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"In Memory Of..."
L&O, Episode 2.07
Production number: 67413
First aired: 5 November 1991
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Elizabeth Olivet In Memory Of
Teleplay By
David Black & Robert Nathan

Story By
David Black & Siobhan Byrne

Directed By
Ed Sherin

The skeletal remains of a young boy missing for 30 years are found in an apartment building, and the killer needs to be found by digging up some repressed memories.

Plot[]

Plot

Cast[]

Main cast[]

Recurring cast[]

Guest cast[]

References[]

  • Tommy Keegan

Quotes[]

Cragen: What'd he say?
Logan: He told us to go to Hell.
Cragen: Well, at least he's got a way with words.

Stone: We have an obligation to investigate.
Defense Attorney: At the expense of my client's reputation? This man has led an exemplary life.
Stone: Or he hasn't, and nobody caught him.

Background information and notes[]

  • Based on the George Franklin case. In September 1969, Susan Nason disappeared from her hometown of Foster City, California. Her body was discovered outdoors a few months later, showing signs of a violent death, including a crushed skull and a smashed ring that seemed to indicate she was warding off a blow; a bloodstained rock was found nearby. Police never made an arrest for her murder. Twenty years later, during an hypnosis session in the early '90s, Franklin claimed that she remembered repressed memories of being with Susan and her father George on the day of the murder. She said she had watched her father rape and kill Susan, and that he had threatened her too. Franklin was initially convicted of first-degree murder, but it was overturned once the court learned Eileen was hypnotized prior to recovering this memory, and that Eileen's recollections matched erroneous newspaper accounts rather than the true series of events.
  • The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit third season episode "Repression" also deals with repressed memory, and the damaging effects of hypnosis.
  • This episode was later adapted into the Law & Order: UK episode "Buried".

Episode scene cards[]

1 2

Home of Doris Keegan
718 Penrose, Fort Lee, NJ
Friday, June 23

Broadway & 84th Street
Monday, July 10

3 4 5

Genuine Life & Casualty
4236 3rd Avenue
Wednesday, July 26

Supreme Court
Trial Part 53
Thursday, October 26

Supreme Court Building
Wednesday, November 1

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