Our ex-governor officially became a talk show queen, our hometown NBA hero was struck by tragedy and a kid cop made Mayor Daley blow his top.
I cursed myself for not insisting that that kid cop do his job better.
Waiting out in the street, I drained the bottle just as the bald kid cop zoomed back up: "What is your problem, sir?
It's as if some toys in a kids' game of cops and robbers were loaded with live ammo.
The cop with a kid turned out to be, far more originally for the genre, a single grandmother, bringing up the child of her daughter, whose death was caused by a man who was now back in town and involved in the kidnap plot.
In the first three plot-packed episodes, a financial investigation is launched, a kid is shot by a cop, teenagers snort Adderall and at least one family member remains in the closet.
I heard a kid broke his leg kicking six cops at your party!" Your parents want you be responsible.
Mr Watkins then offered a number of illustrative anecdotes drawn from personal experience, such as the time when "a cop clothes-lined a kid named Rick off a moped.
But if you can indict a ham sandwich, why can't you indict a cop who killed a kid?" .
Instead of hunching ove a Macbook Pro, he spent his childhood loitering around the movie rental store with neighborhood kids, copping VHS tapes one-by-one to become the walking b-movie encyclopedia he is today.
