Re: Law and Order "Facade" 3/21/2024

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:

 

"Facade" is massively stupid in different ways. The episode opens like
a horror movie with a young pretty female victim willingly going into
scary situations to meet her fate, except she hasn't first had hot sex
with a teenage boy. She enters an empty subway station with no one on
the platform except maybe a homeless guy. I thought she'd find a corpse.
On the train, some tallish guy in distress falls against her; she
apologizes. Cut to the crime scene in which he's the murder victim.

 

Turns out he's a comedian. Riley also thinks he's a comedian but cannot
pull off the gallows humor like Greevey, Cerreta, and especially
Briscoe.

 

They find evidence that he'd gotten into an altercation with an older
comedian. That was a red herring. It leads to the dead guy's boyfriend.

 

Then there's this, well, it's not exactly a dojo. It claims to be MMA,
but it's this weird training academy for men that, later in the episode,
we learn is being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force (do
they literally do investigations or coordinate investigations being done
by member law enforcement agencies?)

 

They have members from various state, local, and federal agencies, and
yes, they do their own investigations. I was on the FBI-JTTF in Austin
for three years and worked about a dozen cases.

 
Thanks
 

That being said, the case on the show was not a JTTF case. It was an
NYPD Counter-Terrorism case,

 
I think I forgot whose logo was on the wall of the room Baxter had the
meeting in.
 

which raises a whole lot of other questions
in light of what they said about this group having 'cells' in both other
states and in Canadia. If all that's true, this absolutely is FBI
jurisdiction and the NYPD is going to be in some hot water if there's an
attack and they hadn't bothered to tell anyone about this group and
their investigation of it.

 
Don't I recall Frank once claiming that their counterterrorism unit had
worldwide jurisdiction? I'm not sure who has broader jurisdiction versus
Five-Oh.