Positive

Plot

The accidental shooting of an employee in a restaurant leads Green and Fontana to a doctor who has been testing out an experimental AIDS drug on orphans and wards of the state.

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
• Annie Parisse as A.D.A. Alexandra Borgia
• Fred Dalton Thompson as D.A. Arthur Branch

Guest cast

• Vondie Curtis-Hall as Dr. Andrew Copelan
• Jason Antoon as Attorney Hogenbaum
• Jennifer Van Dyck as Dr. Elaine Clemens
• Portia as Pamela Henson
• Michael Mulheren as Judge Harrison Tyler
• James DiSalvatore as Judge Stephen Ferrante
• Tom Galantich as Dr. Walter Roth
• Leslie Hendrix as Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
• Daniel Henriquez as Primatevo Sanchez
• Joel Hurt Jones as M.E. Brian Murphy
• Sekou Laidlow as Emerson Tyler
• Louis Martinez as Carlos Ramierez
• Alex Webb as Sergeant Jack Rosino
• Wiley Wisdom as Richard Sands
• Maureen Silliman as Ellen Sands
• Mike Masters as Assistant M.E. Ackerman
• Dennis Parlato as Randolph McGinnis
• Michael Quinlan as Davis Erlanger
• Neil Schwary as Court Clerk
• Michael McCartney as Uniform Cop
• Clement Fowler as Old Man
• William H. Burns as Diner Uniform Cop
• Leslie Nipkow as Forewoman
• Carrie Shaltz as Nurse
• Tenisha Torres as Waitress
• William J. Vila as Pedestrian (uncredited)
• Eugene Jones III as Jeremy Miller

References

LAV60; AIDS; Children's Healing House; Cameron Gonzales; Emily Miller; Curtis Redmond; Oscar Morales; Imo State, Nigeria; Costa Rica

Quotes

Walter Roth: All AIDS patients eventually die of AIDS...

Hogenbaum: (cutting him off) No further questions.
(turns away from the stand)

Walter Rothe: But there is such a thing as mercy in the end stages of life.

Background information and notes

Background information and notes