Blue Bloods (TV Series) Old Wounds (2012) User Reviews

Nothing Like Old Wounds to Surface ***1/2

[edwagreen · 9/10 · 13 October 2012]

The title line to this episode is most appropriate. Erin's ex-husband, a handsome hulk, reappears and will be opposite his ex-wife in a case. Furthermore, Frank, his ex-father-in-law, will be called to testify. I just love the way that Frank is able to squash that part. It always seems to be it's not what you know but whom you know.

At first, it looked like a serial killer was on the loose with the shooting of 2 guys in private areas. Of course, a link is found where the victims had been exonerated on a technicality from a rape accusation. Leave it to those technicalities. In the meantime, the victim is emotionally scarred and wants death for herself.

The other segment was most poignant. The winner of the Commissioner for a Day Award is a bitter teen whose mother was murdered. Wait until you see who had chosen him as the winner and not only takes an interest in the young man, but who has the case reopened as well with startling results.

Wait until you see who the killer was of the exonerated perpetrators. The official police reaction to this is customary but so true to life.

What forensics takes away forensics gives

[bkoganbing · 4/10 · 19 January 2017]

Someone slipped up on this one. This story involves the shooting of two of four men who gang raped a young girl who is now in a psychiatric center because a good lawyer got them all off. Sometimes those legal aid attorneys can be very good.

As it turns out forensics got the perpetrators off, but it's forensics that identifies the perpetrator of the execution style murders with a little torture involved to the original investigating detective played by Danny Mastrogiorgio. As a cop he could have gotten a weapon without a body on it already. That made it easy for Donnie Wahlberg to find out who it was and in fact save one of the others from death. The writers missed on that.

The other parts of the story involve Peter Herrmann and Bridget Moynahan in a visitation rights battle over their kid and also they are opposing each other in a case at that point. Gets a little sticky.

And Tom Selleck has to deal with a kid with a chip on his shoulder from East New York who won a Spend a Day With the Police Commissioner contest by dint of an essay he wrote. He even got the commissioner to take a personal look at the homicide of Justin Martin's mother. That part of the episode was well done.

But overall this is not one of the better Blue Bloods episodes.