The discovery of a dead body inside a Volkswagen van dumped in a river leads Briscoe and Curtis to investigate the disappearance of a campus radical from the late 1960s.The discovery of a dead body inside a Volkswagen van dumped in a river leads Briscoe and Curtis to investigate the disappearance of a campus radical from the late 1960s.The discovery of a dead body inside a Volkswagen van dumped in a river leads Briscoe and Curtis to investigate the disappearance of a campus radical from the late 1960s.
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- TriviaGuest star Roy Thinnes played D.A. Alfred Wentworth in the series pilot, Everybody's Favorite Bagman (1990) (produced 1988; aired 1990).
- GoofsWhen searching through a box of things, Rey Curtis (Benjamin Bratt ) mentions seeing a "Dr. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" tape. It actually was, of course, "Sgt." Pepper's.
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Detective Rey Curtis: [CSU pulls a VW bus out of the Hudson River] The keys are still in here.
Detective Lennie Briscoe: [a CSU tech opens the bus door and bones fall out] So is the driver.
Detective Rey Curtis: Too much to drink, turn a wrong turn.
Detective Lennie Briscoe: [kneeling down next to the remains] Well, not unless he was drinking through the bullet hole in his skull.
- ConnectionsReferences The Graduate (1967)
"Ramparts" is a very good episode, if falling a little short of being great despite having a lot of great things individually. Like a lot of episodes in 'Law and Order's' mid period, it is a case of one half being superior to the other. But not because one half is bad, just that there is one half that executes the storytelling especially even better. "Ramparts" is not a season high point, but it was interesting to see it centered around a past cold case and how it is gone about solving it.
The second half is better than the first, which was slightly routine.
A lot is truly great on the other hand. . As usual, the production values are solid and the intimacy of the photography doesn't get static or too filmed play-like. The music when used is not too over-emphatic and has a melancholic edge that is quite haunting. The direction is sympathetic enough while also taut.
Moreover, the script challenges enough without being too much of a challenge in terms of understanding what's going on. It is taut and intelligent throughout. The story is always engrossing and tight in pace, with enough surprising twists and turns to be satisfied by.
Can't fault the acting of the regulars either and Michael Higgins is wholly successful in making one feel some degree of empathy towards someone that should on paper be detestable.
Overall, very good. 8/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Sep 15, 2021