Battle Lines
- Episode aired Sep 29, 2022
The daughter of a politician is found dead after an apparent attack. Once Cosgrove and Shaw start to unravel the details they realize this isn't a random act of violence.The daughter of a politician is found dead after an apparent attack. Once Cosgrove and Shaw start to unravel the details they realize this isn't a random act of violence.The daughter of a politician is found dead after an apparent attack. Once Cosgrove and Shaw start to unravel the details they realize this isn't a random act of violence.
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- TriviaThis episode is directed by Milena Govich, who played Detective Nina Cassidy (for just one season) in Season 17. Her aunt, actress Milica Govich, guest stars as Judge Dreben.
- GoofsCosgrove states that the victim (17) is the same age as his daughter. However, in Gimme Shelter - Part One (2022), when he is having lunch with her he clearly states she is 15.
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Valerie Adams: I was pissed. The girl kept ducking out of all the official tour activities.
Detective Frank Cosgrove: As her host, that could have got you in trouble.
Valerie Adams: That's what I told her, not that it did any good. The first day, she took off to meet up with someone and stayed out all night.
Detective Jalen Shaw: She tell you where she was going?
Valerie Adams: No, but she was obviously partying. She showed up the next morning super hungover.
Detective Jalen Shaw: And you didn't report this to anyone?
Valerie Adams: I wasn't happy about it, but I wasn't gonna narc on her. It sounded like she came from a really conservative family. So I guess it's not that surprising she wanted to have a little fun.
Detective Frank Cosgrove: Why'd you two get in a fight?
Valerie Adams: She was supposed to come with me to a class this morning, but she told me she had something she had to go do and asked me to cover for her again. So I let her have it.
Detective Frank Cosgrove: But you still signed her in.
Valerie Adams: [confused and a bit worried] Am I in trouble?
Detective Jalen Shaw: Did she mention who she was meeting up with?
Valerie Adams: No, but I do know that whoever she met with that first day, she met them at Evo Café in Midtown. She needed my help figuring out how to get there.
Yes, I thought that Detective Bernard was one of the most grating characters in the huge Law and Order universe. Of the many detectives they could have brought back for the resurrection, he would have been my last choice. I'm not sure whose decision it was to write him out but it was a wise one.
Shifting my focus back to this particular episode, yes they essentially painted Fox News and Hannity as the right wing propaganda garbage they are. At the same time, by having the characters talk about watching Fox and Hannity, they were legitimizing them. Most intelligent, educated people I know, especially fellow New Yorkers, would never turn on Fox News for any reason. Maybe they had to, in order to thoroughly investigate their case. I'll give them slack for this one but the next time someone mentions watching Fox, I might once again reevaluate my opinion of this show.
Finally, this is my sacred city, New York. It's not Wisconsin or Kentucky. You wouldn't see that many right wing activists, especially violent ones, protesting outside the court building. I don't want to say what the protests were about because I don't want to give the story away. I'll only point out that, when the ku klux klan was granted permission to hold a rally in New York, essentially on the same spot as the final scene of this episode, six klansmen showed up and something in the neighborhood of a million people came out to protest their presence. I was there. The klansmen were confined to a tiny stage. The anti-klan people stretched at least a couple of square miles.
Yes, there might have been ten people out protesting for the right but there is no possibility that there would have been a 50-50 split, as the scene seemed to indicate. Fox News loves to demonize New York, in spite of the facts that they're based here and that their heroes, Trump and Giuliani, both spent much of their lives trying to be kings of the city. Talking about watching Hannity as if it's the normal thing to do, along with the right wing extremist protesters, almost feeds Fox's rants.
Again though, for the most part, this was right on target. However, there are ways of showing the flip side without legitimizing it.