Family Values (L&O)

"Family Values"
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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 a woman's murder, the detectives question both her first and second husbands---and her daughter.

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

• Marc Coppola 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
• Stephen Shellen as Zanetti
• Jerome Preston Bates as Crime Scene Unit Technician
• Brian David Fisher as Himself (uncredited)

References

• Switzerland

Background information and notes

• This episode is based on 2 different cases
  • The Amy Fisher (aka the "Long Island Lolita") case. Amy Elizabeth Fisher is an American woman who became known as "the Long Island Lolita" by the media in 1992, when, at the age of 17, she shot and severely wounded Mary Jo Buttafuoco, the wife of her illicit lover, Joey Buttafuoco. Initially charged with first-degree attempted murder, she eventually pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated assault and served seven years in prison. Paroled in 1999, Fisher became a writer, a webcam model, and a pornographic actress. (Source: Amy Fisher at Wikipedia)
  • The death of Anne Scripps. Scripps was an American heiress to the E. W. Scripps Company; she was the great-great-granddaughter of James E. Scripps, founder of The Detroit News. In 1993, she was bludgeoned by her estranged second husband, Scott Douglas, as she slept in her Westchester County, New York home on December 31, 1993. Scripps had suffered domestic abuse at the hands of Douglas before her death and gone to a judge to kick him out of her house but the judge refused. After Scripps's death, Douglas was later found dead, washed ashore in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. This episode has many similarities to Scripps case, her first husband was Anthony Morrell (the victim's husband in this episode is the similarly named Steve Martell). Martell is a housepainter/womanizer, Scripps' second husband was also a housepainter. In this episode, the victim's Mercedes is found abandoned on the 59th Street Bridge over the East River; Scott Douglas' BMW was found abandoned on the Tappan Zee Bridge over the Hudson River. (Source: Anne Scripps at Wikipedia)

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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