From: atropos@mac.com
On Mar 5, 2026 at 9:07:29 PM PST, ""Adam H. Kerman"" wrote:
> Ian J. Ball wrote:
>
>> I watched the amazingly ridiculous, but still entertaining, BIG "One
>> Chicago" triple-crossover event! Most of the cast of all three shows
>> were represented. A terrorist (or is it?!!) has killed an entire
>> planeload full of passengers and crew with some sort of WMD?! Will our
>> heroes(tm) survive?!?!!
>> They ended up killing off a recurring red shirt, and threatened to
>> kill off some of the regulars like Cruz and Liz Novak(!!), but of course
>> didn't pull the trigger any of those. Oh, and Halstead and
>> she-who-smiles-inappropriately returned for a "one-off" for this
>> crossover. I doubt we will see them again after this.
But the last we saw of them, it looked like Halstead was going to get lucky. I
wonder of she smiles inappropriately during sex, too?
> I almost never watch these shows and I feel like I cannot keep up with
> having missed decades of melodrama. With just the mystery, it could have
> been wrapped up in an hour. They gave me the hard sell during the
> Olympics and I got curious.
>
> Amazingly ridiculous but entertaining. So much I didn't follow. Given
> that the toxic whatsis turned out to be a chemical used in research, why
> did the courrier need to smuggle it in, implanted in his body? Sounds
> like it could have been ordered from a catalog or stolen from the right
> kind of warehouse or lab.
Or at the least, the individual chemicals required to make it could have been
ordered separately, then mixed together to create the poison.
The writers also had the thing behaving more like a biological weapon than a
chemical weapon the entire time. It was very confusing.
> The argument about FBI calling it terrorism versus drug trafficking
> should have made no difference to how you investigate. Either way,
> follow the evidence. Of course, both were irrelevant in the end.
I think the type of case affects the degree of inappropriateness in Upton's
smile.
> The corpse handling was absurd. Since they assumed there was a
> possibility of exposure from the corpses, there is no way they would
> have brought them to the regular County morgue, which lacks the capacity
> for 200 corpses requiring Level 1 handling. They'd have set up a
> temporary morgue in a closed factory or warehouse nearby; plenty of
> those around. Or taken over a hanger, at least for the luggage. Or used
> the empty National Guard building.
>
> What was the idiocy of all those Federal Marshals (huh?) being used to
> prevent one lousy pregnant woman from receiving surgery?
And instead of just standing there in the ER bay pointing guns at the
ambulance, why not set up a temporary surgical suite in the parking lot inside
a tent? They were there long enough to have had time for the national guard
standup a mobile field hospital, for gawd's sake.
> Voight's back story was ridiculous. He felt guilty for saving the boy?
No, he felt guilty for telling the FD to delay the fire inspection by two days
so he could make drug his case. Which was ridiculous. If the fire started
because the building was out of code, performing the inspection on the exact
date it was due wouldn't have changed anything. The inspector would have
issued a notice to the building owner to remedy the violations, which would
typically take weeks, even with a responsible landlord. It's not like the fire
department would have immediately evacuated an entire apartment building the
moment they found a violation and put everyone out on the street until it was
brought up to code.
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