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 Cyndi Glass: I don’t like this one much, though it has its moments. I just find some of it so over the top and hard to believe. Especially Penhall’s behavior. It seems as if this would be more like the Season 1 Hanson. However, Penhall is dealing with a lot of guilt and grief over causing Marta's deportation back to El Salvador, where she is in danger (and where she ends up being murdered, we later find out in #74 "La Bizca"). Perhaps that is some justification - though I'm dicey about giving TPTB that much credit.

Karl: I thought that this episode was rather interesting. Penhall was out of character (he was helping on the safety crew) helping to make the school safe. While Doug and his other counterparts were helping to "clean up the school," some of the others become corrupt and beat up students and end up getting away with it. What bothers me is that Doug gets brainwashed by Mr. Brooks [the ultra-authoritative principal] and is just as authoritative as Mr. Brooks. Hoffs and Penhall were sent in to investigate the murder of Janet Johnson, a student gunned down in front of the school a week before. Hoffs, on the other hand, intrigues me in this episode. I like when she tells Penhall that what this principal is doing is wrong [how the principal acts as a tough authoritarian] -- that "we have civil rights" and the argument that kids have the right to a drug-free school and kids have civil rights. The speech at the end Doug makes (after being convinced by Hoffs) makes sense. Hoffs told him that these people that were expelled went on the streets and that Brooks was "sweeping the problems under the rug." Doug said everyone has a right to an education, and he was right.

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