The death of a college student at her school library appears to be connected to her involvement in a prostitution ring.The death of a college student at her school library appears to be connected to her involvement in a prostitution ring.The death of a college student at her school library appears to be connected to her involvement in a prostitution ring.
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- TriviaEnterprise corruption was a statute created to punish businesses that support or act as a front for organized crime. A person can be prosecuted for enterprise corruption if they knowingly are employed by a criminal enterprise and: 1. Intentionally participate in the criminal activity of the enterprise 2. Intentionally acquire any interest or control of an enterprise by conducting criminal activity. 3. Participate in a pattern of criminal activity and knowingly invest proceeds from the conduct into an enterprise. In order to be charged with enterprise corruption at least three different criminal acts must be committed by an employee(s) of the corrupt enterprise and at least two of them must be felonies. Enterprise corruption is a class B felony and carries a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in prison and a maximum of 25 years.
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Lennie Briscoe: You read about the college where they have a rule that a guy has to get permission for every stage of a make-out session? "Can I touch you here? Thank you. Now, can I put my hand there?"
Detective Rey Curtis: Isn't that the way you do it, Lennie? Beg?
Lennie Briscoe: Mr. Young Married. You don't even have any idea what you're missing.
Anita Van Buren: Yeah, late night reruns of I Dream of Jeannie.
Lennie Briscoe: Isn't that sexual harassment?
Anita Van Buren: File a charge.
- ConnectionsReferences I Dream of Jeannie (1965)
While there is still a good deal to like, my good but not great feelings on "Girlfriends" have not changed all that much. As said more than once, there are 'Law and Order' episodes that sound quite basic on paper but don't feel ordinary in execution so there is no close-mindedness intended here. "Girlfriends" has everything present and most of it is done absolutely correct, but not everything comes off and the episode is on the ordinary side.
Am going to start with the drawbacks this time. Some of the motives are a little on the murky side and could have been clearer in the reasons why characters behaved the way they do, especially the responsible.
It does again feel rushed at the end, am seeing a pattern here in a few of Season 6's later episodes. Other than the character interaction, what happens is not earth-shattering or unique.
However, there is a huge amount to love about "Girlfriends". It is very well acted by the regulars, especially Sam Waterston who has such command in the legal scenes. And every bit as much by excellent Cara Buono and James Naughton. The character interaction once again delivers wonderfully, how everybody communicates with each other in the legal scenes truly absorbs. The legal scenes are more interesting than the more than competently written if slightly routine policing ones, with real insight and conciseness. Compelling but never improbable.
The script is taut and intelligent. The story is a bit routine to begin with but really delivers in the legal scenes. The production values as ever have slickness and grit, with an intimacy without being claustrophobic. The music has presence when it's used but does so without being intrusive, some of it is quite haunting too. The direction is also understated but the tension never slips, the second half being full of it.
On the whole, good if not great or special. 7/10
- TheLittleSongbird
- Mar 4, 2021