Evil Breeds
By Hank 74
Lennie-10/10
Ed-10/10
Van Buren-10/10
Jack-10/10
Serena-10/10
Arthur-8/10
Supporting Cast-9/10
Plot-9/10
Performance-9/10
Value-10/10
Total-95/100
Notes:
How was it possible for L&O to put together an elderly
man and a young rock producer as the co-killers for the Holocaust survivor? It
seemed there was a major turn here and there to get to the ultimate conviction
of the two. Yet it didn't make me dizzy enough to become too confused.
I for one would have just focused enitrely on the SS guard
and not veer off too much with the record producer. I also would have done some
more information about the deportation hearing which seemed to be the motive
for why the woman was killed. It could have been inferred that producer wanted
the woman killed so as to keep touting the guard as a hero and generate more
profits amongst its hate-filled audience.
In short, there seemed to be some dots which needed to be
connected between the two defendants. There seemed to be too many loose strings
among these two generations of persons.
Of course when there is an ep like this, there is the
natural tendency to compare it with a classic from the past Night and Fog.
I liked that one from season 3 better because it was simplistic and yet
powerful. Everyone was trying to prove a crime which committed 50 years before
to prove a crime that was committed in 1943. How Stone was able to pull it off
was remarkable. I would also comment that Gary Lowenthal was a far better
defense attorney than the crock we got from these two clowns in 3 piece suits
tonight.
In this case, Jack did an admirable job of keeping the
jury focused on why this woman was killed. But the big question is who actually
killed her?