Down+The+Drain+Notes

Things i didn't understand: - Looking through all those sewers takes much more time, I would think. - What was the liquid that the guy used to check out the sewers wall? - What did she use to check if the blood was real? - How did they know that the liquid inside the refrigerator were active bombs? - How did all those clothes in the trashcan not burn like the rest of the items in there?

I think the episode was both realistic and unrealistic. Things like finding the bones really fast, and getting an autopsy done so fast is unrealistic. Other things that are unrealistic are the time limit they were on for figuring out this case. The things they were doing in real life would take much more than what was shown. Things like getting a warrant to go through the house, going through an autopsy, finding clues to help them with the case. Also, they didn’t show a lot how they got clues; they just kind of skipped to them (example: finding the blood on the walls and the stairs). Since it’s a show, it would be pretty hard to show all that time passing in just an hour episode, but, if this episode were to be in real life, I can see it happening. Maybe not in the time that they showed it in the show, but it is possible to be done. More things that are realistic in the show are their accuracy and bomb squad coming to the house and finding things, and making a test of sewage water to help them figure out that the child who was missing wasn’t missing for as long as they thought. There were a lot of things that were realistic, but also at the same time unrealistic, but what can you expect, it’s only an hour tv show.

Definitions: Forensic Chemistry: Is the technique by using chemistry to figure out how objects have been changed and the chemicals that have changed them.

Forensic Science: Is the technique used by scientist to help prove what they are searching for, and how something happened. This is used a lot for crime scene investigations.