Camera... Action... Murder!

Okay, this episode is just ridiculous. Fran gets written as a complete moron. She's a target of a killer, told by Ironside to stay at her apartment, which is under guard by the cops, but a guy calls and so she sneaks out of her place. She leaves her window open and unlocked so someone sneaks in. She gets involved with a suspect (the guy mentioned above). She walks thru dark alleys at night alone. And that's not all. She does every possible thing to put herself in danger and it's not part of a plan, its just being unprofessional. And Ironside doesn't lecture her, or better yet, fire her. Crazy. Okay, it's not a documentary, but suspension of belief only goes so far. She's ready to consider marriage to JDB's character halfway through the episode for crying out loud. C'mon writers, at least try not to let it looked like you mailed it in.

After watching this Ironside episode I'm still not sure what the point of it all was.

The Ironside team is assigned to a string of seemingly random killings of women. Each one has no connection to the other and the all look a whole lot like Elizabeth Baur.

The suspects range from former combat photographer Joe Don Baker to a disturbed young man Elliott Street who has gotten into shooting slices of life with his hand held 8 millimeter camera. Of course Elizabeth Baur is in harm's way continually.

In the end I really didn't understand what it was all about. They were losing their creative juices with this one.