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    I belive it's Ghiradelli (not sure of the spelling, but there's an "ee"
    sound on the end rather than an "oh").
    
    
    kim
    

Can someone please explain the significance of the room number transposition?
Even if the detectives went to the correct room, the shooter still could have
fired shots at them.  Granted, the angle would not have been so direct, but 
all he would have had to do is come down a few steps, and fire down the hall.

Thanks.

RE: .23 <significance of the transposed numbers on the arrest warrant>

Two things come to mind (warning: spoilers ahead for time-shifters)


1) The brass are looking for a scapegoat to publicly blame for the tragedy,
   in order to divert attention from themselves.

2) Since we know that the person they were originally going after (the 
   pedophile who killed the little boy) did *not* do the shooting, then
   maybe the person in 201 is the shooter, and would have let the cops
   pass right on by if they had not come to his door.

-- Ken Moreau

    The wrong number on the warrant may have been picked up from the case 
    in Boston last year in which the police entered a wrong apartment on 
    a drug bust. They stormed in, handcuffed, and threw to the ground, a... 
    
    retired minister. 
    
    Who thereupon died of a heart attack on the floor of his own living
    room, while choking on his own vomit.
    
    The police relied on uncorroborated info from an informant. One Boston
    Globe article said the apartment number was not provided on the warrant, 
    but that the informant had said "first floor", which in some countries 
    refers to what in the US is considered the second floor.
    
    There was some flack about who signed the paperwork. The officer who
    got the warrant was reassigned. The city is being sued I think.
    
    Neil
    
    
    

    Re: apartment numbers
    
    It might have some significance in their surveillance and approach. 
    Way back in the beginning, I believe they said that they had the
    suspect under surveillance and he was inside the room.  Also, they
    showed someone looking through a window at the approaching cops.  The
    wrong room number would mean that they had bad information going in.

    My wife asked the same question about the room number mixup. For my
    part, I was surprised at the beginning of the show at the nonchalant
    attitude of the police in approaching the apartment. They sipped coffee
    at a cafe across the street, in full view of the target building. Then
    they went to one of their cars, and donned (so-called) bulletproof vests
    out in the street, right in front of the building! That's sloppy no
    matter where the suspect's apartment might be. The only explanation I
    could think of is that they thought the target apartment was on the other
    side of the building based on the room number, and so, when they were
    dressing for success, they thought they were out of view behind the
    building.
    
    Did not see the followup episode -- did they catch the guy? Could
    someone post a very brief synopsis?
    			Thanks,
    				Jim

Synopsis (no spoilers)

There was a lot of personal anguish with the squad looking for the suspect
and with the people in the hospital.  They guy who was least injured (don't
remember his name) was awake and recovering, looks like he will come back
all the way.  Ned Beatty's character is still in a coma, no change.  And the
girl is still unconscious, again no change there.

Pembleton is under serious stress because they can't find the guy.  He clashes
with the head of the QRT (Quick Response Team?), aka SWAT, with the QRT guy
making rude comments about getting people shot foolishly and Pembleton getting
seriously ticked off saying they took all reasonable precautions.  But they
find the guys girl-friend and get his location out of her and eventually do
manage to catch him (no spoilers, all of this was implicit in the ads).

The female captain is asked by the brass (what a bunch of slime-balls those
guys are) to investigate Giardello's handling of the situation and how the
numbers got mixed up on the arrest warrant.  She said no, they ordered her
to do it anyway, and so she did.  She basically goes in and lies saying that
Giardello didn't see it.  Giardello bursts in and says he did see it.  She
then goes on the attack saying if the brass had bought a new computer system
that this type of error would have been caught (no explanation was given for
how that is true).  The brass are prepared to blame the lack of computer
system, and let them go.

Spoilers for the rest of it:



The pedophile they caught admits (under fairly brutal questioning) to the
murder of the boy, and then tries to admit to the shooting.  But he gets
virtually every detail of the shooting wrong, to such a point that Pembleton
walks out of the interrogation room really ticked off, saying "We don't have
the shooter".  You can imagine the reaction of the squad.

Back at the hospital the female cop wakes up and is (slightly) better.

-- Ken Moreau

NBC is having more actors cross over to other shows tonight - must be
February sweeps!   Anyhow, tonight, the detective from 'Law and Order'
(Chris Noth) will be bringing a prisoner back to the 'Homicide' detectives.
The prisoner is being played by that strange director who made a bunch of 
weird movies (ie-Hairspray) - John somethingorother

    John Waters, native of Baltimore (where the series is set).