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Is it plausible the dentist would buy something sketchy in public on the street like that?

It's so unusual for the detectives to have less information than the audience. In fact, I don't recall this ever happening. The audience knows the dentist hooked himself up to the machine because he's an addict and they think he was forced. So much of the episode we're not really learning anything new.

Awkward moment with the mother regarding the project line.

The transition at the door of the mourning woman to suddenly wacko with a knife strained credulity.

How much alcohol could actually be in a bottle of mouthwash that makes that red herring even remotely plausible?

Does anyone find Kessler's apartment really weird, office-like and antiseptic? A bit overkill on the character-based set design.

Separate problem is that the character is a cardboard cut-out.

What's with the new early-eighties theme in the nameplate replacement scene? Also, it's another example of audience knowing more than detectives.

Those expense reports got brought up on the screen by the accommodating assistant pretty quickly, as if it were planned.

Best line of the show: "It's too late."

The plot is vast, far-reaching. First it's about the dentist, then it's about Jim Kettle. Good fun despite issues.

This was a highly ageist and misogynistic episode. If you know why, you know, and if you don't, you probably won't get it if I tried to explain it to you. This seems to be a recurring problem with a lot of the L & O franchise. I never bothered to check to see the age and gender of the writers and directors and it's not really relevant to the complaint. It seems with regard to ageism, things have gotten worse in recent years. I saw this episode a week ago and the parts that bother me are still sticking in my head. It's too bad we don't have the forum any longer as I would love to discuss this more fully with others.