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Tube Talk: 'Blind Justice' subplots fail to mesh


If you had gone to your philosophy class this semester like you were supposed to, you'd know that there are some situations where it is not considered wrong to lie.

Tuesday night's episode of "Blind Justice" portrayed a perfect example of a good lie, along with a custody battle and a few more details on Karen's jailbird boyfriend.

Rather than just focusing on a murder investigation, episode No. 8 offers three interesting subplots. Yet, it fails to connect them.

Before Jim became a cop, he was a Marine who served in the Gulf War. Greg Hermanson served with Jim. The two haven't spoken for years. Greg shows up at the office to see Jim, but he's very tight-lipped about his reasons for being in New York. Greg has been living a lie.

During the war, Greg accidentally shot and killed a fellow Marine named Middleton. The death was blamed on an Iraqi rebel whom Greg killed to cover the truth. Greg is in New York and plans to free himself of the guilt by telling Middleton's widow the truth about her dead husband.

While all of this is going on, Jim and Karen are not investigating a homicide. Amazingly enough, they're covering a child custody case. The homicide comes later.

We know from last week's episode that Karen's boyfriend, Nick Dyson, is an ex-convict from Chicago who likely will soon get busted by the FBI for laundering money in his New York nightclubs. Jim meets with him for tea and tells Nick that he needs to call off his relationship with Karen and tell her the truth about his past. If Nick doesn't tell Karen, Jim is going to tell her for him.

Karen knows about none of this so she's shocked the next day when Nick dumps her over the phone. I'm not sure how, but Karen finds out that Jim knew about all of this. She gets pretty angry he didn't come to her first with the information. I'm guessing this Nick thing isn't over.

The situation with Greg isn't over, either. He and Jim show up at the widow's house and they learn that she's been happily remarried for eight years. She has had two kids since her husband's death. Believing that she's doing well and that telling her the truth would make her relive a horrible part of her past, Greg keeps the truth to himself. He gives her an old picture of her dead husband to commemorate his life.

Until "Blind Justice" successfully connects its character's personal lives with their professional lives, this series has not proven that it's worthy of a new season.

Have you been able to catch an episode? Let me know what you think.

"Blind Justice" airs Tuesday nights at 9 p.m. on ABC.

Check back next week for a recap of episode No. 9.

Daniel Swier is an associate editor of the Web Devil. Reach him at daniel.swier@asu.edu.


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