Well, we've had a solid season of Mac only rarely using his mechanic skills. Also, back when he was the team's mechanic, he was infiltrating them for Agent Jaime Escalante, which made it seem like that part of his personality was a cover, not the real him.

Yeah, I thought the defense had the tapes in their hip pocket all along, given the fact that they just barely fall within the ten-year scope of Bailey's question on cross. Learning that that was luck does make Cochran's religious reaction more understandable.

His only thing was taking the hit when Shapiro failed to file their entire witness list.

There's a lot of behind-the-scenes work in trial practice. We've seen both of Cochran's associates burning the midnight oil while Shapiro takes the weekend off and Johnny's at home with his wife.

How exactly would she have done that? She doesn't get to testify, and he wasn't talking. (Plus, there's the inevitable jury fallout of having a prosecutor seen as defending a proven liar and racist.)

Do you think his being pleased was inappropriate? Cochran had spent his career trying to convince juries that police abuse black people. That they commit misconduct, plant evidence, and lie under oath. Many, many white people dismiss such claims as fabrications or paranoia, just on principle. If you've been dismissed…

The guy lied under oath. Failing to use the tapes in the trial wouldn't have been virtue, it would've been malpractice. As a witness in the murder trial, Fuhrman's credibility was at issue, the tapes were direct proof of perjury committed during his testimony, and they impeached the expertise and professionalism the…

That's why the whole deal with Wells-2 murdering Turtle is such a bummer. This can't stay under wraps permanently, and I don't think it can really be walked back once it comes to light. At the same time, it would be kind of ridiculous if every season had the STAR Labs team being joined by a new Harrison Wells.

Yeah, someone needs to remind TV writers that if a big, strong guy keeps getting beat up by everyone he faces, it stops being "Wow, that guy's tough! He beat up Mac!" and instead it becomes "What? He only beat up Mac!"

Well, he did get a little closer to his dream of a shotgun-axe in this episode.

Well, in Pilot's defense, the trial judge and the chief appellate judge were both white guys…

The cynicism is overstated. If you're Johnny Cochran, and much of your professional life has been dedicated to fighting police misconduct, those tapes (and having the highest platform possible from which to publicize them) are a genuine godsend.

I'm pretty sure it wasn't waiver (waiver of the fifth is something that usually applies to people testifying voluntarily, not under subpoena like Fuhrman). I think he plead the fifth because that line of questioning would've led to reopening the admissibility of the tapes on the issues of planting and manufacturing…

"Shawn, dry them tears, girl!"

Cochran found the weak link, and pressed down on it.

Yeah, I've really been enjoying the reviews. Brown really put a charge into Darden's professional nervous breakdown this episode.

If OJ didn't have money, he and AC would've been riddled with bullets on the freeway.

Chris Rock FTW!

Yeah, that's their tune. It's no accident.

It hadn't had direction before the coming out episode. It was even more listless than The Single Guy, commonly thought of as the most aimless of Friends/Seinfeld wannabes.