On the one hand you have a grotesque characterization of teenagers. "Hey, kids, don't use drugs!" (In expiation, there are very few TV shows that get teenagers right: "Buffy" was successful because its fantastic elements presented an interior picture of adolescence that subverted the overage actors.) Rossi in a striped shirt, pretending to be a college student, may have been the show's wink at its falseness. On the other hand you have a superb picture of a man willing to use any means to get his story, including some that may be legally and morally wrong. In the scene in Mrs. Pynchon's office, Rossi's comment on his imprisonment sounds as if it might have been improvisation, feeling out the character. It works.
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