Scoundrels

"Scoundrels"
←	L&O, Episode 5.09	→
Production number: 69415 First aired: 30 November 1994
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Written By Ed Zuckerman & Charles C. Mann Directed By Marc Laub

Plot

Among the suspects in a lawyer's murder are a swindler who conned a woman out of her family fortune and the woman's once-wealthy son.

Cast

Main cast

• Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
• Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan
• S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
• Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
• Jill Hennessy as A.D.A. Claire Kincaid
• Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff

Recurring cast

• Edie Falco as Defense Attorney Sally Bell
• Merwin Goldsmith as Judge Ian Feist
• Ben Hammer as Judge Herman Mooney
• Norma Fire as Judge Pamela Jensen

Guest cast

• Michael Zaslow as Willard Tappan
• Jonathan Hogan as John Curren
• Lisa Emery as Alice Huntley
• Larry Pine as Edward St. John
• Jane Hoffman as Jane Rosebrock
• David Little as Fred Dillon
• Georgine Hall as Mrs. Greenfield
• Yusef Bulos as Frank Rosebrock
• Ellen Whyte as Harriet Curren
• Ross Bickell as Jeffrey Wiggins
• Dan Grimaldi as Carl Piselli
• James Saito as Mr. Tanaka
• Karen Evans Kandel as Bella
• Jeff Ware as Silverman
• Al DeChristo as Roy Leonard
• Elizabeth Ann Townsend as Anne Maney
• Leila Danette as Mrs. Banning
• Alan Gordon as Maxwell
• Mario Mendoza as Julio
• David H. Kramer as Court Clerk
• Mitch Kolpan as Uniformed Policeman
• Joel Blake as Jury Foreman

References

• Phoenix, Arizona
• Cayman Islands
• Arthur Kopinsky (victim)
• Guglielmo Marconi
• Netherlands Antilles
• North River Savings
• Nikola Tesla
• Donald Trump

Quotes

Kincaid: We can't arrest him.

McCoy: I'm a DA. I can arrest anybody.

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McCoy: How many people have you swindled, Mr. Tappan?

Tappan: None.

McCoy: How many people have you been convicted of swindling?

Tappan: Fourteen thousand.

Background information and notes

• Kincaid meets one of the assistants who worked under McCoy before her, defense attorney Sally Bell. McCoy and Bell developed a romantic relationship when they worked together.

Episode scene cards

1	2	3
Apartment Of Arthur Kopinsky 476 West 10th Street Tuesday, August 20	Empire Gifts Showroom 205-5th Avenue Thursday, August 22	Fred Dillon, ESQ. Barnes, Smith & Simeon 307 Park Avenue Monday, August 26

4	5	6
Glen Ivy Retirement Home 507 West 116th Street Thursday, August 29	Apartment Of John & Harriet Curren 716 West 64th Street Wednesday, September 5	Supreme Court Trial Part 59 Monday, October 15

7	8	9
Roy Leonard, P.I. East 78th Street & Lexington Tuesday, October 23	Supreme Court Trial Part 44 Thursday, November 14	Supreme Court Trial Part 44 Thursday, November 14

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