Spoilers ahead for episode 4 of Right Season 22, entitled “The benefit of the doubt”.
Right kicked off the bloody case of the week with the murder of a young author, e Cosgrove Yes Shaw (played by Mehcad Brooks, newcomer in season 22 ) were in a stalemate after another until Cosgrove brought in an old mentor, Detective Jerry Ryan. He had experience in similar cases and Cosgrove’s trust, although Shaw was clearly skeptical of the man he had just met (who was also the godfather of Cosgrove’s daughter). By the end of the hour, Cosgrove has learned a valuable lesson in trust and police work, and while this is a very procedural sight, the lesson should be kept.
The hunt for the killer was complicated by the fact that their main suspect was a movie star, and Cosgrove, Shaw and Ryan were supposed to watch him drive around in a car potentially full of evidence because they didn’t have a warrant. . . Ryan faced this problem when he looked out the window and claimed he saw blood, giving them a probable cause. However, he was the only one to argue that there was blood, and further research showed no evidence, leading to entirely plausible allegations that Ryan lied as an excuse to illegally search the car.
Ryan’s method meant that the evidence found inside the car was discarded, which meant that the evidence found in the suspect’s apartment was also discarded. The last chance the detectives have to give Price Yes Brown one chance to win the case was to find evidence in the suspect’s warehouse. Very conveniently, they found the victim’s necklace … and the discovery may have been a little too convenient. The defense attorney drew attention to the fact that Ryan was the one who saw the necklace and then pointed the finger at Shaw, and claimed that he had put the necklace in a very believable way.
Miraculously, Price and Maroun win the case and the killer goes to jail, but Cosgrove’s eyes widen to the kind of cop Ryan is. When his former mentor wanted to celebrate the victory with jubilation, Cosgrove could not accept his assertion that “all is well that ends well”. He asked Cosgrove to leave the house and it seemed clear that their relationship, personal and professional, was over. Although she has no concrete evidence that Ryan lied about seeing blood on the car or putting on a collar, she is a detective for a reason, and the guilty verdict did not confirm her suspicion that Ryan broke the law. to get it.
Learning not to automatically trust the cops he doesn’t work with regularly is a valuable lesson for Cosgrove, especially in light of Shaw, aka his new partner, who shares his apprehensions. He was also reminded that the police must conduct their investigation in a way that improves the case in court rather than interrupting it. It was fortunate that the killer went to jail this week, and I honestly thought the jury would let him go after the defense attorney put so many flaws in Ryan’s credibility.
The aftermath of this case could help Cosgrove become a better cop and strengthen the working relationship between him and Shaw. They still haven’t cooperated long after detective bernard (played by Anthony Anderson, who does not oppose the return one day). Everything he learned in “The Benefit of the Doubt” that led to his firing Ryan was important; despite Right it is by far the most procedural of the three THIS show, this growth for Cosgrove must be sustained.
This show will probably never be serialized like Law and order: organized crime or even marginally serialized as Law and order: SVU, but it’s a story that has to go beyond the events of a single episode. Find out with the new installments of Right Thursday at 8 p.m. ET on NBC, earlier SVU (greeting Amanda Rollins from Kelli Giddish) in a few months ) at 21 and Organized crime at 22:00 in TV program 2022 . You can also find episodes airing the next day with a peacock subscription .
Source: Cinemablend
