Briscoe and his new partner, Rey Curtis, track down the man accused of kidnapping and killing a young girl.Briscoe and his new partner, Rey Curtis, track down the man accused of kidnapping and killing a young girl.Briscoe and his new partner, Rey Curtis, track down the man accused of kidnapping and killing a young girl.
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- TriviaWhile complaining about the low image quality of the ATM camera the video tech says "the same goobers that built Hubble built this camera." She is referring to the fact that the primary mirror in the Hubble Space Telescope was ground the wrong shape due to a defective sensor that was built specifically to measure the thickness of the mirror which was the most precisely figured optical mirror ever made at the time, with a smoothness variation of less than 10 nanometers. The flawed sensor caused the mirror to be too flat around the edge by about 2,200 nanometers. This in turn led to images taken by the telescope to be out of focus, it could take images of local objects without much issue, but when it came to taking images of really bright objects like local stars, or really dim objects like distant galaxies, the images were too distorted. To-date it was the largest and most expensive blunder in NASA's history and Hubble became the butt of a lot of jokes at the time. NASA eventually found a solution, they designed special lenses to bring the light coming off the mirror back into focus, the lenses were installed during the first scheduled maintenance mission for Hubble in 1993, three years after its launch.
- GoofsA courtroom scene takes place on Monday, September 5th. That would be Labor Day, a Federal holiday, and court would not be in session.
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Det. Lennie Briscoe: When I was a kid growing up around here, worst thing that could happen was you skinned your knee playing Johnny on the pony.
Det. Rey Curtis: I don't remember my childhood being that rosy.
Det. Lennie Briscoe: When was that, last week?
- ConnectionsReferences The Wizard of Oz (1939)
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All they've dedicated their lives to
Although Benjamin Bratt joins the Law And Order cast in this episode it's Sam Waterston who the spotlight is on in this story. Waterston likes to see justice even when he loses. And not only he but the justice system itself stood to lose here.
A young child is abducted by a man in a white glazier's truck. Jerry Orbach and Benjamin Bratt apprehend John Ventimiglia soon enough and he's a lowlife of sorts and they have a pretty good case on him. But as happened in real life in California, the victim's mother Ellen Greene brings a gun to court and shoots him during arraignment.
Like in California there's a wave of sympathy for her. But as we dig deeper all was definitely not as it seemed. The victim died while being held by Ventimiglia so it's murder any way you slice it via the Lindbergh law. As for Greene she and her former husband Tom Tammi used the child in real life as the rope in a tug of war.
Waterston steps ever so gingerly into the realm of perjury to get to the real story. But he and Steven Hill see the court shooting as an attack on all they believe and all they've dedicated their lives to.
Note also a really good performance by Marilyn Chris as Ventimiglia's mother. One to look out for.
A young child is abducted by a man in a white glazier's truck. Jerry Orbach and Benjamin Bratt apprehend John Ventimiglia soon enough and he's a lowlife of sorts and they have a pretty good case on him. But as happened in real life in California, the victim's mother Ellen Greene brings a gun to court and shoots him during arraignment.
Like in California there's a wave of sympathy for her. But as we dig deeper all was definitely not as it seemed. The victim died while being held by Ventimiglia so it's murder any way you slice it via the Lindbergh law. As for Greene she and her former husband Tom Tammi used the child in real life as the rope in a tug of war.
Waterston steps ever so gingerly into the realm of perjury to get to the real story. But he and Steven Hill see the court shooting as an attack on all they believe and all they've dedicated their lives to.
Note also a really good performance by Marilyn Chris as Ventimiglia's mother. One to look out for.
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