A family man is shot to death inside a parking garage. Police soon discover the crime was not a random act of violence. Stone tries to get one of the suspects to testify against the other.A family man is shot to death inside a parking garage. Police soon discover the crime was not a random act of violence. Stone tries to get one of the suspects to testify against the other.A family man is shot to death inside a parking garage. Police soon discover the crime was not a random act of violence. Stone tries to get one of the suspects to testify against the other.
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- TriviaThis episode appears to be based on several different cases/incidents:
- The 1989 Charles Stuart case. On October 23, 1989, Charles Stuart, a furrier, and his pregnant wife Carol, a lawyer, got into their car after attending childbirth classes at Brigham and Women's Hospital. According to police, Stuart shot his wife in the head and himself in the stomach, and then called 911 on his cell phone. Carol Stuart died that night, after their son, Christopher, was delivered by Cesarean section. He suffered seizures due to oxygen deprivation, and died 17 days later after his father discontinued his life support. Stuart blamed the crime on a black man. The Boston police aggressively pursued black men without probable cause. They suspected one Willie Bennett, and on December 28, Stuart fingered him out of a lineup. The case against Bennett came to an abrupt close when Stuart's brother, Matthew, identified Charles Stuart as the killer. Stuart had been involved in an affair, and was having financial difficulties. On January 4, 1990, Charles jumped from the Tobin Bridge to his death.
- The 1927 Ruth Snyder case. May Ruth Snyder was an American murderer. Her execution in the electric chair at New York's Sing Sing Prison in 1928 for the murder of her husband, Albert Snyder, was recorded in a highly publicized photograph.
- Ripped from the pages of the 1943 novel Double Indemnity and its film adaptation (Double Indemnity (1944)).
- GoofsDetective Logan is shown playing a pinball machine at the bar but the blinking score on the machine indicates the game hasn't been started.
- Quotes
Gordon Schell: It's a crime of passion, Stone. Pure and simple.
Ben Stone: A crime of passion is never pure, and it's certainly not simple.
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Good detective work in this one
A man and woman who are well off are returning to their building talking about trying for another baby soon as they pull into their parking garage. As they exit their car, shots ring out. The man is killed, his wife is wounded but survives. It looks like another case of "dead people are easier to rob" that was so rampant in the Big Apple pre mayor Giuliani performed by some common street criminal who has been paroled 23 times.
However, detectives Max Greevey (George Dzundza as the seasoned cop) and Mike Logan (Chris Noth as the young cop) think something is strange here, starting with the fact that the wounded widow tells the same story each time she is questioned - not so odd - but uses the exact same words each time. No just finding the shortest path between two points for these two. They run down leads, figure out what does not make sense, and do some poking around. They get their suspects.
Now it is prosecutor Ben Stone's turn to try to either get a satisfactory deal or a conviction, and he too is a masterful judge of character here.
This is not so much a "ripped from the headlines" issue episode here, although it is similar to another murder case from the year before. There are just no big social issues like there were in later episodes. It is just a good example of the cast of Law and Order solving and prosecuting a crime as old as the human race.
And then there is District Attorney Adam Schiff played by Steven Hill getting the last word as he did so well - "either that or she is two and she wants what she wants when she wants it."
However, detectives Max Greevey (George Dzundza as the seasoned cop) and Mike Logan (Chris Noth as the young cop) think something is strange here, starting with the fact that the wounded widow tells the same story each time she is questioned - not so odd - but uses the exact same words each time. No just finding the shortest path between two points for these two. They run down leads, figure out what does not make sense, and do some poking around. They get their suspects.
Now it is prosecutor Ben Stone's turn to try to either get a satisfactory deal or a conviction, and he too is a masterful judge of character here.
This is not so much a "ripped from the headlines" issue episode here, although it is similar to another murder case from the year before. There are just no big social issues like there were in later episodes. It is just a good example of the cast of Law and Order solving and prosecuting a crime as old as the human race.
And then there is District Attorney Adam Schiff played by Steven Hill getting the last word as he did so well - "either that or she is two and she wants what she wants when she wants it."
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- AlsExGal
- Aug 19, 2016
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