I just watched a tape of the premiere of Fox's new post-Katrina cop drama K-Ville, starring Anthony Anderson and Cole (son of Wings) Hauser. It was fine, good action, good atmosphere, but...
Hauser's character, Trevor Cobb, is supposedly a former Army Ranger who served in Afghanistan before joining the NOPD. At the end of the episode, though, we discover that Cobb was in a New Orleans prison when Katrina hit. With police records lost, he resolved to change his life and joined the Army. He tells Anderson's character, "With no computer records and all the wars we're fighting, nobody asked me any questions."
Would not happen. The military questions and vets anyone who enlists. It has access to records that have been sealed or expunged by other authorities. Lying to the military in this process is against the law, not behavior you'd expect from a criminal trying to reform. I'm sure some writer thought it a nice spin on the theme of new beginnings, but the logistics don't wash.
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We wondered about that but we kind of liked it though-mostly for the setting and acting.They kind of rushed over that explanation, didn't they? I hope they can pull it off. Maybe something good will come of it for N'orleans
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