When a twelve-year-old boy is seriously wounded and his eleven-month-old baby brother is killed by gunshots in their apartment building, Sgt Greevey and Mike investigate the case. They inform and interview the mother, the worker Mrs. Denise Winters, suspecting that her boy could be involved in drug trafficking. But soon they learn that the family is honest. Their further investigation shows that the hit was contracted by the drug dealer Michael Ingrams targeting the real estate broker Edward Kay, who laundries his money and has lost US$ 300,000 of Ingrams' money in a personal business. The fourteen-year-old hit man T-Ball is illiterate and was not able to read the correct address of Kay. Now Stone wants to send the whole gang to prison.
"Mushrooms" is a sad episode of "Law & Order" that involves many social problems in USA. A poor honest family is forced to live in a bad neighborhood. Initially, the police suspect that the twelve-year-old son might be involved in drug trafficking, showing bias of the detectives based on the neighborhood. The killer is an illiterate teenager, hired by a drug-dealer to kill a man that laundries his money. In the end, the Winters' family is the greatest victim of a society with many social problems. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Cogumelos" ("Mushrooms")
"Mushrooms" is a sad episode of "Law & Order" that involves many social problems in USA. A poor honest family is forced to live in a bad neighborhood. Initially, the police suspect that the twelve-year-old son might be involved in drug trafficking, showing bias of the detectives based on the neighborhood. The killer is an illiterate teenager, hired by a drug-dealer to kill a man that laundries his money. In the end, the Winters' family is the greatest victim of a society with many social problems. My vote is eight.
Title (Brazil): "Cogumelos" ("Mushrooms")
