It isn’t typically that Danny’s delicate aspect takes heart stage.
He is typically a hothead who browbeats confessions out of criminals or butts heads along with his siblings.
However on Blue Bloods Season 10 Episode 18, Danny took it arduous when a perp commited suicide, and his response was much more compelling than his regular story.
Danny’s case began out as an ordinary Danny/Baez case.
It wasn’t all that attention-grabbing. Two ladies died of a drug overdose, a health care provider mentioned the medication had been uncommon, and Danny and Baez did their regular factor to get individuals to speak.
The drug vendor they lastly arrested was pretty bland as such characters go, and I wasn’t significantly impressed with the reveal that Jules, the ladies’ “den mom,” had purchased the medication that killed them.
In spite of everything, Danny had already identified that one of many two adults supervising them needed to know the place the medication got here from, and the lady was uncooperative from the get-go.
It regarded like we had been in for the usual perp chase and arrest… after which Jules hung herself.
It was particularly unhappy that she’d locked her little canine out of the room and it was yapping to be let in when Danny and Baez arrived.
At first, I assumed they’d obtained there in time and Jules was going to make it and face some penalties for her half within the ladies’ dying. However there was no miracle in retailer for her, and Danny was left with the sensation that injustice had gained the day.
Three extra individuals died final evening due to this unhealthy batch. That is 5 individuals and counting. You have to begin being straight with us.
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This type of story is a superb car for Danny as a result of it reminds viewers of the rationale he turned a cop within the first place. Generally he enjoys having the ability to lord it over suspects just a little an excessive amount of, however at backside he cares about victims and needs to get justice for them.
That was why he was so upset about Jules’ dying. He felt it was egocentric and denied everybody the power to get justice for the individuals who died from the unhealthy medication.
I used to be on the fence about him calling Jules’ suicide cowardly.
Individuals typically choose accomplished suicides that approach, and usually the particular person was dwelling with insurmountable ache. Blue Bloods should not reinforce that stereotype, however on the identical time, this wasn’t a typical suicide.
Jules’ alternative might need come partially out of guilt, however she did not resolve to kill herself till she knew she was about to be caught. So Danny was doubtless proper that she solely did it to evade having to take duty for her actions.
In the meantime, Frank’s investigation right into a priest for his outdated buddy took a number of attention-grabbing turns.
My solely criticism about this story was that an excessive amount of of the particular investigation was off-screen.
Sid complained about his discomfort with the entire thing and Frank ordered him to research anyway, however then we jumped to Frank telling Kevin that the priest was no pedophile.
There should not have been time inside the confines of a 40-minute hour to totally depict the investigation, however I want Blue Bloods had lower one thing else and given us at the least one scene of Sid investigating.
What was the purpose of him dragging his ft about it if he was going to don’t have any additional position within the story?
Monsignor: Could not you simply inform me he was harmless of what I requested?
Frank: Is that actually what you needed?
That was a minor blip in an in any other case fascinating story, although.
Kevin realized greater than he needed to due to Frank’s investigation, however Frank was proper — his outdated buddy did not really need simply half the reality.
This was one of many few occasions the place Frank wasn’t on the aspect of imposing the letter of the regulation. Non secular regulation is totally different from secular regulation, however nonetheless. He and Kevin have dedication to imposing guidelines in frequent, and Frank is not often one for bending them.
Frank: Technically, I’m not a cop. The commissioner can’t be a sworn officer. And I’m not right here as a result of I believe you broke any legal guidelines. Not our legal guidelines, anyway.
Priest: I perceive.
Frank: However I used to be a detective, which suggests I spent a number of time in your aspect of the confessional. And I additionally developed a fairly good intuition for once I’m being instructed the entire story and once I’m not. So let’s have it.
Priest: I betrayed my vows as soon as, 12 years in the past.
However this was a harder state of affairs than Kevin acknowledged too.
Sure, monks are alleged to take a vow of celibacy and this one broke his — and was persevering with to stay in a semi-family association within the rectory.
However on the identical time, the priest was attempting to make amends for his conduct and be one of the best father he may for his son underneath the circumstances, and one thing felt improper about Kevin breaking that up for the sake of imposing Church doctrine.
I needed to surprise if Kevin ever suspected that the priest had a baby and ignored that suspicion till Frank confirmed it. It might have been an open secret that Kevin needed to cope with as soon as it was not secret.
Elsewhere, Jamie and Eddie’s case did not get the airtime it deserved. The youngsters’ arrest and confession appeared rushed, and I used to be left questioning what the heck Mia was considering.
Mia: You do not know what a few of these children have been by way of.
Jamie: It is not about what these children have been by way of. It is about what they did in that retailer.
Mia: No. It is about what’s been performed to them by the system.
She claimed the children had been performing out as a result of they did not have faculty and had few alternatives of their neighborhood. However what did she suppose encouraging them to have interaction in criminal activity was going to perform?
And moreover, did she actually suppose she wasn’t going to get caught? She was alleged to be serving to these children and as an alternative she obtained them arrested. Somebody was prone to discuss in these circumstances.
Lastly, I wasn’t certain find out how to really feel about the best way Erin handled ADA Wilson.
The lady was model new, obtained ambushed by reporters, and let one thing slip she should not have. She additionally significantly admired Erin and misunderstood why Erin spoke to the press throughout a earlier case.
If I had been Wilson, I might have been heartbroken had the DA I most admired reacted with such fury over a mistake.
Alternatively, Wilson obtained defensive too shortly and insisted Erin would have performed the identical factor, which did not assist her case.
Even so, although, Erin was too arduous on her and will have made her factors a special approach. Plus, whereas she’s proper that some errors cannot be taken again, the very fact is that as an ADA, Wilson goes to make heartbreaking errors.
It comes with the territory, and Erin needs to be serving to her navigate that as an alternative of berating her.
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