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-->'''Schwimmer:''' How dare you object, Mr. Stone? We've done our homework. You were baptized. You go to communion, and you prosecute me?! All the abortions in that clinic are murder, and you know it. It must stop! [[TheNeedsOfTheMany Mary Donovan's death was tragic, but if it prevents one abortion, the scales are balanced.]] Abortion must end! Are we a nation who can tolerate the abortionist sticking his hand in a mother's womb and strangling God's creation?!

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-->'''Schwimmer:''' How dare you object, Mr. Stone? We've done our homework. You were baptized. You go to communion, and you prosecute me?! All the abortions in that clinic are murder, and you know it. It must stop! [[TheNeedsOfTheMany Mary Donovan's death was tragic, but if it prevents one abortion, the scales are balanced.]] Abortion must end! Are ''Are we a nation who can tolerate the abortionist sticking his hand in a mother's womb and strangling God's creation?!creation?!''
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* "Life Choice" (ep 12): Regardless of how you feel about the issue the episode deals with, it's hard to deny how [[StepfordSmiler creepy and just plain off]] the two pro-life co-conspirators act in the episode. It culminates with the leader giving an absolutely batshit insane rant when she takes the stand in the courtroom:

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* "Life Choice" (ep 12): Regardless of how you feel about the issue the episode deals with, it's hard to deny how [[StepfordSmiler creepy and just plain off]] the two pro-life co-conspirators act in the episode.are. It culminates with the leader giving an absolutely batshit insane rant when she takes the stand in the courtroom:
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-->'''Schwimmer:''' How dare you object, Mr. Stone? We've done our homework. You were baptized. You go to communion, and you prosecute me?! All the abortions in that clinic are murder, and you know it. It must stop! [[TheNeedsOfTheMany Mary Donovan's death was tragic, but if it prevents one abortion, the scales are balanced. Abortion must end!]] Are we a nation who can tolerate the abortionist sticking his hand in a mother's womb and strangling God's creation?!

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-->'''Schwimmer:''' How dare you object, Mr. Stone? We've done our homework. You were baptized. You go to communion, and you prosecute me?! All the abortions in that clinic are murder, and you know it. It must stop! [[TheNeedsOfTheMany Mary Donovan's death was tragic, but if it prevents one abortion, the scales are balanced. ]] Abortion must end!]] end! Are we a nation who can tolerate the abortionist sticking his hand in a mother's womb and strangling God's creation?!
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-->'''Defense Attorney:''' Ms. Schwimmer, did you conspire with Celeste McClure to bomb the Chelsea Women's Choice Center, as well as seven other abortion clinics?

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-->'''Defense Attorney:''' Ms. Schwimmer, did you conspire with Celeste McClure [=McClure=] to bomb the Chelsea Women's Choice Center, as well as seven other abortion clinics?
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-->'''Schwimmer:''' Yes, I did.

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-->'''Schwimmer:''' [[KnightTemplar Yes, I did.]]



-->'''Schwimmer:''' Not before God.

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-->'''Schwimmer:''' [[TheFundamentalist Not before God.]]



-->'''Schwimmer:''' How dare you object, Mr. Stone? We've done our homework. You were baptized. You go to communion, and you prosecute me?! All the abortions in that clinic are murder, and you know it. It must stop! Mary Donovan's death was tragic, but if it prevents one abortion, the scales are balanced. Abortion must end! Are we a nation who can tolerate the abortionist sticking his hand in a mother's womb and strangling God's creation?!

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-->'''Schwimmer:''' How dare you object, Mr. Stone? We've done our homework. You were baptized. You go to communion, and you prosecute me?! All the abortions in that clinic are murder, and you know it. It must stop! [[TheNeedsOfTheMany Mary Donovan's death was tragic, but if it prevents one abortion, the scales are balanced. Abortion must end! end!]] Are we a nation who can tolerate the abortionist sticking his hand in a mother's womb and strangling God's creation?!
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* "Life Choice" (ep 12): Regardless of how you feel about the issue the episode deals with, it's hard to deny how [[StepfordSmiler creepy and just plain off]] the two pro-life co-conspirators act in the episode. It culminates with the leader giving an absolutely batshit insane rant when she takes the stand in the courtroom:
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-->'''Defense Attorney:''' Ms. Schwimmer, did you conspire with Celeste McClure to bomb the Chelsea Women's Choice Center, as well as seven other abortion clinics?
-->'''Schwimmer:''' Yes, I did.
-->'''Defense Attorney:''' Then you're guilty of the charges leveled against you?
-->'''Schwimmer:''' Not before God.
-->'''Defense Attorney:''' Can you explain why you're innocent before God?
-->'''Stone:''' Objection, this case is being judged on the temporal plane, Your Honor.
-->'''Schwimmer:''' How dare you object, Mr. Stone? We've done our homework. You were baptized. You go to communion, and you prosecute me?! All the abortions in that clinic are murder, and you know it. It must stop! Mary Donovan's death was tragic, but if it prevents one abortion, the scales are balanced. Abortion must end! Are we a nation who can tolerate the abortionist sticking his hand in a mother's womb and strangling God's creation?!
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* "Prisoner of Love" (ep. 10): It begins with two policemen uncovering two unknown men running from a warehouse and upon going into the building to investigate, they locate unsettling, avant-garde artwork of mannequins dressed in BDSM outfits posing in front of photographs of said designs. While odd, it truly doesn't become horrifying until they discover a dead man hanged and suspended in an unusual way left DiesWideOpen. The eerie, surreal background music not unlike [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkBetweenWorlds The Dark Palace]] and that the camera took pictures ''as he was dying'' only makes it worse.
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* "Aftershock" (ep. 23): What a way to cap off a season than for Claire Kincaid's BusCrash. The worst part is that moments prior she and Briscoe were talking regularly about things, only for a drunk driver to sideline them within the span of mere seconds, showcasing how chaotic a traffic accident can be. Briscoe himself is horrified when he manages to get out and checks on Claire- only to see her limp in her seat covered in her own blood, and ''her entire side of the car crunched in from the direct highspeed hit.''
** The episode itself also showcases this for the cast on the premise alone, what with the main cast watching the execution of a criminal they themselves brought to justice. For all everyone does in the name of the law, few police or prosecutors have what it takes to stomach actually seeing a death penalty unfold, and Briscoe's so stressed out he goes OffTheWagon in response.
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* "Boy on Fire" has the nasty, ''nasty'' burned corpse of a high-schooler as the episode opener, plus the unveiling of [[KidsAreCruel other kids torching and beating him to death]] in the first place.
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[[folder: Season 20]]
* "Steel-eyed Death" has Lupo and Bernard stumbling across an entire family's gruesome murder, children included, and another person's own death with his corpse left to bloat and rot for a week. If that weren't bad enough, the two have to browse gore sites to find out where the killer might be - something that shakes Bernard hard. And just for an extra scare, one of the killers tries to bum-rush him from behind with a hatchet.
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[[folder: Season 19]]
* "Skate or Die" starts with a trio of homeless brutally murdered, one of them having their face downright unrecognizable. Then it gives way to a strange MoodWhiplash of the "Bipolar Roller", a super eccentric roller skater that simply can't stop moving his body and is seemingly high off of his gourd. Turns out he's a schizophrenic, [[spoiler:and murdered ''nine people'' prior unable to think straight or keep his thoughts together. When he actually is given the medication to help him think better, [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone he realizes what he caused]] and, as he puts it about the copycat killers of the homeless, wishes they had just killed him too to prevent him from causing more murders himself.]]
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* The returning antagonists of Lorraine and April from ''Special Victims Unit'' are amoral as it is during "Flaw", but then we find out the literally-buried truth as they're finally hit with LaserGuidedKarma. [[spoiler:April had a baby at fourteen, and saw he had a sunken face as a birth defect, so she went into the woods and buried the child, with no answer if [[BuriedAlive he was still alive]] when she did it.]] At first she seems horrified when this is brought up and deflects it onto her lover at the time, but then it's obvious that her usual con tactics won't work.. and her voice drops straight back to a flat, mocking deadpan with absolutely ''no care'' for what she did in the past. Both of them are TheSociopath, but the flip is practically right out of ''Criminal Intent'' instead.
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** How Cutter gets the murderer to comply with testifying against Donna is pretty dark as well. He chats it up with Bob, who was willing to go to jail to defend Chrissy from prosecution with his own life, and gets him thinking comfortably about all the details the two had shared together from their chat logs, including a chipped tooth and an arm break from childhood. [[spoiler:Then Cutter pulls out the arm bone and her ''skull'', and highlights these two exact damages to Bob, who initially goes from being shocked and confused to utterly horrified when he realizes the girl he fell in love with was DeadAllAlong in such a terrible fashion.]]
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[[folder: Season 18]]
* "Personae Non Grata" seems like a fairly open-and-shut murder over love case, up until the cast realize that Donna, a seemingly-innocent mother caught up in the collateral because of her daughter, was the one doing all the messaging under her daughter Chrissy's name, masterminding the case. When Bernard and Lupo decide to figure out what happened to Chrissy in her supposed disappearance, they check the last place that could lead to her and end up uncovering [[spoiler:her bones, stripped of flesh. Murdered and buried by her mother years ago, and her identity stolen for manipulation purposes.]] [=McCoy=] himself calls Donna a sociopath and the woman seems to show absolutely no qualms about any of this once people see past her false innocence act.
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* "Mother's Milk" (ep. 12) reaches a nasty AdultFear when two young and ignorant parents that can't even handle their child has the baby seemingly kidnapped with blood trails throughout their old apartment. When the detectives go to the father's parent's house, they find it under the dirt in a bag - and it had died from starvation and negligence under both of their watches.

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* "Mother's Milk" (ep. 12) reaches a nasty AdultFear when two young and ignorant parents that can't even handle their child has the baby seemingly kidnapped with blood trails throughout their old apartment. apartment by their father. When the detectives go to the father's parent's house, they find it under the dirt in a bag - and it had died from starvation and negligence under both the mother's watch by sheer negligence while the father had been so busy with work and horrified as he attempted to hide the body to protect her. The episode doesn't revisit the crib past the initial sight, but it's [[{{Squick}} absolutely filthy]] from the brief glimpse of their watches.it, and caked with the mother's own blood that she never bothered to clean up.
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* "Mother's Milk" (ep. 12) reaches a nasty AdultFear when two young and ignorant parents that can't even handle their child has the baby seemingly kidnapped with blood trails throughout their old apartment. When the detectives go to the father's parent's house, they find it under the dirt in a bag - and it had died from starvation and negligence under both of their watches.
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** It also showcases how ''pissed'' the authorities can get and how much barely contained rage and horror [=McCoy=] and the rest can feel when their enemies target innocent lives and even children never mind [[ItsPersonal fellow officers]], highlighted when Briscoe and Curtis downright slam and kick the shit out of one of the suspects to make an arrest and engage in the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique without hesitation. And that was entirely for the assassination attempt, prior to the bombing.

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** It also showcases how ''pissed'' the authorities can get and how much barely contained rage and horror [=McCoy=] and the rest can feel when their enemies target innocent lives and even children never mind [[ItsPersonal fellow officers]], highlighted when Briscoe and Curtis downright slam and kick the shit out of one of the suspects to make an arrest and engage in the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique without hesitation. And that was entirely for the assassination attempt, prior to the bombing.bomb threat.
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* In "Refuge" (ep. [[MultiPartEpisode 23-24]]), the Russo-Columbian mob team-up manages to try to utterly screw over the authorities at every turn from attempting to [[AdultFear assassinate a ten-year-old boy]] (and succeeding with his mother) for testifying against them, to outright trying to ''bomb the precinct for payback.''
** It also showcases how ''pissed'' the authorities can get and how much barely contained rage and horror [=McCoy=] and the rest can feel when their enemies target innocent lives and even children never mind [[ItsPersonal fellow officers]], highlighted when Briscoe and Curtis downright slam and kick the shit out of one of the suspects to make an arrest and engage in the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique without hesitation.

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* In "Refuge" (ep. [[MultiPartEpisode 23-24]]), the Russo-Columbian mob team-up manages to try to utterly screw over the authorities at every turn from attempting to [[AdultFear [[WouldHurtAChild assassinate a ten-year-old boy]] (and succeeding with his mother) mother and a district attorney watching over them) for testifying against them, to outright trying to ''bomb the precinct for payback.''
'' The only reason it doesn't have the chance to go off is because a staff member stumbled upon it early by complete accident.
** It also showcases how ''pissed'' the authorities can get and how much barely contained rage and horror [=McCoy=] and the rest can feel when their enemies target innocent lives and even children never mind [[ItsPersonal fellow officers]], highlighted when Briscoe and Curtis downright slam and kick the shit out of one of the suspects to make an arrest and engage in the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique without hesitation. And that was entirely for the assassination attempt, prior to the bombing.
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* In "Refuge" (ep. [[MultiPartEpisode 23-24]]), the Russo-Columbian mob team-up manages to try to utterly screw over the authorities at every turn from attempting to [[AdultFear assassinate a ten-year-old boy]] (and succeeding with his mother) for testifying against them, to outright trying to ''bomb a precinct for shits and giggles.''
** It also showcases how ''pissed'' the authorities can get and how much barely contained rage and horror [=McCoy=] and the rest can feel when their enemies target innocent lives and even children never mind fellow officers, highlighted when Briscoe and Curtis downright slam and kick the shit out of one of the suspects and engage in the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique without hesitation.

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* In "Refuge" (ep. [[MultiPartEpisode 23-24]]), the Russo-Columbian mob team-up manages to try to utterly screw over the authorities at every turn from attempting to [[AdultFear assassinate a ten-year-old boy]] (and succeeding with his mother) for testifying against them, to outright trying to ''bomb a the precinct for shits and giggles.payback.''
** It also showcases how ''pissed'' the authorities can get and how much barely contained rage and horror [=McCoy=] and the rest can feel when their enemies target innocent lives and even children never mind [[ItsPersonal fellow officers, officers]], highlighted when Briscoe and Curtis downright slam and kick the shit out of one of the suspects to make an arrest and engage in the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique without hesitation.
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** It also showcases how ''pissed'' the authorities can get and how much barely contained rage and horror [=McCoy=] and the rest can feel when their enemies target innocent lives and even children, highlighted when Briscoe and Curtis downright slam and kick the shit out of one of the suspects and engage in the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique without hesitation.

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** It also showcases how ''pissed'' the authorities can get and how much barely contained rage and horror [=McCoy=] and the rest can feel when their enemies target innocent lives and even children, children never mind fellow officers, highlighted when Briscoe and Curtis downright slam and kick the shit out of one of the suspects and engage in the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique without hesitation.
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** It also showcases how ''pissed'' the authorities can get and how much barely contained rage and horror McCoy and the rest can feel when their enemies target innocent lives and even children, highlighted when Briscoe and Curtis downright slam and kick the shit out of one of the suspects and engage in the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique without hesitation.

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** It also showcases how ''pissed'' the authorities can get and how much barely contained rage and horror McCoy [=McCoy=] and the rest can feel when their enemies target innocent lives and even children, highlighted when Briscoe and Curtis downright slam and kick the shit out of one of the suspects and engage in the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique without hesitation.
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* In "Refuge" (ep. [[MultiPartEpisode 23-24]]), the Russo-Columbian mob team-up manages to try to utterly screw over the authorities at every turn from attempting to [[AdultFear assassinate a ten-year-old boy]] (and succeeding with his mother) for testifying against them, to outright trying to ''bomb a precinct for shits and giggles.''
** It also showcases how ''pissed'' the authorities can get and how much barely contained rage and horror McCoy and the rest can feel when their enemies target innocent lives and even children, highlighted when Briscoe and Curtis downright slam and kick the shit out of one of the suspects and engage in the JackBauerInterrogationTechnique without hesitation.
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* "Blaze" (ep. 5): The episode begins innocently at a rock concert inside of a club. One moment, two patrons are in the restroom griping about everyday life and worrying about missing what they think is the beginning of the performance, and, the next, the door swings open to reveal a wall of fire and people screaming and piling in the room trying to escape the flames. Even worse, as they try to get out through the only available window, they discover ''bars and a metal screen'' are attached to it. Twenty-three people die, and we see the bodies being laid on the sidewalk in various stages of burns and even some only ''partially'' being covered. Also, a witness [[spoiler: and the person who caused the fire to happen]] explains to the detectives that when trying to escape that she grabbed a girl's wrist to try to help pull her to safety [[{{Squick}} only for the poor girl's flesh to come off in her hand.]]

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* "Blaze" (ep. 5): The episode begins innocently at a rock concert inside of a club. One moment, two patrons are in the restroom griping about everyday life and worrying about missing what they think is the beginning of the performance, and, the next, the door swings open to reveal a wall of fire and people screaming and piling in the room trying to escape the flames. Even worse, as they try to get out through the only available window, they discover ''bars and a metal screen'' are attached to it. Twenty-three people die, and we see the bodies being laid on the sidewalk in various stages of burns and even some only ''partially'' being covered. Also, a witness [[spoiler: and [[spoiler:(who turns out to have accidentally been responsible for the person who caused the fire to happen]] fire)]] explains to the detectives that when trying to escape that she grabbed a girl's wrist to try to help pull her to safety [[{{Squick}} only for the poor girl's flesh to come off in her hand.]]
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---> '''Robinette''': (''After hearing that other witnesses were murdered'') What about the little girl [who witnessed her parents' murder in the ColdOpen]]?\\

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---> '''Robinette''': (''After hearing that other witnesses were murdered'') What about the little girl [who witnessed her parents' murder in the ColdOpen]]?\\ ColdOpen]?\\
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---> '''Robinette''': What about the little girl? (''The daughter of the couple killed in the opening'')\\

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---> '''Robinette''': (''After hearing that other witnesses were murdered'') What about the little girl? (''The daughter of the couple killed girl [who witnessed her parents' murder in the opening'')\\ ColdOpen]]?\\
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--> '''Robinette''': "What about the little girl?" (The daughter of the couple killed in the opening)
--> '''Schiff''': "[[HopeSpot She was picked up from school by her uncle]]".
--> '''Stone''': "[[WhamLine She doesn't have an uncle]]".
--> ''(Schiff's eyes widen in horror in realizing that she's dead too)''.

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--> ---> '''Robinette''': "What What about the little girl?" (The girl? (''The daughter of the couple killed in the opening)
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'''Schiff''': "[[HopeSpot [[HopeSpot She was picked up from school by her uncle]]".
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uncle]].\\
'''Stone''': "[[WhamLine [[WhamLine She doesn't have an uncle]]".
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uncle]].\\
''(Schiff's eyes widen in horror in realizing as he realizes that she's dead too)''.
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* "The Ring" has detectives learning the true fate of a woman who supposedly died in the 9/11 attacks (even though it was believed that she died in the towers and her arm was discovered, two boys discovered her skeletal remains in Hell's Kitchen). At the trial of her lover, when her fiancee is on the stand, the defense attorney shows him a picture, causing him to cry out in disgust. The judge and [=McCoy=] then view the picture themselves--that of a [[{{Squick}} crudely served forearm]] lying in rubble--which infuriates them as the former calls out the defense attorney and rules it inadmissible.

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* "The Ring" has detectives learning the true fate of a woman who supposedly died in the 9/11 attacks (even though it was believed that she died in the towers and her arm was discovered, two boys discovered her skeletal remains in Hell's Kitchen). At the trial of her lover, when her fiancee is on the stand, the defense attorney shows him a picture, causing him to cry out in disgust. The judge and [=McCoy=] then view the picture themselves--that of a [[{{Squick}} crudely served severed forearm]] lying in rubble--which infuriates them as the former calls out the defense attorney and rules it inadmissible.

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* "The Ring" has detectives learning the true fate of a woman who supposedly died in the 9/11 attacks (even though it was believed that she died in the towers and her arm was discovered, two boys discovered her skeletal remains in Hell's Kitchen). At the trial of her lover, when her fiancee is on the stand, the defense attorney shows him a picture, causing him to cry out in disgust. The judge and [=McCoy=] then view the picture themselves--that of a [[{{Squick}} crudely served forearm]] lying in rubble--which infuriates them as the former calls out the defense attorney and rules it inadmissible.
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