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"D-Girl"
L&O, Episode 7.15
Production number: K1119
First aired: 13 March 1997
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Written By
Ed Zuckerman, Gardner Stern & René Balcer

Directed By
Ed Sherin & Constantine Makris

Plot[]

Detectives Briscoe and Curtis travel to Los Angeles after the body of a movie studio executive is found without her head, hands, and feet. (Part One of Three)

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Recurring cast[]

Guest cast[]

  • Dick Latessa as Defense Attorney Mitchell Klein
  • Scott Rabinowitz as Dr. Alan Levine
  • Harrison Young as Gus
  • Rainer Grant as Marlowe Powers
  • John Kudan as Jerome
  • Gary Evans as Uniform Policeman Richie
  • Don Creech as Carl Thurston
  • Marla Rubinoff as Shane Perry
  • Brian McQuillan as Luke Richmond
  • Susan Cella as Maria Rago
  • Maria Bellantoni as Carmela Rago
  • Ken Forman as Bartender
  • Rene Bluestone as Stacy Rudman
  • Gene Ruffini as Bum
  • Jo Twiss as Neighbor
  • Gregg Dubner as Newscaster
  • Benjamin J. Cain, Jr. as Court Clerk
  • Robert Culp as Himself (uncredited)

References[]

Quotes[]

Greta Heiss: Uh, who told you she had breast implants?
Lennie Briscoe: We're the police. We know everything.

Background information and notes[]

  • The episode title is a reference to the filmmaking term "development girl", which is someone who occupies a low rung on the power ladder. Her job would be to perform low-level tasks like reading scripts.
  • Guest stars Lauren Graham and Scott Cohen reunited years later on Gilmore Girls. Graham was the star of the long-running series, and Cohen had a recurring role in seasons 1 & 2 as her daughter's teacher - who later became her ultimately jilted fiancé.
  • This episode (along with "Turnaround" and "Showtime") is part of a trilogy which has strongly been ripped from the headline of the notorious, controversial, and highly publicized O.J. Simpson murder case. Locations, characters, and other aspects loosely resemble those that came to denote the affair.
  • On the podcast "These Are Their Stories", Ed Zuckerman revealed that the writers wanted the straight-laced Rey Curtis to act on his attraction to Lisa Lundquist. In one scene, she implies that Rey could come up to her room. The scene was originally filmed with Rey pausing before following her for an implied tryst. In post-production, however, Zuckerman said the editors did not like the implication that Rey would again cheat on his estranged wife. The scene was re-edited so it would cut away before Rey made the decision to pursue Lundquist.

Episode scene cards[]

1 2 3

Office of
Dr. Levine
1187 York Avenue
Thursday, December 7

Office of
Heidi Ellison
625 Fifth Avenue
Friday, December 8

Apartment of
Heidi Ellison
961 Park Avenue
Monday, December 11

4 5 6

Dynamics
302 East 57th Street
Monday, December 11

Office of
Executive Assistant
D.A. McCoy
Thursday, December 14

Mattawin Studios
Hollywood, California
Friday, December 15

7 8 9

L'Etoile
Century City, California
Monday, December 15

Chambers of
Judge Eric Gaffey
Manhattan, NY
Tuesday, December 19

Arraignment Court
Part 63
Thursday, December 21

10

Parking Garage
Apartment of
Heidi Ellison
Saturday, December 23

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