Family Values (L&O)

"Family Values"
←	L&O, Episode 5.04	→
Production number: 69401 First aired: 12 October 1994
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Written By William N. Fordes & René Balcer Directed By Constantine Makris

Plot

After it is determined that a wealthy woman didn't commit suicide but was murdered, the detectives question both her first and second husbands and her teenage daughters.

Cast

Main cast

• Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
• Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan
• S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
• Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
• Jill Hennessy as A.D.A. Claire Kincaid
• Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff

Recurring cast

• Josh Pais as Assistant Medical Examiner Borak
• Larry Sherman as Judge Colin Fraser

Guest cast

• Stephen Shellen as Steve Martell
• Sarah Paulson as Maggie Conner
• Thomas Kopache as Defense Attorney Boden
• Victor Raider-Wexler as Defense Attorney Wheeler
• Anna Kathryn Holbrook as Christine Whitburn
• Robert Ari as Richard Kahn
• Will Lyman as Victor Conner
• Cynthia Hayden as Ms. Vincent
• Bill Cwikowski as Painter
• E. Katherine Kerr as Sally Markham
• Teresa Yenque as Theresa Aguilar
• Mary Beth Peil as Dr. Emma Hiltz
• Tracy Lee Bell as Liza
• Edward D. Murphy as Mike Quinn
• Erol Landis as Tom Stenberg
• Mark Kenneth Smaltz as Kurtz
• John Ventimiglia as Gaydos
• Joey Dedio as Dwyer
• Marc Coppola as Zanetti
• Jerome Preston Bates as Crime Scene Unit Technician
• Brian David Fisher as Himself (uncredited)

References

• Dilaudid
• Laura Madsen (victim)
• Madsen Publishing
• Switzerland

Quotes

“	Martell must be proud of his little Maggie. She just graduated from girlfriend to accomplice.	”
–Jack McCoy

Background information and notes

• The episode would later be adapted into the Law & Order: UK episode "Fatherly Love".
• This was the acting debut of Sarah Paulson, who was 19 years old at the time the episode aired.
• Pictures of Sarah Paulson from her appearance in this episode are later used in a slide-show in the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Shadow", in which she guest-stars as a different character.

Episode Scene Cards

1	2	3
Gramercy Park Monday, July 29	Trafalgar School 836 Fifth Avenue Thursday, August 1	Office of Executive Assistant D.A. McCoy Thursday, August 22

4	5
Bennett Square Houses 465 West 186th Street Wednesday, March 8	Supreme Court Part 62 Tuesday, October 2

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