By Hooker, By Crook
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| "By Hooker, By Crook" | ||
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| ← | L&O, Episode 1.07 | → |
| Production number: 66203 First aired: 13 November 1990 | ||
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| Written By David Black Directed By Martin Davidson | ||
When Mike Logan and Max Greevey investigate how a family man came to be found unconscious in Central Park, they uncover a very high-class call girl operation run by a well-educated socialite.
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[edit] Plot
Detectives investigate the murder of an architect in Central Park, and discover a high-class prostitution ring.
[edit] Cast
[edit] Main cast
- George Dzundza as Sergeant Max Greevey
- Chris Noth as Detective Mike Logan
- Dann Florek as Captain Donald Cragen
- Michael Moriarty as Executive A.D.A. Benjamin Stone
- Richard Brooks as A.D.A. Paul Robinette
- Steven Hill as D.A. Adam Schiff
[edit] Guest cast
- Thomas Anderson as Emile Lucy
- Bernard Barrow as Mr. Hamilton
- Patricia Barry as Mrs. Stringfellow
- Patricia Clarkson as Sarah Winthrop
- Brian Smiar as Judge Harcourt?
- Leslie Goldman as Judge Benjamin Harcourt
- Jenny Robertson as Jolene Curtis
- Addison Powell as Roger Auclair
- Bernice Massi as Mrs. Diamond
- Kathryn Meisle as Catherine Moody
- Christine Dunford as Reporter
- Sandra Beall as Jogger
- Ralph Buckley as Bailiff
- Paul Austin as Stanko
- Gregory Burke as Birthday Boy
- Yvette Edelhart as Sadie
- Carol Goodheart as Juror
- Kelle Kerr as Jasmine
- Robert LuPone as Kurtz
- Steven Marcus as Sheets
- Nick Muglia as Trevelyan
- Joe Pentangelo as Macaulay
- Dana Reeve as Camilla
- Martin Shakar as Doctor
- Byron Utley as Cookie Molina
- Courtney B. Vance as Mayor's Aide
- Lillias White as Streetwalker
[edit] References
[edit] Quotes
"Fifty cents! I've been working hotels for 40 years, and I ain't seen a two-bit tip since those Kennedys been in office. You see what I'm getting' at? Then this duke asks me about getting a girl, and I tell him, 'A big tipper like you don't need no girl!'"
- - Hotel worker
"You should have sent your partner. I don't usually do discipline, but I would love to teach him some manners."
- - Jasmine
"I thought you said you weren't a cop."
"I lied."
"Isn't there some kind of illegal thing about that?"
"What? Lying? I'm allowed to lie. They pay me to lie."
- - Jolene Curtis and Max Greevey
"Look at that. In and out."
"Just like work."
- - Max Greevey and Mike Logan
"What do you think?"
"Of a hooker who's got a lawyer looks like he spends more on clothes than I make in a year? I think whoever's paying his bill ought to adopt me."
- - Max Greevey and Mike Logan
"Look -- the heart -- that's not the part of the anatomy the girls are interested in."
- - Cookie Molina
"Nice wife, three kids, what's he doing going to a hooker?"
"Your objection moral or economic?"
- - Mike Logan and Max Greevey
[edit] Background information and notes
- In the last scene from this episode we see Benjamin Stone and Paul Robinette coming down the courthouse's stairs. This scene is used behind the word "ORDER" in the opening theme. Although Michael Moriarty left after the fourth season and Richard Brooks after the third season, they remain in the opening theme for the rest of the series.
- This episode was based on the Sydney Biddle Barrows case. Better known as the 'Mayflower Madam', Sydney Biddle Barrows was a modern American madam. After her escort service was exposed and disbanded, she gained worldwide notoriety, in part because she was part of the upper-class Biddle family of Philadelphia and is a Mayflower descendant. In October 1984, her escort service was shut down and she was charged with promoting prostitution by the New York City District Attorney's Office. After she pled guilty, she published a best-selling autobiography, Mayflower Madam, which later became a television movie of the same name starring Candice Bergen. (Source: Sydney Biddle Barrows at Wikipedia)
- Actor Courtney B. Vance has a small role as the unnamed Mayor's Aide in this episode. Vance would later become a regular cast member on Law & Order: Criminal Intent as Assistant District Attorney Ron Carver.
[edit] Episode scene cards
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Jangle's Bar |
Stanley Hotel |
40 East 92nd Street |
Supreme Court |
Offices of the |
Residence of |
Foley Square |
Office of Executive |
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