"Law & Order" Absentia (2003)

Directors:

Darnell Martin
Martha Mitchell

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator)
Eric Overmyer (written by)

TV Series:

"Law & Order" (1990)

Original Air Date:

12 February 2003 (Season 13, Episode 13)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery | Drama

Plot:

A man scheduled to testify in a murder trial disappears. The DA's office discovers that he's actually a radical who disappeared 20 years earlier after being charged with killing his girlfriend. |

Plot Keywords:

Attorney | Detective | Police | District Attorney | Evidence

Cast

Jerry Orbach	...	Detective Lennie Briscoe
Jesse L. Martin	...	Detective Ed Green
S. Epatha Merkerson	...	Lt. Anita Van Buren
Sam Waterston	...	Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
Elisabeth Röhm	...	A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn
Fred Dalton Thompson	...	D.A. Arthur Branch
Mandy Patinkin	...	Levi 'The Griffin' March / Glenn Fordyce
David Chandler	...	Attorney Marvin Silverman
Peter Appel	...	Krakow
Jordan Charney	...	Judge Donald Karan
Andrew McCarthy	...	Attorney Finnerty
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Polly Adams	...	Gabrielle Simone
Frank Bonsangue	...	Court Clerk
Jean Brassard	...	Detective Rene Laberc
Sophina Brown	...	Dana
Shannon Burkett	...	Carla Baker
J. Bernard Calloway	...	Corrections Officer
Lou Carbonneau	...	Crime Technician
Jenny Deller	...	Marina Travandze
Gene Farber	...	Eddie Travandze
Norma Fire	...	Judge Pamela Jensen
Tyrone Mitchell Henderson	...	Tim Yeats
Lauren Klein	...	Judge Carla Soloman
David Lipman	...	Judge Morris Torledsky
William Charles Mitchell	...	Appellate Judge J. Connolly
Christina Rouner	...	Anne-Marie Gautreaux
James Ryan	...	Robby
Tracy Sallows	...	Rosalie Carmody
Sara Surrey	...	Jeanette Gautreaux
John Tormey	...	Det. Will Ashman
L.B. Williams	...	Foreman

Certification:

Australia:M

Company:

Wolf Films

Trivia:

Despite its opening disclaimer that the story is fictional, the second half of the script is reminiscent of the Philadelphia murder of Holly Maddux by hippie ''guru'' Ira Einhorn.

Movie Connections:

References "Starsky and Hutch" (1975)