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For sure Perry Mason would be having a field day in court, while Jessica Fletcher would be rolling her eyes, & Agatha Christie would be writing the entire story, including solving the case, and have it published before the Salem P.D. could finish dialing a phone number.

To be sure, I hate that the Salem P.D. is ALWAYS proved so inept, unable to find a clue, solve a case, unless the person is actually caught red-handed, and even then, it is iffy. I really also hate that Salem's attorneys are also so inept, unable to ever come out ahead. John Clarke (Mickey Horton) has, in interviews, made jokes about how Mickey Horton never won a case.

Trouble with crimes on Days, they are the whims of the writers, and at the mercy of those same pens. The killer of Deimos was someone else, but a new writer came in, changed it. Probably the same thing happened with Andre. Don't know. Do know it is all disappointing.

Deimos spikes the booze at the big shindig, everyone is drugged, eventually passing out. No memory of what happened. All to get some amulet, which he evidently did. Sonny, & Chad find Deimos's body sprawled in the middle of the floor, a knife protruding from his chest. It's a crime scene, but they move the body behind some drapes. No idea how there was no blood trail....but there evidently wasn't. And there it lay until morning, when people began to wake up, finding themselves sleeping next to someone totally unexpected, in odd places, etc.

A few have vague memories, but overall, no one remembers much at all. Salem PD gets the body, questions the guests, supposedly do a search.....but......they don't find anything worth anything, despite there evidently being questionable items around. Have they talked about that case ? Brady feels Nicole did it, threatened her to get her out of town, away from Eric. But...does he have positive proof?

Still, fact remains...Salem PD has not a clue......and am sure if it was up to Melinda Trask, she'd have Gabi on trial in the blink of an eye.

Then we have Andre, were shown all sorts of people who went in and out of that office. Yet, Salem P.D. jumps to all kinds of conclusions, based on a video tape in which someone wearing a particular outfit is shown entering and leaving the office. So....anyone know why Anna visited him, and in particular why she left the urn there?

What about Viv, and Stefan who seemed to wander in and out at will, but did each go in separately, as well as together? And apparently Abby went in, finding Andre who died within a minute or so of her finding him. So, how/why is she in that video, if that is her? Really...........she kills him, leaves, splits into the alters, returns in the outfit, leaves, then returns as Abby to find the dead body? Really?

Shame on the writers.
 
All to get some amulet,

Another forgotten storyline, and in my opinion, not missed at all either.

Great post Poirot. The current set of writers are terrible at crimes. The Jeannie T story having her being held by such a monster, one taken down by a single mother who wanted to go home. Perhaps the ISA and Victor's crew should just hire moms. Apparently they know how to handle bad guys.
 
It's not just cops and lawyers, but all professionals who suffer under the Days writers' pens. (One would like to see how they would write for a character who is a soap writer.) Doctors can never solve the case alone - except when they're a specialist in everything and working the ER and being the Chief of Staff. Reporters never chase a story. Businesspeople never conduct business in an office (they only get murdered there).

This is hardly a new phenomenon. Soap writing is an ongoing battle between telling too much story (and running out of ideas) and going so slowly that the audience gets bored. Somehow during the 1960s cops and lawyers became the gum in the works (except on shows like Edge of Night). Even Marlena is bad at her job when it allows her to be kidnapped during sweeps so John can play hero. Even "big bad" Mateo was taken down easily when the plot demanded it.

I imagine if we were to see the staging of Chloe's Salome, it would look more like A Jitney Elopement.

Thank goodness they never got around to getting Parker that speech therapy he badly needed before the recast!! (Maybe my union does do something for our profession after all! LOL)
 
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