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Flashpoint Season 2 Episode 7

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Aired Tuesday 10:00 PM May 01, 2009 on CTV

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When a student brings a gun to school Sgt. Parker and the SRU team must figure out how to diffuse the situation before the student takes vengeance against some bullies.

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Now this was a GREAT script.....

9.0

By saleblanc, Jun 26, 2010

The Life of a Teenager.

Within the first moments I was really intrigued to see how the link to the boy who was pushed to far at school to Greg and Ed's position as a parent of a teenager. I really appreciated the scene with Ed offering reassurances to the students that they were doing everything right. I loved the showing of SRU's frustrations with campus security and as shown it was justified. Parker put a lot of faith and trust in a brave teenage girl. I loved the scene with Ella and Ed at the end it was very fitting. Just like Ed is one there to help him put the pieces back together. I liked seeing Jules and Sam face her return and as Parker had said, they are professional and it was over. I just wonder if it is for either of them.moreless
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A bullied teenager strikes back.

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By seikhoqueen, May 09, 2009

The episode starts off with a teenager who happens to be a talented artist talking to a female friend about his latest project. She chats with him until her more popular jock of a boyfriend shows up. Fast forward to the outdoor stadium where the girl is being manhandled by her boyfriend and the artistic teen shows up and decides to stand up for the girl. It turns out to be not the best decision because the jock and his friends gang up on the boy, film him being ridiculed and to further the humiliation, they send it to practically everyone in the school. Rather than stand up for her friend, the girl says nothing and waits for her boyfriend to have his fill of fun before they all walk away, leaving the poor kid on the ground.

The show has found its niche in being able to humanize characters that most shows would merely present as one dimensional characters. The kids he shot were by accident and when he confronted one of the bullies his main goal was to humiliate the kid, not kill him. The other bully admitted to insecurities that he had that led to the actions that he took. The girl who at first stood by and watched her friend as he was bullied was the one who diffused the situation bravely by talking to him and holding out her hand to help him. Parker also felt an emotional connection to the case, being so far away and not having a relationship with his own teenaged son. He managed to stay calm and professional until the situation was diffused, unlike the campus cop who withheld info from the SRU, and then overreacted when he thought something happened to his own son. It was quite something to see the normally congenial Parker lose it in the locker room, and admit to missing his kid. The episode also marks Jules return. She's back as Sam's parter, but their romantic relationship is apparently over. Even though they maintain a friendly but professional partnership it's obvious that Sam is still having trouble with it. Question is, is it really over between them?

I'm glad to see that the show has found its niche as a character driven drama. It just keeps getting better.moreless
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This was about a kid who has been bullied to much and so he was going to show those kids not to mess with him again by bringing a gun into school and he went looking for them.moreless

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By thirdwatch55, May 04, 2009

This was a great epsoide. It just shows what can happen if someone get bullied to much. Those kids shouldn't have done picked on him like the way they did. They just had something comming. His friend Ella was a brave girl to do what she did. Becasue I wouldn't have done that just in case she scared him and that could have startle and he could have shot her by an accident. But she was very brave for what she did. It also sucked for those kids who got shot who didn't even do anything to him. This was a very good epsoide. One of the best every.moreless
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A kid brings a gun to school.

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By thefanof, May 03, 2009

The school shooting episode: A staple of every drama and it was bound to be done on Flashpoint, a show specializing in hostage situations, eventually. Luckily, the CBS series managed to do a good job with it, and it actually did not play into most of the stereotypes that often occur. For one, I certainly did not predict that he would get shot in the end, nor did I see Tony being unharmed.

I still think the show needs some major arcs to last for a long time and right now Sam and Jules just isn't cutting it for me.moreless
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Emotion pure

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By FragLimiT41, May 03, 2009

Flashpoint shows once again what is their focus point:

People.

Ordinary people with ordinary problems and ordinary feelings.

They show what happens when push comes to shove and the one who is shoved too hard finds no way out but to grab a gun and fight back.

With all the tragic school-shootings, flashpoint shows the perspective of the victim and how it came to this: unemployed, alcoholic single-father, loner that is being abused by the jarheads at high-school, frustration in the love endeavour, being humiliated on the internet for doing the right thing.

On the other side: the girl who the loner stood up for, being the only one to see his point of view and standing up for him and eventually defusing the whole dangerous situation.

On a side-plot, the ever-calm Greg Parker shows his inside at the end. Demolishing his locker because he misses something real important in his life: his family, his son.

Well written characters, well designed emotion-loaded situations, perfect plot for a Flashpoint-Episode.

You can not see this on CSI or somewhere else and that is why I love this show.moreless
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Enrico Colantoni	Sgt. Gregory Parker
Hugh Dillon	Ed Lane
David Paetkau	Sam Braddock
Mark Taylor	Lewis Young
Amy Jo Johnson	Julianna 'Jules' Callaghan
Sergio Di Zio	Mike 'Spike' Scarlatti

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Vasanth Saranga	Marcus	Guest Star
Randi Lee Butcher	Rachel	Guest Star
Glen Cross	Officer Jared Kandenski	Guest Star
Tyler Stentiford	Clark Lane	Recurring Role
Tattiiawna Jones	Winnie Camden	Recurring Role

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- This episode is Jules' first day back to work after having been shot in "Between Heartbeats".
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- Greg: Last but certainly not least, big drill with Team Five, which is why I am anticipating a Team One victory.
  
  Ed: Which is why we are going to spend the rest of this afternoon training in gear with weapons and a six story building we are going to use as training.
  
  Spike: Training for a training exercise?
  
  Ed: We play to win, Mr. Scarlatti. We play to win.
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- Sam: Dealing with my dad, that was the easy part.
  
  Jules: What was the hard part?
  
  Sam: When my mom asked when she gets to meet you.
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- Sam: Jules, you ready for this?
  
  Jules: 48 days of physio, 4 hours a day in the gym, double time on the range. Yeah, I think I'm ready. Lets go make a difference.
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- Original International Air Dates:
  Norway: January 4, 2010 on TVNORGE
  Slovakia: February 4, 2011 on Markiza
  Czech Republic: August 29, 2011 on Barrandov
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- Music
  
  The song played at the end of the episode is Golden State - All Roads Lead Home.
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