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(2011)

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7/10
The race card
bkoganbing30 January 2020
Tom Selleck, Donnie Wahberg, and Will Estes all get involved in a single incident with Commissioner Reagan's favorite antagonist Reverend Darnell Potter.

Estes and training officer Nick Turturro respond to a 911 at the Reverend's church and are thrown down a flight of stairs with Turturro seriously injured. Wahlberg and Jennifer Esposito are the assigned detectives.

In the meantime Ato Essandoh as Potter is playing the race card for all it's worth. But Tom Selleck has a few tricks up his sleave as well. The outcome is quite interesting.
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2.6 is ***1/2
edwagreen5 November 2011
Warning: Spoilers
As usual, a very good episode. This one details racial conflict in the city, which is about to be exacerbated when 2 policemen, one of whom happens to be the young son of Commissioner Regan, is pushed down the stairs along with his partner when they receive word of something going on at a African-American religious center.

Right away, charges of racism fly by the minister, an Al Sharpton type.

Frank Regan is at odds with the African American mayor over this. Tensions are there.

It would have been even better to show the ramifications of what could happen as a result of this situation. The finances of our good Reverend are only briefly touched upon.

Nevertheless, this was a very good story.
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10/10
Well Done
pioneer6424 May 2022
So, it's a bit heavy-handed, and it lacks enough nuance to be aired today, a mere decade after it first aired. For all that, I think it's a pretty powerful testament about race, demagoguery, and policing.
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