A dead woman is found in Central Park after a Puerto Rican Day parade. Was the death the result of the actions of a violent Hispanic mob that was harassing women at the parade?A dead woman is found in Central Park after a Puerto Rican Day parade. Was the death the result of the actions of a violent Hispanic mob that was harassing women at the parade?A dead woman is found in Central Park after a Puerto Rican Day parade. Was the death the result of the actions of a violent Hispanic mob that was harassing women at the parade?
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Maggie Baisch
- Gretchen Hall
- (as Margaret Baisch)
Nick Gomez
- Latin thug
- (as Nicholas Sean Gomez)
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- TriviaThe doorman from the victim's apartment building asks Briscoe if the NYPD shut down the "Safe and Loft unit." He is referring to the Safe, Loft and Truck Squad which was a special, elite unit of the NYPD originally founded in 1911 to investigate major commercial burglaries, art thefts, truck hijackings and kidnappings. The unit was slowly eliminated starting in 1990 and phased out over the next few years, the reason being that some of the crimes that the unit investigated, like truck hijackings, simply didn't happen nearly as often in the 80's and 90's as they did in the previous decades. Art thefts had also declined sharply and had mostly become the jurisdiction of the FBI; and kidnapping became one of the crimes investigated by the department's then newly formed Major Case Squad, in fact a number of the detectives that had worked in the Safe and Loft unit were transferred over to the Major Case Squad when it was formed.
- GoofsVan Buren says that the Hispanic men from the sexual assault/food stand robbery incident in the park plead out to either robbery or assault (though the ones that grabbed the girl's breasts and tore her clothes off were also guilty of forcible touching) and the most they would get is 18 months in prison. However someone who pleads guilty to robbery would have to do more than 18 months, even for the lowest degree of robbery. The lowest degree of robbery is third degree robbery, a violent class D felony that carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 24 months in prison. Plus assault in the third degree, which is what the men who assaulted the girl would be charged with, is only a class A misdemeanor meaning they couldn't get 18 months in prison, the maximum sentence for a class A misdemeanor is 12 months in jail. Though a couple of the guys who assaulted the girls were also part of the food vendor robbery, meaning they faced a combined sentence of three years in prison for both robbery three and assault three.
- Quotes
Detective Lennie Briscoe: Nestor!
Nestor Salazar: Whaddya want?
Detective Lennie Briscoe: We want to arrest you, we just don't want to do it in front of all these people.
- ConnectionsReferences American Playhouse: Sunday in the Park with George (1986)
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A death in Central Park
"Sunday in the Park with Jorge" sounded like the sort of story that 'Law and Order' was known to excel well in. It does sound ordinary on first glance, but had real potential to be an episode that had tension and emotion if done right. 'Law and Order' did do well often at making something complex out of what sounds basic when getting the basic jist of the synopsis. Other episodes in Season 11 took on more challenging subjects with rather varied success, but that was in no way an issue.
Although Season 11 did better episodes, such as "Endurance" and "Hubris", which had more emotional impact and intensity, there are also far worse episodes (including the previous one). Where stories were not handled tactfully, thin and with cases not substantial enough to bring to trial with shoddy work on both sides of the legal argument. "Sunday in the Park with Jorge" is not a great or perfect episode, but in my view it is not deserving of being one of the lower rated episodes of Season 11.
It does start off on the ordinary and familiar side, with familiar plot tropes, though it still intrigued and Briscoe and Green are a great team. The conclusion is somewhat over-crowded and rushed.
Did think too that the supporting characters could have been written with more subtlety and not as stereotyped.
The acting though is very good across the board, with a deeply felt performance from Victor Anthoy as an interesting character that is hard to completely hate when the circumstances are made clear. The regulars are excellent, especially in the second half. The story becomes a good deal more interesting when things turn out not what they seemed at first, and the turn in the plot is not handled abruptly or jarringly. The case also becomes more intricate and due to the tragic nature of the crime, especially the motive, hits hard, after some episodes this season that had weak legal cases this was a solid one and more akin to early seasons 'Law and Order' except not quite as uncompromising.
Furthermore, "Sunday in the Park with Jorge" doesn't look drab or gaudy, and the editing is far from slapdash. The music avoids getting too melodramatic in the more dramatic moments while not being too low key, it has always been a good move that it is used relatively sparingly. The direction especially shines in the character interaction in the second half. The script is beautifully balanced, there is a lot of talk but taut enough to avoid it from waffling.
Good episode all in all. 7/10.
Although Season 11 did better episodes, such as "Endurance" and "Hubris", which had more emotional impact and intensity, there are also far worse episodes (including the previous one). Where stories were not handled tactfully, thin and with cases not substantial enough to bring to trial with shoddy work on both sides of the legal argument. "Sunday in the Park with Jorge" is not a great or perfect episode, but in my view it is not deserving of being one of the lower rated episodes of Season 11.
It does start off on the ordinary and familiar side, with familiar plot tropes, though it still intrigued and Briscoe and Green are a great team. The conclusion is somewhat over-crowded and rushed.
Did think too that the supporting characters could have been written with more subtlety and not as stereotyped.
The acting though is very good across the board, with a deeply felt performance from Victor Anthoy as an interesting character that is hard to completely hate when the circumstances are made clear. The regulars are excellent, especially in the second half. The story becomes a good deal more interesting when things turn out not what they seemed at first, and the turn in the plot is not handled abruptly or jarringly. The case also becomes more intricate and due to the tragic nature of the crime, especially the motive, hits hard, after some episodes this season that had weak legal cases this was a solid one and more akin to early seasons 'Law and Order' except not quite as uncompromising.
Furthermore, "Sunday in the Park with Jorge" doesn't look drab or gaudy, and the editing is far from slapdash. The music avoids getting too melodramatic in the more dramatic moments while not being too low key, it has always been a good move that it is used relatively sparingly. The direction especially shines in the character interaction in the second half. The script is beautifully balanced, there is a lot of talk but taut enough to avoid it from waffling.
Good episode all in all. 7/10.
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