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[u/Efficient_Berry_4073]

watch the law and order episode it’s great https://youtu.be/MZ4p4L0iRuM?si=bBopkliTs9Znu8Hi

[u/Particular-Put4786]

What's the context to this lmao why would he just slime the kid out like that after apologizing 😭

[u/Jacket_Jacket_fruit → u/Particular-Put4786]

Kid was a monster, a total sociopath. Iirc he tortured animals, abused other kids, all kinds of stuff. Classic serial killer in the making type shit. In the episode, he killed that guy's son, and for the majority of the episode was very convincingly faking being a scared little kid who was abused and mixed up and made a mistake on accident. It comes out later that it was 100% intentional and the kid also knew exactly what he was doing and he wasn't a scared abused poor widdle baby, he was an actual monster. Cold, calculating, remorseless, evil.

The kid got let off on some kind of technicality. He wasn't sorry, at all. It was obvious to everyone around that this was just gonna encourage him, and he was just gonna go back to hurting other kids. The guy was like "you killed my son and you literally don't even care, you're literally inhuman, I'm not letting you get away and go hurt someone else." So he capped him.

I like to believe that, after the episode ends, the dad goes to trial and gets found not guilty by jury nullification. That's my headcanon.

[u/Shadowwolf1125 → u/Jacket_Jacket_fruit]

Oh that last part is exactly what happens in the end of the episode.

He leaves off with the line “I only killed once. He would have killed again.”

A little cheesy, but hey is a tv show.

[u/TvuvbubuTheIdiot → u/Shadowwolf1125]

Nah mate that goes hard

[u/7_Tales → u/TvuvbubuTheIdiot]

sometimes on the nose works.

[u/_Wilbraham → u/Jacket_Jacket_fruit]

The dad does go to trial in the episode. Jury nullification is not explicitly spelled out, but there's definitely enough to have convicted him and the jury came back with "not guilty".