Babel

Episode aired Feb 27, 2013
TV-MA
42m

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8.0/10

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Michael Cudlitz and Bunny Levine in Southland (2009)

Crime Drama Thriller

A breakdown in the dispatch system makes a difficult job even harder for the cops. Lydia reaches out to her old flame (MICHAEL JACE) and Cooper gets a new partner.A breakdown in the dispatch system makes a difficult job even harder for the cops. Lydia reaches out to her old flame (MICHAEL JACE) and Cooper gets a new partner.A breakdown in the dispatch system makes a difficult job even harder for the cops. Lydia reaches out to her old flame (MICHAEL JACE) and Cooper gets a new partner.

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8Mr-Fusion

New faces, old nutjobs . . .

Most of the calls this week share a common theme: miscommunication. And it's relevant, seeing as LAPD officers have to deal with all manner of different foreign languages on the job. There are varying degrees of subtlety as to the execution of this theme - say, having the radio dispatch go offline, or Sherman's blown eardrum after a shotgun assault - but this is a first-rate episode, mixing humor, characterization and new faces.

To that end, Cooper's new partner is a positive addition. IT makes sense that John's burnt out as a training officer, and a veteran is much more his speed (as Lucy Lie proved last season). Plus, Lucero's junior-high jokes are amusing.

I hate that Tammi's back, but it at least she's not just there to be stupid.

8/10

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Trivia
The actor who plays Ray "Ray Ray" Chavez, John Maucere, is deaf in real life.

Goofs
When Officer Cooper and Lucero are dispersing the crowd after the disturbance at the skate shop a camera man is clearly in the shot when Officer Lucero speaks Yiddish to the elderly woman.