Gunplay

"Gunplay"
←	L&O, Episode 15.05	→
Production number: E5306 First aired: 20 October 2004
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Written By Lois Johnson & William N. Fordes Directed By Constantine Makris

Plot

Green poses as a gun buyer to try to find the killers of two undercover detectives whose pictures--identifying them as police--had been posted on a Web site.

Cast

Main cast

• Dennis Farina as Detective Joe Fontana
• Jesse L. Martin as Detective Ed Green
• S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
• Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
• Elisabeth Röhm as A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn
• Fred Dalton Thompson as D.A. Arthur Branch

Guest cast

• Antonio D. Charity as Detective Dexter Richmond
• Marcus Dean Fuller as Bruce Zimmerman
• Jeff Greene as Detective Calvin May
• Suzette Gunn as Detective Luisa Valenzuela
• Europe Harmon as Greg Hogan
• Leslie Hendrix as M.E. Elizabeth Rodgers
• Joe Capozzi as Uniform Officer Adams
• David De Beck as Captain Terry Northfleet
• Scott Johnsen as Detective Eckworth
• Hassan Johnson as Trevor Hawkins
• Tom Mardirosian as Judge Keith Fischer
• Isiah Whitlock, Jr. as Attorney Gordon Samuels
• Roderick Pannell as Jeffrey North
• Frantz Saint Louis as Quincy Ellis
• Mustafa Shakir as Preston Hubbard
• Wendell Pierce as Roger Porter
• George Pogatsia as Crooked Court Officer
• Chris McMullin as Arresting Sergeant
• Robert DiFalco as Uniform Officer
• Harry Askenazi as Uniformed Cop
• Messeret Stroman as Widow
• Ed Bogdanowicz as ESU
• John Speredakos as Bob Ardall
• Victor Cruz as Gilberto
• Marc Charles Cancassi as Press (uncredited)

References

• Calvin May (victim)
• Dexter Richmond (victim)
• Ramsey (victim)
• Georgia
• Pennsylvania
• Firearms Investigation Unit
• TEC-9
• www.CovertCops.com
• ATF
• IAB
• U.S. v. North

Background information and notes

• Another episode that deals with undercover cops getting shot while trying to buy illegal guns is the Law & Order: Criminal Intent episode "Stray".

Episode scene cards

1	2	3
900 Block 176th Street Washington Heights Monday, September 22	Mick's Bar 512 East 128th Street Monday, September 22	St. Elizabeth Cemetery Middle Village, Queens Thursday, September 25

4	5	6
New York Police Firearms Investigation Unit Thursday, September 25	Office Of Gordon Samuels & James Wilson Monday, September 29	Allenwood Federal Correctional Facility White Deer, Pennsylvania Wednesday, October 8

7	8
Rikers Island Correctional Facility Monday, November 3	Supreme Court Trial Part 29 Wednesday, November 13

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