A businessman is coerced by a gang to murder an investigative journalist in order to guarantee protection for his son, who is serving time in prison.A businessman is coerced by a gang to murder an investigative journalist in order to guarantee protection for his son, who is serving time in prison.A businessman is coerced by a gang to murder an investigative journalist in order to guarantee protection for his son, who is serving time in prison.
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- DA Arthur Branch
- (as Fred Dalton Thompson)
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on the 2003 Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) international gang case.
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Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers: If she's a hooker, she's the first one I've met who has better underwear than me.
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Law & Order still can make you love courtrooms. I miss it.
I really HOPE someone will take the time to review, somewhat briefly each episode.
I hope it doesn't turn out to be me. That would be a challenge.
For example this episode featuring William Sadler. Great character actor! They lines up to be on the filmed on location in NYC NBC watershed series. People brought their A game. This one has an ominous ending.
This one also has a few corners as I call them. (Or mulligans LOL per A Hitch.. ) sometimes they work REALLY well. Some have TOO many extra corners & the feeling that someone else finished a showrunners work in mid recording. But mostly the work was stellar. It was about the CASE. Nothing else. NOT the affairs of the lawyers.
I will for sure review my favourite episodes as they won't be available for much longer on my basic cable channel. I was lucky to find it.
With the new Peacock streaming services ppl may have to get some cheap bundles of streaming because.... It will be TOO much tv for ANY family. And too expensive for tv you may never watch. I'm sure the TV guys are just like the music exectives whose wet dream was to make consumers pay for EVERY play. I hope they end up in the afterbith left behind by this industry's disruptors. First Netlfix now everyone. Still THIS show has a quality and veracity ( by tv standards) owed to great actors who anchor the show. From the ADA, his boss the Lieutenant ( awesome actress AND longest serving in the original L& O ) to the ever changing cops who always made the miranda reading seem fresh. Lenny was so well cast. I hope a new generation enjoy the show. It was before all of the semen-DNA-drenched episodic procedural series' with endless female victims became indistinguishable. It stands up. SVU has Mariska to thank for its loyal fans. It was however based on this lamdmark show & thanks to it's many distinctions. Not the least of which every Sopranos actor featured as a lawyer, suspect, even Jr, as a judge! I'm watching this AFTER seeing the last episode in 2010....its still compelling and i forget them all which makes it all the more fun. I just hope everyone will have a chance to see them today. This was the best show on tv before television got its proper budgets and talent to compete with movies ppl couldn't afford to see. Or now just don't want to see Marvel or CD COMIC films..or computer animation. I hope they return to the first season. That would be fun.
I once read when a writer compared LA Law to Law & Order that the issue was L&O took itself to seriously. That was the whole point. It WASN'T a soap about lawyers and their lives and families. It was about American Justice. And the DA didnt ALWAYS win when they shoud have. I miss it.
With the new Peacock streaming services ppl may have to get some cheap bundles of streaming because.... It will be TOO much tv for ANY family. And too expensive for tv you may never watch. I'm sure the TV guys are just like the music exectives whose wet dream was to make consumers pay for EVERY play. I hope they end up in the afterbith left behind by this industry's disruptors. First Netlfix now everyone. Still THIS show has a quality and veracity ( by tv standards) owed to great actors who anchor the show. From the ADA, his boss the Lieutenant ( awesome actress AND longest serving in the original L& O ) to the ever changing cops who always made the miranda reading seem fresh. Lenny was so well cast. I hope a new generation enjoy the show. It was before all of the semen-DNA-drenched episodic procedural series' with endless female victims became indistinguishable. It stands up. SVU has Mariska to thank for its loyal fans. It was however based on this lamdmark show & thanks to it's many distinctions. Not the least of which every Sopranos actor featured as a lawyer, suspect, even Jr, as a judge! I'm watching this AFTER seeing the last episode in 2010....its still compelling and i forget them all which makes it all the more fun. I just hope everyone will have a chance to see them today. This was the best show on tv before television got its proper budgets and talent to compete with movies ppl couldn't afford to see. Or now just don't want to see Marvel or CD COMIC films..or computer animation. I hope they return to the first season. That would be fun.
I once read when a writer compared LA Law to Law & Order that the issue was L&O took itself to seriously. That was the whole point. It WASN'T a soap about lawyers and their lives and families. It was about American Justice. And the DA didnt ALWAYS win when they shoud have. I miss it.
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