Last Friday’s of Blue Bloods focused on the murder investigation involving three Jewish victims where a male on a motorcycle called out their names before shooting them to death. Because of their faith, prominent Jewish community members feel that this could be a hate crime, but Frank doesn’t have enough evidence to support that. Pretty soon, we do find out that the victims were not killed for their faith, but the episode does show the fine line in calling a crime hate related.
In another storyline, Danny’s wife, Linda, is the victim of a mugging while working one night and this makes her decide to purchase a gun. It is very out of place for her and in the end, she decides for once and for all what she should do about what she does. And finally, Erin is under pressure when she discovers that a gun she placed in the evidence locker at work has gone missing and was replaced with another weapon. The truth of what happened leaves her feeling stunned.
This episode of Blue Bloods was pretty good and focused on topics that needed to be dealt with carefully. Full of mystery and heartache, the episode drew us in from start to finish. Here are the top ten moments from the episode “Under The Gun.”
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10. Mugging
While working a shift as a mobile nurse, Linda becomes the victim of a mugging. This causes her to be nervous and shaken, and she ends up purchasing a gun for protection.
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9. Missing gun
Erin is in the middle of prosecuting a murder case when she is interviewing the detective who had the chain of custody on the murder weapon. When she asks him to identify the gun, she is stunned to find out the gun that was pulled from evidence is not the one used in the murder.
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8. Jamie and Linda
While Linda is buying a gun, Jamie happens to come in to get some of his own supplies for work. He is surprised to see her and thinks that she is getting things for Danny. But when she tells him not to say anything to his brother, he’s suspicious.
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7. Erin’s idea
In order to find out who used her swipe card to get the bagged gun out of the evidence locker, Erin has Detective McBride start a rumor that they were able to pull DNA from the bags of evidence and will be swabbing everyone who comes in to work the next day. This is to see who will not come into work and she reminds him that she didn’t have the idea.
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6. Case files
After a family dinner that evolved into a discussion about how Frank was looking at the situation between the department and the Jewish community was only one sided, Danny gets an idea that they need to focus on another arena for the case. Along with a co-worker of the first victim, Judge Klein, Danny and Baez look through court records where the three victims all testified in a medical malpractice case.
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5. Diplomacy
Victor Garber appears in this episode as a friend of Frank’s, Donald Stein, who is also very involved in the Jewish faith and is concerned whether the police will look into the murders as a hate crime since the victims were Jewish. Frank explains that at the moment, he doesn’t have the evidence to back that up. The two men have their own ideas about the case, but they both display diplomatic attitudes in talking with one another. Later on, they do have a tense meeting when Frank finds out that there are security units being sent to synagogues even though he has no proof if the murders are hate crimes.
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4. Erin and Olivia
Erin finds out that one of her assistants, Olivia, was the one who switched out the guns after the gang that the killer was a part of kidnapped her brother. Erin is not happy at all and warns the girl if she doesn’t testify, that she will make sure Olivia ends up behind bars. Olivia finally cracks and agrees to testify at the killer’s trial.
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3. Respect me
After an argument with Danny, who became overprotective when he found out Linda was mugged, Linda has a talk with her husband and she asks him to give her respect. She also admits that she doesn’t want the gun anymore and that it’s not for her.
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2. Garrett and Frank
Garrett and Frank talk at the end when Frank suggests that he respond to the ad from Donald Stein and company. He feels like even though he ended up being right, that he let his ego cloud how the good judgement he usually had. Garrett suggests that he just give this information to Stein personally.
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1. Preparing dinner
In a brief scene, Frank, Erin, and Jamie are preparing Sunday dinner and discuss Linda purchasing a gun. Frank found out about it because Linda had used her commissioner card and Jamie admits he saw her at the gun store. He tells them she said not to tell Danny and Frank tells him not to since it’s not their business since Linda bought the gun legally. Jamie says he’s sending Danny to Frank if he finds out.