Profiteer

PTSD soldier takes out ceo of body armor company so Democrat McCoy goes after next in line body armor executive with outrageous criminal charge and in count moralisms. Then McCoy goes off the moralizing deep end.

Notice there has never been a criminal trial/charge for battlefield equipment.. guess why? It's the law that extremely high bar for a civil lawsuit and zero chance of criminal.

Too many flaws, skip next when bing watching

Have loved the original 'Law and Order' for a long time, particularly the earlier seasons, and consider it my personal favourite of the 'Law and Order' franchise. Did like the idea for Season 17's "Profiteer", though on paper it may seem too ordinary and has the dangers of heavy-handedness and one-sided-ness. 'Law and Order' do have a good track record at making something great and more complex than expected out of stories that don't sound out of the ordinary on paper

"Profiteer" is a very good episode, if falling a little short of being great despite having a lot of great things individually. Like a lot of episodes in 'Law and Order's' late seasons and actually 'Law and Order' in general, it is a case of one half being superior to the other. But not because one half is bad, just that there is one half that executes the storytelling especially even better. Though perhaps it could have done a little bit more with the subject covered, which is a challenging one and a brave one to tackle.

Beginning with the good, it is a slickly made episode, the editing especially having come on quite a bit from when the show first started (never was it a problem but it got more fluid with each episode up to this stage). The music is sparingly used and never seemed melodramatic, the theme tune easy to remember as usual. The direction is sympathetic enough without being too low key on the whole.

The script is generally taut, with little fat, and intelligent. The story does intrigue and is tense and moving, the policing scenes are solidly done and the legalities are accessible and intriguing. It doesn't come over as preachy and it isn't too much of one side. Most of the acting is very, very good, Sam Waterston dominating.

Milena Govich is still bland and lacks personality, Cassady just never did it for me and can see why she only lasted one season.

Did find the ending slightly rushed as well, a lot of information to digest and it needed a longer amount of time to tell it.

Overall though, very good. 8/10.

A teenage boy was shooting a video during a female classmate's birthday party. Suddenly, after the girl's father got out of the limo, a man shot him dead three times. Sarcastically, the victim was a renowned businessman in bulletproof vests. Was the shooter a political activist? A witness didn't recognize him in the line-up, much to Cassidy disapproval. Shortly after, someone sent a Purple Heart to the victim's hometown: in Iraq, a soldier was killed due to a weak vest and fellow soldiers of his platoon held a grudge against who produced these vests. But there is something more: the man in charge inside the firm (Titus Welliver) pushed the production too hard to meet the deadline; delays in production would have jeopardized the contract. Then McCoy was confronted by the Pentagon that wanted to elude publicity.

Not an easy choice to make by NY prosecutors. Branch had his hands tied, but McCoy used to look more the law than relations with other authorities. He's ready to be the new boss.

A really rich guy is shot down as he steps from a limousine with his teen daughter whom he is bringing to the birthday to die for. It turns out he's a defense contractor and his company is responsible for supplying the army with flak vests in Iraq.

Jesse Martin and Milla Govich find that the shooter was an Iraq war veteran that saw his buddy shot and killed from a bullet that the vest should have stopped.

Sam Waterston if he's good at anything it's going after a big target. A military contractor is just his meat. Young John Boyd pleads out and gets a reduced sentence. Waterston's target is Titus Welliver who is the real brains behind the firm.

This is so ironic in that we cut domestic spending at home to provide the military what they says they need. And when we get in a shooting war the taxpayer does not get what he paid for. Our troops then pay with their lives.

See what kind of justice is meted out here.