S4.E2

Speed Bump

Episode aired Jul 21, 2008
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42m

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The team investigates the hit-and-run death of one of Flynn's old cases, and Brenda works on her political skills when it turns out the case may lead to a Hollywood director and his wife.The team investigates the hit-and-run death of one of Flynn's old cases, and Brenda works on her political skills when it turns out the case may lead to a Hollywood director and his wife.The team investigates the hit-and-run death of one of Flynn's old cases, and Brenda works on her political skills when it turns out the case may lead to a Hollywood director and his wife.

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This episode is based upon the true crimes of Olga Rutterschmidt and Helen Golay, who successfully conspired to convince 2 homeless men in Los Angeles to sign off on life insurance policies before causing their deaths in staged hit and run accidents. Their convictions happened just a few months before the air date. Unlike the fictional characters, they took out almost 20 insurance policies, and stood to collect several million dollars before they were caught.

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Brenda Leigh Johnson: We really just wanted to eliminate you and your wife as suspects.
Davis Mayhan: You want to eliminate me as a suspect?
Laura Mayhan: All right, honey.
Davis Mayhan: Was it a long painful death? Was he brutally tortured before he died?
Will Pope: No.
Davis Mayhan: Then it wasn't me.

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Goof for episode "Speed Bump" IS a 'goof'

The goof shown for the episode of "The Closer" entitled "Speed Bump" says Lt Provenza sent flowers to the paroled rapist/killer... Actually, it is Anthony John Denison's character, Lt Andy Flynn, who admits sending the flowers. Additionally, the line in the goof attributed to Kyra Sedgewick's character, Deputy Chief Brenda Lee Johnson, is correct as is... It would in fact be a DEFENSE attorney's job to suggest an alternate theory of the crime by bringing up the Lieutenant's harassment of the parolee, and implicating the detective as a potential suspect. The result of that would be to establish a basis for reasonable doubt.