"Talking Points" | ||
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← | L&O, Episode 17.13 | → |
Production number: 17013 First aired: 2 February 2007 | ||
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Written By Michael S. Chernuchin Directed By Matthew Penn |
Plot[]
When a young college student is killed during a failed hit on a deeply polarizing media pundit, the detectives learn that the shooter is suffering from Parkinson's.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Jesse L. Martin as Detective Ed Green
- Milena Govich as Detective Nina Cassady
- S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
- Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
- Alana De La Garza as A.D.A. Connie Rubirosa
- Fred Dalton Thompson as D.A. Arthur Branch
Recurring cast[]
- Ron Silver as Defense Attorney Bernie Adler
- Cindy Katz as Judge Wendy Forman
- Karen Ludwig as Judge Martha Archer
Guest cast[]
- Charlotte Ross as Judith Barlow
- Louis Cancelmi as Malcolm Yates
- Peter Benson as Kevin Gray
- John Magaro as Nathan Gersh
- Emma Bell as Kirsten Paley
- Rich Sommer as Mike Scholl
- Anthony Estrella as Dr. Ben Ellers
- Fletcher McTaggart as Dr. David Rooker
- Nancy Wu as M.E. Lynn Ming
- Sarah Grace Wilson as Abby Watts
- Jason Pendergraft as Jim Morgan
- Zackary M. Fisher as Steven Schuman
- Charlie Hewson as Danny O'Toole
- Tyrone Mitchell Henderson as Pastor Stevens
- Brant Spencer as Officer Burns
- Casey Ford Alexander as Bobby
- Erin Buckley as Jane
- James Lloyd Reynolds as Interviewer
- Heather Garfinkle as Female Student
- Eric Storjohann as Arraignment Clerk
- Kathryn Markey as Jury Foreperson
- Dwayne Duprey as College Student (uncredited)
- Rebecca Merle as Young Republican (uncredited)
- Anjelia Pelay as Glam Escort (uncredited)
References[]
- Jason Miles
- Grammercy College
- Marbury Foundation
- Russell Labs
- Israel
- Rudolph Giuliani
- Hugo Chavez
- Cindy Sheehan
- Brian Nichols
- Antonin Scalia
- Al Sharpton
- Bill Maher
- Jesse Jackson
- Parkinson's disease
- Stem cell research
Quotes[]
- Judith Barlow: I've got a ten-year-old niece who can't even tell you who the vice president is, but she sure as hell can put a condom on a banana in two seconds flat.
- Ed Green: Yeah, the whole world's going to hell. It's a damn shame. You know what else is a damn shame? Is a dead kid ten feet away from you and you're --
- Judith Barlow: Well, that wouldn't have happened if Rudy still ran the city.
- Ed Green: (motions to another officer, and then points at two suspects) Officer, take those two in. (points at Barlow) Take her, too.
(Cassady and Green start walking away) - Ed Green: (under his breath) No wonder they call her 'the most hated bitch in America.'
- Nina Cassady: You mean woman, right?
- Ed Green: No, I mean bitch.
- (on the college where she was invited to speak)
- Judith Barlow: I think they had a tea party for Hugo Chavez here last month, and a parade for Cindy Sheehan.
- (After Barlow personally hands Green her phone number)
- Nina Cassady: Looks like someone's a little sweet on Eddie.
- Ed Green: I'd rather have a root canal.
- Judith Barlow: So what happens next, Detective Panty-Line gives him a mani-pedi and a massage?
- Anita Van Buren: What is your problem with female police officers?
- Judith Barlow: Nothing personal, but last year down in Atlanta, that animal wrestles a gun from a female guard and shoots both her and the judge. I doubt that would have happened if the guard shaved every morning before work, and I don't mean under his pits.
- Anita Van Buren: Do you talk like this in public?
- Judith Barlow: I like you. This is me being polite.
- Judith Barlow: Once again, words fail the Intellectual Left!
- Arthur Branch: If they put you on the stand, Yates will only be found guilty of being a lousy shot.
- Judith Barlow: Oh, come on Arthur, people love me.
- Arthur Branch: Oh, I'm sure some people love spiders, too.
- Judith Barlow: They eat flies, don't they?
- Arthur Branch: And we know what flies eat.
- Judith Barlow: I've got four number-one bestsellers out, Arthur. How many does Antonin Scalia have?
- Arthur Branch: And, you also look better in a cocktail dress.
- Jack McCoy: Must be difficult working with microscopic cells when you're shaking like that. Oh, that's right, you took your medication that day! The medication that stops the shaking. So, there shouldn't have been any twitching, uncontrollable or otherwise, in the auditorium that night. Isn't that right? Of course it is. You went there. You drew your weapon. You intentionally pulled the trigger trying to kill Judith Barlow. Isn't that true?
- Malcolm Yates: She said that the lives of the embryos we use to harvest stem cells were just as valuable as the lives of people like me. I am better than cells in a petri dish!
- Jack McCoy: So was your dead friend Jason. And so, like it or not, is Miss Barlow.
Background information and notes[]
- The outdoor campus scenes were filmed at Brooklyn College.
- Another Law & Order franchise episode that deals with a crime committed against a female conservative pundit is the Law & Order: Special Victims Unit episode "Info Wars".
Episode scene cards[]
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 |
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Dorm Room of |
Campus Chapel |
Biology Department |
Apartment of |
5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
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Technical Assistance |
Marbury Foundation |
Criminal Courts |
Supreme Court |
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