Law & Order (TV Series)

The Serpent's Tooth (1991)

Chris Noth: Detective Mike Logan

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• Margaret Langdon : He had a short fuse. Mrs. Jarmon kept reminding him they were just children.

  Max Greevey : Nick get the worst of it?

  Margaret Langdon : You have to understand, he was the first child.

  Mike Logan : Miss Langdon please, you're not speaking ill of the dead, we have to know! Did he beat his kid or not?

  Margaret Langdon : Almost every day. He used whatever was on hand. A belt, a tennis racket, one time he used a wooden coat hanger.

  Max Greevey : Mrs. Jarmon didn't do anything to stop it?

  Margaret Langdon : You have to understand, she was terrified of him. It went on that way for years, then finally when Nick was 16 he had enough and he hit him back. He never laid a hand on Nick after that.

  Mike Logan : Until Nick broke his jaw.

  Margaret Langdon : No, that was because of Gregory.

  Max Greevey : Greg hit his father?

  Margaret Langdon : No... Mr. Jarmon was beating Gregory with a cane. Nick had to stop it... that's when he hit him.

• Nick Jarmon : I didn't like my father, some days I didn't even love him. Do you love your parents every day of the week?

  Mike Logan : And breaking his jaw? Is that how you show affection?

  Nick Jarmon : I'd been out with friends, I came home drunk, he wouldn't let me in the house until I sobered up.

  Mike Logan : You broke his jaw over that?

  Nick Jarmon : I told you I was drunk! Didn't you ever hurt anyone you loved?

  Mike Logan : Not enough to put them in the ER.