"Thrill" | ||
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← | L&O, Episode 8.01 | → |
Production number: K2508 First aired: 24 September 1997 | ||
Written By René Balcer Directed By Martha Mitchell |
Plot[]
Two teens are accused of the thrill killing of a fast-food deliveryman.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Jerry Orbach as Detective Lennie Briscoe
- Benjamin Bratt as Detective Rey Curtis
- S. Epatha Merkerson as Lieutenant Anita Van Buren
- Sam Waterston as Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
- Carey Lowell as A.D.A. Jamie Ross
- Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff
Recurring cast[]
- Donna Murphy as Attorney Carla Tyrell
- Sig Libowitz as Attorney Stan Shatenstein
- Susan Blommaert as Judge Rebecca Steinman
- Thomas McHugh as Detective Byrne
- John Fiore as Detective Tony Profaci
- Pat Moya as Deborah Curtis
- Deirdre Lovejoy as CSU Technician
Guest cast[]
- James Handy as Mr. Wheeler
- Charles Levin as Mr. Schuster
- Suzanne Costollos as Mrs. Wheeler
- Ellen Muth as Adele Green
- Michael C. Maronna as Tagger / Dale Kershaw
- Rob McElhenney as Joey Timon
- Reed Birney as Archdioces Attorney
- Jan Munroe as Father Galva
- John Tormey as Tommy DeLuca
- Bill Christ as Reverend Gervais
- Nicholas Wyman as Judge Gavin Mickerson
- Ava-Marie Carnevale as Mrs. Timon
- Anne Lange as Headmistress
- Cynthia Hayden as Mrs. Green
- David S. Howard as Mr. Morris
- Jim Doerr as Sheehan
- Bob Ari as Mr. DeLuca
- Rosanna Carter as Mrs. Hemmerick
- Herb Lovelle as Mr. Hemmerick
- Kevin Hurley as Brother
- Christopher Innvar as Elliot Gill
- Nick Corley as Latent Technician
- Joe Zaloom as Avi
- William Pitts as Phone Company Worker
- Melissa Marsala as Marlene
- Bryan Greenberg as Matthew Wheeler
- David Edward Jones as Police Officer
- Al Cayne as Hispanic Kid
- Beau Berdahl as Student
References[]
- Muhammad Ali
- James Dean
- Angelo Dundee
- Leopold and Loeb
- Luther C. Carter Academy
- Miami
- John Milton
- Westies
- Beavis and Butt-Head
Quotes[]
- Lt. Van Buren: I'm afraid it is. You're implicated in a murder, little girl. So cut the bull.
- Lt. Van Buren: A thrill killing. I take it back, Lennie, I guess some people don't need a reason.
- Briscoe: I guess the macarena wasn't exciting enough for them.
- Briscoe: There he is, criminal mastermind Dale Kershaw, A.K.A. "Tagger".
- Curtis: You're a Catholic.
- McCoy: Not when I'm at work. I'm sorry.
- Ross: Thrill killers are protected by the Church. The law says two people can fire one bullet, and now the victim's mother forgives them. You figure it out.
- McCoy: You don't think you could? Forgive them, I mean.
- Ross: No.
- McCoy: Neither could I. What does that say about us?
- Schiff: Sounds like Leopold and Loeb. Who'd we get?
- McCoy: Beavis and Butt-Head.
- McCoy: I'm playing legal tiddlywinks with these punks. What I'd really like to do is take them out to Battery Park and hang them by the scrotum.
- Schiff: An understandable sentiment, but stick with the tiddlywinks.
“ | I can't hate you. I'll be praying for God to watch over you every day you're in that awful place you're going to. | ” |
–Mrs. Wheeler |
“ | Congratulations, Dale. You made your bones. | ” |
–Lennie Briscoe on arresting Tagger |
- [Van Buren and her detectives, disguised as gang members, stake out Central Park in an attempt to find Tagger and Timon]
- Briscoe: Okay. So the rumble in the jungle-- The night before, Angelo Dundee gets a big wrench and goes around all 4 corners and loosens the top. That's the Rope-a-Dope!
- Lt. Van Buren: But it was Muhammad Ali who did the floatin' and the stingin.' The man was sweet! A poet!
- Gang Member: A real poet is Milton. You wanna understand the ways of God, Milton's your boy.
- Briscoe: When it comes to understandin' the ways of God, I prefer malt to Milton.
- Lt. Van Buren: I know! That's right! [laughs and high-fives Briscoe]
Background information and notes[]
- This episode is based on the Thomas Koskovich/Jason Vreeland murder case.
- Rey Curtis' wife, Deborah, is diagnosed with MS.
- McCoy and Ross attempt to prosecute two defendants simultaneously in two separate court cases for the same crime. It does not, however, come to that as Joey Timon takes the plea bargain and testifies against Dale Kershaw. However, McCoy and his later assistant, Serena Southerlyn, do have to try two defendants simultaneously in the Season 14 episode "C.O.D.".
Episode scene cards[]
1 | 2 | 3 |
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Luther C. Chase Academy |
Central Park |
Apartment of |
4 | 5 | 6 |
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Archdiocese of New York |
Office of |
Rikers Island |
7 | 8 | 9 |
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Courthouse |
Supreme Court |
Supreme Court |
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