![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her: "I'm sorry sir, I'm tired of being the monkey in the middle in this one. Him: "Do you want to live in a city where the wealthy and the powerful can buy their own brand of justice?" The current top dog is the episode 12 exchange between Erin and her boss, after he's charged her with leading a case that might embarrass her own father: Write a piece of dialogue of incomprehensible awfulness. For the full house, Henry will reminisce about how things were in his day, when even the bad guys knew right from wrong.Ĩ. This discussion must be about an ethical poser raised by that week's case: does diplomatic immunity protect the guilty (episode three)? Is vigilantism ever justified (episode two)? Is prohibition ever successful (episode six)? As the discussion progresses, Tom Selleck's lower face will crumple in concern as his acting makes the journey through the hardwoods from teak to mahogany. No dinner should last more than two minutes before someone walks out, furious at the course the discussion is taking. Oh, the family dinner scene: the misbegotten crucible around which Blue Bloods revolves. Introduce a dramatic story arc early in the series – Jamie's decision to help the Feds investigate the possibility his brother Joe was murdered by rogue cops – then barely refer to it ever again.ħ. Classy, guys), or it could be having Erin and a witness emerge from the DA's building in completely different clothes to the ones they were wearing inside (episode 7).Ħ. This could be a Central Park cricket game played in winter (episode 13, though it took real imagination on the part of the scriptwriter and director to have the teams play the game on a marked-out pitch but without stumps. Insert random and wholly avoidable error. It's wholly appropriate that Danny should investigate threats on his own father's life (episode 15), or against Erin's life (episode nine), or that Erin should routinely prosecute cases Danny has investigated.ĥ. Show closeup in act one of seemingly random object – a necklace (episode one), a tattoo (episode three) – that will prove to be the crux of the case.Ĥ. ![]() No other detective is worth a shout: that much is acknowledged in episode 13 when Danny is called in – by his father – for a special investigation because "we need someone we can trust". Whatever the nature of the crime, Danny is the man for the case – be it hunting down terrorists, stopping baby-selling rings, investigating Russian mob killings. Often we bypass Jamie entirely, and Danny takes the case straight away – whether the crime was committed in Central Park, Brooklyn, the Lower East Side, the Upper West Side.Ģ. Sometimes Jamie will be the beat cop who calls it in to the detectives, in which case Danny will be the first to arrive. Whatever crime occurs, wherever in the city, it will always fall into the hands of a Reagan. With the following guide, you too can become a Blue Bloods scriptwriter.ġ. What's so compelling about Blue Bloods is that one can know what is happening without even watching the show, since each episode follows the same template. Between them, the Reagans solve all crime in New York, without fail. We also hear of a third son, Joe, murdered in the line of duty. Frank has three living children: Jamie (Will Estes), a rookie cop who realised his calling after graduating from Harvard Erin (Bridget Moynahan), an assistant district attorney who is, naturally, the toughest prosecutor in the DA's office and Danny (Donnie Wahlberg) a tough detective who breaks all the rules but – you guessed it – gets results. His son Frank (Tom Selleck, six years younger than Cariou) is a cop who's also made it all the way to police commissioner. The family elder is Henry (Len Cariou), a cop who made it all the way to police commissioner. Here's the set-up: the Reagans are a family of New York crimefighters. Forget story arcs, we're in the world of the single-episode storyline, with plot holes to spare. Actually, what it most closely resembles – probably unintentionally – is Police Squad, the spoof series that gave birth to The Naked Gun movie franchise, starring Leslie Neilsen. This CBS cop show, showing on Tuesday nights and billed at launch as the show "everyone's talking about" returns the police serial to an age before The Wire, to an age even before NYPD Blue. ![]()
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