Privileged

I think that the "Privileged" was a really good episode from Blue Bloods. Once again, we can see the Reagan Family debating and what I really like is that everybody gave its point of view about diplomatic Immunity. Frank, Danny, and Erin all of them have a different point of view about a rape case where the suspect had diplomatic immunity. 

It was really interesting how there was a parallelism of which personage from the Regan family work in this case—Frank worked the father, Danny worked the son, and Erin looked for a way to work around the diplomatic immunity. Definitely we can see how the Reagan family work together and are ”Really Pure American Blue Justice Blood.” What I did not like about this episode was how they portray Argentineans as pompous and obnoxious people—please don’t think that they are like that! Also, the coffee beans comment from the Diplomat. Argentina is not know for their Coffee—they have good one tho, but the one who wrote the scripts for this episode, maybe confused Argentina with Colombia! Argentina is know for their wine, meat, and produce products.

I think it was hilarious when Danny was running after the wrong suspect and grabbed a pedestrian’s umbrella to throw at the suspect’s legs.  The woman that was the owner of the umbrella didn’t even complaint! I live in NYC and if someone grabs my umbrella to throw it to someone I would at least ask him what’s going on!

Frank and his girlfriend—I don’t like her, I think she is just with to take advantage and be the first having fresh news from NYC—broke up. Probably the story between them will expand in the next episodes.  

Jamie during this episode was learning how to be a cop at the NYC streets. It’s funny to watching the rookie /training officer and how they solve the problems and detect crime. Sidney—Jaime’s GF—still questioning herself about her Harvard Lawyer boyfriend as a cop. I think that Jaime doesn’t seem to be smart so he just should keep learning how to be a good cop.   Sidney  says she can deal with Jaime as a rookie cop, but she's worried that he loves the job more than her.

Once again Jaime is interested about the Blue Templar, he questions to his grandfather about the Blue Templar when he noticed Danny has a Blue Templar pin.  His grandpa answered him, “In my day we formed the Templar for a reason, to clean up the department.  After the job was done it became just another club. Drinking and war stories.”  Im sure there will be a good story made for the next season about the Blue Templar and his brothers death!

"Samaritan"

The episode “Samaritan,” portrays us how the justice system denies people the right to protect themselves from violence. In this episode the NYPD is searching for man who shot one of the members of a gang of robbers and rapists on a subway train. There is not ethnicity difference between the shooter and thugs, I guess that is why they don’t give relevance to their ethnic group—as in other episodes they do. What they want to show in this episode is how system punishes people who protect themselves and others. 

The Reagan’s weigh the pros and cons of vigilantism when a man with a police record takes action against the criminal who is terrorizing riders on a subway. These debates between the Reagan’s make the viewers draw their own conclusion.  Finally we can clearly see that the laws of the state and city put the “vigilante” in an impossible position. The city’s “no tolerance” gun laws made this honest citizen a criminal by making it illegal for him to do what any sensible person would strive to do: make sure that he can protect himself and other from violence. I really like the episode "Samaritan" and found it particularly interesting.  This episode does not follow the same story as other policeman and justice shows, such as solving murders and kidnappings. Conversely, it shows how small crimes—in this case gangs and robbery—can also have an episode. Moreover, it was really interesting when the Reagan family conclude that the law in the city doesn’t really protect the citizen. 

Episode 1-PILOT

    True Bloods introduce us to the Regan Family, a family that all his male members are in law enforcement, serving the New York Police Department. The scene opens with the famous “New York, New York” song of Frank Sinatra—a perfect song to start the show! Commissioner Frank Regan is getting ready for the graduation of his son, Jamie Regan. He is almost leaving his room to go to the graduation ceremony and he stops and sees a picture of his eldest son Joe—who was a great officer and die serving as an NYPD. I think that later the show will focus its story in Joe's Life. While the new NYPD graduates are on the ceremony, a little Latin girl is going home from school. Suddenly, the little girl is abducted by strangers in a white van. The ceremony is over and the family is outside Madison Square Garden, Frank is proud and happy, he great his children—they are all in law enforcement now. Danny—Jamie bigger brother—tells that he has to get going because he has a missing kid to find.

    Once at the crime scene, Danny asks for the details about the kidnap. The only evidence they have is a doll that was left behind. An officer tells Danny that someone saw that it was a white van that took the girl but they don’t have the numbers on the plate. The little girl is diabetic and she takes insulin shots every 24 hours. Thus they have to find her soon or she will die. This time pressure makes Danny develop anger for the kidnapper. Frank talks to the media, they question security in NYC and the lack of police force normally when it comes to minorities. Danny in his office asks if anyone checked the doll’s manufacture and he call to the manufactures in China where they tell him that the doll is not ready for distribution and just 3 testers in the U.S have that kind of doll. 

    The first doll is with a lady who still is with her doll. The second doll is with a guy that works as a reviewer for a doll magazine. Danny gets a call on the third and they have the address. Danny and his partner Demarcus King arrive at the house of the third doll. A woman walks out, she has a cross and keeps playing with around her neck as she tells that her husband is staying at a hotel. They go to the hotel. The white van now painted in blue is parked outside the hotel. At hotel room 207, Donald Vance answers the door and Danny and King enter. Danny asks where the little girl is and he denies seen a girl. Danny arrests him and King reads him his rights. He laughs and says that he will call his lawyer and he’ll be out in and hour. After that he says that he’ll see his niece then. Danny snaps and takes Donald to the bathroom and King tells that they need to take him to the station. Danny tells that a girl is in danger and he tells Donald to tell where the girl is. Danny turns violent, he dunks and bangs Donald Vance face in the toilet until he confesses and gives Danny a key to a storage room.

They arrive at the storage and Danny saves Teresa (the little Latin girl.) In the car, Donald is shouting that Danny assaulted him and that he was almost drowned.

    In the judge’s chambers, Donald’s lawyer says to District Attorney Erin Regan-Boyle that the confession was forced. Erin asks for time, that way the police build a case before they let Donald free. The judge gives them a weekend. Danny is waiting outside the courtroom and asks how it went. She tells that he has until Monday and tells that he went too far and with his violent behavior he ruined all evidence against Donald. Jamie is walking down the street and is stopped by Agents Anderson and Sico from the FBI. They show him a “Blue Templar” ring Jamie doesn’t believe that there is a secret society in the New York Police Department, he just knew about it because his grandfather use to tell him stories about it when he was little. They try to recruit him and Jamie starts to leave. Sisco plays a recording of Joe, his brother, and they ask Jamie to finish what his brother started!

    Danny in his office reads an old article of a missing girl named Kathy and sees the same cross around the little girl’s neck that Mrs. Vance had around her neck. They go to her house and she shows that the name “Kathy” is inscribed on the back. In Erin’s office, she calls the judge to extradite Donald to Florida for the murder of Kathy and the judge agrees. They won.

Jamie walks onto a Pier where his dad Frank is fishing. Dad and son start to talk, Frank asks Jamie if everything is ok—he is worried that Jamie is not telling the whole truth and Jamie asks if Frank is keeping tabs on him. Frank replies, “I have vested interests”.

To watch the complete Pilot episode of Blue Blood click here: http://www.cbs.com/primetime/blue_bloods/video/?pid=WbOcK_y3LnpwZmpZJh0_2fBzQ3TGUwrp&vs=Default&play=true

The Cast

"Blue Bloods" stars,
- Tom Selleck as Police Commissioner Frank Reagan
- Donnie Wahlberg as Detective Danny Reagan, a veteran detective and Iraq war veteran
- Will Estes as Jamie Reagan, a Harvard Law graduate turned into a rookie cop
- Len Cariou as Henry Reagan, the grandfather and retired former police commissioner
- Bridget Moynahan as Erin Reagan, a New York City assistant district attorney