Skeleton (15 Apr. 2005)

McCoy wants to pursue the case of the man who shot Detective Green, but Branch forces him to turn it over to Kibre. Initially she allows Fontana to work with Ravell, but his overzealous ... See full summary »

Director:

David Platt

Writers:

David Wilcox, Dick Wolf (creator)

Stars:

Bebe Neuwirth, Amy Carlson, Kirk Acevedo

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Bebe Neuwirth	...	A.D.A. Tracey Kibre
Amy Carlson	...	A.D.A. Kelly Gaffney
Kirk Acevedo	...	D.A. Investigator Hector Salazar
Scott Cohen	...	Detective Chris Ravell
Fred Dalton Thompson	...	D.A. Arthur Branch
Debrah Farentino	...	Danielle Blair
Ritchie Coster	...	Shane Lucas
Jose Edwin Soto	...	Emiliano Ortiz
Jonathan Hogan	...	Everett Phelps
Margarita Levieva	...	Stephanie Davis
Richard Belzer	...	Detective John Munch
Dennis Farina	...	Detective Joe Fontana
Jesse L. Martin	...	Detective Ed Green
S. Epatha Merkerson	...	Lt. Anita Van Buren
Sam Waterston	...	Jack McCoy

Storyline

McCoy wants to pursue the case of the man who shot Detective Green, but Branch forces him to turn it over to Kibre. Initially she allows Fontana to work with Ravell, but his overzealous attempts to get justice for his partner result in him being dismissed from the case. It is revealed that the hit man who shot Kenny Peluso was in fact sent by a maker and distributor of pornography whom Peluso worked with, and who believed that Peluso was a witness with the D.A.'s office in a murder that he had helped Peluso to commit. However, the D.A.'s office is surprised to find that the victim is someone they had never suspected.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Details

Release Date:

15 April 2005 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Wolf Films

Did You Know?

Trivia

This was the continuation of Law & Order: Tombstone.

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Quotes

Det. Joe Fontana: [attempting to sound stern, but with affection] Do you have any idea how much crap I've had to go through because of you?
Detective Ed Green: [weakly, but grinning] Hey, Joe.

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Connections

References Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999)

User Reviews

Who Shot Jesse Martin and Why

The short lived Law And Order: Trial By Jury show had as one of its episodes a cross over from Law And Order prime. In the first show Detective Jesse Martin was shot and seriously wounded and a witness in the case on the first show killed.

Too bad for all concerned perpetrators that Martin lived because he gave a dead bang identification of the shooter Jose Edwin Soto. When Dennis Farina of the first series and Kirk Acevedo of this series arrest Soto he was contract killer and the story he tells involves some real sleazy folks who are in the pornography business and it seems the guy who ordered the hit Jonathan Hogan may have been the murderer in a snuff film.

A pair of female ADAs, Bebe Neuwirth and Amy Carlson, handle the prosecution with all the skills we've come to expect from Sam Waterston and his various second chairs. The show never really got off the ground and maybe there was just a little too much Law And Order on NBC and the various cable networks where the syndicated episodes popped up.