But don't expect to see any development in portraying their personal lives. Chasing Cain is about the facts, ma'am. The honesty of the show really excites Outerbridge. He especially likes that it depicts the mundane part of detective work. You saw it on Columbo a lot, but it became a signature for Columbo, but it's not unique to Columbo.
Every cop does that.
But most homicide shows throw that out because they don't want the actor's face buried in a notepad. Jerry goes in with extreme close-ups to actually watch the pen writing on the piece of paper. Outerbridge hung out with homicide detectives before filming began and picked up on their style of investigation. This is what we found, that when they're in the middle of an investigation they don't really have a personality. And so it's fascinating that they can be faced with a person having a complete nervous breakdown, crying and wailing and the cop will just be sitting there staring, watching them, recording how they cry.