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
While not a specific scene, it was the episode "Subway" with Vincent D'Onofrio.
The scene where the recue team tells the detectives that there is nothing left of him below the platform and that when they move the train he's going to die, and then the scene when the let him know that they found the person responsible for what happened, and then the anguish on the detectives faces (I want to say it was Bayliss and Pembleton) when they move the train and Vincent D'Onofrio dies from his injuries.
Otherwise it's really hard to pick a favorite scene.
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I'm in total agreement with krajac: Pembleton in front of HQ, saluting in his uniform and paying respect to Crosetti. I too am moved to tears each time I see it. I don't think I've experienced the power of that scene since.
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Comedic Scene: Beau getting mad a Kay because she quit smoking.
A close second is when Munch keeps interrupting his alcohol awareness class and eventually gets kicked out.
It's soooo hard to think of my favorites, there's just way too many to list. The scenes that instantly come to mind:
- When all the characters rally after they find out Gee has been shot.
- When McPhee Broadman reveals he wanted to have his mother killed and we follow the detectives' looks until we see that Judge Aandahl is actually there watching her son confess.
- At the end of Sniper Part I after the sniper is dead and everyone is starting to wind down and they find out that the sniper shootings are starting up again.
- The two mothers talking at the station in Every Mother's Son.
- When Paul Giamatti is unaffected by his grandfather being mauled to death (woops! or was it his grndmthr?) but then cries hysterically when they tell him his dogs will be put down.
- A Doll's Eyes when the father picks his son up out of bed and gives him to his mother and they pull the plug.
- The entire Subway episode
- Lines of Fire - that episode killed me when i saw it and still upsets me to think of it.
The very aspect of the show that makes me love it so much is the same thing that tortures me. Episodes like Lines of Fire, Every Mother's Son and Subway tear my insides out and while I'm blown away by the writing I also wish i never saw them.
That Paul Giamatti character is one of the most disturbed characters I have ever seen, and it certainly is one of the best performances he has ever given anywhere. The total void, the empty black space that man has where there should be a soul, the performance is thoroughly frieghtening. I have never ever seen such emptiness in a human being, that guy is just a shell, there's really nothing there but empty space. It gives me the shivers just thinking about it. And Paul Giamatti gave one of his best performances in his career for a freaking tv-show, it's incredible...
That was a common occurence for this show, too! Steve Buscemi also did some of his best work on this show, and Robin Williams, and Moses Gunn of course, and several others. People brought their A game to this show, because it was special.
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Wow, reading everyone's replies, I realise that I could pretty much pick an incredible scene out of every episode, this show was that amazing. So hard to try and narrow it down. And there are many scenes that I've watched repeatedly, skipping through the rest of the episode just to watch that scene again. The first two scenes that pop into my head though, are
1. Kellerman's almost-suicide in "Have a Conscience". The whole scene takes a good 20 minutes, half the episode. The fact that Homicide was always willing to really dedicate the necessary time to an event to make it truly powerful is just one of the many, many great things about it. Kellerman unloading all of the things that have pushed him to this point, Lewis trying to talk him out of it, talking about Crosetti...all of it, just incredible.
2. This scene, I fell in love with from the first time I saw it, because of the camerawork. Season two, "See No Evil", when Lewis confronts Felton in the bathroom after Felton interfers with the Prentiss investigation. They're in this tiny little space, and for a good minute and a half, the camera remains stationary at an angle where you can see both characters front-on: Beau in front of the camera, and Meldrick off to the side, and being reflected in the mirror. I just found the way the scene was set up to be incredibly dynamic and interesting, a great use of the space, and a fantastic directorial decision, rather than looking at the back of one character or the other. I love Meldrick's whole speech in that scene too. From a technical point of view, easily my favourite scene.
"Soft...like a kitty."
My favorite scene is same as "gobears": From "Every Mothers Son". The mom of the killer and the mom of the victim are both in the same waiting room. Neither of them realizes who the other person is, and they start talking to each other. First time I saw that, I felt like my guts were being twisted into a knot.
"Two more swords and I'll be Queen of the Monkey People." Roseanne
I like the subtle scenes such as when Kellerman first appears as an arson cop and gets a confession where pembleton and Bayliss failed: Frank leans in with professional amazement and a grudging respect.
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1) Pembleton's stroke, the visual and aural chaos (when my kidneys shut down, I had a seizure where time & sound distorted in a similar way)
2)Pembleton standing in uniform and saluting Crosetti always makes me bawl
3)Falsone and Kellerman drawing their guns on each other ratcheted the tension to a fever pitch
4)Beau wheeling himself into Kay's room after they'd been shot and their sharing of relief
5)The grilling of the acne-faced kid in "Every Mother's Son"
6)Bayliss pounding on and finally smashing the one-way mirror when his cousin is being questioned in the Box
7)Robin Williams walking up unexpectedly on the detectives as they joke about overtime in his wife's murder case
8) Risley Tucker's chilling admission of his "love" for Adena
9)Crosetti sitting in Thorsen's hospital room, listening to the Miles Davis Quintet on his headphones
10) Falsone's "apology" to the wrongly-accused doctor in "Baby, It's You, Pt.2"
11)Gee's excrutiating explanation to Russert on why some black women refuse to date him (because he's too dark)
Favorite comedic scenes:
1) Bolander meeting Blythe at the morgue for their first date
2)Lewis interviewing Calpurnia Church in the Box
3) Bayliss and the Chinese lady making love in her coffin
4) Kay's sister causing chaos at Lewis's wedding
5)Our introduction to Munch ("I'm NOT Montel Williams!")
6)The "Gas Man" and his crony's bumbling surveillance of Pembleton and his wife
7)Any of Crosetti's mind-bending monologues on the shooting of Lincoln
May I bone your kipper, Mademoiselle?
Favorite episode was Documentary.
I loved the explanations of how you should talk in "the box" and then how you should just shut up.
Clark Johnson (Lewis) looking for a rights form... Andre Braugher (Pembleton) going through an interrogation.
Catching "the danged lunch bandit" on film.
I like the scene where Luther meets his end and the later scenes (episodes) regarding whether film existed of the event.
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