It was Andre Braugher who carried this episode. He was the one who sat with the dying man until emergency workers could free the man's body caught between the platform and the train. Braugher's character knew that freeing the man from between the platform and train would only cause the man's immediate death. Braugher played his part as if he were really sitting with a dying man, trying to help keep the man's spirit up while knowing he would die. It was when Braugher sat down on the platform and stayed there for the rest of the story that one felt that the story was real and not a TV episode. I give a 10+ to Braugher and to the creator of Homicide for producing some of the best TV in history.