Silencer 

Members of the radical deaf community are suspects in the murder of a doctor who provides cochlear implants. But the investigation proves troublesome when members refuse to cooperate because of their contempt for the hearing public.

Director:

Dean White

Writers:

Dick Wolf (created by), Rene Balcer (developed by) (as René Balcer)

Stars:

Vincent D'Onofrio, Kathryn Erbe, Eric Bogosian

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Vincent D'Onofrio	...	Robert Goren
Kathryn Erbe	...	Alexandra Eames
Eric Bogosian	...	Danny Ross
Bill O'Brien	...	Det. Peter Lyons
Alexandria Wailes	...	Malia Gallo
Garrett Zuercher	...	Tommy Kellerman
Bridget Regan	...	ADA Claudia Shankly
Deanne Bray	...	Dean Price
Timothy Carhart	...	Dr. Strauss
Darren Frazier	...	Larry Forseca
Raynor Scheine	...	Antonio
Hillary Baack	...	DeeDee
Josh Heine	...	Jared
Howard W. Overshown	...	Det. Ozzie Rivera (as Howard Overshown)
Darren Matthias	...	Orlando

Storyline

Members of the radical deaf community are suspects in the murder of a doctor who provides cochlear implants. But the investigation proves troublesome when members refuse to cooperate because of their contempt for the hearing public.

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Plot Keywords:

radical | deaf | community | cochlear implant | shot multiple times | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English American Sign Language

Release Date:

3 April 2007 (USA)

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Wolf Films, NBC Universal Television

Technical Specs

Runtime:

43 min

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Writing a illegitimate prescription with either a stolen prescription pad, or attempting to forge a prescription pad of your own, or altering the dosage, drug strength, drug quantity, refill quantity or dispense date of a legitimately written prescription in New York state is forgery in the second degree, a class D felony which can carry a prison sentence of 1 1/3 to 7 years. If you successfully pass the forged prescription and the pharmacy fills it and the prescription was for a controlled substance, but it is later discovered that you used a forged prescription you will face an additional charge of Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the fifth degree, also a class D felony. However if you intended to sell the controlled substance you obtained with the forged prescription you could face a charge of Criminal possession of a controlled substance in the third degree, a class B felony with a sentence of 3 to 5 years with no prior record and a maximum sentence of 25 years if you have priors.

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Goofs

Detective Eames is sitting at the police lounge with a coffee that she lifts up to her lips to take a sip from whilst talking to her Lieutenant. In the very next shot, the cup is no where to be seen.

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Quotes

Danny Ross: So no murder weapon, no witnesses, shaky motive.
Alexandra Eames: And contradictory alibis. Tommy's cousin alibis Tommy but not Malia. Malia alibis Larry, but Larry rejects her alibi.
Danny Ross: It's possible the three of them are in this together.
Robert Goren: There is one way we can break into their world.
Danny Ross: Bring Tommy and Malia in together, break them apart.
Robert Goren: Yeah.

User Reviews

Hard to listen too.

This isn't a bad episode. It's just a topic that pushes my buttons. This isn't the first episode in the Law & Order franchise to deal with this subject. And every time I come across one of these it reminds me how much I dislike that part of this so-call community. Celebrating yet another group misbehaving and looking for even more special treatment is something that's just not needed. I'm an RN and I've been around this kind of deaf radicals myself. And I find it just a primitive and inexcusable as any bigotry. In my opinion stories like this serve as recruitment tools. Tools that help poison minds. All through this episode, the police have to deal with the same kind of lack of cooperation seen from street gangs. The story was difficult to sit through. Not because of the regular players. They did their usual good jobs. It was the subject matter that was the problem here. Radical deaf people that a grateful for children being born deaf is despicable in my view.