A Perfect Day (a.k.a. The Choice)

Season 3, Episode 9, Aired

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    • When Jeffries says that back in 1965, no records were kept about child abuses, and such children would easily fall through the "cracks of the system", Scotty remarks "And we got another boy in the box." This is obviously a reference to episode 1-14: Boy in the Box, where a boy who lived in an orphanage was never reported missing.
    • Vivian Mulvany died on or shortly after August 28, 1965.
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    • Art Balducci: There were no shelters back then. Just a few Good Samaritans who knew what it was like to be on the receiving end of a fist.
    • Lilly: What kind of family doesn't report their kid missing? Scotty: The kind of family that kills their kid.
    • Stillman: Some bum out fishing this morning got a bite. Lilly: Floater in the water? Stillman: A hand from the river bottom. Scotty: That's the way to jump start the a.m.
    • Cindy: (about her abusive husband) And you tell yourself that it was just a shove really. He didn't mean it, he loves me, so you stay. Nancy: We all stayed. Cindy: Until one day you realize the door you could've walked out a long time ago is nailed shut forever.
    • Lilly: So you ever see Cindy again? Nancy: (shaking her head) Usually don't after a woman goes back to her husband. Unless I pay a visit to the local cemetery.
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    • Detective Valens: So in 1965 you set up an Underground Railroad for abused women and children? The Underground Railroad was a term used of a clandestine system that helped slaves escape from the southern United States in the days before the Civil War. Abolitionists helped transport the slaves to northern states (where slavery was outlawed). When the government started hunting down escaped slaves in the north and returning them to their owners, the abolitionists responded by leading the slaves to Canada instead. Being an abolitionist required a great deal of bravery; people caught helping escaped slaves could be killed or imprisoned. Some people were involved in the Underground Railroad because they had a personal or religious opposition to slavery. Others were former slaves themselves; Harriet Tubman is a well-known example.
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