For Love or Money (10 Oct. 2001)

A career criminal is murdered, and the investigation leads detectives to a manipulative widow who may have hired the victim to murder her husband.

Director:

Constantine Makris

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator), Wendy Battles,

Stars:

Jerry Orbach, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Jerry Orbach	...	Detective Lennie Briscoe
Jesse L. Martin	...	Detective Ed Green
S. Epatha Merkerson	...	Lt. Anita Van Buren
Sam Waterston	...	Jack McCoy
Elisabeth Röhm	...	A.D.A. Serena Southerlyn
Dianne Wiest	...	D.A. Nora Lewin
Cathy Moriarty	...	Lorraine Cobin (as Cathy Moriarty-Gentile)
Katherine Moennig	...	Melissa Cobin
Paul Diomede	...	Paul Kasperski
Mark Margolis	...	Frankie 'Threads' Polito
Jordan Charney	...	Judge Donald Karan
Leslie Denniston	...	Elizabeth Dumas
Joseph La Rocca	...	Tom (as Joseph LaRocca)
Jack Gilpin	...	Mr. Axtell
Maggie Moore	...	Angela McDowell

Storyline

A career criminal is murdered, and the investigation leads detectives to a manipulative widow who may have hired the victim to murder her husband.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 October 2001 (USA)

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Wolf Films, Studios USA Television

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

User Reviews

The Widow Bottom Feeds

Another one of the great Law and Order episodes is this one with two apparently unconnected murders of an ex-con and the owner of an electrical appliance business get connected by Jerry Orbach and Jesse L. Martin.

The real story here is how the culprit eventually gets justice through the legal system. Cathy Moriarty is the wife of the owner who hired the ex-con to kill her husband and this is one evil woman. I can't say more except the scope of her own malevolence gets turned against her from an unexpected source.

There is one other performance of note here, he has only one scene, in fact it's his sole credit listed on IMDb. But Jamie Lorenzo plays a "bottom feeding shyster" as he's described. He has to be one in real life because he comes over as so oily and so unctuous that he must do this in real life and did this role as a lark.