| "Asylum" | ||
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| ← | L&O, Episode 2.04 | → |
| Production number: 67409 First aired: 8 October 1991 | ||
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| Teleplay By Kathy McCormick Story By Robert Palm Directed By Kristoffer Siegel-Tabori | ||
Plot[]
The detectives arrest a homeless man, who is later convicted of murder based on their discovery of the weapon in his "home" in Central Park, but the conviction is threatened on appeal because they lacked a search warrant.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Paul Sorvino as Sergeant Phil Cerreta
- Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
- Michael Moriarty as Executive A.D.A. Benjamin Stone
- Richard Brooks as A.D.A. Paul Robinette
- Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff
Recurring cast[]
- Carolyn McCormick as Dr. Elizabeth Olivet
- Bill Alton as Judge Bernard O'Malley
- Ira Wheeler as Appellate Judge Bloom
Guest cast[]
- Matthew Cowles as Christian "Lemonhead" Tatum
- Ron McLarty as Defense Attorney Scoler
- Elizabeth Lawrence as Elsie Hatch
- Lycia Naff as Mimi Sternhagen
- Wendy Radford as Defense Attorney Fahey
- Michael Tolan as ACLU Attorney Norman Ackerman
- Garrett Russell as Sal Violet
- Melissa Fraser Brown as Ms. Murdoch
- Stuart Rudin as James Joseph Polesky
- Lex Monson as Homeless Man #1
- Jack Wallace as Homeless Man #2
- Tom Riis Farrell as Homeless Man #3
- Irving Metzman as Judge Robert Streebie
- Jane White as Appellate Judge A. Green
- William Mesnik as Appellate Judge Leonard Rosenblum
- Graham Brown as Appellate Judge Barry Marton
- Dan Grimaldi as Counterman
- Mary Testa as Dilbeck
- Steven Randazzo as Quinn
- George T. Odom as Attendant
- Alexandra O'Karma as Technician
- Alex Draper as Nathan Robbins
- Tessell Williams as Hotel Clerk
- Sam Baum as Law Clerk
- Michael Cannis as Reporter #1
- Meg Anderson as Reporter #2
References[]
- Central Park
- William Blackstone
- Hester v. U.S.
- Katz v. U.S.
- Justice Potter Stewart
- Oliver v. U.S.
- Justice John Marshall Harlan II
- Clarence Darrow
Quotes[]
- Elsie Hatch: And night before last, there was a naked man with a crossbow, running up and down West 74th Street.
- Mike Logan: Where did he keep the arrows?
- Ms. Murdoch: How come every freak in the country lives in New York? Why don’t some of you people move to Nebraska?
- Sal Violet: I’m from Nebraska, sweetie. How do you think I got this way?
- Mike Logan: Let's say it was a mugger. He got scared off before he could get to the money.
- Phil Cerretta: Or maybe he just got mad because somebody kicked his box.
- Mike Logan: Well, wouldn't you?
- Phil Cerretta: Don't you kick my box!
- Homeless Man: He was sitting under that tree drinking Scotch.
- Mike Logan: This doesn't look like the Scotch-and-soda crowd to me.
- Phil Cerreta: Take your time.
- Ms. Murdoch: I want the good-looking one. Bachelor number two.
- Phil Cerreta: What can you tell us about the ring?
- Christian Tatum: When is Mr. Rehnquist getting here?
- Mike Logan: Oh, listen, he’s caught up in a Supreme Court thing. Hang tight.
- Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: He's psychotic; he's not psychopathic.
- Phil Cerreta: What's the difference?
- Dr. Elizabeth Olivet: Psychotic is when you believe the doorman was sent from Planet X to put mind control devices in your teeth. Psychopathic is when you blow the doorman away and take out twenty other people while you're at it.
- Christian Tatum: I want that reward.
- Phil Cerreta: I thought Polesky was your friend.
- Christian Tatum: I'm flexible.
- Mike Logan: Crazy, not stupid.
- Benjamin Stone: Your psychiatrist tells us that you have moments of rational thought. We're going to take care of you, and you're going to go back in there and have one of those moments.
- Benjamin Stone: You didn't have a warrant to search the appellant's place of abode.
- Mike Logan: Place of abode, huh? It was in the damn bushes.
- Mr. Scoler: I'm thinking Man Two?
- Benjamin Stone: I'm thinking murder two, he does 25 to life.
- Mr. Scoler: I'll Appeal, we'll start over.
- Benjamin Stone: I'll be there.
- Mr. Scoler: Manslaughter one
- Benjamin Stone: All right but Mr. Polesky does the max.
- Mr. Scoler: Well, my client won't be very happy, but at least he'll have a roof over his head for the next twenty-five years.
- Benjamin Stone: Well, there's Lemonhead -- rubber cell at Bellevue. And Nathan Robbins -- he's got six feet of dirt over his head. So what's happy got to do with it?
Background information and notes[]
Episode scene cards[]
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Ezra's Coffee Shop |
Central Park |
Supreme Court Building |
Supreme Court |
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Six weeks later |
| 6 | 7 | 8 |
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Appellate Division |
Bellevue State Hospital |
Chambers of Judge |
| Previous episode: "Aria" |
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