Sex Offender Issues

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See the videos below!  It is shows like this, IMO, which fuels the fires and basically condones vigilantism, in a subliminal way.  I think it's pathetic. This sounds like it is based on this so called "thrill kill!"


Well, we're down to the last two episodes featuring Detective Michael Logan.

The scene opens with a uniform cop placing flyers identifying a young guy as a sex offender. He waddles up the street and looks around as if he's looking for someone.

Then we get a montage of scenes of a woman opening the mail, with, you guessed it, the same flyer. She sits at her kitchen table as if numbed. then we see a guy, stapling the same flyer on telephone poles, young mothers passing the flyers around.

Shoot to the our 'sex offender', Kyle in the same kitchen, getting ready to pour himself some coffee. As he dumps the coffee grounds, he notices the flyer his mother (the woman from the kitchen) threw away. It's hard to tell if he's frustrated, upset or wondering how many others are out there. He glances out the window.

Next we see a young teen walking up the sidewalk where she's stopped by two guys, waving the flyer in her face, asking her if she's seen the flyer. She pushes it out of her face and they laugh as if they find her reaction funny. It looks as though our guy may be her boyfriend?

As Kyle gets ready to leave the house, there's an envelope with his name on it--written in a black marker it tells him to get the hell out of the neighborhood. He looks around to see who could have left it. We jump to a video store where those two guys that had been harassing the girl just look at Kyle, one licking a lollipop as if he's hitting on him. (EWW!). As they leave, Kyle looks over and sees another man staring at him. It's the same one who was stapling the flyers on the telephone poles. As Kyle closes the store for the night, he takes off what seems to be the umpteenth violation ticket. He tries to start his car, but the engine only sputters.

Next, we see a city worker cleaning up in the grass by the river, when she sees something in the river. Upon closer look, it's a body. The headless body of the very same Kyle.

Logan and Wheeler are looking over the body, and it's not a pretty sight. We see where the head was severed. Wheeler turns his hands over, where it looks like someone tried to burn his fingerprints. When Wheeler turns him over, there are a multitude of stabs along Kyle's back.

Logan comments that it looks like it was an amateur, but the CSU tech says it's obvious it was a mob hit. Wheeler thanks her for that bit of information. Logan adds that it's too messy to have been a professional hit. Wheeler asks if they should hand the case out of Major Case. Logan says no. Why? because his interest is piqued.

"That's my new word for the week," Logan quips to Wheeler. It made me smile. But his hair looks AWFUL. Looks like someone took a hacksaw to it or something.

Rodgers pretty much tells them that whoever killed him didn't have a clue as to what they were doing. I love this exchange:

Logan: (rolls his chair up close to Rodgers) "Hey Rodgers, can you do that thing where you pull off the skin and pull it over your own fingers?"

Rodgers: "I could do that."

Logan: "I always said that Rodgers was the best."

Rodgers: "Don't push it."

While discussing Kyle's rap sheet, it turns out he did seven years for statutory rape. When Logan and Wheeler ask his mother about how the neighborhood felt about him, Mom then tells them of the pattern of harrassment. They moved to leave the past behind. Turns out Kyle and the girl had been dating. The reason he pled guilty because the A.D.A. threatened to add a kidnapping charge if he didn't. She begs Logan and Wheeler to take Kyle's murder seriously. When Logan asks why wouldn't they, she says deep down the cops don't think Kyle mattered.

As the news of Kyle's murder appears on the news, we see a young blonde in a limo, pause from her texting as she listens to the report. We segue to a bar where those two guys who had been harrasing the girl in the opening scenes make fun of Kyle's death. There's a third kid with them who tries to get a pitcher of beer with a fake i.d. Problem is, the i.d. belongs to someone the bartender knows and kicks them out. Laughing at them is the same guy that had been stapling Kyle's picture on the telephone poles.

As Logan and Wheeler check out Kyle's car, they discover the ignition fuse had been pulled--which was why Kyle couldn't get his car to start. They discover all the tickets, for a host of ridiculous charges, AND it was just one cop, a Sergeant in particular, who had issued them. When they ask the owner of the video store what happened, he informs them that Kyle was his nephew. They get the few memberships of those that were customers so they can find out just who was harrassing Kyle.

After questioning all the people we saw in the opening scene, we find everyone hated Kyle and good riddance when they heard about his death. The Sergeant boasts that he yes, he did hand out those tickets, so what? He was a convicted rapist. When Logan snaps that it was statutory and that the sex was consensual, the Sergeant snaps back that's not what the judge thought. And he believed the judge. Besides, he heard that had Kyle not accepted the deal, the girl was going to testify in court that he'd raped her. All this according to the A.D.A. Logan and Wheeler look at each other as if saying "WTF"?

Then we see a pair of hands in latex gloves washing away a LOT of blood. The water is bubbling and red as they scrub and scrub.

Logan and Wheeler are frustrated because no one in the community had any sympathy for Kyle, convinced he was a sex offender and a danger to the community. When Ross asks Logan if doesn't believe that, Logan says he wants to talk to the girl, Nancy, to get her side. The father, it turns out, had opposed Kyle's parole for years. Ross says to talk to both her and her father at the same time, but separately so that they can't share stories to alibi themselves. Logan talks to the father, who says he was at his son't recital; Nancy was at her aunt's on the Jersey shore.

Nancy tells Wheeler that they snuck around. She the rich girl, he the boy from the wrong side. Her father called the police on him when her mom found out she asked for Birth Control. This information came from the doctor!!! Turns out Kyle was her first. She didn't love him, it hurt, and she wasn't feeling euphoric after it happened, so the A.D.A. told Nancy that she'd been raped. Nancy looks like it doesn't bother her in the least that she sent her boyfriend to prison.

When they return to the precint, Ross introduces them to Clete Dixon. Apparently he and Ross had both been up for the position in Major Squad. He believes Kyle's murder is connected to two similar killings he'd had before he retired. But Rodgers nixed this. One was an apparent suicide, the other very professional. Dixon is upset when they tell him they're not connected and there isn't any serial killer. He leaves disappointed. When Logan and Wheeler are called into Ross's office, they find out that Dixon is on that idiot Faith woman's show--you know, the one who is SO based on Nancy Grace--telling her that sources in Major Squad confirmed that there is indeed a serial killer. Turns out, according to Rodgers that there were two different killers. When Wheeler asks her if she's sure, Rodgers responds with, "It's the difference between a surgeon and a butcher."

The autopsy report reveals that there was marijuana and barbituates in Kyle's system.

Ross denies that there's any connection between the seven sex offenders. Dixon repeats on Faith Yancey's show that Major Squad is of course denying it because they don't want to look incompetent. Also joining him this time is A.D.A. Terry Driver, the one who "convinced" Nancy she'd been raped. She states that Kyle had been a violent sexual predator and that the community had every right to be afraid.

Logan and Wheeler go to Driver and tell her that there is NO serial killer. She says she's glad to know it. When they ask her to tone down her rhetoric, she refuses to "soft pedal" Kyle's crime, insists justice was served.

Logan loses it and tears into her, saying, Kyle was just a kid who messed around with the wrong girl and served five years for it. After serving his sentence, he gets harrassed, stabbed and decapitated. Driver says she's going to let what Logan says pass because she 'knows' he's frustrated because they haven't found Kyle's killer. Logan admits to Wheeler that Driver was right. So they go around the neighborhood to talk to all the "two-bit hoods" They discover the owner of the i.d. that a kid had used earlier to get beer. Turns out Jake Lalley is brother to the girl those two guys had been harassing early in the episode. He got the i.d. when they crashed a party at their house. The kid Jamie, tells Logan and Wheeler that Rickey and Lou, are the guys that harassed Amy and wanted Jamie to be a lookout while they killed Kyle. But Jamie didn't want to.

Ricky and Lou bragged about killing Kyle, that they would be considered heroes. That the reason they killed him was because Kyle was a sexual deviant. But Ricky's mother alibied him. Ricky just sat there, smirking. Logan pulls their rap sheets and discover that they both went to high school together, and dropped out at the same time.

Ross tells Logan and Wheeler to use their brains to figure out a way to search their van. They pull them over--ask for license and registration; their tages are expired; broken tail light; car insurance has expired, well over a year and a half ago. And Lou has an open beer bottle. While they search the van with luminol, they see blood and bleach. The bleach is still on their shoes. All the smugness leaves their faces as Logan hauls them to the precinct.

Logan, Wheeler and the CSU unit search Ricky's garage. Specifically, Logan asks to check under the drainpipe. There's a refrigerator with a lock. Logan tells Wheeler to open it--maybe they kept the head as a souvenier. But no. There's just pot roast. The next step is to the place where Ricky and Lou got the new carpet for the van. The guy tells them that they had asked them how to jam a seatbelt.

Logan and Wheeler start questioning the weak link--Lou. And tells him they found the blood. Turns out Ricky killed Kyle in order to impress Brenda, Jake's sister. It seems Ricky's had a crush on her since they were kids. But she didn't believe he did it. Ricky was all talk, that he'd talked about killing for years.

Wheeler takes her turn with Ricky. Ricky admits to giving Kyle a ride to his (Ricky's) house to smoke a joint and have a beer. But he denies messing with Kyle's car. Then Wheeler pulls out the trump--Ricky's computer just happened to have googled the same place where Kyle's body was found; Logan comes in and tells him Lou told them everything. Wheeler tells Ricky that they talked to Brenda. This gets Ricky's attention. He asks what did she say? That you're a loser and that she didn't believe that Ricky killed Kyle.

Then Logan bends close to Ricky's face and tells him that Brenda said Ricky doesn't have the balls to kill anyone. God I'm so going to miss Logan!


Ricky smirks and calls himself Hannibal Lector. Logan asks how he killed them. Ricky just repeated what was revealed in the paper. Logan asks for details--what did Ricky use? Ricky brags that he used a hacksaw. Wheeler then tells Ricky that according to the M.E., one committed suicide. You can see the arrogance just fade from his face. Wheeler tells Ricky that the second victim that was killed? The person who killed him had the "working knowlegde of anatomy."

Logan then taunts Ricky with: "And that wouldn't be you Ricky, because you's a high school dropout."

The only person Ricky killed was Kyle. Ricky then tried to say that it was self defense. Logan looks at Ricky as if to say 'you think I'm an idiot?' Logan reminds Ricky he stabbed Kyle-in the back--15 times. Ricky looks away and tries to laugh it off. Logan smirks, laughs and says "Yeaah." Who are you trying to kid? Logan asks him if he killed Kyle just for the rush? Ricky says yes; Logan asks him how it felt. Ricky said it wasn't as exciting or fun as he thought it would be. He goes into detail what he had to do. When Wheeler asks him if he'd do it again, Ricky says, probably not. As Logan opens the door to leave, Ricky whines "I'm not going to be famous?" Logan tells him no.

But there's one thing that still bothering Logan. Who messed with the ignition plug. Turns out that it was the sergeant who did it. But he says that he'd be willing to lie and say that he saw Ricky and Lou messing with the car. Logan tells him they aren't smart enough to do it. So the sergeant admits to doing it. Then Logan leaves.

Back at the precinct, Logan asks Wheeler if she wants to go out for a drink, but she nixes it. Logan even offers to buy, but she tells him she's got plans and finally introduces her fiance to Logan. Poor Logan...he looks so lost as Wheeler and her fiance leave. Logan and Ross are sharing a drink as they watch A.D.A. Driver take credit for catching Kyle's killer. Logan tells Ross about the first cases he caught and how the killer told Logan that it had been an accident, while standing with a bloody machete in his hand. Ross then says thier job is either tragic or stupid. Mostly stupid. Logan agrees, but adds that with most killers, there's always a reason. With Ricky? Ricky didn't even enjoy it.

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