This Law and Order episode is a touching one. It involves a really evil young woman played by Vanessa Ferlito, manipulating a semi-retarded young man to taking a fall for a murder of a car salesman. Aiding and abetting her is this sleazebag shyster lawyer who purportedly is representing the young man. Peter Gerety plays the attorney who is similarly manipulated by Ferlito.
But this episode belongs to actor Chandler Parker who plays the semi-retarded young man who's been crushing out on Ferlito since they were kids. How she manipulates him is really evil. She's got a way with men and tries her charms on Jesse Martin and Sam Waterston.
The storyline in case no one recognizes it comes from that master of mystery Raymond Chandler. If you recall Murder My Sweet and Farewell My Lovely involved this big ape of an ex-convict who went to prison covering for a woman who just used and abused him.
If Sam Waterston and Elizabeth Rohm hadn't uncovered crucial exculpatory evidence and showed it to an uncaring Gerety the whole story might never have come out. Makes you think about Raymond Chandler's fall guy Moose Malloy.
But this episode belongs to actor Chandler Parker who plays the semi-retarded young man who's been crushing out on Ferlito since they were kids. How she manipulates him is really evil. She's got a way with men and tries her charms on Jesse Martin and Sam Waterston.
The storyline in case no one recognizes it comes from that master of mystery Raymond Chandler. If you recall Murder My Sweet and Farewell My Lovely involved this big ape of an ex-convict who went to prison covering for a woman who just used and abused him.
If Sam Waterston and Elizabeth Rohm hadn't uncovered crucial exculpatory evidence and showed it to an uncaring Gerety the whole story might never have come out. Makes you think about Raymond Chandler's fall guy Moose Malloy.