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"Law & Order" Sport of Kings (2005)



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7.7/10   18 votes
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Dick Wolf (creator)
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Original Air Date:
4 May 2005 (Season 15, Episode 22)
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Plot:
A jockey's murder leads detectives to a businessman who is accused of stealing from his company's pension fund to purchase personal luxury items. | add synopsis
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Horse Racing Can Be A Shady Business, At Times more (1 total)

Cast

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Dennis Farina ... Detective Joe Fontana

Michael Imperioli ... Detective Nick Falco
S. Epatha Merkerson ... Lt. Anita Van Buren

Sam Waterston ... Executive A.D.A. Jack McCoy
Annie Parisse ... A.D.A. Alexandra Borgia
Fred Dalton Thompson ... D.A. Arthur Branch
Scott Wilson
Jayne Atkinson ... Defense Attorney Hammond
Murphy Guyer

Thomas G. Waites ... Burton Fenster

Lois Smith ... Mrs. Varick

Leslie Hendrix ... Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
Reg Rogers ... Edgar Varick
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Jesse Bernstein ... Sam Barlow

Frank Bonsangue ... Court Clerk

Alfredo De Quesada ... Delgado
Jim Ireland ... Chuck

Derek Michalak ... Investigator Smith

Keith Moyer ... Stable Hand #1

Holly Perkins ... Guest

Izzy Ruiz ... Manuel

Joshua Tolby ... Jockey

Sonny Vellozzi ... Courtroom Gallery Member

David Von Roehm ... Horse Trainer
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Jesse L. Martin was absent from the last four episodes of the fifteenth season. He left the show temporarily to work on Rent (2005). His character, Det. Green, was shot in the line of duty. For those four episodes, Martin was replaced by Michael Imperioli as Det. Falco. more

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Horse Racing Can Be A Shady Business, At Times, 17 January 2009
8/10
Author: ccthemovieman-1 from Lockport, NY, United States

*** This review may contain spoilers ***

I'm not a viewer of this show but I saw this particular episode advertised on TV and it concerned horse racing, a favorite sport of mine. So I finally gave this longtime show a look. (I do watch "L&O: Criminal Intent"). I find it's a bit unusual (all of you knew this) in that the cops disappear once the trial starts and we get a whole new set of "good guys." It's like two stories in one, but yet it is one story overall.

Anyway, a jockey is murdered outside a Hispanic bar and the suspects go from the bottom up in the racing game: from grooms, to another jockey, to a trainer and then to an owner. It all winds up being about greed, a common sin among killers in police stories on TV (and real life, too, I assume).

Along the way, we learn a few crooked techniques of the racing business, such as "milkshakes" and "fake payments for a horse." The racing business has always had a corrupt element. How much varies according to the class of horses and owners. I gather from this episode, the class of the racetrack is average to a little above-average.

Outside of the murdered jockey, another sad element here is the possible loss of retirement funds for an entire company: 300 workers. It's always horrible when you hear of this kind of thing happening, meaning innocent people losing big funds - sometimes their life savings - to white-collar thieves.

This is not a trial that ever gets to the jury for a verdict of guilt or innocence. That's the big surprise - which you can see coming with five minutes to go in the show - but I won't get into specifics to ruin anyone's viewing pleasure here.

Scott Wilson, a familiar face for CSI fans (casino owner and father of "Catherine Willows"), is an unbilled guest star here. My guess was that he played a key role here at the end, but it was never stated if it was he, or someone else.

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