Article: PORTRAYAL OF CHARACTER'S DEATH SHOWS `NYPD BLUE'S' GRIP ON LIFE.(Entertainment/Weekend/Spotlight)(Column)

Byline: Dusty Saunders Rocky Mountain News Broadcasting Critic

Life is so cheap on prime time television.

Battered, bloodied bodies fall with the consistency of two-point shots in a high scoring NBA game.

That's why Tuesday night's wrenching NYPD Blue episode was so memorable.

Life was precious.

The advance story line tipped off viewers: ``The squad deals with the murder of someone close to home.''

It was easy to predict that rookie cop Andy Sipowicz Jr. was, in cop parlance, ``goin' down.''

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