Exhibit B: A popular clique of guys – led by a smiling Peter Facinelli – form a horrible secret club called “Mac Rangers” and give each other points for various sexual acts. No deaths here, but one victim is traumatized by a terribly violent attack that happens to be filmed. After the footage is discovered months later and handed over to the police, Briscoe and Logan (Noth) are able to walk around the school and face all the privileged of the little life. His victim is the director of admissions of a posh private preparatory school. Their first guess is obviously the privileged and angry parents who must have slipped when they learned that their child had been rejected. But if that was really the motive, this episode wouldn`t have been that high on this list. Instead, let me pique your interest by noting the presence of a millionaire director! If you`re a no-frills procedure, you don`t have to resort to cliffhangers May sweeps the end of the season. But it was a rare exception, and it still packs a Wallop. After Briscoe, Curtis, McCoy and Kincaid witness the execution of a criminal they have tried, their individual reactions culminate in a series of personal crises and tragedy. Even the much-married Curtis succumbs to the flirtations of a nice college student (Jennifer Garner in one of her first roles) and sleeps with her – to the melancholic sounds of Cowboy Junkies` “Sweet Jane,” no less. Then comes the dropper when Kincaid is killed in a car accident while driving a drunken and drunk Briscoe at home. In 2018, Sarah Silverman tweeted that this episode was “perfect”.
All right. The body of a high school English teacher is discovered in a janitor`s closet. Briscoe and Green learn that she and a 16-year-old student were interacting sexually with a faculty member. Cut to detectives who discover that the other two games are being played in underwear. Cut to learn that the teenager is a 20-year-old posing as a student to gain sympathy and love. Basically, this episode is Younger`s dirty version. The magic formula of law and order was so successful that it didn`t matter if the actors turned around at a ridiculously high speed. (Moment of silence for Dianne Wiest`s ephemeral era.) During its 456 episodes, it spawned six spin-offs – including Special Victims Unit in 1999 – and garnered 51 Emmy nominations and six wins, as well as a Peabody Award in 1997. Nielsen estimated in 2003 that more than 90 million Americans spent at least an hour a week watching a version of the franchise.
Another important number? Twenty, as in the number of seasons, the show remained on NBC. But executives canceled it in 2010, just a year before it broke Gunsmoke`s record for longest-running prime-time TV series. (CSR is now the champion with 23 seasons.) Confirmed: Another deputy prosecutor presented evidence in court and exchanged pithy comments with DA Adam Schiff (Steven Hill). Look at Ben Stone, in Moriarty`s soft voice, who has made several outstanding appearances over his four seasons. I would say his finest hour was his last when he confronts the Russian mafia and urges a star witness (Allison Janney) to implicate his members in the death of an accountant of a baby food company. Things quickly moved south, causing an existential crisis and causing Stone to abandon his resignation papers. You never know what you`ll get when a New York-based show goes west. The ladies of Sex and the City did and immediately lost their lead; At The Sopranos, Christopher went to Hollywood and stole Lauren Bacall for her SWAG bag at The Sopranos. Law & Order brought its talents to L.A. for a sublime three-part show. First, a headless female corpse is caught in the Hudson River.
Briscoe and Curtis board a plane to get a blood sample, and the drops lead to the victim`s ex-husband, Eddie Newman (Scott Cohen) — a Hollywood bigwig and certified creep who isn`t named O.J. Simpson, but might as well be. A dream team of lawyers gather for the high-profile trial, but they can`t stop their client in the courtroom from making an unrepeated, murder-justifying rant on his deep anger and jealousy towards his ex. It`s a great moment, but also a reminder that this series is not a documentary. Because of the distribution carousel, New York was Law & Order`s only consistent star. Nevertheless, the authors faced a difficult obstacle to dealing with 9/11 and its devastating consequences. Enter this fascinating case, which was heard for the first time on the 6th. It was broadcast in November 2002 and skillfully recognized the historic day without taking advantage of it. The body of a woman believed to have died at the World Trade Center was found a year later in a vacant lot still bearing a $40,000 diamond ring. The clues lead to her ex (the son of a senator) and the discovery that she actually broke up with the guy on the evening of September 10.
The series continued from there, but only in the narrative sense: SVU showed a voiceover tribute to the victims of 9/11 in the season following the attacks. Street crime, superficial crime. A few seasons later, the series decided to take action against the Colombian drug cartel. As prosecutors try to take action against a murderer who killed a couple in cold blood, Cerreta (Sorvino) goes undercover to negotiate a deal with an arms dealer (Mark Margolis). However, during the trade, the trader panics and shoots him in the stomach. Some funny footnotes: Sorvino left the show after only a few dozen episodes to focus on his opera career; Meanwhile, Margolis was promoted to the fictional cartel world by playing the infamous bell executor Hector Salamanca in Breaking Bad. By the way, the actor was born and raised in Philadelphia. This rare pun on a title says it all. After the owner of a garment factory is beaten to death, security footage leads Briscoe and his partner Ed Green (Jesse L.
Martin, as smooth as ever) to a man (Agustin Rodriguez) whose girlfriend (Zilah Mendoza) worked for the victim and recently gave birth to a child. Guess who baby daddy was! In a cool gotcha moment, however, McCoy and Serena Southerlyn (Elisabeth Rohm) learn that it was by no means a blind rage de rigueur. My other favorite trope in the law-and-order plot is “Offensive and justifiable rich people who foolishly think their money can buy them out of prison.” In this episode, Briscoe and Logan investigate the disappearance of a publishing mogul. They interview their first husband. Then her second husband. McCoy and Kincaid soon realize that everyone in this dysfunctional family is hiding a secret — including the victim`s daughter (Sarah Paulson!), who claims to be having an affair with her new stepfather. A man pushes a philosophy professor under a train; This man happens to be the ex-husband of a friend of the victim. It turned out that after the divorce, he changed his identity and then disappeared with his daughters. All of this comes out in the first 15 minutes of the episode. Wait for McCoy to charge him with first-degree kidnapping.
If you don`t recognize this ultra-captivating and soul-evocative episode by the title alone, I`ll refresh your memory with five emotional triggering words: This Freaky Ellen Pompeo episode. Before she figured out how to save a life on Grey`s Anatomy, she portrayed a dead-eyed woman dating a man accused of murdering her younger sister and an exchange student. Forensic evidence shows she was present when both died, making her a key witness. But in the immortal words of Britney Jean Spears, she is not so innocent. Faced with the rotten subject, Elliot Stabler (Chris Meloni) and Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay) of the Special Victims Unit rush in to help. They are also horrified. What, I`ll leave out the one in which an early Idris Elba and Kerry Washington play the participants in an incident based on the infamous P nightclub disaster. Diddy J.Lo from 2000?! See: A shootout at a hot club sends partygoers toward the exits. None of the 500 or so witnesses are willing to reveal details, while the floor manager (Elba) insists that the place does not engage in behind-the-scenes drug deals.
Briscoe and Green associate the dots with a rapper (Cyrus Farmer) and his girlfriend (Washington), but their fame is a headache for lawyers. We really didn`t enjoy the first few years we had them.
