In the last act, Jack is in a car with the suspect and has a conversation with him that is very similar to Brenda's with this guy. The sympathetic ear, "understanding" why he'd do it, talk about the victim wanting it. On WaT, it ended with them actually finding the boy alive.

Oh god, that was one of the creepiest things I've ever seen. In the car, with the rain, and the music. There's a L&O:SVU where Elliot gets all creepified, too, in the same scenario. Interesting to see a woman in there.

Oh god, that was one of the creepiest things I've ever seen. In the car, with the rain, and the music.

So. Creepy.

A detail that I'd forgotten in the years since I last saw this episode is that, after they find the boy and Spaulding asks for his promised 15 minutes, Jack throws up in the bushes. (Which made me think of Brenda in the ladies room after her interrogation.) It's such an amazingly disturbing episode.

Vigilante!Stabler is the only reason to watch that show. Which sends a terrible message. But it's still true.

Oh god, the 15 minutes. Shudder.

Also, I fake-saw Anthony Lapaglia driving in my neighborhood the other day. (Fake-saw because I'm pretty sure it wasn't actually him.)

Vigilante!Stabler is the only reason to watch that show. Which sends a terrible message. But it's still true.

Well, it's when he's at his most Keller...

Yeah, no doubt.

I loved The Closer this week again. They really seem to be stepping it up this season. I loved how at the beginning of the episode they showed everyone working together so seemlessly, even with the FBI, because of the missing girl, and then things start to fall apart and we see how differently Brenda handles things from the rest of them. I'm interested in where they are going to take this, especially in light of Brenda's earlier disagreement with Gabriel. I also wonder if the rest of the team will turn on her because of this.

I don't think so. She made a good choice in choosing Taylor to do the investigations. Everyone knows that he hates her and loves Gabriel, so if anyone would do a cover up or a gloss over, it's him. She was absolutely right, it could not be ignored. All told, it's a pretty easy punishment for beating a suspect.

A detail that I'd forgotten in the years since I last saw this episode is that, after they find the boy and Spaulding asks for his promised 15 minutes, Jack throws up in the bushes.

I always felt bad for Jack in that scene - it was a good example of what the job demands/takes out of you. Also, alhtough Jack had the worst job, how creepy would it have been to have been Martin sitting in the front hearing your boss go all pedophile.

I remember that episode. Creepy is the word. I couldn't believe they'd actually gotten to film and show that scene where Jack is negotiating with the pedophile.

I like John Turturro, and I like Oliver Platt, yet something about The Bronx is Burning seems off to me. Bad direction or something. Everyone looks stiff.