1.11. The Longest Day
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Episode Information:

Episode Number

11

First Aired

February 5, 2004

Production Code

112

Writer

Chad Hodge

Story

Dana Greenblatt

Director

David Grossman

Guest Stars:

  • Alec Newman (as Michael Mancuso)

  • Fred Ewanuick (as Brian)

Notes:

·          This episode airs the same week as Groundhog Day, February 2nd and the basic plot references the movie by the same name.

·          An corpse extra for this shoot is apparently Kristin Veitch, E!Online.com columnist. She is suppose to appear on screen for a moment.

·          Tru repeats the day FOUR times.
1.Michael Mancuso (shot in the head by Shop Owner)
2.Shop Owner (shot by Michael Mancuso)
3.The boy that stole the candy bar (ran over by car)
4.Michael Mancuso 's daughter (stabbed by a mugger, donated his heart to save his daughter)

·          Close captioning throughout the episode has a police dispatcher referring to robbery at "Clark and Fullerton," but audio throughout gives the location as "Clark and Fourth."

·          Meredith is mentioned, but once again does not appear, as she is still in rehab for her drug problem.

·          This marks the third episode in which someone Tru saved was really ment to die, just differently than they had origionally: Nick in Putting Out Fires, Jake in Closure, and now Michael in The Longest Day.

·          Jaren Brandt Bartlett is credited as Jaren Brandt-Bartlett.

·          If you look closely, while Tru is running somewhere, a National Post (Canadian Newspaper) box can be seen.

·          A.J. Cook doesn't appear in this episode.

·          Kristin Veitch is the corpse in the morgue that Harrison looks at.

Goofs:

·          Is is just me, or does the first compatible match from the donor list (the ones waiting for transplants), and since the daughter is "pretty far down" the chance of her getting it, no questions asked seem pretty slim?

·          In response to the question about transplants. Yes and no. In the story they made the child too ill, she would probably have been to weak to survive, and would have been refused for that reason. Also I don't know that a child that age would be given a grown man's heart. Liver yes because it can be cut into two parts and the smaller part given to a child while an adult recieves the larger lobe. The organs go to the most needy, most compatable recipent, within a certain distance. A close genetic relative (ie. parent, brother or sister) is the most compatable short of identical twins. This has happened in reverse. A few years ago a young woman died, and her father recieved her heart.

·          What kind of rehab doesn't allow visitors. Shouldn't they encourage them for 'help every step of the way' or something like that.

·          Police officers almost never give parking tickets - that's what they have meter maids for.

·          You have to have family consent to do a transplant - the (oddly absent) wife would have had to sign, as Tru and the doctors couldn't have done so otherwise.

·          There is NO WAY an adult male heart would fit in an 11 year old girl's chest. This is the most outrageous plot twist the writers have tried to feed us yet, and this time I believe they went too far.

·          Actually there have been a few surgical operations of an adult's heart being put into a child's body.

·          ATM machines don't flash the amount you're withdrawing (or how much you're in the hole) in big yellow letters where anybody nearby can see them.

·          Amiodarone usually goes for about $1.00 or less a pill. $500 for two pills, as Mancuso says here, is absurdly high.

·          Tru just strolls into the Mancuso household while the parents huddle over their dead child. Don't they lock the doors?