"Law & Order" Called Home (2008)

User Rating:

7.8/10   

Director:

Allen Coulter

Writers:

Dick Wolf (creator)
Rene Balcer (written by)

TV Series:

"Law & Order" (1990)

Original Air Date:

2 January 2008 (Season 18, Episode 1)

Genre:

Crime | Mystery | Drama

Plot:

Former New York detective Cyrus Lupo returns after his brother's suicide. The investigation reveals a relationship between two assisted suicides, a notorious assisted suicide doctor, his daughter, and an investigative journalist. |

Plot Keywords:

Detective | Police | Attorney | District Attorney | Evidence

Cast

Jesse L. Martin	...	Detective Ed Green
Jeremy Sisto	...	Detective Cyrus Lupo
S. Epatha Merkerson	...	Lt. Anita Van Buren
Linus Roache	...	Executive A.D.A. Michael Cutter
Alana De La Garza	...	A.D.A. Connie Rubirosa
Sam Waterston	...	D.A. Jack McCoy
Brad Dourif	...	Dr. David Lingard
Marin Ireland	...	Mila Hames Lingard
Elizabeth Marvel	...	Attorney Grubman
Guenia Lemos	...	Jenny Lupo
Leslie Hendrix	...	Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers
Dominic Fumusa	...	Tom Lupo
Gerry Becker	...	Gerard Wills
Michael McKean	...	Bill Nolan
Susan Blackwell	...	Judge Agnes Reisman

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

USA:TV-14

Company:

Wolf Films

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: In the final scene, when Detective Lupo is viewing the "home movie" of the suicide, the "home movie" was recorded using an HDTV camera (obvious, since the detective watches on an HD monitor and the aspect ratio of the "home movie" is correct, not wide as would have happened if shot with a standard home movie camera). HD cameras were not readily available for the consumer in early 2008.

Quotes:

D.A. Jack McCoy: What do you do for recreation Mike, juggle chainsaws?

Disappointing

I hope that the writing for Sam Waterston as the D.A. will get better than these first two episodes gave us. He is too fine a talent to go to waste on what we got here. And Linus Roache is a very fine actor, also not well used. Or maybe I should say that the writers didn't seem to know HOW to utilize his new character. You are going to lose the show ultimately, with this big a change, if you don't get with the program (pun, pun). I mean it. The writing for the detectives was done with the ease that the many years have given the authors. THAT part of the two programs was great, as usual. But if the writers do not give these excellent actors playing the District Attornies some superior scripts I think that the show will finally find it's finish.