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"In the Wee Small Hours (Part II)"
CI, Episode 5.07
Production number: 05007
First aired: 6 November 2005
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Harold Garrett
Teleplay By
Stephanie Sengupta

Story By
Stephanie Sengupta & René Balcer

Directed By
Jean de Segonzac

Summary[]

A Judge accused in the kidnapping and murder of a teenage girl fights back against the accusations by digging up dirt on the Detectives of the Major Case Squad.

Plot[]

The detectives launch a search for Bethany Lunden out in a salt marsh where Ethan had lost his dog as a child, with the media in tow. After finding her body, Elizabeth Rodgers finds that two sets of condoms were used, one sheepskin and one latex. The suspect, Ethan Garrett, has an allergy to latex, so they realize another person also had sex with Lunden. They then arrest his father Judge Harold Garrett.

After Judge Garrett's arrest, he launches a number of attacks on Carver, Logan, and Goren. In particular, he has a private investigator antagonize Goren's mother at her mental institution making Goren especially mad. Goren goes to confront Garrett, with Eames and Carver in tow. Goren, however, gets the judge to confess to sex with Bethany and the trial proceeds.

In court, Garrett's defense attorney attempts to further discredit Goren by bringing up a request for a new partner that Eames had filed five years before. This tatic seems to be mitigated and Carver calls Ethan to testify against his father. Ethan mentions something about Bethany bleeding rectally and Carver and the detectives wonder how he knew about this detail. They bring Ethan to interrogation and realize that he did not dump the body in the marsh as he did not know the directions in that area that well. Goren calls the Humane Society and they tell him his mother, Eloise, tried to find the dog in the marsh. They realize she was the one who killed Bethany. The murder charge against Judge Garrett is dropped, but not the rape. Eloise is then charged with the murder of Bethany, which as Eames mentions means all of the family is likely off to prison.

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Quotes[]

(looking at Harold Garrett's den)
Robert Goren: So he puts the needle down, sits down here, puts his headphones on, listens to Frank, drinks himself to sleep...
Elise Garrett: (smiles) Harold to a T.

Harold Garrett: I heard a rumor about a deal with the D.A. What did you tell them?
Elise Garrett: Don't touch him! (hurries Ethan up the stairs)
Harold Garrett: Look at me when I'm talking to you! I'm your father! (Elise and Ethan have walked away) Traitor! You Iago! IAGO!

Arthur Branch: It's not enough to do good. You gotta be seen doing good.

Harold Garrett: I presided over police brutality trials in the '90s. It'd be quite a feather in somebody's cap to knock me down.
Robert Goren: (writing down notes) Grandiosity, paranoid delusions, persecution complex...
Harold Garrett: Two can play at that game, Detective. I'm putting you all on notice. I will defend myself quite vigorously.

(Goren is taunting Garrett)
Robert Goren: Get her drunk, that's even better! She won't remember how young and strong Ethan felt. Won't remember how he made her feel good-
Harold Garrett: I made her feel good! She didn't want a boy, she wanted a man and that's what she got, and she loved it! Oh he heard me! He heard me all the way from his room! The old man showed him how it's done!
(Awkward silence. Garrett realizes that everyone in the room has heard him and is staring at him)
Harold Garrett: I did nothing to hurt her. I did not hurt her!
Ron Carver: I think we're ready for trial. Nice work, Detective.

Background information and notes[]

  • Judge Garrett tries a number of tactics from the past to try to discredit or rattle the detectives including:
    • Bringing up Logan's excessive force complaints from his FBI file, in particular, Logan using a pool cue on Greg Sanchez from "Diamond Dogs".
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"In the Wee Small Hours (Part I)"
"In the Wee Small Hours (Part II)"
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