When an airline pilot accuses her captain of sexual assault, Barba convenes a grand jury to determine their employer's complicity in the crime. Meanwhile, Fin takes steps to ensure Benson is... Read allWhen an airline pilot accuses her captain of sexual assault, Barba convenes a grand jury to determine their employer's complicity in the crime. Meanwhile, Fin takes steps to ensure Benson is protected at work.When an airline pilot accuses her captain of sexual assault, Barba convenes a grand jury to determine their employer's complicity in the crime. Meanwhile, Fin takes steps to ensure Benson is protected at work.
- Detective Odafin 'Fin' Tutuola
- (as Ice T)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOptimum Air's marketing campaign is very similar to Southwest Airline's strategy when it was just a start-up in 1967.
- GoofsIt would not of been possible for the captain and the air marshal to break down the cockpit door with a food cart, or anything else on the plane including the air marshal's gun. After 9-11 all commercial cockpit doors have reinforced Kevlar within the panels to stop any hijacker from gaining access to the cockpit by shooting it. A passenger would not able to smash the door in as the doors also have reinforced titanium spars running the length and width of the door. Therefore if something was to make a strong impact against the door, it wouldn't cave in.
- Quotes
Olivia Benson: Optimum Air knew that Carter raped her, and still they put her in that cockpit with him.
William Dodds: Fine. But if you proceed with this case, I suggest you get yourself a big umbrella, 'cause the skies are gonna open up and a lot of federal crap is gonna come raining down on your head.
Olivia Benson: My umbrella is... plenty big.
Odafin Tutuola: [entering as Dodds leaves] Want me to cut him? You know I'll do it.
"Flight Risk" is a good episode with a subject that is always worth addressing and does well with exploring something that could have gone either way. A way that generally is hard hitting and tactful and not preachy or one sided. As far as Season 19 goes, "Flight Risk" is neither one of the best or the worst. More solid high middle, with a lot of good things but also with a couple of jarring things that could have been done a good deal better. 'Law and Order: Special Victims Victim' has been capable of brilliance many times and often has been, but not every episodr has been said and "Flight Risk" is not an exception while still being a good episode.
A lot of good can be seen here. Production values are still slick and suitably gritty (without being too heavy in it). The music is not too melodramatic and is not used too much, even not being too manipulative in revelations. The direction lets the drama breathe while making sure that the tension and emotion never slipped.
Most of the script is very thought provoking and taut, or at least most of it. The airplane planes are excellent and they have the right amount of tension and suspense that were missing in too many of the previous Season 19 episodes. As well as intrigue. The acting is uniformly good and more from the regulars and from support.
It is not a perfect episode having said that. The over-generalised testimony regarding male pilots did not sit right with me and came over as discriminatory.
Did also think that consequences of the closing statement were also ridiculous and rather extreme.
Concluding, good episode. 7/10.
- TheLittleSongbird
- Dec 24, 2022
Details
- Runtime42 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 16:9 HD