Prosecutors have trouble making a case against a father accused of injecting his son with deadly bacteria, so Jack is forced to play hardball with the bio-supplier that may have supplied him... Read allProsecutors have trouble making a case against a father accused of injecting his son with deadly bacteria, so Jack is forced to play hardball with the bio-supplier that may have supplied him with it.Prosecutors have trouble making a case against a father accused of injecting his son with deadly bacteria, so Jack is forced to play hardball with the bio-supplier that may have supplied him with it.
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- TriviaThis is a very early career, 1 min scene, for Jim Gaffigan. He was the plumber in the white shirt.
- GoofsVancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (V.R.S.A.) isn't resistant to all forms of antibiotics like Rogers states, but it is resistant to most types. V.R.S.A. is a close, more aggressive cousin, to the more commonly known Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (M.R.S.A.). Staff infections were typically treated with penicillin-class antibiotics, and very specific penicillin derivatives were created to treat staff infections, the two most commonly used are methicillin and oxacillin which were developed around 1960, though staff infections had been treated with penicillin since the early 1900's. After decades of being exposed to antibiotics like penicillin and methicillin the staphylococcus aureus bacterium began to mutate and become resistant to these types of antibiotics, hence this new strain was called Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. It was discovered around 1970 that the antibiotic vancomycin, which has a different mechanism of action than methicillin, was effective at treating M.R.S.A. infections and proved to be a reliable treatment option for a number of years. However around 1990 doctors started seeing a new strain of staff that was becoming resistant to vancomycin, hence it was termed Vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. V.R.S.A. is a very difficult infection to treat, but in recent years doctors have found success in treating it with newer generation antibiotics like daptomycin, linezolid, telavancin, ceftaroline and quinupristin-dalfopristin, though it's only a matter of time before the staff bacterium starts to adapt to these as well. If people do not stop overusing antibiotics, especially products like antibacterial soap and hand sanitizer (plain alcohol sanitizer is far more effective) and using antibiotics to treat viral infections like the cold (which is pointless and futile) it is only a matter of time before antibiotics become totally useless.
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Detective Lennie Briscoe: [reading Aaron Downing his rights] You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford one...
Detective Rey Curtis: [searching trunk of Downing's car] Skip the next part, Lennie. Mr Downing's got a wad of cash, passport, airline ticket - Fiji islands, open return.
Detective Lennie Briscoe: Come on, Robinson Crusoe!
- ConnectionsReferences The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
"Flight" still, after multiple re-watches, is an immensely powerful and shocking episode and one of Season 9's finest. It does help that the subject matter is one of the most intriguing and most unsettling of all the episodes of the season (as well as one of the more difficult ones), and "Flight's" approach to it is unflinching and far from sugar-coated. Which is what is so great about 'Law and Order' at its best, its willing to tackle bold controversial topics and do so in a way that doesn't shy away.
It's hard to know where to begin praising when everything in "Flight" is so brilliant. The production values are suitably slick and gritty, with photography that is reliant on close ups that have an intimacy without being too claustrophobic. The music is didn't come over as too melodramatic or like it was emphasising the emotion too much. The direction is sympathetic while still giving momentum.
Script is very sharp, thoughtful and punchy, especially in the dramatically scorching final third. The subject is handled tactfully but at the same time also unflinchingly, leaving me both shocked and angry at how anybody could even contemplate let alone do what is done. The story keeps one glued to the edge of the seat and keeps one guessing all the way through to the episode's not predictable end. The legal portion being even better than the still enormously entertaining and grippingly gritty policing. The ending is one of the show's most shocking definitely.
Performances are top notch, with a truly powerful and unsettling guest turn from Dylan Baker.
Concluding, brilliant and one of the best of the season. 10/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Aug 12, 2021