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Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
Jerry Orbach | ... | Detective Lennie Briscoe | |
Benjamin Bratt | ... | Detective Rey Curtis | |
S. Epatha Merkerson | ... | Lieutenant Anita Van Buren | |
Sam Waterston | ... | E.A.D.A. Jack McCoy | |
Jill Hennessy | ... | A.D.A. Claire Kincaid | |
Steven Hill | ... | D.A. Adam Schiff | |
Brooke Smith | ... | Margot Bell | |
Timothy Landfield | ... | Ron Weber | |
Ellen Pompeo | ... | Jenna Weber | |
Linda Emond | ... | Laura Cochran | |
Shawn Hatosy | ... | Chester Manning | |
Carolyn McCormick | ... | Dr. Elizabeth Olivet | |
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Linda Atkinson | ... | Judge Kyle Gaines |
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John Driver | ... | Mark Levinsohn |
Nancy McDoniel | ... | Sheila Gordon |
Detectives Briscoe and Curtis investigate the murder of Joyce Weber and her son Billy who were found shot in their beds. Her eldest daughter Jenna survived the attack but the father, Ron Weber, says he was out drinking and passed out in a local diner. Weber had been having a hard time of late. His alcoholism was getting the better of him and he had lost his job, something he had failed to tell his wife. He was worried about how he would care for his family and meet his responsibilities as the head of the family. Dr. Olivet confirms that he fits the pattern of a family annihilator and ADA McCoy proceeds with the prosecution. Part way through the trial however, Olivet begins to have doubts leading the police and the DA's office to take a second look at Jenna Weber's boyfriend Chester Manning. Written by garykmcd
Shades of John List. Jerry Orbach and Benjamin Bratt respond to a home where a mother and young son have been stabbed to death and the teenage daughter Ellen Pompeo is wounded. Husband Timothy Landfield is home later and he's stupifyingly drunk. Did he do the horrible deed while inebriated because he admits to nothing.
Is Landfield going to get justice because the cards looked stacked against him. His attorney Brooke Smith tries to deal but he insists on his innicene though he remembers nothing.
The whole theory of what makes someone a family annihilator is discussed at length. The truth is arroved at, but it ain't an easy one to swallow.
Nice performances by Landfield, Smith, and Pompeo.