Forensic science (often shortened to forensics) is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to a legal system. This may be in relation to a crime or a civil action. The word forensic comes from the Latin forēnsis, meaning "of or before the forum." In Roman times, a criminal charge meant presenting the case before a group of public individuals in the forum. Both the person accused of the crime and the accuser would give speeches based on their sides of the story. The individual with the best argument and delivery would determine the outcome of the case. This origin is the source of the two modern usages of the word forensic – as a form of legal evidence and as a category of public presentation.
In modern use, the term "forensics" in the place of "forensic science" can be considered correct as the term "forensic" is effectively a synonym for "legal" or "related to courts". However the term is now so closely associated with the scientific field that many dictionaries include the meaning that equates the word "forensics" with "forensic science".
There is a fine line between justice and revenge
Plot
After Katrina, police sergeant Terence McDonagh rescues a prisoner, hurts his back in the process and earns a promotion to lieutenant plus an addiction to cocaine and painkillers. Six months later, a family is murdered over drugs; Terence runs the investigation. His drug-using prostitute girlfriend, his alcoholic father's dog, run-ins with two old women and a well-connected john, gambling losses, a nervous young witness, and thefts of police property put Terence's job and then his life in danger. He starts seeing things. He wants a big score to get out from under mounting debts, so he joins forces with drug dealers. The murders remain unsolved. A bad lieutenant gets worse.
Keywords: abuse-of-power, alcoholic, alcoholic-father, alligator, ambulance, american-football, anti-hero, aquarium, arrest, assistant-district-attorney
The only criminal he can't catch is himself.
Terence McDonagh: Shoot them again!::Deshaun 'Midget' Hackett: What for?::Terence McDonagh: Their soul's still dancing!::[laughs hysterically]
Terence McDonagh: You think fish have dreams?
Terence McDonagh: [Hallucinating] What are these fuckin' iguanas doing on my coffee table.::Stevie Pruit: There ain't no iguana.::Terence McDonagh: ...Yeah, there are.::Stevie Pruit: There ain't no iguana.::Terence McDonagh: What the fuck is that? [taps it] Fuckin' iguana.
Terence McDonagh: Is this the same police force my father was in?
Terence McDonagh: [to a man stuck in a cell as the water rises above his neck] You want me to get wet? On account of you?
Terence McDonagh: You don't have a lucky crack pipe?
Terence McDonagh: I'll kill all of you. To the break of dawn. To the break of dawn, baby.
Terence McDonagh: [a dog is barking in the distance as Terrence approaches the house] Hey! What's wrong?::Genevieve: Your father's mad at me 'cause I can't take care of his fucking dog...::Terence McDonagh: Well why does he need you to take care of it?::Genevieve: Cause! He's goin' back into AA. He says he can deal with anymore responsibilities bsides he said he's gotta stop drinking. I mean, it ain't like I don't wanna take care of it... but I leave at seven o'clock in the morning to go to work!::Terence McDonagh: Let me talk to him.::Genevieve: I try to be a good wife to him, Terrence. I really do. But I got a limit too! You know, he's got a drinking problem, he says he's got a drinking problem and he wants to do something about it and that's good. You know, he's been down this road before and it didn't take... he wants to try it again. GOOD. But I... I say to him "why don't you just stick to beer the way I do" but he says he can't do that.
Terence McDonagh: You know we got your boy, G, right?::Deshaun 'Midget' Hackett: Man, I don't know no G.::Terence McDonagh: He knows you. It's amazing how much you can get done when you've got a simple purpose guiding you through life. My purpose is to find out who shot up this apartment on Josephine. I know the guy that was living there was from Senegal. I know he was selling heroin. I know whose territory he was stepping on. And I know who went over to the apartment to straighten him out. I found out all that in the past few days. Where's Big Fate, son?::Deshaun 'Midget' Hackett: I don't know no Big Fate.::Terence McDonagh: Now, see, I know that's not true, because everybody who comes from where you come from knows who Big Fate is. The fact that you're lying to me about it tells me you're hiding something. Since you know my only reason for being here is to find out who shot up the apartment, I know that's what you're hiding. See? It all comes back to that same simple purpose.
Frankie Donnenfeld: Just get me my money.::Justin: I usually pay when I'm done.::Terence McDonagh: Done smacking her around?::Justin: It's erotic shit, man. I didn't hurt her.::Terence McDonagh: [Throws him against the wall] Just like I'm not hurting you.::Justin: Did I hurt-did I hurt you?::Frankie Donnenfeld: Terence, let's just go.::Terence McDonagh: We don't hit women down south.::Justin: You just made a big mistake, Terry. My father's Andy Winnick. You ever hear of him?::Terence McDonagh: Who?::Justin: One of the biggest developers in the Gulf Coast.::Terence McDonagh: Congratulations.::Justin: Tommy Leonardi's one of his best friends.::Terence McDonagh: Hey, listen to me, scumbag. Don't try to impress me with your father knows some guinea hood. What you've got to take away from this experience is if you ever see that girl again, you turn around and you walk in the opposite direction. You got that?::Justin: Oh, yeah, man. Yeah.::Terence McDonagh: I ever hear about you so much as looking at that girl, you're gonna wish you were born without a dick.
You're trapped... and you don't even know it.
David: In a world where scientist compete against each other to give birth to the first human clone, and entere populations can be annihilated without a single brick being damaged, question is: Can we really still write science-fiction?
David: You said Jane didn't commit suicide.::Silvia: I know I did not jump through this window, but I don't know what really happened.
Jaume: She survived, but her name was in the list!
Kovak: Do you really think you have a choice?
Plot
When the daughter Emma of the technical writer Allen Pyke and the photographer Julie is found slashed in the throat and wrists in their locked apartment, the couple decides to move to an isolated cabin in the mountains in Kingspike. Julie is very depressed and blames Allen for the death of Emma. Once in the new home, Julie sees the spirit of Emma in a photo she took in a nearby abandoned prison and she becomes obsessed shooting pictures of poltergeists. Allen is advised to move from the place by the local Jim Payne, and on May 21st, Allen finds that the former dwellers of the cabin have committed suicide, and he investigates the death in the spot and finds that many people died around May 22nd. He decides to move with Julie to a hotel, but she does not want to give up on Emma.
Pain never dies
Plot
In this presentation, which is the second of a series of classes on the ELEMENTS: earth, air, fire and water, Ken goes into great detail about air, breath of life, that includes stories, myths and examples of how we are interacting with this element every day. This presentation is classroom worthy from grade school to college, loaded with information I'm sure you didn't know. Enjoy!
Plot
Four cannibals hunting in the city. One cop out to stop them. The nightmare of every regular citizens... Inspector Vincent Blake is in charge of capturing a group of cannibal murderers who wander in the city looking for new victims. As Blake is getting closer to the criminals, the tables turn and the hunter becomes the hunted.
Keywords: abortion, arm-cut-off, baseball-bat, black-bra, black-bra-and-panties, black-panties, blood, bra-less, cannibal, cannibal-cult
The downfall of society
Zack: My name is oblivion.
Plot
Four cannibals hunting in the city. One cop out to stop them. The nightmare of every regular citizens... Inspector Vincent Blake is in charge of capturing a group of cannibal murderers who wander in the city looking for new victims. As Blake is getting closer to the criminals, the tables turn and the hunter becomes the hunted.
Keywords: abortion, arm-cut-off, baseball-bat, black-bra, black-bra-and-panties, black-panties, blood, bra-less, cannibal, cannibal-cult
The downfall of society
Zack: My name is oblivion.
In my years of seclusion, the escalation of a minds
insanity. Become
prisoner to my imaginings. A psychopath that society
created. Horribly
abused as a child, violent impulses intensified,
intoxicated through the
multitude of my crimes. All demented and perverted,
grotesque diaries
document in explicit detail the chronicles of my life. I
will forever live
in infamy...
I remember my first, she was 9 years of age. Shining with
innocence, I kept
her teeth to remind me of her smile, no sexual acts, just
the insane thrill
of killing, not to say I haven't had those urges before.
Tens of child
molestations and sex slaying. Scattered morgue photos
used for
masturbation, video footage of sex and torture with
victims of my lust, soon
found dead from hideous forms of execution, dead remains
dumped on the
outskirts of the city.
Many found headless with traces of arsenic in their
stomach. I created this,
immortal in the annals of 20th century murder. I will
always be remembered,
the dead will soon be forgotten...