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Crossing The Line For Justice On Latest APB

This article contains spoilers for the APB episode – Hate of Comrades.

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The third episode of APB, Hate of Comrades, started off in a very interesting way. Gideon Reeves is having a party and debating whether or not he should be running a police precinct with Dr. Sanjay Gupta… the real Sanjay Gupta from CNN. It was an out-of-the-blue cameo, but it also made a lot of sense to have the discussion of how engineers should or shouldn't be looking at new places to apply technology and make advances. Theresa Murphy arrives to catch Gideon up on the fact that the precinct is being investigated and her ex-husband is leading the taskforce.

The problem is that there is plenty for them to get Gideon on. In this episode alone he brings in a chair designed to monitor the vital signs of pilots and astronauts and uses it as a lie detector to help guide an interrogation. Lie detectors can only be used with consent of the suspect and the result are rarely admissible in court. If it's discovered that the chair was used, then the whole case could be thrown out. And that's not the biggest problem.

The case-of-the-week involves a jewelry heist that isn't a jewelry heist and the death of an ex-cop turned guard. This was one of Murphy's training officers and she takes this personally and Gideon wants to help. They catch one of the guys, but he's just a getaway driver and can't really be tied to the robbery and the dead guard. But using the $5 million dollar chair they are able to get a confession out of the guy when they combine police experience with the technology. They discover what the robbers were really after was the armored car schedule. They plan on using the schedule and some big explosives to rob the armored car.

Meanwhile we tie back to the young boy who used the APB app to have his father arrested when he was being the kid's mom. But the guy was in jail for two weeks and then back home repeating the cycle. Ada realizes this and tries to bring it to Gideon's attention, but he's too focused on the case with Murphy. Ada visits the home, see the man is still the same and then follows the dad, uses some questionable contact to cancel his ATM card and then goads the man into hitting her, having him arrested for assault. They guy she now owes a favor too seems to be the type you don't want to owe a favor to.

Back to the main case, they find the place the crew was staying but they're gone. The find a route on a map and figure it's the route of the armored car. They station units along that route, but Murphy doesn't think it's right… the route is too open. She realizes that they're on the escape route and that the actual attack would take place 2 miles away and races there. She arrives as the heavily armed men force the armored truck to stop and are about to blow it up. Murphy has no back up for at least 2 minutes and she can't get close enough to stop them with their weapons firing. The bad guys are preparing the bomb rig with two burner phones as the triggers. Ada is able to get the numbers for the phone. When it's obvious that the bomb will kill those inside the armored car, Ada uses her shady computer contact to call one of the numbers from an untraceable line… owning him another favor. He calls, the bomb blows up early, hitting the bad guys instead of the truck. No one knows what happened… but it seems Gideon suspects something.

It's not known how many, if any, of the bad guys are dead. But Ada crossed a massive line a couple times. Goading the abusive father into an assault is one thing, but purposely exploding the bomb… not matter the reason… has to come back and bite her, and through her Gideon, on the ass.

Three episodes in and the show is keeping the balance between sci-fi and police procedural going, but still the tech is just slightly ahead of where we are now. They're going to have to go much more cutting edge soon or they may run out of technology to feature. Next week the taskforce investigation kicks off and there is an undercover case.

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