Episode 47
Slam Dunk (03-12-04)

Brief Synopsis: While serving as a juror, Jordan derails the district attorney's open-and-shut case against a reputed cop killer by disputing the medical evidence.

So you knew what was coming with the opening scenes of this story.  Jordan’s on a jury of an open and closed case—well what was supposedly an open and closed case.  Jordan has to make things interesting though.

As the jurors go around giving their vote (of guilty) they get to Jordan and she goes and throws a wrench in the mix and votes not guilty.  She has questions—which happen to be very valid questions.  She wants to see the autopsy report…and so the action begins.  As Garret said though—Jordan does things for a reason.  She honestly felt something wasn’t right.  Though I am sure she enjoyed putting a thorn in Walcott’s side, even if it was briefly. 

Jordan is slowly poking holes in the theory Walcott presented and turning the votes of a few of the jurors.  So of course Walcott returns the favor by trying to get Jordan kicked off the jury, accusing her of breaking her oath.  That doesn’t work but the jury does—as a result—get sequestered and Jordan’s left to explain who that happened to the other jurors who are none too happy.

While the jurors are discussing the case Garret’s doing some research of his own.  He’s not happy with the original autopsy report which he calls unprofessional, incomplete and inconclusive.  He gets permission to dig up the body and reexamine it.  Woody goes and interviews the police officer who was first on the scene and we learn the cop had a gambling problem.  They reanalyze the video and prove the Ainsworth (man on trial) was indeed caring a gun.  The go searching for the gun in a creek, find the gun, compare the striations and oh guess what…they don’t match. 

By this point Jordan’s convinced all but one juror to vote not guilty.  After a little ‘confrontation of words’ even he changes his vote.   Ainsworth: Not guilty.  Sometimes the system does work…

Nigel goes back to the video and low and behold there was a third car at the scene that night.  Good twist of an ending.  I wasn’t expecting the father to have killed his own son.  I thought it was too convenient and easy for it to be the cop, but I wasn’t sure who else would want to kill him.  It made sense that it was the father after I thought about it but I guess I didn’t think the father would really kill his son.  Bad me. 

I was very proud of Garret.  He really stuck up for Jordan when Rene went at her. 

The dislike and tension between Walcott and Jordan in this episode was intense.  Walcott did ‘thank’ Jordan at the end.  Jordan asks ‘for what’.  Walcott says for standing up in there—Jordan did a good thing.  Jordan makes a comment that that’s what they were there for—to talk, to discuss the case.  I think Jordan was looking for Walcott to apologize for accusing Jordan of discussing the case with Garret which is what she should have done.  Alas we I can’t hope for too much.  Those two I’m afraid are always going to be pushing each others buttons.  What else would you expect with two strong, opinionated women out to see justice served?

3 out of 5 Dead Bodies.  Entertaining, predictable story line with a slightly surprising ending.