My TV Musings

As Van Buren puts it, “Two guys who like to work alone…I’ll be amused,” she quietly welcomes Cyrus Lupo to the station house as Ed Green’s new partner.

The case involves a murder followed by a mother-daughter kidnapping. The security company provides a high-tech recording of the movements of the occupants of the house and they are able to confirm there were two assailants.

The ransom call comes and the drop is made. During a blackout when the cops have little, if any, means of communication, Lupo leads the chase of a cyclist and gains assistance from other cops by using his police whistle! Unfortunately the cyclist is killed by a car and the ransom never makes it to its intended destination.

The new assistant D.A., Michael Cutter, gives Green & Lupo verbal approval to break into a boarded-up business where the kidnappers are suspected to be, despite the fact that the judge did not sign the warrant. Cyrus and Ed enter the building cautiously and find the mother dead but no daughter. There’s a noise and a man runs out of the building, followed closely by Chrus. He is able to cuff the man as Ed finds the daughter, still alive.

There’s still one suspect free and the cops must find him before the captured suspect discovers there was no warrant for the search of the building. Investigation reveals the real reason for the blackout is that the electric company was in collusion with another electric company to run up the electric rates through the deliberate overload of the system to cause brownouts and blackouts. The father of the surviving kidnapped daughter worked for one of these companies and the kidnappers wanted him to pay for his illegal scheme.

When the father finds out there was no warrant and that his testimony is needed to put away his wife’s killer, he refuses because he is afraid of going to jail and leaving his daughter without a parent. Then the gutsy assistant D.A. decides to subpoena the daughter to court. This is the day he lets the charges drop on the suspects so she can find out the position her father has decided to take. She is outraged that her father could withhold the truth that could put away her mother’s killers and she walks out of the courthouse. The father, knowing that she will never want to stay with him even if he doesn’t go to jail, decides to testify after all.

I was impressed by this new D.A. and his dangerous actions and perhaps he, along with Jeremy Sisto as Lupo, can keep me watching more Law and Order this season.

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