"Law and Order: Special Victims Unit" Auto Knife

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Axel Yup

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I watched the first two episodes of this show. The police captain prominently displays an auto knife in both episodes. It seems to be a bit of a gimmick to have him flashing the knife. I'm guessing that it's a Benchmade auto.

Did anyone see the knife? If so, can anyone ID it?

Axel
 
Yep- it's a BM Mini-Reflex. Small thread on it in the auto forum.

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Tim
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Thanks Tim. I wonder if it will be a regular prop on the show. Two shows running already.

It looks like the police captain character likes to "play" with his knife as much as we do.

Axel
 
I was noticing that as well. He was in the original L&O series when it was first out- as the Captain there as well. No playing with knives ever shown then. I'm ambivalent to seeing an auto on TV every week. It's good in that it's being used by a LEO, but bad in that it draws attention to the fact that autos are out there and could attract more scrutiny to the little knife community. Something to think about.

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Tim
Nor'east Knives
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There are two rules for ultimate success in life.
Never tell everything you know.
 
If the knife is presented as a Useful Knife, as opposed to a Nasty Knife, this is good. The public already knows there are switchblades out there, and thinks of them as those narrow bladed stickers favored by juvenile delinquents in those fifties movies. I would have mixed fealings if the captain used his Mini Reflex to cut a bad guy. When The Wife saw that episode, she noticed the knife, and called me (too late) to try to identify it, but she thought it was just another one-hander.


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I had mixed feelings on the presentation of the knife. It was sort of a "cool guy" knife, not being useful in any way but not doing anything bad. It's also such a tiny auto that it can't have seemed menacing except to people who inherently consider auto-openers "scary" (of which there seem to be a few). My reaction was "oh, the Captain likes autos, and he's a policeman, so it's legally OK for him to carry one." But that's a "knife guy" reaction - I can't really speculate on what the lay-person impression was supposed to be.

-Drew
 
In the first episode there were two knives shown, both realistically. The Captains little auto didn’t do much, certainly nothing threatening, but the large kitchen or steak knife used in another scene shows how most violent acts committed with knives are done with common household objects, not high tech or “tactical” knives. It was a knife heavy episode, with the crime in question involving someone getting “Bobited” as retaliation for war and sex crimes. Gruesome, thankfully not shown.

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James
San Francisco, CA


 
In the second episode, the captain was scratching his neck with the knife! My wife made a comment on how unsafe that was.

That's why I think the show is using it as a flashy prop rather than as a functional tool. Sort of how some shows have the characters doing unsafe acts like casually waving handguns around.

Axel
 
The knife showed up again on this week's episode. The captain was just playing with it while he was reading a rap sheet and talking with a female lawyer. He opened it a couple of times. Funny how the lawyer didn't flinch when he was doing that. I'm not sure that my wife would be as nonchalant if I did the same.

Axel
 
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