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Season1, Episode 3, "The Spread"

Written by Glen Mazzara

Directed by Clark Johnson

Air date: 3-26-02

One little aspect of this episode that bears note as it glides quickly by is Vic's seduction of Aceveda over the missing basketball player. Note the male bonding story that Vic concocts to cover the fact that he's de facto kidnapped a major NBA player. CHECK OUT Aceveda's conspiratorial smile as Vic tells him what he needs to hear. Yet note how easy Vic's "snorkeling" theory was for Aceveda to accept, and then the punch line as we hear the more diplomatic version of exactly that same theory which Aceveda offers to the player's female attorney.