Homicide: Life on the Street

The Same Coin

Season 7, Episode 12, Aired 1/29/99

Episode Summary

Gharty has a Vietnam flashback. Sheppard is placed back into rotation. Lewis asks Falsone to switch cases, as Lewis is still unsure about Sheppard's ability to be back on the street in the part of town where their call lies. Munch and MGee work a case where the victim was from a hit and run. One of the victim's possessions is a knife that has some meaning for Gharty, who later is able to recognize the tattoo found on the victim. Sheppard confronts Lewis about the case switch. She and Stivers talk more after Stivers, working with Falsone, sees him "go off" on a potential witness. Munch and MGee find their hit and run vehicle, a rental SUV, whose renter claims to know nothing of the incident and says he had filed a stolen vehicle report. Munch pulls the victim's DOD file and - for good measure - Gharty's! Munch begins to spread doubts with the other detectives about Gharty's Vietnam experience; because the file tells him that Gharty had a less than honorable discharge. A kid, who had stolen the SUV, comes forward with his mother apologizing for the hit and run. When Ballard asks Gharty about Vietnam and mentions Munch's name, Gharty goes to the Waterfront to confront Munch. In the ensuing confrontation, Billie Lou's bass playing hand is injured, and then Gharty tells his Vietnam story.moreless

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Michael Michele

Det. Rene Sheppard (season 7, TVM)
Kyle Secor

Tim Bayliss
Richard Belzer

Det. John Munch

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- Music in this episode: Them "Baby Please Don't Go" alb: The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison. Edit
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- Munch: Thomas Paine said it best: 'Disorder is the only handmaiden of true democracy.' Bayliss: Thomas Paine never said that. Munch: He was getting around to it! Edit
- Dr. Griscom: Igor, would you give these gentlemen the overhead photos on the John Doe, and go to the cemetery and dig me up a fresh human heart? I have been here all day trying to create life and you have been no help whatsoever! Edit
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- "Igor, would you give these gentlemen the overhead photos on the John Doe, and go to the cemetery and dig me up a fresh human heart? I have been here all day trying to create life and you have been no help whatsoever!" Dr. Griscom is referencing the 1931 monster movie "Frankenstein", which starred Boris Karloff as the scientist's creation. Edit