Talk:Howcatchem

Couldn't certain episodes of Fox's "X-files" be another example of a "Howcatchem"?

Law and Order
I'm not familiar with the various spin-offs of Law and Order, but the spinoff program for which the link is provided (Criminal Intent) doesn't seem to indicate that the program is in the howcatchem or inverted detective story format. Can someone knowledgeable prounounce on this? Accounting4Taste 05:16, 3 May 2007 (UTC)

By no means is this a "howcatchthem", the culpitt is not reavealed until the very last minutes, there are always twists along the way, and as with any "whodunnit" a lot of red herrings and blind alleys. It's a whodunnit in every sense of the word, but it's also a "whydunnit" if there is such a term. There's always of course the element in any detective drama of how to have the culpitt either confess, or have enough evidence against them etc. but that is not the central issue. More than anything I would say the central issue is motivation for the crime here, hence the the "intent" in the title. I will remove this from the main article, the person who wrote it has obviously not watched a single episode of l&o ci. 84.254.52.142 00:10, 12 July 2007 (UTC)