The death of a former police officer leads Briscoe and Curtis to a pair of suburban moms who work as prostitutes.The death of a former police officer leads Briscoe and Curtis to a pair of suburban moms who work as prostitutes.The death of a former police officer leads Briscoe and Curtis to a pair of suburban moms who work as prostitutes.
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- Louis Colson
- (as David S. Chandler)
- Jane Tennick
- (as Pamela Holden Stewart)
- Iris Collier
- (as Jordan Reid Berkow)
- Jose Duarte
- (as Johnny Alan Garcia)
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Did you know
- TriviaMcCoy refers to Lanie Stieglitz as "the Betty Friedan militia". Betty Friedan was a leading American feminist and writer whose 1963 book, "The Feminine Mystique", is considered by many to have directly inspired and led to the 1960's feminist movement.
- GoofsUpon getting out of their car to arrest the car-jackers the uniformed officers draw their weapons and the sound effect of a hammer being cocked is heard. Yet both of the officers are carrying a Glock, a semi-automatic striker fired pistol that does not have an external hammer. A Glock is cocked simply by loading a round into the chamber and closing the slide, the only way to uncock it is by pulling the trigger.
- Quotes
Jack McCoy: [during his closing summation] Miss Stieglitz is right. This isn't a referendum on prostitution. It isn't a referendum on rape. You're here to render a verdict on her client's credibility. She says she was raped. What's her evidence? "Keene was a bully. My husband believes me. So should you." In the meantime, she suffered no injuries, she destroyed evidence, she lied to the police. It was only when she was backed into a corner that she cried rape, that she wrapped herself in the right of self-defense, but she wasn't defending her virtue. She didn't shoot Gilbert Keene to keep from performing an act that she had willingly performed on dozens of other men. She killed him to protect a secret. You've all seen what lengths she went to, to avoid Mac Bernum, to hide her identity. Who can blame her? She didn't want to lose her husband, her family, her comfortable home. Those things, she would kill for, but those things do not justify the taking of a life! The threat of deadly physical force does or rape does or kidnapping, or robbery. But none of those things happened in that car. What happened in that car was a cold and calculated thing. A woman killed her blackmailer, not her rapist. That's who Gilbert Keene was. That's how he got sex. He didn't rape those other women. He blackmailed them. I don't want you to convict her because she's a prostitute. I'm asking you to convict her because her story is a lie.
- ConnectionsReferences Leave It to Beaver (1957)
That only lasts as long as you can keep it a secret. But a certain bottom feeding former cop now a private eye find out about it and demands payment one way or another. He's found shot with his own weapon in a most unflattering position in his car.
The claim is self defense, but was Huffman defending her life or her reputation? That's the issue that Sam Waterston and Stritch contend with at trial.
One really fascinating scene was at a cop bar while Jerry Orbach and Benjamin Bratt are interrogating one of the victim's former colleagues. While the witness is telling Briscoe and Curtis what a corrupt bum this guy was the rest of the crowd well fortified with lots of booze is celebrating his life. A real strange dichotomy.
Watch the show if you want to see if Jack McCoy pulls this one out.
- bkoganbing
- Sep 20, 2015