Cradle to Grave

"Cradle to Grave"
←	L&O, Episode 2.18	→
Production number: 67424 First aired: 31 March 1992
	th of 456 produced in L&O
←	th of 456 released in L&O	→
	th of 1271 released in all
Written By Robert Nathan & Sally Nemeth Directed By James Frawley

A baby is found frozen to death in a hospital emergency room.

Plot

A baby is found frozen to death in a hospital emergency room.

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

• Doris Belack as Judge Margaret Barry

Guest cast

• Tony Lo Bianco as Marc Menaker
• Victor Argo as Jose Tirado
• Bill Cwikowski as Hampton
• Karen Lynn Gorney as Iris Corman
• Richard Bright as Albert Boxer
• Rocco Sisto as Joseph Turner
• Bruklin Harris as Jackie Ward
• Kim Staunton as Ms. Clayton
• Divina Cook as Miriam Gomez
• Chandra Wilson as Serena Price
• Frances Chaney as Mrs. Siddons
• Roger Pretto as Raymond Ramirez
• Bruce Kronenberg as Linford
• Elise Neal as Charlayne Ward
• Crystal Field as Lawson
• John Speredakos as Dr. Orton
• Brenda Denmark as Nurse James
• Marina Durell as Mrs. Ruiz
• Mary Hedahl as Pell
• Tina Smith as Ms. Jacobs
• Joseph R. Sicari as Al Norman
• Fernando López as Fernando
• Edouard DeSoto as Sanchez
• Joseph Hindy as Thurman
• Joe Sharkey as Graveyard Administrator
• Carol Woods as Ms. Price
• Leonard L. Thomas as Lucas
• Troy Winbush as Leon Jarvis
• Susan Grace as Jury Forewoman
• Irma St. Paule as Elderly Woman

References

references

Quotes

"Sir, please explain the facts of life to your client."
"What? The birds, the bees, the penal code?"

- Benjamin Stone and Attorney

"Thanks for your vote of confidence."
"I never said 'don't try'."

- Benjamin Stone and Adam Schiff

"He has some problems with his English."
"The problem is that he's alive."

- Mike Logan and former tenant

"I've always liked graveyards."
"Let me guess; a nice, quiet place where you can contemplate your insignificance?"
"No... every spring when I was a boy my mother would take us out to my grandfather's and grandmother's grave. It's an old world thing. She'd plant for flowers, say some prayers... then we'd spread a blanket and have a nice picnic."
"A picnic on your grandparents' grave?"
"Well, yeah, were we going to picnic on the graves of someone else's grandparents?"

- Phil Cerreta and Mike Logan

"You can't keep a kid clean and dress him in clean clothes if you don't have a home."
"There's no sign of exposure, he must have been covered. What's a kid like that doing out in the cold?"
"What's any kid doing out in the cold?"

- Phil Cerreta and E.R. Resident

"It's entrapment. You offered a bribe."
"You can lead a horse to water, you can't make him steal it."

- Boxer's Lawyer and Paul Robinette

"The building's half-empty, the place is a wreck, the landlady wants to renovate. You get a message from that?"
"The message I get is that the landlord would be thrilled if her tenants left."
"And maybe the heat was off accidentally on purpose."

- Mike Logan and Phil Cerreta

"I don't believe this. A baby dies in one of your buildings, and you blame the rent laws?"
"For destroying the value of my property, yeah."

-Benjamin Stone and Iris Corman

"I put a chair against my door, middle of the night, boom - the doors down and that creep Turner, he's in my living room."
"Now is he angry with the whole world, or is it just you?"
"C'mon that guy's a tenant like I'm the Queen of England. I never saw him at night, what like he's sleeping somewhere else."

-Mike Logan and Former Tenant

Background information and notes

• Actors Richard Bright and Rocco Sisto appear for the first time in an episode from the Law & Order franchise. Both have appeared as different characters in later episodes from Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
• This episode was later adapted into the Law & Order: UK episode "Care".

Episode scene cards

1	2	3	4	5	6
Corman Equities 1013 1st Avenue Thursday, January 24	Apartment of Charlayne Ward 4150 Vernon Boulevard Monday, January 28	Central Booking Thursday, February 7	Supreme Court Trial Part 67 Tuesday, April 9	Construction Site 819 East 8th Street Thursday, April 25	On the second day of trial Joseph Turner pled to reckless endangerment in the first degree agreeing to a sentence of two- and-a-third to seven years. He testified against Iris Corman. She was convicted of manslaughter in the first degree and is currently free on bail pending appeal.

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