Law and Order Criminal Intent Season 4 Episode 22 Review
Has Law & Order hit its pace?
Law & Order Season 21 Episode iv featured cops making sarcastic comments, a case with a ton of twists, and a story ripped from the headlines.
It wasn't exactly what the series was years ago, but information technology was making an endeavour, though its endeavor to have on the issues surrounding pop star Britney Spears' lawsuit to terminate her father's guardianship was strange.
The constabulary side of things seemed to go more smoothly than they had.
Bernard: Looks like our D.O.A. was a judge.
Cosgrove: Non the verdict he was looking for.
Cosgrove's attempt to aqueduct Jerry Orbach's Briscoe with a few sarcastic 1-liners aside, there was some solid police work. The cops did their best to untangle clues and work through a long doubtable list to effigy out what happened to Judge Keating.
Their first doubtable was the wrong one, of course -- they weren't going to solve the example ten minutes into the 60 minutes -- but they kept putting one human foot in front of the other and following the clues wherever they led.
Judge Keating'due south gambling problem seemed like the most promising motive, which was why it was so bizarre when the killer instead turned out to be a tennis star who seemed to accept naught to do with anything.
There was this running joke about Bernard beingness into tennis that struck me as unnecessary throughout the hour, merely information technology did assist him cleft the case.
Bernard'south reasoning for why Lucy was the most likely doubtable made sense, especially when he factored in her tennis skills giving her the ability to swing a fire extinguisher at the gauge's head.
And in one case forensics found her hair on the murder weapon, it didn't seem likely it was anyone else.
Still, it was articulate that her father was a controlling ass even before the episode drifted toward a story about mental illness and guardianship. I expected the large twist to be that he did it and put his daughter'southward hair on the burn down extinguisher to frame her.
The prosecutorial side of things began in the usual manner, with Price believing they didn't have a strong enough example and McCoy overruling him.
Tell the jury what you accept and don't take or the defense force will. Exist upfront with them. Otherwise they won't believe another word that comes out of your mouth.
McCoy
While the case would have been stronger had the prosecution had a clear idea of Lucy's motive from the get-go, motive isn't required to brand a murder case.
That hair on the fire extinguisher wasn't circumstantial, either. It was a definite lucifer to the defendant, and there was no other plausible caption for how it got on the murder weapon beside Lucy being the ane to wield that weapon.
So the defence force would accept to use insanity or another type of argument other than straight not-guilty because that prove was going to be tough to overcome even without a clear thought of motive.
Ironically, that's what led to the prosecution discovering that Lucy was being victimized by her father and that she snapped subsequently he blamed the judge for his refusal to let her to marry her swain.
You're not saying that anybody with bipolar disorder is criminally insane, are y'all?
Cost
After that revelation, the story drifted far off-course. Information technology'due south not that it wasn't a worthwhile story to tell, only it didn't fit the homicide investigation and prosecution motif that Law & Lodge is famous for.
If the franchise wanted to practice a story about a celebrity's begetter abusing a guardianship and using faux claims of mental illness to control her, it probably would have been better suited to SVU. Those detectives would realize their victim was being controlled past her father, and abuse falls under the SVU umbrella.
Instead, the writers tried to fit that issue into a murder trial, which didn't piece of work nearly besides.
Equally the judge pointed out, arguments over guardianship didn't vest in his courtroom. Nor did Price and Marhoun have whatsoever business getting involved in that side of things.
Their job was to prosecute a murder, period. They had 2 choices: withdraw the murder charge and instead charge Lucy with manslaughter, or gt Lucy to take a bargain.
No thing how right they were that McDaniel was abusing the guardianship, that wasn't in their purview. They should have at least consulted with SVU if they wanted this to exist at all realistic!
The other big outcome with this was Bernard visiting Lucy to make her aware that her father was keeping of import info from her.
Non only did that non seem like something a homicide investigator would do, but it could exist seen as unduly influencing a criminal defendant. If McDaniel and his lawyer wanted to, they could have argued that Lucy was coerced into making this plea and renouncing guardianship.
That would not accept gone well for Bernard.
Lucy turned out to take a ton of inner force once she learned what her dad was doing to her. She apace decided to change her plea, stood up to him, and asked for her guardianship to be terminated.
That wasn't realistic either -- someone who had been under her begetter's thumb for and so long wouldn't have changed just like that -- just at least it led to a happy ending.
Your turn, Law & Club fanatics. Did y'all similar this loosely ripped-from-the-headlines story, or was it too far removed from reality for yous?
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Law & Order doesn't air another new episode until April seven, 2022, but in the meantime, you can watch Law & Society online to grab up on anything y'all missed.
Law & Order airs on NBC on Thursdays at viii PM EST / PST. The next new episode airs on April 7, 2022.
Jack Ori is a senior staff writer for Tv Fanatic. His debut young adult novel, Reinventing Hannah, is available on Amazon. Follow him on Twitter.
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