Back to the streets, where Templeton has tracked down the twitchy, donut-taking guy and bought him some milk to go with his donuts. Checkbook journalism at its worst! Anyhow, the guy's a vet, back from Iraq and suffering post-traumatic stress disorder after a spot of unpleasantness outside of Fallujah. It's a harrowing story, and it'll make for some great copy for Templeton, but I'm just puzzled by why we're spending so much time here. To show that Templeton's really a good reporter after all and doesn't need to resort to his little tricks and scams to get a good story, and that his lack of ethics is all the more unfortunate because of that? Might have made more of an impact on this viewer if the preceding five episodes hadn't beaten it into us that this guy was worth neither our time nor our concern. As it stands now, this entire segment, I've been eyeballing my watch and wondering when we're going to get back to the fake serial killers and the City Hall politicking and Omar's Old-Testament-style retribution. Because, unless this plotline picks up soon, it's just taking screen time away from the parts of the story I care about. ["You are part of the problem! You like the sensational and do not care about the homeless! Hey, David Simon, did I figure it out? DO I WIN?" -- Miss Alli]













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