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LAW & ORDER - Tragedy on Rye

Air Date/Released Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Station/Studio NBC / Wolf Films

"In the criminal justice system, the people are represented by two separate yet equally important groups: the police, who investigate crime; and the district attorneys, who prosecute the offenders. These are their stories."

The investigation into a murdered actress leads to three men videotaped leaving her building with her stolen plasma TV. A high-priced lawyer steps in to represent them, revealing that there is serious money behind their actions. D.A. Branch announces his office will seek the death penalty, and while McCoy pursues prosecution in that direction, a reluctant Southerlyn raises ethical questions about the strategy. Dets. Briscoe and Green, with Lt. Van Buren, watch a tourist video that caught three men leaving the victim’s building with her stolen property...
Briscoe: Larry... Moe... and Curly makes three.
Green: Looks like Curly’s wearing a piece.
Later, staked out to catch the perps, the detectives see their SUV...
Briscoe: They look familiar?
Green: That’s Moe and Larry.
Briscoe: Two out of three ain’t bad.


Cast: Jerry Orbach (Detective Lennie Briscoe), Jesse L. Martin (Detective Ed Green), S. Epatha Merkerson (Lt. Anita Van Buren), Sam Waterston (Executive ADA Jack McCoy), Elisabeth Rohm (ADA Serena Southerlyn), Fred Dalton Thompson (D.A. Arthur Branch), Tim Ransom (Def. Atty. Andrew Maynard), Beth Dixon (Mrs. Dolan), Omar Scroggins (Matt Carton), Jerry Grayson (Mr. Halprin), Malcolm Barrett (Harry Johnson), Tony Campisi (Steve Hanft), Reathel Bean (Walter Dolan), John Cariani (Julian Beck), Charlotte Colavin (Judge Lisa Pongracic), David Lipman (Judge Morris Torledsky), Brian Davies (Judge Warren Busey), Darcy Pulliam (Mrs. Platt), Gil Rogers (Mr. Platt), Wally Dunn (Saul Mishner), Mary Elaine Monti (Claudia Paswell), Lia Yang (Yoriko Fujitsa), Peter Ratray (Max Willet), Bruce Winant (Dale Franks), Gary Lowery (Ted Vavoulis), Tia Dionne Hodge (Marta Severin), Michael LiDondici (Steiner), Stewart Steinberg (Deli owner), Billy Griffith (Ernest Borges), Dakota Anderson (Danny Otum), Kola Ogundiran (FTD man), Nan-Lyn Nelson (Carton’s mother), Danny Dennis (Counterman), Chuck Ardezzone (Court clerk), John Louis Fischer (Asst. M.E. Neil Brock), Jill Gureasko (Jury foreperson), Philip Adkins (Event usher), Steven Zirnkilton (Narrator)

Crew: David Platt (Director), William N. Fordes (Writer, Producer), Gary Karr, Roz Weinman, Terri Kopp, Jill Goldsmith, Marc Guggenheim, Kati Johnston (Producers), Arthur W. Forney, Wendy Battles, Eric Overmyer, Richard Sweren, Lewis H. Gould, Peter Jankowski, Jeffrey Hayes, Michael S. Chernuchin, Dick Wolf (Executive Producers), Mike Post (Music), Dick Wolf (Creator)
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