Judge Wakefield stages a governmental, then a personal assault on drugs with the most honorable of intentions. Even better, he s ultimately willing to put his daughter s interests first, placing his status and position a distant second. After he and his wife have a fierce argument, he apologizes to her, and the two struggle together to rescue and support Caroline. Drug treatment centers are positively portrayed. Governmental corruption is never excused or praised.
Characters trade sexual and homosexual jokes on a couple of occasions, and discuss masturbation.
In Mexico, a cartel assassin is captured, stripped naked, tied to a chair and tortured. Machine gun battles produce blood and violent death on several occasions. A few men are also killed with pistols at point-blank range. In one gruesome scene, a sniper shoots a man in the chest. A man convulses and dies after eating poisoned food.