An exciting episode. Brenda Vacarro is awesome as the rookie cop. The plot is believable and well done.
Where it fails is in its dated psychology. It accurately reflects 1970s culture: Inspector Mike Stone's reservations about women as cops probably still exists today but there is less blame & shaming of women for "letting their rapists indoors." This was the cavalier attitude of the police psychologist in this episode. His sardonic attitude towards the grim subject of rape in general is intolerable today. In fact, very likely a female psychiatrist would be the consultant on force and she would not see anything humorous in the subject matter. Furthermore the male psychologist's claim that a dominating mother/weak father creates a rapist was an accepted theory back then but doesn't completely fly now. Further decades of research has indicated that rapists aren't all victims of a terrible home life. Many other factors come into play.
Changing attitudes and knowledge date the episode but when Detective Keller shoots the rapist wearing a look of justice served, I have to agree that revenge is sweet no matter the decade.
Where it fails is in its dated psychology. It accurately reflects 1970s culture: Inspector Mike Stone's reservations about women as cops probably still exists today but there is less blame & shaming of women for "letting their rapists indoors." This was the cavalier attitude of the police psychologist in this episode. His sardonic attitude towards the grim subject of rape in general is intolerable today. In fact, very likely a female psychiatrist would be the consultant on force and she would not see anything humorous in the subject matter. Furthermore the male psychologist's claim that a dominating mother/weak father creates a rapist was an accepted theory back then but doesn't completely fly now. Further decades of research has indicated that rapists aren't all victims of a terrible home life. Many other factors come into play.
Changing attitudes and knowledge date the episode but when Detective Keller shoots the rapist wearing a look of justice served, I have to agree that revenge is sweet no matter the decade.
