Blue Bloods (TV Series) The One That Got Away (2017) User Reviews

That diplomatic immunity

[bkoganbing · 8/10 · 13 September 2017]

Donnie Wahlberg and Marissa Ramirez get a call from a hospital with little Jesse Ray Sheps admitted with two broken ribs and a broken arm courtesy of dear old dad. But dad played by Stephen Schnetzler is an Iraqi diplomat.

Sharon Lawrence from the State Department gets in on this case, but Tom Selleck backs up his detectives especially since there is no law involving Child Protective Services. At least diplomatic immunity was never tested there.

Will Estes and Vanessa Ray out on evening with her boyfriend and his sister when the bar they're at is held up. These two go into cop mode and bring down the two perpetrators. Commendations from the force but it puts a strain on Janko's relationship.

This ending is positively poetic. It turns out Schnetzler is not the only one with diplomatic immunity.

****

[edwagreen · 10/10 · 25 January 2017]

Another truly excellent episode detailing the problems that diplomatic immunity can have, when an official is arrested for the beating of his young son and claims immunity. To say, that he got what he deserved from his wife at the end of the episode is an understatement.

Eddie and Jamie are with her boyfriend and his sister at a club, only for the club to be robbed and therefore Eddie and Jamie take appropriate action.

What made this so good was that the boyfriend now saw for himself the work that Eddie is doing and it challenged his masculinity, leading him to tell Eddie that he was ending their relationship. A woman doing a man's job would be the appropriate theme here.

Taking the cheap way out

[frank-hood · 6/10 · 8 March 2024]

I'm late to the party on Blue Bloods and streaming it to catch up. I really like the show. I like how they feature 4 generations of an Irish Catholic family that sits down to dinner as a family every Sunday (at least once an episode, sometimes twice).

Also, from a story standpoint, this episode is very satisfying, but..., to get there, they trample all over a serious subject. Usually this show is fairly good at showing both sides of an issue, even if, as natural for a family with a former and a current police commissioner, a beat cop, a police detective, and an assistant district attorney, it tilts towards a police POV.

However, in this episode, they treat diplomatic immunity as a mere nuisance. Nobody points out the reason for diplomatic immunity. If a married American female diplomat in a muslim country (with Sharia law) is raped, she would not be allowed to testify in her own defense (Women cannot testify in court). Instead of her rapist going to jail, she would be tried for adultery and sentenced to be stoned to death. THAT is why there is diplomatic immunity in order for our diplomats to function in foreign countries whose laws do not resemble ours, we grant the same privilege to their diplomats in our country.

Likewise the ending, though a good twist and poetic, is unrealistic. In reality, things would not go well for the victim that we sympathize with.

It's not egregious, just wrong. That's why I can't give this episode the endorsement that its story would otherwise merit.