Frank Convinces Diplomat To Waive Son's Immunity | Blue Bloods (Tom Selleck, Ronald Guttman)

Commissioner Reagan (Tom Selleck) does what he does best: catching bad guys. When the son of a diplomat (Ronald Guttman) is accused of a horrendous crime against a young woman, he asserts their diplomatic immunity to protect his son. But Frank isn't done, and the dark truth he reveals next to this father convinces him to waive the immunity against his own son.
/ @crimescenes.
Blue Bloods | Season 1, Episode 3
"Blue Bloods" is a compelling television series that strikes a unique balance between crime drama and family dynamics. Set in the bustling and diverse backdrop of New York City, the show revolves around the Reagan family, where each member has dedicated their life to public service, with many of them working for the NYPD. Led by the family patriarch, Police Commissioner Frank Reagan, portrayed by Tom Selleck, "Blue Bloods" delves into the ethical challenges, moral dilemmas, and intense cases faced by law enforcement officers while highlighting the familial bonds that bind them together. The show combines riveting police procedural elements with heartfelt family moments, making it a standout in the genre. With its strong ensemble cast, which includes Donnie Wahlberg, Bridget Moynahan, and Will Estes, "Blue Bloods" explores themes of justice, honor, and the complexities of doing the right thing in a city where crime and politics often collide. It's a series that not only keeps viewers engaged with its compelling mysteries but also tugs at the heartstrings as it portrays the Reagans as a family united by a commitment to justice and each other.
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[@CrimeScenes.]

Do you think Diplomatic Immunity should be abolished?

[@7thsonofa7thson80]

Yes

[@blenderfox]

Diplomats should be subject to the laws of their own country, AND the country they are in. No immunity.

[@andrewrichardson7814]

YES.

[@lincolneagle]

Yes

[@armageddon845]

Fuck no, it's a very important part of international relations

[@erichanastacio9695]

WHEN.... he goes home.... I guess he's got another prison time waiting for him. 😆😆😆😆

[@blenderfox]

Just reminds me of an old Columbo episode where a Suirian Diplomat committed murder (I think) and couldn't be charged because of the immunity. When faced with the prospect of being tried for that crime in his home country or facing the courts in the US, he opted for the US courts and waived his immunity.

[@matthewhelton1725]

As you point out, this is not a new plot device. In practice "real" (as in Common Law) Diplomatic misconduct is pretty rare.

[@tomaszwitkowski9507]

Cut best part, ambASSador's reaction to commissioner throwing his 5 minutes back to his face.

[@GABRIELA-ACEVEDO.]

I hated the guy that played the son. Was glad when he got caught. Even more, when Danny had him take off his glasses, when he refused to take them off earlier in the episode.

[@thomas.parnell7365]

Usually hating the actors the sign of excellent performance by actor.

[@ae86takumi]

If you hated him , then he did an amazing job. I hated Joaquin Phoenix because of Gladiator . Of course , he did his role magnificently

[@ElisAdventureTime]

So what you are trying to say is that he is an excellent actor that touches your feelings isnt it?

[@Last-In-Line]

​@@ElisAdventureTime not as much as your feelings are touched right now 🤣🤣

[@amoralmarker6503]

​@Last-In-Line Let's not assume we (including yourself) have the innate ability to understand a person's emotions via a faceless assortment of text on the internet.

[@nightwingman666]

Really shows how much of a cop Frank still is despite being in a highly political position like Commissioner. He will always find justice for innocent victims.

[@boybawang1981]

Nothing needs to be waived...it's not up to the dad to say if his kid has immunity or not, it's up to the U.S. State Department and Argentina!!

[@FerretJohn]

He did, the Ambassadors immunity extends to his family

[@boybawang1981]

@@FerretJohn Soooo, that's not how immunity works!! Only a Government body or official can give or take away immunity!! Like how a District Attorney can give a criminal immunity if they testify to a bigger crime that they can find somebody guilty of!! Or the State Department having an agreement with another country that a Rep (the dad) has Diplomatic Immunity along with his family!! Immunity is not the fathers decision, he can't go to Commish and say, "I take his immunity away"!! It's not up to the father, it's up to the U.S. State Department and the country the father is representing, in this case Argentina!! And Foreign Diplomats tend to have immunity against dumb stuff like running red lights, speeding, parking tickets, even drunk driving. But crimes such as rape, assaults, & murder...unless the Diplomat has Full/Complete Immunity, that Diplomat and his fam can be prosecuted.

[@FerretJohn]

@@boybawang1981 Actually he can, the father was the Ambassador, traditionally he has the authority to waive the Immunity of anyone under him, including his own family. The State Department cannot waive the Immunity of foreign diplomats, not even for rape, all they can do is declare the person Persona non Grata and have them sent home. However the parent countries usually don't enjoy being embarrassed and will tend to punish the offender in their own way. You are partially correct though, Diplomatic Immunity comes at a variety of levels depending on where you sit in the diplomatic hierarchy, the Ambassador and his family, his Chief of Staff, and the Intelligence/Security Chief tend to have Full Immunity, the Deputy Undersecretary of Tourism however probably couldn't get out of a parking ticket

[@boybawang1981]

@@FerretJohn yes and no, nothing is ever concrete!! Countries have agreements with one another...that if the person is representing their country as a Diplomat, is free from prosecutions under that foreign country's laws. If that Diplomat or the Diplomat's son killed 5 kids with a knife...the U.S. is simply not gonna be like, "you need to leave our country ASAP"!! He will be taken into custody and the two countries will have to deal with whether he goes to jail the U.S. or Argentina!! Cuz no one is walking from 5 kids getting stabbed to death!! This has happened in New York where this Afghan National claimed Diplomatic Immunity when he killed 3 white women, he was a drug lord in Afghanistan and aided the U.S. against the Taliban, he did have Immunity, but U.S. said, you're going to jail for life!!

[@Manolo0528]

@@boybawang1981It’s a TV Show. Don’t need to get worked up over it.

[@daviddiehl-gy2sq]

Prison in Argentina, prison in the USA or deal with her father. Two your dead, one you take your chances but alive.

[@nanomage]

Given the crime and once his crime becomes known among gen pop he's dead in the american prison too... or wishing he was.

[@Reese1882yw]

@@nanomagehe’d get sent to rikers island and in that situation he’d most definitely be a victim of other prisoners assaults plus he’s a rich kid that will lead to him being extorted for “protection” at least in Argentina his dad could use his influence to make sure his son is protected

[@nicojuncos]

Great show !!! I'am from Mendoza ,Argentina that is mentioned in this amazing episode !!! 😁😁🙌🙌

[@censorshipsucks9493]

They did this same years ago in The Commish except there was no rape in another country. And, the diplomat who waived the immunity wasn't the father. He waived it for an employee after the commish staged that his daughter was raped.

[@CrimeScenes.]

I suspect this happens in real life more often than we know.

[@censorshipsucks9493]

@@CrimeScenes. I don't doubt that. But in real life I bet the diplomats ignore it.

[@censorshipsucks9493]

Hey, I found the episode. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bWe7c51-r7-FlcU

[@Reese1882yw]

Lmao like Rikers island is better than a prison in Argentina 😂🤣it’s probably worse

[@Peksisarvinen]

I bet you also think Oakland is worse than The Tondo. Americans are so delusional about how bad they have it, when your worst is a paradise to people from other parts of the world.

[@hamadhumaid1984]

It is, Reese. I read about it

[@shawnfox2281]

Emotion says yes. Logic and diplomatic reality, as heartbreaking as it sometimes can be say no.

[@ShadowMoon878]

There was a real life thing that happened in an Asian country, when a Romanian diplomat ran down two guys with his car coz he was speeding and killed one of them. The local police wanna interview him but he refused, claiming diplomatic immunity, and flew back to Romania. That Asian country's police were pissed so they researched old Romanian laws and found one old law dating back during their communist dictatorship period, that Romanians committing crimes in other countries can still be prosecuted under Romanian law regardless of a person's status. So that Asian country gathered all the evidence they have like Traffic footage of the Hit and Run and eyewitness accounts, and sent it all to the Romanian authorities. That Romanian diplomat got charged for murder and sentenced to 50 years hard labour at one of their notorious gulags. He did not even last two years coz he died from being overworked

[@brianbanville781]

I doubt he ever truly worked a day in his life before his sentence.

[@chrfileid]

You’ve taken a lot of creative liberties, but yeah crime was still the same. He got prosecuted under modern Romanian law, getting 6 years in a normal prison, serving one due to dying in a jail hospital of cardio-respiratory problems . Gulags arent a thing in Romania either; en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Singapore_Romanian_diplomat_incident?wprov=sfti1

[@SKS8080]

In today’s NYC the DA would never prosecute someone like that.

[@TheDeviantLord]

The ambassador was caught and he knew it. Frank had already forwarded the information to Argentina, so if the ambassador tried to send his son away then Argentina would recall him as well. So it was either send his son to prison in one country, or risk his own cushy lifestyle

[@roadwarrior144]

I was almost certain the diplomats had the immunity, and not their family members. Am I mistaken?

[@martakavaliauskaite4566]

Their family also imunity if it's hight class diplomat like ambassador in most cases if they commit serious crime like rape or murder they can be declared persona non grata and have to leave country but that country doesn't like to bee embarrassed so they have to pay crimes and often in other countrys the punishment is more severe than in America in America if you have good legal team lot of money and power you can make the case last years before going to prison

[@hamadhumaid1984]

1:26 Mendoza prison, I read about it, the worst prison in all of Argentina.

[@nikki3111987]

The diplomat's son rapes someone in Buenos Aires... and they send him to the province of Mendoza?? hahahahahahahaha these Yankees really didn't even make an effort to look for the correct information to put together the script for this episode

[@deacondavis5098]

His son shouldn’t drop the soap

[@gargibadnikar]

What's the episodes name??

[@CrimeScenes.]

"Privilege"

[@NeideMonteiro-b2n]

Já procurei lá no face nunca encontrei o verdadeiro Tom Celleck 😢

[@flavianosico7996]

Well, is it's not Tom Celleck, it is Tom Selleck.

[@Casca-su3ty]

Being from argentina good luck with that send the kid to argentina good luck being charged there 😆 🤣 😅

[@ae86takumi]

Well the USA will press for this and Argentina will lower their pants and obey like a good puppy . There’s an extradition agreement between Argentina and the USA . 😂

[@janandersen8735]

Great scene but did I miss the part where he wouldn't be extradited and charged in Argentina after serving his sentence here?

[@johnkidd1226]

No extradition treaty with Argentina.

[@nikki3111987]

@@johnkidd1226 In fact... there is an extradition law, law 25,126 of Argentina (which is obviously reciprocal). The script for this chapter was written by someone quite ignorant who didn't even bother to Google a little.

[@johnkidd1226]

@@nikki3111987 Not if they have diplomatic immunity which I believe was the issue here.

[@nikki3111987]

@@johnkidd1226 ARTICLE 1 MANDATORY OF EXTRADITION The Parties agree to extradite reciprocally in accordance with the provisions of this Treaty, persons whom the authorities of the Requesting State have charged or declared guilty of an extraditable crime.

[@nikki3111987]

@@johnkidd1226 ARTICLE 2 EXTRADITABLE CRIMES 1. An offense shall be extraditable if it is punishable under the legislation of both Parties with deprivation of liberty for a maximum period exceeding one year or with a more severe penalty. When the extradition request refers to a person convicted of such a crime, who is wanted to serve a sentence, extradition will be granted only if he or she has at least six months of prison remaining to serve.

[@cengizblacksea]

No respect for elders in us actors this that doesnt matter poor people

[@Twerkulies]

I do love this show, but diplomatic immunity can be revoked easily for his son without talking to him. They just need the evidence and a couple phone calls. Depending on the severity, the other country will choose what they want to do.

[@edneddy2]

They probably wanted to give the father a chance to revoke it on his own accord to, at the very least, protect his son in a safer justice system.