Profiteer

Season 17, Episode 6, Aired

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The shooting of a local businessman is linked to a death of a soldier in Iraq due to faulty equipment. McCoy goes after the company whose faulty equipment caused the soldier's death, but he is force to plead out the case.moreless
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  • Tackles a topic everyone is sensitive about, but doesn't give easy answers.

    9.2
    "Superb"
    By lupinskitten, Oct 10, 2011
    After a man is murdered in front of the guests at his daughter's sixteenth birthday party, the police investigation leads to his involvement in a company who supplies body armor to the government for the protection of soldiers in Iraq. It doesn't take long for Green and Cassidy to figure out that it's a vengeance killing for the failure of one body suit to protect a soldier.

    The war is such a sensitive topic that any episode that revolves around such risky news reports as vengeful soldiers and money-grubbing businessmen is bound to rub a few people the wrong way. It rapidly becomes not a case of persecute-the-killer so much as making the man responsible for the distribution of vests he knew could have been sabotaged pay for his crimes. One of the more interesting aspects is the light it shines, even briefly, on the anti-war movement, protestors willing to do just about anything to slam the war, and the soldiers fighting overseas.

    I must admit that as a staunch conservative, I found this one a bit hard to take. Up until the last ten minutes I wasn't totally convinced the case was just. After all, one does have to ask if it's worth playing roulette with lives to protect more soldiers? But in the end, we learn that it wasn't just one vest that was faulty, or even two, but numerous incidents the army has kept under wraps for morale reasons among the troops.

    Whichever side of the political fence you belong on, one thing is for sure: by the end of "Profiteer," you'll be wondering if your cousin/brother/uncle/husband/boyfriend's armor is going to protect him the first time a bullet slams into it. For all our sake, I hope the answer is yes.moreless

  • Team investigates the murder of a local businessman in cold blood, right in front of his daughter.

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    By JohnnySoftware, Dec 26, 2010
    It is all over a piece of common personal equipment used on a battlefield.

    Only in some cases, due to a bad chemical composition or manufacturing process - some of these items shatter when subjected to the very situation they are supposed to protect someone in.

    The whole episode is painted in shades of gray.

    Except for people's passions.

    An executive feels strongly he is doing the right thing in an urgent, demanding siguation. Military men feel strongly they are doing the right thing in an uncomfortable situation. A lady copy is certain she is doing the right thing bringing a perpetrator to justice.

    The problem is, these views cannot all quite be perfectly justified or completely refuted. And they are not compatible with each other at all.

    Just like the broken shards of a shattered piece of equipment, the pieces do not quite all fit together.

    And none comes out completely on top, as the right one or the most successful one. Kind of like an Escher drawing. Perspective brings illusion and paradox to logic and the rules in this story.

    The story was good but I would not say it was really great. While taking the watcher thru a bit of a roller coaster ride it fails to completely draw the viewer in, suspend disbelief, and make them strongly empathize with one of the characters and their plight.

    The ending was a proper one but it was also unsatisfying.moreless
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    • (Concluding the plea arrangement in McCoy's office.) Jack McCoy: I hope five years will be long enough to clear your conscience. Bill Whitney: I know what I did, I saved lives.

    • (Elizabeth Olivet says Kenny Ellis has PTSD) Jack McCoy: Not everyone gets to be the victim here.

    • Anita van Buren: Don't you ever talk out of turn in front of a suspect's lawyer again! Nina Cassady: It just came out of my mouth. Anita van Buren: Then get a muzzle.

    • (About the extravagant Sweet Sixteen Party.) Nina Cassady: My sweet sixteen, dad wouldn't even loan me the Buick. Ed Green: He obviously didn't love you. Nina Cassady: I told him as much at the time.

    • Kenny Ellis: Garcia'd still be alive if his vest had stopped that bullet. Doesn't that matter to you people? Connie Rubirosa: You gunned down a man in front of his daughter. Jack McCoy: Keep making these claims, Mr. Ellis. True or not, they make a compelling motive to commit murder. Kenny Ellis: You people never would have made that son of a bitch account for what he did. Jack McCoy: None of which justifies what you did.

    • Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: You don't have to leave a limb on the battlefield to be wounded. The psychological toll of war is no less debilitating.

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    • This episode appears to be ripped from the headlines of the Interceptor body armor package scandal of 2005. The Interceptor body armor package, manufactured by Point Blank Body Armor, was distributed to thousands of Marines in comabat zones. In May of 2005, The Marine Corps recalled 5,277 combat vests issued to troops overseas after allegations suggesting that the vests failed to stop bullets.

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