homicide 'freakout'

This is an episode of Homicide about LSD and hippies, and it's much less interesting than you might imagine. I can certainly see how shows like this would make young people want to take hallucinogens. 

It's been a long time (in my viewing of these from the beginning) since an episode of Homicide began with John Feagan directly addressing the viewer. I seem to recall long ago wondering whether this was meant to be Inspector Connolly addressing us or the actor John Feagan but in this case he actually refers to 'this episode of Homicide'.

This is Cathy, having a freak out. She is about to run out into the street and get killed. And below is Suzanne Cameron (Julianna Allan) going through a heavy trip in which she imagines herself in relation to various men, firstly her drug dealer, then her father, then her fiancee Ian.  

This is some kind of club where something happens but it's hard to know what. The guy at the table goes into a back room where he is reported to be vomiting and singing at the same time. So, you know, LSD is really different from alcohol. 

The storyline here is a mess, the most interesting elements of it being the attempts to replicate what it feels like to take LSD only the emphasis is more on Suzanne's psychological state of mind than anything else, and it's entirely unclear whether she takes drugs because she comes from a broken home or whether taking drugs just amplifies problems that would otherwise be present, but less emphatic. On the whole, the most interesting thing about the whole episode is Mack's extreme disgust at drug takers and drugs generally. He needs to focus.