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A well written, superbly acted episode depicting spousal abuse leading to murder, with plenty of twists and turns to keep the story moving to conclusion. Commenting on the victim's estranged husband, Brenda tells Pope she would still like to arrest him. Pope offers, odds are, one day you will.

Any and every four-letter word to describe how much of a louse the husband was cannot be told enough. The closing office scene is fitting when Pope concludes the meeting by telling husband-Ryan on behalf of the LAPD we are sorry because he lied to them so much and he knocked his wife around to the extent he was considered a prime suspect in her murder. At conclusion, the idiot husband was expecting something that he certainly did not deserve, and therefore Pope was true to the LAPD, he told it like it was, don't let the door hit you on the way out. The killer is caught at the end thanks to excellent police work following evidence around the few locations the victims were to work and live.

The husband is the primary suspect until the confrontation at the end with the arrest of the killer. All along the officers hypothesize how he could have committed the murder, then how he possibly could have assaulted another woman, too. Watch how Brenda fits all the pieces to the case together in order to wrap this thing up. The players performing the assigned roles are very professional because the photographs used in the story makes one want to jump through the screen and take the law into their own hands dusting both the husband and the actual killer.

Brenda perseveres at home contending with her parents visiting, and finally telling her father in no uncertain terms she and Fritz will be married when they decide the date and location; stop the pressure inquiries. The parental roles are a side show I could do without, their difference in age, the accents and just the plain corn-pone manner the lines are delivered; pass. Brenda drops the southern drawl throughout unless she wants to make a point for spite.