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If you've committed a crime and a detective gathers everyone involved in the room, especially if he's not actually a detective and is instead a novelist, puzzle-setter, psychic, fake psychic, dog, chess grandmaster, etc. ...

YOU SHOULD NOT CONFESS.

Every year, hundreds of people are put away by non-traditional "detectives" who have either inserted themselves into the case or are working with the police in a dubiously legal capacity as advisor. In 99% of these cases, the murderer gives a full confession even though the evidence against them is circumstantial at best and often requires a long just-so story which can only guess at motive.

If this happens to you, stay quiet, do not attempt to defend yourself or talk your way out of it, only say "I want a lawyer".

Now if you find yourself being investigated by a boy genius, magician's assistant, anthropologist, classics scholar, or philosopher, it's likely that refusing to talk to the police (or investigator with no legal authority) is merely the end of the second act, and by the end of the third act they will have you dead to rights.

YOU SHOULD STILL NOT CONFESS.

Make them take it to court. Force the eccentric detective and his straight-laced police partner to take the stand and explain their methods to a jury of your peers. Have your lawyer look at the chain of custody on the evidence, especially if you believe it to have been handled by someone who has only bumbled into detective work through their natural charm and/or unique set of skills and outsider perspective that come in handy more often than they should.

I don't think Rebecca was necessarily wrong to pick Ted over Alice for the head coaching job - the problem is her reasons for not considering Alice in the first place.

Ted is a consummate salesman with a proven PR record in Richmond, and that's what the Lady Greyhounds need to help them get off the ground - someone to get the public believing in them. And no, Alice can't do that, but that's not why Rebecca passed on her.

What's Rebecca's first reaction when Higgins brings up Alice's candidacy? "She doesn't like me." Mmhmm. Why is that the deciding factor?

Rebecca seems to be slipping into running Richmond as her social club. This renders Alice unhireable by virtue of not being Rebecca's friend or wanting it. Compare and contrast with Keeley, whose competence got her noticed and hired because first she was nice to Rebecca in the women's loo. It's not that ability doesn't matter to Rebecca; it's that she doesn't seem to consider it until the potential employee passes her personal likeability threshold. Which is a pretty foolish way to do your hiring.

Secondly, all the talk of growling has to be deliberate, because I didn't hear a sound like that out of Alice's throat, but it is the default mode of our man Roy. And yet here he is coaching the men's team without a single mention of how his verbal affectations affect his job qualifications.

And yes, that's probably in part because he was always good to Rebecca, and because he's her friend. But let's be real: it's also because he's a man. And a man can wear the same monochrome clothes and unsmiling face every day and be just fine if he does the rest of his job well. But Alice can't.

TED LASSO (2020- ) Season 4 | Episode 2

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