| "In the Wee Small Hours (Part II)" | ||
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| ← | CI, Episode 5.07 | → |
| Production number: 05007 First aired: 6 November 2005 | ||
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| Teleplay By Stephanie Sengupta Story By Stephanie Sengupta & René Balcer Directed By Jean de Segonzac | ||
Summary[]
A Judge accused in the kidnapping and murder of a teenage girl fights back against the accusations by digging up dirt on the Detectives of the Major Case Squad.
Plot[]
The detectives launch a search for Bethany Lunden out in a salt marsh where Ethan had lost his dog as a child, with the media in tow. After finding her body, Elizabeth Rodgers finds that two sets of condoms were used, one sheepskin and one latex. The suspect, Ethan Garrett, has an allergy to latex, so they realize another person also had sex with Lunden. They then arrest his father Judge Harold Garrett.
After Judge Garrett's arrest, he launches a number of attacks on Carver, Logan, and Goren. In particular, he has a private investigator antagonize Goren's mother at her mental institution making Goren especially mad. Goren goes to confront Garrett, with Eames and Carver in tow. Goren, however, gets the judge to confess to sex with Bethany and the trial proceeds.
In court, Garrett's defense attorney attempts to further discredit Goren by bringing up a request for a new partner that Eames had filed five years before. This tatic seems to be mitigated and Carver calls Ethan to testify against his father. Ethan mentions something about Bethany bleeding rectally and Carver and the detectives wonder how he knew about this detail. They bring Ethan to interrogation and realize that he did not dump the body in the marsh as he did not know the directions in that area that well. Goren calls the Humane Society and they tell him his mother, Eloise, tried to find the dog in the marsh. They realize she was the one who killed Bethany. The murder charge against Judge Garrett is dropped, but not the rape. Eloise is then charged with the murder of Bethany, which as Eames mentions means all of the family is likely off to prison.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Vincent D'Onofrio as Detective Robert Goren
- Kathryn Erbe as Detective Alexandra Eames
- Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan
- Annabella Sciorra as Detective Carolyn Barek
- Jamey Sheridan as Captain James Deakins
- Courtney B. Vance as A.D.A. Ron Carver
Recurring cast[]
- Colm Meaney as Judge Harold Garrett
- Matt O'Leary as Ethan Garrett
- Lucinda Jenney as Elise Garrett
- Kathleen McNenny as Lee Ann Lunden
- Geneva Carr as Faith Yancy
- Leslie Hendrix as M.E. Elizabeth Rodgers
- Oni Faida Lampley as Eunice Peterson
- Gerry Becker as Attorney Cleveland
- Phoebe Strole as Alexis Kippes
- Shana Dowdeswell as Jordan Fernholz
- Harry Zittel as Stuart Ellicot
- Joseph Adams as David Langdon
- Sean Grennan as I.A.B. Detective Roland
Guest cast[]
- Fred Dalton Thompson as D.A. Arthur Branch
- Jess Weixler as Amy Buckley
- Colleen Clinton as Charlotte Kappel
- Carl Capotorto as Jasper Ridley
- Irene Glezos as Judge Miriam Gardner
- John Knox as Lieutenant Paddy Carroll
- George McDaniel as Max Goldwyn
- Anne Kanengeiser as Court Reporter
- Candice McCoy as Receptionist
- Michael McCartney as Charlie
- James Lloyd Reynolds as First TV Reporter
- Kate Williams Stone as Second TV Reporter
References[]
- Bethany Lunden
- Iago - Harold Garrett calls his son, Iago, the traitorous main antagonist from William Shakespeare's Othello.
- Greg Sanchez
- Carmel Ridge Center
- Frances Goren
- Federal Bureau of Investigation
- Frank Goren
- Madame Defarge from A Tale of Two Cities
- Frank Sinatra and his album Sinatra at the Sands
Quotes[]
- (looking at Harold Garrett's den)
- Robert Goren: So he puts the needle down, sits down here, puts his headphones on, listens to Frank, drinks himself to sleep...
- Elise Garrett: (smiles) Harold to a T.
- Harold Garrett: I heard a rumor about a deal with the D.A. What did you tell them?
- Elise Garrett: Don't touch him! (hurries Ethan up the stairs)
- Harold Garrett: Look at me when I'm talking to you! I'm your father! (Elise and Ethan have walked away) Traitor! You Iago! IAGO!
- Carolyn Barek: (Asked about the FBI) Those people couldn't stop an asthma attack.
- Arthur Branch: It's not enough to do good. You gotta be seen doing good.
- Harold Garrett: I presided over police brutality trials in the '90s. It'd be quite a feather in somebody's cap to knock me down.
- Robert Goren: (writing down notes) Grandiosity, paranoid delusions, persecution complex...
- Harold Garrett: Two can play at that game, Detective. I'm putting you all on notice. I will defend myself quite vigorously.
- (Goren is taunting Garrett)
- Robert Goren: Get her drunk, that's even better! She won't remember how young and strong Ethan felt. Won't remember how he made her feel good-
- Harold Garrett: I made her feel good! She didn't want a boy, she wanted a man and that's what she got, and she loved it! Oh he heard me! He heard me all the way from his room! The old man showed him how it's done!
(Awkward silence. Garrett realizes that everyone in the room has heard him and is staring at him) - Harold Garrett: I did nothing to hurt her. I did not hurt her!
- Ron Carver: I think we're ready for trial. Nice work, Detective.
Background information and notes[]
- Judge Garrett tries a number of tactics from the past to try to discredit or rattle the detectives including:
- Bringing up Logan's excessive force complaints from his FBI file, in particular, Logan using a pool cue on Greg Sanchez from "Diamond Dogs".
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