January 27, 2004
10.12 Mother's Milk
Disturbing episode (10.12) in which McCoy and Carmichael attempt to assign blame for an infant's death. Carmichael eventually takes the lead chair in the trial of the baby's mother, who essentially starved the baby to death by refusing to breastfeed it or give it formula. The young mother claimed the hospital's lactation counselor intimidated her into using breast milk or nothing, but Carmichael badgers her until she nearly admits she wanted to the baby dead because she couldn't deal with the responsibility.
Briscoe and Green spend the first half of the episode trying to find the baby and the mother, eventually discovering the mother living with a guy from the local coffee shop and the baby buried in her in-laws' backyard. In a nice, but grisly, stylistic touch, the baby is discovered in a canvas bag indentical to one used to identify a location (a lumber company) earlier in the episode.
Apart from Carmichael's taking the lead in the prosecution (McCoy doesn't even show up in court), and the episode's emotionally disturbing plot, there isn't much notable about the episode.
Posted by adm at January 27, 2004 09:21 PM
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