A Question of Courage

Season 2, Episode 2, Aired

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Maggie and Adam must deal with a crazed nightclub bouncer whose confrontation with a footballer results in a brawl.
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  • Responding to a brawl, Maggie is wounded and knocked unconscious. Adam's conduct during the incident comes into question, but a far more serious concern soon arises from the matter. A top-notch episode...moreless

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    By Jay-Spacedust, Jan 27, 2011
    This review contains spoilers.

    The first episode of Season 2, 'Without a Trace' was reasonable enough, but by no means a 'Blue Heelers' classic. But this second episode, 'A Question of Courage', is not only far superior, but the best 'Heelers episode for quite a while chronologically. In a way, I wonder why this episode wasn't chosen to start the season instead of 'Without a Trace'.

    When it begins, things look set to me a run-of-the-mill "who's the true culprit" story, with a clubber and a heavy-handed bouncer laying accusations against each other, but things soon develop into a domino effect, with one twist after another. Maggie knocked unconscious Tom's bedside vigil (classic scenes, by the way) Adam's conduct called into question Adam being bitten by the culprit the revelation that bouncer Paul Reynolds is HIV positive and Adam will have to undergo tests Probably no BH episode prior to this point has had quite so many twists and turns.

    Through most of this one, it's pretty obvious that Reynolds is the bad guy, but it's the startling revelation made about 3/4 of the way through that he has HIV, and may (or may not) deliberately have tried to infect Adam by biting him, that comes as a real shock.

    The episode's payoff scene, with Adam and Reynolds alone in one of the Police Station rooms, any Reynolds's candid description including how he hates homosexuals but succumbed to a gay encounter(s) because of his love of body building - is unbelievably powerful, and after seeming at the start of the story to be a slightly generic villain of the piece I'd put Terry Serio down as one of the show's strongest guest performers because of this intense scene.

    The story puts into action Adam's HIV-scare story arc; I love how 'Blue Heelers' stories are both self-contained in some ways, but also span across episodes in other respects.

    The episode was made in the first ten years or so after HIV and AIDS had become a worldwide issue. There are some very informative comments about HIV written in, and are treated sensitively, but thankfully the episode doesn't succumb to being one big public service announcement.

    This has got to be one of my favourite 'Blue Heelers' episodes thus far. A definite 10/10.moreless
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