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"Double Blind"
L&O, Episode 7.06
Production number: K1105
First aired: 6 November 1996
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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.

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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[]

Episode scene cards[]

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DeLuca Janitorial Services
401 10th Avenue
Thursday, August 8

Organized Crime
Control Bureau
Thursday, August 8

Free Nation Publications
121 Broadway
Monday, August 12

4 5 6

Supreme Court
Part 72
Friday, August 30

Home of
Mr. & Mrs. Fred Sawyer
Baltimore, MD
Tuesday, September 3

Bellevue Hospital
Hearing Room
Wednesday, September 4

7 8

Chambers of
Judge Herman Mooney
Monday, September 9

Syntech Imaging
122 Riverside Drive
Tuesday, September 17

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