Tonight on NBC Law & Order returns with an all-new Thursday, October 31, 2024 episode and we have your Law & Order recap below. In tonight’s Law & Order season 24 episode 5 “Report Card,” as per the NBC synopsis,
“A student is accused of killing his teacher. When the suspect’s age puts the case in limbo, Price and Maroun put the school’s policies on trial. Shaw’s attempts to connect with the suspect backfire.”
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On tonight’s Law & Order episode, a simple disagreement in a rideshare may have resulted in murder. Walter Rhodes was the rideshare driver. He was transporting a young couple when they got into a fight. The girlfriend grabbed her man’s phone. The man tried to grab it back.
She refused to let go and her arm was getting twisted in the fight for the phone. Walter tried to intervene. The boyfriend attacks the security camera. The camera goes out and twenty minutes later Walter was found murdered in his neighborhood. Was he killed for trying to stop the fight? Or was his murder the result of his second career?
Walter wasn’t just a rideshare driver. He was also a science teacher. He was happily married gay man and so he wasn’t coming onto the girlfriend in the car. No matter what her boyfriend says. The boyfriend was identified as Mike Keyz the rapper. He got kicked out of the car after messing with the security video.
He didn’t want TMZ to get a hold of it. Walter offered to drive the girlfriend home alone and she turned him down to go hang out with Keyz at an afterparty. Keyz apologized for destroying the security camera only he has an alibi for the actual murder.
Keyz also mentioned that someone was blowing up the victim’s phone that night. Walter kept getting calls from a friend of his. The friend was Walter’s best man at his wedding and the two were dealing with a situation at the school where Walter was employed.
Walter was accused of sleeping with one of his students. The accusation was from a parent of a student. There was an investigation. Walter was cleared and that wasn’t enough for Nicholas Davies. The man blamed Walter for turning his son gay.
His son Luke came out to him after a private conversation with Walter. Nicholas refused to believe his son would have come out if Walter wasn’t sleeping with him and so he assaulted the teacher. He overreacted.
Walter didn’t want to press charges or make things worse for Luke. Walter wasn’t sleeping with Luke. Luke got advice on how to come out to his dad. It wasn’t his fault or Walter’s fault that the father just couldn’t accept Luke being gay. The cops spoke to Luke. He said Walter was a great teacher. He was tough because he believed in the kids.
Luke also said someone released a diss track against Walter on the day of the murder. Detectives Shaw and Riley listened to it. The song was basically threatening to kill Walter.
They referenced his room number at the school and the song itself was posted on the middle school ‘s chat forum. The cops found the person who posted the song. He said he didn’t write the lyrics. The lyrics came from a kid named “Ant”. Ant was short for Anthony Turner. He was a troubled kid at school.
There was a rumor that he brought a gun to school on the day of the murder. The cops spoke to the principle. He said there was a lot of fake guns because it was Halloween and that there was no real guns brought in that day. He spoke to Anthony on the day of. He said Anthony didn’t have a weapon.
Only the cops looked into the kid. He was bouncing from foster home to foster home. He was a troubled young man. He ran when the cops came by his current home. And he pulled a knife on them when he was cornered.
He reacts first with violence over everything else.
Shaw tried to talk the kid down without anyone getting hurt. Anthony just wasn’t listening. Riley had sneak up on him and arrested him. Anthony later revealed when he was questioned that he was on probation. He couldn’t risk getting in trouble again. Which would have happened if Walter went ahead in reporting him for the diss track.
The song said he was going to shoot Walter. The teacher couldn’t overlook that and Anthony didn’t want to go back to juvie. He was finally at a foster home with a foster parent who cares about him. He didn’t want to risk that.
The kid was thirteen. He turned thirteen a few weeks before the murder. He didn’t understand that he was admitting to murdering Walter just so he wouldn’t go back to juvie. He told the cops all about going to Walter’s home to threaten him into keeping quiet. He said he didn’t go there to kill him. It simply happened that way.
He didn’t know the gun was loaded. Anthony was arrested for murder and he still didn’t get that he was in the wrong. He shouldn’t have released a song about killing a teacher. Especially not when you’re out on probation. He ended up killing a good guy to delay the inevitable.
Anthony got a good lawyer who threw out the confession. She pointed out a kid as young as Anthony couldn’t understand his Miranda rights and his foster mom wasn’t in the room when he confessed, but Anthony was seen with a gun. He showed it to another kid at school. The kid didn’t know if it was loaded or not and so he reported it to Principal Sykes. Sykes should have followed protocol.
He should have searched Anthony’s bookbag and locker. He didn’t do any of that. He didn’t even warn Walter about the threat. He completely ignored the fact that a student brought a gun to school.
The District Attorney’s office had to consider if they should charge Anthony as an adult. They came to a decision where they ultimately felt he wasn’t the only one responsible for the murder. Anthony agreed to a plea deal. He was going to serve ten years in juvie and be released when he’s twenty-three.
His principle on the other hand was facing adult charges for not following protocol. Anthony was testifying against him when Shaw found evidence that Anthony was lying. Anthony’s fingerprints were found on the bullets inside of the gun. He knew all along it was loaded.
Shaw had wanted to believe in him. He thought the kid was a good person that just needed someone to fight for him and that’s what Shaw did. Shaw pushed the District Attorney’s office to charge Anthony as a minor. He pushed for Principal Sykes to be charged. Then the results from forensics came in.
He realized then and there that Anthony knew exactly what he was doing when he went armed to Walter’s home. He was a killer. There was no changing that. As for principal, he was scared to act.
Sykes once pulled a student off a teacher. The student was beating the teacher up. There were plenty of witnesses to show Sykes wasn’t the aggressor and still the student pressed charges against Sykes for assault. Since then, Sykes has been nervous to intervene. He wasn’t a bad person. He just didn’t follow protocol because it didn’t want it to blow back on himself.
Shaw meanwhile came clean to Riley. He admitted he saw himself in Anthony. His father was stationed overseas during the Gulf War and so he was left with his mother. She was a musician. She had a problem with drugs. She went off the rails the day before his dad came back. Shaw was afraid he’d end up like Anthony and that’s why he was so forgiving.
Riley reminded him that he was a good person. He wasn’t like Anthony at all. Shaw saw that for himself. He reported the evidence. The District Attorney made a plea deal with Sykes. And then they charged Anthony as an adult for murder in the first degree.
THE END!