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"Expert"
L&O, Episode 8.12
Production number: K2518
First aired: 21 January 1998
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Deirdre Powell
Written By
I.C. Rapoport & David Shore

Directed By
Lewis Gould

Plot[]

A shooting attack in a restroom leaves detectives trying to determine who was the intended target.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Recurring cast[]

Guest cast[]

References[]

Quotes[]

Rey Curtis: Sounds to me like a hit.
Lennie Briscoe: And a miss.

Anita Van Buren: Worley. Didn't he crush his girlfriend against a wall with a car?
Rey Curtis: Yeah. A '54 Studebaker. Mayer was the hired gun to convince the jury that Worley's a mental defect.
Lennie Briscoe: I'm convinced. The guy purposely messed up a vintage automobile.
Anita Van Buren: So Mayer was shot by an antique car collector?

Relax, we're not the pretzel police. Let me have an extra salty.

–Lennie Briscoe to a pretzel vendor


Leon Mayer: The disorder manifests itself very specifically through irrational violence brought on by emotional catalyst, accompanied by memory loss, lack of affect and remorse.
Emil Skoda: If that's all it takes to duck a murder charge, we're all out of business.
Jack McCoy: Doctors, the question is very simple. At the time she fired the gun, did Lindsay Carson appreciate the consequences of her actions and did she know it was wrong?
Emil Skoda: Yes.
Leon Mayer: No.
Jamie Ross: Terrific.

We say she's cold-blooded, they say she was in a trance. Tomato, to-mah-to.

–Jamie Ross


Adam Schiff: The whole world says her father's a murderer, one guy tells her he's sick. She heard what she wanted to hear.
Jamie Ross: We all do.
Jack McCoy: Yeah, but we don't all pay forty thousand dollars to hear it.

Lindsay Carson: I've answered enough questions, I'm leaving and I'm taking this with me.
Anita Van Buren: I'm afraid that's not possible.
Lindsay Carson: I'm not leaving without them.
Anita Van Buren: You're not leaving. Please put them down, you're under arrest for murder and attempted murder.

Background information and notes[]

Episode scene cards[]

1 2 3

Great White Way
Ticket Agency
1599 Broadway
Tuesday, September 17

Hudson Terrace
Medical Center
Thursday, September 26

Apartment Of
Lindsay Carson
216 Cornelia
Monday, September 30

4 5 6

Attica Prison
Attica, New York
Thursday, October 17

Yellow Shutters Motel
Binghamton, New York
Monday, October 21

Supreme Court
Trial Part 48
Friday, January 10

7

Office Of
Executive Assistant
D.A. Jack McCoy
Friday, January 17

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