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"Rubber Room"
L&O, Episode 20.23
Production number: 20023
First aired: 24 May 2010
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Rubber Room
Written By
René Balcer

Directed By
René Balcer

Plot[]

Lupo and Bernard try to locate a blogger who threatened to blow up a school, but the teachers' union hampers the probe. Van Buren's personal issues become a public affair.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Recurring cast[]

Guest cast[]

References[]

Quotes[]

Lupo: It's like fishing for a needle in the ocean. Old Chinese saying.
Van Buren: Just do it. Old American saying.
Kids like this see Harris and Klebold as tragic heroes instead of what they were--a grandiose psychopath (Harris) and a suicidal depressive (Klebold).

–Skoda about the Columbine Killers

You get no argument from me there. But if your obstruction allows a massacre to happen, I will crucify you, Mr. Kralik. I will charge you with negligent homicide, and after I convict you I will resign my job and represent the families of the victims in a wrongful death suit against you and the union. By the time I'm done, you'll be finished. So, my advice to you is GET OUT OF MY WAY!

–Jack McCoy to Kralik

Thank you, thank you, thank you.

–Van Buren to God after receiving good news, last line of the season

Background information and notes[]

Episode scene cards[]

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Imaging Center
76 East 15th Street
Thursday, May 13

Richmond Gas & Snak
Staten Island
Thursday, May 13

Home of
Morgan Jones
Ghent, New York
Friday, May 14

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Reade Street Bar
135 Reade Street
Friday, May 20

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