"Southland" Sally in the Alley (2009)

Director:

Christopher Chulack

Writers:

Ann Biderman (creator)
Angela Amato (written by) ...

TV Series:

"Southland" (2009)

Original Air Date:

30 April 2009 (Season 1, Episode 4)

Genre:

Crime | Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Sex Offender | Corpse | Female Nudity | Absent Mother | Juvenile Delinquency

Cast

Kevin Alejandro	...	Detective Nate Moretta
Arija Bareikis	...	Officer Chickie Brown (credit only)
Michael Cudlitz	...	Officer John Cooper (credit only)
Shawn Hatosy	...	Detective Sammy Bryant
Regina King	...	Detective Lydia Adams
Michael McGrady	...	Detective Daniel Salinger (credit only)
Ben McKenzie	...	Officer Ben Sherman (credit only)
Tom Everett Scott	...	Detective Russell Clarke
Emily Bergl	...	Tammi Bryant
Billy Brown	...	Talib
L. Scott Caldwell	...	Mrs. Adams
Kristin Dattilo	...	Karen Campbell
Patrick Fischler	...	Detective Kenny 'No-Gun'
Lex Medlin	...	Detective Andy Williams
Phyllis Applegate	...	Mrs. Miller

Runtime:

60 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Spanish

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Hollywood & Highland, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

John Wells Productions

Trivia:

In this episode, Lydia and Russell are told that they will not be able to get a rape kit analyzed (and possibly find out who the rapist is) because there is such a large backlog of forensic materials in the lab waiting to be analyzed that some of the waiting cases are over ten years old. This is taken straight from a true scandal of Los Angeles law enforcement: in March 2009, the organization Human Rights Watch released a report revealing that at that time, there was a backlog of over 12,600 untested rape kits in storage facilities; over 450 of those were over 10 years old; and many of those were evidence in cases for which the statute of limitations had expired.

Goofs:

Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): The white numbers on the trunk lids of LAPD cars represent the area of assignment; for example, 1 is for Central, 2 is for Rampart, 3 is for Southwest, etc. The radio calls patrol units get also use the same numeric indicator. For example, 1A11 would be a two-officer patrol car assigned Central Area, 3L50 would be a single supervisor car assigned Southwest Area. The trunk lid numbers on Southland vehicles are marked 21 but the officers are using area 6 as their radio code. 6 represents Hollywood Area and there should be a white 6 or 06 on the trunk lid. The number on the roof represents nothing but the last three numbers of the vehicle number. However, the changes may be deliberate, as the characters uncharacteristically shift from one area of assignment to another in order to depict events in different areas of the city using the same characters.

Quotes:

Cathleen Kerik: What kind of case were you pulled off of?
Det. Lydia Adams: Girl in South Central, strangled and dumped in an alley. Nothin' you'd be concerned with.
Cathleen Kerik: OK. What is it, exactly, that you don't like about me? Huh?
Det. Lydia Adams: I don't like the fact that if this girl was found in an alley in Brentwood, this would be front page news.
Cathleen Kerik: That...
Det. Lydia Adams: I don't like that there's a backlog of rape DNA of three thousand cases. I don't like the skirt you wear, I don't like your hairstyle, I don't like that every time a man is within fifteen feet of you, you push out your chest and your voice gets all kittenish.