It wasn't a "simpler time". Try living through 9/11 in NYC or the US starting not one but two wars. Or early 1990s when crime was pretty much at its worst in NYC or the second impeachment of a US president in history, or the domestic terrorist attacks in the 1990s with Timonth Mcveigh or Waco standoff etc etc. Only difference is there are more whiners today and yea this covid stuff is rough, but "simpler times"? Not a chance.
I wish Esai Morales never left the show. He's a great actor, they just rarely ever gave him a storyline. He just kind of walked around and shuffled papers....it was too bad.
That was his job... to set the table for the other cast members by being a strong boss character that let his people do their jobs, and led them the right way. He hit just the right notes, and really showed off his talents, because the role he had was NOT 'easy'... it took JUST the right touch to perform that role, and he absolutely knocked it out of the park.
Ample evidence of Andy being the leader of the band here. A lovely shot at 3:22 with a cross-fade to include all eight members of NYPD Blue. What a cast! No comparisons needed. A stand-alone series for 12 years.
That is exactly the first impression I had, also, after watching this the first time. Rodriguez is the official squad leader, but it’s Sipowicz’ squad.
Tony's subordinates reacting as they did speaks volumes about the man. That piece of writing conveyed more than a half dozed episodes centered on him. This was a great show. From the writing to the acting, production, directing there are damn few that can match it. They went through a bunch of actors, losing some fan favorite and didn't suffer from it. Often when a favorite leaves a show that departure spells doom. When Dan Blocker died Bonanza was finished. And Dan wasn't the "big" star. This show, far more than most got people involved, almost feeling a part of it. How hard is THAT to do?
Dennis Franz / Andy Sipowicz was the anchor of this show, the one who held it together. His character arc over those twelve seasons was the story of NYPD Blue. The show probably would have survived had he left, but it wouldn't have been the same.
I love the camera angle, where Fraker is lining up the killer shot, and you see Ortiz's hand suddenly come up and she fires. Everything about this show was completely different class.
They had me thinking at the time that it was Andy that shot Martens until the camera panned out and showed Rita. Side note, I wonder why everyone from downstairs didn't come running up when Martens shot Rodriguez but when Medevoy shot and killed the man in the precinct everyone came running up.
"You did real good." -- Andy Sipowicz I know this is just an (excellent) TV show but that statement should warm anyone's heart if you're wondering if you did the right thing.
Yea I never saw this episode either. I saw a clip of his trial testimony and then I had to search for this scene. He testified exactly like it happened.
You can tell a lot about the show just from the fact that Rodriguez is stable. That close to the end of the episode, pretty much every other show would have ended without saying so, leaving the audience wondering if Rodriguez will survive. And since the bosses of the 15th changed quite often, there was a real chance that the writers would let Rodriguez die; so this was not a case of, "of course he will survive, he is main cast". But this show was not about stuff like that, so they let the audience know that Rodriguez was stable. _
A bit surreal seeing Esai Morales as a good guy after Ozark season 1. But he's a good actor who did well as both a police lieutenant and a cartel boss.
Ah, I forgot Esai Morales was on here. Wish he was in more dramatic parts on TV again. Playing on Titans doesn't count. If him and Jimmy Smits had been on this show at the same time... Man it would have won more emmys then it already had. Both way underrated imho.
I always wished Jimmy Smits and Esai Morales were on this together. I also wish they had given Morales better story lines. All he did was walk around and say "Anything on the canvas?". I wish he had stayed on the show 'til the end. If he had, I bet they would have had Fraker found guilty. They should have had him found guilty anyway, and had Rodriguez promoted to Captain. Then maybe he would have come back for a cameo every now and then.
Tony Rodriguez was a capable and likable replacement for Arthur fancy. However the show just didn't give his character good storylines thus why esai morales left since he grew bored with the role.
So who can remember their favorite episode. ? I know it was a long time ago but give it a shot. One that popped into my head was when Andy found that missing girl when he was looking for a car for his son.
Season 5 i believe, with the kid that was missing then found murdered/raped, and simone and sipowicz knew it was the dad from the start but they were pretending to be eyeballing the black mute homeless guy. Those 2 or 3 episodes were gold.
Being a medic on the streets of st. Louis in 70's until 2007 and friends with many cops, medics, and firefighters this show is a real reflection of actual life on the streets when professionals were allowed to do their jobs.
This is a real great show to watch now. A lot of stuff on the networks not worth watching. Some of these shows(like this one) really hold up and are fun to watch.
They went on following season with a trial and brought back a bunch of previous storylines in the trial. Fraker was found not guilty and they brought up old stuff against lt. Rodriguez also. He ended up leaving the force to do private security. Next time we see fraker he’s off the force and tending bar. Andy goes to see him to see who took Theo for the car ride.
I still believe Clark Sr mailed out all that info about Fraker before he killed himself it was Fraker who turned Clark Sr into an informant over the prostitute. If Andy found out about Fraker an equal detective could find that out too. I can dream right.
Fraker being found not guilty was the jump the shark moment of this show. If they were going to go to that route he should have been on more than just one more episode after he was found not guilty.
Unfortunately, that's the way it works sometimes. "The court doesn't exist to give them justice. The court exist to give them a CHANCE at justice." - Frank Galvin (Paul Newman), "The Verdict" (1982)
@@skwisgarskwigelf7191 And let's face it, Fraker still lost in the sense that even though he was acquitted of the attempted murder charges, the revelations about his indiscretions meant his career was in tatters and he was reduced to bartending at a very sleazy place. Whereas Rodriguez, who lost a promotion to captain due to Fraker's actions, got to retire to a very cushy gig in private security.
People are now misusing and overusing the term “Jumped the Shark”; they think it means something other that it originally did, or they apply to something where the term is utterly irrelevant.
@@chrispeplinski7306 he would have left the police force because there may have been some jealous people who did not like him because of what they thought he did to fraker.
I just watched all the clips of the trial of Fraker. NO mention was made at all of Fraker going to put a finishing shot into Rodriguez, when Rita put him down. "Shot in the back" as he testified. IMHO that would have made all the difference in the verdict.
Possible symbolism at the end with the transparent images of the squad members. I wonder if the writers/directors were going for some sort of guardian angels imagery there.
Wish he hadn't left the series. I also wish they had given him better story lines. I think if he stayed, the last two years would have been a lot better.
Jacqueline Obradors was in the final season of Bosch in decent sized role playing a police officer. She still looks great! My favorite character in the show's history!
Vega was introduced in the fifth season of _Bosch,_ (when she transferred to Hollywood Homicide to become Pierce's new partner) and although treated like a guest star, she might as well have been a main character since she was in almost every episode from her introduction through to the series finale of the main show.
For anyone who watches both shows, does Fraker remind anyone of Hoytsman from Brooklyn Nine Nine? Chris Parnell's character who screwed up his own life big time, takes no responsibility, blames everyone else and jumped right to attempted murder while under the influence?
I wish they had given Esai Morales another way out too. Fraker should have been found guilty and Tony Rodriguez should have been promoted to Captain. After all, he was a legend in undercover narcotics, right? And he supposedly got the medal of honor. How easily they forget. If David Milch had still been around, Fraker would have been a much better villain.
LOL, I never watched this show, but I had to laugh at this happening! So surprised! I remember a guy getting fired for beating up a captain (true NYPD story), but a captain shooting a lieutenant?? LOL, didn't see that comin' !!
@@attiepollard7847 Ummmm....not really following u. My comment was about seeing this show where an intox captain shoots a lieutenant. Man, was I surprised to see that, and yeah, I laughed at it a little (it's tv, not reality). Didn't expect to see that!
This was the beginning of end of NYPD Blue being great. I didn’t like the aftermath of Clark Sr.’s suicide and I never found Andy and Connie as a couple interesting but there was still good energy to the show. This is where the quality started going downhill.
So true. I think if Esai Morales had stayed, it would have been much better. Gibson and Bale were horrible. I didn't think Andy and Connie belonged together at all. I never got the feeling they belonged together like I did with Andy and Sylvia. It was a shame Sharon Lawerence wanted off the show.
and there goes going home for the night and lots and lots of paperwork and now she needs to call it in. Oh and there is no way that she would be at the hospital after what happened, nope she would be sitting in a room with other detectives from a different squad and with IAD going over and over what happened. Since this is about a police captain shooting a police lieutenant and then a detective shooting the police captain. Something like that would have every single major police brass there looking for answers.
Oh. My. Wow. I quit watching when Rick Schroder came on, and I've been trying to catch up, but I've never seen this before. Talk about a mind bender. Geez...
*1:42** OUCH !!!*
Ya ‘
Well that's the deadly ultimate price to pay that he was a dirty cop and used Laughlin as a dog.
All these years, the show holds up.
This show captured life in the 90s and early 2000s so well. It was a simpler time. I think its why I enjoy rewatching NYPD Blue so often.
I was a cop back in the 90s and life was so much better.
*You should have been a kid in the 60s, in the 70s gone to high school, maybe college (if fortunate). I remember those days well.*
Times were just this complicated then nobody noticed it as much or paid attention to it.
It wasn't a "simpler time". Try living through 9/11 in NYC or the US starting not one but two wars. Or early 1990s when crime was pretty much at its worst in NYC or the second impeachment of a US president in history, or the domestic terrorist attacks in the 1990s with Timonth Mcveigh or Waco standoff etc etc. Only difference is there are more whiners today and yea this covid stuff is rough, but "simpler times"? Not a chance.
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be
I wish Esai Morales never left the show. He's a great actor, they just rarely ever gave him a storyline. He just kind of walked around and shuffled papers....it was too bad.
He must have been there for eye candy purposes. He really never broke out. They could have done so much with him. 😢
That was his job... to set the table for the other cast members by being a strong boss character that let his people do their jobs, and led them the right way. He hit just the right notes, and really showed off his talents, because the role he had was NOT 'easy'... it took JUST the right touch to perform that role, and he absolutely knocked it out of the park.
Still the best Cop show on TV.
By Far!
Ample evidence of Andy being the leader of the band here. A lovely shot at 3:22 with a cross-fade to include all eight members of NYPD Blue. What a cast! No comparisons needed. A stand-alone series for 12 years.
Well definitely was the guy they looked to for leadership when their official leader was out of commission.
That is exactly the first impression I had, also, after watching this the first time. Rodriguez is the official squad leader, but it’s Sipowicz’ squad.
Too bad Rita couldn't have aimed a little higher.
Always had a thing for Rita ❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️
Tony's subordinates reacting as they did speaks volumes about the man. That piece of writing conveyed more than a half dozed episodes centered on him. This was a great show. From the writing to the acting, production, directing there are damn few that can match it. They went through a bunch of actors, losing some fan favorite and didn't suffer from it. Often when a favorite leaves a show that departure spells doom. When Dan Blocker died Bonanza was finished. And Dan wasn't the "big" star. This show, far more than most got people involved, almost feeling a part of it. How hard is THAT to do?
Dennis Franz / Andy Sipowicz was the anchor of this show, the one who held it together. His character arc over those twelve seasons was the story of NYPD Blue. The show probably would have survived had he left, but it wouldn't have been the same.
I love the camera angle, where Fraker is lining up the killer shot, and you see Ortiz's hand suddenly come up and she fires. Everything about this show was completely different class.
They had me thinking at the time that it was Andy that shot Martens until the camera panned out and showed Rita. Side note, I wonder why everyone from downstairs didn't come running up when Martens shot Rodriguez but when Medevoy shot and killed the man in the precinct everyone came running up.
As soon as Captain Fraker shot Rodriguez I was like ""Well where's Rita?"
And then she blasted him and saved the day! ❤️
NYPD Blue was better than the movies.
Rita saving the day by shooting Fraker before he possibly would've killed Tony. Also I like the 15th coming together at the hospital too.
She should have gone for the head.
After re-watching this clip they make it a point to make sure to let you know she's near by at the beginning of the scene.
All I want are bosses like Fancy and Rodriguez
Fancy was a better mentor.
If you were not on the job, this was real life. PLEASE RETURN THIS SHOW 🇺🇸💯💗
"You did real good." -- Andy Sipowicz
I know this is just an (excellent) TV show but that statement should warm anyone's heart if you're wondering if you did the right thing.
I miss shows like this quality. 👍.
Detective Rita Ortiz is a true Hero for saving Lieutenant Tony Rodriguez’s life 💯
Totally
She definitely was a hero
I have honestly never seen that episode and was totally shocked when the Captain shot him.
Me too
Yea I never saw this episode either. I saw a clip of his trial testimony and then I had to search for this scene. He testified exactly like it happened.
You can tell a lot about the show just from the fact that Rodriguez is stable. That close to the end of the episode, pretty much every other show would have ended without saying so, leaving the audience wondering if Rodriguez will survive. And since the bosses of the 15th changed quite often, there was a real chance that the writers would let Rodriguez die; so this was not a case of, "of course he will survive, he is main cast".
But this show was not about stuff like that, so they let the audience know that Rodriguez was stable.
_
A bit surreal seeing Esai Morales as a good guy after Ozark season 1. But he's a good actor who did well as both a police lieutenant and a cartel boss.
He will always be Bob from La Bamba to me.
Thanks for this didn't even realize it was the same actor. ROFL
Or after his recent turn as the villain in the latest _Mission: Impossible_ movie.
Ah, I forgot Esai Morales was on here. Wish he was in more dramatic parts on TV again. Playing on Titans doesn't count. If him and Jimmy Smits had been on this show at the same time... Man it would have won more emmys then it already had. Both way underrated imho.
I always wished Jimmy Smits and Esai Morales were on this together. I also wish they had given Morales better story lines. All he did was walk around and say "Anything on the canvas?". I wish he had stayed on the show 'til the end. If he had, I bet they would have had Fraker found guilty. They should have had him found guilty anyway, and had Rodriguez promoted to Captain. Then maybe he would have come back for a cameo every now and then.
Tony Rodriguez was a capable and likable replacement for Arthur fancy. However the show just didn't give his character good storylines thus why esai morales left since he grew bored with the role.
That Casey Siemazsko really played the hell of a dirty captain like Fraker on here.
Interestingly, he was in Back to the Future II
I remember when this aired live
This is like the least secure police station in the world
So who can remember their favorite episode. ? I know it was a long time ago but give it a shot. One that popped into my head was when Andy found that missing girl when he was looking for a car for his son.
That's was Season 2.
@@golen88 season 1 czcams.com/video/5DbaEnG80U4/video.html
Ah
Season 5 i believe, with the kid that was missing then found murdered/raped, and simone and sipowicz knew it was the dad from the start but they were pretending to be eyeballing the black mute homeless guy. Those 2 or 3 episodes were gold.
@@omgplzstfuok that was a good one. It was a multi episode build up.
Being a medic on the streets of st. Louis in 70's until 2007 and friends with many cops, medics, and firefighters this show is a real reflection of actual life on the streets when professionals were allowed to do their jobs.
This is a real great show to watch now. A lot of stuff on the networks not worth watching. Some of these shows(like this one) really hold up and are fun to watch.
The fact that Fraker did no jail time for this speaks volumes and is unsurprisingly relevant even today.
You do know this is a TV show.... right??
You sir are a douche
Because he was dead?
They went on following season with a trial and brought back a bunch of previous storylines in the trial. Fraker was found not guilty and they brought up old stuff against lt. Rodriguez also. He ended up leaving the force to do private security. Next time we see fraker he’s off the force and tending bar. Andy goes to see him to see who took Theo for the car ride.
I still believe Clark Sr mailed out all that info about Fraker before he killed himself it was Fraker who turned Clark Sr into an informant over the prostitute. If Andy found out about Fraker an equal detective could find that out too.
I can dream right.
DAAAAYUM😳 “ He busted dead BANG!!!”👀👀💥
Fraker being found not guilty was the jump the shark moment of this show. If they were going to go to that route he should have been on more than just one more episode after he was found not guilty.
NYPD Blue never jumped the shark.
Unfortunately, that's the way it works sometimes.
"The court doesn't exist to give them justice. The court exist to give them a CHANCE at justice."
- Frank Galvin (Paul Newman), "The Verdict" (1982)
I wouldn’t call that jumping the shark. Lots of cops and politicians commit crimes and don’t get charged unfortunately
@@skwisgarskwigelf7191 And let's face it, Fraker still lost in the sense that even though he was acquitted of the attempted murder charges, the revelations about his indiscretions meant his career was in tatters and he was reduced to bartending at a very sleazy place. Whereas Rodriguez, who lost a promotion to captain due to Fraker's actions, got to retire to a very cushy gig in private security.
People are now misusing and overusing the term “Jumped the Shark”; they think it means something other that it originally did, or they apply to something where the term is utterly irrelevant.
Is unbelievable how dentist France carried?That show for damn as a whole twelve years
Fraker should have went to prison for trying to kill tony.
Omg I just don't know what the hell the jury was thinking
I do wonder had fraker been guilty as he should have been, if Tony would have been promoted to captain or left the police force regardless
@@chrispeplinski7306 he would have left the police force because there may have been some jealous people who did not like him because of what they thought he did to fraker.
@@attiepollard7847 I think Tony probably would have left because of the racism and politics in the police department.
@@chrispeplinski7306 please a few white cops call you a name is no reason to leave the force
I just watched all the clips of the trial of Fraker. NO mention was made at all of Fraker going to put a finishing shot into Rodriguez, when Rita put him down.
"Shot in the back" as he testified. IMHO that would have made all the difference in the verdict.
The moment the drunk pulled the trigger he had it coming.
Will always be television’s best!
Possible symbolism at the end with the transparent images of the squad members. I wonder if the writers/directors were going for some sort of guardian angels imagery there.
Show like this will never be on today ...this generation will never no good stories
Best cop show in television history.
Esai Morales is a great actor! He was good in bad boys with Sean Penn and LA Bamba!
Wish he hadn't left the series. I also wish they had given him better story lines. I think if he stayed, the last two years would have been a lot better.
@@susansecorfranco2651 I agree! Hopefully a producer will pick him up for another series, I don't see him on anything lately.
@@christimecarmona6810 He's the villain in the latest _Mission: Impossible_ movies.
Very intense scene, and folks that comes to show you that Frakker was a dirty captain and deserved to get what's coming to him.
Rita Ortiz takes control!
When a man gives you every out to the point he finally tells you an ass-whooping is coming your way if you don’t stop, just walk away.
Esai Morales was awesome, I hated it when he left the show!
I so wish he had stayed. The show would have been a lot better the last two years.
Fraker was so drunk he didnt notice Rita when he walked in.
Connie and those headlights
Rita's finest moment.
Maybe the best show EVER
Jacqueline Obradors was in the final season of Bosch in decent sized role playing a police officer.
She still looks great! My favorite character in the show's history!
Vega was introduced in the fifth season of _Bosch,_ (when she transferred to Hollywood Homicide to become Pierce's new partner) and although treated like a guest star, she might as well have been a main character since she was in almost every episode from her introduction through to the series finale of the main show.
For anyone who watches both shows, does Fraker remind anyone of Hoytsman from Brooklyn Nine Nine? Chris Parnell's character who screwed up his own life big time, takes no responsibility, blames everyone else and jumped right to attempted murder while under the influence?
What a thing for the squad to have to go through.
Rodriguez looks like the dude from season one of ozark.
That's because Esai Morales played both parts!
Wow. I never saw that episode
I wish they had given Esai Morales another way out too. Fraker should have been found guilty and Tony Rodriguez should have been promoted to Captain. After all, he was a legend in undercover narcotics, right? And he supposedly got the medal of honor. How easily they forget. If David Milch had still been around, Fraker would have been a much better villain.
I sort of see Fraker's point of view here :
No, actually, I don't. But I had you fooled there for a minute.
I think frakker was curly in of mice and men.
The best scene next to Bobby whacking Andy Js killers
The drunken tongue speaks the sober mind.
2:21 It must be fuckin cold in that hospital.
This scene would’ve been absolutely hilarious if they were all gathered in the hospital holding vigil for Fraker.
put who wrote the beautiful music in the credits !!!!
jacqueline obradors is so beautiful
Who knew Jerry Mitchell from 'Three O'clock High' would play such an ass on 'NYPD Blue'? 🤷🤷🤷
Rita, Rita!!!
Dennis Franz "Welcome Home'********
This happens more than you realize
Damnn,talk about having someone's back...
Can you shoot through glass like this without the bullet being deflected? just curious.
It will deflect but it doesn’t necessarily miss its target.
Shes great
I didn’t see that coming or maybe I should’ve.
2:26
Who was Fraker pointing his weapon at after he shot and left the Lt's office?
Franker never left the Lt. office. After he shot him, he moved around the desk to shoot him again. That's when Rita shoots him.
He didn’t leave the office. He went around Tony’s desk and was aiming at him lying on the floor. He intended to kill him.
LOL, I never watched this show, but I had to laugh at this happening! So surprised! I remember a guy getting fired for beating up a captain (true NYPD story), but a captain shooting a lieutenant?? LOL, didn't see that comin' !!
Lol he was drunk as hell mad as hell so he's possible to do anything
@@attiepollard7847 I'll have to watch the series some day! ;-)
@@attiepollard7847 Ummmm....not really following u. My comment was about seeing this show where an intox captain shoots a lieutenant. Man, was I surprised to see that, and yeah, I laughed at it a little (it's tv, not reality). Didn't expect to see that!
@@timmycrw91 sorry about that that was the wrong post on the wrong subject
@@attiepollard7847 LOL!! N P ! :-) U had me scratchin' my head!
Oh damn.. From cop to cartel leader.
Jacqueline obradors what a smoke show.
Did the captain die after being shot?
No. He goes on trial in Season 11 for shooting Rodriguez and is found not guilty.
Why was Esai Morales character written off the show? His choice or network's?
It was his choice. He wanted to move on to other projects.
Rita Ortiz wasn't that Vin Diesel's on screen wife in A Man Apart?
It certainly was
Had to be sure it was Jacqueline O.
Oritz should have aimed higher.
im looking up nypd blue 11 x 01
What didn’t Tony just call someone and have fraker removed?
Because then Fraker wouldn't have shot him and there wouldn't have been any cliffhanger for the end of season 10!
did LT. Rodriguez die? he was a great character.
No
Lts always getting shot on this show
It’s scary
Does the average have that many that care about us?
Spoiler alert
It's crazy how racist he became when he was drunk. It all came from his heart.
This was the beginning of end of NYPD Blue being great. I didn’t like the aftermath of Clark Sr.’s suicide and I never found Andy and Connie as a couple interesting but there was still good energy to the show. This is where the quality started going downhill.
Agree
They should never have killed off Sylvia. They brought in Andy's ex-wife and that's when it began a slow decline.
So true. I think if Esai Morales had stayed, it would have been much better. Gibson and Bale were horrible. I didn't think Andy and Connie belonged together at all. I never got the feeling they belonged together like I did with Andy and Sylvia. It was a shame Sharon Lawerence wanted off the show.
A SHOW THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY
💯💙🇺🇸🚔
Sure are a lot of guns and shootings in that police station on this show lol
The bad always win
"Evil always triumph, because good is dumb."
@@bstdenis only because evil is willing to do anything to be evil
and there goes going home for the night and lots and lots of paperwork and now she needs to call it in. Oh and there is no way that she would be at the hospital after what happened, nope she would be sitting in a room with other detectives from a different squad and with IAD going over and over what happened. Since this is about a police captain shooting a police lieutenant and then a detective shooting the police captain. Something like that would have every single major police brass there looking for answers.
law and order
Best partner for Andy in order; Rick Schroder, Mark Paul Gosselaar, Jimmy Smits, last the terrible David Caruso, agree or disagree?
Nah- Caruso, Smits, Schroder/Gosselaar.
Smits, Caruso, Gosselaar, Schroeder.
These guys are both great and horrible cops
KICK ASS SHOT RITA!
Oh. My. Wow. I quit watching when Rick Schroder came on, and I've been trying to catch up, but I've never seen this before. Talk about a mind bender. Geez...
You can find the whole series on DVD. Free at your local library.
The whole trial made no sense. He is clearly standing over Rodriguez with his gun, about to shoot him again.
Not unlike OJ’s trial.
nypd n lapd
A real cop would have mag dumped his ass.
After he called him a spick maybe but you're not going to take your risk of dropping a captain from eternal affairs
Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeea Nuts, ta taa, ta ta di dah !