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Originally Posted by El Diablo
TGM,
I also thought something like that as opposed to them witnessing a gang rape, which I think is a pretty odd leap to make from that scene.
Hart makes it very clear he leaves his professional life at work, and it never comes home with him, so there should be absolutely no scenario where they might have stumbled upon some case file. Also, there wouldn't be pictures of an incident like that portrayed in that exact way. In fact, he's trying to use his home as a complete escape from the horrors he witnesses in his every day job, and it was a very important thing he got across in this episode (as misguided as his escape attempts are).
I don't know how you *can't* make the leap that the kids witnessed something horrific. It's pretty bad that he didn't at least ask the kids about it, and I think that means more for his character's general apathy than it does to bad writing. Again, this is 1995, and I don't have any idea why you'd think that these 7? and 9? year old kids could re-enact something like that without having personally witnessed it.