"Open Wounds" | ||
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← | L&O, Episode 22.22 | → |
Production number: 22022 First aired (US): 18 May 2023 First aired (CAN): 18 May 2023 | ||
Teleplay By Rick Eid & Pamela Wechsler Story By Gia Gordon & Ajani Jackson Directed By Alex Hall |
Summary[]
After a senator is gunned down at his daughter's wedding, McCoy pushes for a severe sentence and squares up against a formidable defense attorney, his own daughter. Price aims to stay neutral but can't help but empathize with the defendant over a shared trauma.
Plot[]
plot
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Jeffrey Donovan as Detective Frank Cosgrove
- Mehcad Brooks as Detective Jalen Shaw
- Camryn Manheim as Lieutenant Kate Dixon
- Hugh Dancy as E.A.D.A. Nolan Price
- Odelya Halevi as A.D.A. Samantha Maroun
- Sam Waterston as D.A. Jack McCoy
Recurring cast[]
- Connie Shi as Detective Violet Yee
- Angel Desai as Judge Roberta Hines
- Jaylene Clark Owens as Court Clerk
Guest cast[]
- Elisabeth Waterston as Attorney Rebecca McCoy
- Ellyn Jameson as Nicole Chandler
- Catherine Mary Stewart as Victoria Chandler
- Dennis Flanagan as Derek Quinn
- Merritt Janson as Carla Braun
- Daniel Hilt as Dave Bell
- Suehyla El-Attar Young as Dr. Michelle Gold
- Lance Roberts as Judge John Craven
- Marlowe Holden as Elena Quinn
- Brian Haley as Senator Alan Chandler
- Benjamin Magnuson as Jim Bronson
- David Sherod as Asher
- Julius Thomas III as Silas
- Maureen Fenninger as Foreperson
- Veronica Fiaoni as Wedding Photographer
- Joshua Craig as Man Pulling Out Phone
References[]
Quotes[]
quotes
Background Information and Notes[]
- This is the only episode out of Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, and Law & Order: Organized Crime that starts or concludes a season for the 2022-23 television season and isn't a crossover episode.
- This is Sam Waterston's 400th episode of Law & Order as Jack McCoy.[1]
- McCoy's daughter Rebecca, last seen being played by actress Jamie Schofield in the season 17 episode "Fallout", is portrayed by Sam Waterston's real-life daughter Elisabeth.
- The next season's finale, "In Harm's Way", also features actor Tony Goldwyn, who plays District Attorney and McCoy's successor Nicholas Baxter, and his real life daughter, Tess Goldwyn, playing his character's daughter, Carrie Baxter.
- Maroun mentions Price's experience witnessing the aftermath of a mass shooting at a subway station in the episode "Camouflage".
- This is the last appearance of series regular Jeffrey Donovan as Detective Frank Cosgrove.
Footnotes[]
Previous episode: "Appraisal" |
"Open Wounds" Law & Order Season 22 |
Next episode: "Freedom Of Expression" |