Nearer My God to Thee

Season 3 opens with a new lieutenant, some improved sets and a couple cast changes.

One of the highlights of this episode is at the opening when Richard Belzer as Det Munch has a cautionary soliloquy on the pervasive coming expansive technology and "information superhighway." It would have been really eye opening when originally broadcast in 1994 . And in retrospect is incredibly prescient and all too accurate as in describing a future society that largely comes to be.

This episode centers around the violent death of a young woman who worked at a local women's shelter and was recently cited by the mayor.

This show is just hitting its stride and will come to influence so many new procedural dramas to follow.

After nearly loving the first two seasons of HOMICIDE I ended up wanting to see more and I started the third season as well. However as it progressed I found this one of the weakest episodes so far.

When the episode begins Katherine Goodrich, who opened a shelter for homeless women, is found dead in a dumpster near a Catholic church naked expect for the gloves. Megan Russert, a new detective in the homicide unit, is assigned to the case but hasn't that much help by the other detectives only because she is a woman, and doesn't even get along with Kay Howard. Pembleton and Bayliss question sister Magdalena that worked with Goodrich for the construction of the shelter and Magdalena confesses that the aggressive boyfriend of a woman of the shelter had Katherine in his sights who also never wore gloves when she was alive. Some time later Russert has more pressure when aggressive reporter Matt Rhodes (Tony Todd) reveals he knows about the murder and the gloves, and Russert convinces Rhodes to wait little for the exclusive story.

In the meanwhile Beau Felton has his life turned upside down because his wife wants to separate and won't let him see his kids; some minutes later Felton confesses to Kay Howard that he has had an affair with another woman in the past. Lewis and Munch want to buy a bar without success and can't manage to convince Bolander in doing so only to have Bayliss convince later in doing so. Before the end credits start we see Felton going to Russert and kissing her so that's the affair he was having.

What I hated about the episode is that I hated Felton's former wife trash treated him without having proof of the affair and menacing him of not seeing his children anymore and this is already a huge turn-off. The rest was ok, nothing exceptional and would continue in the next episode.