While looking for the five men named on the mailing list, Fontana and Green complain about having to drive to New Jersey for the final two suspects. But on the computer screen we saw earlier, all five men had New York addresses.
The influenza vaccine does not offer the kind of protection that is implied in this episode. On several occasions characters in the episode refer to it as being a nearly foolproof method of being protected against the influenza virus. The vaccine offers protection against known, common strains of the influenza virus and it can offer some protection against possible mutations of the virus, but not all of them. In fact the effectiveness of the vaccine varies from year to year, sometimes it's at 70%, other years 40%. The reason for this is medical science currently cannot predict all the different possible ways the virus can mutate and it cannot offer protection against the less commonly encountered strains. So while getting the influenza vaccination does reduce the chances of being infected by the virus by a good amount and it often helps reduce the severity of symptoms if infection does occur, it is far from being the near guarantied method of avoiding infection it is portrayed to be in this episode.
Under cross-examination by Jack McCoy, Elliot Peters says "Besides, who dies of the flu?" in 1918, an estimated 50 million people died as a result of the Spanish flu pandemic.
While in the storage units Detective Green calls a 10-13 over the radio after the suspect fires a few shots in the air. A code 10-13 is only used when an officer is in immediate need of backup in an emergency situation, such as an officer being wounded or is being fired on and in danger of being overrun. In this scenario it would not be appropriate to call a code 10-13 as no officers were injured and there was already sufficient backup at the scene to apprehend the suspect. When an officer hears a code 10-13 protocol is to drop whatever they are doing and respond, since that isn't needed in this situation all it's going to do is waste other officers time. The proper procedure here would be to call a code 10-29 (crime in progress) with the additional notification that shots are being fired.
A few times during the episode Detective Fontana cocks the hammer on his revolver without the trigger moving to the rear position, making it obvious that a non-gun (prop) is being used.
When the hammer on a double action revolver is cocked the trigger is pulled back to the rear of the trigger guard, meaning much less force is needed to pull the trigger compared to when the hammer is uncocked and the revolver is fired double action style.
When the hammer on a double action revolver is cocked the trigger is pulled back to the rear of the trigger guard, meaning much less force is needed to pull the trigger compared to when the hammer is uncocked and the revolver is fired double action style.
Fontana tells the suspect that he is facing 16 counts of homicide. However homicide is not a criminal charge, it's a manner of death. Whenever a person dies as the result of another person's actions, whether intentional or unintentional, the medical examiner rules the manner of death as a homicide. There are a number of criminal charges that can be brought against someone guilty of committing a unjustified homicide, including: criminally negligent homicide, manslaughter in the second degree, vehicular manslaughter, manslaughter in the first degree, murder in the second degree, aggravated murder and murder in the first degree.
The actual criminal charges the defendant will be facing is manslaughter in the second degree since his reckless actions unintentionally resulted in the death of several people.
The actual criminal charges the defendant will be facing is manslaughter in the second degree since his reckless actions unintentionally resulted in the death of several people.