The Closer

On Wednesday 13th July I watched an episode of "The
Closer" on Gem at 9.30 p.m. to say I was shocked at
the mistakes in the show is putting it nicely.

It is the episode which starts out with two mounted
policemen in skid row finding a young man in a suit
sitting on some boxes smoking a crack pipe.

They dismount and pat him down, one the front and
one the back. The one in front takes the crack pipe
and finds a baggie in his top left hand jacket pocket.
The cop at the back finds a car key on a ring, with a
black leather fob and a half eaten pack of chewing
gum in his right rear trouser pocket.

The cop at the back proceeds to handcuff him then
reaches down and scoops up the key and pack of
gum from the roadway, and wedges them back in the
trouser pocket, then grabs him by the left arm and
drags him to a POLICE CAR THAT MAGICALLY IS
THERE WITH ITS REAR RIGHT DOOR OPEN.

In the interrogation room, the cop who hancuffed
himtells the young man to empty his pockets. He
does,but all he has is the pack of gum. The cop
goes back to the alley where they found him and in
the leaf ridden and paper strewn gutter he finds
the missing car key. He insists that tha young
man must have thrown it away.

Now I want you to put your hands behind your back.
Pretend they are hancuffed. They are in the
middle of your back. Now as someone grabs your
left arm and pulls you, try to reach your right
hand into your rear right hand trouser pocket to
throw away a key. You have less than 5 seconds
to achieve this. IMPOSSIBLE, I have tried and I
have asked three other people to try this and
they all said they couldn't do it. That was the
first big mistake.

The key turns out to belong to a car reported
stolen.The car was being driven by a young lady
who did notcome homee but the father could not
report her missing, just the car.

The young man's story is that at about 11 p.m.
he walked out of a rehab center where he had
been staying for a month to six weeks. He had
scored himself some dope when he was mugged
by a street guy called "The Veteran" who preys
on the crack heads. "The Veteran" held him up
at knife point, wiped his bloody hands on the
young mans' shirt, and took his wallet. When
"The Veteran" had taken the knife out he had
dropped the car key.

The police pick up "The Veteran" and he has
bloody and skined knuckles on his right hand.
He has a knife and the young man's wallet. We
are not shown if he has anything esle in his
possesssion.

The police find the car and there is a young
dead female in the boot. It is the friend of
the owner's daughter, who is still missing.

The police find A.T.M. video surveillance,
showing a man in a blue hoodie forcing the dead
girl to the A.T.M. She manages to push him away
and tries to run for it but the man grabs her
and procees to beat the living crap out of her,
with his right hand. The man then takes a knife
and stabs her repeatedly. The ME's report said
she had both cheek bones broken, a broken nose
and a broken jaw.

I was reading a medical journal last month.
A Dr. said that T.V. has knuckle fighting all
wrong. The hand is the most delicate part of
the human body and the skin on the back of the
hand is very thin. Thus fighters wear all that
bandaging before they put on boxing gloves.

One punch to a human face with the bare knuckle
will at the very least cause scraped knuckles
and bleeding. If in punching a bone is broken
on the other person then is every likehood you
will also break at least one of the small bones
in your hand.

The young man is sitting in the intergation room
and Brenda Lee is holding his hands. Both of
which are lily white and look as soft as a babies
bottom with nary a scrape or mark on them. This
is the next big mistake. If he was guilty of
beating and killing the girl he would have had
some marks on his knuckles.

Yet he goes on to confess that he did indeed kill
the girl. He also gives the location of the
missing girl. The police find her alive, chained
up (with a lock, that they cut off, was it lucky
that they had a tool with them that they could
do that?) WHERE IS THE KEY TO THAT LOCK?
It was not on the young man. The hoodie that
we saw in the surveillance tape is in the
shipping container with the girl. It is soaked
with blood. Why would the young man be wearing
a hoodie when he was wearing a suit jacket?

At this stage I am thinking that the young man
in his drugged stupor has seen "The Vetran"
kill one girl and chain up the other and in
his confusion he thinks he did it and that
when the girl sees him she will exonerate him.
But we learn from another detective that in fact
she has said "He is the ONE"!

At the end of the show there was one thing I
knew for certain that based on the "evidence"
in the show the young man DID NOT do the
beating and killing.

I thought "Well next week we will see that it
hasbeen a mistake." But the next week's episode
was another case!

I can't believe that this episode when through
editing and NOONE picked up all the errors!