Stiff

"Stiff"
←	L&O, Episode 10.23	→
Production number: E1119 First aired: 24 May 2000
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Written By René Balcer & Hall Powell Directed By Jace Alexander

Plot

The detectives' investigation into why a wealthy woman is comatose involves her husband, daughter, and doctor.

Cast

Main cast

• Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
• Jesse L. Martin as Detective Ed Green
• S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
• Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
• Angie Harmon as A.D.A. Abbie Carmichael
• Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff

Recurring cast

• Lee Wilkof as Defense Attorney Eric Berner
• Caitlin Clarke as Defense Attorney Linda Walsh
• Leslie Hendrix as M.E. Elizabeth Rodgers
• Doug Stender as Judge Joseph Flint
• Brian Keane as Dr. Murphy
• Karen Shallo as Judge Janet Shiro

Guest cast

• David Dukes as David Moore
• Marin Hinkle as Debbie Mason
• Susan Kellermann as Jeannie Stokes
• Thom Christopher as Dr. Bertram Stokes
• John Slattery as Dr. Richard Shipman
• Teagle F. Bougere as Jerry Ormond
• Christofer de Oni as Rafalito
• Connie Nelson as Dr. Kate Molo
• Bill Cohen as Ken
• Jim Moody as Syd
• Christopher Wells as Peter Streim
• Seth Jones as Dr. Morse
• Rosemary Vaswani as Pharmacist
• Stanley Mathis as Berk
• Philip Anthony-Rodriguez as Doorman

References

• Joan Moore (attempted victim)
• Bobby Orr
• Henri Richard
• Russia
• Emil Skoda
• Spain
• Gump Worsley
• MPTP
• L-DOPA

Quotes

Lennie Briscoe: Try us. We've been around the block a few hundred times.

Jeannie Stokes: I doubt that you've been in this neighborhood.

Abbie Carmichael: What do you call this?

Ed Green: Besides a bunch of crazy rich white people with too much time on their hands?

Lennie Briscoe: The best Skoda could come up with is "Necrophilia without Tears". Some kind of domination fetish. You put your wife into an insulation shock and then you...have your way with her whichever way you can.

Abbie Carmichael: Until you make a mistake and she ends up in a coma.

Jack McCoy: I've never liked doctors.

Abbie Carmichael: I don't like people who pick on their mothers.

Anita Van Buren: I don't like people we can't make a case against.

Ed Green: (finding a white substance in the bin) What's this?

Lennie Briscoe: I'm bettin' it ain't Sweet 'n' Low.

Background information and notes

Episode scene cards

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Zenith Publishing 65 Greenwich Avenue Wednesday, March 10	District Attorney's Office One Hogan Place Tuesday, March 16	Apartment of Debbie Mason 37 Mercer Street Wednesday, March 17

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Civil Court Part G Thursday, April 8	Medical Research Center Hamilton James College Wednesday, April 28	Stein Memorial Hospital 1609 York Avenue Friday, May 14

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