An Episode from "Picket Fences"

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The paper discusses the plot of the episode, "Blood Brothers" from the TV show "Picket Fences". It shows that the episode contains two basic plots that intersect more on a thematic level, rather than in terms of their story and in both plots, the question of what it means to be loyal to another individual is called into question.

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"This frequent, thematic childhood conflict between the strictures of the law and between the heart is played out in a much more stark fashion in the episode's dominant plot. The District Attorney must mull whether his ultimate ties are to the law he has sworn to uphold, as a lawyer and as a public servant, hold sway over the emotional ties he has to the individual fleeing the law. Perhaps this is one reason why the author chose not only to tie these two stories together in one episode, but also to touch the theme of loyalty at all. This conflict is one, the writer may have assumed, that every individual viewer has experienced on some level, in some fashion, throughout his or her life."

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