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Subject: Re: Law & Order "Duty to Protect" 2/13/2025 (spoilers)
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 04:27:22 -0000 (UTC)
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On Feb 13, 2025 at 11:44:38 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" <ahk@chinet.com>
wrote:

> This episode seemed very familiar. It seemed like a script repurposed
> from an episode of SVU that I must have seen. Even Elizabeth Marvel
> pokes her nose in.
> 
> Abigail Spencer is this week's guest defendant, mother of the victim,
> wasted in a dreadfully written script.
> 
> A product model is taping a commercial for a cleaning product/personal
> protection/skin care product (It does it all!) Gosh, she looks 16.
> That's 'cuz she is.
> 
> Of course she's tonight's murder victim. Riley and Shaw have a stilted
> discussion, being required to forgo the gallows humor due to the age of
> the victim. Hey! Briscoe and Green never stopped cracking wise.

And it certainly wouldn't have stopped Horatio from putting on his sunglasses
and waiting for The Who to scream "Yeaaahhhhh!"

> They find a credit card receipt from the stepfather, breaking his
> alibi. But they can't find motive till a video the victim shot in which
> she accuses her stepfather of raping her repeated at age 14.
> 
> The video hadn't been made public yet.

And Price showed it during his opening argument! You can't present evidence to
the jury during opening arguments, for the love of gawd!

> Upon seeing Marvel, Mauroon gets uber-sympathetic to the defendant.

I think you're confusing the defense attorney actress with someone else. She
was played by Elsa Davis and Marvel is listed nowhere in the rest of the cast
for the episode.

> The defense wants to put a psychiatrist on the stand to argue the
> defendant's state of mind which Price objects to as state of mind is
> irrelevant to the crimes she's charged with.

Astoundingly, the judge actually rules in the prosecution's favor, something
the Judicial Ethics Committee will probably sanction her for. LAW & ORDER
judges are ethically required to overrule all prosecution objections and allow
whatever crazy nonsense the defense attorneys think up.