Please Note We Are No Longer Accepting Letters of Recommendation from Henry Kissinger 

Goren and Eames discover that three shooting victims are connected by both the same murder weapon and the waiting list at a prestigious New York City pre-K school.

Director:

Kevin Bray

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
Jessica Walter	...	Eleanor Reynolds
Sarah Jane Morris	...	Marla Reynolds
Isabel Keating	...	Janine
Kelly Deadmon	...	Kelly Lowe
Ivan Martin	...	Tim Myler
Jason Pendergraft	...	Skip Lowe
Anya Migdal	...	Teya
Neal Bledsoe	...	Kevyn
Alex Cranmer	...	Remsen
Jeremy Shamos	...	John Eckhardt
Rae Ritke	...	Candace
Jon DeVries	...	Max Wright (as John DeVries)

Storyline

While taking his three-year-old son on an evening stroll in the park, stock analyst Skip Lowe is gunned down by someone familiar to him. While the police are investigating the shooting, Paloma Renzi, the mother of another toddler, is gunned down under similar circumstances. Detectives find a professional connection between the two victims, but a third murder victim with a three-year-old, Denise (who turns out to have actually been the first one killed) seems to have no connection to Skip and Paloma, until Goren and Eames discover that all three children have the same preschool in common. When the frightening motive of a parent murdering other parents to move their child up the waiting list, and into the exclusive Carnegie Hill Day, becomes apparent, they race to zero in on the killer.

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Plot Keywords:

threatened suicide | nanny | tied together | bound and gagged | reference to henry kissinger | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

6 July 2008 (USA)

Filming Locations:

New York City, New York, USA

Company Credits

Production Co:

Wolf Films, Universal Media Studios (UMS)

Technical Specs

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

This episode's title is the longest of any in the Law & Order franchise.

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Quotes

Marla Reynolds: [weeping] How can Eleanor love Henry and not love me?

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Connections

References The Jerry Springer Show (1991)

User Reviews

Marla? That woman is pure white trash

Two Wall Street analysts (a man and a woman) are killed in no time by a old-fashioned gun from a close range. They both used to hang out in the park with their newborn children and none of them seemed to have issues at home. Actually the man used to hook up with males in his lunch break, but it's not the right pattern. Then a third death person is connected to the murders: she was shot dead weeks before by the same weapon and she has a toddler as well. She wasn't a wealthy person, working as a cook in soup kitchen, but a recommendation letter written by the church linked his son to the other babies and detectives soon narrow it down to a preschool waiting list. But the perp is not what it seems.

I didn't know there's so much competition between rich parents to admit children in a KINDERGARTEN. "A gateway to the Ivy League"? I don't really believe.