History Recap / LawAndOrderS4E4Profile

In court, Arthur's new lawyer is Horace [=McCoy=], whom the judge recognizes. [=McCoy=] is black, and Tunney looks uncomfortable, but pleads not guilty. He's held without bail, despite [=McCoy=]'s protests.

Kincaid wonders why the sister didn't call to warn Tunney, but Kincaid points out that the gun was unloaded -- Tunney was probably taking it to be dumped. From the phone records, they learn that Mary did call Tunney -- twenty minutes later. They theorize that Allen Bradley delayed Mary somehow.

In the neighborhood, Van Buren says they have 18 cars patroling, and then someone screams. Logan drives after someone running away from the victim and almost runs him down, driving him up against a wall -- he was a mugger. Then Van Buren catches up to them -- someone was shot elsewhere in the neighborhood.

* FreudianExcuse: Tunney's mother was murdered by black muggers, which fuels his murderous racism. [[spoiler:When the detectives investigate his safehouse, then find a makeshift shrine to his mother, with three shotgun shells mounted on it to represent his three victims, as though they were sacrifices to his mother's memory.]]
* IronicEcho: Arthur Tunney murders minorities, claiming that they wreck nice white neighborhoods. When [[spoiler:he himself is shot by a would-be victim, she laments that her neighborhood used to be so nice.]]

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* IronicEcho: Arthur Tunney murders minorities, claiming that they wreck nice white neighborhoods. When [[spoiler: he is himself shot by a would-be victim, she laments that her neighborhood used to be so nice.]]

-->'''[=McCoy=]''': Do you ask white lawyers if they have qualms when they defend a black man accused of killing white people?

* ShamelessSelfPromoter: Horace [=McCoy=] only gets involved because it's a high-profile case and he wants the recognition.

The police swarm the scene. A black man's been wounded and Tunney's been shot and killed. Tunney was killed by the victim's daughter. She bemoans the state of the neighborhood as the episode ends.

* AxCrazy: Tunney, even moreso than most white supremacists. He can't even keep himself from making racist remarks about his own lawyer, who he ''specifically hired'' to make himself look less racist.

* SawedOffShotgun: The killer's chosen weapon.
* SerialKiller: Arthur Tunney, a racist serial killer who murders minorities with a shotgun.

In court, Arthur's new lawyer is Horus [=McCoy=], whom the judge recognizes. [=McCoy=] is black, and Tunney looks uncomfortable, but pleads not guilty. He's held without bail, despite [=McCoy=]'s protests.

The FBI unit says that the killer is speeding up; two weeks passed between the shootings of Hector and Ruben, two days between Ruben and the latest victim. The spokesperson for the unit says that the shooter will look normal, have trouble with personal relations, and get an ego boost from killing during the police search. They deduced that the shotgun was an old gun (they say if he had bought a new weapon, it wouldn't be a breech-loading twelve-guage), so either he or his father's a hunter. They estimate his age to be between 35 and 40, contrary to the old woman's (Ms. Whitney) guess of 30. He probably has a grudge against the victims. The FBI is investigating the market, but Van Buren points out that all the victims are minorities, so it could be a white supremicist. On the way out, Van Buren says they're putting together a large force to patrol the neighborhood. Logan says to make sure they look like locals.