A gunman opens fire on a group of people disembarking from a cruise ship. It
happens that it is a cruise for Jewish singles and a telltale message is left about
death to Zionists.
But that's a blind and the doer turns out to be a travel agent who was after the cruise director. He was afraid she'd deposit his check which didn't have sufficient funds to cover at that point. We all have cash flow problems at times, but we don't settle them that way as Kent Williams the jerk tried to do.
Then politics intervenes as the Governor who is unnamed but was George Pataki at the time ran on a death penalty platform and he wants blood. He has his Attorney General named Dennis Vacco at the time lift the case from Adam Schiff because the New York County DA only thinks Murder 2 is warranted. He wants Murder 1 and Deputy Attorney General Roy Thinnes takes the case away from Steven Hill and tries it with Carey Lowell's help.
The politics of capital punishment is what this was about. A really stupid and pathetic turf war with the Governor and the DA's office.
But you will best remember Lianni Pai who played Wentworth's girlfriend, a most mercenary woman who turns on him when Jerry Orbach and Benjamin Bratt show her that Wentworth isn't quite the catch she thought was. The look on Orbach's face is priceless as Pai sends Wentworth a come over to my place call.
But that's a blind and the doer turns out to be a travel agent who was after the cruise director. He was afraid she'd deposit his check which didn't have sufficient funds to cover at that point. We all have cash flow problems at times, but we don't settle them that way as Kent Williams the jerk tried to do.
Then politics intervenes as the Governor who is unnamed but was George Pataki at the time ran on a death penalty platform and he wants blood. He has his Attorney General named Dennis Vacco at the time lift the case from Adam Schiff because the New York County DA only thinks Murder 2 is warranted. He wants Murder 1 and Deputy Attorney General Roy Thinnes takes the case away from Steven Hill and tries it with Carey Lowell's help.
The politics of capital punishment is what this was about. A really stupid and pathetic turf war with the Governor and the DA's office.
But you will best remember Lianni Pai who played Wentworth's girlfriend, a most mercenary woman who turns on him when Jerry Orbach and Benjamin Bratt show her that Wentworth isn't quite the catch she thought was. The look on Orbach's face is priceless as Pai sends Wentworth a come over to my place call.