User Reviews

Ethical considerations play a large part in this excellent episode of this hit series.

Jamie's partner might be fired for lying about a detail during the arrest of a suspect. Bebe Neuwirth is the new inspector general in town, ready to carve out a name for herself and ready to start that with Jamie's partner.

Frank beautifully proves to the Neuwirth character how the mind can play tricks on us. At the end, she acquiesces; although, Frank comes to endorse her position as the inspector.

The sidebar story is equally as good. It appeared that a disturbed individual threw a 15 year old oriental girl off a subway platform on to a coming train. What ensues afterward is unbelievable. This was not what happened as bullying and a lesbian relationship come into view.

I gave this episode a 1 because the solution to Jenko's problem-to have the (conveniently just arrived on the scene) Inspector General engage in a live fire exercise-is so overtly easy (trite) as to be an insult to the viewer. Some might think 1 star for that unfair, but one of the things I respect about this show is how intelligent it is, so to dumb it down like that is kind of offensive, and I don't get offended easily, not by TV shows, at least.

As a rule I'm a pretty big fan of the show, but wasn't it blindingly obvious in the first ten minutes or less that it was going to be proven that the homeless man was actually trying to save the girl from the subway? I mean it was just screaming that this was going to be the case. And this really is a police show story horse that has been beaten to death many times since the beginning of police TV shows.

As for Eddie, she honestly believed she was right in what she reported even though she wasn't. That said the idea that she'd get more than a reprimand for it, at the very worst, instead of having the DA trying to have her badge pulled is just plain silly! Though she certainly did need to get one. That made the whole rest of the episode that revolved around that premise really creak along with nothing to hang onto. Like how do they say in the DA's office? "Fruit of the poisonous tree."