One Moment Can Change Everything

Last night was the second episode of Flashpoint. Flashpoint is a show about a team of the Toronto Strategic Response Unit who go to places where the normal police officers are not trained to control the situation, like a hostage situation or bomb threat. This is a good show because it is almost the only Canadian made television show that is not horrible. One of the ideas used in every episode is that one moment can change everything. That moment in each episode is the turning point where everything goes wrong for either the criminal, victim, or the SRU and that moment is the climax of the episode. They usually show that one moment in the first minute of the episode and then go back a couple of hours earlier to start the episode and show the background of how it happened and then later get back that moment and show what happens after.

The first episode of the season was much better than this one because of the level of panic in the police. While trying to defuse one of the bombs that they were after one of the officers stepped on a land mine, the rest of the episode was spent trying to figure out how to get him off of the mine without it killing him. He decided that he did not want his friends in anymore danger trying to get him off of the mine, he waited until they had stepped away to try to figure it out and he stepped off to spare his friends of accidentally killing themselves.

The second episode was also very good but not as good as the first. The second episode was based around the team looking for a women who was abducted by one of her customers from the coffee shop where she worked. The man broke into her apartment and dragged her to his car and took her to his trailer in the woods. This man took her because she looked like his dead daughter and his medical past of mental disorder lead him to believe that she was his daughter. Once the team found out why he had taken her they were more able to relate to him because they all knew what it was like to lose someone close to you after their friends had died from the land mine. I thought that the crime in this episode was not appropriate for the SRU because it was an abduction. Abductions are usually handled by the police or by missing person. I thought that a hostage situation would have been more suited for this episode and all of the details could have been the same only the crime would have been better for the show. I thought that this episode was not as good as other episodes of Flashpoint and that it should have a rating of 2.5 out of 5.