| "Semi-Professional" | ||
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| ← | CI, Episode 1.15 | → |
| Production number: E2118 First aired: 10 March 2002 | ||
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| Written By Stephanie Sengupta Directed By Gloria Muzio | ||
An amateur hit man kills the mistress of a judge up for nomination to appellate court.
Plot[]
The discovery of a law clerk's body in a judge's home results in Goren and Eames first investigating the judge's personal life. The investigation then turns to his professional life when a suspect is found to have connections to one of the judge's competitors for a seat on the appellate court.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Vincent D'Onofrio as Detective Robert Goren
- Kathryn Erbe as Detective Alexandra Eames
- Jamey Sheridan as Captain James Deakins
- Courtney B. Vance as A.D.A. Ron Carver
Guest cast[]
- Michael Murphy as Judge Peter Blakemore
- Bruce MacVittie as Arnie Cox
- Dan Frazer as Mack McNeil
- George DiCenzo as Judge Raoul Sabatelli
- Fiona Gallagher as Dawn Cox
- Tanya Berezin as Lenore Hirschman
- Claudia Fielding as Marie Duval
- Sally Parrish as Lara Trudeau
- Jacqueline Murphy as Emily Trudeau
- Mel Boudrot as Henry Brown
- Don Stephenson as Bernard Sweet
- D.L. Shroder as Morty Gruber
- Sharon Angela as Connie
- Tom Tammi as Attorney for Judge Blakemore
- Tony Hendra as Book Publisher
- Fred Berman as Raymond
- Chance Kelly as Court Officer #1
- Dino Castelli as Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
References[]
- District attorney Nora Lewin
- Jackie Chan
- The Georgetown Law Journal
- Junger v. Daley
- Order of the Coif
- Anita Hill
- Books by Judge Raoul Sabatelli
- Serpent's Tooth
- Danger's Door
- Jimmy Breslin
- Daphne du Maurier
- Watercrest Press
- Columbia University
- Smooth Ride
- Executive assistant district attorney Jack McCoy
Quotes[]
- Arnie Cox: Anybody that likes Chinese chess can't be all bad. Where'd you learn, anyways?
- Robert Goren: China.
- Alexandra Eames: A history of violence. Sounds like a distinguishing feature of the semi-professional hit man. "(Goren looks surprised)" I only look like I'm not paying attention to you.
- Ron Carver: You want to arrest Blakemore?
- Robert Goren: Well, arrest would be an understatement.
- Ron Carver: You see something? "(Goren ignores him and continues smelling a garbage can so Carver addresses Eames.)" Is his investigative style always so sociable?
- Alexandra Eames: Yeah, sure.
- Robert Goren: Fair Speech and the Fair Use Doctrine: The First Amendment and Encryption Software.
- Alexandra Eames: Stop it. You're making me hot.
- Ron Carver: First you call him a plagiarist, then you call him a murderer, now you change your mind. This is no way to treat a justice of the New York Court.
- Robert Goren: He's paranoid! Pathological!
- Ron Carver: Is that police code for "hot-blooded?"
- Robert Goren: Well, don't put words in my mouth, or some kind of attitude!
- Ron Carver: If he's involved, why on earth would he sign a search warrant for Mr. Cox?
- Robert Goren: Because he knew we wouldn't find anything!
- Ron Carver: That's paranoid.
- Alexandra Eames: You underlining the dirty parts?
Background information and notes[]
- Judge Raoul Sabatelli writes a character in his books who resembles his rival, Judge Peter Blakemore, and has a wife whose name was Diane but was changed in later editions due to lawsuits. This maybe a commentary alluding to the way the Law & Order franchise "rips from the headlines".
- One of Sabatelli's books, Serpent's Tooth, resembles the name of a Law & Order episode, "The Serpent's Tooth", which in turn is a reference to a line in King Lear.
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