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.
- Quotes
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.
I could drone on and on about how television and movies have always reflected what's going on in society. But i'm not. I'm going to thank the writers and producers. Thank them for writing and producing an episode like this, a story like this. There are real life consequences to the moral playground that the government has become and, unfortunately, you start playing with lives when you make decisions based on feelings and emotions like that.
The importance of the volunteer worker? There are real life people doing that. Right now. And a simple Google search will show that multiple have been threatened and, yes, even killed. So if you're marking off points for inaccuracy, you're either blind to the point of the show or blind to the world around you. Not a single bit was inaccurate. Except maybe in real life, the governor might've been able to buy his son's path out of trouble.
But the message. The message is so important. Lives are going to end but it's not the lives pro-lifers are worried about. It's the lives of the people with uteruses, the lives of the activists trying to help and protect them. This episode shows that. It tears the rose colored glasses off your face and forces you to confront the reality of what's going on.
All in all, the writers did an incredible job - showing the pain of growing up in a conservative family in a conservative state and needing to color outside their lines, showing everyone the kind of people that will stop at anything to help those struggling since Roe was overturned, highlighting the dangers and struggles that the people within the system face when they try to push back against the hatred filling our world.
As a Texan woman who is drowning in our REAL governor's REAL policies and laws that are affecting REAL women, I absolutely adored this episode. No notes, no critiques.
I implore those that were bothered by the message - please ask yourself why. Women and others with uteruses are in real danger. Why does a show bringing light to real issues bother you so much? And I ask you to think of the real people that are going through real, horrible things. Right now. And then, thank the writers.
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- Oct 21, 2022