January 02, 2004
14.4 Shrunk
In this episode (14.4), a world-famous writer of musicals stabs to death a woman he met at a party. It turns out he's mentally ill and has an obsessive relationship with his psychiatrist, who may have known of his patient's desire to stab women. The episode was written by Richard Sweren, who I am increasingly coming to believe is not one of the show's best writers. The episode doesn't explore the relationship between doctor and patient deeply enough (the motivation is not provided) and it doesn't satisfactorily explore the relationship between the doctor and another character, either. Also, a great deal of time is spent early in the show running down an alibi for another suspect. It was as if the writer didn't know how to fill up 5 or 6 minutes of screen time, so he sent Briscoe and Green on a wild goose chase (or, more specifically, a fishing expedition down at the local tackle shop). Sweren also wrote 3 Dawg Night, a take on the Puffy/J. Lo shooting incident, which is one of the weaker episodes I've seen.
Anyway, the murderer is played by Lifetime Movie-of-the-Week regular John Shea. He conveys the character of a deeply disturbed man, but his manner is sufficiently riddled with tics and idiosyncrasies, it's tough to discern much subtlety in his performance.
Posted by adm at January 2, 2004 12:05 AM
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