Mozambique

Episode aired Apr 16, 2009
TV-14
1h

IMDb RATING

7.5/10

433

YOUR RATING

Shawn Hatosy and Carla Jeffery in Southland (2009)

Crime Drama Thriller

Ben Sherman begins to believe all the accolades coming his way, clouding his judgment. Bryant and Moretta try to keep their witness alive. Lydia Adams bonds with a baby found crawling in an ... Read allBen Sherman begins to believe all the accolades coming his way, clouding his judgment. Bryant and Moretta try to keep their witness alive. Lydia Adams bonds with a baby found crawling in an intersection.Ben Sherman begins to believe all the accolades coming his way, clouding his judgment. Bryant and Moretta try to keep their witness alive. Lydia Adams bonds with a baby found crawling in an intersection.

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7Mr-Fusion

Day two on the streets

'Mozambique' bears a couple of action scenes - all of them with the show's signature intensity - but it's the quiet character moments that really make this interesting. To that end, Regina King's story stands out; and it says something that, with all of the street mayhem, the drama of recovering a wayward infant steals the show from shootouts and chase scenes.

Something that seems odd is the character of Sal, who we've pretty much just met and already we're knee-deep in his extramarital goings-on (we haven't even met his wife yet). On the other hand, it does firmly establish him as a hard-line policeman father within the household. This isn't the last we'll see of him, but it's an odd start.

This is fresh off the pilot and the backstories of major characters are being doled out in highly-controlled pieces. That's the thing with this show; there's no spoon-feeding.

7/10

Trivia
The restaurant in the opening scene is the one Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer hold up at the beginning of Pulp Fiction (1994).

Goofs
The drive-by shooters who shot up Janila's house used automatic weapons: machine guns. However, police are shown picking up red shotgun shells from the living room floor inside the house. Machine guns don't have plastic shell casings; even if they did, they wouldn't be inside the house, but rather on the street where the weapons were fired.

Quotes
Det. Lydia Adams: [on finding a baby in the street] I don't know... Maybe the mom ran to the store or somethin', got picked up, didn't tell the cops about the baby?
Det. Russell Clarke: Maybe it was a carjacking - they look in the back seat, they see the baby, they freak out, they dump it.
Ofcr. John Cooper: [facetiously] Or maybe God dropped it down.
[the two detectives stare at him]
Ofcr. John Cooper: Come from heaven.