My TV Musings

Talk about suspense! A college football team is accused of having a rapist among them, yes I know, ripped from the headlines.

One very sympathetic player, Pardue, comes from a poor family, playing on a scholarship, odds are that he will be the most successful in the NFL, and he is one of the players accused of the assault. But the key witness, Traci Kwon, has second thoughts the night before she’s scheduled to testify, and the next morning her body is found in a pool of blood at the bottom of the stairs in her apartment building.

With Andrew McCarthy and Cynthia Watros as an ADA (Gene Hoyle) and his overly-ambitious wife (Beth Marbury), it seems a slam dunk that one or both of them are covering up for the real reason that Traci was killed.

Mike Logan, played by Chris Noth, is having trouble controlling his partner, hot-headed Nola Falacci (Alicia Witt). So ironic since Mike has always been the instigator when questioning witnesses and suspects, as he tells her to calm down and, when discussing the ADA, that it requires “finesse”!

It was looking more and more like Hoyle didn’t actually kill anyone, but he knew Traci was about to recant the lie about the rape and tell the truth, and then they stumbled on the fact that the ADA’s wife was in Traci’s neighborhood around the time of her death. Logan and Falacci decide to invite Hoyle and his wife, who happens to be his assistant also, to be there when they arrest Pardue and take him to jail. Of course, like so many other times on Law and Order: Criminal Intent, they just want to set things up to take down the real perpetrator.

Everyone was there: Pardue, his parents, Logan and Falacci, the ADA and his wife. The conversation was about the timeline the night of the murder and the following morning. Once the ADA’s wife was accused of having killed the witness, she said she was only there to talk her into testifying and she wasn’t able to get into the building. Then Logan told her that her husband, the ADA, knew Traci wasn’t going to testify, and hadn’t he told her that? That’s when Pardue’s mom, played by Peri Gilpin, started screaming at the ADA’s wife asking why had she come over to tell her that the witness was going to bury her son and ruin his life.

Here I was, all ready to have the cops arrest the ADA’s wife because she was such a hateful, conniving bitch, but it turns out Pardue’s mom was the one who killed Traci all along, and she admitted she never even gave Traci a chance to tell her the truth about the whole situation. What a sad, sad ending, but a great twist!

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