"Double Blind" | ||
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← | L&O, Episode 7.06 | → |
Production number: K1105 First aired: 6 November 1996 | ||
Written By William N. Fordes & Jeremy R. Littman Directed By Christopher Misiano |
Plot[]
A college janitor's murder begins a case that leads to a troubled student and the scientist who used him in drug research.
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[]
- Tom O'Rourke as Defense Attorney Peter Behrens
- Susan Blommaert as Judge Rebecca Steinman
- Fred J. Scollay as Judge Andrew Barsky
- Ben Hammer as Judge Herman Mooney
- Christine Farrell as Forensics Technician Arlene Shrier
Guest cast[]
- John Bedford Lloyd as Dr. Christian Varick
- Mark Bateman as Alan Sawyer
- Richard Hamilton as James Poulos
- E. Katherine Kerr as Mrs. Sawyer
- Dan Ziskie as Fred Sawyer
- Jennifer Van Dyck as Jill Perry
- Vivienne Benesch as Lori Franklin
- Randle Mell as Aaron Blum
- Irene Ng as Xuan-Lan Nguyen
- Gene Canfield as Gerald Bailey
- Jim Bulleit as Barry Cooper
- Larry Attile as Bob DeLuca
- Bill Cohen as Sam Krasny
- Robert Hirschfeld as Detective Manny Lipsitz
- D.C. Benny as Ramirez
- Martin Shakar as Stephan Elstead
- Paul Geier as Dr. Charles Webb
- Will Osborne as John Daly
- Elain R. Graham as Corrine Casik
- Rita Wolf as Connie Lembeck
- Victor Anthony as Dan Birney
- John Di Benedetto as Bruce Couri
- Ed Kershen as Robert Kort
- Dominic Marcus as CSU Det. Bracken
- Larry Eudene as Reporter (uncredited)
References[]
- Baltimore
- CIA
- The Crusades
- Greg Franklin (victim)
- IRS
- Knights Templar
- Japan
- Philadelphia
- King Philip II
- Brad Pitt
- Pope Clement V
- Quantico, Virginia
- Martha Stewart
- Fulminated mercury
Quotes[]
- Jamie Ross: This is a PET scan of Alan's brain. Which your client ordered three months into the study. The same week Jill Perry told him Alan was in relapse. Doctor, why don't you tell us what that red area means?
- Alan Sawyer: Come on, Doctor. I wanna hear it from you. It means that I'm going to die. I'm not schizophrenic. I have a tumor. That's why I heard the voices. That's why I've been acting like this.
- Jamie Ross: Alan has a brain tumor, which at one point may have been operable. But your client mistook its effects for the symptoms of schizophrenia.
- Jack McCoy: That's why PET scans are routinely ordered at the beginning of any research study into schizophrenia. But you never ordered them for any of your patients.
- Christian Varick: There was a reason for that. The company wanted to get to the FDA as soon as possible. They gave me six months to do the test. It took one month to find the test subjects. There wasn't time to do the scans.
- Jack McCoy: But you found the time when Alan stopped responding to the medication. That's when you found the tumor, but you never did anything about it. Why? You didn't want anyone to know you were a hack, isn't that right?
- Peter Behrens: All right, come on Jack, that's enough.
- Jack McCoy: You bullied your research assistant, you defrauded the drug company, you allowed a man to be murdered, you sentenced this boy to death. Just to cover up for your incompetence.
- Alan Sawyer: Do you wanna know how much longer they say I have? A year, maybe two. You bastard. You let me kill him. And now you've killed me.
- Jack McCoy: When the time comes, I'm adding another count to the indictment. Murder two. Depraved indifference.
- Jack McCoy: I'm sure Varick's still convinced of his own competence.
- Jamie Ross: Fact is, he's just an extreme example of what most of us do. Everyone cuts corners, Jack.
- Jack McCoy: Maybe where you come from. I'll read your briefs more carefully in the future. What?
- Jamie Ross: I was just wondering if there's a motorcycle mechanic out there keeping his fingers crossed.
Background information and notes[]
- This episode was adapted into the Law & Order: UK episode "Trial".
Episode scene cards[]
1 | 2 | 3 |
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DeLuca Janitorial Services |
Organized Crime |
Free Nation Publications |
4 | 5 | 6 |
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Supreme Court |
Home of |
Bellevue Hospital |
7 | 8 |
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Chambers of |
Syntech Imaging |
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