Dead End
Directed By: Whitney Ransick
Story By: James Yoshimura
Teleplay By: Julie Martin, Jorge Zamacona
The Homicide squad continues to try and track down the man who shot Bolander, Felton and Howard. They eventually arrest Glenn Holton, but it turns out while he did kill the child he was originally going to be arrested for, he didn't shoot any police. Felton comes out of surgery relatively okay (he was wounded in the shoulder and leg), but Bolander is in a coma and Howard is still in surgery. Granger orders Russert to investigate how three detectives were shot in the first place.
This episode contains examples of:
- Artistic License – Medicine: When Felton is lying in the hospital bed, the ECG electrodes are attached to his chest with a Carpet of Virility visible around and under them. In the real world, any significant hair on the chest must be shaved off before an ECG is taken.
- Delayed Reaction: Discussed - when Pembleton tells Giardello he can't think of what's going on with Bolander, Felton and Howard, Giardello thinks Pembleton may be putting up a front now, but will eventually react to the shooting. This also serves as a bit of Foreshadowing.
- Drives Like Crazy: Detective Walker is like this - Lewis is freaked out by how fast she drives.
- I Never Said It Was Poison: Inverted example — when Holton makes an attempt to confess to shooting the three detectives, because he thinks it will make his prison sentence easier than going down for child murder, Bayliss and Pembleton immediately realise that he doesn't have a clue what actually happened (he claims that he shot the detectives on the rooftop, he doesn't know what kind of gun was used and thinks it was a single weapon).
- Metaphorically True: When Barnfather asks Giardello and Russert about how the detectives could have gone to the wrong room to try and arrest Holton, Russert blames it on the fact the Homicide unit has outdated computer systems. As it happens, the unit does have outdated computer systems, and Barnfather accepts that as an excuse (which he can use against Granger), but the real reason was an overworked (and sick) secretary accidentally transposed the room numbers.
- Multi-Part Episode: The second of three parts.
- Reverse Psychology: This is how Pembleton and Walker get Holton's former cellmate to reveal Holton's location to them - Pembleton tells the man if Holton evades capture, he won't get sent back to prison and the man won't get to see him again.
- Vitriolic Best Buds: Drummond reveals to Munch he and Bolander were like this.
