When a social worker who looked out for kids is murdered, some of her angry clients come out of the wood work. She has been forced to remove kids who were burned, abused, assaulted, on and on. Even those with meth habits and felony arrests and convictions. Of course, they see her as the enemy. In addition, the recent widow of a guy who worked in the 15th wants her husband's ashes buried or interred in some way in the building. It has an interesting conclusion. The Boss has been seeing his ex-wife and a visit from the guy who just divorced her makes an interesting future.
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"Half-Ashed"
allmoviesfan20 January 2024
Warning: Spoilers
A strong if disturbing episode.
When a social worker seems to have taken her own life, the detectives need to make sure, so they take a deep dive into some of the cases she was working...and it is grim stuff.
Elsewhere, the wife of an old detective comes in to fulfill her husband's dying wish: that he be buried in the stationhouse. It's the kind of quirky storyline that makes NYPD Blue great. Watching Sipowicz handle the situation was very amusing. Dennis Franz is so good.
(The episode title, "Half-Ashed", is in reference to this - can we take a moment to admire the brilliant episode names? This is one of the best, but they're always well conceived)
Rodriguez has a run-in with his ex-wife's ex-husband, who makes some claims about her. So that is a storyline that seems set to continue.
And when uniform cops complain to Clark and Sipowicz that they are in trouble with IAB - despite the detectives agreeing to not pass any information on - over the auxiliary cop murder from episode 8. They think the detectives have ratted them out, but at the end of the episode - in a very powerful scene - Clark figures out who is to blame for word getting back to IAB.
When a social worker seems to have taken her own life, the detectives need to make sure, so they take a deep dive into some of the cases she was working...and it is grim stuff.
Elsewhere, the wife of an old detective comes in to fulfill her husband's dying wish: that he be buried in the stationhouse. It's the kind of quirky storyline that makes NYPD Blue great. Watching Sipowicz handle the situation was very amusing. Dennis Franz is so good.
(The episode title, "Half-Ashed", is in reference to this - can we take a moment to admire the brilliant episode names? This is one of the best, but they're always well conceived)
Rodriguez has a run-in with his ex-wife's ex-husband, who makes some claims about her. So that is a storyline that seems set to continue.
And when uniform cops complain to Clark and Sipowicz that they are in trouble with IAB - despite the detectives agreeing to not pass any information on - over the auxiliary cop murder from episode 8. They think the detectives have ratted them out, but at the end of the episode - in a very powerful scene - Clark figures out who is to blame for word getting back to IAB.
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