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"Happily Ever After"
L&O, Episode 1.05
Production number: 66212
First aired (US): 23 October 1990
First aired (AUS): 23 August 1993
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Cragen Happily Ever After
Teleplay By
David Black & Robert Stuart Nathan

Story By
Dick Wolf & David Black

Directed By
Vern Gillum

Max Greevey and Mike Logan have a hunch that robbery is a cover for the real motive in the death of a millionaire in a parking garage.

Plot[]

Stone and Robinette suspect that someone else might be involved in the shooting of a married man, and go back to his wife, who was also wounded as they prepare their case.

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Recurring cast[]

Guest cast[]

References[]

Quotes[]

(Referring to the murder weapon)

"...and guess who it was registered to?"
"Himes, Gilbert?"
"Nope. And not to Ralston, Janet, either."
"Ralston, Alan? Great. He was killed with his own gun."

- Max Greevey, Benjamin Stone and Mike Logan
Max Greevey: That's amazing. I know cops who been in shooting cases that can't remember their badge numbers afterwards. (Referring to the suspect.) Her husband gets shot, she gets shot, victim of a horrible crime, she remembers every second.

Paul Robinette: Short of a mob killing, I'm beginning to think this is the most dispassionate murder I've ever seen.

Benjamin Stone: True love. They'd sell each other out for a nickel.

"I thought you didn't believe in evil."
"That's before I met Janet Ralston."
"Either she's evil, or she's two years old. She wants what she wants when she wants it."

- Benjamin Stone and Adam Schiff

Janet Ralston: You don't scare me, Mr. Stone.
Benjamin Stone: Oh, yes, I do, Mrs. Ralston. I scare you a great deal. And I should.

Max Greevey: I hate horseback riding. Scares the hell out of me.
Mike Logan: Scary for the horse, too.

Gordon Schell: It's a crime of passion, Stone. Pure and simple.
Benjamin Stone: A crime of passion is never pure, and it's certainly not simple.

Background information and notes[]

Episode scene cards[]

1 2 3

St Justin's Hospital
Tuesday, April 18th

Supreme Court
Criminal Term
Arraignment Part 60
Monday, May 7th

Janet Ralston's
Apartment
1121 West End Ave
Tuesday, May 8

4 5 6

Riker's Island Prison
Wednesday, May 9th

Two days later

The home of
Mr. and Mrs. Luck
620 Park Avenue South
Friday, August 24

7 8 9

Office Of
District Attorney
Adam Schiff
Thursday, August 30th

Rikers Island
Interrogation room 3
Monday, September 3

Supreme Court
Criminal Term
Trial Part 64
Wednesday, October 10

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