Eros in the Upper Eighties 

Kibre and Gaffney are forced to prosecute a doorman that killed a homeless man who was attacking a female tenant. Once the woman tells a jury that she assumed the homeless man to be the man... See full summary »

Director:

Joe Ann Fogle

Writers:

Dick Wolf (created by), Chris Levinson

Stars:

Bebe Neuwirth, Amy Carlson, Kirk Acevedo

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Bebe Neuwirth	...	Tracey Kibre
Amy Carlson	...	Kelly Gaffney
Kirk Acevedo	...	Hector Salazar
Scott Cohen	...	Chris Ravell
Fred Dalton Thompson	...	Arthur Branch (as Fred Thompson)
Lothaire Bluteau	...	Andres Voychek
Tristine Skyler	...	Abigail Phillips
Ron Silver	...	Bernie Adler
Wendell Pierce	...	Dr. Richard Link
Colman Domingo	...	Gus Johnson
Marceline Hugot	...	Justine Ashford
David Fonteno	...	Judge Derek Hafner (as David Wolos-Fonteno)
Mitchell Greenberg	...	Judge Harry Strong
Stephen Beach	...	Detective Paul Youngren
Maximiliano Hernández	...	Officer Miguel Montez

Storyline

Kibre and Gaffney are forced to prosecute a doorman that killed a homeless man who was attacking a female tenant. Once the woman tells a jury that she assumed the homeless man to be the man who had been stalking her for four months, the A.D.A. digs deeper into the case and finds that her knight and shining armor might not be such a hero after all.

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Language:

English

Release Date:

21 January 2006 (USA)

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Wolf Films, NBC Universal Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

42 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Eros is one of the Greek god's of love, he is specifically the god of attraction. His counterpart in Roman mythology is Cupid.

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Connections

Featured in A Different Look at 'Law & Order' (2006)

User Reviews

Two Different Creeps

Actor Lothaire Blutheau in two different stories in the Law And Order franchise played a pair of creeps. In a good SVU episode from the first season, Blutheau played a professor of French literature at St. Raymond's University which Dann Florek's alma mater. He was crushing out on a popular coed and when he witnessed her killing, he dragged her body out to some bushes and then shagged the corpse. Angie Harmon's reaction to this was priceless.

In this final Trial By Jury story Blutheau is now a doorman in a ritzy building and he saves one of his tenants who was being attacked by a homeless man and beats him to death. He's acclaimed a hero and Tristine Skyler is grateful and she even pays for his defense when he's arrested.

Fred Dalton Thompson figures let him go before a Grand Jury and they will vote no true bill and that would be the end of it. But the crack ADA team of Bebe Neuwirth and Amy Carlson uncover some evidence that doesn't make Blutheau look so heroic. In fact he's worse than he was in the SVU episode.

After his first lawyer quite on him, Blutheau gets Ron Silver as a lawyer who does pretty good for a while, impeaching at least one of the DA's witnesses. In the end though Blutheau pleads out, but the story is how the Neuwirth/Carlson team got him to do it.

I wish Trial By Jury had been given more of a chance, but I suspect that the audience wanted no one but the beloved Jerry Orbach and when he died the series really died with him. I'm also surprised that the regulars here weren't used on other Law And Order shows. Only the theme was cannibalized and used on Criminal Intent.