"In Plain Sight"
Good Cop, Dead Cop (2008)

Director:

Dan Lerner

Writers:

David Maples (creator)
Bruce Miller (teleplay)

TV Series:

"In Plain Sight" (2008)

Original Air Date:

27 July 2008 (Season 1, Episode 9)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Cast

Mary McCormack	...	Mary Shannon
Fred Weller	...	Marshall Mann (as Frederick Weller)
Nichole Hiltz	...	Brandi Shannon
Todd Williams	...	Detective Robert Dershowitz
Lesley Ann Warren	...	Jinx Shannon
Jason Wiles	...	Robert Patone
Sarah Danielle Madison	...	Detective Roxanne Lewis
Missy Yager	...	Elizabeth Ramirez
Cristián de la Fuente	...	Raphael Ramirez
Paul Ben-Victor	...	Stan McQueen
Dylan Kenin	...	Detective Garrity
Rima Miller	...	Captain Maria Bonilla
Roma Miller	...	Captain Maria Bonilla
Christopher Dempsey	...	Cooper
Jason Coviello	...	Kenny

Try Again

The show up to this point had its flaws, but overall was enjoyable and, importantly, *consistent*. Listen, writers: you establish a character by showing how they behave in various situations. And while this show is still new and the characters are still being developed, Mary sleeping with the witness is *so* out of character with what's been established so far. As soon as I saw that in the promos, I had a bad feeling. If you had at least built it up a little, but instead you fall back on a cliché. And from there it goes from cliché to cliché to cliché. Five squad cars pulling up, sirens blazing, guns drawn, full Kevlar and handcuffs...to pick someone up for *questioning*? Not even an arrest? With absolutely zero evidence? The lawyers would be lining up to try that lawsuit.

Hopefully you'll get back on track next week. The preview looks interesting. Learn your lesson from this, and don't do anything like it again.