I am SO glad that Fred Thompson is OFF Law & Order! [View All]

[Elspeth]

Last night's episode was the first one I've seen in a long time where I could really cheer a bit for the series. McCoy has now become interim DA and his office was prosecuting a auxiliary cop who fired a weapon he wasn't supposed to be carrying into a crowd of protesters. After the first ADA given the case protects the cop by not asking relevant questions, the two other ADAs (Rubirosa and Cutter) get the case.

But it is McCoy who is put on trial by the cop's defense attorney who accuses him of having a "liberal agenda" and going after cops. McCoy defends himself successfully against the charge, saying that he goes after people who break the law, no matter who they are. McCoy's practical idealism is on display for the first time in years and at the end of the show, Cutter, who is clearly impressed by his boss, hands McCoy a Bobby Kennedy campaign pin that he bought on Ebay.

You know that this storyline would have been impossibly if Grandpa Fred were oppressing the set. Thompson made a lousy candidate but THANK GOD for the presidential primaries!