"Law & Order" DR 1-102 (2002)

User Rating:

6.8/10   

Director:

Richard Dobbs

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator)
Marc Guggenheim (writer) ...

TV Series:

"Law & Order" (1990)

Original Air Date:

30 January 2002 (Season 12, Episode 13)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery | Drama

Plot:

Serena is asked as a lawyer to help resolve a hostage situation. But her actions threaten to get her disbarred because she didn't disclose to the captor that she works as a prosecutor and wasn't his personal counsel.

Plot Keywords:

Detective | Police | Attorney | 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
Dianne Wiest	...	D.A. Nora Lewin
Gene Silvers	...	Raymond Hobbs
Susan Blackwell	...	Lydia Fernands
Shawn Elliott	...	Judge Joseph Rivera
David De Beck	...	Captain Bolland (as David DeBeck)
John Benjamin Hickey	...	Aaron Solomon
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Arthur Anderson	...	Mr. Rothchild
John Cariani	...	CSU Julian Beck
Frank Ciornei	...	Super
Brent Crawford	...	Matt Tagert
Todd Davis	...	Louis Williams
John Dewar	...	Hardware Store Owner
Craig Gass	...	Mark Grandy
Sarah Graham Hayes	...	Gail
E. Katherine Kerr	...	Chairwoman
Brian Maillard	...	Damon
Fran McGee	...	Eileen Hobbs
Greg Northrop	...	Officer Hines (as Gregory Northrop)
Eric Dean Scott	...	Serge
Eric Seltzer	...	Driver
Zach Shaffer	...	Mike
Kevin Sibley	...	Detective
Craig Walker	...	Bartender
Debrah Ellen Waller	...	Alicia Williams
Leyna Weber	...	Wife

Company:

Wolf Films

Trivia:

This episode is often used in law schools as a teaching tool for discussions on attorney ethics.

Goofs:

Factual errors: A police officer tells Serena Southerlyn to protect her face and neck against a knife thrust with her hands and that "...the Kevlar will protect the rest." This is not entirely true; Kevlar protects best against blows such as punches or bullets. It can protect against a knife cut or slash, but will only slow, but not stop completely, a thrust.