Bad Girl

"Bad Girl"
←	L&O, Episode 8.21	→
Production number: K2524 First aired: 29 April 1998
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Written By René Balcer Directed By Jace Alexander

Plot

The investigation following the stabbing of a police officer could determine D.A. Adam Schiff's fate in the upcoming election. Meanwhile, Briscoe's troubled daughter Cathy is arrested for drug dealing, and his partner Curtis is wounded in the line of duty.

Cast

Main cast

• Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
• Benjamin Bratt as Detective Rey Curtis
• S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
• Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
• Carey Lowell as A.D.A. Jamie Ross
• Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff

Recurring cast

• Cliff Gorman as Judge Gary Feldman
• Jennifer Estlin as Cathy Briscoe
• Lynn Cohen as Judge Elizabeth Mizener
• Robert Vaughn as Carl Anderton
• Mark Lotito as Detective Mallory
• Julian Gamble as Judge P. Slattery

Guest cast

• Isabel Gillies as Monica Johnson
• Geoffrey Nauffts as Defense Attorney Peterson
• Neal Jones as Mr. Flynn
• Ana Gasteyer as Monica's Social Worker
• Ilana Levine as ACRC Attorney Emily Schoener
• Tom Wiggin as Christian Alliance Attorney Ross Sanders
• Joe Quintero as Jesse Rosado
• Timothy Wheeler as Johnson
• Michael Hyatt as Rachel Willis
• Stephanie Berry as Dolores Weston
• Mark Price as DJ Freaky
• Laurie Williams as Sharon Sutton
• Robert DeBlasio as Louis Salvi
• Phyllis Kay as Gina Salvi
• Robert Hatcher as Martin Butler
• Karen Bergreen as Emma Govans
• Dyron Holmes as Isaac Alvarez
• Jason Kolotouros as Tilden
• Rico Rosetti as Uni Quintana
• Michael Croman as Jury Foreperson

References

• Lyndon B. Johnson
• Richard M. Nixon
• Texas
• Vietnam War
• American Civil Rights Committee (ACRC)
• Christian Alliance

Quotes

Anita van Buren: Oh, you want to take me on, little girl? Well, let me tell you something. You better be packing more than a dirty mouth.

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Adam Schiff: Whatever gave you the idea the district attorney's office was your family law firm?

Carl Anderton: Whatever gave you the idea that it wasn't?

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Monica Johnson: Screw you and your dead cop!

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Carl Anderton: Remember what LBJ said when they were hammering him about Vietnam? "Felt like a hitch-hiker on a highway in a Texas hailstorm, can't run, can't hide, can't make it stop." I'm putting you on that highway, Adam. If that Johnson girl doesn't die, for whatever reason, I'm gonna make sure that this city takes out it's vengeance on you.

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Adam Schiff: Feldman's people sent out feelers, he wants to debate me on television. A lot of good it did Nixon.

Background information and notes

• The events of the episode occur over the course of six months. While discussing with Monica Johnson about her religious conversion, McCoy mentions she's been in prison for six months.
• Carl Anderton, played by Robert Vaughn, takes out his vengeance on Schiff for prosecuting his grandson in the December 1997 episode "Burned".

Episode scene cards

1	2	3
Electric Gardens 90 East Second Street Wednesday, February 19	City Welfare Agency 410 Joralemon Street Tuesday, February 25	Supreme Court Trial Part 71 Monday, April 7

4	5	6
Supreme Court Trial Part 71 Wednesday, April 9	Supreme Court Trial Part 71 Friday, November 7	Court of Appeals Albany, NY Monday, February 2

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