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| Production number: 05001 First aired: 25 September 2005 | ||
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| Teleplay By Marlane Gomard Meyer Story By Marlane Gomard Meyer & René Balcer Directed By Frank Prinzi | ||
Summary[]
The murder of a city employee leads Goren and Eames to an old nemesis, but her efforts to protect a girl force the detectives to wonder if someone else is at fault.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Vincent D'Onofrio as Detective Robert Goren
- Kathryn Erbe as Detective Alexandra Eames
- Jamey Sheridan as Captain James Deakins
- Courtney B. Vance as A.D.A. Ron Carver
Recurring cast[]
- Olivia d'Abo as Nicole Wallace
- Molly Gottlieb as Gwen Chapel
- Leslie Hendrix as M.E. Elizabeth Rodgers
- Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan
- Hudson Cooper as Detective Rosemont
- Grace Hsu as Ella Miyazaki (photos/archive footage only)
- Brian Nishii as Zach Thaler (archive footage only)
Guest cast[]
- Boris McGiver as Larry Chapel
- Kevin J. O'Connor as Dr. Evan Chapel
- J. King as Detective Bristol
- Derek Lucci as Phil Brookings
- Adam Sietz as Sacha Martell
- George Hahn as Louis Ramsford
- Dana Smith Croll as Phyllis Clark
- Joseph Eid as Officer Oser
- Vincent Lorusso as Officer Cruz
- Robert Kim as Judge B. Wing
- Adam Auslander as Mac
- Sarah Litzsinger as Sally
- Camille Gaston as Raynard
- Ray Wills as Boyd
- Katherine Puma as Distraught Teacher
- Jim Moody as Taft Housing Superintendent
- Dionne Audain as Concerned Tenant (uncredited)
- Randy Blair as (uncredited)
References[]
- 56th Precinct
- Australia
- Eastman, Leslie
- Middleton Community College
- NYC Department of Health
- potassium chloride
- Staten Island
- Taft Housing Projects
- Thailand
- Yates, Buster
Quotes[]
- Nicole Wallace: You don't see me at all, do you? I thought this is a land of second chances...
- Robert Goren: There's no second chance for you....'cause wherever you go, people die.
- Nicole Wallace: Accidents, Bobby...they happen in every family.
- Robert Goren: Did you think that you've finally met the one, a man who senses his own limitations, who understood the weakness of others and he had a daughter, a daughter who loved you...
- Nicole Wallace: She does love me...
- Robert Goren: Here you are, with a child killer as a boyfriend because this is the kind of people that you attract, because you will never have a normal life, a normal life is not for you Nicole...
- Gwen: Daddy doesn't love me, does he?
- Nicole Wallace: Sometimes daddies can love too much... you wouldn't want that...
- Robert Goren: One day, Gwen will do something or maybe she'll do nothing and you'll snap...
- Nicole Wallace: No... no... that won't happen...
- Robert Goren: Yes, you're not safe to be around Nicole... too much damage has been done.
- Nicole Wallace: No, with her I'll be healed... it will be all right...
- Robert Goren: No... if you want to save yourself you have to face up to who you are...
- Nicole Wallace: That's it...that's all you have for me?...Confess...go to prison?
- Nicole Wallace: You of all people, mistrusting a librarian?
- Mike Logan: (about Wallace): 18 murders…wow…beauty, brains and a complete psycho... my dream-girl.
Background information and notes[]
- This marks the return of Mike Logan as a regular in any L&O series since the original series episode "Pride", which Logan had been removed from homicide for punching out Kevin Crossley, a corrupt politician who just got away with murder. Logan appeared in the made for TV movie Exiled: A Law & Order Movie that takes place between his time in Major Case and Homicide. His final appearance as of yet in any L&O series was in the finale of CIs Season 7 "Last Rites". Deakins mentions he burned a bunch of favors to get him transferred and out of exile.
- Deakins mentions he was looking for a partner for Logan early in the episode. He introduces him to an unnamed partner by the end of the episode. The next episode reveals his partner to be Carolyn Barek (Annabella Sciorra).
- The video on the screen and the revelation that Wallace killed her daughter were from the episode "Great Barrier".
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