Tom Schwartz

You know, another thing that at the end of your most recent episode with Toby, right?

Yes, with Toby.

Like, this really resonated with me.

I was blown away with, like, all the true crime cases I've watched.

The disparity.

in competence and incompetence and them caring.

And like when I'm watching Cold Case Files, like these guys are dedicated.

They really like they fight for these people.

But sometimes you get, you know, someone who's kind of nonchalant and different, or maybe they're just going through their own life harrowing issues, their life's falling apart.

It's hard for them to really be committed or do their job well.

Totally.

But when someone that means the world to you has died or been murdered and the person on your case is just sort of phoning it in, I can't imagine how brutally frustrating that is.

They become numb, and it might backfire and cause them to just sort of pull back.

Totally.

It's happened to me in the hospital when my father was in there, when my brother was in there, hounding the nurses, not thinking.

It's fight or flight.

It's like when my dad's dying, and he's on life support.

It's like, please, he needs more attention.

They have 10 other people in the ward on that floor going through the same thing, and I try to empathize with them.

So sometimes I try to empathize with the detectives, but I don't know.