I vote for the scene when Junior Bunk (Mekhi Phifer) gets hold of gun in the station house while handcuffed to a desk. So unexpected and chilling, the quickness of how everything happened and Phifer's reaction right before he himself was shot. What a scene
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Beau and Megan in her living room during Beau's breakdown. Great scene.
TNS- The NOObist society: Protecting the boards integrity, and giving out dunce caps.
Scene in Autofocus (season 4 ep 3) were Kellerman and Lewis steal Pembleton's squad car and he runs down the street screaming, "YOU SONS OF B&TCHES." That is by far my favorite HLOTS moment.
"In real life just as in Grand Opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse."
The scene that made me a Homicide fan didn't have any action or humor in it. It was a speech. That might not seem like a big deal, but the idea that a TV show would take several minutes to let a character just hold forth on something really hit me. Most movies these days don't have speeches, just short bursts of dialogue and special effects crap, much less TV shows. This one was by Pembleton, speaking to Bayliss in their car, about why some aspect of their current case bothered Bayliss so much. Pembleton was sharing some really incisive insights into Bayliss's character. Of course, Andre Braugher's power as an actor had something to do with why that scene hit so hard, but I was just knocked out by the writing, the performance, the direction and camera work, the whole scene. Watching it, I knew this was a show I was going to be following from then on. And I was rewarded, not just by the overall and exceptional excellence of the series, but by the regular inclusion of that type of speech by several of the characters.
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That's exactly the episode. The murder victim had been involved in Baltimore's leather scene, so Pembleton and Bayliss had to delve into that milieu to investigate it. Bayliss was freaked out by it, but by the end of the show he was wearing the leather jacket that he had been given by a friend of the victim. Pembleton's speech anticipated Bayliss's need to come to grips with his own buried feelings. The power of that quiet scene, two men sitting in a car, one talking to the other about the root causes of his reactions, convinced me that this was a show worth paying attention to.
shareI just watched "Double Blind", and the scenes with the girl who murdered her abusive father get me every time.
The show is chock full of incredible scenes, it's impossible to pick just one. Pembleton interrogating Kellerman in "Fallen Heroes" was a good one too.
In "Black and Blue", the confession Pembleton pries out of an innocent man and Gee's devastated reaction to it. Definitely one of the best scenes ever.
What about Bayliss trying to buy beer and cookies and coming up short?
Searching for a black cloud in every silver lining.
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One of mine is Pembleton's interrogation scene in "Black and Blue", when he gets the phony confession out of the kid for gee.
I haven't seen the entire series (yet) but definitely the scene in "Three Men and Adena" towards the end when Tucker turns the the tables on the interrogation. Really the entire episode was true greatness, and I don't make claims like that very often.
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Just watched the Junior Bunk episode and the following one on Sleuth this week. I think it really holds up after all these years of knowing what will happen.
shareDO YOU STILL HAVE TO 'VOID THE SALE' !?
shareThe entire episode, "Crosetti" is the most poignant hour of tv I've ever seen. Close seconds on HLOTS for me would include that moment on "Every Mother's Son" when Frank talks to Ronnie Sayres about "feeling the fear" ("Trust no one. Talk to no one.", etc.), as well as the time Beau wheels into Kay's room after they were shot.
Also, anytime any of that killer music began to play. I always got goosebumps from the way they tied that in with the drama.
Action is the enemy of thought.