DR Ron, a couple of comments on your CLOSER SPOILER:MORE SPOILERS![/size]
I completely understand why these things bothered you. I was wrapped up enough in the show to let them slide, & can explain some of them away. Just as I was wondering why no one was aiming for the head, Brenda shouted for them to do so (you must have missed that).
I did not miss that. It came WAY too late. My feeling is that I should not have noticed it "before" they did. They were just wasting dozens of rounds of ammo and it was apparent to me "why" long before Brenda told them. I'm certain my neighbors heard me shouting at them to shoot for his head.
As for using the police helicopter, could be cuz it was already right above them.
The trouble here is that a medical helicopter "should have been there" when the bomb squads were alerted. The other trouble is that when you say it was "above them"...it was, when they were on the roof. And then there it was in that empty parking lot. PLENTY of time elapsed between the time they lugged that man down stairs and out of the mall and way into an empty parking lot for a medical helo with trained personnel aboard to respond to the scene.
As for the fumbling words in the helicopter, the major loss of time was to lean over and hear what the injured officer was saying to him.
The wounded man had a collapsed lung and was spitting up blood. No one should have been leaning in to hear him say anything. Someone wounded isn't the best judge of what's right in the situation. Brenda was desperate to get the wounded man to a hospital and precious seconds were wasted...possible life-threatening seconds. I was shouting at the TV like a madman for that white-haired fool to get his butt out of that door so the helo could take off.
I know...it's all dramatic license. It's just terrible police work.
