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NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service: Dead Man Talking (2004)
Good episode of the show with an interesting twist but the transphobic nature just brings it down
I love this show. It's a great watch and this episode is really really good. The twist near the end with the killer hiding from the agency because they've gone through 3 years of gender transition.
My issue with the episode is that they treat this in a similar way to Ace Ventura Pet Detective. They treat it like a huge joke and constantly refer to the killer as a man even after she's shot through the head. As a trans woman, I hate to see this sort of thing in what was otherwise a really good episode.
This is why I'm giving it a 6. I personally would have given it a 9-10 if the gender transition was treated as something valid and not made a joke or something that just parrots a rhetoric about trans people made by people that have obviously never met or befriended anyone that is trans.
I say again, I love this show. I just wish this 1 thing was handled better as it did affect the overall enjoyment of the episode