An apparent murder-suicide by an auditor at the city's comptroller office takes a turn when an audit of the school district's security system is found.An apparent murder-suicide by an auditor at the city's comptroller office takes a turn when an audit of the school district's security system is found.An apparent murder-suicide by an auditor at the city's comptroller office takes a turn when an audit of the school district's security system is found.
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- Mandy Sherwood
- (as Mary McCann)
- Ronnie Jakes
- (as Mark Cassella)
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Did you know
- TriviaTracy Howe has played three different roles over the course of the series:
- Episode 1.22 Tuxedo Hill (2002) - Declan
- Episode 1.20 Badge (2002) - Declan
- Episode 1.6 The Extra Man (2001) - Leon
- Episode 1.4 The Faithful (2001) - Declan
- Episode 1.3 Smothered (2001) - Martell
- Episode 1.2 Art (2001) - Martell
- GoofsAfter Eames and Goren help LeGrand help unpack his groceries from the back of his car, and LeGrand walks into his house, the back window is still up, when Eames notices a decal on the side window. But when Goren walks around to the back and notices the trailer hitch, the back window is now closed.
- Quotes
Detective Robert Goren: Your girls. They go to Mary Hill. That's ten, fifteen thousand a year for each. How do you afford it?
Terry Randolph: If something's important enough, you find a way. We're very frugal.
Detective Robert Goren: [chuckles] Oh... oh... My partner's a, a miser. I'm frugal. And neither of us could afford a house, two kids in a private school...
Terry Randolph: You're not that frugal. You buy nice clothes. Pay full price; nothin' in your size is ever on sale. You buy good-quality accessories, like that leather case. You're not married, so you spend money on dates. You like good food. You have someone in to clean your apartment every week. You're smart, have lots of interests and hobbies, and you spend a fortune on them. I don't wonder that you don't have money for a house; I wonder how you make subway fare, the way you spend money.
- ConnectionsReferences Mutt and Jeff Break Into Society (1911)
The center of it all is Viola Davis who is a former NYPD officer who now works as school security. Working for the city full time and collecting a pension is called double dipping and against the law. Kathryn Erbe mentions her father got caught at it and had to return monies to the city.
In fact there are several doing it and she's the ringleader. Davis has also found other ways to make her school security job pay quite lucratively.
The women who did this is also a loving mom who is supporting two daughters and her own mother as a single mom. All this is to insure a good life for her kids. What a twisted sense of values she has.
This episode should be seen for the elaborate sting that Goren and Eames use to get Davis and for Davis's own performance.
- bkoganbing
- May 7, 2016
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