The Dead Wives Club

Episode aired Sep 22, 2004
TV-14
41m

IMDb RATING

7.8/10

315

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Crime Drama Mystery Thriller

A "9-11 Widow" who received a lucrative settlement after her firefighter husband's death is murdered. Another firefighter's ex-wife, who was dumped for the victim after 9-11, is charged.A "9-11 Widow" who received a lucrative settlement after her firefighter husband's death is murdered. Another firefighter's ex-wife, who was dumped for the victim after 9-11, is charged.A "9-11 Widow" who received a lucrative settlement after her firefighter husband's death is murdered. Another firefighter's ex-wife, who was dumped for the victim after 9-11, is charged.

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IMDb RATING

7.8/10

315

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Trivia
The trademark "donk-donk" sound first appears in this episode during the introductory segment before the opening credits - very unusual for an episode of "Law & Order".

Goofs
It is a common misconception that coffee helps one sober up. It does not. The caffeine in coffee acts as a stimulant, which may trick the mind into thinking one is becoming sober but the only thing that rids the body of alcohol is metabolism over time.

Quotes
Pancho Diamond: What the hell is this?
Detective Joe Fontana: I'm gonna tell you what it is, Agent Diamond. It's my tailor made, Italian silk shirt with his blood on it. A little thing we like to call evidence. You take it, and you run a toxicology screen. And by the way, I'm billing the FBI.

Connections
References The First Wives Club (1996)

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7/10

We have a great family. She'd never leave us on purpose.

A ferry hit violently the dock, causing two deaths, some car damages and many injured people. The case was not under NY jurisdiction, so the pilot fault and what happened to him right away was all a maritime FBI matter. Anyway one of the casualty was actually killed shortly before the accident: she was a 9/11 firefighter's widow who received a great amount of money after the terrorist attack as a compensation for her loss. Detectives started questioning all the firefighter's wives, realizing that the one widowed raised a lot their life standard, while the others had to deal with the hardship of depression and sickness without any compensations. A fireman left his wife (Amy Carlson) for the victim, getting even their sons custody. The grieving former wife was the prime suspects and all proofs were against her, but if you looked in her eyes, you couldn't have felt a little pity for her.

Fontana is a character so different from Briscoe. At the beginning he was really in anger after some blood stains ruined his 300 dollars shirt, then he pretends to be a family man before a suspect.