· Flaw: Directed by Jean de Segonzac. With Dennis Farina, Jesse L. Martin, S. Epatha Merkerson, Sam Waterston. The death of a con-man who tried to call Olivia Benson just before he was murdered brings Olivia and Fin to the assistance of Fontana and Green, and leads to a slippery mother/daughter team.
Law & Order is a police procedural and legal drama series that premiered on NBC on September 13, 1990. Set in New York City, where episodes were also filmed, the series ran for twenty seasons before it was cancelled on May 14, 2010, and aired its final episode ten days later on May 24. After its cancellation, AMC Network considered reviving Law & Order for a twenty-first …
The twenty-first season of Law & Order, an American police procedural and legal drama, was ordered by NBC on September 28, 2021, over a decade after its original cancellation. The season began airing on February 24, 2022, as a mid-season replacement during the 2021–2022 broadcast season.Series creator Dick Wolf returned as an executive producer. Rick Eid was named …
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Fritz Weaver (January 19, 1926–November 26, 2016) was an actor who played three different characters in Law & Order.
Prior to the end of the season, Annie Parisse – who portrayed ADA Borgia – quit the series, wanting out of her contract. A show insider said to Fox News, "She saw the writing on the wall, they never treated her very well.
Annie Parisse (Born Anne Marie Cancelmi on July 31, 1975 in Anchorage, Alaska) is an actress who played Assistant District Attorney Alexandra Borgia in Law & Order. She first appeared in the fifteenth season episode "Fluency", and made her last appearance in the sixteenth season episode "Invaders".
Chris Beetem (born Christopher Lapinski; August 8, 1969) is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles in films such as Black Hawk Down, Every Day and Mr. Popper's Penguins. Beetem is also known for his roles in As the World Turns, One Tree Hill, JAG and Pan Am.
Ben Stone was later replaced by Jack McCoy, and, due to his reputation for sleeping with his assistants, the first thing that Kincaid told him was that she would not be sleeping with him. (L&O: "Second Opinion") The two argued multiple times over trial strategies, but eventually became lovers.
Alexandra Borgia (d. April 26, 2006) was an Assistant District Attorney on Law & Order from 2005-2006. She was kidnapped, brutally beaten, and killed in the episode "Invaders", and was succeeded in the District Attorney's office by Connie Rubirosa.
In 2017, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999) actor Ice-T broke the record for the longest-running Black character on TV with his role of Detective Odafin Tutuola for 18 seasons. The person who held the title before him was S. Epatha Merkerson, who played Lieutenant Anita Van Buren on "Law & Order" for 17 years.
Although on occasion, she's been known to showcase a softer side to set up more lenient plea bargains. After appearing on the show for three full seasons, as well as a few episodes of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," Abbie Carmichael left her position to join the U.S. Attorney's office in New York.
Steven Hill was an Orthodox Jew whose faith required that he depart the set on Friday by 4 p.m. in order to ensure that he make it home by sundown and the onset of the Sabbath; he was unavailable until the end of the Sabbath at sundown on Saturdays.
Ain't No Love.Röhm left the show in the middle of the fifteenth season, and made her last appearance in the episode "Ain't No Love." She was replaced by Alexandra Borgia (Annie Parisse). Her departure was noteworthy due to a surprising conversation between Southerlyn and Branch in the very last scene of the episode.
Dennis Farina (February 29, 1944 - July 22, 2013) was an actor who played Detective Joe Fontana in Law & Order. His character replaced Lennie Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) as a detective on the series. He first appeared in the Season 15 episode "Paradigm".
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Although on occasion, she's been known to showcase a softer side to set up more lenient plea bargains. After appearing on the show for three full seasons, as well as a few episodes of "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," Abbie Carmichael left her position to join the U.S. Attorney's office in New York.
Branch dismissed Southerlyn because he felt that she was too sympathetic to the defendants. This self-outing is generally believed by critics and viewers alike to have been poorly handled in terms of both story continuity and character development.
Briscoe (Jerry Orbach) eventually becomes intoxicated and gets a ride home from Kincaid. Their ride together leads to one of the series' most heartfelt moments, but the tender scene is violently interrupted when their car is struck by a drunk driver — an accident that leaves Kincaid dead and Briscoe in a heap of tears.
Borgia presses Andreas to give up his accomplices, and is later kidnapped from her own apartment. Her body is subsequently found in the trunk of an abandoned car, bound, brutally beaten and dead of asphyxiation after choking on her own vomit.
The murder of a young female lawyer leads Fontana and Green to a law firm under investigation by the U.S. Attorney 's office, and Green is shot while escorting a reluctant witness to the courthouse.
At least one scene in this episode was filmed outside the Standard Oil Building at 26 Broadway.
The death of a con-man who tried to call Olivia Benson just before he was murdered brings Olivia and Fin to the assistance of Fontana and Green, and leads Olivia back to her old nemesis - slippery mother/daughter team Lorraine Dillon and April Troost. — Anonymous
The resolution of a two-part crossover with Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999). The storyline began in Design (2005).
Main article: Law & Order (season 15) Dennis Farina joined the cast as Joe Fontana this season. Elisabeth Röhm ( Serena Southerlyn) left the cast midway through the season; in the episode "Ain't No Love" she was replaced by Annie Parisse as Alexandra Borgia in the episode "Fluency".
Main article: Law & Order (season 1) The sixth episode " Everybody's Favorite Bagman " was the original pilot made by CBS in 1988. NBC decided to air " Prescription for Death " as the first episode of the series in 1990, before airing the original pilot later in the season.
Benjamin Bratt ( Rey Curtis) reprised his role in the episode " Fed ".
Paul Sorvino joined the cast as Phil Cerreta.
Benjamin Bratt ( Rey Curtis) reprised his role in the episode " Fed ".
Main article: Law & Order (season 12) Elisabeth Röhm joined the cast as Serena Southerlyn (character named after Dick Wolf’s daughter). Dianne Wiest ( Nora Lewin) left the cast at the end of the season. In the aftermath of 9/11, the main title voiceover by Steven Zirnkilton was changed for the first few episodes to include ...
Main article: Law & Order (season 10) Benjamin Bratt ( Rey Curtis) left the cast at the end of the ninth season, and was replaced by Jesse L. Martin ( Ed Green) this season. Steven Hill ( Adam Schiff) left the cast at the end of the season; he was the last first-season cast member to leave the series.
For most of Law & Order ' s run, the cold open or lead-in of the show began with the discovery of a crime, usually a murder. The scene typically began with a slice of everyday life in New York City. Some civilians would then discover the crime victim, or sometimes the crime would occur in a public place and they would be witnesses or a victim of a crime. The only exception to this is in the early seasons, mostly Seasons 1 & 2, the crime would usually be discovered by a pair of uniformed officers on patrol or in later seasons when the cold open was replaced with rapid cuts of the victim's final moments, similar to Law & Order: Criminal Intent .
In 1988, Dick Wolf developed a concept for a new television series that would depict a relatively optimistic picture of the American criminal justice system. He initially toyed with the idea of calling it Night & Day but then hit upon the title Law & Order. The first half of each episode would follow two detectives (a senior and a junior detective) and their commanding officer as they investigate a violent crime.
Borgia tells Branch and McCoy that Shane's private investigators warned the school that anything said to the attorneys would go on their records and could lead to prosecutions. Branch asks how Freddie was during witness preparation, and Borgia says that he's solid. Branch says they should have him testify.
Greg tells Olivet that he didn't want to be on the pills; he didn't think he was insane. He said that the pills sometimes made him feel paranoid or would cause insomnia and feelings of detachment from his body. He only told his dad, he says, and then insists to Olivet that if he'd known this was a risk, he'd have stopped taking them, but he took them because his parents told him too.
Borgia talks to another kid in the school, Scott Fine, but Fine claims no knowledge. Borgia eventually gets tired of all the 'I don't knows' and demands to know what's going on. Fine says that some people came by earlier.
Outside, Garcia tells the lawyers that Greg Loomis wasn't taking pills, but was selling them instead. He just learned this from some old friend of Alex's.
Olivet tells the lawyers that Loomis's words sounded like he'd memorized the warning label of the Centinol pills. He never reported any problems to his doctor. Borgia says that the suicide attempt indicates consciousness of guilt, but Olivet says Shane can make that seem like Loomis was insane at the moment. Furthermore, while Olivet believes that Loomis was sane, she can't say for sure.
Shane tries to convince McCoy that Centinol is dangerous. She cites a couple of cases in which two kids killed others in a brutal manner, both were on Centinol. McCoy says this isn't enough evidence. Shane offers Manslaughter 2, ten years probation, and McCoy wants to press for Murder 2. He also says that Olivet wants to see Loomis.
Branch warns McCoy not to be so dismissive; Shane is an excellent lawyer. Branch points out that it will come down to experts arguing about the medication, and the defense often wins in battles of expert witnesses. Borgia says that Loomis has no criminal record, but was thrown out of several schools. McCoy blasts Greg Loomis, and Branch asks if the chance to go against a TV lawyer is spurring Jack on.
Many of the Law & Order stars left the show simply because they were ready for new projects, while other actors left because of behind-the-scenes issues. To quote the Law & Order intro voiceover, these are their stories...
Jill Hennessy played Assistant District Attorney Claire Kincaid from season 4 to season 6 of Law & Order, leaving the show in 1996. In the plot, Kincaid dies in a car accident as she drives a drunk Lennie Briscoe home from a bar.
From season 9 to season 11 of Law & Order, Angie Harmon portrayed Assistant District Attorney Abbie Carmichael. She gave up the role in 2001 for a variety of reasons, as she told Cinema Confidential two years later: the show took her away from her then-husband, for example, and her role was feeling one-note.
Producer Dick Wolf later told Newsday that Hill, then 78, left the show because he was tired and didn't want to commute from the suburbs into Manhattan every week.
After leaving the show, Bratt went on to appear in the films Miss Congeniality, Traffic, and Coco, and starred in the TV shows The Cleaner, Private Practice, 24: Live Another Day, and Star.
Benjamin Bratt left Law & Order to spend time with his family. Mike Logan's replacement was Detective Rey Curtis, who entered the Law & Order universe in season 6 and exited at the end of season 9 in 1999. In that season's finale, Curtis takes an early retirement to tend to help his wife manage her MS.
When season 4 picked up in 1993, however, both characters were gone without explanation. According to a 1997 Orlando Sentinel report, both actors were let go from Law & Order to open up cast positions for the series' two lead female characters: Lieutenant Anita Van Buren and Assistant District Attorney Claire Kincaid.