The Pilot Blooper Reel

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mlm828 said:

After a careful study of screencaps from the Pilot ;D, I can offer the following. When he goes to work on the first day, Jim is carrying the messenger bag:



Earlier, before he leaves home, we see him put his cane into the bag, and something that looks like a laptop is already in the bag.

On his second day at work, there is a laptop on his desk, but no scanner:



It looks like the bag is on the desk at the right. (Note that the desk lamp is turned on – another one for the blooper reel!)

But when he leaves work on the second day, he isn’t carrying the bag:



We know he gets a scanner, but it doesn’t turn up until the second episode:



. . . and he has one at home:



It’s unclear when and how he got the special software that enables him to read his own reports (as he describes it in the Pilot). In the Pilot, he says he’s got this software, but in a later episode (either “Four Feet Under” or “Rub a Tub Tub”) he tells Dr. Galloway that his software came in, and he can now read reports, and it’s 99% accurate. This may simply be a little continuity glitch.

Now what was the original question? Oh, yes, I’m sure any special equipment and software he needed would have been part of his “reasonable accommodation” under the ADA.

As far as I can recall, Jim is the only detective we see taking his computer home at the end of the day – but not every work day. This is probably just another of those little Blind Justice mysteries, like why Jim takes off his dark glasses sometimes, and why he leaves them on at others.

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rducasey said:

And then of course there is the day (second episode) that he leaves home with the computer.



But sometime before he gets knocked down in the street, he has lost the computer. Did he leave it on the train?

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mlm828 said:

In my experience, the employer usually provides all work-related equipment, so the NYPD would have provided the laptop and scanner and special software for Jim's use on the job. And -- as has already been pointed out -- it would have been part of the NYPD's obligation under the ADA to provide "reasonable accommodation." Possibly he took the NYPD supplied computer home for reasons of security, that is, maybe he had to have an NYPD computer to access the files or databases he might need for his work. They probably wouldn't want information about pending investigations on someone's home computer, accessible to the wife and kids. Of course, this still doesn't explain why we don't see the other detectives taking their laptops home -- although occasionally we do see one of them carrying a bag of some kind when leaving. Maybe they're less conscientious -- or, as previously suggested, faster workers -- than Jim.

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Aaah, the missing scanner that doesn't turn up until the second episode. Could this have something to do with the long-standing supposition around here -- and which has been borne out by bits of dialog with Dr. Galloway -- that parts of The Pilot were cut and subsequently inserted into the second episode?

As to why that laptop bag seemed to vanish and reappear on Jimbo's shoulder with the regularity of the tides . . . blame it on "The Continuity Girl." Don't ask me why the position is always referred to thusly but it is. It is this person's job to keep track of things like how many coffee cups are on a table from one shot to the next, whether a person's hair is parted on the left or the right or whether when an actress takes a pot off a stove and turns off the heat, the flame mysteriously reappears in a later shot. As does the pot.

Whoever The Continuity Girl was on Blind Justice, I think we can all pretty much agree that she was either someone's girlfriend or someone's daughter in their first paying job. (It's not traditionally a high paying job.) Or maybe "she" was so dazzled by the blond dude's eyelashes that she wasn't keeping track of that bag on his shoulder?

Works for me.

Anyone got more?

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maggiethecat said:

Aaah, the missing scanner that doesn't turn up until the second episode. Could this have something to do with the long-standing supposition around here -- and which has been borne out by bits of dialog with Dr. Galloway -- that parts of The Pilot were cut and subsequently inserted into the second episode?

As to why that laptop bag seemed to vanish and reappear on Jimbo's shoulder with the regularity of the tides . . . blame it on "The Continuity Girl." Don't ask me why the position is always referred to thusly but it is. It is this person's job to keep track of things like how many coffee cups are on a table from one shot to the next, whether a person's hair is parted on the left or the right or whether when an actress takes a pot off a stove and turns off the heat, the flame mysteriously reappears in a later shot. As does the pot.

Whoever The Continuity Girl was on Blind Justice, I think we can all pretty much agree that she was either someone's girlfriend or someone's daughter in their first paying job. (It's not traditionally a high paying job.) Or maybe "she" was so dazzled by the blond dude's eyelashes that she wasn't keeping track of that bag on his shoulder?

Works for me.

Anyone got more?

The Missing Scanner......

Hey! Maybe it really is there and none of us can see it?

Just sayin'....

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maggiethecat said:

Aaah, the missing scanner that doesn't turn up until the second episode. Could this have something to do with the long-standing supposition around here -- and which has been borne out by bits of dialog with Dr. Galloway -- that parts of The Pilot were cut and subsequently inserted into the second episode?

Could be, but I think it has more to do with the fact that a lot of the little "props" -- computers, phones, the lockers, etc. -- are different in the Pilot.

maggiethecat said:

Whoever The Continuity Girl was on Blind Justice, I think we can all pretty much agree that she was either someone's girlfriend or someone's daughter in their first paying job. (It's not traditionally a high paying job.) Or maybe "she" was so dazzled by the blond dude's eyelashes that she wasn't keeping track of that bag on his shoulder?

Works for me.

Hey, I'll volunteer for the job of "Continuity Girl" on RE's next gig. But I can't promise to focus on anything but the Blond Dude, especially those eyelashes! ;D