me and the episode does really well at exploring the ethical and psychological issues of the subject without any alienating.
On the whole, great. 9/10.
On the most part, "Double Blind" is one of the episodes in the former category. Up to this still early point of Season 7, the season had not had a bad episode with two thirds being above great and the weakest still being good. While not quite one of the best episodes of Season 7, bang in the middle when it comes to ranking the six episodes up to this stage of the season and a step down from the brilliant previous two episodes, "Double Blind" is still excellent and has a lot to recommend.
There is very, very little to dislike here, it doesn't quite have the same amount of complexity and tension that the previous two episodes and "I. D." did.
So much though is truly great. While all the regulars are typically excellent, especially in the legal scenes, "Double Blind" is an example of a couple of the supporting actors being even better. Mark Bateman's powerful, tortured turn is a major highlight here and John Patrick Lloyd is skin-crawling. Both characters fascinate, and another case of the perpetrator not being the person one hates by the end of the episode but instead the person that made him come to be the way he did.
As usual for 'Law and Order' and its spin offs, the production values are solid and the intimacy of the photography doesn't get static or too filmed play-like. The music when used is not too over-emphatic and has a melancholic edge that is quite haunting. The direction is accomodating yet also alert.
Furthermore, the script is very intelligently crafted and has intensity and gritty edge while handling the topic sensitively too, didn't find anything ham-handed or one-sided about how the topic was dealt with. The story has still not lost the ability to shock and its uncompromising approach to difficult material is neither overboard strange or confusing despite being complicated for those not in that field. The ending has always stayed with me and the episode does really well at exploring the ethical and psychological issues of the subject without any alienating.
On the whole, great. 9/10.
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