第一集 到最后都沒有結案到底人是不是那個老頭殺的……戀童癖到底是怎么審視自己的，是犯罪題材永遠繞不開的話題。只不過膚淺一點同時也是大多數犯罪片的處理是著重描繪戀童癖在自我救贖方面的努力，或者獵奇化他們的癖好。這兩種處理高度概括了多數群體是怎么利用少數群體來感動自己的，只要是在任何有少數多數分界線的領域（性取向、性別、民族、邊緣行為）： 前者意淫戀童癖和非戀童癖一樣對戀童行為高度厭惡，為了能和正常人一致不惜自殘自殺。觀眾作為非戀童者很愿意看到這樣的行為，戀童癖的極度自我厭惡（假如真的有的話）在非者眼里除了能帶來非者對自己天生就有的價值觀的高度肯定之外，不會有別的情感體驗或者反思了。人會利用任何機會肯定自我已有的東西，證明自己的高潔并止步于此。而且自我獻祭這個行為會引起非者本能的同情。這種compassion的來源因為旁觀的緣故所以幾乎不需要付出任何心理代價，多數群體又會因為自己產生了這種柔軟的波動更加肯定自己。低廉的共情包裝著自我肯定的循環(huán)，誰看誰快樂。 后者就更不用說了，完全獵奇，最純粹的旁觀，最純粹的道德審判，最純粹的快樂。 但事實上，戀童癖怎么可能厭惡自己啊。一想到自己的復雜深邃如海，自己的愛情純粹偉大，自己的感受獨一無二，就馬上要射了。審訊室的警察們在道德審判中不小心入戲太深做了出格的事，戀童癖立刻找到我們之間也沒什么不同：我們都有不受控制的情感，讓人惶恐的想法，只要一直在腦海里，那就是安全的。你的陰暗面讓你害怕，于是你發(fā)泄在我身上。而我和你不一樣，我獨自守護那些讓你出格的強大情感，默默承受著比你更多的黑暗，我為我的愛情付出了一切。“沒有那些東西，你看著鏡子，看到的只是一個amateur”而我一直能直面你直面不了的東西。戀童癖還能過測謊儀，因為對于更復雜的人類，真相也應該有更多面，只是你們普通人無法深刻理解罷了。

Officer Chris Thormann: [Inside the squadroom, Munch relights the candle. Thormann, wearing a tuxedo, walks over to him] What do you do that for, every night?

John Munch: [sounding surprised and slightly annoyed] What's with you?

Officer Chris Thormann: I gotta go to a wedding.

John Munch: At this hour?

Officer Chris Thormann: It's a long story. The wedding's in Connecticut - Old Saybrook. Eva and I are driving up.

John Munch: Oh.

Officer Chris Thormann: I know you're the one who lights the candle.

John Munch: Yeah...

Officer Chris Thormann: So, why?

John Munch: [sounding rather sad] ... It's for all the ones who've been killed.

Officer Chris Thormann: [surprised by Munch's attitude, considering he is usually just a cynical jerk] Uh huh...?

John Munch: What I don't know is, who lit it when I was gone?

Officer Chris Thormann: I did.

John Munch: You?

Officer Chris Thormann: Yeah.

John Munch: Why?

Officer Chris Thormann: I figured it was important to you.

John Munch: It's gonna be our little secret, okay?

Officer Chris Thormann: Yeah, sure, okay.

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John Munch: All I was gonna say is, what are you gonna call Dr Blythe for? Say you go out. You're a saint. You're everything you can be in a perfect world. So you sleep together. After the third time you do it, it's actually good instead of just saying it is. But how could it not be good? It's sex. So you get intimate. You get real close. You talk about your childhood, your parents, your broken dreams. You talk about relationships that didn't work out. You get so intimate you tell her your problems. You get loose, rude, a little insensitive. You're not a saint anymore. And one day, she goes, "I don't know who you are. You're not the guy I got involved with." You apologize. You realize you've actually spent the last six months apologizing for who you were the first two weeks. Then, in the middle of some night, she leaves you. In the dark. Nice, huh? Is that what you want?

本劇是基于David Simon所著書籍《Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets》改編的電視劇。本劇描繪了巴爾的摩市警局兇案組警探的日常工作和生活。第一季不是那種現在很普遍的一集解決一個案子，很多案子都是慢慢調查、等待轉機，所以這部并不像《The Wire》那樣集體破獲一樁大案再加上辦公室權力斗爭，更多的在反應現實中更真實的辦案節(jié)奏。如果你是想看和火線一樣的斗智斗勇，你可能會失望，這部劇是從警探的角度出發(fā)講述的，而且沒到嚴密的有組織犯罪的程度。

不太確定是預算不夠還是故意為之，剪出來的成品有很多時候都是同一機位下演員動作的不連貫，也有一些同一動作同一句話剪了兩個鏡頭進去，適應了之后倒也無傷大雅。

有兩集拍得很有意思，"Night of the Dead Living"和"Three Men and Adena"?！癗ight”講的是一次九月份炎熱夜班的故事，“Three”則是全程聚焦于審問嫌疑人。這兩集都是發(fā)生在兇案組辦公區(qū)內，“Three”更是在審訊室里把故事講開。這兩集看起來很像話劇舞臺劇，在固定的環(huán)境里拼演員的臺詞功力。 這兩集也是最能反映警探日常工作的，上夜班有時就能碰到很多特胡鬧的事兒；審問嫌疑人必須在規(guī)定時間內，超出規(guī)定時間但沒有結果必須放人，這是更貼切地向觀眾展示警察辦案并不會像一些“神探”電視劇里表現得那么神奇高效。

當然本劇第一季中也能看到一些后來在火線中出現的演員。飾演警探Meldrick Lewis的Clark Johnson就在火線第五季里出演報社的編輯Gus；飾演Barnfather的Clayton LeBouef在火線里則是演的開酒吧的Orlando；火線里演D'Angelo Barksdale的Larry Gilliard, Jr.則出演了一個小角色。

也有的情節(jié)用在了火線里。“Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”里就有拿復印機假冒測謊儀的橋段，只不過Homicide里拍得更夸張。雖然小年輕看出來是臺復印機，但還是有些將信將疑，Munch唬他說“你在機器前面時間耗得越長越會影響你的生殖功能”。

火線是從各個角度來剖析巴爾的摩這座城，而Homicide則是反應警探的生活，在只言片語中了解巴爾的摩。原著國內也出了中譯本，翻譯得中規(guī)中矩，倒是不妨礙閱讀，有興趣可以搭配著看。

1 Gone for Goode (31-Jan-1993)

2 Ghost of a Chance (3-Feb-1993)

3 Son of a Gun (10-Feb-1993)

4 A Shot in the Dark (24-Feb-1993)

5 Three Men and Adena (3-Mar-1993)

6 A Dog and Pony Show (10-Mar-1993)

7 And the Rockets Dead Glare (17-Mar-1993)

8 Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (24-Mar-1993)

9 Night of the Dead Living (31-Mar-1993)